Reposted by Masters Preferredharry du bois @harrierdubot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026But I don't wanna get my shit together! 022
Reposted by Masters PreferredJess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026In recent cases, it's not that AI somehow "escaped containment" or "went rogue." That's anthropomorphizing at best. It's more like if a Boston Dynamics robot dog nudged open an already open door and walked in. 5850152
Masters Preferred @masterspreferred.bsky.social · 03/09/2026let’s check out google trends from today’s ai outage to see how it affected the aggregate psychosis 010
Reposted by Masters PreferredBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 25/08/2026If you want to Shrek me you better be willing to live in my shack in the swamp, this ain’t about looks to me this is about a lifestyle 2271352
Reposted by Masters PreferredSantana Abraxas @slime-golem.biz · 30/07/2026Hear me, bimbo of vengeance, and grant me the final violent act I crave 24012
Reposted by Masters Preferreddisc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 31/07/2026we huff opium in this web zone 031
Reposted by Masters PreferredEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 21/07/2026static.klipy.comBrass Eye: One Thing I Did Want To HappenAlt: Brass Eye: One Thing I Did Want To Happen 13802145
Reposted by Masters PreferredAdi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026i would love 1000% less "can women trust any man" and 1000% more "what would a world look like where women are structurally less vulnerable to untrustworthy men" in feminist blogging these days 2236
Masters Preferred @masterspreferred.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Irresponsible journalism. Think of how many hauntings and possessions this will enable. 000
Masters Preferred @masterspreferred.bsky.social · 08/07/2026my NYT op-ed, “If You Can’t Tell, I’m Projecting Onto Graham Platner”, is postponed out of respect for those involved 000
Reposted by Masters PreferredFelicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 04/07/2026important to revisit the words of the Founding Fathers on this day 050851338
Masters Preferred @masterspreferred.bsky.social · 23/05/2026how great it will be when colbert announces his revival on infowars 000
Masters Preferred @masterspreferred.bsky.social · 20/05/2026the daughter from the barbie movie was completely correct 000
Masters Preferred @masterspreferred.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Saying hello, while time runs out. masters-preferred.ghost.io/introductions/masters-preferred.ghost.ioIntroductionsOnce again, the hourglass has been flipped. My supervisor admits that despite his efforts, he was told that the end date for our contract is firm for this June. Without a last-minute saving grace, the... 000
Masters Preferred @masterspreferred.bsky.social · 25/04/2026there are hank hills everywhere for those with eyes to see 000
Masters Preferred @masterspreferred.bsky.social · 24/03/2026my humble thought for the woke 2 planning committee is to promote proportionality when engaging in Discourse Online(tm). If one seeks tea, ask how much there really is, what has been steeping in it, who is serving it, and consider what bitterness comes when it’s too hot for too long ☯️ 010
Masters Preferred @masterspreferred.bsky.social · 11/03/2026DJ Pauly K breaking it down like no other in the neo-gilded age 020
Masters Preferred @masterspreferred.bsky.social · 27/02/2026youtu.be/nh6Hf5_ZYPI?...youtu.beits a mediaopolyYouTube video by MetaphysicalMakaveli 000
Reposted by Masters Preferrede.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 26/02/2026I am once again fantasizing about respectable employment doing something that benefits society in a tangible way 3969540
Masters Preferred @masterspreferred.bsky.social · 30/12/2025“Always ask: What is someone trying to make me feel, and why?” 010
Masters Preferred @masterspreferred.bsky.social · 04/10/2025This is also how to think of everyone posting here, on Al Gore’s internet 010
Masters Preferred @masterspreferred.bsky.social · 18/03/2025researchers, librarians, laywers, anyone with familiarity with the LOC: What do you think is most at risk if the current administration gained more control over the Library of Congress? 000
Reposted by Masters PreferredAnil Dash @anildash.com · 16/03/2025Every person on Bluesky should know: * Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever * Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies * Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured * Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic www.404media.co/the-200-site...404media.coThe 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring404 Media has obtained the list of sites and services that ICE contractor ShadowDragon pulls data from. ShadowDragon sources data from all over the web and lets government analysts easily search it an... 12332357212532
Reposted by Masters PreferredClark @clark408.bsky.social · 09/03/2025As of today, there are more kids infected with measles than there are trans athletes playing in college sports in the U.S. 151756679
Masters Preferred @masterspreferred.bsky.social · 26/02/2025maybe jeremy renner had the right idea about social media and we should just have our own individual apps we make our loved ones use 000
Masters Preferred @masterspreferred.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Now Playing at the Kennedy Center: Ariel Pink and Friends! 110
Masters Preferred @masterspreferred.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Street Interviews during a strike in Durban, South Africa, 1973 youtu.be/QColiLCwErkyoutu.be 000
