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K.O. Myers

@genvexed.bsky.social

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I have yet to achieve the perfect mixture of humility and bombast required to write a truly epic one-line bio. In the meantime, I'm a freelance #podcast producer/editor at https://particulatemedia.com, a D&D game writer/runner, and courts/law nerd.

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K.O. Myers @genvexed.bsky.social · 5h

All my takes are good takes and if you think they're bad takes it's because you have a bad take on my good takes.

Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 5h

In honor of Sally Jenkins of “Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor” fame, post your worst take in the replies.

K.O. Myers @genvexed.bsky.social · 5h

All my takes are good takes and if you think they're bad takes it's because you have a bad take on my good takes.

K.O. Myers @genvexed.bsky.social · 16h

A screenshot of a skeet by Anne Trubek, reskeeted by David M. Perry, reads "Watcha reading?"

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Jamie Boo!!stein @uajamie.bsky.social · 7d

I feel every word of this so hard.

Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 7d

I wonder: Where is the place that isn’t Problematic? Every place seems to become a Nazi bar, over and over.

And we, the rats, scuttle away, ever smaller. We have our principle. We have our pride. But we no longer have a place.

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Backed into a corner

Where do I share, when every "where" is terrible?

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👻SAAAAAAAAHHHHHHvik Ford 🎃 @saavikford.bsky.social · 7d

I’m sorry @bsky.app what happened to decentralization & composable moderation & being able to take your data & accounts with you?

Bc it looks like y’all just nuked an important poster who provides commentary on many topics but notably 🔭🛰️🧪.

Free @spacelawshitpost.me!

Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app · 7d

Update from Link. He said he still is banned despite being under BlackSky PDS cause BlueSky servers still used? :( idk

Just sharing what I’m told.

Screenshot of an iMessage conversation between Aveta and contact ‘AJ’ at 1:21. The conversation shows:

Aveta (blue bubbles): ‘If you get account back’ ‘Move to BlackSky immediately’
AJ (gray bubbles): ‘I am on Blacksky.’ ‘lol’
Aveta: ‘Wait what’ ‘WHAT’
AJ: ‘But they still use Bsky servers.’
Aveta: ‘How tr’ ‘Oh yeah… well shit’ (marked as Delivered)
AJ: ‘That’s how they got me.’ ‘You should include that too.’ ‘Decentralized moderation my ass.’

At the bottom is a notification banner reading ‘AJ has notifications silenced’ with a moon icon.

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K.O. Myers @genvexed.bsky.social · 8d

Just because the technoevangelists and their VC bros lighting mountains of money on fire don't know how their products work doesn't mean no one does.

Frames @oxinabox.bsky.social · 8d

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

K.O. Myers @genvexed.bsky.social · 9d

Doo eeeet.

K.O. Myers @genvexed.bsky.social · 10d

I don't have the time or focus to learn how to code just to do this, but if there's a programmer who does, they can have this idea for free.

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Scott Murderhouse @voxparlour.bsky.social · 10d

Become ungovernable

Noisy, hungry frogs sadden farmer's life. They scare his cattle and they also eat his flannel shirt.

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K.O. Myers @genvexed.bsky.social · 10d

I've long believed we could vaporize 40-65% of online discourse if we had a bot to replace the word "sucks" with "isn't for me."

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K.O. Myers @genvexed.bsky.social · 10d

If I had that kind of motivation I wouldn't be posting from the couch three weeks before my 50th birthday.

K.O. Myers @genvexed.bsky.social · 10d

Who leaked my old porn alias?

K.O. Myers @genvexed.bsky.social · 10d

When law schools teach wannabe litigators "never ask a question you don't know the answer to," they should use this as an example of an approved question.

K.O. Myers @genvexed.bsky.social · 10d

He's covering himself in fish guts and swan diving into the tank.

K.O. Myers @genvexed.bsky.social · 11d

This is a really good point. Their objection to loan forgiveness wasn't about lost revenue. If it was about anything other than reflexive "Democrat policy bad" posturing, it was about losing the leverage that debt provided over the plebes.

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 11d

Fascinated by how the people who lost their minds over student loan forgiveness are currently running ads on my TV every 10 min promising that they'll forgive your student loans if you join ICE

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K.O. Myers @genvexed.bsky.social · 12d

Valuable reporting like this is why MAGA hates public media.

Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 12d

My latest @npr.org story: Republican officials are continuing a push to restrict voting by U.S. citizens living abroad, including U.S. military members, after making unsuccessful challenges to some overseas voters’ ballots in 2024

A GOP push to restrict voting by overseas U.S. citizens continues before 2026 midterms

Republican officials are pushing for more voting restrictions on U.S. citizens who were born abroad and have never lived in the country, after unsuccessfully challenging their ballots in 2024.

www.npr.org

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Ripperoni @ripperoni.com · 14d

Love is so cool

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K.O. Myers @genvexed.bsky.social · 14d

Fastest I've ever been blocked. I'm sure I'll end up on a list of regime collaborators shortly.

K.O. Myers @genvexed.bsky.social · 14d

The North American plate has the chance to do the funniest thing.

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 14d

Reminder that these people hate and mistrust each other at a deep deep level, and that can be exploited to important effect when recognized and properly leveraged.

I mean, can you imagine what some of these career Colonels and Generals are thinking, looking at all of this shit? Mm.

President Donald Trump has decided he’s going to the last-minute global gathering of the nation’s top generals in Quantico, Virginia, that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered last week.

Trump’s appearance not only upstages Hegseth’s plans but adds new security concerns to the massive and nearly unprecedented military event.

K.O. Myers @genvexed.bsky.social · 15d

Bad news, y'all. Asking an expert to elaborate on her hypothesis is pro fascism.

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K.O. Myers @genvexed.bsky.social · 15d

This is a brilliant idea. How do you think it goes over with the pro-monarchy SCOTUS majority?

K.O. Myers @genvexed.bsky.social · 15d

I appreciate the clarification. 👍

K.O. Myers @genvexed.bsky.social · 16d

That link is broken.

K.O. Myers @genvexed.bsky.social · 18d

I switched to using my phone and it worked there.

K.O. Myers @genvexed.bsky.social · 18d

@support.bsky.team I've been trying to create an account for a new podcast, and hCaptcha keeps coming back with an error after I verify. Halp!