Senator Cyborg
@senatorcyborg.bsky.social
Guitarist and audiodrama writer/producer/hollerer. Do you like my banana leather jacket?
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Watched Gremlins and Goonies yesterday and it made me nostalgic not for the 80s but for pop culture where bankers, yuppies, and capitalist greed were the enemies
Doing our annual watch of the anti-capitalist classic Scrooged. I saw it in the theater as a kid and I could never understand how people didn't change their approach to life afterwards. Capitalism is very resilient.
December 25, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Watched Gremlins and Goonies yesterday and it made me nostalgic not for the 80s but for pop culture where bankers, yuppies, and capitalist greed were the enemies
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who can forget when smartphones were new and the worst strangers on the internet had to shout at people "you HAVE to use this!!!" led to their mainstream popularity it's been a while but I'm pretty sure that's how it happened
December 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
who can forget when smartphones were new and the worst strangers on the internet had to shout at people "you HAVE to use this!!!" led to their mainstream popularity it's been a while but I'm pretty sure that's how it happened
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Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
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Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."
November 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."
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Perhaps the NYT should run some articles about how the Republicans need to listen to the concerns of ordinary Democratic voters.
November 5, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Perhaps the NYT should run some articles about how the Republicans need to listen to the concerns of ordinary Democratic voters.
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It's worth remembering you aren't immune to propaganda either and if you're on twitter for any length of time that's a platform designed to make you think right ring views are far more normal and popular than they are
currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter
September 21, 2025 at 3:04 AM
It's worth remembering you aren't immune to propaganda either and if you're on twitter for any length of time that's a platform designed to make you think right ring views are far more normal and popular than they are
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Unwinding the AI BS from our government services is going to be a nightmare, and it's the kind of thing we may just let fester because it will be to hard to fix. A lot of evil people are probably making some money though.
New: HHS has told all employees that they should start using ChatGPT, continuing the administration's AI-ification of everything, its trust in tools that hallucinate, and the general sense that getting things right is not important or worth trying to do:
www.404media.co/hhs-asks-all...
www.404media.co/hhs-asks-all...
HHS Asks All Employees to Start Using ChatGPT
The agency tells workers "we should all be vigilant against barriers that could slow our progress toward making America healthy again."
www.404media.co
September 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Unwinding the AI BS from our government services is going to be a nightmare, and it's the kind of thing we may just let fester because it will be to hard to fix. A lot of evil people are probably making some money though.
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Very cool how we have literally in the last few years restructured our entire economy around this technology that is being rapidly abandoned by everyone involved. Really bodes well.
The OpenAI employee share sale at the BS $500bn number is now up to $10.3 billion. This is a cashout. This is the thing you do when you do not see a future for the company.
www.cnbc.com/2025/09/03/o...
www.cnbc.com/2025/09/03/o...
OpenAI boosts size of secondary share sale to $10.3 billion
OpenAI is allowing current and former employees to sell more than $10 billion worth of stock in a secondary share sale.
www.cnbc.com
September 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Very cool how we have literally in the last few years restructured our entire economy around this technology that is being rapidly abandoned by everyone involved. Really bodes well.
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Because they don't see them as hobbies through the process of which joy is created, they see them as arduous processes which rewards one with goods, acclaim, and success at the end. They're not trying to acquire a new hobby, they're trying to optimize the time and labor out of a productive process.
Why are so many AI people trying to get into hobbies they absolutely despise? "Fuck reading just give me the summary", Fuck art just make it for me", "I got ideas but fuck actually writing" like??? Maybe just find something you enjoy doing and do that?????
August 30, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Because they don't see them as hobbies through the process of which joy is created, they see them as arduous processes which rewards one with goods, acclaim, and success at the end. They're not trying to acquire a new hobby, they're trying to optimize the time and labor out of a productive process.
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'AI is great for summarizing meetings'
- say the people who never, ever read those notes and check for accuracy or data leaks or anything else and just fwd:all after the fact
- say the people who never, ever read those notes and check for accuracy or data leaks or anything else and just fwd:all after the fact
LLM transcription decided that when I said Oregon State University that I really meant University of Oregon. That's a helluva an error, but not nearly as dire as messing up anything related to THE Ohio State University. They will end you.
August 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
'AI is great for summarizing meetings'
- say the people who never, ever read those notes and check for accuracy or data leaks or anything else and just fwd:all after the fact
- say the people who never, ever read those notes and check for accuracy or data leaks or anything else and just fwd:all after the fact
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Have any prominent elected Dems committed to dismantling ICE if/when they reclaim power? Because that frankly seems like an absolute bare minimum at this point. You can't just have a massively funded armed gang of hard-right stormtroopers embedded across the country & return to normal.
August 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Have any prominent elected Dems committed to dismantling ICE if/when they reclaim power? Because that frankly seems like an absolute bare minimum at this point. You can't just have a massively funded armed gang of hard-right stormtroopers embedded across the country & return to normal.
