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JonlowSnow @jonlowsnow.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hey, so, uh, anyone know how to pull a family member out of a conspiracy rabbit hole or experience with such a matter?

JonlowSnow @jonlowsnow.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Hey, so, what do you do if a relative has fallen down a Jewish bigotry rabbit hole where they cite things that you quickly look up or already know to be standard fair arguments that date back centuries or easily parallel bigotry towards other groups?

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 03/07/2026

Neurodivergent men who care about fixing societal problems, I made this for you. Please share widely 💚

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JonlowSnow @jonlowsnow.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Some combination of nepotism, willingness to go along with whatever the higher ups say, a complete lack of moral fiber, and some really stupid luck when it comes to financial investments into market bubbles, if I had to guess.

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JonlowSnow @jonlowsnow.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I assume this is about Bluesky, but honestly this could be referring to so many things currently.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

reposting w/ alt text

A screenshot of the image in the quoted post that reads:

irritatingly, the list of Al settings in Firefox has grown. to kill them all as of today (Nov 20, 2026), go into about:config and set all of these to false (yes, you'll have to copy and paste them one by one):
• browser.ml.enable
• browser.ml.chat.enabled
• browser.ml.chat.menu
• browser.ml.chat.page
• browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge
• browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge
• browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled
• browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled
• browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled
• browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled
• extensions.ml.enabled
• browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate

in addition to nuking Al, it'll also speed up your browsing

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JonlowSnow @jonlowsnow.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Math red, science blue, English yellow. History green.

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JonlowSnow @jonlowsnow.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Wasn't 'too big to fail' meant to refer to how a company cannot be allowed to collapse less it ruins the economy. Is the implication supposed to be that other countries will bail us out or is punditry a fundamentally flawed conxept?

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JonlowSnow @jonlowsnow.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Maybe either the War of 1812 and/or the Civil War. But the former was kickstarted by the US and then turned defensive, and the Civil War was the US defending itself from itself. So yes, with the caveat being the US was the one to start the wars in the first place.

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JonlowSnow @jonlowsnow.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

It has baffled me for so long that we don't celebrate the elimination of wild smallpox to me. That was is, in my mind, probably the greatest human achievement so far, and it was only possible due to vaccines.

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JonlowSnow @jonlowsnow.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Reading this makes me think I should be arrested, lat alone be the one to write it.

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 28/07/2025

We noticed something grim/funny: there have been so many cases of people spiraling into severe mental health issues after prolonged ChatGPT use that OpenAI is now just copy-pasting the exact same statement every time there's a new report: futurism.com/openai-respo...

Days later, Vox published its own piece exploring the dangers that ChatGPT can pose to people with obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD. Again, OpenAI's response was familiar:

"We know that ChatGPT can feel more responsive and personal than prior technologies, especially for vulnerable individuals, and that means the stakes are higher. We’re working to better understand and reduce ways ChatGPT might unintentionally reinforce or amplify existing, negative behavior."

Then we published another story, this time about how even more people were being involuntarily committed to psychiatric facilities — or even jailed — after becoming obsessed with ChatGPT. Here was the company's response:

"We know that ChatGPT can feel more responsive and personal than prior technologies, especially for vulnerable individuals, and that means the stakes are higher. We're working to better understand and reduce ways ChatGPT might unintentionally reinforce or amplify existing, negative behavior."

And this week, the Wall Street Journal reported about how a 30-year-old man named Jacob Irwin was told by ChatGPT that he could bend time, that he had achieved a breakthrough in faster-than-light travel, and even that he was mentally sound after he raised his fears that he was unwell. In the months that these conversations took place, he would be hospitalized three times and lose his job. Here was OpenAI's response to the newspaper's reporting:

"We know that ChatGPT can feel more responsive and personal than prior technologies, especially for vulnerable individuals, and that means the stakes are higher. We’re working to understand and reduce ways ChatGPT might unintentionally reinforce or amplify existing, negative behavior."

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JonlowSnow @jonlowsnow.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Yeah, gets even wilder when you live with someone who's job is tied to the policies that are currently being shredded by the government. Haha, wild.

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JonlowSnow @jonlowsnow.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Not necessarily that far off. I was touring apartments recently, and one of the places I checked out was a bit of a more modern or fancy one, and it lacked an oven. Did still have a stovetop at least.

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JonlowSnow @jonlowsnow.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Well, now I want to read it more.

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Benjanun Sriduangkaew @ Persephone Effect out now @benjanun.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Another concern about itch capitulating is, okay see this? What if someone decides one day that 'no ICE in California' is hate speech and pressures Itch to ban a bundle named like this and withhold the money?

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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦖 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

You don’t have to like, approve of, or engage with porn and nsfw work to see how right wing extremists are using fear and stigma around smut to ban queer people from public life, define “good” sex as only between married people for procreation, and otherwise further force white supremacy on everyone

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JonlowSnow @jonlowsnow.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Somewhat relatedly, my own issue with brain upload is with consciousness and how we don't know how it is created. Also, a large part of thinking requires the usage of hormones, and as far as I know, I can't stress my computer with cortisol. I have to do it with hundreds of open tabs instead.

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WIRED @wired.com · 23/07/2025

72 hour work week

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JonlowSnow @jonlowsnow.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Got to step 3, currently a non-revolutionary communist. We'll see about the gun in the future.

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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

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JonlowSnow @jonlowsnow.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Yeah, you know what else can improve your grammar? Either just the basic autocorrect that comes with most text software or reading up on the rules of grammar.

