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Laz

@laz1985.bsky.social
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Teacher. Trans man. 40s. This is where I hang out to be very un-teacher-y, so please, 18+ only.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 6h
To be fair, the single most publicly-accessed example of "AI" in the world can't find its ass with a flashlight and it's right on top of the search listings, where the most accurate search result used to be. Every LLM suffers from token drift over time so it's only a question of WHEN they're wrong.
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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 6h
Fucked up character grown in a tube by an evil corporation, but they're like a fourth-generation prototype, so there's nothing actually WRONG with them per se, they just weren't economical for mass production. They have like two relatively minor features that didn't make the final cut.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 6h
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 8h
strongly agreed. fines and criminal penalties should not merely communicate a finger wag but actually change the strategic situation of a would-be white collar criminal
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 6h
A thing I learned not too long ago is that when an LLM selects a token that leads it down an incorrect path (factually), it has no way to back up, or even know that it should back up, it's just on to the next likely bit. Literally every LLM is just posting their way through it. What an image.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 8h
I do think they probably ran his texts through an LLM and it hallucinated crimes. That’s scary and bad and it’s funny they got caught, but imagine how many other times this happens on a day to day basis against people with no rights, let alone the ability to publicly humiliate the AI prosecutor.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 7h
lol
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 5h
“This is about stepping up where the federal government has failed.” On Tuesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law banning law enforcement officers in the state from using electrical shock gloves.
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California bans ICE's favorite shock gloves
A DHS spokesperson has said that the agency "will not abide" by any state ban.
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Cliff Pervocracy @pervocracy.bsky.social · 5h
I love finding gems like this on Wikipedia featuring: - the bastard margaret (AKA the sailor's choice) - the Atlantic gymnast (also known, more descriptively, as the bluntsnout smooth-head) - hairy balls (AKA bishop's balls) - Pikachu moth - windfucker en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
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List of unusual biological names - Wikipedia
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sol @spider.florist · 5h
*squeaky voice* the united states helium reserve is estimated at 305.9 billion cubic feet, or -10.59999 million tons
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 8h
Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him
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Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess
Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable
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Stephanie King @stephstephking.bsky.social · 15h
Writers, if you are against AI, do not put your writing into ANY tool that is itself AI. Not to check grammar, not to "prove" you wrote it yourself. Everything you give them becomes part of their data, even if it's only to "improve their service" or whatever BS they tell you.
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Cheez 🖤 comms closed! @ricecakehomie.bsky.social · 5h
Theyre reccomending me poison-type grunt fits on amazon
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Cliff Pervocracy @pervocracy.bsky.social · 5h
the good news is, someone is going to forget to add the spaces before and after "AI," so look forward to government publications saying things like "The msin psin point is trsin msintenance"
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 23h
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 4h
This page from the new edition of Banned Book Club also features cameos from a @libcomix.bsky.social panel: @comicslibrarian.com @noethematt.bsky.social @monibarre.bsky.social @jerrycraft.bsky.social Also @jdrozd.com at @aadl.org, plus @shopbooksweet.bsky.social and @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 7h
If we can auto enroll every child into Trump accounts we can auto enroll every child into Medicare is the easiest layup of 2029.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic, known as manikomycin, that may be a bulwark in the fight against drug-resistant superbugs. By attacking the ribosome in a never-before-seen way, manikomycin can evade the existing mechanisms pathogens have developed to resist antibiotics.
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Wil Weston @wilweston.bsky.social · 5h
Yep. 🎯 This… all this! Sure, the magical cheating technology is nifty, I suppose, but you’re still just doing plain ole old timey cheating if you don’t show your work, plagiarize, or make up data — even when your pet robot does it for you.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 4h
The two teams are: Desperate to change our systems and structures of power, and desperate to maintain them. There are more of us. Even if they have the resources. Solidarity is the *only* way home.
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 4h
I posit as a trans man that the reward is that you get to fall peacefully asleep at night instead of lying there mortifyingly aware you could have intervened and did not.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 2h
That's a $96,318 fine for being raped.
