Nick Walker Hirsch
@dreamseadrifter.bsky.social
They/them; PhD Student in History of Technology, Science, the Environment, Medicine and Empire; singer, writer, too many hobbies to count; anarcho-communist, but mellow about it; living in Washington, DC
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I guess when you're terrified of everything, everything looks like terrorism.
For example.
GenAI is at best a tragedy with silver linings.
And I won't ever be a willing participant in what I consider to be an engine for producing increasingly complex mediocrity.
Leave me at the river's edge, thanks.
GenAI is at best a tragedy with silver linings.
And I won't ever be a willing participant in what I consider to be an engine for producing increasingly complex mediocrity.
Leave me at the river's edge, thanks.
Pandora's box is open. We're not going back to a pre-AI world, even if some of the big AI companies collapse. There are tons of great open source AI models now.
So I hope over time more of you join me in using these tools against the powerful rather than fruitlessly hoping they will vanish.
So I hope over time more of you join me in using these tools against the powerful rather than fruitlessly hoping they will vanish.
November 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
For example.
GenAI is at best a tragedy with silver linings.
And I won't ever be a willing participant in what I consider to be an engine for producing increasingly complex mediocrity.
Leave me at the river's edge, thanks.
GenAI is at best a tragedy with silver linings.
And I won't ever be a willing participant in what I consider to be an engine for producing increasingly complex mediocrity.
Leave me at the river's edge, thanks.
I have an AI Slop Bucket moderation list for accounts that promote or share ai slop, and at this point I've started adding anyone who conflates ai with "progress."
November 30, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I have an AI Slop Bucket moderation list for accounts that promote or share ai slop, and at this point I've started adding anyone who conflates ai with "progress."
DHS has always been a tool for white supremacist ideology and christofascist terrorism, so y'all can skip me with the shock.
They're just more blatant now.
I'll believe liberals care about white supremacism when they start demanding actual systemic change.
Fuck your increments and hand-wringing.
They're just more blatant now.
I'll believe liberals care about white supremacism when they start demanding actual systemic change.
Fuck your increments and hand-wringing.
November 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
DHS has always been a tool for white supremacist ideology and christofascist terrorism, so y'all can skip me with the shock.
They're just more blatant now.
I'll believe liberals care about white supremacism when they start demanding actual systemic change.
Fuck your increments and hand-wringing.
They're just more blatant now.
I'll believe liberals care about white supremacism when they start demanding actual systemic change.
Fuck your increments and hand-wringing.
Everyone associated with ICE should be behind bars and/or hanged for crimes against humanity.
Every single one.
Fuck these people.
Every single one.
Fuck these people.
ICE is arresting husbands & wives at their final green card interviews
They’re going to the immigration meeting to complete the final step in the legal process and leaving in handcuffs
One man had to take his crying infant from his wife’s arms as ICE forcibly detained her
This is cruel entrapment
They’re going to the immigration meeting to complete the final step in the legal process and leaving in handcuffs
One man had to take his crying infant from his wife’s arms as ICE forcibly detained her
This is cruel entrapment
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Everyone associated with ICE should be behind bars and/or hanged for crimes against humanity.
Every single one.
Fuck these people.
Every single one.
Fuck these people.
I really don't have it in me to believe that the Trump-poisoned CIA isn't behind the shooting in DC yesterday.
It's just a little too perfectly timed, too consistent with the court orders and the Epstein files.
Sorry, but at this point I'm fully on that conspiracy theory train.
It's just a little too perfectly timed, too consistent with the court orders and the Epstein files.
Sorry, but at this point I'm fully on that conspiracy theory train.
November 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I really don't have it in me to believe that the Trump-poisoned CIA isn't behind the shooting in DC yesterday.
It's just a little too perfectly timed, too consistent with the court orders and the Epstein files.
Sorry, but at this point I'm fully on that conspiracy theory train.
It's just a little too perfectly timed, too consistent with the court orders and the Epstein files.
Sorry, but at this point I'm fully on that conspiracy theory train.
I've been trying and failing to find a way to express this and my horror about it.
But this is pretty damn well said.
But this is pretty damn well said.
we have surrounded ourselves by so many machines of so many kinds it's no wonder that we've come to think of ourselves as scientifically rational wealth-optimizing machines, which ultimately makes us reproducible and replaceable, and makes us treat life as a series of functions to be lubricated
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I've been trying and failing to find a way to express this and my horror about it.
