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Center for Countering Digital Hate @counterhate.com · 13d

Is ChatGPT-5 actually safer than ChatGPT-4o?

CCDH tested 120 prompts about self-harm, eating disorders & substance abuse on both models of ChatGPT.

Despite OpenAI's claims, we found that ChatGPT-5 gives more harmful responses (53%) than ChatGPT-4o (42%).

Check out our findings ⤵️

The Illusion of AI Safety — Center for Countering Digital Hate | CCDH

CCDH’s new research shows that OpenAI’s new “safer” version of ChatGPT actually could allow more harm.

counterhate.com

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sl @slwrx.bsky.social · 15d

Doris Lessing
Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
You Are Damned, We Are Saved

Perhaps it is not too much to say that in these violent times the kindest, wisest wish we have for the young must be: "We hope that your period of immersion in group lunacy, group self-righteousness, will not coincide with some period of your country's history when you can put your murderous and stupid ideas into practice.

If you are lucky, you will emerge much enlarged by your experience of what you are capable of in the way of bigotry and intolerance. You will understand absolutely how sane people in periods of public insanity, can murder, destroy, lie, swear black is white."

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ReneePaints @painthike.bsky.social · 15d

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day

Photo of rock formations in Monument Valley, Arizona

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sl @slwrx.bsky.social · 15d

If Imu is Antichrist, Luffy is Christ. For hundreds of chapters, Luffy seems nothing more than the happy-go-lucky captain of his crew, attracting disciples and dethroning tyrants. The observation that his trademark image, a red-striped straw hat, resembles a bloody crown of thorns might seem like a stretch. But in One Piece’s final saga, Oda’s Christian apocalyptic imagery has become undeniable.

Around chapter 1,000, Luffy and his allies battle their most powerful rivals: a dragon named Kaidou and a soul-devouring cannibal with dozens of children named “Big Mom.” Revelation depicts Christ confronting a dragon representing Satan and the Whore of Babylon (a “woman drunken with the blood of the saints” like a cannibal [Rev. 17:6]). Kaidou nearly defeats Luffy. But Luffy transforms into the Christ of Revelation 1:14: “His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire.”

sl @slwrx.bsky.social · 15d

One Piece is a comic about pirates and searching for treasure, published in a magazine aimed at teenage boys.

This is Earth. The year is 2025.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 16d

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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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Sep 18

I’m often asked for temperature anomaly plots using a “pre-industrial” baseline (1850–1900). I update a full set of these graphics each month, now through August 2025: zacklabe.com/climate-chan.... Always free to use and share!

Climate change indicators

All data are referenced at My visualizations: Arctic Climate Seasonality and Variability Arctic Sea Ice Extent and Concentration Arctic Sea Ice Volume and Thickness Arctic Temperatures Antarctic Se…

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sl @slwrx.bsky.social · Sep 19

legend

interview details efforts related to cybercrime as well as other things + a bunch of valuable insight. short, worthwhile read

Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark Invests in Gen Z Cyber Defense

The digital pioneer wants to help young people "Spot the Scam" and "PauseTake9" before engaging online. We connected with him to check in and learn more.

www.insidephilanthropy.com

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sl @slwrx.bsky.social · Sep 9

#breaks

Soft Lightning, by Rigby On The Run

from the album Rug Rally EP

rigbyontherun.bandcamp.com

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sl @slwrx.bsky.social · Sep 9

#trance

Air, by DJ HEARTSTRING & SWIM

from the album FOREVER

djheartstring.bandcamp.com

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sl @slwrx.bsky.social · Sep 9

Beauty is everywhere. Just stop, breathe, open up and look.

#house #music

Pink Horizon

YouTube video by Release - Topic

youtu.be

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Lee Zimmerman @zim2918.bsky.social · Aug 27

Antelope canyon

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sl @slwrx.bsky.social · Aug 25

Oh damn, an hour+ long Big Think video from Sean Carroll on physics. Definitely going to find some time for this. Prof. Carroll is goated; one of our great science communicators right now

Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · Aug 23

Thanks to @bigthink.com for giving me an opportunity to babble on about physics and how awesome it is. (TL;DR: extremely awesome.)

bigthink.com/series/full-...

Sean Carroll explains why physics is both simple and impossible

“I like to say that physics is hard because physics is easy, by which I mean we actually think about physics as students.”

bigthink.com

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sl @slwrx.bsky.social · Aug 25

Massively important effort right here. Read and share this!

