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Swarmpicker @swarmpicker.bsky.social · 15h

The inevitable result of this kind of blocking is the evolution of islands of people who all have exactly the same thoughts about everything. Does anybody see a problem with that?

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Swarmpicker @swarmpicker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This logic is impeccable. Everybody panicked over Y2K and -- nothing happened. Look around you. Every single person here today survived the so-called "pandemic." It was a hoax. It snowed last winter. So much for global warming. These guys are geniuses I tell ya.

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A secret third thing @secretthirdthing.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"chatGPT thinks I am a genuis" is just the modern version of "I think this stripper is in love with me"

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Swarmpicker @swarmpicker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Great summary of the difference.

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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Would that be the strike on the school in Minab, Iran? The boat strikes? The killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti? So many murders...

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Going to work now feels like doing homework after the teacher quit and told the class that education is fake. Everyone just coasting on inertia and hoping there's still a point to all this

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Swarmpicker @swarmpicker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why is this stuff on the Internet at all? Take sensitive data and utility control systems off the Internet. The problem is not hackers and AI, the problem is that we overestimated the usefulness of putting everything on a fully connected network - everybody is vulnerable to everybody all the time.

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Swarmpicker @swarmpicker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Don't make AI dumber. Take stuff like this off the Internet. Especially utility control systems. No link to it, no hackers, no rogue AI's. Prune the matrix.

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Swarmpicker @swarmpicker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every single word you use is one that you have heard or read someone else using. Preloaded information. The difference between AI and "sentience" may be obvious to some as a matter of species vanity, but it is not observable, measurable, quantifiable, or explicable.

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Swarmpicker @swarmpicker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

wtf does "I may end up with a sombrero on my head" mean? I keep seeing this. Did he spontaneously make this phrase up, or is this a Southern saying, or is it something they just say to insult Mexicans? What's wrong with having a sombrero on your head?

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 28/09/2026

What a shock…I have been barred from Peter Thiel’s Nashville Antichrist lectures despite buying a ticket. Was it something I said? As the world’s foremost expert on Thiel’s Antichrist obsession, I take great umbrage. This aggression will be answered.

The Nashville Antichrist
Lectures
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The host of the event marked you as not going. We hope you can join next time.
Your ticket has been refunded, and you have been removed from the guest list. Thank you.

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Swarmpicker @swarmpicker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Wild-ass guess, defined: Wordle 1,923 4/6 🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tommy Tuberville: Many airline pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers are part of the furry community. It's terrifying.

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Swarmpicker @swarmpicker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The first thing the US did, without warning, without telling our allies or our citizens, was to massacre more than 100 innocent children sitting in school. That was not a"computer glitch," or "bad AI." Nobody believes that was a mistake.

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Swarmpicker @swarmpicker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

What the fuck has happened to us?

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Swarmpicker @swarmpicker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Philosophers can talk about consciousness, scientists cannot. If there was any objective measure of consciousness then science could study it, but there isn't and they don't. All you can say is "I feel concscious." You can't even say "I don't feel conscious," so there is nothing to compare it to.

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Swarmpicker @swarmpicker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The problem is not AI. The problem is that vulnerable systems need to be taken off the Internet. We didn't need an Internet 50 years ago and now we should reserve it for people, not utiilities, hospitals, diplomacy, the military. Just cut them off, let people do the communicating.

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Swarmpicker @swarmpicker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I see this on NextDoor all the time. People think of the money they spend, with no idea that you actually get something in return. Bananas are actually yummy. And good for you.

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Swarmpicker @swarmpicker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This would not be "AI," it would just be a sophisticated database query system with NLP interface. If it was "AI" - a neural net or LLM - then you would get bullshit for answers sometimes and it would not be science at all.

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Swarmpicker @swarmpicker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Science is incapable of measuring, observing, analyzing, or even proving the existence of "thoughts" in human beings. There is no scientific reason to think that an LLM is doing something different from the brain.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

reporters werent “barred” from recording, the powerful people they are covering asked them not to record and they immediately complied and hid whats happening from their audience

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Swarmpicker @swarmpicker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The solution to the threat of AI: a sparse matrix. If everything is connected to everything then everyone is vulnerable to anything. Take the power plants off the Internet and AI is no threat to them. Cars, refrigerators, government databases... they don't need to be connected to the Internet.

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Thomas Neville @goobermunch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I really wish doctors would not come into my mom’s healthcare situation and immediately suggest removing the one medication that reliably treats her pain. Yes. She’s on narcotics. No. You can’t get her off them. Yes. Others have tried. No. We’re not doing this again.

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Swarmpicker @swarmpicker.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

In all this talk about AI destructiveness, remember, AI can only affect what is online and connectable. We don't need water supplies and electrical stations to be on the Internet. A guy can call another guy, like they used to. Rather than dumbing down AI, we should be pruning our connectedness.

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Malt Lick Nursery @maltlicknursery.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"I don't play difficult music - There's a form (I don't know where it comes from, God, Buddha, who knows) - I give meaning to music. People are there, they listen, they're moved. Who says this is difficult music?! Art is language, energy, module, vibration!" - Joëlle Léandre

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Swarmpicker @swarmpicker.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I would like to hear somebody explain what "Never forget" means.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

These guys - and evidently many Americans - live in a fantasy land where the enemy isn't allowed to shoot back at your *warships* engaged in an active military operation (the blockade), but also apparently it is totally A-OK to murder civilian mariners at will.

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Swarmpicker @swarmpicker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

When you see Apple and Google changing Lake Ontario to Lake America on their maps, you realize the profound intellectual corruption of people who prioritize power and privilege, and you see why authoritarianism cannot succeed. Objective reality does not matter to them. Only material advantage.

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ceej @ceej.online · 17/05/2024

You actually learn a lot of useful lessons at clown college, like if you're learning to juggle you should practice standing next to your bed so you don't have to lean down as far to pick up the balls when you drop them

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.

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Joe Perticone @cheetah.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It was an honor to work with him/ her

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Swarmpicker @swarmpicker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is what is technically known as a "bullshit headline." Blaming the debt on Trump's predecessors, it's his job to fix it and he is doing the opposite of that. But the Post won't say that.

Wash Post headline: After decades of free spending, Washington is facing some unpalatable choices.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

So funny watching the media try to write 2000's era Grand Theft Auto Outrage articles now that the whole country is a casino run by murderers.

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Swarmpicker @swarmpicker.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Wordle 1,899 3/6 Here is an example of a Wild Ass Guess. ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Mark @mlnga.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The current Lakers owner is being investigated by Trump's government for tax fraud. Today, it was announced that he is selling the team to a member of the Kushner family. A complete coincidence, I'm sure.

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Swarmpicker @swarmpicker.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

So is this what Bluesky is going to be now? Fuckin' Yay Team Blue Wave bullshit? I don't know how effective that is, but it definitely cheapens this whole site.

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Swarmpicker @swarmpicker.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Haw haw haw You've heard of learned helplessness. Now here's learned ugliness.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/08/2026

Trump Pushes To Rename Sexual Attraction To Children ‘Americaphilia’

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Swarmpicker @swarmpicker.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If Wordle is going to use obscure words that very few people know, then there's no point in playing the game.

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