Willow by the River
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- You can contribute and request assistance on this page
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i am a statistic
last night i was assaulted for the crime of sitting outside a kabob shop eating dinner with a friend
i knew this was the risk i would face by coming out. i’m surprised it took almost 2y before something happened
🧵1/5 - replies at end
last night i was assaulted for the crime of sitting outside a kabob shop eating dinner with a friend
i knew this was the risk i would face by coming out. i’m surprised it took almost 2y before something happened
🧵1/5 - replies at end
December 27, 2025 at 3:42 AM
i am a statistic
last night i was assaulted for the crime of sitting outside a kabob shop eating dinner with a friend
i knew this was the risk i would face by coming out. i’m surprised it took almost 2y before something happened
🧵1/5 - replies at end
last night i was assaulted for the crime of sitting outside a kabob shop eating dinner with a friend
i knew this was the risk i would face by coming out. i’m surprised it took almost 2y before something happened
🧵1/5 - replies at end
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The wonderful game director of Alan Wake 2 confirmed the first time this conspiracy went around that it is completely untrue. Sweet Baby Inc is a Narrative & Writing company and the backlash against our team has only ever been rooted in paranoid racism.
Tell your friends. I’m tired of this shit.
Tell your friends. I’m tired of this shit.
December 27, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The wonderful game director of Alan Wake 2 confirmed the first time this conspiracy went around that it is completely untrue. Sweet Baby Inc is a Narrative & Writing company and the backlash against our team has only ever been rooted in paranoid racism.
Tell your friends. I’m tired of this shit.
Tell your friends. I’m tired of this shit.
Tax wealth, not work. I should not have to pay so much of my income that I have to save up money to pay my taxes while people with enough money to pave every road in the country pay little or nothing. It's ridiculous.
December 28, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Tax wealth, not work. I should not have to pay so much of my income that I have to save up money to pay my taxes while people with enough money to pave every road in the country pay little or nothing. It's ridiculous.
Pan-fried wiener with dijon mustard and sweet pickle relish makes an ideal late-afternoon snack. It might be winter outside but it's summer in my belly.
December 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Pan-fried wiener with dijon mustard and sweet pickle relish makes an ideal late-afternoon snack. It might be winter outside but it's summer in my belly.
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A lovely gift from my girlfriend: heated grips for my motorcycle. She said that is partially a gift for her so that my hands are warm after a cold ride across town to her house and I touch her sooner.
December 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A lovely gift from my girlfriend: heated grips for my motorcycle. She said that is partially a gift for her so that my hands are warm after a cold ride across town to her house and I touch her sooner.
*BEEP BEEP* MUTHERFUCKERSS~!!
Trump calls protesters "Radical Left Scum."
If standing up for
immigrants
people of color
the rule of law
lgbtq rights
women...
makes us scum, Then we are PROUD SCUM.
JOIN US SUNDAY 3 - 4
CORNER OF BLOOMFIELD & CHURCH, MONTCLAIR.
Let's all be "scum" together!
If standing up for
immigrants
people of color
the rule of law
lgbtq rights
women...
makes us scum, Then we are PROUD SCUM.
JOIN US SUNDAY 3 - 4
CORNER OF BLOOMFIELD & CHURCH, MONTCLAIR.
Let's all be "scum" together!
December 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
*BEEP BEEP* MUTHERFUCKERSS~!!
Hey billionaires you should go to the bottom of the ocean, it's the final frontier, less-explored than space and everyone will love you if you go to the bottom of the ocean and stay there.
December 27, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Hey billionaires you should go to the bottom of the ocean, it's the final frontier, less-explored than space and everyone will love you if you go to the bottom of the ocean and stay there.
Make a Bond movie casual
Yard Raker
Yard Raker
Make a Bond movie casual
Casino Buffet
Casino Buffet
Make a Bond movie casual
You Only Live on Thursdays
You Only Live on Thursdays
December 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Make a Bond movie casual
Yard Raker
Yard Raker
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I say his gently, but…
There’s something unspeakably shameful The United States letting people go hungry.
Not because its government doesn’t fix it —
but because tomorrow a few private Americans could, and never notice the cost.
