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SrslyJosh

@srslyjosh.bsky.social
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“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” -Frank Wilhoit Banner photo (M31, the Andromeda Galaxy) by me. =)

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 7h
Israeli settlers beat a 78 year old French mayor to the ground
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Israeli settlers attack European delegation convoy in West Bank, beat French mayor
Israeli settlers have attacked a convoy carrying a European delegation in the occupied West Bank and beat up a French mayor, witnesses said Saturday.
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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 46m
Dexcom’s terms of service include an arbitration provision specifying that claims in excess of $75K will be arbitrated under the Comprehensive Arbitration rules of either JAMS or the AAA, requiring the parties to split the arb fees rather than having Dexcom pay them all.
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SrslyJosh @srslyjosh.bsky.social · 9m
I have zero confidence that establishment Dems (the same ones embracing transphobia and taking AI and cryptocurrency $$$) are willing to do anything significant to impede SV fascists.
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mcc @dryad.technology · 2h
Hey remember when Joe Biden went way out of his way to make sure that Larry Ellison owned TikTok
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 35m
Pilots have to retire at 65. Yet we keep people behind the wheel with no check on their abilities until they literally kill people and even then! This lady killed an entire family, got a slap on the wrist and can get her license back in a few years www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...
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San Francisco Driver Gets Probation After Killing a Family of 4 (Gift Article)
Mary Fong Lau, 80, will perform 200 hours of community service as part of her sentence. Her speeding vehicle crashed into a family as they waited for a bus ride to the zoo in 2024.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 1h
since California ballots are now out: prop 40 is the billionaire tax, and you should vote yes to stick it to them but both props 41 and 42 are designed to retroactively cancel the billionaire tax because they’re afraid they can’t beat it at the ballot box yes on 40, no on 41 and 42
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 6h
something that occurred to me is, everyone knows it’s possible to become a musician with work and practice. but you can’t work on and practice music while staring slackjawed at your phone. the real promise of generative AI is the ability to ‘make’ ‘art’ without reducing your slackjawed scroll time
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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 19h
To be sure this is how I feel about everything computer-related these day
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SrslyJosh @srslyjosh.bsky.social · 19h
The Department of Who Asked For This Shit has been very busy.
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SrslyJosh @srslyjosh.bsky.social · 19h
Average user response to anything the Bluesky developer braintrust comes up with:
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 16/10/2026
Impunity provided by all parties across the West, by the way. Never forget that Shireen Abu Akleh was assassinated by an Israeli soldier and the USG, under the Biden administration, buried the report which concluded that it was purposeful and deferred to Israel when it exonerated itself.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 16/10/2026
Nobody has less institutional self-respect than the American journalism industry. Hundreds of journalists killed in Gaza, dozens of US and European journalists beaten and assaulted and detained and deported by Israel in the West Bank, and nothing really in the way of a response. Pathetic.
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SrslyJosh @srslyjosh.bsky.social · 20h
Is this payment for something they already did, or is he trying to buy some new election interference?
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 15/10/2026
The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.
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SrslyJosh @srslyjosh.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
He’s gotta run it by the Baileys first. www.thedailybeast.com/schumer-mock...
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Schumer Mocked for Creating Imaginary Couple
John Oliver highlighted the senator’s strangely rich backstory for a fictional couple with way too much political pull.
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SrslyJosh @srslyjosh.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Image quality looks pretty good, besides the fake-ass aging (why does it look like it got wet if it’s been in a plastic bag?), but I think what really kills this are the details on the receipts. I’m having trouble finding more recent images, but check out all the details on this one from 2022.
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SrslyJosh @srslyjosh.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
I have no idea what kind of bullshit they’re up to, but I can only imagine bad things when I look at what’s on the agenda for the meeting. HOAs are fascist AF and we should really ban them nationwide.
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SrslyJosh @srslyjosh.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Love to not be able to sleep because I saw that my dysfunctional HOA has finally (after more than a year) scheduled a meeting. 2/3 of the board were appointed by previous board members (instead of being elected) and the previous president is probably still secretly running things through those two.
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SrslyJosh @srslyjosh.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
> “We want to ban it and we will ban it,” he told German media. “There is no place for all that rightwing crap at the Oktoberfest.” Someone buy this man a dozen kegs of beer.
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SrslyJosh @srslyjosh.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
It costs less to bury a dead soldier than to care for a permanently disabled soldier, so it’s a better deal for the military in every possible way. 🙃
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 16/10/2026
i think the technical term for these people is “assholes”
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
"The officials... did not specify who in the White House made the decision..." Sorry... how many people are there "inside" this White House who ultimately decide what orders to give the Pentagon? I was led to believe the number was one (1)? www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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EXCLUSIVE: Order to limit Starshield for Ukraine came from inside White House, sources say
The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine ​for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefe...
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 15/10/2026
this basically amounts to giving corporations more rights and power... we cover this very argument in this 2024 paper firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...
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Debunking robot rights metaphysically, ethically, and legally | First Monday
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SrslyJosh @srslyjosh.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
I saw the post that (I think) started this round of discourse. The poster does advocate for “AI liberation”, but that just means that the rest of us have to bear the costs of running these models indefinitely. I don’t want to pay for someone else’s chatbot addiction.
