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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 13h

Any unsolicited email that includes something like "I’m part of a private readers community about 2000+ active readers and social media reviewers. We’re not some forced review for hire thing. We just spotlight books that actually deserve to be seen, and yours hit that nerve." is a scam. I'm sorry.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 13h

The idea that we are somehow obligated to engage in the PVP-based social media mode out of some kind of moral principle is bullshit.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 14h

If someone blocks you, directly or via blocklist, it is because they don't want to interact with you! You are not owed an audience, you are not owed the ability to interact with someone, and social affinity sorting and group boundary-setting is a fundamental human action.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 18h

Feel like some reporter should ask, "sir, how is it that you believe you can competently do your job when you repeatedly fail to hear, read, or see major political events that everybody's least media literate facebook uncle knows about?"

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

CNN Speaker Johnson I don’t know montage

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Une femme-pastèque @benecologie.bsky.social · 17h

Le fascisme c'est aussi l'idéal du couple en bagnole où c'est le mari qui conduit allez hop envoyer blousque.

EmmanuelSPV @emmanuelspv.bsky.social · 1d

Charge anti-vélo de R. Dati "Est-ce qu'on se résout à avoir une ville de célibataires en vélo qui travaillent à dix minutes de chez [eux] ? Ça n'est pas ça, Paris, c'est pas la ville qui fait rêver le monde, que ce soit une ville de célibataires en vélo [qui travaillent] à dix minutes de chez [eux]"

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Gallus Rostromegalus @cryptidchicken.bsky.social · 16h

🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

Screenshot of an NPR headline reading: Dick Cheney, one of the most powerful vice presidents in American history, dies at 84

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🪱𝔼𝕟𝕠𝕔𝕙🪱 @oddoblivion.bsky.social · 2d

Your art isn’t bad just because it’s not selling right now.

We’re in a recession and people don’t know when they’re gonna eat next, nobody can afford fun things because the economy is crumbling. It’s going to be hard a while.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d

I love how the version of "abuses" we would do is all like "holy shit they'll give everyone rights."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "If they had no filibuster, they would pack the SCOTUS. You'd go from 9 to 17 or however many liberals they could pack. You would make DC & Puerto Rico into states, which would give 4 additional Democrat senators & make us a permanent minority. You'd see massive restrictions of 2A rights"

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

I know that's an extra hard concept for people who scrape the entire internet for AI training datasets :( but maybe the problem is the shit sandwich and not the people who refuse to buy it :( :( :(

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

Like, it's all the same problem. You're selling a shit sandwich and no one wants to buy it, and you're mad that Bluesky doesn't mandate shit sandwich subsidies. Just stop obsessing over who blocks you like a normal person who is capable of respecting boundaries!

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Bluer Lights @bluerlights.bsky.social · 1d

I truly think there is a certain amount of privilege in thinking everyone should have & be willing to spend the energy to deal w/ assholes, when we could instead be spending it enjoying our time

I'm too chronically ill to deal w/ bullshit that is easily avoidable when there is so much I can't avoid

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Bluer Lights @bluerlights.bsky.social · 1d

I know some ppl struggle to understand this, but none of us owe our time, attention, & emotional bandwidth to anyone. Taking steps to make a platform enjoyable, curating our online experience, IS the healthy thing to do.

Some of us have to deal with assholes in person every day that we can't avoid.

Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 1d

Blocking hatemongers is one thing but this trend of using mass block lists to avoid hearing from people who might or might not hold points of view you expect to disagree with is unhealthy imo and hurts the platform.

Bluesky was better off with folks like Margaret Mitchell and Giada Pistilli on it.

Margaret Mitchell, who was famously fired from Google after co-authoring the seminal "Stochastic Parrots" paper, has been posting on X lately because she is caught up in mass blocklists of AI industry people on Bluesky, making the platform borderline unusable for her.

Here she's on X quote-tweeting fellow AI ethics researcher Giada Pistilli, who is in the same boat.

Pistilli said: I really wanted 🦋 to work, but it looks like I’m on the worst block lists out there. Oh, well.

Mitchell said: I think what many 🦋 Bsky users may be overlooking is that they’re blocking people in positions of influence *who want to listen to them*. As someone influentialish in AI ethics, it’s important for me to know what creators, critics, Luddites, etc., are thinking and seeing.

