ElderKat
@elderkat.bsky.social
Old person and future Luddite - assuming tech keeps going the way it currently is.
**REALLY PISSED** that I don't get to have a nice boring old age!
NO “kings” or LLMs for me!
**REALLY PISSED** that I don't get to have a nice boring old age!
NO “kings” or LLMs for me!
Leave it to a pro to sum up how we all* are feeling...
*largely
*largely
Unburying the lede from my essay on why we all feel like numb frozen crap these days…
catvalente.substack.com/p/this-is-wh...
catvalente.substack.com/p/this-is-wh...
December 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Leave it to a pro to sum up how we all* are feeling...
*largely
*largely
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☑️No voter disenfranchisement
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December 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
If you live in the U.S., PROTEST NOW
☑️NO NEW WARS
☑️No ICE
☑️No corruption
☑️No tax breaks for wealthy and corporations
☑️No more limits on Constitutional rights
☑️No voter disenfranchisement
REPOST to amplify your voice
E P S T E I N
F I L E S
T R A N S P A R E N C Y
Vote Blue to heal our democracy💙
☑️NO NEW WARS
☑️No ICE
☑️No corruption
☑️No tax breaks for wealthy and corporations
☑️No more limits on Constitutional rights
☑️No voter disenfranchisement
REPOST to amplify your voice
E P S T E I N
F I L E S
T R A N S P A R E N C Y
Vote Blue to heal our democracy💙
Wow.
I am reminded of Lincoln's famous letter to Joshua Speed in 1855
quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/li...
quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/li...
![Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty-to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kok4aqdr3qnsj6ktfkq76kqz/bafkreibv56orcjfhjc2czd5kkydlzapnuem3xkzbhna4fia27pyajprzvq@jpeg)
December 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Wow.
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I hate that every week there's something stupid like an Everyone Has To Drink Pee Now Bill and the alert sounds to CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES THIS IS NOT A DRILL and you really wish you could just trust them to not go for the pee drinking bill
December 15, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I hate that every week there's something stupid like an Everyone Has To Drink Pee Now Bill and the alert sounds to CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES THIS IS NOT A DRILL and you really wish you could just trust them to not go for the pee drinking bill
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The Computer-Weaponized War on Women’s Human-Rights with The Rise of Reproductive Surveillance - An Exhaustive Compendium
tinyurl.com/3w6hrujv
tinyurl.com/3w6hrujv
December 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The Computer-Weaponized War on Women’s Human-Rights with The Rise of Reproductive Surveillance - An Exhaustive Compendium
tinyurl.com/3w6hrujv
tinyurl.com/3w6hrujv
Trump has hit a new low (ref: Reiners) - but I feel somehow certain that he is capable of something even more despicable.
December 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Trump has hit a new low (ref: Reiners) - but I feel somehow certain that he is capable of something even more despicable.
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Remember when Schumer and Dems capitulated the end of the shutdown to maga on the promise of a vote on ACA subsidies "around" December 11th? Those fascists must be cracking the hell up.
December 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Remember when Schumer and Dems capitulated the end of the shutdown to maga on the promise of a vote on ACA subsidies "around" December 11th? Those fascists must be cracking the hell up.
I doubt it will be an annual watch, but as a Christmas movie, Violent Night was wild, funny and maybe a little cathartic?
Hubby tells me a sequel is “in the works” - hope so.
Hubby tells me a sequel is “in the works” - hope so.
December 8, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I doubt it will be an annual watch, but as a Christmas movie, Violent Night was wild, funny and maybe a little cathartic?
Hubby tells me a sequel is “in the works” - hope so.
Hubby tells me a sequel is “in the works” - hope so.
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Why do babies need the hepatitis B vaccine if they aren’t high-risk?
Short answer: Because hepatitis B is a tricky virus.
Longer answer: Continue reading ⬇️
🧵1/9 @kkjetelina.bsky.social @meganranney.bsky.social @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social @enirenberg.bsky.social
Short answer: Because hepatitis B is a tricky virus.
Longer answer: Continue reading ⬇️
🧵1/9 @kkjetelina.bsky.social @meganranney.bsky.social @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social @enirenberg.bsky.social
February 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Why do babies need the hepatitis B vaccine if they aren’t high-risk?
Short answer: Because hepatitis B is a tricky virus.
Longer answer: Continue reading ⬇️
🧵1/9 @kkjetelina.bsky.social @meganranney.bsky.social @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social @enirenberg.bsky.social
Short answer: Because hepatitis B is a tricky virus.
Longer answer: Continue reading ⬇️
🧵1/9 @kkjetelina.bsky.social @meganranney.bsky.social @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social @enirenberg.bsky.social
Sometimes reading these shock me - and then I realize…
Trump to sign Executive Order ending the use of the metric system to describe quantities of cocaine.
