Ember
@embergeos.bsky.social
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i don't want to live in a world run by morons and fascists
i don't want to live in a world ruled by anyone.
i want to hang out with my friends and make music and beautiful movies and kiss wonderful people.
i refute kings and oligarchs i just want to hang out.
i don't want to live in a world ruled by anyone.
i want to hang out with my friends and make music and beautiful movies and kiss wonderful people.
i refute kings and oligarchs i just want to hang out.
December 4, 2025 at 8:18 AM
i don't want to live in a world run by morons and fascists
i don't want to live in a world ruled by anyone.
i want to hang out with my friends and make music and beautiful movies and kiss wonderful people.
i refute kings and oligarchs i just want to hang out.
i don't want to live in a world ruled by anyone.
i want to hang out with my friends and make music and beautiful movies and kiss wonderful people.
i refute kings and oligarchs i just want to hang out.
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“I just want there to be a car that drives itself so I can get places without thinking about it”
hello, please meet: train.
also see: bus
hello, please meet: train.
also see: bus
December 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
“I just want there to be a car that drives itself so I can get places without thinking about it”
hello, please meet: train.
also see: bus
hello, please meet: train.
also see: bus
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just to remind y’all that in this context wholesome is a dogwhistle that is opposite of “degenerate”. i.e. fascist shit.
like Bee pointed out, this is already a lie because most lesbian books are, indeed, wholesome (becuase they are controlled by a deeply conservative industry run by mormons)
like Bee pointed out, this is already a lie because most lesbian books are, indeed, wholesome (becuase they are controlled by a deeply conservative industry run by mormons)
I will now increase the fucking thing. (This isn't about any of my books, just a general complaint.) 'Wah wah I can't find wholesome books' sweetie most mainstream F/F books are already completely fucking sexless.
December 3, 2025 at 7:39 AM
just to remind y’all that in this context wholesome is a dogwhistle that is opposite of “degenerate”. i.e. fascist shit.
like Bee pointed out, this is already a lie because most lesbian books are, indeed, wholesome (becuase they are controlled by a deeply conservative industry run by mormons)
like Bee pointed out, this is already a lie because most lesbian books are, indeed, wholesome (becuase they are controlled by a deeply conservative industry run by mormons)
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EARLY CAT: What that?
HUMAN: A fish. You can eat them.
EARLY CAT: Mine now. I need it. I need the fish. Without fish I die. Gimmie fish.
HUMAN: But you're from the desert. How can you possibly-
EARLY CAT: WOE. WOE FOR KITTY. HUMAN INFLICTS A THOUSAND WOES ON-
HUMAN: God. Fine. Have it.
HUMAN: A fish. You can eat them.
EARLY CAT: Mine now. I need it. I need the fish. Without fish I die. Gimmie fish.
HUMAN: But you're from the desert. How can you possibly-
EARLY CAT: WOE. WOE FOR KITTY. HUMAN INFLICTS A THOUSAND WOES ON-
HUMAN: God. Fine. Have it.
December 3, 2025 at 9:57 AM
EARLY CAT: What that?
HUMAN: A fish. You can eat them.
EARLY CAT: Mine now. I need it. I need the fish. Without fish I die. Gimmie fish.
HUMAN: But you're from the desert. How can you possibly-
EARLY CAT: WOE. WOE FOR KITTY. HUMAN INFLICTS A THOUSAND WOES ON-
HUMAN: God. Fine. Have it.
HUMAN: A fish. You can eat them.
EARLY CAT: Mine now. I need it. I need the fish. Without fish I die. Gimmie fish.
HUMAN: But you're from the desert. How can you possibly-
EARLY CAT: WOE. WOE FOR KITTY. HUMAN INFLICTS A THOUSAND WOES ON-
HUMAN: God. Fine. Have it.
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Me, ten years ago: "I love technology! It enables such incredible things, and it's only going to create more wonders in the future!"
