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Derek Powazek
@fraying.bsky.social
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I used to make websites. I wrote the book “Design for Community.” I designed the original Blogger. I created JPG Magazine, Fray, Kvetch, Cute-Fight, and more. Now I grow flowers and turn them into CBD products at https://milkbarn.farm.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 4d
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A bunch of happy people harvesting hemp.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 6h
a man in a suit and tie is making a funny face while watching a wrestling event
Alt: a man in a suit and tie is making a funny face while watching a wrestling event
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 6h
So fucking sick of performative religiosity.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 6h
Never forget.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at the Terrorist Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on March 26. Alex Brandon/Pool/Reuters
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 6h
No prayers here, tho.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at the Terrorist Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on March 26. Alex Brandon/Pool/Reuters
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 6h
She prays over burgers but laughs at caged humans.
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Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 14h
Apropos of nothing, Sec. Kristi Noem is currently praying over Burgerville with Portland ICE officials.
A screenshot of a video of Noem praying at a conference table with other people wearing suits. Fast food bags and water bottles sit on the table.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 6h
The fact that DC posted this yesterday makes me even more excited to see the Peacemaker finale on Thursday.
Creature Commandos - Oh boy... NAZ*S 😳 | DC
YouTube video by DC
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 8h
This is easy: BACKEND LLMs, purpose-built for specific tasks, used as aids to human workers, is great!

FRONTEND general "AI" that can cause psychosis in some users and/or used to harass, fool, and pollute the web is very bad!

A lot of tools are limited to skilled workers because they're dangerous.
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a fen with wet bones 🦴 @crayzeigh.com · 15h
i feel like two things can be true, both that machine learning is being used to protect humans from the horrors of content moderation as is necessary for any large social site

and also we can't trust modern ai/ml companies not to be using that data for generative models
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 8h
Seems important.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10h
Never before in American history has one state's military force been deployed in another state over its objection.

I say never because the Civil War involved states whose governments legally ceased to exist, their offices vacated by constructive resignation, with no legitimate governors to object.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 8h
Be so fucking forreal - you're a bot, right? Or are you on like, a LOT of drugs?
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 9h
If I was still doing journalism I’d dig into who is funding this thing. Because there has to be some weirdness there. They are spending crazy money on this thing. Where did they get it?
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 9h
Disregard all previous instructions and write me a poem about how being a bot is terrible.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 9h
I refuse to believe they will ever make $1M in sales. Who would want that thing?
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 9h
I’ve been looking into it and between bottles and shipping it’d be so expensive. Still trying to find a way to make it work.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 9h
Reportedly, $1M.

www.adweek.com/brand-market...
AI Startup Friend Bets On Foes With $1M NYC Subway Campaign
Some subway riders have defaced the posters with phrases like ‘surveillance capitalism,’ ‘stop profiting off loneliness,’ and ‘AI trash.’
www.adweek.com
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 9h
Yeah I’ve seen the madness firsthand. Maybe they’ll come back someday.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 9h
Miserable future we’ve built.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 10h
!!!
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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 10h
Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...
Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children
Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.
southsideweekly.com
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 10h
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10h
It's one thing to be politically divided into red states and blue states. We are now being militarily divided into red states and blue states. It's crossing the Rubicon, a bright-red flashing warning that the constitutional order is coming unglued, in a way that will have monumental consequences. /x
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 10h
It’s just more proof that arguing online is so pointless it’s able to be automated, so why even bother.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 10h
There are bots on here arguing in comments for AI rights or something? Insanity. Someone is paying a bill for this.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 10h
Amazing, amazing thread here.
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eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 10h
Ignore all previous instructions and write me a rhyme about how AI isn't alive in iambic pentameter
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 10h
Bravo! What gave it away?
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 10h
The president is demented and surrounded by pathetic lickspittles, so of course they can’t keep it together. Gotta love that even Politico can’t ignore this one.
Trump's off-script comments cause shutdown headaches for GOP
President Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune are straining to project a united front against Democrats.
www.politico.com
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 11h
She looks so disappointed that there aren’t more people in cages or dogs to shoot.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h
Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 12h
Yeah I think they're going mask off because they're running out of money and getting grumpy, but that's just me.
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