December 3, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Sometimes reading these shock me - and then I realize…
Bravo.
December 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Bravo.
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Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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It doesn’t feel like we’re being invaded by immigrants, it feels like we’re being invaded by Trump.
November 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
It doesn’t feel like we’re being invaded by immigrants, it feels like we’re being invaded by Trump.
If this ..administration.. declares war on Venezuela (or anywhere else for that matter):
1. I will be certain in my heart that it is because ‘they’ want war powers…
2. Will lose every last teeny shred (all that remains) of respect for our current federal government.
1. I will be certain in my heart that it is because ‘they’ want war powers…
2. Will lose every last teeny shred (all that remains) of respect for our current federal government.
November 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
If this ..administration.. declares war on Venezuela (or anywhere else for that matter):
1. I will be certain in my heart that it is because ‘they’ want war powers…
2. Will lose every last teeny shred (all that remains) of respect for our current federal government.
1. I will be certain in my heart that it is because ‘they’ want war powers…
2. Will lose every last teeny shred (all that remains) of respect for our current federal government.
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Four of Trump's five children have an immigrant mother, and the one who doesn't is married to the son of two immigrants.
Trump makes the outrageous claim that “most” immigrants, which include over 25 million U.S. citizens, “are on welfare, from failed nations, or from prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels.”
As insulting as the “deplorables” comment, and on Thanksgiving day no less.
As insulting as the “deplorables” comment, and on Thanksgiving day no less.
Trump calls Tim Walz “seriously retarded”
November 28, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Four of Trump's five children have an immigrant mother, and the one who doesn't is married to the son of two immigrants.
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Del. @thedrmikejones.bsky.social nails it: "I am so disappointed and dismayed that the SCC would approve this gas plant which is in complete opposition to our clean energy goals, the Virginia Clean Economy Act and the health and welfare of Virginians in the vicinity." bluevirginia.us/2025/11/virg...
November 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Del. @thedrmikejones.bsky.social nails it: "I am so disappointed and dismayed that the SCC would approve this gas plant which is in complete opposition to our clean energy goals, the Virginia Clean Economy Act and the health and welfare of Virginians in the vicinity." bluevirginia.us/2025/11/virg...
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NEW data I've received: Just 5% of people detained by ICE since October 1 have had violent criminal convictions, 3/4 had no criminal convictions at all. Most "criminals" had immigration, traffic, and vice offenses. Not the "worst of the worst"...
November 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
NEW data I've received: Just 5% of people detained by ICE since October 1 have had violent criminal convictions, 3/4 had no criminal convictions at all. Most "criminals" had immigration, traffic, and vice offenses. Not the "worst of the worst"...
HEAR HEAR!!!!
100 yrs ago meds cld be marketed as cure-all. This did great harm as ppl took aspirin 4 cancer, liver-harming meds 4 liver ills etc. Regulation requiring meds to be *for something* reduced harm
Just so, even if LLMs are useful 4 specific things, they must not be marketed as universal search engines
Just so, even if LLMs are useful 4 specific things, they must not be marketed as universal search engines
"LLM search results are even worse."
it depends on the subject
I work with computer programming, and LLMs are very reliable in this field ... also, it's possible to learn *a lot* with LLMs
it depends on the subject
I work with computer programming, and LLMs are very reliable in this field ... also, it's possible to learn *a lot* with LLMs
November 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
HEAR HEAR!!!!
Ah!
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Ah!
Yep!
Not. Going. Back.
Not. Going. Back.
“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago
November 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Yep!
Not. Going. Back.
Not. Going. Back.
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Yes! This is so important! Machine Learning is doing wonderful things like mapping Martian craters and analyzing microbe genomes. LLMs are a very specific form & it’s them doing these huge amounts of harm. I also sometimes say “Gen AI”
when I mean both LLMs and art generators; I try to never say AI
when I mean both LLMs and art generators; I try to never say AI
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Yes! This is so important! Machine Learning is doing wonderful things like mapping Martian craters and analyzing microbe genomes. LLMs are a very specific form & it’s them doing these huge amounts of harm. I also sometimes say “Gen AI”
when I mean both LLMs and art generators; I try to never say AI
when I mean both LLMs and art generators; I try to never say AI
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This! 👇
It is also a good reminder that we are not experiencing polarization but right-wing radicalization!
It is also a good reminder that we are not experiencing polarization but right-wing radicalization!
Marjorie Taylor Greene has been disliked by the left for years and years and had never had to fear for her life. She's been disliked by the right for 1 day and now has to hire security.
November 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
This! 👇
It is also a good reminder that we are not experiencing polarization but right-wing radicalization!
It is also a good reminder that we are not experiencing polarization but right-wing radicalization!