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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 14/05/2026

Jean-Luc Picard, in his suede away team jacket on the surface of a planet in the episode "Darmok." looks ing past the camera at an unseen interlocutor. the caption reads "I understood that reference."

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 11/01/2026

do you think that the cultural-reference aliens have social media where all the replies to a joke are "Captain America, understanding the reference"

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 59m

"...so it'll stay windy all day, but the floodwaters might start receding. That's the weather, now back to another hour of non-stop hits from The Temptations, here on TANTALUS FM"

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 1h

it seems to me that at some point "low" switched from "lowest temp between midnights" to "lowest temp we'll reach tonight" which honestly helps me plan better! (this could also be how it's always been done and I was making bad assumptions before? I dunno)

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 14h

I'm so sorry for your loss. Brian was one of a kind.

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 14h

Oh, this is awful. I knew Brian from Twitter of old, and he was always such a kind and interesting guy. When I was working on the Able Archer 83 season of SNAFU, I made sure the producers interviewed him. I was like, hey I know a guy who drove tanks in Cold War wargames, plus he's a historian now.

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 15h

My man looks like an albino python who just swallowed a guy who's really into albino pythons

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 17h

you've blown this whole thing wide open!

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 18h

plans for the presidential palace complex proceed apace

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 19h

I'm a six-foot mustang full of testosterone I'm the trinity son you'd probably like to bone I am a world's forgotten boy The one who searches and destroys

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 19h

well *I* spent *19* days in heaven and i can tell you with authority that Jesus is in fact a 'street-walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm'

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 19h

shocking that lewis carroll didn't know that "all mimsical were the borogoves" was correct

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 21h

Straight outta Stockholm! A neutrino detector named IceCube From a place in far southern latitude I dig to hell, I got a Nobel Print the data, you know it's a bombshell

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 22h

the only mistake the president ever made was surrounding himself with scheming viziers

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 22h

i joke but the American Society of Hematology does call their journal just BLOOD, so

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 23h

i'd like to call this meeting of the bone society to order

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 05/10/2026

the guy kinda coasted on the pre-president stuff, honestly

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 05/10/2026

follow up: "you like george washington? name five of his policies"

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 05/10/2026

also a neat trick if you accidentally drain the pasta water without reserving some for the sauce!

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 05/10/2026

dry pasta's just fine if you add it to cold water! i mean, i wouldn't try saying that in italy, but it works great.

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 05/10/2026

don't forget to add the poison’d entrails and toad *before* you turn on the stove, or they'll get stringy

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 05/10/2026

My neighbor told me his 1973 Ford Bronco keeps eating his neighborhood coyotes so I asked how many coyotes there are and he said he just goes to the ravine and gets a new coyote afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding ravine coyotes to his Bronco and then his daughter started crying.

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 05/10/2026

it's just witch for "bring the water to a boil over high heat"

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 05/10/2026

they blocked me before i reposted the thread; i wasn't going to put them on public blast

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 05/10/2026

there's a WILD irony in demanding that the thing you just misread should have been written in a simplified manner to avoid misinterpretation, while not taking care that your quoting of it to thousands of people represents the writer's intention accurately.

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Andrew Alan Johnson @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The replies and qts to Josh were pretty crazy, but all united by a common demand: "clearly signal 'good' or 'bad.' Do not try to make a complicated point." This I think its a problem when we spend too much time online. We just want to say "agree/disagree" and not think.

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 05/10/2026

yeah, i was blocked for my trouble

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 05/10/2026

this whole thing seems to have happened because a prominent and influential ai critic misread the post, and that misreading primed their followers to share the faulty interpretation. this user then doubled down, insisting that the fault lies in the writing, ignoring how they spread the misreading.

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 05/10/2026

that is such a serious problem here (maybe elsewhere too, i don't know!) it's a combination of not wanting to admit when they're wrong, plus very often not wanting to go against the interpretation of another user with whom they have a parasocial relationship or who wields great bluesky influence

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Mount St. Helens Archive @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Jehovah Almighty, give me the strength to deal with these people who confidently lack critical thinking skills.

Cropped screenshot of the end of a Facebook comment that reads "1980 ..." with "Send message" and a menu icon beneath it.

Screenshot of an Instagram comment. The comment reads "Wow...that's odd. The exact same thing happened in 1980 also," followed by four laughing emojis.

Facebook comment that reads 1980. Not 1990.

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 05/10/2026

this extremely bluesky person also accused josh of trolling because he didn't express his thought in the most simplified manner possible, including all the context that would help the most uninformed reader parse it without having to suffer the indignity of pondering for a moment

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 05/10/2026

the most bluesky user ever asked for an explanation of @joshshepperd.bsky.social's post, i provided it at great length, and the concerned party accused me of trolling congratulations on breaking so many terminally bluesky brains with this one, josh

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 05/10/2026

so you don't understand what trolling is. amazing

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 05/10/2026

it's ok to admit when you're wrong

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 05/10/2026

keep fighting that good fight against the strawmen in your head, buddy

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 05/10/2026

the idea that everything has to be simplified to this degree is an insult to the idea of language and inquiry

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 05/10/2026

no, he was not seeking to bait people into misinterpreting his thought and attacking him in bad faith. he just said something in the way he wanted, without reducing it to the basest level of human communication, and people were extremely bluesky about it

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 05/10/2026

he continues (this is all in that first post) to say that this pervasive ai intrusion into our data environment is weakening our collective ability to understand where information comes from and how we know things that's what I got from the post and from existing in the world prior to the post

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 05/10/2026

but a lot of bluesky users have difficulty reading once they see a keyword that triggers their kneejerk response, so they reply to an imagined character who just loves ai so much, because who else would say that ai critics use the forbidden technology

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 05/10/2026

the context here, of course, is that ai proponents constantly claim that ai critique is illegitimate because it comes from non-users but josh is saying that no, in fact we're all subject to ai inserted everywhere and so are indeed qualified to critique it

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 05/10/2026

the problem many people seem to have is that they don't want those incidental, unrequested invocations of ai to be counted against them in their anti-ai purity and yeah, i feel that but josh's description is not advocacy. he is describing what he considers to be a negative situation

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 05/10/2026

he did, but if you need it fully unpacked: ai permeates the tech we use to such a degree that it is very difficult to fully avoid it, because even a simple search now includes invoking an ai response or unseen backend feature. so even critics of AI are likely to use ai

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 05/10/2026

the problem here is not that the speech was political; it is that people saw some keywords and reacted to those words in anger rather than to what he actually said, and therefore assumed it was political in the wrong way

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Charles Louis Richter @handle.invalid · 05/10/2026

I find Josh's post to be perfectly clear and am honestly disturbed by how so many people read "someone who critiques ai" and instantly go on the defensive as if the second sentence doesn't even exist, let alone the second half of the first.

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