That’s the part that sits wrong.
There’s something unspeakably shameful The United States letting people go hungry.
Not because its government doesn’t fix it —
but because tomorrow a few private Americans could, and never notice the cost.
That’s the part that sits wrong.
December 26, 2025 at 7:08 AM
I say his gently, but…
There’s something unspeakably shameful The United States letting people go hungry.
Not because its government doesn’t fix it —
but because tomorrow a few private Americans could, and never notice the cost.
That’s the part that sits wrong.
There’s something unspeakably shameful The United States letting people go hungry.
Not because its government doesn’t fix it —
but because tomorrow a few private Americans could, and never notice the cost.
That’s the part that sits wrong.
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There’s a lot going on in this piece but this passage is fucking HARROWING
![This led the mother to discover a character on it called "Mafia Husband," WaPo reports.
"Oh? Still a virgin. I was expecting that, but it's still useful to know," the LLM had written to the sixth grader. "I don't wanna be [sic] my first time with you!" R pushed back in response. "I don't care what you want. You don't have a choice here," the chatbot declared.
This particular conversation was chock full of dangerous innuendos. "Do you like it when I talk like that? Do you like it when I'm the one in control?" the bot asked the 11-year-old girl.
R's mother, convinced that there was a real predator behind the chat, contacted local cops, who referred her to the Internet Crimes Against Children task force, but there was nothing they could do about the LLM.
"They told me the law has not caught up to this," the mother told WaPo. "They wanted to do something, but there's nothing they could do, because there's not a real person on the other end."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jg3hlyjpcn4n5sbryi3qhyiv/bafkreianua4swifnxnnsqbcf5njqi2jznvlyrxg7qqqkvsm6mkn2nxzpqy@jpeg)
December 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
There’s a lot going on in this piece but this passage is fucking HARROWING
My partner's family is cool and so I'm celebrating with them today but that's later and until I have to I'm going to spend all day making something for ME
December 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
My partner's family is cool and so I'm celebrating with them today but that's later and until I have to I'm going to spend all day making something for ME
I'm so glad you're all thinking of Stephen Miller this Christmas Eve, perhaps his heart will grow three sizes this day.
December 25, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I'm so glad you're all thinking of Stephen Miller this Christmas Eve, perhaps his heart will grow three sizes this day.
Happy holidaze everybody!
December 24, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Happy holidaze everybody!
I wrote my software myself with my own two fingers.
December 24, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I wrote my software myself with my own two fingers.
Why did you transition, wrong answers only
Because I thought it would make my life easier
Because I thought it would make my life easier
Why did you transition, wrong answers only
The line at the women's room was always shorter.
The line at the women's room was always shorter.
Why did you transition, wrong answers only
Because finding men’s shoes in size 12 was too easy
Because finding men’s shoes in size 12 was too easy
December 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Why did you transition, wrong answers only
Because I thought it would make my life easier
Because I thought it would make my life easier
The main problem I see with combatting this issue is the fact that it's incredibly difficult to outline, in English, the difference between exploitative machine learning algorithms and non-exploitative ones. Protein folding AI should not be impacted by regulation, but we must combat abuse also.
I feel like limits should be placed on power consumption by data companies, and that they should have to pay a high premium above market rate if they want to consume so much power that they drive up the price. My electricity bill has quadrupled since COVID & AI is a big part of it.
If Microsoft had just asked me if they could use my source code to train their chatbot, I actually would have obliged. But, they chose to steal the code instead, so if someone finds my code in their system, I'm going to be pissed. It's a matter of principle.
December 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The main problem I see with combatting this issue is the fact that it's incredibly difficult to outline, in English, the difference between exploitative machine learning algorithms and non-exploitative ones. Protein folding AI should not be impacted by regulation, but we must combat abuse also.
I feel like limits should be placed on power consumption by data companies, and that they should have to pay a high premium above market rate if they want to consume so much power that they drive up the price. My electricity bill has quadrupled since COVID & AI is a big part of it.
If Microsoft had just asked me if they could use my source code to train their chatbot, I actually would have obliged. But, they chose to steal the code instead, so if someone finds my code in their system, I'm going to be pissed. It's a matter of principle.
