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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 18/09/2023
more or less yes. The grind is usually masking a deep seated and unexamined assumption there's a lot messed up and everything needs to be better, fuel that drives the grind. Abundance starts from an assumption of there is either already enough or easily could be
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 26/07/2023
when it hits and you're in public trying to look normal
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 16/07/2023
looks like an interesting book. Will check out! Did you by chance run across "Is it True, What they Say about the Masons?" by Arturo de Hoyos? (I'm a Freemason, it's a common cite for us when discussing your topic)
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 16/07/2023
perhaps the difference is individual, personalized feelings (love) vs. externally verifiable / "material reality" / social construct things (you will lose your job, and $1,000). One scales very easily to mass groups.
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 16/07/2023
don't wanna participate in dogpiling negativity on *any* topic X, like I don't want to participate in a group bullying session of a person (even if I dislike that person). Build context/empathy/positive agenda, person by person, brick by brick. Slow but worth it.
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 16/07/2023
for as beautiful as humanity is this is just one of the things we do. I don't know of a better way to deal with it other than simply: focus time & energy on the things you want to see more of
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 16/07/2023
for one negative emotion is more salient than positive. Threat of loss better for motivating people than hopes of gain. We gotta lotta us vs. them going on now, threat is easy to summon (they're taking your jobs, your reproductive rights, etc. etc)
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 16/07/2023
if what your group agrees on is *too specific and tight* you get schisms. If it's too loose/vague, you don't really stand for much or have much identity. Ontological commitment is a goldilocks problem
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 16/07/2023
it takes a lot more (yes vision) but also leadership, vibecrafting, messaging, agendabuilding, etc in order to assert something positive. This is often a downfall of revolutions that blow up the system with no replacement ideas. It's really, really hard.
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 16/07/2023
I think one of the reasons why this happens is that "against X" is the simplest form of social cohesion you can muster. Easier to get disparate groups of people to agree, because what they agree on is minimal
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 16/07/2023
never heard of movieswag. It's a good idea
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 16/07/2023
same same. Sometimes it's intermittent, this AM for me it's unusable
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 09/06/2023
Dave Barry used to refer to foods like these and many others (like Cheesy Poofs) as "Approved for Use on Humans, meeting minimum federal qualifications for armpit hair"
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 09/06/2023
yet inductively, the same is true of great^n kids too, is it not? 🤔 perhaps we should save and invest perpetually, carefully keeping gains, just to maximize optionality 😆
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 09/06/2023
shudders of EA longtermism there. Technically there will be more great-great grandkids than children, so yeah, allocating resources to children is kinda irrational when you think about it.
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 09/06/2023
"too many concurrent writes" is a database's way of saying to a software engineer: "you did bad and you should feel bad"
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 09/06/2023
somebody's database is deeply disappointed in the developers, not you
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 08/06/2023
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ the egregore doesn't even know where the egregore wants to go
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 30/05/2023
cloud services are like beer: when they're good, they're really, really good. And when they're bad hey at least they're still better than Natty Ice/Azure Azure: the Natty Ice of the Cloud
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 22/05/2023
Twitter. And BlueSky. And the Internet. And culture. And society. And The Simpsons
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 18/05/2023
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 18/05/2023
gah I don't even know what the hell you're talking about, I'm just hate looking for some link to click
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 15/05/2023
I am tired
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 15/05/2023
seems to me that the reality of social media just boils down to the brutal calculus of "where my peeps at". If all your circle is on EvilApp where the CEO mulches puppy dogs or whatever we're suspecting of him this week, well then ig we talk about how evil he is on EvilApp?
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 15/05/2023
it's probably out of its newest "omg the thing was just released" days. New ppl will still get this jolt of excitement for a week or two I suppose
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 15/05/2023
it's absolutely wonderful to know & realize that new relationships will form here. Bsky feels like a party I don't have the time to attend, most days
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 15/05/2023
information overload, distraction, and attention fragmentation was a MAJOR PROBLEM before bsky came about and adding another network is probably not the thing that's going to help me
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 15/05/2023
I buy the decentralization and "let's make progress on social media" thing and I really genuinely wish everyone well, the reality is just that my network isn't particularly here, but also...
