There is NO SUBSTITUTE for moderation. This is the lesson every single website and community on the internet has to learn, over and over. If you let weird bad-faith freaks proliferate on your site, they will destroy it. Here on Bluesky, those freaks are almost all on the left. You need to BAN THEM.

Yeah, think it's a combo of folks getting negativity polarized 'cause Musk + artists doing stellar opposition PR + natural fear of technology

I mean it’s straightforwardly miraculous, and people are telling me it’s a parlor trick. if your parlor trick involves transmuting actual iron into actual gold, I think we can probably stop calling it a trick

an Actually good AI product would be a hook into google scholar, where I can tell it "searching only APSR and political behavior since 2010, for studies using panel data to examine the impact of socioeconomic shocks on redistributive attitudes, what is the most common way that...." and get cites

I have pretty bad ADHD. I don't talk about it that much because there's not that much interesting to say. It sucks, I hate it and it makes my life worse and often makes me fall short of my potential. Wish I wasn't like this, but I am, so it's something I gotta deal with. Really not much more to it.

"yeah I'm going through this too, I know it fucking sucks. you're not alone and you're doing better than you think. keep trying your best" isn't really discursively that interesting or compelling or what people most want to hear but it's probably what it's best impressionable people to encounter

There's all sorts of problems with the idea that raising prices for imports will re-shore production (for one, raising prices for parts will hurt domestic production). But if the Trump admin's position is "tariffs don't raise prices for imports" they clearly can't help industry