Let's be real, the group chat debate probably maps pretty closely to those who got invited to any of them back on twitter vs those who didn't. Which is why, as someone who didn't get invited to any but who knows a lot of people who did, I am properly agnostic on the question

everyone on here seems to think that there's just one feature you can add or remove from social media to make people not go insane on here. this belief, i think, is itself a form of madness

I had to apply for a job with "AI" a couple days ago. Literally just a chatbot asking the demographic/experience questions on a typical job application, one at a time. Turned a 5-minute process into 15 because of the lag time between responses

That New York Times story lots of people are sharing today about Farage's ties to US anti-abortion groups was first reported by @mc00.bsky.social on Byline Times a year ago bylinetimes.com/2024/11/29/n...

Solar Opposites is Rick and Morty's American Dad (complimentary)

Can't believe how many 10+ year crypto maximalists *still* don't seem to get that "decentralized and free of regulation" means there's no manager to call when something goes wrong, and no state entities to investigate/prosecute market manipulators

"Trans issues aren't this shameful thing that Democratic consultants suggest we hide from, it's the same fight undocumented immigrants are fighting, or those who can't access health care are fighting...Political issues aren't siloes, they're all connected, and Mamdani recognizes that." ✊

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Spent the past 18~ hours off and on arguing with Uber support trying to get reimbursed for a fuckup they made, not looking like it's gonna work though. Even their special platinum-level support is mostly form messages from an LLM

It honestly would've been better to give the Nobel to Trump than to give it to someone who has praised Trump's murder of civilians from her own country and hopes it is the first step in a bloody invasion. All but telling him he could get the next one if he goes full regime change

Brake pads skipped the squeaking stage and straight to metal-on-metal scraping lol. In the old days I'd just turn my music up but the wiring on the speakers went out or something recently so it's just me and the scraping

It's exasperating how youtubers who make their livings "explaining things" act like history doesn't exist if they don't already know about it. Had to turn off a video when the guy said that "terrorism wasn't really a thing in the 80s." My brother, look up plane hijackings, or Ireland, or Lebanon, or

On paper today's been productive so far- did some lunch deliveries, checked around local pizza places for a non-app job. Broke down crying on the way home though lmao

Looks more and more like the raid in Chicago was more than just a fascist terror raid but the use of federal violence to help a bank empty a building they held in receivership.

There has always been a small, noisy minority of gay people whose belief in gay rights boils down to "I shouldn't have to give up any of my prejudices because of who I am." And straight people in media have always fallen all over themselves to hire them.

Enough of them are salivating at the prospect for full permission to brutalize the Enemy Within that the quiet "oh gee guys this feels maybe not ideal" people will stay in line

I don't wanna have do the Linux thing. I like not having to be an expert to get software working! But Microsoft has decreed that if you don't have new PC money, or you just don't want a bunch of mandatory AI bloatware running at all times, they never want your business again, so who am I to argue

This is the encroachment

Between this and Musk's new pay package, Im starting to suspect that some of the people on these boards know the bubble is going to burst soon and are deliberately setting up those who are still denying it

Geppetto was the woodcarver. His marionette was Geppetto's monster

Today's been really Off, I gotta get my head together

I felt crazy seeing people write about this because I was 100% sure they did before, and wouldn't you know it: back in March 2023 OpenAI launched "ChatGPT Plugins" that would " help ChatGPT access up-to-date information, run computations, or use third-party services." openai.com/index/chatgp...

TIL that the same parent company owns pride.com, OUT Magazine and the Advocate, and that none of them have a particularly strong track record in pushing back against the "autogynephilia" narrative

Bluesky deleted my post complaining about the CEO lol. I did not delete it myself! Full on Lowtaxing from Jay here.

One of the things I took away from the 60s and Richard Nixon, first mentioned by Hunter Thompson, but I believe to be true, is the fact that we believed, at time, that all our protesting, marching and sign waving was futile and pointless when in fact, it drove Richard Nixon to alcohol fueled madness

actually our AI programs are like people so its racist to say you don't like them. anyway would you like to buy one

Meanwhile, pride events across the US have been cancelling their events throughout at least the next year, on the grounds that it would be impossible for such a march to happen without a $500,000 sponsorship check from Wells Fargo

gabe is an old friend of mine and needs some help!

Hi guys. I’m the most insufferable person you’ve ever interacted with. Here’s why you should be nice to robots and computer programs billionaires are using to take your jobs and your future on this planet

Cawrl look it’s Adam Sandler and Chris Rock they say they’re also willing to fight the zombies as long as they wear shorts the entire time

Cawrl, look at this Cawrl, it’s the last remaining megayacht in our post apocalyptic zombie world, it’s in perfect shape and pre-programmed to take us to each island in the Caribbean along with our friends and family

I've made the McCaine Pledge. Will *you?*

This is such a flagrant violation of every principle of international law and sovereignty that it’s hard to actually believe even when we definitively know it is true (and even when it is consistent with all other behaviours).

This quote... What people want to replace you with is what they think you already are. If companies, bosses, and boyfriends want to replace you with a robot or an AI model, that’s because they already see you and what you do as simply the workings of a machine with far too many bugs.

Don't you dare say the Sumud Flotilla was performative. "Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks. It leaks. ... One single thing will break the siege. Remember this. Try."

Mangosteen chair? Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time

bsky.app/profile/jay.... check this shit out

this is the same thought trap that drove jack dorsey mad. a simultaneous abdication of social responsibility for the realities of your platform and doubling down on approaching implementation and policy as one in the same, viewing social behavior deterministically. divine watchmaker complex.

Yeah, tbh, for all my talk the past few days, my personal line is probably going to be the same as it was for X The Everything App: I'll go when enough of the people I like get banned or leave. In the meantime, it's the age of Jaytax

Damn I'm not getting shit for lunch deliveries today, I thought Friday was going to mean more orders. I've made $2.33 in the past 90 minutes

Mod sass

Pritzker made a big show for the cameras about resisting ICE and then deployed his own ~locally-sourced~ stormtroopers to assist ICE. He basically set up his own supporters to be assaulted and detained for exercising their rights

I just found out what these ghost replies were, and it's darker than I'd anticipated. Palestinians begging for their lives. This time I actually saw a reply was there to a post I'd made, but it wasn't in my notifications. Then it was gone. The reply counter remained showing someone had replied.

This time last week I was kind of looking for a new site but wanted to wait for something using the ATProtocol for easy migration. Now I increasingly feel like being on this protocol at all is a deal-breaker for the next hangout site

HaHAAAA and might I add, HAh.