Masters Preferred @masterspreferred.bsky.social · 12/12/2024an unfornate truth! At least Guinness gave us the t-test 010
Reposted by Masters PreferredDuendeonFuego @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 03/12/2024So about ten years ago I found a small network of bots on Reddit dedicated to spreading hate. The thing about it is that these weren't even responding to political topics - they were just responding to random keywords with insults and hate. The same bots are now here. You should understand why. 🧵 12279064037
Reposted by Masters PreferredTeddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 06/12/2024🧵There are 45 days until Inauguration Day, and I’m working on updating the Capitol Riot Map—an interactive visualization of the more than 1,500 individuals arrested or charged in connection to January 6th. Follow this thread for updates, and explore the interactive visualization: capitolriotmap.com 31499261531
Reposted by Masters PreferredErnie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 06/12/2024More thoughts on Bluesky & business models. We need social networks with business models akin to Craigslist, where money is intentionally left on the table. Do you think they could live with that? tedium.co/2024/12/05/b... new @tedium.cotedium.coWhat Bluesky’s Business Model Could Learn From CraigslistMore thoughts on what Bluesky’s ultimate business model could look like: A modern take on Craigslist, a company that never exploited its users. 3225
Reposted by Masters PreferredConspirador Norteño @conspirator0.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Every public action on Bluesky is available via a stream of events known as the firehose. By monitoring the firehose for repeated text, it is sometimes possible to quickly detect groups of spam accounts as they spawn. 792020505
Reposted by Masters PreferredJeremy Foote @jeremydfoote.com · 26/11/2024I'm going to try to post more about papers I read. This morning I read "Stoking the Flames: Understanding Escalation in an Online Harassment Community" dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/.... In the paper, @kejsitake.bsky.social and co-authors look at the harassment community Kiwi Farms.dl.acm.orgStoking the Flames: Understanding Escalation in an Online Harassment Community | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer InteractionOnline harassment remains a prevalent problem for internet users. Its impact is made orders of magnitude worse when multiple harassers coordinate to conduct networked attacks. This paper presents an analysis of 231 threads in Kiwi Farms, a notorious ... 35616
Masters Preferred @masterspreferred.bsky.social · 25/11/2024best thing that ever came from 90s SanFran 030
Reposted by Masters PreferredMaxmax @maxmax.bsky.social · 22/11/2024If more people understood how dysfunctional the building code update process is there would be a revolution. It stopped being mostly about safety a long time ago. It's now more about turf (trades) and monopoly (supplier) protection, but untangling the self-interest from real safety concern is hard. 041
Masters Preferred @masterspreferred.bsky.social · 22/11/2024& it's only hard by design! I could rant about the industrial gatekeeping for pages/hours. Teams of people with less than ten years of cumulative building exp could be raising code-compliant buildings by the hour! 010
Reposted by Masters PreferredJ.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 22/11/2024Starter packs are really a great counterpunch to algorithmic following recommendations. Turns out actual people are better than a snippet of code at suggesting who you might like to follow, and they actually enjoy doing it. 1256455
Masters Preferred @masterspreferred.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Trivia/context: A handful of other sources corroborate other folks giving/getting these tats- allegedly bc they were afraid of forgetting it. SSNs started in 1936 (this picture is '39) and wasn't for individual IDing until people realized it was a national Unique Identifier in the computing era. 010
Reposted by Masters PreferredAltmetric @altmetric.com · 18/11/2024We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetricsdocs.bsky.appAction Intent Links | BlueskyAuthors, websites, and apps can use action intent links to implement "Share on Bluesky" buttons, or similar in-app actions. Logged-in users will be directed to the corresponding action view in the Blu... 166113164572
Masters Preferred @masterspreferred.bsky.social · 14/11/2024@bencollins.bsky.social can y’all make InfoWars’ viewership and engagement metrics public? There are certainly some numbers we’d like to crunch 👀 000
Reposted by Masters PreferredTechnology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 12/11/2024ok, my hottest hot journalism take is that journalism which relies on paywalls for funding and restricts access to those who cannot afford it or otherwise just cannot be bothered to jump through the hoops to read that content is not accessible journalism, and access matters a ton right now. 1624910616
![Comic. [block quote] “Far better an approximate answer to the *right* question, which is often vague, than an *exact* answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.” -John W. Tukey, The Future of Data Analysis (1962) [caption] Happy Approximate Birthday to John Tukey, author of my favorite statistics quote, who was born 110.000 years ago sometime this week.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreid4vie3df7ltmh7capumhhqcpbejyr7ya7y762fasdeq46ud3gyva)