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Astra Analecta🏳️‍⚧️🕊️for a better world [burn before reading] @flightforall.bsky.social · Aug 25

Sending so many <3s

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Astra Analecta🏳️‍⚧️🕊️for a better world [burn before reading] @flightforall.bsky.social · Aug 23

I did one irl once

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Aug 23

If regulation on technology intended to reduce unethical use was actually pointless, big tech executives wouldn’t be spending massive amounts of time and energy trying to squash those regulations and the people who advocate for them.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Aug 23

If you think there’s simply no way we could better design and regulate consumer LLMs in such a way that the considerable human harm they’re causing would be greatly *reduced*: congrats, you have completely fallen for the lies that the AI bros are trying to sell you.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Aug 22

Of course you can never fully idiot-proof anything, but you are responsible for *trying* to idiot-proof tech - and the current AI boosters are very dramatically failing at this.

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Astra Analecta🏳️‍⚧️🕊️for a better world [burn before reading] @flightforall.bsky.social · Aug 23

Yes God.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Aug 23

I work in consumer drone tech, which has been pretty intensely regulated from the beginning because most people could immediately grasp the danger that unregulated and badly designed small drones could post to the public: consumer AI is no different.

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Jamie @drinkcoffeerun.bsky.social · Aug 23

I don't fuck Tories. My consent is contingent on someone not being a Tory, so I ask if they're a Tory beforehand. I don't just assume they're not a Tory, then sue them of sexual assault if I find out they're a Tory after the fact.

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · Aug 22

Far from my area of expertise but i did like the owen translations of du fu. The romance of the three kingdoms i just grabbed a translation off the shelf

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BOOge Liang @meimeimeixie.purplepanda.gay · Aug 23

luo guanzhong wrote

"The world under heaven, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of union, tends to divide. This has been so since antiquity."

having no idea that a trans woman in another continent in another language would take comfort from it 700 years later

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Sylvia Meretrix 🏳️‍⚧️ @estrogenandspite.bsky.social · Aug 23

Similar things have been helping me too.

When empires collapse, the people don’t just vanish. When systems crumble, the people adapt. Society is a shared agreement between people. If the agreement is broken beyond repair, we will make new ones.

We always have. We just need to support each other.

Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · Mar 4

honestly been getting weird reassurance from reading du fu and other ancient chinese poets and knowing people have faced the same struggle of caring deeply amidst a bumbling state

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Aug 21

Almost all of the smartest liberal and left wing writers and reporters I know have basically been reduced to doing that work as a mostly-unpaid hobby in addition to their actual job (if they have a job).

Just a few rich Democrats could put their money where their mouth is and fix this.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Aug 21

Seems like a problem that most every smart liberal and left wing writer, researcher, analyst, and NGO worker I know is unemployed, grossly underpaid, or in a super unstable job, while a bunch of 20 year old Nazis with the talent and expertise of ass hair are getting paid $300K to post on Twitter.

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Astra Analecta🏳️‍⚧️🕊️for a better world [burn before reading] @flightforall.bsky.social · Aug 23

As a tranny faggot, i approve of this

Also, welcome to the team ;)

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · Aug 23

Thank god for civil rights lawyers and their eternal rearguard action

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · Jan 29

Civil rights lawyers, bleeding from the ears: This executive order is blatantly unconstitutional!

DoJ goons: Which part

Civil rights lawyers, shooting red lasers from their eyes: ALL OF IT

DoJ goons: which part of the constitution

Civil rights lawyers, levitating 45' feet in the air: ALL OF IT

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Zinzrinz @zinzrinz.bsky.social · Apr 30

"you can really simplify these things down incredibly, because as soon as you're reliant on it you've been compromised"

"yaaay! this is a normal response to being told you've been compromised"

"mhm!"

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Astra Analecta🏳️‍⚧️🕊️for a better world [burn before reading] @flightforall.bsky.social · Aug 23

Big business cash will do that

Big tech is the new big oil imo, look at it that way and it all suddenly makes sense :(

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Astra Analecta🏳️‍⚧️🕊️for a better world [burn before reading] @flightforall.bsky.social · Aug 23

Living in sf for a few months was like a fucking fever dream

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mattachine meowppy machine @spookybiscuits.com · Aug 23

There are Democrats actively fighting for us. Not many. But they're there, they're trying damn hard, and they're doing good work.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Aug 22

Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect.

As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.

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kckckc | free link @katecrane.bsky.social · Aug 23

when I got here in 2015, some millionaire took me to a pity coffee to try to figure out why I was struggling. Finally, he slammed down his latte and said:

“Oh! Now I know. You’re an independent thinker! You’re gonna have a real hard time here.”

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 23

Silicon Valley is full of wealthy men who think they’re victims, says Nick Clegg

Former Lib Dem leader and Meta strategist writes in new book that power in tech capital is interlaced with ‘self pity’ Silicon Valley is full of hubris and hugely wealthy and macho men who think they are victims, the former politician and Facebook executive Nick Clegg has said. The former leader of the Liberal Democrats makes the claim in a new book chronicling his three careers as an MEP in Brussels, an MP and deputy prime minister in Westminster and as a communications and public policy strategist in San Francisco. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Sage Divinorum 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · Aug 21

cosign. i met James Dobson in person when i was a kid growing up in evangelical churches.

that rat bastard is part of why i was subjected to conversion “therapy” as a child. his soul was as rancid as his rightwing ideology.

rot in piss, you fascist fossil. the world is better without you in it.

Tal B. Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · Aug 21

james dobson is dead and cannot wish anything but eternal pain on that mother fucker. that guy destroyed so many lives

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · Mar 4

honestly been getting weird reassurance from reading du fu and other ancient chinese poets and knowing people have faced the same struggle of caring deeply amidst a bumbling state

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Headphone Jack @bazookajoe204.bsky.social · Aug 22

regularly seeing writers break news with exhaustively researched pieces which are then yoinked by legacy media outlets without attribution makes me angry

knowing many of those same writers are living hand-to-mouth is infuriating

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Aug 21

Seems like a problem that most every smart liberal and left wing writer, researcher, analyst, and NGO worker I know is unemployed, grossly underpaid, or in a super unstable job, while a bunch of 20 year old Nazis with the talent and expertise of ass hair are getting paid $300K to post on Twitter.

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Astra Analecta🏳️‍⚧️🕊️for a better world [burn before reading] @flightforall.bsky.social · Aug 22

Meowww

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Astra Analecta🏳️‍⚧️🕊️for a better world [burn before reading] @flightforall.bsky.social · Aug 22

Extremely far

Anywhere besides my limits >.<