note to incoming bluesky users: you MUST bring your own joke understandings. members and staff are NOT responsible for explaining what, how, and why jokes are

Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you

There needs to be a social network built around the concept of continued engagement as a requirement for retaining connections. So much of Facebook has become this sort of social trophy case - a modern-day taxidermy room of friends and acquaintances, of years - and versions of oneself - long past.

Every other fucking month, some entirely-US company is announcing “Sowwy, we accidentally leaked your SSN/purchase history/entire fucking medical record to the dark web. Here’s a $5 Starbucks gift card to make it up to you!” And the fuckstains in DC never hold them accountable.

When you get in one of those baking moods and snap back to reality 4 hours later, having made 12 bierocks, a batch of breakfast burritos, and two loaves of bread... 😅