But this is pretty damn well said.
But this is pretty damn well said.
Frankly I'm unconvinced this wasn't orchestrated by the regime.
BREAKING: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Trump administration would send hundreds of additional National Guard soldiers to the nation’s capital after two soldiers were shot in the city Wednesday.
Trump Admin to Escalate D.C. Military Takeover After Two National Guard Members Shot
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Frankly I'm unconvinced this wasn't orchestrated by the regime.
He's not
Once you get tricked by an AI video of animals being friends you can get so mad you decide Sam Altman isn’t even a real guy
November 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
He's not
I would be less hostile about LLMs if they weren't built, operated, supported, and marketed/foisted by the world's most ethically bankrupt people.
November 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I would be less hostile about LLMs if they weren't built, operated, supported, and marketed/foisted by the world's most ethically bankrupt people.
I mean, yes.
If I find out someone is using chatGPT I pretty much immediately write off anything else they're about to say.
If I find out someone is using chatGPT I pretty much immediately write off anything else they're about to say.
Learning the hard way a few times that if you leave any indication that you found a source using ChatGPT people will eagerly dismiss the entire thing. I use ChatGPT as basically a super powered search and double-check all my sources. Looks like this is still pretty commonly disqualifying
November 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I mean, yes.
If I find out someone is using chatGPT I pretty much immediately write off anything else they're about to say.
If I find out someone is using chatGPT I pretty much immediately write off anything else they're about to say.
One of the next big things Democrats won't want to do that we will have to force them to do is push back against the surveillance state.
Republicans won't care because they don't actually believe there's such a thing as rights.
Republicans won't care because they don't actually believe there's such a thing as rights.
In October, statewide news reported that a sheriff's deputy in Texas searched thousands of Flock cameras in Washington for 'Had an abortion, search for female.’ New documents obtained by RANGE show Spokane County Sheriff's Office cameras were accessed in that search:
Texas deputy searched Spokane County Flock cameras for a woman who had an abortion– RANGE Media
Amidst nationwide and state scrutiny of the cameras, Spokane County’s Flock network was used by an out-of-state cop looking for a woman who had an abortion.
rangemedia.co
November 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
One of the next big things Democrats won't want to do that we will have to force them to do is push back against the surveillance state.
Republicans won't care because they don't actually believe there's such a thing as rights.
Republicans won't care because they don't actually believe there's such a thing as rights.
You think ADHD is funny haha superpower shit until you start having suicidal ideations because the software you're stuck using while you're working under a deadline starts interrupting you to tell you about all the new features you don't fucking want right now.
November 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
You think ADHD is funny haha superpower shit until you start having suicidal ideations because the software you're stuck using while you're working under a deadline starts interrupting you to tell you about all the new features you don't fucking want right now.
With a much politeness as I can muster, why the fuck are we still using pdf files?
Adobe sucks, every one of their products sucks, and they are working very hard to make their software nearly useless for anyone who isn't interested in joining to cult of genAI.
Adobe sucks, every one of their products sucks, and they are working very hard to make their software nearly useless for anyone who isn't interested in joining to cult of genAI.
November 25, 2025 at 8:52 PM
With a much politeness as I can muster, why the fuck are we still using pdf files?
Adobe sucks, every one of their products sucks, and they are working very hard to make their software nearly useless for anyone who isn't interested in joining to cult of genAI.
Adobe sucks, every one of their products sucks, and they are working very hard to make their software nearly useless for anyone who isn't interested in joining to cult of genAI.
It's a good read even if the author kinda thinks he's somehow the first man to discover the lie of economic prosperity in America.
in which the Chief Strategist and Portfolio Manager for Simplify Asset Management discovers how anachronistic & damaging “the poverty line” metric is in the USA— www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
It's a good read even if the author kinda thinks he's somehow the first man to discover the lie of economic prosperity in America.
Can we please clarify that RFK Jr is not the leader of a movement. This is not a big cultural shift. It's batshit crazy people using power they don't have to enforce policies nobody likes or wants.
For the past decade, conversations around autism shifted from focusing around curing #ActuallyAutistic people to accommodating and accepting autistic people. We now live in the RFK Jr. backlash, which shifts discussions around autism toward prevention
www.ms.now/opinion/rfk-...
www.ms.now/opinion/rfk-...
