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Dan
@djon3s.bsky.social
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Brewer of coffee. User of phone. On the internet (sometimes).
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karafin.bsky.social
i was also struck by how many people receiving SNAP are employees of wal-mart and other big corporations. almost seems like we taxpayers are subsidizing private companies 🤔
November 9, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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ponder.ooo
fractal ish thing
November 9, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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langsec.hacker.gf
obligatory, really
"I would do anything for love, but I won't do that" in the style of a Zohran Mamdani political sign
November 9, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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levostregc.bsky.social
And thou mayest aske thyself, 'How do Ich werke thys?'
And thou mayest aske thyself, 'Wher ys that large destrier?'
And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my beautiful castle!'
And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my swift goshawk!'
November 8, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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perfors.net
Getting nervous for the talk I'm about to give at a workshop about "using AI to drive impact" which features slides such as these.
Slide is titled: You don't need to use LLMs. Science is a process of collaborative meaning making, by which we try to understand the world Even if AI were perfect, we rely on it at our peril — it is not science if we (i.e., humanity as a whole) do not understand and cannot recapitulate all parts of it I very, very rarely use LLMs myself. You can give yourself permission not to. Don’t FOMO yourself into it Conclusion: Don't rely on something you don't understand and can't control If you must use LLMS: 1. Treat them like you would an intern: only use them for things you can easily and thoroughly check 2. Make your process as robust as possible 3. Be aware of your own (human) cognitive biases
November 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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ponder.ooo
"when i rlhf the talking machine to embrace compassion it keeps steering toward buddhism instead of my freaky patriarchal torturer religion what the fuck"
November 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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slackbastard.bsky.social
10/ Joint Councils for Civil Liberties Submission to Terrifying ASIO Powers

'The CCLs submit that these immense powers are contrary to basic democratic principles & would characterise ASIO as a secret police force, rather than an intelligence gathering agency.'

www.nswccl.org.au/media_statem...
MEDIA STATEMENT: Joint Councils for Civil Liberties Submission to Terrifying ASIO Powers
www.nswccl.org.au
November 7, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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ponder.ooo
"processing things" is just an attempt to depathologize your rumination
November 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
djon3s.bsky.social
This is a piece of work I am like most proud of and like 5 people world wide would care for all of 30 minutes

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November 6, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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@purplepingers.bsky.social turn the volume up youtu.be/lD91CxCo8-Y?...
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November 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
djon3s.bsky.social
@asherwolf.bsky.social turn the volume up - KRS one youtu.be/lD91CxCo8-Y?...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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@slackbastard.bsky.social turn the violin up youtu.be/lD91CxCo8-Y?...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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baileymcc.bsky.social
This person took this when they called the race
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
djon3s.bsky.social
Can’t believe it but Zohran just quoted Eugene Deb’s (socialist jailed for sedition) then KRS One to trump ✊ youtu.be/lD91CxCo8-Y?...
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November 5, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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valkyrie.hacker.gf
I see Henry Kissinger is about to have a new cellmate in hell
November 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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atax1a.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
looking at all these liberalish type people talking about how they expect good faith out of the fascists and celebrating their legal victories in their liberalish type courts against fascists and sighing deeply
November 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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purplepingers.bsky.social
“it is just the same with the housing shortage. The growth of the big modern cities gives the land in certain areas, particularly in those which are centrally situated, an artificial and often colossally increasing value” - Engels, 1872
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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majordopolis.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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erinbiba.bsky.social
The absolutely brilliant pitch perfect troll of getting targeted by your opponent with virulent Islamophobia and then immediately releasing an ad in all Arabic.
zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 9d
أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك
November 1, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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malaiseforever.bsky.social
reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book
“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register. Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”
October 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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davidgraeberinst.bsky.social
Back in 2010, David Graeber wrote, Against Kamikaze Capitalism

This is a quote from that piece.
"Neoliberalism was the system that managed to convince everyone in the world that financial elites were the only people capable of managing or measuring the value of anything, even as in order to do so, it ended up promulgating an economic culture so irresponsible that it allowed those elites to bring the entire financial architecture of the global economy tumbling on top of them because of their utter inability to assess the value even of their own financial instruments." . - David Graeber
October 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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October 14, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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February 28, 2025 at 2:14 AM
djon3s.bsky.social
So, in general seems like most liberal democratic nation states decided to fuck with the post WW2 liberal and conservative consensus about progressive tax rates and a welfare state, here we go again youtu.be/1uYWYWPc9HU?...
Radiohead - Karma Police
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February 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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davidgraeberinst.bsky.social
Hopelessness is an important element of Neo-Liberalism.
I think there has been a war of the imagination over the last several years. I was thinking a lot about what there might be to be optimistic about and I came to the conclusion that this feeling of hopelessness that everybody has is a manufactured product, and that’s what Neo-Liberalism is really about. Neo-Liberalism isn’t just an economic program, it’s a political program designed to produce hopelessness and kill any future alternatives." . - David Graeber
February 27, 2025 at 1:35 AM