Me, now:
Me, now:
November 20, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Me, ten years ago: "I love technology! It enables such incredible things, and it's only going to create more wonders in the future!"
Me, now:
Me, now:
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every neoliberal policy analyst wants to "trim the fat" of society until the lean times come. community level resilience, redundancies, etc are good actually
When power went out across all of Puerto Rico on 16 April, a lot of the lights in the town of Adjuntas stayed on. A combination of experimental microgrids, solar panels, and storage kept power on for many businesses and residents.
spectrum.ieee.org/puerto-rico-...
spectrum.ieee.org/puerto-rico-...
Could Microgrids Be Puerto Rico's Answer to Endless Blackouts?
Meanwhile, feds redirect $365 million away from solar toward grid fixes
spectrum.ieee.org
November 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
every neoliberal policy analyst wants to "trim the fat" of society until the lean times come. community level resilience, redundancies, etc are good actually
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if this is discrimination, I’m genuinely unsure what you’re supposed to do when a student responds to a prompt with some religious gibberish
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 12:43 AM
if this is discrimination, I’m genuinely unsure what you’re supposed to do when a student responds to a prompt with some religious gibberish
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if you ask students to list the causes of the Irish famine and they just say “the Irish are demonic” can you really not fail that kid?
December 1, 2025 at 12:53 AM
if you ask students to list the causes of the Irish famine and they just say “the Irish are demonic” can you really not fail that kid?
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Being pro AI (in its current state) is anti tech. You want to pull resources from actual tech (including the good uses for “ai”) to plug them into a broken fascism machine
Don’t accuse me of being anti tech because I want developments that actually matter and you don’t
Don’t accuse me of being anti tech because I want developments that actually matter and you don’t
November 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Being pro AI (in its current state) is anti tech. You want to pull resources from actual tech (including the good uses for “ai”) to plug them into a broken fascism machine
Don’t accuse me of being anti tech because I want developments that actually matter and you don’t
Don’t accuse me of being anti tech because I want developments that actually matter and you don’t
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I think a big thing I struggle with, and something that is an important thing for people of my generation to attempt to understand, is separating toxic nostalgia from knowledge of the actual ways in which American life has gotten appreciably worse in my lifetime
it’s so weird to look around and realize like, tech and media are materially worse than a decade ago
November 30, 2025 at 5:37 AM
I think a big thing I struggle with, and something that is an important thing for people of my generation to attempt to understand, is separating toxic nostalgia from knowledge of the actual ways in which American life has gotten appreciably worse in my lifetime
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a few candidates have talked about this but any Dem planning to run in 2028 should make it explicit: the next DOJ will, in fact, go after you if you’re funding this awful ballroom, or any other pay to play deals you make with this administration
Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom:
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
November 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
a few candidates have talked about this but any Dem planning to run in 2028 should make it explicit: the next DOJ will, in fact, go after you if you’re funding this awful ballroom, or any other pay to play deals you make with this administration
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This first-person "I" response shit is basically some LLM programmer gluing googly eyes to a computer terminal to convince you it's alive
November 28, 2025 at 3:35 AM
This first-person "I" response shit is basically some LLM programmer gluing googly eyes to a computer terminal to convince you it's alive
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Every prompt to chatbot software is “generate me some text.” If it generated you some text, it performed its function correctly. It never lies, it never wants anything, it’s text generating software that generates text.
Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
November 28, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Every prompt to chatbot software is “generate me some text.” If it generated you some text, it performed its function correctly. It never lies, it never wants anything, it’s text generating software that generates text.
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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Youth transitioners being treated as de facto criminals and deviants
This is just the tip of the iceberg of over 314 questions outlined here including eg Do you start fires? Do you steal? Do you physically assault people?
growinguptransgender.com/2025/09/19/q...
growinguptransgender.com/2025/09/19/q...
