Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialterra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Blueskyism is the philosophy that in multicausal situations you should blame the agent you have the least control over 1385
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialterra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Lose an election because an underwhelming message meets an unsympathetic public? It's the public's fault Consumers who prefer large houses gobble up the subsidized sprawl? Well, have they considered simply not doing that? 1212
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialterra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Combination of (1) A system where rules are dependent on people choosing to enforce them rigorously (2) A political class that believes in the system so much they've depersonalized it into a form of karma and therefore thinks its virtuous to not throw the book at elites Obviously this doesn't work 1418
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialtemphorraire.bsky.social @temphorraire.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Meanwhile i pray we just invent new holidays so i work one less day in the year. 111
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialpleonasm @pleonasmical.bsky.social · 12/10/2026It's fucked up that it's so difficult to get more than one degree, and even more difficult to get two different jobs. When will science invent a machine that allows me to increase my perception of time by a factor of two so I can do two jobs in one day 191
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialthe abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 16hit really would be impressive if Trump managed to start a war more politically damaging than Iraq 2003 and I think there's a genuine chance he did 3806
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialterra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 19/03/2026I think honestly we're seeing a situation where Trump's martingale strategy (double down on every loss, so you can usually eke out a win by chance) loses log(n) times in a row and eats shit. Like he was really expecting Iran to just give up as he escalated because this has always happened 2733
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialFluffyByte Games - Jacob @fluffygamedev.bsky.social · 8hIts one thing to support minority rights when its popular... its a whole other thing to do it when it's the right thing to do. 021
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialFluffyByte Games - Jacob @fluffygamedev.bsky.social · 8hI would wager any company over the last two years that still advertised exclusively to queer people while it looked like everything was turning towards conservativism in the zeitgeist - they may actually care. 121
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialhai @kamima.love · 3hat least from personal experience, the ideal resumes recruiters worship result in cookie cutter people that can only operate within specific systems that enable them to be handheld and babysat 171
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialArcadia @chaoticsmol.dev · 4hReddit culture is unfortunately extremely insular. People don't really go there to learn new things or engage with ideas seriously and critically. A lot of the subreddits in particular are really just echo Chambers. 151
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialLava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 5hThis to me is one of the clearest cases of anti-AI sentiment escalating to a moral panic for at least some people. It’s not enough to be anti-AI, mere knowledge about it taints you. 2213
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialmikeydoubled @mdlp.bsky.social · 6hMe, at work, using Claude to reconcile a report to our accounting entry Instead of manually categorizing 20 different things and building pivot tables and vlookups..static.klipy.comHeroin Preparation on SpoonALT: Heroin Preparation on Spoon 0926
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 6hNo, I just have eyes and ears attached to my head and can see that AI is, in fact, a widely used thing, and am temperamentally disinclined towards weird tee-totaling fundamentalism in most cases. Also I know many actual substance abusers and don’t think they’re comparable to the AI users I know. 718710
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 7hIt is absolutely bananas that one of the most prominent anti-AI experts in America is talking like this. Talking to ChatGPT isn’t like doing heroin or downloading child porn. It will not hurt you and has no ethical valence. It will help you understand the nature of something that is now endemic. 6942534
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialWandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 1hI think a part of the problem is that Trump II basically proved they were inauthentic. When push came to shove, organizations showed a complete lack of deeper principles that is going to impact trust for decades. 2235
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialWandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 7hTo use a more analog metaphor. AI is a lot like early electricity. Incredibly useful. But also prone to kill you as a random consumer because we haven't figured out safe light-switches yet. 1133
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialWandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 5hThe problem is that we have not established deterrence generally, so people want to establish deterrence specifically. This is a bad idea. It is also downstream of the failure of the Biden Administration, the United States Senate, and Caucus Leadership generally. 182
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialSnowden St. @snowden.st · 4hI need to amend this, lightly. Getting out in the world doesn't negate the discovery of dark networks of shared plans. But it should get you out of the truly loopy ones (lizard people) and more into the real ones (zoning boards and real estate). 1154
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialSnowden St. @snowden.st · 5hThe thing about getting out in the world, as a conspiracist, is that you get some of the bars in your "self-imposed theory cage" slowly sanded down. Humanity and life are more complex than any theory, and when you're in the world, regularly, you learn that. The power of explanatory theories wanes. 2403
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialSnowden St. @snowden.st · 5hAnd you don't persuade people off of those theories by declaring the theories Bad, or Wrong, or Evil. You persuade them by (persistently, respectfully) offering alternative narratives that better explain their experience. 5592
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.social𝕄𝕖𝕣𝕔𝕦𝕣𝕪 | ℝ𝕖𝕒𝕕 𝔸𝕡𝕠𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕤𝕪 🌹 @mistermercury.bsky.social · 3hI’ve long held that conspiracy theories thrive because the idea that the people in charge have no plan, are wholly incompetent, and have batshit insane ideologies detached from reality or society, is genuinely fucking terrifying. It’s less scary to think there’s a plan, even if it’s an evil one 011
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.social🕷️Spectre of Communism🕷️, MSW (NOT A MAN) 🥯🌹 @acabcalloway.bsky.social · 5hOr "why are these systems so dysfunctional and why are the people in charge so incompetent and irrational". 162
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialWandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 5hThe gap was between what people understood to be their electeds principles and their actions. And "they got bribed out of it" is easier to understand (and less world-shattering) than "they never shared the principles you thought you both did. 0124
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialWandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 5hConspiracy exists to explain gaps. This is why AIPAC shit caught like wildfire. Liberals (and Americans generally) didn't like what they saw in the former Mandate. And their electeds were unresponsive. "The money made them do it" is a lot simpler than "liberal electeds actually like Bibi." 1173
