I was lucky/fortunate enough to have done this years ago in preparation for this moment. Hoped it wouldn't, but here we are. I love so much about California, but the cost of living is killer.

a reminder, again, that AltNPS is a grifter account run by people who have no affiliation with the National Park Service and indeed who never did have any affiliation with the National Park Service. They have no sources, they have no information, they are purely there to scam you.

Great thread. And the moral of this story I think is this keeps happening until we gate social media with the only tool that works: Registration Fees. Pay $20 for an account, get banned for being obnoxious, a ton of this becomes far easier to handle (because reg fees pay for paid moderation)

This thing isn't alive. It can't say anything. It's literally a fancy prediction engine. It 'apologized' because the math said that was the most likely respond to the prompt asking it to apologize. Stop falling for a Cuckoo mimicking a human. Actually that's an insult to the cuckoo.

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

Never Newsom

listen we all know how to solve this make 👏 Platner 👏 do 👏 an 👏 interview 👏 with 👏 Chotiner 👏

Also a great star trek nod @clairewillett.bsky.social you might enjoy this one

Nuremberg 2.0 for all these assholes.

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

Anything good emerges from deep domain knowledge about the craft of character and storywriting, combined with some unique insight worth sharing with others. AI Chucklefuck bros have none of that.

This whole thread right here. When SCOTUS behaves in an unlawful, unconstitutional way, we are not obligated to accept its unlawful, unconstitutional claims as lawful and constitutional. We ignore them, we undermine them, we elect Presidents who refuse to accept them.

Luigi!!!

I made a guide for social media companies going through a crisis

Please, take it from a Californian born and bred: you cannot trust Gavin Newsom. I don’t care if he has Good Posters working for him; he’ll sell vulnerable people down the river without blinking an eye.

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.

if lowtax's ex-wife is saying you remind her of fucking lowtax maybe you should stop posting

As an American, please ban us from all international competition until the fascists are out of power, thanks.

oh fuck off

May everyone who voted for this fucking moron be visited by appropriate karma.

Le Gorafi (a French iteration of The Onion) reports that: "An American university has launched an investigation of a professor of archeology suspected of being a member of 'antifa' "

The problem is that the cosplay radicals, mean girl aesthetic leftists, and clout-chasing #resistance accounts who dominate Bluesky have had close to zero interaction with real-world politics in their lives

$99 a year? I can't afford that. Do you take the blood of the innocent as payment? I hear ole Zwiebel uses that to stay alive and I have a great source of adrenachrome.

Pritzker is Newsom if Newsom had, you know, a soul, and actual integrity. I'm shocked a billionaire is one of our best allies in this fight, but also I'll fight with anyone who shows up.

Why Graham Linehan Deserves His Career Back : Then we Can Debate Him By Ezra Klein (Seriously fuck that guy)

Update - I want you all to know, this is a significant sacrifice for my wife, who said, and I am quoting this verbatim, “now I can’t watch my international soccer matches on the shittiest fucking app ever made, that’s the whole reason we had that stupid fucking ESPN bundle”

What fills me with incandescent rage is that these guys have never actually successfully won anything with their supposedly pragmatic focus on dull kitchen-table issues. It has no proven successes, and virtually the entire time it’s been an obsession for these guys the party has been in free-fall

This guy needs to be primaried asap because he's clearly completely incompetent.

I will say I feel bad for children whose parents die violently. But when those parents die violently as a direct result of their own actions, perhaps that parent should have prioritized their family over sowing hate.

Do not be bullied, cowed, or shamed by bad-faith right-wing actors and MAGA that are blaming "liberals" and everyone who isn't MAGA for Charlie Kirk. Call them out for their hypocrisy. Go on offense. They are fine with political violence and mass shootings when it's against the rest of us.

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational. Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe." Charlie Kirk, 2023

Not a great sign when the NRA is doing more to speak up against trans people having constitutional rights stripped away than a lot of our actual supposed allies are.

Love this! But please properly credit Cory Doctorow, he didn't popularize the word, he /invented/ it.

You're smarter than this. The pie may be bigger but the slices have become so much smaller. If the pie were divided better, people would be less susceptible to fascist BS.

Sam Altman belongs in prison.

Space Command shouldn't exist. It's a silly branch of the military and I refuse to treat it seriously, because it was created by a silly little man to feed his own ego. We have a space branch of the government. It's called NASA. Who cares that he's moving his vanity project? Just end it.

They were both poisoned. Fortunately, I've spent the last few years building up an immunity to Malort.

The difference here : The primary is in 2.5 years away. If people insist on nominating Newsom after a major contingent going 'If this happens, no, we won't vote' for literal years? It's on them. The consequences were illuminated in bright red scarlet letters. I refuse to support 1 more useless pol

What a wonderful bit of news to wake up to! One less horrible person to worry about hurting us.

This reminds me of how in the Pony fandom, the earlier fanfics were often so much more daring - because the vast majority of the world lay unrevealed. As more terrain filled in, stories homogenized over time. Still good, but less ambitious.

Today is my birthday (turning 29), which is the only time all year that I ask for a repost 🌿 I hope you get lost in fantasy worlds as much as I do 🔮

Teams is a terrible piece of software, so good on Mercedes for killing their brand I guess

They're more hated now BECAUSE just as they aren't insulated from us, so we aren't insulated from them. 20 years ago I only ever heard about what rich people were up to through the press & their PR teams. So their stupid shit got filtered out. On Twitter? We all can see they're nothing special

I feel like I've gotten lucky, but I also was careful to pick doctors I could research beforehand which shielded me from a ton of this. The worst I can recall was one doctor who constantly misgendered me, but would immediately apologize. He was old, had unretired, and I was one of his first -