Questioning trans kids
The UK Government and UK research councils have contributed £10 million pounds to a series of research studies on service users of the newly established Children and Young People’s Gender Services.…
growinguptransgender.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Youth transitioners being treated as de facto criminals and deviants
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its all been downhill since we stoppwd having to have rooms for Computer
October 24, 2025 at 1:46 AM
its all been downhill since we stoppwd having to have rooms for Computer
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The more I study fascism, the more I think it's not worth making this distinction
Racism is fascism practiced on Black people first.
Hitler based the Nuremberg laws on US Jim Crow. He invaded Russia because he wanted his own California.
The US shifting from a racist country to a fascist country basically means "Start treating everyone like you've always treated Black people."
Hitler based the Nuremberg laws on US Jim Crow. He invaded Russia because he wanted his own California.
The US shifting from a racist country to a fascist country basically means "Start treating everyone like you've always treated Black people."
November 17, 2025 at 3:30 AM
The more I study fascism, the more I think it's not worth making this distinction
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One of the biggest issues with the synthetic text extruding machines is that we have well-formed linguistic output with no accountability. Solution: OpenAI should be accountable for everything that comes out of ChatGPT, period. (And likewise for Google with Gemini, etc.)
New on the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 newsletter: @deccamuldowney.bsky.social and I write about OpenAI's transparent attempt to shift accountability.
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
OpenAI Tries to Shift Responsibility to Users
OpenAI is trying to shift the blame for bad legal and medical advice from its chatbot away from the company and onto users. We agree that no chatbot should be used for medical or legal advice.
buttondown.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
One of the biggest issues with the synthetic text extruding machines is that we have well-formed linguistic output with no accountability. Solution: OpenAI should be accountable for everything that comes out of ChatGPT, period. (And likewise for Google with Gemini, etc.)
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there's this special naivety that afflicts self-styled worldly cynics
"the rw press say voters are concerned by immigration numbers, so if we reduce them, people will calm down"
"the rw press say voters are concerned by immigration numbers, so if we reduce them, people will calm down"
Appeasement. Isn't. Working
November 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
there's this special naivety that afflicts self-styled worldly cynics
"the rw press say voters are concerned by immigration numbers, so if we reduce them, people will calm down"
"the rw press say voters are concerned by immigration numbers, so if we reduce them, people will calm down"
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Clinton should be in prison. Trump should be in prison. Bush should be in prison. Hell, Obama should probably be in prison. Fuck it, elect a dog. There's no rule that says a dog can't be president.
November 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Clinton should be in prison. Trump should be in prison. Bush should be in prison. Hell, Obama should probably be in prison. Fuck it, elect a dog. There's no rule that says a dog can't be president.
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LA:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
DC:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
Chicago:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
Charlotte:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
- black mayor
- majority non-white
DC:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
Chicago:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
Charlotte:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
Gregory Bovino, the top Border Patrol official leading the charge on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in cities, and his officers are heading to Charlotte, according to a source familiar with the planning. That was news to city officials. https://cnn.it/49crpZT
November 14, 2025 at 3:09 AM
LA:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
DC:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
Chicago:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
Charlotte:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
- black mayor
- majority non-white
DC:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
Chicago:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
Charlotte:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
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CLAIM: The government is run by a secret society of pedophiles
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
November 13, 2025 at 2:06 AM
CLAIM: The government is run by a secret society of pedophiles
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
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I have to confess "your browser's AI can be made to steal your banking info via prompt injection because it runs with full privileges and treats all text as equally authoritative sources of instructions, including the text of pages it's summarising" is more surprising to me than it should have been.
November 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I have to confess "your browser's AI can be made to steal your banking info via prompt injection because it runs with full privileges and treats all text as equally authoritative sources of instructions, including the text of pages it's summarising" is more surprising to me than it should have been.
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I guess I need to apologize to the writers of Alien: Prometheus. it turns out scientists really do touch everything like that
World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black.
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
November 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I guess I need to apologize to the writers of Alien: Prometheus. it turns out scientists really do touch everything like that