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Alexandria ⛯

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Alexandria ⛯ @ash243x.bsky.social · 1d

people should be kinder to each other.
we can have so much better of a world.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 1d

"Every trans person who doesn't leave the country has no hope and neither does their resistance" buys into assumptions about the state's invincibility and the weakness of trans communities that are not just false but actively damaging.

Sadly, I'm seeing it a lot more lately. So, this thread...

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1h

every pile-on has the majority of people all saying the same thing, not noticing (or caring) that everyone before them on the comment thread said it

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 2h

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports

Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

www.consumerreports.org

Alexandria ⛯ @ash243x.bsky.social · 2h

this doesn't mean the output is useless; it's still informing you of something, but you need to establish what the information is based on, if it's trustworthy, or manually verify it's accuracy through testing. llms are powerful tools, but not omniscient.

Alexandria ⛯ @ash243x.bsky.social · 2h

i don't disagree, and i'm not exactly sure how we'll accomplish it as a society, but we're going to need to develop new norms of skepticism and valuing high-trust people and organizations that can reliably demonstrate truthfulness and competence.

Alexandria ⛯ @ash243x.bsky.social · 2h

getting up at like 6am tomorrow for a trip, so i need to make sure i don't stay up all night like usual. setting one alarm for the morning, but another one to remind me to go to bed early.

Alexandria ⛯ @ash243x.bsky.social · 2h

that's kind of it's own tangent, i guess, but everyhting seems to keep coming back to it.

Alexandria ⛯ @ash243x.bsky.social · 2h

genuinely. and like, the same errors people are making with gpt and such are actually really similar to how gullible people are to human-made propaganda as well. we have a real crisis of the public at large not having the critical thinking abilities required to survive in this internet age.

Alexandria ⛯ @ash243x.bsky.social · 3h

it's 2025. everyone is online. we're all egirls.

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Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 9h

you may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 18h

genuinely squealed like I saw a celebrity

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 6h

Whilst we're on the subject of shocking living things, did you know police departments routinely shock human beings with tasers until they die and chalk up their deaths to a fake medical condition they call "excited delirium" that was invented by taser companies to absolve themselves of liability?

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aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 5h

the background on zohran's colbert appearance is jaw-droppingly disgusting

Alexandria ⛯ @ash243x.bsky.social · 3h

this is unironically how i use them. you should literally never be treating output as absolute factual statements. it is the machine interpreting your question and the data available to it, which itself is full of subjective statements and even popular misinformation.

Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 4h

You can get totally different advice from a language model depending on how you frame your question. Which could be a weakness. On the other hand, if you're patient enough to ask the question several times, with different framing, you start to get a kind of 3D scan of the possibility space.

Alexandria ⛯ @ash243x.bsky.social · 3h

my feed has gotten so much better, muting people who think indiscriminate abusiveness counts as activism.

Alexandria ⛯ @ash243x.bsky.social · 4h

🐇

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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 6h

Every day I find a new way of trying to get across just how ridiculously fake the problem of AI water use is

Alexandria ⛯ @ash243x.bsky.social · 4h

actually, no, this is not my "worst nightmare" because i wasn't irresponsible enough to upload government documents to a social media app. they should still get sued, and the government needs to be pressured into making this stuff illegal instead of required.

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 5h

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

Alexandria ⛯ @ash243x.bsky.social · 4h

🙂‍↕️

Alexandria ⛯ @ash243x.bsky.social · 4h

i see. interesting. /gen

Alexandria ⛯ @ash243x.bsky.social · 4h

its difficult living in the anglosphere trying to figure out if im the weird one or if christians are gaslighting me into thinking things are more normal than they are

Alexandria ⛯ @ash243x.bsky.social · 5h

waking up in a man's arms might fix me

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 20h

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 21h

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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all hallows eve-run enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 21h

another week of the portland frog guy clowning ice and i think stephen miller might actually stroke out

Alexandria ⛯ @ash243x.bsky.social · 21h

i understand the safety argument but i wish we didn't need to have electric cars emit annoying sounds instead of just being silent. i feel like if it is a safety thing i wish they were more standardized

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 1d

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com