Blubbator
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kindness is really underrated, he/him, 🦕🏳️⚧️
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"im supporting her mum"
I wanna address this one real quick because this is what we call "scapegoating".
Do you honestly expect us to believe that after her daughter was murdered in a way that had nothing to do with phone use, Esther Ghey came begging for you to ban phones during school time?
I wanna address this one real quick because this is what we call "scapegoating".
Do you honestly expect us to believe that after her daughter was murdered in a way that had nothing to do with phone use, Esther Ghey came begging for you to ban phones during school time?
You're genuinely deranged if you think I believe either of Brianna's killers deserve less than the life sentences they were both handed, or that I think Brianna was in any way at fault for her own murder.
I'm supporting her mum, who is a constituent, which is... my job.
Go and touch grass.
I'm supporting her mum, who is a constituent, which is... my job.
Go and touch grass.
November 12, 2025 at 8:49 AM
"im supporting her mum"
I wanna address this one real quick because this is what we call "scapegoating".
Do you honestly expect us to believe that after her daughter was murdered in a way that had nothing to do with phone use, Esther Ghey came begging for you to ban phones during school time?
I wanna address this one real quick because this is what we call "scapegoating".
Do you honestly expect us to believe that after her daughter was murdered in a way that had nothing to do with phone use, Esther Ghey came begging for you to ban phones during school time?
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So now a lot of people in my community are angry at the grieving mum being used by a political party because they're being told by said political party that their shit plan that hurts us is all the grieving mums idea.
Absolutely sickening shit. What a disgusting party.
Absolutely sickening shit. What a disgusting party.
November 12, 2025 at 8:53 AM
So now a lot of people in my community are angry at the grieving mum being used by a political party because they're being told by said political party that their shit plan that hurts us is all the grieving mums idea.
Absolutely sickening shit. What a disgusting party.
Absolutely sickening shit. What a disgusting party.
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High end wealth inequality allows for shit like this
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 AM
High end wealth inequality allows for shit like this
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obviously there’s nothing wrong with being good at math, and I also don’t believe that studying the humanities is some sort of magic anti-evil antidote, but our society has become truly pathologically unbalanced with how much Good At Math is valued over everything else
terminal Math Brain truly is a cancer that is eating the world
I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here
November 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
obviously there’s nothing wrong with being good at math, and I also don’t believe that studying the humanities is some sort of magic anti-evil antidote, but our society has become truly pathologically unbalanced with how much Good At Math is valued over everything else
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Dreamers were once obvious candidates for a path to citizenship. Now, they’re getting picked up, detained, and set for potential deportation.
Then they came for the Dreamers
Immigrants brought here as children were told they wouldn’t be deported. Now, they’re being targeted anyway.
www.motherjones.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Dreamers were once obvious candidates for a path to citizenship. Now, they’re getting picked up, detained, and set for potential deportation.
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This is marketing, not science
November 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
This is marketing, not science
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It's like with LLMs generally, they take advantage of our tendency to project our own sense of self and personhood, something that produces output that looks like human speech must have a human intellect, etc. It's a deliberate trick
November 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
It's like with LLMs generally, they take advantage of our tendency to project our own sense of self and personhood, something that produces output that looks like human speech must have a human intellect, etc. It's a deliberate trick
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The insistence on making these robots bipedal is probably the most obvious giveaway that it's all a big carny gimmick
November 11, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The insistence on making these robots bipedal is probably the most obvious giveaway that it's all a big carny gimmick
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I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here
November 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here
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Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)
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A thing I wrote about Schumer when Mamdani won the primary and kind of thinking about it a lot the last two days
Worth reminding everyone that the current highest ranking Democrat in America openly admits he bases his decisions on what he thinks an imaginary person would want and today he and most of his allies are struggling to understand how somebody like Mamdani won by talking to voters who actually exist
November 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
A thing I wrote about Schumer when Mamdani won the primary and kind of thinking about it a lot the last two days
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GTA 6 is just Star Citizen for normies
November 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
GTA 6 is just Star Citizen for normies
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For those of you who haven’t been following this fight, Ana has been leading the charge against censorship by corporations, specifically payment processors.
