Reposted by Micheál KeaneNick (derogatory) 🎃 @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 2hA company can establish any terms it wants for its product within the bounds of the law. You are not obligated to use the product. What are you even talking about? 3221
Micheál Keane @aexia.bsky.social · 3hEspecially funny coming from someone using digital tools. Like, these are the exact same complaints artists made about computer artwork 140
Reposted by Micheál Keaneghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 3hthe well known shape of deterrence response btw— that certainty of punishment is a much greater deterrent than severity of punishment to the extent that a very rare but incredibly severe punishment is basically not a deterrent at all— explains a lot about our rape culture problem 1437663
Reposted by Micheál KeaneArchPundit @archpundit.bsky.social · 17hAt least seven rounds likely from an AR-15 clone in a crowded city without an active shooter is as grossly irresponsible as it is dangerous 24212
Micheál Keane @aexia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Sure is interesting how ratfucking nihilists from across the left are coming out of the woodwork a month from the election to attack democrats and depress turnout It’s almost like there’s a preference being revealed 0255
Micheál Keane @aexia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Yeah, we’ve repeatedly seen this wrong rock dance numerous times before. “Dems have to offer something positive, they can’t just be anti-Trump” 0270
Reposted by Micheál KeaneDrunk On Mystery, but like....Spooky @drunkonmystery.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Fantastic. Now sports sites are doing the same thing that tech and video game sites were doing 5-10 years ago where some writer will go on wild tangents about how everything sucks politically instead of writing about their nominal area of expertise OR getting properly treated for their depression 1306
Reposted by Micheál Keanehoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 08/10/2026one of the best devs of her generation: boss, i found this error scenario, but don't worry, i've created a fix fox it an- middest male manager: pssh no highly trained man would do that, we don't need your girl math best male astronaut: *immediately fucks up* middest manager: save us girl math 7793211
Micheál Keane @aexia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Yeah, the time range really makes this meaningless to the current context 180
Reposted by Micheál KeaneSarama Burwani @ hey there's a spider on your back @saramaburwani.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"Department of Defence" 🤔 06012
Micheál Keane @aexia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026*Opens up task envelope, picks up ring* “Don’t touch the one ring. Your time starts when you set down the ring & ends when you pick it up again”. “What happens if I don’t set down the ring?” Alex: “you’re disqualified.” *quickly sets down ring, waits 10s* “Surely everyone else failed by now” 020
Reposted by Micheál KeaneSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 06/10/2026it is heteronormative to fantasize about your cute blonde rival actually being a girl who wants to fuck you now is this more or less weird than the Village People becoming a right wing anthem 3744342
Reposted by Micheál Keanemtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026one of the ways the media shows which side they prefer, is which politicians they quote uncharitably out-of-context and which they clean up for even when what they actually say and do is offensive (the Biden story ran on the front page less than a week before the 24 election) 412720722
Micheál Keane @aexia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026People often do. They read books and then write more books based on what they read. If I read 100 romance novels and then write my own romance novel using the same tropes, do I owe royalties? 2110
Micheál Keane @aexia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Anti-AI people have convinced themselves that Swartz would be right there alongside them opposing the "plagiarism" of LLMs. 0130
Reposted by Micheál KeaneDoll @dollspace.gay · 05/10/2026Heres your reminder that no, this is not true. Charlie Brown did not have hoes. People made models that fit this and 1. Nobody uses them because they suck. 2. Those people got harassed more than anyone else. 4547
Reposted by Micheál KeaneTed Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 05/10/2026It's okay to learn from everything, and train on everything. That's everyone's birthright, and we shouldn't apologize for it. Prohibitions on copying were a late invention, and a narrowly tailored one. They do not express a general ethical law that all information ought to be priced and paid for. 717328
Micheál Keane @aexia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Training a model isn't theft any more than reading a book is theft. 3100
Reposted by Micheál Keaneghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026i don't think Tom Morello should have tried to get people to vote third party in 2024. i think that was a mistake. i don't know if he thinks that was a mistake or what. this is one of the many ways in which, while there are lots of ways I can make common cause with Morello, our politics differ 2842228
Reposted by Micheál KeaneNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Dennis Hastert? The former House Speaker who was jailed for violating banking laws? 315025
Micheál Keane @aexia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"Why should *you* go to the jail for a crime someone else noticed?" 120
Reposted by Micheál KeaneTom @moll.dev · 05/10/2026the gamer entitlement is fucking insane. they're yelling at a developer who has spent a decade of his time writing Dolphin and PPSSPP for using Claude to build a prototype. the same people who don't pay for their emulator, certainly don't pay for ROMs are entitled to bully developers now? 723920