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 15/05/2023
and I can't shake the feeling that as the network grows and celebs pile in and people write news articles it becomes "just another social network" with fewer features, but also...
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 15/05/2023
I'm not into the "platform politics" thing enough to be a die hard fuck musk partisan who can relish in a musk-free playground zone
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 15/05/2023
I'm just being honest but idk if I have enough time for this bsky thing. I appreciate you all but this can get to be too much
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 12/05/2023
Why did the terminally online skeeter go to the middle school science fair? To see the poasters (I'll see myself out)
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 12/05/2023
Spicy
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 12/05/2023
If it’s true then there would certainly be entrepreneurs monetizing the trend. This sounded to me like one
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 11/05/2023
jesus. Galaxy brain influencer figured out how to siphon money off of every maladjusted poor bastard backwards incel while somehow managing to deepen their alienation advanced bad
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 09/05/2023
gotta amuse ourselves somehow, the race is whether we can work anything reasonable out before the masked shoggoths snuff us all out anyway
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 09/05/2023
that’s true but explaining nuance like this to an angry internet audience is typically unsuccessful
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 09/05/2023
It’s the same mess you started with just more complex. Superimposition of “this is bad” and “this is good” from differing perspectives Monoculture died a while back and you’re staring down one of the best little Easter eggs of how things work now
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 09/05/2023
Yeeeeeeeeppp however when powerfully hated groups co-opt a symbol, nobody’s gonna have a good time anymore
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 09/05/2023
Ok so you know how there’s this whole alternative universe theory about BerenstEIN bears vs BerenSTAIN bears? In 20 years I predict that, but for people’s remembered favorite pop star “The Weekend” who is actually “The Weeknd” That’s my future theory send skeet
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Yaël Eisenstat @yaeleisenstat.bsky.social · 08/05/2023
Hello Bluesky people. My team at ADL Center for Tech & Society has an open call for Fellows to work on the implications of emerging tech (i.e. generative AI) on online hate, harassment & extremism. Open to a range of ideas and professional/academic backgrounds. Check it out!👇🏼
adl.org
2023 Center for Tech & Society Call for Fellows: Emerging Tech
ADL Center for Technology and Society (CTS) is accepting applications for Fellows to focus on the potential harms–as well as opportunities–of emerging tech on hate, harassment and extremism.
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 08/05/2023
the awfulness of this idea is that it doesn't require anybody to buy anything. If they did this without ppl paying, it would generate more content, engagement, and controversy no additional money needed. Minutes on platform = ad engagements = $
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 08/05/2023
"Your father can tweet FOREVER subject to the terms and conditions of the OpenAI end user agreement. But the bad news is that his takes on modern culture aren't going to get any better"
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 08/05/2023
prolly someone will come up with something ghastly and weird, like "train a ChatGPT doppelganger as your late father" or something. Capitalism can get creative
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 08/05/2023
look I'm not saying any of this is good, it's just what commercial models do. Come to think of it....could be interesting if there was a special rule like, "copyrights to social content expire 6 mo. postmortem" rather than the onerous Mickey rule
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 08/05/2023
one needs a commercial motive to make it interesting to solve. Without this, it's a fun problem to work on but not one that gets built and maintained, which is the realm of the "real" we see. I foresee challenges getting a revenue stream out of old inactive accounts w/o minimally stealing their IP
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 08/05/2023
there are other reasons to purge inactive accounts too; they can get hacked/infiltrated via various methods, and recruited into spam networks (no one left to complain about the takeover) but yes it's ALSO a jalopy of poor communication
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 08/05/2023
standard clash between platform physics & user wants. Platforms count monthly active users, time on site. Dead people's feeds drive neither, hence don't matter. People want more nuanced things. Standard "you are the product, not the customer" territory here
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Forth ❤️‍🔥 @forthrighter.bsky.social · 05/05/2023
bsky putting in the effort bsky.app/profile/buttplug.io/post/3…
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