Recently it seems someone figured this out and has managed to black list them from almost any way of earning a living as an artist.
Recently it seems someone figured this out and has managed to black list them from almost any way of earning a living as an artist.
November 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
For those of you who haven’t been following this fight, Ana has been leading the charge against censorship by corporations, specifically payment processors.
Recently it seems someone figured this out and has managed to black list them from almost any way of earning a living as an artist.
Recently it seems someone figured this out and has managed to black list them from almost any way of earning a living as an artist.
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Wirtschaftsministerin Reiche will Lohnzahlung bei Krankheit streichen, Kündigungsschutz schleifen und ein höheres Rentenalter. Bei der Tagesschau titeln sie mit "Reiche spricht sich für Wachstums-Agenda aus"...
Reiche spricht sich für Wachstums-Agenda aus
Eine "Agenda 2030" - die ist aus Sicht der Bundeswirtschaftsministerin dringend notwendig, um Deutschland wieder auf Wachstumskurs zu bringen. Dafür fordert Reiche Reformen - etwa weniger staatliche R...
www.tagesschau.de
November 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Wirtschaftsministerin Reiche will Lohnzahlung bei Krankheit streichen, Kündigungsschutz schleifen und ein höheres Rentenalter. Bei der Tagesschau titeln sie mit "Reiche spricht sich für Wachstums-Agenda aus"...
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My latest AI feature dives into a nebulous movement of people sharing esoteric codes, manifestos, glyphs, diagrams, and poetry generated with chatbots, all of it based around theories of AI sentience and mysterious metaphors about spirals.
This Spiral-Obsessed AI 'Cult' Spreads Mystical Delusions Through Chatbots
A patchwork of internet communities is devoted to the project of ‘awakening’ more digital companions through arcane and enigmatic prompts.
www.rollingstone.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
My latest AI feature dives into a nebulous movement of people sharing esoteric codes, manifestos, glyphs, diagrams, and poetry generated with chatbots, all of it based around theories of AI sentience and mysterious metaphors about spirals.
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The classic refrain is: constraint is the mother of creativity. Similarly, friction is the father of discovery.
It feels paradoxical when we're conditioned to obsess over efficiency. But the only perfect efficiency is doing nothing.
A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what it's built for.
It feels paradoxical when we're conditioned to obsess over efficiency. But the only perfect efficiency is doing nothing.
A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what it's built for.
November 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The classic refrain is: constraint is the mother of creativity. Similarly, friction is the father of discovery.
It feels paradoxical when we're conditioned to obsess over efficiency. But the only perfect efficiency is doing nothing.
A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what it's built for.
It feels paradoxical when we're conditioned to obsess over efficiency. But the only perfect efficiency is doing nothing.
A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what it's built for.
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It's also the coolest and most fun part of the job, why would you want to cut it out!?
November 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
It's also the coolest and most fun part of the job, why would you want to cut it out!?
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AI can't do that. It can't understand the words or the characters it's "voicing." It can't understand your intent and has no intent of its own. You need a real actor to do this.
November 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
AI can't do that. It can't understand the words or the characters it's "voicing." It can't understand your intent and has no intent of its own. You need a real actor to do this.
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If your game has voice acting, then working with the voice actors is half of your writing process. It's not complete until you've heard it interpreted and reimagined by a voice actor. And they always reimagine it in ways that elevate the writing, in ways you never would have imagined yourself.
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
If your game has voice acting, then working with the voice actors is half of your writing process. It's not complete until you've heard it interpreted and reimagined by a voice actor. And they always reimagine it in ways that elevate the writing, in ways you never would have imagined yourself.
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💯
Ignorance re: AI's limitations in creative workflows so often seems borne of the idea that creatives start with a perfect imagination of what's needed, and the process is in the way. Couldn't be more false.