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JonlowSnow @jonlowsnow.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Same, I just hate it. Who thought business Facebook was a good idea? (Well, we know who, its the people who find joy in using linkedin and not existential horror)

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JonlowSnow @jonlowsnow.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I presume its because being that high causes one to dehumanize or not to care about others, because how else can you think oneself good, and thus one can start to treat others as playthings or mere nuisances, because they really aren't people now, are they?

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JonlowSnow @jonlowsnow.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Even when I thought like that, my thought was that rewarding that tendency should be done for when someone is actually doing something good, like, I don't know, giving tax breaks to companies that didn't have accidents, paid their workers well. or something. And also make jobs like nursing pay well.

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Doc Vivi Leandra【 VTC 】- Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

AI CHATBOTS PRODUCE STATISTICAL PREDICTIONS OF WHAT A HUMAN MIGHT SAY, THEY DO NOT THINK IT IS NOT ANXIOUS, IT IS PREDICTING THAT A HUMAN MIGHT RESPOND IN A WAY THAT SHOWS SIGNS OF ANXIETY IN THIS SITUATION AND REPLICATING THOSE SIGNS OF ANXIETY

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JonlowSnow @jonlowsnow.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

-traditional classroom. Students need and deserve this level of control, especially if we want as many of them to learn well. Regardless, if this is found, uh, comment whatever, I'm willing to talk about what I said and other topics. I maybe wrong, and I am willing to learn how if so. Bye.

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JonlowSnow @jonlowsnow.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Finally, give students more control of the classroom. Make it so that they can choose the subjects they learn about, give them more opportunities to interact with each other about the topic, eliminate punishments for missing attendance. Give more opportunities for students in ways that aren't the-

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JonlowSnow @jonlowsnow.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

-believe it should be used in severe and repeated cases. Fourthly, and relatedly, there needs to be better tools to help students who are behind, and that does not include isolating students from the rest of the school, that just leads to so many issues I didn't talk about.

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JonlowSnow @jonlowsnow.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

-level of success would be, or a binary satisfactory/unsatisfactory are options. Third, eliminate many of the current punishments related to failing in schools and disruptions in the classroom. Short of harming other students, tools like suspension and expulsion should not be used, and even then I-

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JonlowSnow @jonlowsnow.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

First, and probably the easiest, get rid of that neoliberal garbage known as 'No Child Left Behind'. I despise it and so should you. Secondly, change the grading system, it cause so much stress and issues for everyone. Their are other options out there, such as letting students set what their-

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JonlowSnow @jonlowsnow.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

-caveats beyond asking who wants to learn to fish is still a teacher, just without the backing of a formal school. Ultimately, I do believe in the need for some form of compulsory education, but in the US, it needs a massive overall to best be able to actually be a good means of teaching.

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JonlowSnow @jonlowsnow.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

-education system, I do, but I disagree with the sentiment that public teachers are ACAB, both as they serve as different tools in the box of state control of the populace, and that it doesn't have to be coercive in the same way. A person who goes around teaching people how to fish without any-

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JonlowSnow @jonlowsnow.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

-someone can is a major issue I feel with the coercive force argument on teachers. Of course, this ignores powers granted to them by the admin and the state, but that's not really inherent to the position of teacher. This is not to say I don't believe in any sort of major, systemic changes to the-

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JonlowSnow @jonlowsnow.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

-but that will, by at least I understand things, exist. If there is only person who knows biology in an area, and someone wishes to learn about biology, that person can set the terms on that. Now, a lot of people might not do this, especially those very into their subject of interest, but that-

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JonlowSnow @jonlowsnow.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I do think that more student-teaching-student learning should be used more, but that may not be the best for everything. Plus, while this part is more personal thoughts rather than anything specific, a difference in knowledge can be seen as inherently coercive, as one can hold hostage information-

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JonlowSnow @jonlowsnow.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

-that being the person with that information, may not be able to teach all of that as effectively, especially if they are more specialized into a specific area, like physics or biology. So I feel that is an issue.

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JonlowSnow @jonlowsnow.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

-the populace. But my issue with that is that it might not really be effective, as this is great for teaching one person a lot of information and details, but if you want to teach a bunch of basic skills and understanding of different topics, it might not pan out as well, if only because they-

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JonlowSnow @jonlowsnow.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

With that in mind, what about a theoretically ideal teacher, one who lacks any such coercive force? What would that look like? Well, the potential best option would be two individuals who both know something exchanging information and skills to each other, thus leading to this spreading out amongst-

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JonlowSnow @jonlowsnow.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

-the amount of power they have is typically determined by the school admin and the state, but then again teachers' unions also keep them from being fired, just shuffled around (which is a point for cop similarity in the US), which mitigates how much this actually keeps teachers in line.

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JonlowSnow @jonlowsnow.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Regardless of that, how much do I actually think teachers suck. The big point that is often raised is about the coercive power that teachers have and...I don't fully see it. Granted, part of it I can get, namely the idea that they are somewhat exalted and are in large control of the school, but-

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JonlowSnow @jonlowsnow.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

At least public defenders, private defense attorneys (especially corporate ones) live up to and might (emphasis on might) be the origin of that stereotype.

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JonlowSnow @jonlowsnow.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

To some extent, I think this is where distrust around scientists and similar positions come from, a belief it is all meaningless (obviously not all of it, that would be stupid), especially when combined with the ability to do well being about repeating information rather than any critical thoughts.

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JonlowSnow @jonlowsnow.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

And, at least in the US due to No Child Left Behind, it often can be and easily seen as such. While the subjects like algebra are not inherently meaningless, schools often fail to show what meaning there is in doing so, leading to them hating the education they are given.

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JonlowSnow @jonlowsnow.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Beyond that, if are just looking for the best way to educate, our current system has a major issue, the desire to. The most effective education is one that the student is invested in, which our current system does not do well, instead forcing students to do work that they find meaningless.

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