To make the rhetorical-fu a little more explicit: we are looking to rob conspiracy theories of their interest and novelty, NOT attack them on facts or debunk them. Those are important to do too, but we first need to steal the oomph from these perpetual (and boring!) two steps people find out there.

most people don't know this, but if you play these four chords with the right levels you can command millions of Americans to walk into the sea

I’m wondering whether there were more viewers of the Stupid Memorial on bluesky than anywhere else

Battery life on the new iPhones is absolutely nuts. Gave my lovely wife my iPhone 15 to get a 17 Pro (I really wanted the camera) and a full day of use has the battery at 40% instead of 15%

clearly this wasn't enough, so majima has two eyes and saejima is a crisis actor

“Unhoused” I can see; like there’s a line to it. You’re trying to focus on something different. “houseless” vs “homeless” is trying to self-alienate so normies validate your priors by ignoring you because You Sound Weird. don’t want power want to endlessly critique power etc

It's okay to actually compliment a Democrat when they do something we've been complaining about for months

it is finally time to expand my lineup

OK, I just happened to look at the Apple Podcasts link for Normal Men, Bluesky's only podcast, and thank you for the 65 5-star reviews but also? DrPenguinPhD? I JUST WANNA TALK ABOUT THE UPGRADE TO THE PODCAST FROM MY STENTORIAN TONES. I JUST WANNA TALK

no, YOU'RE stuck setting up a linux machine with both asdf and mise for testing

there isn't enough good fighting on main right now. i shall be the change i wish to see in the world final fantasy soundtracks went from good to great when masashi hamauzu took over

“Oh I saw about that Ken Klippenstein article, here’s an Erin Reed post abou-“ *you can hear sizzling from the bathroom, your toaster is missing*

dang, it didn't work

this article is true but largely irrelevant unless you have (wrongly) bought the marketing hype that they are oracles, and I don't quite get how they're trying to tie together all the threads they're bundling when you feed an LLM high-information context, hallucinations go to near-zero. so do that.

This is all extremely weird; it is both appropriate and necessary for people to say so. Charlie Kirk was a sleazy podcaster who constantly said repugnant things—that's all he contributed to society—but they're treating him like the Virgin Mary, MLK, Audie Murphy, and Superman all rolled into one.

We saw you across St. Peter and we really like your style.

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So, you know how the current cold water realism response to "put humans on Mars!" is "no matter what the problems are making Mars habitable, they're harder than keeping the Earth habitable"? The "the Democrats are useless we need a new opposition party" gets the same cold water response, sorry.

bsky, I'm afraid that your sanitization of non-printing characters is...lacking

Lindsay, the entire reason far-right control of TikTok is bad is because I WAS RIGHT ABOUT IT CONTROLLING YOUR BRAIN. If you’ll recall, that used to be a controversial position! I got ratioed like crazy in like 2022 for saying the youths were getting their politics from the meme dance app

where were you when the cambodian-armenian hyperwar started?

Today is the first Actual Pants day in the Boston area. Goodbye shorts, see you next year

Two things are downstream from this: I do think we should be more welcoming of the pundit class on here overall because they’re fully hooked on text based social media and this is a better place than the alternatives, but they, the self-appointed elites, should know when they’re getting worked.

I think it's becoming clear that if you like indie creators, you're going to need to support them any way you can. And that doesn't mean money, just spreading worth of mouth can be powerful as well.

One of the things Stancil is (indirectly) correct about is openly talking about how any form of resistance or protest risks immediately and violent reprisal only aides the enemy

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

I think I have a slightly different angle: we need some people who voted for Trump to feel _shame_. It should be reintegrative shame (they are people who are capable of good, but did a bad thing that needs to be accounted for, and remedied), and not disintegrating. But we don’t need flattery.

I mean look I think it’s worth saying here that there are other ways to make people change their mind. One way to do it is to create an indelible association between “voting for Republicans” and “suffering significant harm”. And it’s hard to do that if you don’t market them together!

after I decamped from hockey twitter I lost track of a lot of folks, and the other day I went “I wonder what happened to [moot]” ran across her account in somebody’s replies today and, reader, some things are best avoided

Disney adults, I owe you an apology, I wasn’t really familiar with your game.

too real

There was a cyber security module and we watched this skit where a white guy almost fell for a phishing scam but the black lady at the next desk saved him, and it was pretty interesting to see a reenactment of the exact moment that Scott Adams lost his mind.

folks, I have learned something distressing Tiger Drop does not negate all damage

I'm not sure if I still do, but his stuff and similar were a big part of pulling me out of the ditch of libertarianism at one point, so I don't hate him but there's a lot of "I can see it, why can't you"

a good girl getting spoiled 🌄

lady has been staring at me as I unpack delivery dinner she knows she isn't getting any but she also knows she can guilt me

i have to see people quoting eigenrobot on al gore's own internet and--

This is fucking gross (and I don't mean from Stancil). Imani Gandy has always struck me as a clout chaser more than anything else, and I recall thinking something similar even pre-Twitter back when she started blogging on balloon juice. She obviously does not read criticism in good faith.

Just saw an ad from the NCAA imploring people not to harass anyone (presumably athletes or their family members) because of a lost bet. Sports betting is a plague.

Chat I think I just bolted awake in the mountains of Carthage

getting really tired of Bernie-ass failuremongers trying to use Fetterman as a reason why nothingmatters.jpg when they were the ones who were happy Conor Lamb didn't get the nomination

latest batch ~

@segyges.bsky.social you once mentioned a nutty discovery around how LLMs have figured out how (in a limited way) to "do math", have a cite for that around?

Literally impossible, this level of cool is just not achievable by humans

that’s pretty interesting and matches my own experience. I do wonder if the bluesky engagement trend doesn’t hail as much from the tumblr DNA as from twitter

you wish you were as cool as this dog

you don't have to run a setup that looks like this. that doesn't make your needs invalid or your decisions unwise. but it does mean you are scared

remind me again why literally anyone listens to zaid jilani