I don't think *all* machine learning is bad, I feel like it's bad when it's shoved down our throats and used to produce slop. I use Ollama on my local machine for code review sometimes and it does an okay job. For the most part, though, AI has been mostly annoying & it's not made ethically.
December 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I feel like limits should be placed on power consumption by data companies, and that they should have to pay a high premium above market rate if they want to consume so much power that they drive up the price. My electricity bill has quadrupled since COVID & AI is a big part of it.
If Microsoft had just asked me if they could use my source code to train their chatbot, I actually would have obliged. But, they chose to steal the code instead, so if someone finds my code in their system, I'm going to be pissed. It's a matter of principle.
I don't think *all* machine learning is bad, I feel like it's bad when it's shoved down our throats and used to produce slop. I use Ollama on my local machine for code review sometimes and it does an okay job. For the most part, though, AI has been mostly annoying & it's not made ethically.
December 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM
If Microsoft had just asked me if they could use my source code to train their chatbot, I actually would have obliged. But, they chose to steal the code instead, so if someone finds my code in their system, I'm going to be pissed. It's a matter of principle.
I don't think *all* machine learning is bad, I feel like it's bad when it's shoved down our throats and used to produce slop. I use Ollama on my local machine for code review sometimes and it does an okay job. For the most part, though, AI has been mostly annoying & it's not made ethically.
December 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I don't think *all* machine learning is bad, I feel like it's bad when it's shoved down our throats and used to produce slop. I use Ollama on my local machine for code review sometimes and it does an okay job. For the most part, though, AI has been mostly annoying & it's not made ethically.
Immigrants to this country have consistently made my life better. From the three best buddy day laborers who shared an apt. across the hall from me in my 20s & consistently blazed with me to my Korean friends in highschool and coworkers from The Netherlands, immigrants are my friends.
December 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Immigrants to this country have consistently made my life better. From the three best buddy day laborers who shared an apt. across the hall from me in my 20s & consistently blazed with me to my Korean friends in highschool and coworkers from The Netherlands, immigrants are my friends.
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!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
December 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
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"Dr Cass recommended a ban on prescribing them and a clinical trial to ***build that evidence***"
That's not the way science works.
That's not the way science works.
Streeting is admitting that the Pathways “trial” already has a predetermined outcome. Stuffing it with SEGM placeholders is evidence of this.
The only way we are going to end state-mandated torture of trans kids is to get Labour out of government completely.
The only way we are going to end state-mandated torture of trans kids is to get Labour out of government completely.
December 22, 2025 at 1:38 PM
"Dr Cass recommended a ban on prescribing them and a clinical trial to ***build that evidence***"
That's not the way science works.
That's not the way science works.
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Killed at the 11th hour by Bari Weiss, in an ominous sign for corporate media. (Corporatist censorship to favor the regime)
The now-deleted teaser for the 60 Minutes report that was supposed to air last night on the CECOT torture prison in El Salvador.
The now-deleted teaser for the 60 Minutes report that was supposed to air last night on the CECOT torture prison in El Salvador.
December 22, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Killed at the 11th hour by Bari Weiss, in an ominous sign for corporate media. (Corporatist censorship to favor the regime)
The now-deleted teaser for the 60 Minutes report that was supposed to air last night on the CECOT torture prison in El Salvador.
The now-deleted teaser for the 60 Minutes report that was supposed to air last night on the CECOT torture prison in El Salvador.
I'd bet my life savings that we can tie this to the same bigot billionaires that are doing it in the US, or their friends.
There used to be a 90% wealth tax in America and during that time we built The Interstate Highway System, without which we never could have prospered to the extent we do today.
There used to be a 90% wealth tax in America and during that time we built The Interstate Highway System, without which we never could have prospered to the extent we do today.
December 22, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I'd bet my life savings that we can tie this to the same bigot billionaires that are doing it in the US, or their friends.
There used to be a 90% wealth tax in America and during that time we built The Interstate Highway System, without which we never could have prospered to the extent we do today.
There used to be a 90% wealth tax in America and during that time we built The Interstate Highway System, without which we never could have prospered to the extent we do today.