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Wait hold on maybe I spoke to soon yall bsky.app/profile/reun...

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I think it’s useful in the same way a search engine is. It can make finding the issue easier, for sure. I’m just hella nervous about data protections for health related needs and AI lying to people.

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George is a baby 🥺

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Anna E. Cook @annaecook.com · 3h

I’m just trying to survive long enough to finish the remaster of Ocarina of Time.

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I have, for better or worse, a lot of experience with AI. This man is not qualified to speak on its efficacy. Don’t use AI for health purposes. If even just to protect you health data Frankly he’s not qualified to speak on matters of health either but here we are in the land of perpetual evil.

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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 5h

Per the EO, yes it really is the case the President seems to be directing federal employees to say "I can't hear you unless you say SI" to public customers, research partners, vendors, journalists, etc.

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Anna E. Cook @annaecook.com · 7h

Totally! The PNW is wonderful

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Anna E. Cook @annaecook.com · 8h

Yeah it’s a very rich community, in the money sense, and tends to attract more ultra wealthy conservative people. Not all folks in Bellevue or Redmond are like that of course!

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Anna E. Cook @annaecook.com · 9h

Me internally: LEAVE HIM LET ME HELP YOU

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Anna E. Cook @annaecook.com · 9h

Someone to me in Seattle: “wow I love your hair!” Me: “thank you! I love your pink!” Someone to me in Bellevue/Redmond: “wow I love your hair! I wish my husband would let me do that” Me: “…oh well I mean I uh…”

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Anna E. Cook @annaecook.com · 10h

Yeah they had the option to do it right but didn’t. Built on stolen data, with no thought about the effects on humanity or our environment. If we are lucky, the end of this will lead to severe tech monopoly breakup and regulation and taxation of the extremely wealthy. I dream and hope for it.

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Anna E. Cook @annaecook.com · 10h

Same. These would be good things if I trusted they were at all true.

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Anna E. Cook @annaecook.com · 10h

Exactly. Some folks I’ve seen have been talking about this as if we aren’t dealing with a deeply incompetent, corrupt, and fascist fed.

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Anna E. Cook @annaecook.com · 11h

No infrastructure only pretty design.

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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 13h

tfw you know more effort went into aligning the input and container border radii than 90% of the underlying infrastructure

The America.gov landing page chat input with 100% rounded corners, placed in a square container whose borders match the curve. Inside the square is a stock photo of a man on an escalator. Above it is the headline, "Hello, America." and a subhead of "Whatever you need from government, start here." Cropped screenshot.

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Anna E. Cook @annaecook.com · 11h

The newly launched America.gov website is an LLM built on data from decades of actual work from people who made digital gov accessible and secure. Meanwhile, the current fed refuses to do anything well, so this LLM is a guaranteed security, privacy and accessibility risk. So yeah don’t use it.

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Anna E. Cook @annaecook.com · 29/09/2026

Some federal/local governments. I am sleepy sorry

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Anna E. Cook @annaecook.com · 29/09/2026

I’m gonna sub post instead of debate. For the record, Peter Thiel models startups to intentionally function like cults. He claims this. He has a lot of control over Silicon Valley and federal and some governments. He was also in the Epstein files. So yes, there is a tech fascist sex cult.

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Why must everything be an “aesthetic” Leave me to my half eaten spaghetti and unopened carrot bag!

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And the first 70% will be an inaccessible security nightmare I can’t maintain!

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Getting that “I bought a new domain I may never use” dopamine hit. ✨

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My follower count on Twitter I think led to people assuming I was an accessibility “expert.” I know a lot of stuff! I love accessibility and specialize in it. But it put a lot of pressure on me, and took attention away from folks who deserved it more imo. I’ll do better this time

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My follower count is slowly rolling towards 10k. One thing I remember about when I was using Twitter was that 10k was around when I felt like things were way less fun. And hey I’m not complaining, thanks for following and all that, I’m just preparing to be more vigilant/protective of my peace.

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I am muting this thread now, but to be entirely clear, it was a silly moment, I didn’t say or do anything and neither did they. I didn’t do something to them and they didn’t do anything to me. Y’all gotta lighten up.

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I hear you but I didn’t do or say anything. I just was minding my business

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This MAY be a fact but the fact that my go to instinct is to just be like “wow that’s neat” before I go wait a second is a little unnerving

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I think I’m resilient to misinformation and disinformation yet I’ll read some rando comment like “humans having a natural shedding cycle in September” and my brain logs it like it’s fact.

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There are Mormon missionaries walking around Cap Hill in Seattle trying to talk to people. While I was walking around down there today saw two boys see me and my bright blue hair and go right the other direction. The “poison frog” effect works every time 💙

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@erikahall.bsky.social I hope this doesn’t come across as parasocial, but I saw this wallpaper and it reminded me of your chicken art!

A patterned wall paper using primary colors, blue, yellow and red with decorative flourishes, leaves, and roosters.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

This isn’t why I refuse to go to parties run by a lot of people in big tech, but it’s definitely a bonus. If this is what it takes to get promoted guess I’ll stay where I’m at feck it

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Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

Ann Pierce
@itsannpierce
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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 27/09/2026

Once upon a time, Google's video production arm was taken over by a religious cult. Just saying it's happened before. I'm just going to link this here for no particular reason: www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/t...

nytimes.com

Ex-Google Contractor Settles Lawsuit Over Religious Sect (Gift Article)

The suit claimed that the Fellowship of Friends, an obscure group based in the Sierra Nevada foothills, gained influence inside Google.

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YouTube video by melodysheep

CW: flashing lights/photosensitive trigger youtu.be/2rEuie5lpGA?...

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JUST SURF THE NET

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Partner: I got a laptop so I don’t have to use a desktop to surf the web Me: …surf the web? What is this the year 2000??

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Proud to say I played RE2 For another two minutes While I made my partner sit with me until I “screamed and tore of my headphones” I used to be a baddie guys

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Man I just got my diagnosis and meds, I’ve already done life on hard mode I don’t wanna do it again

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