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prox @proxieme.bsky.social · Feb 13

I'm just going to keep this pinned up top for a bit.

prox @proxieme.bsky.social · 6h

Start or* leg up.

*shakes fist in the air*

WE WANT TIME-BOXED EDITING!

prox @proxieme.bsky.social · 6h

Honestly, I usually use it for Q&As re: subjects no one I(my)RL has the knowledge/interest to discuss. Example from this morning: chatgpt.com/share/68ea75...

To be completely fair, though, this could all be riddled w/ wild inaccuracies/hallucinations & I wouldn't know any better.

ChatGPT - Fusion energy

Shared via ChatGPT

prox @proxieme.bsky.social · 6h

My husband's used it as a coding assist but, even w/ the temp turned way down, he likens it to "an eager & knowledgeable junior dev w/ an unaddressed major head injury". Its product can be a great start of leg up but consistently needs review and refinement.

prox @proxieme.bsky.social · 7h

Though at this point distressingly usual.

prox @proxieme.bsky.social · 20h

He consistently looks like Dr Phil in a half-hearted Halloween costume.

prox @proxieme.bsky.social · 22h

This is a good read:
www.juancole.com/founding-fat...

US Founding Fathers on Islam

Juan Cole British social philosopher John Locke was extremely influential on the Founding Generation, and on the US Constitution and Bill of Rights. John Locke had already advocated civil rights for n...

www.juancole.com

prox @proxieme.bsky.social · 1d

lol, "thank fuck" was literally my reaction as well.

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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 2d

Brand new episode of PBS Terra discussing how wildfires poison our soil by burning the chemical compounds in our homes and our cars and all of it goes directly into the soil.

Worth watching:

Wildfires Poison the Soil. This Scientist Has a Way To Heal It

YouTube video by PBS Terra

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

A former DOGE staffer developed an AI tool that hallucinated the size of Veterans Affairs contracts.

For example, it concluded that more than a thousand deals were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.

(Published June)

DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts

We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wron...

www.propublica.org

prox @proxieme.bsky.social · 1d

*sees you posted this 8 mins ago*

Like...for real?

prox @proxieme.bsky.social · 2d

⁴to be doing an even better job of delegitimization better than the absence of enforcement ever could.

(This is actually meant to be a question, not a statement. I'll be legit overjoyed if you end up addressing this & explain why the nagging thoughts I've had about all of this are wrong.)

prox @proxieme.bsky.social · 2d

³eliminating institutions or flooding them with contradictions, and then pointing to the resulting mess as proof that democracy doesn't work.

The major place they've diverged has been in ramping up enforcement capacity in some sectors (ICE, etc), but the manner in which that's being done seems³

prox @proxieme.bsky.social · 2d

² "hard reboot" or full takeover in order to enact Yarvin's ideas re: "managed state collapse" (I think that was the term)?

They seem to be sticking pretty close to the accelerationist playbook of saturating government with loyal but incompetent actors, cutting enforcement capacity, ²

prox @proxieme.bsky.social · 2d

@hcrichardson.bsky.social I'm not sure where you take questions for your round-up streams, but:
Do you think there's a possibility that this is an orchestrated effort (by at least some factions in or influencing this admin) to intentionally delegitimize the government either in order to justify a¹

prox @proxieme.bsky.social · 2d

Well, they're trying to get something going but will likely settle for fabrications if that doesn't work.

prox @proxieme.bsky.social · 2d

It's me.
I'm a sicko.

prox @proxieme.bsky.social · 2d

Alas, it was too late when I remembered that last night's plan for this morning was for me to act contravention to established precedent and,upon awakening, LEAP out of bed and move my clothes for today from the washer to the dryer.

prox @proxieme.bsky.social · 2d

Apologies.
There has been a pixel containment breach.

A three-panel image showing a Tumblr thread with a screenshot of a Twitter conversation at the top, followed by a comment, and a concluding tag line.
Panel 1: Twitter Conversation (Jeannette Ng)
A series of tweets from the user Jeannette Ng (@jeannette_ng) recounts an anecdote:
* Tweet 1: "Eye-opening little anecdote from a friend who ran a table top game for his all male gaming group: He genderflipped every character in the pre-written module, resulting in an all female setting. His players grew increasingly paranoid and were convinced of a conspiracy."
* Tweet 2: "The players (convinced there's some sort of murder cult going on) started scouring the setting for men. The pre-written module's village contained only one female character: the wife of the blacksmith. Unnamed. Which of course was all the more suspicious to them."
* Tweet 3: "There was absolutely nothing my friend could do to convince his players that there wasn't a great conspiracy or at least a basement full of dead dudes."
Panel 2: Tumblr Comment (linguisticparadox)
A comment by the user linguisticparadox reads:
"#this could be a new 'Bechdel' test: if you gender swap all the characters does it feel like something must have happened to all the men?"
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prox @proxieme.bsky.social · 2d

That reminds me of the story of when a DM gender swapped all of the characters in a D&D module. This led to all NPCs (except, I think, for an unnamed "husband of" someone) being female. It didn't take long for the players to assume that something nefarious was going on (curse, cult, etc).

prox @proxieme.bsky.social · 2d

That's so odd.

I had hoped that such lunacy was restricted to my current side of the Atlantic.

Perhaps I'll make some black bean patties & call them burgers with extra gusto tonight.

prox @proxieme.bsky.social · 2d

I tried to find this post from @reactorsff.bsky.social to repost, but alas.

A humorous text-over-image meme featuring a detail from a classical painting, likely depicting a saint or noblewoman. The woman has long, dark reddish-brown hair, is wearing a light-colored garment, and is holding an open book. A sword or a similar long, straight object, possibly representing a martyr's attribute, is visible across her chest/neck area.
The white text overlaid on the image reads: "None of this would be happening if I had an enormous cursed sword".

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 5d

MOOMIN MOVIE INCOMING this is not a drill!!!!

reactormag.com/rebecca-suga...

A Moomin Movie Is Coming From Steven Universe’s Rebecca Sugar - Reactor

In a just world there would be more Moomin movies than Marvel movies.

prox @proxieme.bsky.social · 2d

Like this guy?
bsky.app/profile/dumm...

Føø 🥋 @dummkopf.me · 2d

No need to imagine anything

bsky.app/profile/flgl...

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s video of the incident

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 3d

Let’s check in on the warzone in Portland.

prox @proxieme.bsky.social · 3d

I'm not even Dutch and all I can hear right now is, "PAPIER HIER!"