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · Aug 13

Friends, a few months ago I asked you all to share what your thoughts on what would improve the health of Americans for a project Defend Public Health was working on. You answered, and we listened.

Today, we released our report, Improving the Health of Americans together. You can read it here.

Improving the Health of Americans Together: An evidence-based framework for addressing the root causes of illness in the U.S | Defend Public Health

As an alternative to HHS Sec. Kennedy's flawed and dishonest "MAHA Report," Defend Public Health offers some key policies that would truly improve Americans’ health. This report is certainly not exhau...

www.defendpublichealth.org

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sl @slwrx.bsky.social · Aug 25

s/o wh1bby and their page for reminding me of this; no idea why I didn't grab it until now. Advanced, high tech tune-up of a classic.
Additionally, I highly recommend all CFCF music.
This one is a free DL. Don't sleep

#garage #ukg #2-step #music

Fill Me In After the After (Craig David Bootleg), by CFCF

from the album memoryedits

cfcf.bandcamp.com

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sl @slwrx.bsky.social · Aug 25

If you like the Posij track, Dave N.A. is making my favorite #bass -centric tunes right now. Strap in for this one; it does not tread lightly.

typelessrecords.bandcamp.com/track/nexor

Central, by Dave N.A.

3 track album

typelessrecords.bandcamp.com

sl @slwrx.bsky.social · Aug 25

One of many awesome and unexpected tracks I heard via DJ Auria in Seattle. Look out for him on Kremwerk lineups and elsewhere. Dude has serious chops.

Posij, I remembered from Critical Records in 2015 and was surprised to hear something so slick and modern. Still got that weight. Crazy good.

Posij & d.enigma - Struikel, by VISION

from the album MISSION 03

visionrecordings.bandcamp.com

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sl @slwrx.bsky.social · Aug 25

I can't believe this track is free. That's actually insane.
Go DL / support this shit!! If you're a DJ there's no good reason to not have it; it transforms a room.

#house #techno #music

somaqualityrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/emotio...

Emotional Content (Funk D' Void Remix), by Funk D'Void vs. Chicco Secci

from the album Emotional Content

somaqualityrecordings.bandcamp.com

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sl @slwrx.bsky.social · Aug 24

Phrases to avoid
"Food insecurity"
Wow, this has to be a joke
Unhoused, incarcerated people... yeah, really controversial stuff. Definitely the kind of discussions you want to avoid in 2025.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · Aug 23

Miss "Lydia" shows us her screen with a temp of 97° at 11am while she works packing grapes in Bakersfield CA. The area is under an extreme heat warning meaning a high risk for heat illness especially among the elderly like herself, but she works out of necessity. #WeFeedYou #calor

A farm worker who is packing grapes holds up her phone showing a temperature app that showed was 97° at 11am in Bakersfield California

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sl @slwrx.bsky.social · Aug 23

recent obsession
lift up
#house #music

Heard This Calling, by Wretla

track by Wretla

wretla.bandcamp.com

sl @slwrx.bsky.social · Aug 23

For anyone that's received encouragement/support from me and valued it on some level, and wondered where it went, pls reach out. The world is overwhelming and my memory is not what I'd like it to be, but I'll never stop caring about the things and the people I believe in. Would love to hear from you

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sl @slwrx.bsky.social · Aug 23

Don't let them convince you that anything about generative AI in its current form, with its current level of consumption, is the way forward for humanity. Say no.

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Aug 22

HEY friends: recently seen heaps of "disclosures" from AI companies of the energy cost per question you type into chatbots (most recently from Google)?

Presenting per-query 'efficiency' is part of big tech's efforts to hide its extremely real and happening-right-now climate impacts!

NEW POST -->>>

Big tech’s selective disclosure masks AI’s real climate impact

Google claims to have disclosed new information proving its own efficiency. But it has hidden the bigger picture. Guess what: I’ve got the bigger picture for you right here in this big old po…

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sl @slwrx.bsky.social · Aug 23

Look around you, and engage with the things that are tangible and present

Let go of the things that seek to hold you down or distract you, that possess no intent to reciprocate. The world in its depth is endless. There's no time for distractions that do not enrich.

Stay focused, stay positive

sl @slwrx.bsky.social · Aug 18

Have faith

Inept, by 2XM

from the album Inept

thenailshop.bandcamp.com

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sl @slwrx.bsky.social · Aug 18

Finally I've reached this place in which I can find moments where I'm able to reach out and feel the world around me in its beauty. It's always there. For now, I just have to keep looking up toward the sky that encompasses everything. The clearest reminder I could ask for is right there.