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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

People get viscerally angry at bots not because they think bots are sapient, but because they know someone sapient placed the bot there and is forcing them to interact with the bot, often to delay them from reaching someone sapient who can actually help

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

If you look at it a certain way, it took me all day to write three simple functions in elisp that will marginally impact my workflow. I'm sure it will pay for itself someday, right? 😂

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

It is wild to me that some people are aggravated by this when I have never heard of anyone ever being sympathetic to the health care provider who ordered a bunch of tests and everything turned out negative but you were still suffering and they advised you to just stop thinking about it

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

For real, though, how are you supposed to trust someone who has to constantly remind themselves not to lie all the time?

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I couldn't think of the phrase "AI slop" so I almost said "AI jizz" instead

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

@internetstad.bsky.social hey Tad you didn’t happen to create a new account on Facebook did you?

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

One thing I've never seen before is a full-scale riot at an airport terminal. That could soon change!

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

When will people learn that "my wife or best friend is X so how can I possibly be anti-X?" is not a convincing argument?

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Blue States are not "donor states". They're colonies

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

We might not win. But we can surely make them pay

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Forgiveness does not necessarily mean that everything goes back to the way it was

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

How deranged do you have to be to blame font choices on DEI?

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

You can kind of tell an argument is bullshit when the end result is that the person making it won't have to be held accountable for their actions or inaction

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

In retrospect, it might have been a bad idea to normalize people knowing it's all bullshit but going along with all anyway

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

It just occurred to me that my dad—who sometimes likes making outrageous shit up and has successfully fooled me and my siblings on several occasions—has prepared me perfectly for our fact-free, AI-infested present moment

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Shit I get tempted to ask an LLM: if you analogized computer languages to human languages, would JSON be a pidgin or a Creole?

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I realize I'm still in a Facebook and Twitter mindset because I still expect the search function to be completely broken

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Printer meat in your Campbell's Soup

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

As far as memes go, Bubba's hog > Alf's hog. Thoughts?

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Liam @othemts.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

There are plenty of cynical/doomer ways to interpret this, but I choose to Pollyannishly interpret this to mean we really do have a common cause with Southeast and South Asia

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

In the absence of evidence, instead of concocting a coherent reason for why a multinational corporation with literally over a thousand subsidiaries worldwide would do something that seems hasty and not well thought out, consider the fact that a corporation is not a unitary entity…

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

On one hand, yes, if they really wanted to nail you, they wouldn't need a pretext, they'd just cook up some "evidence" with an LLM and railroad you. On the other hand, why are you making their job easier by giving them info they don't have to fabricate?

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I can't help but feel like any advice predicated on the notion that this regime will act like laws actually bind it and that they won't weaponize laws to harm you is prima facie going to turn out to be bad advice

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Wait, so the stories passed down by my (very recent!) ancestors don't count as knowledge? Like my granduncles who were subjected to the Bataan Death March? My grandfather who got recruited by Philippine guerrillas who was promised benefits from the U.S. but then got denied by the Rescission Act?

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Feels like people gotta start letting go of that American Exceptionalism. "It can't happen here!" Bro, are you absolutely sure about that, especially since lots of stuff we thought couldn't happen here are in fact happening here?

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

At this point, why be afraid that "they're looking for a reason" to murder us when it's clear they never needed a reason—they'll just do it—and they don't need to wait for any evidence

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

The thing is—the right doesn't need a cassus belli. They've been conducting a war since January 20, escalating with the deployment of the National Guard *and* U.S. Marines against unarmed civilians. Sure, this is pouring gasoline on the flames, but that fire was already burning

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Feels like the appropriate place to repost this

"You're the window to my wall
You're the sweat that drips down my balls.
Skeet skeet."

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Some day historians will point out that the strategy of "enact Republican policies but try to be less outwardly cruel about it" was the stupidest strategy that helped lose elections and hastened the fall of the U.S.

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

The Roman Empire didn't fall all at once (despite what pop culture says) Collapse takes decades (and in the case of the Roman Empire, centuries) to hollow out what made a place prosperous

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

I am almost 50 years old and I only recently accepted that my experience as a Filipino American and as a Filipino of the diaspora is completely valid

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

I know it's a year late, but there's no reason why we still can't have the Bell Riots

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

My wife having to explain "I have one daughter" to me multiple times because I had such a hard time understanding it is the closest to Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra I have ever felt

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Fear is the mind killer, y'all

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

A person who doesn't know what it feels like to start something new and unfamiliar that they suck at, to have to start with the basic unsexy boring stuff instead of skipping past that, is a person who is going to suck.

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

The thing that's especially wack is that even if a doctor plus AI is better at detecting cancer, we have no idea if this combo actually leads to better outcomes. Meanwhile, doctors are straight up lobotomizing themselves

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Yes, I know LLMs are not meant for counting and that they're merely another tool that can be used for certain things, but maybe it's valid criticism that they can't count when they're being marketed as "artificial *general* intelligence" meant to replace humans who typically can count just fine

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

As a testament to how much my PoC conservative relatives had drunk the Kool-Aid and were well on their way to fully gaslighting me about U.S. exceptionalism when I was a kid, I didn't realize until embarrassingly recently that apparently just *having* too much melanin was inherently political

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 03/08/2025

Standing up for the smallest of minorities is important because when you accept the premise that one group are expendable because small or ‘insignificant’, you have accepted the idea of the expendability of human life in general, and the enemy will use your acquiescence to pick off yet more.

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

In theory, the rule of law means we can be enemies and not have to kill each other

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I feel like specifying “human poo” admits a certain expertise in discerning poo from different species

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Who else checked to see if Chuck was related to Luigi?

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

If you have a hard on for feeding people to alligators, consider the fact that you're an evil person

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

The man is edging on quantum physics breakthroughs with the help of LLMs

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Also, you were supposed to say "ahoy-hoy"

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

In this day and age of scammers, and industry that refuses to do anything about it, and governments that refuse to regulate the industry, it's a basic life skill to know *not* to answer the phone

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

The first example that comes to mind is the Bell Riots in Star Trek: DS9. The episode involved time traveling to 2024 and people talk about how prescient the Sanctuary Districts were. But the show was just depicting how bad the crisis of unhoused people in California already was in the 1990s

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Victor Ganata @mahiwaga.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Feels like this is a good indicator that the U.S. is officially the Bad Place

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