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iskeptici@iskeptici.bsky.social |
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Neurodivergent / lamenting & drawing attention to our dying earth / anti-fascist / ACAB / neolibs can STFU / philosophy / history / science / COVID is airborne / maker of noise & proprietor of book, cat & synthesizer sanctuary / not one of the cool kids
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iskeptici
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Shipping crisis isn't over either, carrier rates are increasing, they realized they could make so much money with disruption they are doing it intentionally now... ports are congested again... and we have Houthis blowing up ships in the red sea (I wish them well). The good times are here to stay
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The Onion
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Ken Klippenstein
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Pentagon-Funded Study: Dementia Among US Officials Is a National Security Threat
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iskeptici
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exactly
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iskeptici
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Lest you forget, these things were all definitely needed and on the table in 2020... and yet here we are. One could reasonably conclude that the dems aren't interested in these ideas...
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iskeptici
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I appreciate schadenfreude as much as the next guy but I am absolutely not looking forward to the fallout which is going to be a lot of finger-pointing & shouting at the wrong people, mainly those of us who have been warning about this for at least 2 years now. There is no joy in being Cassandra
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iskeptici
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Ok, great. Wht do you suppose the outcome of "rejecting this power" might be? š¤
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Disney Prime Video +
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The Brave Little Guillotine (2025)
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Tim Onion
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This is good.
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Siddeley Genet
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Iain Banks had a brilliant way of phrasing it through the "Outside Context Problem" paragraphs in Excession: A concept so far outside of the norms that the norms simply halt, bent so far outside cultural framework as to break.
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Johnny Normality (Feral Mode)
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One of his picks was because Obama wasn't willing to pull the trigger 9 months before the election. Another was because RBG, who was old as shit and had already had at least one public bout with cancer, wanted to be replaced by Hillary. If the Democrats gave a shit, Trump would have gotten 1 pick.
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Johnny Normality (Feral Mode)
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"This was, unfortunately, unavoidable," says the person whose job was to avoid this. This is why everyone is freaking out about the debate performance, btw. We've seen what the Democrat's overconfidence results in. They thought that debate would be a cakewalk and he went out there and shat the bed.
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iskeptici
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The "You're voting for an administration" pivot is so fucking infuriating... The administration IS the problem - parading a doddering Biden around as figurehead while ghouls like Zeints, Blinken, Donilon & the McKinsey Institute whisper into his ears like a cadre of neoliberal Wormtongues Fuck that
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iskeptici
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The thing I think most people haven't yet realized is that Project 2025 is already well underway, and even if the Dems do manage to somehow eke out a win in November, there is no one within the party willing or capable of doing what is necessary to stop the momentum. Neoliberalism can not save us
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Squire Boone
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The correct response to Chevron being overturned is for every single environmental group to start filing millions of lawsuits, right now, today, arguing that various regulatory decisions didn't go far enough. Absolutely flood the zone.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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āIām just a simple umpire, calling balls and strikes as I see them, and every now and then rewriting basic rules of the game with no reasonā
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iskeptici
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The speed at which the Heritage Foundation is dismantling our government should cause great alarm & we should be hearing about it constantly from our elected representatives who claim to oppose it, not deer in headlights panic with no plan other than "give us another chance, this time we swear!"
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iskeptici
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I mean, just spitballing here but other than from the online left I have not heard any democrat propose any realistic reform to the court & Biden pocket vetoed the idea of expanding the court a couple years go after pretending to do study it YOU ARE REALLY BAD AT THIS But sure, let's vote blue
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iskeptici
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You would think, in the face of a completely unhinged & lawless supreme court, & the increasing threat of overt fascism IN AN ELECTION YEAR, that maybe the "opposition party" could TRY to float an agenda for stopping this train barreling off of a cliff
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iskeptici
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After carefully weighing the options, and intently studying the issues, I am once again throwing my support behind Giant Meteor.
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Ian Boudreau
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What a great time to be trapped in outer space
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iskeptici
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We can only hope
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iskeptici
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Is it too late to order an asteroid
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iskeptici
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Yeah, good thing we have very serious people in charge who are aware of the stakes and pulling out all the stops in order to lose
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iskeptici
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Sure, I guess, whatever
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Chuck Wendig
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Oh hey tech firms whatās up, I found the miracle solution: throw this unwanted AI shit into the fucking trash where it belongs
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N. K. Jemisin
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It's increasingly clear that the people who make generative AI don't like films, don't like books, don't like art of any kind, and don't understand why anyone else does.
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Liz Neeley
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The hallucinations should be disqualifying on their own. But the staggering exploitation of water, energy, and creative labor is something I am begging my friends in academia to foreground in their conversations about AI. Letās get specific about what we are doing, why, and at what cost.
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iskeptici
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āInconvenience regular peopleā Fuck off
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iskeptici
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100%
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Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off)
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ā¦if large languange models are conscious, then they're like a depressed, nihilistic toddler raised on a steady diet of 8chan, bad wikipedia edits, and youtube autoplay rabbit holes: a mind with no motivation or desire, without the ability to either discern or care abourt consensus reality or truth.
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iskeptici
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... much like their makers, actuallyš¤
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Gwen C. Katz
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To recap, some entities with a vested interest in AI: -Fossil fuel companies, which need new wasteful tech to offset avoid being rendered obsolete by solar -GPU manufacturers, which need something to replace crypto to keep prices artificially high -Data centers, ditto
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iskeptici
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I appreciate your spirit but you aren't telling me anything I don't already know. I lived through the Trump years &I've been active in fighting pandemic dis/misinformation during both Trump and Biden. Nothing I do will stop Biden from losing. But maybe I can convince enough of ya that he has to go
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iskeptici
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It's amazing when you stop tracking something that it goes away Deaths are down from 2021 but that is because even with minimal uptake the vaccines do prevent some of the worst outcomes. But you picked a peak and a valley for your comparison Disingenuous Won't even justify it with a period
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iskeptici
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Anyway, I only engaged because I gave you the benefit of the doubt due to the cats in your profile pic Can't always judge a book by its cover c'est la vie
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iskeptici
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This is seriously one of the funniest responses of all time. š Even better than "enjoy the camps"