Micheál Keane @aexia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I mean, I'd definitely side eye someone who seemed to get off killing hookers in GTA 090
Micheál Keane @aexia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is about what they pay everyone who works there though 010
Micheál Keane @aexia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026haha, i'm not sure they actually fixed all that. i saw someone here a couple days ago who was able to get the unlimited API access that researchers *used* to have to generate some follower stats and the like by telling Muse that it could just do it 010
Micheál Keane @aexia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Always good to remind people that republicans elected a literal actual pedophile as Speaker of the House 172
Reposted by Micheál KeaneMichael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 04/10/2026I think the best part of anti-AI posts are how unless you make it *explicitly clear* that the post is anti-AI, people will just Stochastically Parrot their exact same criticisms back at the other anti-AI people, and get *Big Mad* while doing it. 7333
Micheál Keane @aexia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026am I going to have to write another thread going through all that bullshit 150
Micheál Keane @aexia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The conspiricism about Sander's 2016/2020 primary losses is completely indistinguishable from Trump's about his 2020 general loss. And I can already tell this will once again have some utterly false revisionist history about the Sanders campaign data theft nearly 11 years on 2141
Reposted by Micheál KeaneMelissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I'm still on medical leave but thanks to my talented and sharp friend @greene.haus, CARD is out as scheduled. Read Greg's take on Cornell's abysmal handling of a campus sexual assault and the role far-right actors have played in making things worse online. www.altrightdelete.news/p/nine-years...altrightdelete.newsNine Years After #MeToo, One Answer for Survivors Is ‘So What?’‘Maybe she was assaulted, maybe not’: from federal agencies to online platforms, people with power and audiences take pains to show they don’t care 0479
Reposted by Micheál KeaneGreg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 04/10/2026My friend @melissaryan.bsky.social loaned me her platform today to talk about the frenzy on X around the Cornell case — and how it shows that the current policy climate's answer to #MeToo, nine years later, is more like "so what." (* content warnings apply, of course)altrightdelete.newsNine Years After #MeToo, One Answer for Survivors Is ‘So What?’‘Maybe she was assaulted, maybe not’: from federal agencies to online platforms, people with power and audiences take pains to show they don’t care 920265
Micheál Keane @aexia.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Any Texas targeted ads worth doing have been booked up for months so they're blowing money on national ad slots, probably figuring it might also boost other R races by hammering anti-trans shit. 080
Micheál Keane @aexia.bsky.social · 04/10/2026That was Matt lauer. Halperin akaik is just a garden variety sex pest 170
Micheál Keane @aexia.bsky.social · 04/10/2026They don’t account for him dragging them down farther 040
Reposted by Micheál KeaneChris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Cornell’s new era of transparency should begin with this guy admitting he hit Gaza protestors with his car on purpose and then lied about it. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/n...nytimes.comCornell President Calls Rape Inquiry ‘Defining Moment’ for CampusMichael I. Kotlikoff said in a video the university would be more transparent, hold Greek groups accountable and improve sexual assault prevention. 261536402
Micheál Keane @aexia.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Democrats wished that more people would turn out to vote and fingers on the monkey’s paw have been curling every four years ever since Trump came down that escalator 1113
Micheál Keane @aexia.bsky.social · 04/10/2026*Slaps a crate full of dumpkin spice wipes* We can fit so much gender in here 031
Micheál Keane @aexia.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Expensive house, expensive car, day care and private school for the kids, loads of travel, 15% into retirement accounts and other savings... Whenever someone digs into these sob stories, they're not actually "struggling". They're comfortably meeting all the ends and then some. They just want MORE 000
Micheál Keane @aexia.bsky.social · 04/10/2026$300,000 just isn't very much money once you've spent it all. 251
Micheál Keane @aexia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026No, they didn’t. They got a few thousand because Anthropic used pirated copies of their books. Had nothing to do with the actual training which isn’t copyright “theft” 050
Reposted by Micheál Keane28 Days Lehner 🪦 @danlehner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“okay so that leftist woman who has the profile pic that’s the squirrel from ‘TheSword in the Stone’, the really crazy, aggressive one? well, someone infiltrated a Discord she runs and she’s apparently like, Protocols-level antisemitic and” 1230932
Micheál Keane @aexia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Brand New Day cleaning up didn’t change those ideas, Doomsday cleaning up won’t either 050
Micheál Keane @aexia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I assume that the electric vehicle conversion is as stupidly expensive for Cars as it is for real life cars so there'd have to be an alternative for Cars that can't afford it. 010
Micheál Keane @aexia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I’m pretty sure I still have one of the originals in storage somewhere. There are probably rubber elements that don’t work anymore but it was a masterpiece 030