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Strategic Ali

@grissallia.bsky.social

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Professional nerd. Androgynous misfit. Mood whiplash generator. Three coffees in a trenchcoat. Australian. Parent. AuDHD. Pronouns: any In a time of performative cruelty, kindness is an act of resistance.

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Strategic Ali @grissallia.bsky.social · Nov 26

I've ranted about LLM "AI" elsewhere, and in replies, but to reiterate it in a thread that I can pin now:

One of the fundamentals of computer science is "Garbage In, Garbage Out". I learned this as a child, learning to program, over 40 years ago.

You cannot put bad data in, and get good data out.

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Strategic Ali @grissallia.bsky.social · 2m

But he’s such a successful actor.

Look at how successful Morbius was!

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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 6h

Every time I feel like they run out of ways to admit they are absolute monsters, they find a new one.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

Trump just used the shutdown to wipe out the special ed department. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

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Strategic Ali @grissallia.bsky.social · 2h

I had a severe anxiety attack yesterday. I’ve spent the entirety of today feeling like another one is just under the surface. It’s not great.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 9h

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Strategic Ali @grissallia.bsky.social · 7h

Someone I used to go to church with posted this reel, and I’m so tired.

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The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 1d

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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Strategic Ali @grissallia.bsky.social · 20h

It just happened that the test I sat was good at testing the things my brain was good at. There’s no other use for it.

Strategic Ali @grissallia.bsky.social · 20h

When I was much younger, I was IQ tested, and the result was pretty high.

Many years later, while struggling with some basic life skills that everyone else seemed to be able to do just fine, I came to the conclusion that IQ testing was bullshit.

I’m autistic, there’s some shit I’m really good at.

Strategic Ali @grissallia.bsky.social · 21h

Y’know, it’d make a lot of horrifying sense to start flooding the zone with shitty AI videos like this to provide plausible deniability to videos like that of the assault & arrest of Debbie Brockman from WGN-TV by DHS.

“Oh, that’s just AI. She wasn’t really arrested.”

Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 1d

this video is AI generated. the reporter has three arms and people in the background phase in and out of each other, and it comes from an AI sharing account

be cautious with what you share these days, friends

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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 5d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Strategic Ali @grissallia.bsky.social · 21h

Yikes. I was not really aware that DHH was so far right.

I saw the initials and went “Wait, the Basecamp guy?”, and vaguely remembered *something* controversial.

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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 1d

*Woman who insists she’s done journalism before voice*

Hey what does a journalist do at work? I definitely know. I’m just asking to make sure you know.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❆ ☃︎︎ ❆ @moxiest.art · 5d

fix it.

A typewritten note that reads:

Link is, literally, the reason we sell our art.
He talked us into it and insisted on showing us financial support.

In 25 years of being active online, we've never encountered a better voice.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched this TikTok since yesterday. Sherman was stressing those ladies out.

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 2d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Strategic Ali @grissallia.bsky.social · 1d

...or he calls Netanyahu and tells him he can start shooting again.

Or both.

Strategic Ali @grissallia.bsky.social · 1d

He'll probably order a drone strike on her, insisting that the Nobel Peace Prize she was carrying was full of drugs she was trying to bring to the US

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Strategic Ali @grissallia.bsky.social · 1d

Oh! Oh! I know this one, this is David Tennant as Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. He plays against Catherine Tate as Beatrice.

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 1d

All my comics have happy endings!

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 1d

I want to go back in time and box the ears of the GP who told my friend she was making up 'chronic fatigue syndrome' and just wanted attention. I wanted to do it then, too. I'll still want to do it in 10 years time.

Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 2d

Female First: 'Scientists create first accurate blood test for chronic fatigue syndrome'

'The test..showed 92% sensitivity and 98% specificity. The team examined 47 patients with severe ME/CFS and compared results to 61 healthy individuals.'

www.femalefirst.co.uk/lifestyle/sc...

Scientists create first accurate blood test for chronic fatigue syndrome

Scientists say they have developed the worlds first accurate blood test to diagnose myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome MECFS.

www.femalefirst.co.uk

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine how dumb you must be to have an ego the size of Earth yet still artificially create hype that you’ll win an award that you literally cannot win (Nobel nominations closed in Jan) so to guarantee you’ll appear as a reject & loser when the winner is announced.

A spectacular own goal for Trump.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 2d

There’s something happening here
What it is ain’t exactly clear
There’s a frog with a cape over there
Tellin me, I got to beware

You better stop, children
What’s that sound?
Everybody look, they’re croaking now

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app · 1d

Black people have been asking this question for a very long time.

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 1d

Do you really have any rights if they are openly saying they will just make up reasons to detain you?

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 4d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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Strategic Ali @grissallia.bsky.social · 1d

He's absolutely going to act out.

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