This is full of pseudo intellectual bullshit, but it's not actually that far off from the talk radio rants that Michael Savage would go on in the early aughts around the time MSNBC gave him his short-lived TV show.

So a lot of people are (quite rightly) laughing their asses off at this, but there's a legitimate lesson to be drawn here. LLMs calculate the statistically most likely response to any input. Think about the implications of that for a minute. That has to freak the alpha male crowd tf out.

Friends, Taylor Lorenz is not a reliable source of legislative information.

I don’t like to brag, of course, but the Leftist weirdo who got banned for psycho threats once went on a prolonged rant focused on the themes of me and pee

This is the kind of "logic" Karl uses to justify putting people on his blocklists and labeler. Just absolute nonsense that can be summed up with "I can't read and I don't care".

Will Stancil also does not have not bizarre politics, he is a bog-standard progressive who takes it seriously and is also way too online, it is *extremely weird* that this is considered beyond the pale of comprehension by the pop-left posting class.

I love this genre of apology. “Yeah, I did tell my followers to credibly threaten my enemies with bodily harm, and I mean it. But I am deeply sorry for accidentally misgendering. Only a monster would do that. Again, I do mean it with the threats of bodily harm tho”

And on this kind of garbage hang the fates of nations

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

The response from everyone in my circle is that this was the right call. Minnesotans didn't want to vote for him a third time, and the fraud allegations were an albatross. We have a good bench and a lot of candidates. The GOP is still historically weak here.

This season of Emily in Paris has Emily dressed in way less unhinged outfits

Republicans see Trump’s senility and unpopularity ass an opportunity to ram through the entire neocon wishlist alongside the MAGA madness. Slashing the ACA, going into Venezuela, talking about going into Cuba… it’s all the stuff that’s been too politically toxic for them to do before.

“Bullying works,” “punchable face,” “[X] should have gotten beaten up more as a kid,” all of this stuff is depressingly common and normalizes in our rhetoric the righteousness of dealing violence. It’s bad.

There is an unbroken chain, and it’s shorter than you think, between any kind of valorization of political violence and randos sending death threats to strangers for their posts. And even if not intended to be acted upon, those threats do very real psychological damage to their target.

Karl Trombone said the things on main that all that crew usually only say in their discord

Those of you who believe in mortal sin ought to recognize this for what it is.

This is also the issue with ChatGPT/all LLMs. I heard someone describe it as Robo-Smithers and I can't look at it the same way since

A Russian strike on a medical facility in Kyiv caused a fire, killed at least one person, and injured at least three others. Twenty‑five people had to be evacuated. Again, a medical facility, defenseless people, those in need of medical help. That’s who Russia chose to bomb.

This is the funniest thing that's ever happened on Threads.

unrelated: nothing quite like a bsky poster with "politics are whatever you think they are" in their bio all having the exact same, profoundly rancid, precise identical politics

a very useful thing I learnt from @amannes.bsky.social profile of the Venezuelan veep is that she heads up a key intelligence service - aaronmannes.substack.com/p/venezuelas...

Also, here’s one of the top comments from Danish PM Frederiksen’s original post on Facebook. I’m not saying that this comment is representative of the whole, but it’s slightly alarming that one of the top comments is calling for an uprising in America!

Can we just stop and put this into perspective: Our Scandinavian allies put out joint statements today condemning the United States, and Denmark went as far as explicitly threatening military action while hinting at a potential invocation of Article 5. That’s genuinely fucking insane.

some of you do in fact need to get a fucking grip

They should suspend his labeler and lists as well

What I don’t love about this is that a bunch of the dumbest assholes on this website are going to start calling Bluesky admins imperialists.

A whole lot of people should have looked critically at their behavior on here after NoKings came and went without violence or institutional crackdown.

Good.

For those who don't know, Sky wrote a totally factually accurate thread about the quality of Venezuelan oil, which got misread by the angriest illiterates on Bluesky.

It is an on-demand revenge porn and CSAM bot. How is it still functioning and how are people not in jail.

A functional country would shut Grok down permanently. Like, immediately. Right now. Last week. Whatever. Just flip the switch. Obviously.

At one point you had to put serious work into issuing a death threat. Find someone’s address, write an anonymous letter, walk to a mail box. Do you know how insane you’d have to be to follow through? Now? Well.

It’s useful to think of the Internet as a medium where consequences for anti-social behavior go to die, which partly explains why our politics got so much worse over the last 30 years.

I think the AI angle of this is obscurant. It doesn’t matter that grok is “an AI” whatever you take that to mean. Suppose X hired a team of guys to photoshop the clothes off of women and children whenever anyone asks. That’s functionally identical what happening here. It’s not complicated.

It's not enough to go back and stop lowtax from banning hentai, you must send the terminator back so far he never exists

This is an advanced tactic I preach, but: enough years in customer service and enough grace and you can have the eternally kind disposition that makes an asshole realize that I’m not locked in there with them, they’re locked in here with me and the love of the Lord.

Oh this is interesting: Prime Minister Mark Carney just had a call with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado

*cough*Florida*cough* Legislative term limits aren't the only problem, but term limits combined with gerrymandering have a lot to do with the revolving door of increasingly unhinged state legislators who let the governor do whatever.

Periodic reminder that Sad Trombone Karl is just some dude with an undergrad degree and a blog who ripped off most of his “social philosophy” wholesale from someone else, masquerades as an academic online for the purposes of clout-farming outrage, and weaponizes blocklists to serve his grievances.

Nicolas Maduro is a monster. Among other things, he overthrew a presidential election that, deep down, he knew he lost. by Donald J. Trump

With allies like these, who needs Republicans? Who needs fascists? Who needs Miller, or ICE, or Border Patrol, or Elon Musk, or the avatar of Capital itself! We are all too happy to tear each other limb from fucking limb! Get behind me, Satan!

If you're queer, you are absolutely, strictly forbidden from being an individual with your own thoughts and feelings, and instead must be the vessel into which ingroup pours out all its wrath! Same as it ever was!

Weird how both Sky and Starfish get hounded off the site for zero reason whatsoever, and they're both queer This is purely coincidental, I'm certain of it

Threatening to doxx someone who is non-binary so they are "afraid to walk out of their front door" is weaponizing fear of right wing hate crimes against queer people

a rational platform would perm ban karl for this

If you heard anything else, you're just objectively incorrect, you are incapable of understanding the written word, information should be mediated to you through the songs of skalds and griots

A reminder that this entire to-do started because Sky pointed out - with their relevant professional experience - that Venezuelan oil is Not Great and offers really no advantage over Canadian Tar Sands oil, and therefore, to the extent that this war *is* about oil, it's a dumb reason to go to war

I am blocked by several thousand people because I made Karl mad and ended up on several of his block lists

Added to this, skysentry added sky to a block list? The psycho brigading needs to stop.