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialSnowden St. @snowden.st · 5hI used to have David Icke-following roommates in my sober house, in the early 10s. These men were....familiar with American penal institutions, and had had rough lives. It was huge for me to understand this point, that the conspiracies aren't meant as precise explanations, but sensemaking narratives 812610
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialDaze3x @daze3x.bsky.social · 12/10/2026This is 100% an issue but I'm not really sure how to solve it. Like if you want to participate in discussion but most of the discussion is on stuff that doesn't matter. It feels the best answer is avoiding discussion entirely. 021
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialJiikae @jiikae.com · 12/10/2026This is something I have actively been trying to unlearn. I wanna call it “Focus Theft” or something. Where the mental attention you could be spending towards what you WANT to think about, gets robbed by a topic that kinda SEEMS similar to what you wanna think about 2284
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialJiikae @jiikae.com · 12/10/2026Example: If the controversy surrounding a game is about a character design or something Even if your opinion of the design isn’t affected by the discussion, you might start spending more energy talking about the character design, even though thats not the main aspect of the game that you care about 2304
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialJiikae @jiikae.com · 12/10/2026I think even if you aren’t influenced by online discussion for the things you play. I think being too tapped in to online discussion can still inform what you choose to think about in regards to a game 36520
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.social칠락싱하는중 @lcj-faure.bsky.social · 5hAlso modern jazz solos take a lot of rhythmic and harmonic inspiration from classic hip hop artists like Rakim and Big Daddy Kane. Just super cool stuff 011
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.social칠락싱하는중 @lcj-faure.bsky.social · 5hMCs came up with so many entendres for "government cheese" that i legit didn't know that there was a real, actual government cheese food product until i was like 19 141
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialcorpse @consume.red · 7hwhen my mom was teaching psychology, she got so sick of "I could have told you that" that she would always describe experiments and make students predict the results before she told them the actual results. it turns out the students usually could not have told her that. 010725
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialJiikae @jiikae.com · 12/10/2026I will never feel shame for being cautious about my life. You make a stupid, unnecessary mistake that ruins your life and those same people shaming you will not say “Well at least you took the risk!” 3589
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialneuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 11/10/2026they are literal nazis etc but it's also really funny that this is the form the admonition takes. how many times are millennials finally moving into leadership positions going to be lectured on "what we do here", i wonder 422131
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialThorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 11/10/2026A lot of people associate slop with AI. We always had slop, e.g. reality TV. The problem is 80+% people lack the artistic vision and taste to ever create anything more than slop, and we've removed the friction for people to demonstrate that about themselves. 1216818
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialThorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 12/10/2026Digger: you have to actually solve the world's problems not just pat yourself on the back for having the right opinions Will: how DARE YOU 18511
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialThorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 12/10/2026Yes, absolutely. It's not trying to say that we're bad people for enjoying Spectacle. It recognizes that, on some level, we *need* the entertainment of what someone like Digger provides to cope with the horrors of the world. But we can't let that be enough. We have to actually fix the horrors. 241
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialThorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 12/10/2026Digger tl;dr "Yes, yes, you fucking hate Trump and Dubya and climate change and corrupt billionaires — as you fucking should! — but are we going to fix shit, or are we just going to let ourselves be entertained by Spectacle and as the world continues to fall apart?" 1325
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialThorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 12/10/2026This is my single favorite quirk of LLMs. They're trained to act human and, as a side effect, don't really comprehend their own much faster speed at completing tasks. 51274
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialPwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 12/10/2026text is very bandwidth efficient, and very searchable, but both of those are increasingly irrelevant concerns 3452
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialPwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 12/10/2026super spicy take but pushing buttons quickly to make a block of text is a very unnatural way to communicate, and us older generations got very good at it because other ways to communicate were comparatively impractical, and we like it because we're used to it, but it is not intrinsically *better* 2654
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialKPD Max von Sydnow @mpdeejay.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Really can't emphasize how much I hate the bipartisan effort to tear up the bill of rights on behalf of some tiny foreign apartheid state. 313031
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialShabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 12/10/2026She condemned the Biden U.S. arms deal with Israel, and as retaliation the Biden administration opened an investigation against her. The Trump administration is actually piggybacking off that Democratic investigation. Both parties are cesspools of Islamophobia. 11180413
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialneuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 12/10/2026it's partly israel but it's also her politics, and frankly her status as somali-american with an accent too. coastal machine democrats see a black immigrant woman correctly believing herself and her politics equal to theirs & they shit a fucking brick. if it wasn't israel it'd be something else 3373
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialthe abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 12/10/2026sorry but cowardice and bigotry by the Dems has consequences! 11134
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialthe abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 12/10/2026the reason Jeffries is catching heat for something the Trump admin did to Rep Omar is that he has repeatedly failed to defend her from racist and Islamophobic attacks, including bogus censures, because she opposes his pet ethnostate 627646
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialashley (birthday week) 🕸️ @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 12/10/2026a lot of people are bothered by the fact that Dems don’t seem to be fully concentrated on impeachment right now I’m not worried because every day Trump makes it impossible to resist impeachment and once we’re in the majority there’s no excuse remaining 101719
Reposted by @itsadoor.bsky.socialPOTUS Speedrun Record Holder @theradiostar.bsky.social · 12/10/2026i don't think "the system basically works" is going to be a viable ethos for most Dems going forward, which is bad news for the centrist institutionalist types 1111