Opinion | RFK Jr.'s latest anti-vaccine move will cause untold harm to autistic Americans
The Trump administration is working toward treating autism as something to be prevented, rather than building a health care system that helps people.
www.ms.now
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Can we please clarify that RFK Jr is not the leader of a movement. This is not a big cultural shift. It's batshit crazy people using power they don't have to enforce policies nobody likes or wants.
Duffy is truly one of the more embarrassing regime clowns.
These people have absolutely nothing of substance to offer the world they want to rule.
These people have absolutely nothing of substance to offer the world they want to rule.
Duffy on his demand that air travelers not wear slippers or pajamas: "It honors our country ... don't take your shoes off and put your feet on the chair ahead of you"
November 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Duffy is truly one of the more embarrassing regime clowns.
These people have absolutely nothing of substance to offer the world they want to rule.
These people have absolutely nothing of substance to offer the world they want to rule.
One gets the sense that sexual harassment is a core value of the tech industry.
Weird how Microsoft put two different buttons here even though both of them day "go fuck yourself"
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
One gets the sense that sexual harassment is a core value of the tech industry.
One of the things I do to test if I'm dreaming is try to read, because text in dreams is often garbled or unstable - something to do with linguistic processing in the sleeping brain.
It's remarkably similar to ai detection.
It's remarkably similar to ai detection.
The words on the bags and boxes tho
November 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
One of the things I do to test if I'm dreaming is try to read, because text in dreams is often garbled or unstable - something to do with linguistic processing in the sleeping brain.
It's remarkably similar to ai detection.
It's remarkably similar to ai detection.
They're fucking busy, Brendan.
Most gen z folk I know are working multiple jobs and wish they could go to the protests but are currently struggling to survive.
And I remember when millennials were everyone's favorite generation to call lazy when we were all busy trying to work as well.
Most gen z folk I know are working multiple jobs and wish they could go to the protests but are currently struggling to survive.
And I remember when millennials were everyone's favorite generation to call lazy when we were all busy trying to work as well.
My @nytimes.com op-ed: The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o... (gift link)
The key point: "The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning."
The key point: "The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning."
Opinion | The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z?
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
They're fucking busy, Brendan.
Most gen z folk I know are working multiple jobs and wish they could go to the protests but are currently struggling to survive.
And I remember when millennials were everyone's favorite generation to call lazy when we were all busy trying to work as well.
Most gen z folk I know are working multiple jobs and wish they could go to the protests but are currently struggling to survive.
And I remember when millennials were everyone's favorite generation to call lazy when we were all busy trying to work as well.
Mark Zuckerberg protects sex traffickers.
That's a pretty big deal!
That's a pretty big deal!
Sex trafficking on Meta platforms was both difficult to report and widely tolerated. Instagram’s former head of safety testified that when she joined Meta in 2020 she was shocked to learn the company had a “17x” strike policy for accounts that engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.”
7 Allegations Against Meta in Newly Unsealed Filings
Court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.
time.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Mark Zuckerberg protects sex traffickers.
That's a pretty big deal!
That's a pretty big deal!
If you know this, why not name them?
Thomas Massie says the FBI is sitting on information that implicates 20 other men in Epstein's child sex trafficking operation
They include a rockstar, six billionaires (including one from Canada), a high-profile government official, a very prominent banker, and a magician
They include a rockstar, six billionaires (including one from Canada), a high-profile government official, a very prominent banker, and a magician
November 23, 2025 at 6:17 AM
If you know this, why not name them?
Reposted by Nick Walker Hirsch
Marimar Martinez is a US citizen who was shot by ICE five times in Chicago.
She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media.
All charges against her have been dropped.
In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.
She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media.
All charges against her have been dropped.
In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.
November 22, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Marimar Martinez is a US citizen who was shot by ICE five times in Chicago.
She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media.
All charges against her have been dropped.
In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.
She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media.
All charges against her have been dropped.
In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.
Without downloading any new pics what is it like dating you
November 22, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Without downloading any new pics what is it like dating you
Reposted by Nick Walker Hirsch
Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
November 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
When Stephen Miller crawls out of his coffin in about a half hour he's going to be really mad.
November 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
When Stephen Miller crawls out of his coffin in about a half hour he's going to be really mad.