Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 10hI have a Moonlander and looooove it. the only thing i’ve ever been tempted to replace it with is a voyager. i tried two DIY kits and didn’t love either of them even though the layout seemed better in theory. easy if use with Oryx is really nice 000
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 15hone of the most popular apple accessory companies just made a $10 We Supports Stalkers device for airtags 000
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 29/09/2026Opus 5.5 is incredible but it still can't perform miracles (making xcode work properly) 022
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 29/09/2026Just found out they haven’t put an accelerometer in the siri remote for years. where did joy and whimsy go? 000
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 24/09/2026I’m going through the app review process for Apple/Google and holy shit this is so awful. why do you need apple to review apps on TEST FLIGHT 000
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 22/09/2026you this take all the time about using small fees to deter AI behavior but, even ignoring the inequality part, this has been tested before by different people for different things and afaik it basically never works 000
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 19/09/2026i was laughing my ass off at the trailer for this in the theater 000
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 18/09/2026Resident Evil movie was solidly Fine but felt like a videogame let's play (derogatory) 000
Reposted by Jackbooted ThotSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory) 1003231772
Reposted by Jackbooted Thot21st Century Schizoid Tran @grayathena.bsky.social · 11/09/2026mrw the Houthis are advancing and the Iranians are hitting more tankers 958993
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 10/09/2026this has been a major impediment to me personally; claude/codex seem to suffer in many of my use cases from not being able to search Google/YouTube/Reddit already. what happens if Google decides first-class features are only for them like they do in Workspace? 000
Reposted by Jackbooted ThotBenjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026SPECIAL REPORT Last month, Alpha School invited people to follow student social media accounts "if curious about life in our high schools." I accepted their offer. What I've found shocks me. Forget the AI and ask instead: Is Alpha Schools a cult? Follow along for a summary of my findings.buildcognitiveresonance.substack.comSPECIAL REPORT: My So-Called Alpha SchoolWhat is it like to be a student in Alpha School’s high school boot camp? 481006385
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 09/09/2026also how awkward would it be to stop talking to someone, click your watch, and then stare at it while they wait for you to respond 000
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 09/09/2026now we wait for an android oem to copy the features with like 30% of the privacy protection and then we've got always on invisible mics everywhere! 110
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 09/09/2026"Send a message to Donald Trump about AI risk!" Donald Trump is busy sleeping, shitting himself, and forcing everyone around him to eat hotdogs and wear Florsheims 000
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 09/09/2026there's an AI lab (cult) that "calculates" your risk of dying from AI and the younger you are the higher it goes. mortalityrisk.ai Mine is 62%. The solution it provides? Donate money to the AI risk foundation and - if you laugh you lose! - message the President of the United States, Donald Trump. 100
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 08/09/2026this is also very interesting to me - the "make anything" robot has the same UX problem as a blank command like, so we came right back to Canva But More 000
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 08/09/2026if the style examples here are real / easy for normal people to achieve ... i am very interested to see what happens openai.com/index/introd...openai.comIntroducing ChatGPT Images 2.5ChatGPT Images 2.5 helps turn your ideas, sketches, and reference photos into more personalized, polished images that better reflect your ideas. 100
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 05/09/2026you can still install it as an unpacked/developer extension 000
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 03/09/2026yes!!! yes!!!!! I will never have to learn CAD, thank you God 000
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 03/09/2026ARC AGI 3 results? who cares. I don't want my AI to be gaming. the real good news? 110
Reposted by Jackbooted ThotDSA National Tech Committee @tech.dsausa.org · 02/09/2026Excited to share an upcoming reading group for AGAINST TECH OLIGARCHY by JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine around the tech worker activism and class struggle in Silicon Valley. The virtual kickoff call is September 14th, join us to get a copy of the hardcover book for free! RSVP here: tinyurl.com/ato-914 096
