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Scott 𐚁 🦇 Cave 🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 3h
woop! woop! that’s the sound of da poleis
A very detailed map of major greek poleis
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 11m
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Sickos Haha Yes
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 14m
(cc @buttercuppa.bsky.social, not as a poke to keep an argument going, but just to say thanks, as it's always good to go on record with where we stand on things, and I appreciate that we took a contentious start and turned it into a small smile (I think! if we didn't, well, 🔥🔥🔥, I suppose 🤷)
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 18m
Anyway, that was all very long and rambling likely, but still, sometimes things just gotta go on the record. /fin
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 18m
- and, to the point of why I wrote this thread, to fix that political environment we need to realize that people who don't share their stance aren't assholes who don't care or who don't get it. We can disagree on certain points without losing focus on what's needed: to figure out better ways forward
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 18m
I don't know. I do know a few things: - we need to put real pressure on LLM developers both in terms of corporate responsibility and legal recourse for those harmed - LLMs let people do things that were literally impossible 5 years ago - the political environment is handling all this very badly
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 18m
Again, it won't be all good jobs, and it won't be everyone, but the contraction will happen, just like I've experienced it over the past few years. Maybe we'll figure out something better, I don't know; maybe we'll decide UBI is needed; maybe we'll actually tax the rich? 🙏🙏
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There's enough juice to go around, but some people *stares hard at Zuck, Musk, et al.* just want it all for themselves. It's not the only thing we need to do, but it's one thing, so let's grab some ol...
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 18m
And I'm not sure that LLMs are technically another technological revolution a la Carlotta Perez, but they're going to be a political revolution. There's too much knowledge work that is repetitive and programmable for them not to be. There will be many, many "good" jobs lost in the next 5 years.
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 18m
LLMs are not tulips; they're another step along the internet. The internet bubble burst, we didn't go back to sending letters; we took stock of who remained and kept moving.
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 18m
The problem that the anti-AI people will have is that these tools are ENORMOUSLY useful for certain things and in certain situations. They are only expanding in that way. Even when the bubble bursts - and it will! It's a ridiculous bubble at this point - there will still be the tech that remains.
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 18m
I don't put any consumer-facing AI into our @sunslider.bsky.social products (or any other products I build). I don't want AI chatbots in my life, I don't want AI creating my captions or finishing my sentences, etc., so I don't put that into my apps.
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 18m
For me, I use it as I think it's useful: - for specific work tasks, mostly based around coding. I don't have agents that access my machine, meaning everything I do involves going step by step and making decisions all along the way. My ctrl-c/ctrl-v game is on point, basically.
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 18m
I also know that my goals - build social tools that aren't based on VC cash, ads, or addictive algorithms - are only viable because of LLMs. And so yes, my positioning on them can't be zero LLMs. If you're in a position to think like that, power to you, go with the jesus.
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 18m
So again, I'm sympathetic to the sentiment. And like I said in the other convo, I do sometimes hire designers and others as I feel it's needed. I'd like to hire more - if you want to help, check out sunslider.social and be part of trying something new :) (btw, our logo/graphics: done by a designer!)
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 18m
So yeah, "pay an artist" - I've been in that position! I *am* in that position. I had someone pay me recently for a job that has been completely transformed by AI, and what would have been a job that 5 years ago cost 3X for delivery in ~1 month became a job costing X with delivery in a week.
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 18m
And I'm one of the people whose work will have gone into these machines. The job I did for ~10 years (helping startups with content) got eaten up by AI, not because ALL of what I did went to the machines, but because ENOUGH of it did that it collapsed the labor market/prices and made it unviable.
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 18m
LLMs have definitely been developed in ways that should be regulated/punished, whether monetarily or criminally. For example, "agents" can't be blamed for their wrongdoing, but executives absolutely should be. This is a roundabout way of saying I *agree* with the politics behind anti-AI sentiment.
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 18m
This deserves a more thorough response, and it's an issue that will just keep coming around, so: Companies that break laws should be held accountable; I have always and will always vote for people who I think will try to do that.
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 1h
(Ok, everyone, fine, but still: this is whooooooo boy levels of incompetence at one’s job.)
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 1h
Who would’ve thought Eva Blonde v18 would just be… this?
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 1h
Hoooooooooly shit I’m actually laughing out loud I don’t do that anymore
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 1h
Can’t wait :)
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 2h
You're forgetting that we're literally the worst, we have no conscience, no idea of the injustices associated with this technology. We do not care, we make choices that reveal us as less than, and shall be treated as such. A toast, to the brief nod of acknowledgement as we are led to the bonfires!
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 2h
I do! I've worked with graphic designers for specific things, and appreciate what they've done :) But doing that for everything would require doing things that I don't want to do, most specifically running after VC cash.
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 2h
yeah, the discourse is about art, which is fun (it's not fun at all) but the vast majority of use for the tech now is in rote creation, 90% of knowledge work (incl. visuals) isn't art, it's just... work.
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 2h
lol I got an email pitching to feature me in a French entrepreneur list, asking if I had some time on X day to chat, and I said sure, but just so you know I'm not going to pay anything to be featured, if you still want to chat, happy to. Reader, you will be shocked, but. It's been crickets.
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 3h
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Squeeze
There's enough juice to go around, but some people *stares hard at Zuck, Musk, et al.* just want it all for themselves. It's not the only thing we need to do, but it's one thing, so let's grab some oligarchs and squeeeeeeeeze!
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 4h
Endorse, because this is how we get to be two smart cookies sitting around telling each other Exaaaaaaactly 👇
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 10h
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Mad Max: Fury Road - That's Bait
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 10h
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Conan O'Brien on Stage
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 21h
This one: english muffin, fried egg, spicy fake sausage patty, sautéed spinach + garlic, mama lil's peppers, fried cheddar cheese, and mayonnaise. I finished it less than a minute ago and I'm already nostalgic for it.
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Yeah, who but someone from Zimbabwe would ever *checks notes* feel shame at moving down the social ladder or *checks other notes* have a woman who accepts a man's idiocies, until it becomes clear that he's just a big dumb-dumb who must be stopped?
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
that's a lotta scratch, man.
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
lmaooooooooo god I wish I wasn't honest we're in the greatest era for grifting ever (which is saying something)
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
And this is why I started @sunslider.bsky.social :)
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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Same, crocheters, same.
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1789 mug
For when you want people to already know the answer to "Hey, how are you doing today?" without them needing to ask.
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I got lasik’d up almost 20 years ago, was very much enjoying this run of never worrying about my vision, just living life as the polar opposite of Elizabeth Olsen basically.
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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Spent this past week in Mississippi. Of all the college mascots, Delta State University's Fighting Okra is the greatest mascot.
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Fuck is this why I’m noticing my eyes struggling with reading/closeness and getting worse on the daily FUCK 🪦
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
No disagreement here! But here I was using your post as evidence that they use mayo, which @drewmagary.bsky.social is famously against.
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Well This Is Awkward
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Second order effects are a bitch
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
And how, pray tell, am I supposed to get my banana bread?
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Isn’t this the “treat it like utilities” path?
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
😛😛😛
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Wait am I correct in understanding that this shake has mayo in it? And *you* are ok with this???? Truly a sign of the end times if confirmed. bsky.app/profile/ramz...
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Turns out the friction of having to learn photoshop was a crucial firewall protecting society from the terrible taste of small business owners
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 10/10/2026
Large language models are not the sorts of entities that can be held responsible. This lede should read "Using AI agents, Anthropic tried to gain access to a range of government websites...."
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The Sixth Gender☀️ @kmhall82.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It can’t be saved, honestly not sure why people treat it differently than X.
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