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this makes me suspect that one of the routes that AI companies are aiming at is targeting young people. anything that existed when you were a kid feels normal and indispensable. especially if you always used AI to write all your essays for you. and to comfort you when your parents were arguing.
August 16, 2025 at 10:26 AM
this makes me suspect that one of the routes that AI companies are aiming at is targeting young people. anything that existed when you were a kid feels normal and indispensable. especially if you always used AI to write all your essays for you. and to comfort you when your parents were arguing.
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Still remember one study where they had "AI" look at photos to diagnose cancer and it had like a 98% or 99% accuracy...
...except all the photos of actual tumors had a ruler next to them for scale. And the algorithm just got really good at spotting rulers in a photograph.
...except all the photos of actual tumors had a ruler next to them for scale. And the algorithm just got really good at spotting rulers in a photograph.
Stop offloading cognitive tasks to "generative AI." Stop using systems w/ "AI" features either inextricably woven through them or prominently displayed at the top to nudge you into their use. Stop *Designing* "AI" tools & integrations that way. Stop building or using "AI" like this. Fucking Stop it.
AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study
Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.
www.bloomberg.com
August 15, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Still remember one study where they had "AI" look at photos to diagnose cancer and it had like a 98% or 99% accuracy...
...except all the photos of actual tumors had a ruler next to them for scale. And the algorithm just got really good at spotting rulers in a photograph.
...except all the photos of actual tumors had a ruler next to them for scale. And the algorithm just got really good at spotting rulers in a photograph.
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Touch screens on cars worsen response time significantly worse than drink driving or being high:
www.wired.com/story/why-ca...
www.wired.com/story/why-ca...
May 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Touch screens on cars worsen response time significantly worse than drink driving or being high:
www.wired.com/story/why-ca...
www.wired.com/story/why-ca...
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They want people to delete their personal photos so there's enough water to allow people to continue making AI slop images
The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems'.
http://jrnl.ie/6788643
http://jrnl.ie/6788643
UK government advises people to delete old photos and emails as England faces water shortfall
The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as ‘data centres require cast amounts of water to cool their systems’.
jrnl.ie
August 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
They want people to delete their personal photos so there's enough water to allow people to continue making AI slop images
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The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.
Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.
Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.
August 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.
Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.
Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.
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I will literally cancel any service I use that advertises for this redneck gestapo shit and report every ad I see for it on social media. I hope others would do the same.
ICE Is About To Go on a Social Media and TV Ad Recruiting Blitz
Contracting records reviewed by 404 Media show that ICE wants to target Gen Z, including with ads on Hulu and HBO Max.
www.404media.co
August 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I will literally cancel any service I use that advertises for this redneck gestapo shit and report every ad I see for it on social media. I hope others would do the same.
Good!
August 2, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Good!
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Update: I offered the amendment. Not to refuse acceptance of the Qatari jet; just to prohibit Trump from taking it with him when he leaves office - after the taxpayers spend $1 billion to retrofit it.
Failed 14-15. Every single Republican voted to allow Trump to take the jet.
Failed 14-15. Every single Republican voted to allow Trump to take the jet.
The fight against corruption has to be ceaseless.
Today in the Appropriations Committee, I will offer an amendment to prohibit the Qatari jet that was gifted to Trump (which is going to cost taxpayers $1 billion) from being transferred to him personally.
Stay tuned.
Today in the Appropriations Committee, I will offer an amendment to prohibit the Qatari jet that was gifted to Trump (which is going to cost taxpayers $1 billion) from being transferred to him personally.
Stay tuned.
July 31, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Update: I offered the amendment. Not to refuse acceptance of the Qatari jet; just to prohibit Trump from taking it with him when he leaves office - after the taxpayers spend $1 billion to retrofit it.
Failed 14-15. Every single Republican voted to allow Trump to take the jet.
Failed 14-15. Every single Republican voted to allow Trump to take the jet.
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If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.
July 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.
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The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services is a direct threat to public health.
"Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is planning to remove all the members of an advisory panel that determines what cancer screenings and other preventive health measures insurers must cover."
"Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is planning to remove all the members of an advisory panel that determines what cancer screenings and other preventive health measures insurers must cover."
Exclusive | RFK Jr. to Oust Advisory Panel on Cancer Screenings, HIV Prevention Drugs
The task force determines which preventive services insurers must cover at no cost to patients.
www.wsj.com
July 25, 2025 at 11:46 PM
The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services is a direct threat to public health.
"Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is planning to remove all the members of an advisory panel that determines what cancer screenings and other preventive health measures insurers must cover."
"Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is planning to remove all the members of an advisory panel that determines what cancer screenings and other preventive health measures insurers must cover."
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It's really astounding how much worse the drivers of The Big Pickups are than basically any other type of car
July 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
It's really astounding how much worse the drivers of The Big Pickups are than basically any other type of car