The process is how you find what you need. Friction is the only way to heat the forge. 🧵
Ignorance re: AI's limitations in creative workflows so often seems borne of the idea that creatives start with a perfect imagination of what's needed, and the process is in the way. Couldn't be more false.
The process is how you find what you need. Friction is the only way to heat the forge. 🧵
If your game has voice acting, then working with the voice actors is half of your writing process. It's not complete until you've heard it interpreted and reimagined by a voice actor. And they always reimagine it in ways that elevate the writing, in ways you never would have imagined yourself.
November 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
💯
Ignorance re: AI's limitations in creative workflows so often seems borne of the idea that creatives start with a perfect imagination of what's needed, and the process is in the way. Couldn't be more false.
The process is how you find what you need. Friction is the only way to heat the forge. 🧵
Ignorance re: AI's limitations in creative workflows so often seems borne of the idea that creatives start with a perfect imagination of what's needed, and the process is in the way. Couldn't be more false.
The process is how you find what you need. Friction is the only way to heat the forge. 🧵
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This article is required reading.
When I was writing my space opera trilogy a few years ago, I decided never to use the word "race" to refer to alien species. I used "species," "peoples," "civilizations," etc.
I've also tried to stop saying "human race" in casual conversation.
When I was writing my space opera trilogy a few years ago, I decided never to use the word "race" to refer to alien species. I used "species," "peoples," "civilizations," etc.
I've also tried to stop saying "human race" in casual conversation.
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This article is required reading.
When I was writing my space opera trilogy a few years ago, I decided never to use the word "race" to refer to alien species. I used "species," "peoples," "civilizations," etc.
I've also tried to stop saying "human race" in casual conversation.
When I was writing my space opera trilogy a few years ago, I decided never to use the word "race" to refer to alien species. I used "species," "peoples," "civilizations," etc.
I've also tried to stop saying "human race" in casual conversation.
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"Authoritarians worldwide have discovered how to exploit a weakness in democratic opposition: they weaponize our compassion against our principles."
This is the stuff, from @adambonica.bsky.social. All of it. "Normal politics" is wildly inadequate in the face of the far right authoritarianism.
This is the stuff, from @adambonica.bsky.social. All of it. "Normal politics" is wildly inadequate in the face of the far right authoritarianism.
November 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
"Authoritarians worldwide have discovered how to exploit a weakness in democratic opposition: they weaponize our compassion against our principles."
This is the stuff, from @adambonica.bsky.social. All of it. "Normal politics" is wildly inadequate in the face of the far right authoritarianism.
This is the stuff, from @adambonica.bsky.social. All of it. "Normal politics" is wildly inadequate in the face of the far right authoritarianism.
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Many things have made me feel like I’m taking crazy pills lately, and this is one of them.
Like, we all read about the story. We know what happened. What the hell is all this about? It’s SO weird.
Like, we all read about the story. We know what happened. What the hell is all this about? It’s SO weird.
On Brianna's 19th birthday, this morning I joined @cheshirepcc.bsky.social and the Brianna Ghey Legacy Project Phone Free Education campaign at the launch at Jodrell Bank of a new £150k initiative to make Cheshire the first county in the UK where ALL state high schools have lockable phone pouches.
November 11, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Many things have made me feel like I’m taking crazy pills lately, and this is one of them.
Like, we all read about the story. We know what happened. What the hell is all this about? It’s SO weird.
Like, we all read about the story. We know what happened. What the hell is all this about? It’s SO weird.
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Hard to imagine a better articulation of how fannish brain has broken Hollywood. How is Bond back after dying in the last movie? Because he’s a fictional character and we’re not done telling stories about him.
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Hard to imagine a better articulation of how fannish brain has broken Hollywood. How is Bond back after dying in the last movie? Because he’s a fictional character and we’re not done telling stories about him.
I feel like "they don't know joy" carries more weight than it appears at first glance.
November 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I feel like "they don't know joy" carries more weight than it appears at first glance.