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Shiri Bailem @shiri.bailem.me · 4d

Heads up that this account (and whole server) is going dark for the next week.

Tomorrow morning shutting down the server for the move, will be back the 22nd or 23rd.

Shiri Bailem @shiri.bailem.me · 4d

Sharing this story from @pluralistic because it's so much of what I've been saying.

> Shipping a model that runs badly – that needs more data-centers and energy to run – is a way to convince investors that it's doing something really advanced (after all, look how much compute and energy it's […]

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Shiri Bailem @shiri.bailem.me · 5d

@micr0 oh, one of those is answered _after_ verifying.

I do suggest verifying and limiting the contact emails because that could potentially be used for denial of service (spam a large list and intentionally miss check ins to get your mail relay to flag your account).

Shiri Bailem @shiri.bailem.me · 5d

@micr0 Fantastic! A great service to offer.

My two-cents: this can also be good for just people who live isolated, like myself as I can go long stretches without seeing people.

I see weekly and daily, and a mention of reminders... what are the exact(-ish) intervals. Like is it miss 2-3 check […]

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Shiri Bailem @shiri.bailem.me · 5d

AAAAAAAAAH!

... slightest hint of possible bad news and I fucking spiraled into a panic attack...

Nothing bad actually happened... other than the panic attack which has me completely _wrecked_...

Twitchy, on the edge of tears and a complete fucking nightmare storm of emotions...

😭😭😭😭😭

Shiri Bailem @shiri.bailem.me · 6d

@dahlingzoe.bsky.social Oh, I've said often lately that the best realistic outcomes forward that I see all involve war unfortunately...

And I don't mean that flippantly, it's truly horrible but I can't see a real way forward that doesn't involve it.

Hell, it's practically already here, the […]

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Shiri Bailem @shiri.bailem.me · 6d

@dahlingzoe.bsky.social It's also fundamental systemic issues, like from day one our country's systems were built with racism in mind and they've spent centuries build up more systemic issues even if we've advanced some others. One of the biggest problems is our constitution is resistant to […]

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Shiri Bailem @shiri.bailem.me · 6d

It's an inherent part of this country, same reason the KKK never got declared an illegal terrorist group. What we've got now that's really different is the worst of have finally reached the point they can dismantle what limits existed in the system for them.

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Shiri Bailem @shiri.bailem.me · 6d

@tadaris.bsky.social it's so blessed to hold hands with your kitty cat ❤

Shiri Bailem @shiri.bailem.me · 9d

I swear... dealing with someone making an anti-AI rant that is so clueless and bordering on incoherent that a _low power_ LLM could do a better job...

Really makes me lose some faith in humanity...

I really wish people had a better ability to grasp nuance instead of blunt "AI evil" or "AI […]

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Shiri Bailem @shiri.bailem.me · 11d

@maxineinyourwifi god mood... like only myself to blame... but oof...

Shiri Bailem @shiri.bailem.me · 12d

@stefan My biggest suggestion for encouraging alt-text:

Don't reply with complaints about lack of alt-text, don't bully over the lack of alt-text, unless you yourself are one of the screen reader users.

Instead if you see something without alt text, reply with: "Please add this to the alt-text […]

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Shiri Bailem @shiri.bailem.me · 14d

@dahlingzoe.bsky.social Saruman is Google... lol

Every time I remember that their motto used to be "Don't be evil" I have to take a moment...

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Shiri Bailem @shiri.bailem.me · 15d

@pikesley oh you forgot the part where the states are competing to offer it the cheapest electricity and encouraging them to abuse the water supply as well...

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 15d

We went from "we will deport the worst of the worst" to "we will deport anyone here illegally" to "we will round up anyone who looks wrong" to "people who live in cities are the enemy" essentially overnight.

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Shiri Bailem @shiri.bailem.me · 16d

@volpeon thank you for putting great words to this! I hear people talk about instances as communities all the time and honestly it always sounds to me like people are confusing fediverse instances with forums...

The closest to that experience here is groups, but it's still not _quite_ the same […]

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:privTri: Corveon :brdSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 16d

Some additional thoughts on why alt accounts don't seem to work here even though people have no issues participating in multiple separate forums. Last time I said it was because you can interact with the same people and posts regardless of which account I use.

The problem is, as usual, the […]

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Shiri Bailem @shiri.bailem.me · 17d

Mutual Aid Request (no cw because apparently some systems hide hashtag posts that have cws?)

gofundme.com/f/assist-a-jewish…

I'm on the last leg of preparing, apartment is nearly finalized and booking travel arrangements.

Unfortunately that's pretty much everything that's been donated so far […]

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Shiri Bailem @shiri.bailem.me · 18d

@dahlingzoe.bsky.social 🤮🤮🤮

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Shiri Bailem @shiri.bailem.me · 19d

@dahlingzoe.bsky.social honestly it always felt a little uncomfortable to me... I didn't even know there was a cultural element to it

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Shiri Bailem @shiri.bailem.me · 22d

CW: mutual aid, escaping texas

An update on my request for help. It looks like the move is set, just got to get some final numbers for budgeting. At this point every little bit helps drastically in making sure I don't run face first into another roadblock.

gofundme.com/f/assist-a-jewish… […]

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Shiri Bailem @shiri.bailem.me · 20d

For anyone thinking the setup is not a big deal, I'm constantly on the verge of tears and/or meltdown right now with the stress of moving cross country away from the people I love for safety...

I don't think I can commit to the frustration of spending so much time re-setting up apps, little […]

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Shiri Bailem @shiri.bailem.me · 20d

When I'm past my move and once I have enough headspace to handle the frustrating conversion period... I think it's time for me to switch my phone to a secure ROM.

Things are getting bad enough that my baseline trust is quickly disappearing (baseline in the sense of "it's not in their interests […]

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Shiri Bailem @shiri.bailem.me · 20d

@samhenrigold noooo my Baldur's Gate 3 download had only a decade left!!!

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estroJenna Seven @jenna7.tgirl.gay · 21d

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