Mitchell added in a second post: I’m an advocate in tech directly aligned with a lot of their values in the very spaces where decisions that affect them are being made. I need the stats, articles, hot takes…all the deets they can give me so I can be prepared when talking to regulators,academics, techies, etc

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 1d

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 2d

Your regular reminder that the number of trans kids using puberty blockers to delay puberty is tiny, and the vast majority of prescriptions for the medication in children and adolescents are used to delay precocious puberty in cisgender kids.

Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️☕️🍰 @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 2d

Because it’s cis kids.
The NHS will quite casually give cis kids whatever treatment they need, even PBs👇
No trials. No concerns about side effects. No moral panic.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 2d

It's usually a good idea to introduce some latency in your detection (such as a variable time delay in action or waiting until you're confident you've found all the accounts and nuking them all at once) so you don't give them hints about what signals you're detecting on.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 3d

Ooooh now this looks like an interesting labeler

Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 3d

Flipped this on earlier and holy god do some of you post a lot

bsky.app/profile/stec...

bsky.app

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d

Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.

Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash

Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.

futurism.com

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Rachel Wight @rachelwight.bsky.social · 3d

Next week LinkedIn will use your personal data for AI training by automatically enabling permissions.

To manually turn off go to:

Settings ➡️ Data Privacy ➡️ under
“How LinkedIn uses your data” click “Data for Generative AI improvement” ➡️ toggle off

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Bluer Lights @bluerlights.bsky.social · 2d

C'est fou à quel point c'est tellement plus beau

Anne Hidalgo @annehidalgo.bsky.social · 3d

Avec 470 arbres plantés et 4 000m2 de nature en plein cœur du 14e arrondissement, la place de Catalogne s'est radicalement transformée en 2024 !

Place de Catalogne avant/après avec des arbres.

Place de Catalogne vue de haut avec des arbres.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 4d

This whole thread.

“Oh no, someone might eat food!”

Good. That’s good.

“They might buy something they like.”

Cool.

“They might get a treat!”

Also cool.

grimm 🍂 @mugrimm.bsky.social · 5d

There's something deeply disturbing about EBT/SNAP hate to me. Like just truly bone blanching shit.

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Mio 🍲 @mios-steamy-soup.bsky.social · 4d

Hi! I'm re-launching my Patreon since I lost my job due to health reasons that aren't covered by long term disability because of very frustrating technicalities.
This time, I'm adding a chance to win a commission by me each month for patrons giving 10 CAD+ each month!
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Art! Mostly fanarts of danmeis!

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Bluer Lights @bluerlights.bsky.social · 3d

I am once again asking for opt-out based consent to be fucking outlawed

Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 3d

What the French-fried fuckity fuck?

I emphatically did not opt IN to this and now I have to log in and opt OUT?

When you’ve already done a thing I not only disapprove of, but that also makes literally no sense?

You can’t turn my old paper into an analogy. That’s not how papers or analogies work

A screenshot of an email from academia.edu proclaiming “Our AI turned your research into an easy to understand analogy.” The research in question is an old conference paper, “Father Sergii’s Apocalypse.” The fine print says if I don’t want them to use AI on my uploaded work I have to opt out.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 3d

This is vile. You cannot distill years of research, experience, collaboration into an ‘analogy.’ (Or, in comments, a ‘comic.’)

Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 3d

What the French-fried fuckity fuck?

I emphatically did not opt IN to this and now I have to log in and opt OUT?

When you’ve already done a thing I not only disapprove of, but that also makes literally no sense?

You can’t turn my old paper into an analogy. That’s not how papers or analogies work

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 4d

Starving children is never okay. And as someone who has belonged to that social strata, yeah, there's fraud, because the system has been set up to make it impossible to be a part of society without it. Stinking, blood-covered teens with rotting teeth are not welcome very frequently.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 4d

The average US taxpayer spends $36 a year on SNAP

You know what they spend on corporate subsidies? $670

Poor and disabled people who need food are not the problem

If you’re angry about “your money” feeding people but not angry it’s giving tax cuts to the wealthy?

You’re doing their dirty work.

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