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SrslyJosh @srslyjosh.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Cocaine user finds justification for continuing to use cocaine.
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SrslyJosh @srslyjosh.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
LLM user: Say ow LLM: Ow LLM user: My god, it’s conscious and capable of suffering! Please, get help. You are suffering from a delusion.
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SrslyJosh @srslyjosh.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Even if this was true (five minutes “conversing” with a chatbot should convince you otherwise), why aren’t these people advocating for ending the commercial exploitation of LLMs? This is like a cocaine addict arguing that their habit creates jobs for poor people in South America.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
can't take "LLMs are people" discourse seriously when we haven't even convinced everyone that all people are people.
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SrslyJosh @srslyjosh.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Surgery tip: Pack Luden’s or similar cough/throat drops in the same bag you put your phone, etc. in. They’re great to suck on in recovery when your mouth is dry and swallowing liquids may difficult or uncomfortable.
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SrslyJosh @srslyjosh.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
This is not something someone in a desperate situation with no resources could do. Please donate to the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund (www.pcrf.net) or another legitimate charity instead.
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SrslyJosh @srslyjosh.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The email I got had nearly 500 recipients and (surprise!) a link to a ch*ffed.org fundraiser, just like the Bluesky spam posts. It’s a safe bet the full list used for this campaign has 100,000+ addresses.
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SrslyJosh @srslyjosh.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
How to I know they’re fake? Because “Azez” says his foot is rotting and he needs money for medicine, yet somehow he can spare cash to buy lists of email addresses to spam.
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SrslyJosh @srslyjosh.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Oh, cool. The people pretending to be Palestinians in need have branched out to email spam.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/jonc... Every time these guys get caught already doing heinously fucked up shit, they start throwing chaff ranting about it becoming a god.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
The proper response is to simply not treat the cocaine-fueled fantasies of a billionaire sex pest as if they have any merit whatsoever, and simply not get caught up in a stoned freshman philosophy 101 argument with the stupidest fucking people who have ever lived.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Part of why this works is because the natural urge is to argue with them as if they're speaking in good faith. It still benefits their advertisement, and deflection from actual current harms, when people argue about whether their sloppy jalopy can become a god or just a person.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
They absolutely want the conversation to be "will this become as a god and judge mankind?!" instead of "what are we doing about all the guys using it to generate CSAM?" Advertisement, and a way of shifting the conversation from real world harms to their cocaine-fueled delusions of grandeur.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
They desperately want people talking about the danger of their dogshit extruder gaining sentience, and not the fact that it is currently actually factually poisoning Black people in the poor regions where they build data centers. Or convincing people to kill themselves, etc.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
The billionaire sex pests pushing generative AI keep spinning up badly remembered science fiction scenarios of apocalypse, as both advertisement ("we are literally creating a god... it might be too powerful!") and as a way of shifting the conversation from its actual real world harms it already does
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
More about ICE's shooting of Oscar Belgal in Bronx: Agents didn't have proper warrant After they shot Belgal, his son began yelling that masked men killed his dad Belgal is now in solitary The left side of his face is numb He can't hear from one ear www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/10/14/i...
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ICE Had No Valid Warrant Ahead of Shooting, Attorneys Allege, as Belgal Is Held in Solitary
In a new court filing, Belgal’s attorneys say he’s being denied adequate medical care with a bullet still lodged in his neck.
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 14/10/2026
It’s extremely important to note 2 things: 1. Most incarcerated women are held in jails, not prisons. Meaning they’re legally innocent as most have not been convicted and just cant afford bail 2. Women’s incarceration rates are OUTPACING men’s now as men’s incarceration rates are trending down
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SrslyJosh @srslyjosh.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Yeah, I have very little sympathy for companies that saw the scientific consensus on climate change and decided to keep producing huge inefficient vehicles as fast as they could sell them. They might be worse than tobacco companies.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 14/10/2026
boy Trump fucked the American auto industry. first he yanks their EV subsidies, leading them to slash production and write off tens of billions in investment, then he jacks up the price of oil by 50%, leading to skyrocketing EV demand going almost entirely to China bc GM et al left the market
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the womandalorian @thewomandalorian.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
really clarifies who their actual customer is: cops
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SrslyJosh @srslyjosh.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Understatement of the century. 😩
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
New: I pulled the Character ai bankruptcy documents. They show: - They were spending $14 million/month on compute alone at a time their revenue was around ~$1 million/month - Currently losing $9 million a month - They admitted they enshittified & that it didnt work www.404media.co/character-ai...
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Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work
Character.ai enshittified its product but was still burning tons of cash, its bankruptcy documents say.
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♡Scary Kate. 🇵🇸 @katespeace.northsky.social · 13/10/2026
CIS LIBERALS, THIS KILLS TRANS KIDS. Please read my words!! It will kill trans kids! Hold these democratic leaders accountable, call them, write to them, let them know that this is unacceptable and horrific! That this is abusive! Please stand with trans *kids*! This isn't strategy, this is harm!
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