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 02/09/2026rahm youll be delighted to know DSA has a snazzy website for our ideas program.dsausa.orgprogram.dsausa.orgDSA ProgramWorkers Deserve More! 000
Reposted by Jackbooted ThotDan Luu @danluu.com · 01/09/2026How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? danluu.com/zitron/ 1944375
Reposted by Jackbooted ThotGore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 28/08/2026STEPHEN A: Skip I want to ADDRESS this issue. [BAYLESS nods] You KNOW I am sensitive to the Gestapo-like unaccountable ICE army brutalizing immigrants and citizens alike BAYLESS: Absolutely STEPHEN A: BUT! 1632
Reposted by Jackbooted ThotCarl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/08/2026The lab is a mysterious place--where some people have "magic hands," and some experiments just won't work. Here's my story about the unspoken knowledge of science, and the struggle to share it. Gift link: nyti.ms/3UccF7Z 1021158
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 27/08/2026Company X has announced an all-new way to work: a no-code app builder powered by AI. It's simple, easy to use, doesn't do like 20% of what you need, has little to no logging and auditing built in, and doesn't let you export the code 000
Reposted by Jackbooted ThotProPublica @propublica.org · 27/08/2026DHS repeatedly said that an aggressive Chicago apartment raid was prompted by intel on a Venezuelan gang takeover. Records reveal the real story behind the raid: targeting alleged squatters with the landlord’s blessing. 👂 Listen to the full episode:podcasts.apple.comThe True Story of Why Immigration Agents Raided a Chicago Apartment BuildingPodcast Episode · Paper Trail · August 20 · 42m 15856992671
Reposted by Jackbooted ThotJake Gold @jacob.gold · 26/08/2026The answer to "why now" for Linux on the desktop is that coding agents could make Linux's flexibility a major advantage and its complexity mostly a non-issue. But I don't really think it matters all *that* much which operating system you use to run your web browser. 3303
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 27/08/2026this isn't even a US-specific thing, this is college almost everywhere 000
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 27/08/2026the most important product of a college education is/has always been the little token that says "I graduated from Prestiguous_University" that they will use to gain access to large sums of money. the real education is a nice, and wholly optional, part of that experience. 100
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 27/08/2026convincing students something both they and faculty know is false is gonna be a tough sell. MIT is $66,720 a year for tuition alone. 110
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 25/08/2026user: it's ridiculous basic extensions are blocked. i need this for my job the extension: Bob's cool extension that changes, and has host permissions to, the most sensitive possible systems a user can have access to you might as well just downloading a gambling .exe atp it might be safer 000
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 25/08/2026you know the film is gonna be good when there’s three dozen logos that flash by before it begins 000
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 24/08/2026it’s impressive cable television is so evil it gets within two points of a website run by an open white supremacist 000
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 21/08/2026using the Algorithm site where you get mad because you’re interacting with stuff that makes you mad all day 000
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 21/08/2026“why is X so full of nazis” probably because you follow a bunch of people who scream at them all day and post about them nonstop. I blocked Elon on X years ago and only see his posts when someone i follow screenshots him into my feed 100
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 21/08/2026reading about people who resuse to use X is really obvious that a lot of them don’t understand X, and twitter, show you stuff you engage with. hate-QTing is engagement. liking a tweet about someone talking about the topic is engagement. 100
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 19/08/2026yeah I spent too long setting up Hermes only to realize I was basically reinventing a coding harness but worse and it just wasn't worth it. the regular tools were more effective at basically everything 010
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 19/08/2026macOS smb caches (?) aggressively or just doesn't work. luckily there is a solution that works 60% of the time. it looks like this. 010
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 19/08/2026after weeks of experimentation on my homelab I have discovered the most difficult challenge in computer science is local file sharing. "edit the file on the smb share reliably" is, somehow, not a solved problem for anyone, even paid software, in the big 2026 100
Jackbooted Thot @socialism.tools · 18/08/2026I love getting 5,000 prompts a day for access to "documents" and "downloads" it definitely does not train me to simply hit allow by muscle memory 070
Reposted by Jackbooted Thotdrewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 18/08/2026mozart's advice 0566118