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merritt @merrittk.com · 2h
we fucked up bigtime when the internet slipped from the utopian promise of being able to connect with ANYone into the hellscape of being connected to EVERYone
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 6h
sorry netflix is doing a *straight* hockey romance to get on the heated rivarly train? there's like 4 seconds of actual hockey in that show lmao
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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
THIS GUY DOESN'T KNOW HIS OWN ADDRESS OR PHONE NUMBER
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 16h
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
now that dolly has passed on, does eating this food in remembrance of her now count technically as communion
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explore.org @explore.org · 3h
Introducing your ultimate fighter and champion: Bear 89 Backpack 👑 Thanks for joining us for the biggest Fat Bear Week to date.
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caden cockburn @cadencockburn.bsky.social · 4h
screenshot of google search "Is tweety a boy or girl"
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So much of schools "responding to rape" is preventing the legal system from doing so. This is a report on seven adults who committed serious felonies for which there is a legal system to remind them and their pals that they are felonies.
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Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 2h
this is specifically what Twitter was re-engineered to do, btw. it exists almost solely to threaten anyone at the flashpoint of a nascent social movement.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2h
I believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it
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rita @ritatreats.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
oh okay aaron is banning people for this now so real quick: if men who screenshot women past blocks to send their 100k following after them isnt against TOS then this sure as fuck shouldnt be
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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I don't think you get to just decide to call yourselves "Rationalists" and say you're advocating "Rationalism" and expect that everybody else is supposed to just swallow that uncritically and defer to your superior rationality. That's not how that works, even apart from the orgies and whatnot.
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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I heard the term ‘meat proxy’ recently, meaning someone who places themself as a human middleman between an employer and genAI, and it is simultaneously a perfect term for the practice, and existentially depressing when you realise how many want to nominate themselves for the role.
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rita @ritatreats.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
does anyone actually use the "import from contacts" feature on any social media site or does it only exist to give queer people a jumpscare on almost accidentally outing ourselves
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Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
imagine your grandparents promising to take you to "that pizza place with the bears and games" and it's 1985 and you're eagerly anticipating showbiz pizza
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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
I cannot ever forget how the marching bands refused to be silent, as requested, going past the house where the mother of those three murdered boys took refuge in the weeks after her unthinkable loss. A small detail that exposes everything this march is for.
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jrjresq @jrjr.esq · 27/09/2026
One of the things I learned as a furry is that the international day celebrating your sona's species was always yesterday and you fucking missed it
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ev 🐱🕸️ (design raffle in 📌’d!) @evrclover.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
it goes the other way around too u gotta be okay being a little annoyed with your friends. like not in a letting them be unhealthy with you way, but in a People are flawed and can’t be 100% perfect way. otherwise you will have no human friends & will look to things like chatbots for catered solace
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
OIL WARS EPISODE I: Will There Be Blood? EPISODE II: There Will Be Blood EPISODE III: Here's The Blood EPISODE IV: Will There Be More Blood? EPISODE V: There Will Be No More Blood EPISODE VI: Once There Was Blood EPISODE VII: Wait We Found More Blood
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Celes🏳️‍⚧️⬇️↘️➡️👊 @rowletgameing.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I Got Reincarnated Into A Retro Tactics RPG And I'm Trying To Get An A Rank Bond With The Unit I Have A Thing For But People In Another World Keep Editing My Dialogue To Where I'm Talking About Class Consciousness And Universal Healthcare
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
An investigation of the chemical industry’s decades-long campaign to hide the dangers of forever chemicals, told through the story of a small town on the frontlines of an epic public health crisis. Read "They Poisoned the World" by @mariahblake.bsky.social ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/materials/th...
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They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals
Book — Non-fiction. By Mariah Blake. 2025. 320 pages. An investigation of the chemical industry’s decades-long campaign to hide the dangers of forever chemicals, told through the story of a small town...
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nazis don't want you to remember their crimes
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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I read this in the early 1970's as a child and it made a lasting, profound impact on my entire life. It was hard to read, it was sad, and it made me stronger. The truth doesn't just matter; it's a vital necessity for life.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 27/09/2026
babe wake up we're vaping B12s now
vegan-branded vapes that provide B12 vitamine? who even knows
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