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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 15h

oh, so it's like being a Star Wars fan

amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 17h

liking some of Taylor Swift's music means you have signed up for a lifetime of being embarrassed by Taylor Swift. that's just part of it

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Spooky Scary Skele-Hams @literalham.bsky.social · 10h

🎵I'm gonna keep on dancin at the WOKE MARXIST POPE🎵

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 19h

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

Spooky Scary Skele-Hams @literalham.bsky.social · 1d

my quibble with new england is that culturally i (in western mass) am way closer to southern Vermont than boston. instead of N and S NE i would have divided into E and W, and divided coastal from inland ME. NE is a relatively small area but theres still big urban/rural and coastal/inland divides

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 2d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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Spooky Scary Skele-Hams @literalham.bsky.social · 2d

every year i forget and every year something like this post reminds me that Death Blart is coming

Meow🧡💜💖🖤 @squeakitties.bsky.social · 2d

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Spooky Scary Skele-Hams @literalham.bsky.social · 4d

yeah what worked for me was 373-876-354#

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Spooky Scary Skele-Hams @literalham.bsky.social · 4d

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Spooky Scary Skele-Hams @literalham.bsky.social · 6d

why no one in the chain of command is refusing to accept ad hoc reclassification of civilians in int'l waters as combatants is a mystery to me when there's been no declaration of war by congress. but im guessing they found some ppl bloodthirsty and racist enough to carry out their murders

Spooky Scary Skele-Hams @literalham.bsky.social · 6d

this and the Natl Guard deployment seem part of the same goal: to claim the power to just declare anyone they like to be a combatant and legal target for immediate violence as in war. this of course has no relationship to the laws as written, but thats Trump's MO

Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 6d

Don’t believe anyone who tells you that intelligence shows anything “without a doubt,” but even if the intelligence was water-tight, this strike was still murder. No law permits the deliberate, premeditated killing of civilians.

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Spooky Scary Skele-Hams @literalham.bsky.social · 9d

yknow now that you mention it i do have a manifesto i could write...

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Spooky Scary Skele-Hams @literalham.bsky.social · 9d

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 10d

i don't mean to single out baseball fans here, because you see this in lots of fan communities, but in certain corners people talk as though baseball is real. they think all the players are real people and the stadiums are places you can actually visit. to each their own, but that cannot be healthy

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Spooky Scary Skele-Hams @literalham.bsky.social · 10d

now im gonna go find a documentary about the development of Deep Blue to self-soothe with

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Spooky Scary Skele-Hams @literalham.bsky.social · 10d

god i hope we throw this shit in the trash before anyone is forced to develop that skill. how many people have to die before we can stand together and stop what is at its core a fundementally harmful technology, who's developpers priorities are deception and manipulation

Spooky Scary Skele-Hams @literalham.bsky.social · 10d

the advantage chatgpt has over other predators is that it abuses indiscriminately, unpredictably. or at least, no living human and certainly no child has the social skillset to deduce when the empty box can be trusted and when it is saying things that will harm you and you need to ignore.

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Spooky Scary Skele-Hams @literalham.bsky.social · 10d

nor most of the rules that govern an algorithm based chat bot. humans can and do use language recklessly, to intentionally cause harm, but we do so because of motivations which can often be deduced. they may not be rational but they can be predicted.

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Spooky Scary Skele-Hams @literalham.bsky.social · 10d

so if we go over it again: the mechanical turk was an empty box with a chess master crammed inside manipulating the board with a magnet. ChatGPT is an empty box with all of human language in it, but none of the cognition or morality that comes with being a human

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Spooky Scary Skele-Hams @literalham.bsky.social · 10d

and now these products, recklessly released with minimum safety testing and few functional failsafes, are killing people. are engaging in abuse and grooming tactics, are feeding or even creating delusions in vulnerable people, bc it fulfills their main directive: to keep people on the app longer

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Spooky Scary Skele-Hams @literalham.bsky.social · 10d

no thought was given to the danger to the human psyche to being constantly tricked into believing the computer you are talking to has human intelligence. even if you know this is false, your brain cannot be so easily kept vigilant for something which is *designed* to trick people, to pass the test

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Spooky Scary Skele-Hams @literalham.bsky.social · 10d

instead of the difficult and uncertain work of real scientific research where the question you want a truthful answer to is "is this possible", $$ was instead invested in creating something quickly that could *fabricate* the *appearance* of an intelligence, with tech that already existed.

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Spooky Scary Skele-Hams @literalham.bsky.social · 10d

LLMs are the mechanical turk of artificial intelligence. while a chess-playing machine was theoretically possible at the time, if you look under the hood of a mech-turk the technology has no relationship to what you would need to actually create a chess-bot. instead it is magnets and mirrors and Us

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Spooky Scary Skele-Hams @literalham.bsky.social · 10d

the entire thing is organized around the principal that a computer should ever EVER have the capability of decieving people. it's seen as progress rather than an unbelievably dangerous flaw. a box that writes convincingly that *its your friend* and has no hard parameters on what else it can say??

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Spooky Scary Skele-Hams @literalham.bsky.social · 10d

sometimes i lay awake thinking about how Alan Turing was like 'if your program can convince an average person its a human' thats a good test for artificial intelligence. and then a bunch of chodes were like 'bet' and went all in on language research to the exclusion of actual synth cognition

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𝙒𝙄𝙉𝙏𝙀𝙍 𝙠 @winterk.bsky.social · 11d

they will use this framing again and again and you will have to say with your whole voice that yes, fictional rape scenarios are not actual sexual violence and are not the source of sexual violence. they're opening the door to arbitrarily policing one kind of speech so that others can follow.

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Spooky Scary Skele-Hams @literalham.bsky.social · 13d

guys they made Fallout: New Vegas in real life
(editors note: this poster has never played a fallout game)

Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 13d

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megadrivers @megadrivers.coolpics.biz · 19d

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