jneen
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digifu jam band, video game composer, puzzle designer. sacto -> oakland -> tokyo -> toronto jneen.ca | automaphoni.ca | queercomputerclub.ca music: soundcloud.com/jneen-collective support my art: https://automaphonica.bandcamp.com/album/wigglin
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jneen @jneen.ca · May 29
OK i have to do other things, so summary thread time.

Here is an actual honest picture of a tech anti-AI stance. Please refer to this instead of any pro-AI strawmen you may see.

First, my credentials:
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ceej.online
the disastrous refusal of the self-styled silicon valley technokings to keep anyone in their lives capable of questioning their increasingly incomprehensible politics has lead to a crisis of thinking so severe that a fifty-eight year old man believes something is important because he knows about it
sharonk.bsky.social
thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.
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chaoskat.bsky.social
Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.
unraveledpress.com
It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.
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kevinjkircher.com
"Make cities safe and fun for kids to run around and play in" is a pretty good guiding light for urban planning
brenttoderian.bsky.social
“In a city once choked with cars and infamous for its traffic snarls, Paris has pulled off a remarkable turnaround…the French capital has officially become Europe’s best city for children to walk, cycle, and move around independently.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social

A victory for FAST leadership.
Paris Pedals to the Top: How the City of Light Became Europe’s Best for Young Cyclists
The French capital has officially become Europe’s best city for children to walk, cycle, and move around independently
momentummag.com
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duckinator.bsky.social
What if gem hosts had NPM-like scopes & your Gemfile could be:

source "https://gem.example"
gem "@duckinator/jim"

OR:

gem "https://gem.example/duckinator/jim"

... what if a PoC patch was 25 lines, and a 1-line kludge meant you can test it against a production server?

github.com/gem-coop/gem...
A screenshot of running `bundle install` against various Gemfiles.

It shows that, with my patch, you can use scoped packages similar to what NPM provides, if you're using GitHub Packages.
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milph.mom
Mom @milph.mom · 1d
I make fuck ups all the time and I always post my corrections or apologies to people instead of doubling down, and this might surprise you.

Turns out people respond positively to that, it's almost like a sign of accountability and growth as well as genuine proof you don't think you're infallible.
jtp.bsky.social
personally if i fell for an AI fake i would simply say "oh shit oops" and then delete my post. it's way less embarassing to just take it on the chin and admit you fucked up than it is to corncob and leave the post up
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demongrrl.gay
seriously

for fucks sake

cancel your spotify subscription
@PopBase on Twitter "Spotify teams up with ChatGPT to offer personalized recommendations."
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aaronradney.bsky.social
I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.
jneen.ca
when somebody discloses a security issue to you, you (a) fix it, and (b) thank the person who responsibly disclosed it. sending legal threats in response is not only not acceptable community behaviour, but actively concerning from a security standpoint. it means you are sweeping vulns under the rug.
jneen.ca
in which rubycentral displays an astoundingly irresponsible response to a security disclosure.

pic unrelated
a picture of a fork on a white background
jneen.ca
premiering... carl's new troll romhack... please come offer moral support in this trying time

twitch.tv/jneen

#jneenislive
jneen - Twitch
CARL'S NEW TROLL HACK I GUESS | !trollhackcontest !youtube
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kthorjensen.bsky.social
This is the aesthetic of the future
Kyle wolf
@CRXSSF4DE
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someone on the Motorola forums was having the same problem with the camera I've been having, but I just have to share the image they posted to demonstrate the issue.
it's the funniest shit I've ever seen in my life dude

The photo is of an elderly woman in gray clothes that has been so bizarrely processed that it looks both totally over and desaturated
jneen.ca
dam dude, had my hopes up
youtube recommendation, under "Breaking news": "Carney returning to Ottawa without a deal to end the U.S." from CHCH News 2 hours ago
jneen.ca
i'm still on newsblur after like 10 years it's pretty good
jneen.ca
hey ircc, this web page is confusingly formatted
You *cannot* become a citizen if you're prohibited under the Citizenship Act. For example, if

* you're in Canada
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threnody.bsky.social
hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵
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papayamcfruity.bsky.social
in case you missed the premiere last night, my version of @nelward.bsky.social 's "the doctor dance" is out now as part of Safari Masters' "The Plus Zone" remix compilation! go check it out if you haven't www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ_L...
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hayao.lol
I enjoy how people with lists called "leftist pigs who deserve helicopter rides" are ignored so the devs can focus on what's *really* important, defending digital cancer
carrion.bsky.social
just don’t create a moderation list, bluesky said that’s bad
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kathrosetail.bsky.social
its 2013. you are getting friend requests on steam by people claiming that theyve accidentally reported your account and you must click a link to fix it.

its 2025. you are getting messages on bsky by people claiming that theyve accidentally reported your account and you must click a link to fix it.
jneen.ca
you say this as if there haven't been extremely high profile exceptions that your team has made on a regular basis.
aaron.bsky.team
We know it’s frustrating to see bad behaviour elsewhere. But trying to police the entire internet isn’t possible for any team — and making exceptions about when to do so only adds confusion and inconsistency. 9/9