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The hearse is paid for by the state. Swedish healthcare might be eroding fast, but they'll at least still cover the cost of not feeding the rats in town.

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Xan Maus @xanamaus.bsky.social · 5h

This would be cool under the condition that it has a similar failure rate as the other tesla systems and is used extensively by billionaires. I'm all for an oceangate type situation.

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Xan Maus @xanamaus.bsky.social · 6h

Oh, cremation costs money. I'm just going to get dumped out the back of the hearse.

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 16/10/2026

its really funny how willingness to throw trans people under the bus is a 100% accuracy indicator for exactly the kind of guy a politician is and yet every single time we have to go through the "noooo hes not a spineless opportunist who'll say whatever is convenient its different this time" cycle

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Tana @tanasimensis.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

“He captured Harper’s Ferry with his 19 men so few, And frightened old Virginia till she trembled through and through, They hanged him for a traitor, They themselves the traitor crew But his soul is marching on” On this day in 1859 John Brown began his raid on Harper’s Ferry

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Xan Maus @xanamaus.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Dems have been relying on the ablative minority ever since they were forced into being the less racist party when LBJ signed the civil rights act. Throwing us under the bus is the only strategy they know. Especially since they've abandoned policy positions that actually help people.

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Xan Maus @xanamaus.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

The lack of alternative is part of the problem, and the dems have ridden the expectation that we don't have a choice into failure after failure. The hope is that they learn that throwing vulnerable people to the wolves actively costs them before it costs everyone. But they don't learn.

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Xan Maus @xanamaus.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

This platform was originally intended as a refuge for crypto bros and nft marks. Nobody involved expected anyone to see that many.

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Xan Maus @xanamaus.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Hey, just don't blame us when dems lose again. If we are not a big enough portion of the vote to listen to and make concessions to, then we aren't a big enough portion of the vote to be to blame. Can't have it both ways. The red line is simple: don't throw vulnerable people under the bus.

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Xan Maus @xanamaus.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

If you think they'll say it explicitly rather than relying on euphemism and dog whistles, you've really misunderstood how the dems work. They have been reaching for the mythical centrist vote by announcing that they aren't going to stop the republicans from throwing us into the meat grinder.

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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Think about how little your representatives have said or done to defend their colleague Ilhan Omar. Now try to imagine how little they will do when it's our turn.

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Xan Maus @xanamaus.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

It's a solidly red state anyway, if there was any hope for it, Graham wouldn't have been in that seat for so long.

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Xan Maus @xanamaus.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

It's not a wasted vote. It's a vote for the Kaiju Party. I don't vote for anybody John Brown would have shot.

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Xan Maus @xanamaus.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

This is why I vote for Kaiju.

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Xan Maus @xanamaus.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Doing so has, historically, just gotten leftists shouted down because Dems can't abide any criticism of their Dear Leader. The dem running for Senate where I vote has just put out an ad promising to throw vulnerable minorities into the proverbial meat grinder. I'm voting for Mothra.

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Xan Maus @xanamaus.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

A pretty apt description. And it explains why I have to keep going back and deleting the shit from my devices every time a system/security update is pushed.

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Xan Maus @xanamaus.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I'm against using generative AI in pretty much every circumstance. It isn't apologia, it's pointing out the growing uselessness of the word to describe a category of things.

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Xan Maus @xanamaus.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The trouble here is that AI has become such a marketing buzzword that pretty much everything with an algorithm has been rebranded as AI. Including spell check, audio normalization tools, and anything that was called "smart" after around 2005. So it depends on your tolerance for pedantry.

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Xan Maus @xanamaus.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It has been used by a number of different groups over the years, and in the American context it is generally read as interchangeable with the AFA two flags. But in the European context, especially in germany and scandinavia, it is a bit more contentious due to SPD betrayal of the Left.

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Xan Maus @xanamaus.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

That is certainly one way to reinterpret the Iron Front's Drei Pfeile.

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Xan Maus @xanamaus.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

In the age of AI slop, those differences and irregularities or perceived mistakes are part of what makes the art human. Especially as you develop and improve over time. It's not just about a single piece but one's entire body of work over time. Use the reference, you don't need permission to create

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Xan Maus @xanamaus.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Asking friends to help with reference poses and photographs is also a great way to help make that art start feeling like a shared experience rather than something you are imposing on others. Highly recommend.

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🍄🌹Chirasul Inky-Cap 🎨 🐝 @bug.sex · 13/10/2026

the cool thing about using reference is that the more you use it (and, the smarter you use it), the less often you need it, and the more you're able to make good use of it. i did not become a good artist until i started treating reference like a tool rather than a concession

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Xan Maus @xanamaus.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Yeah... Yeah. The worst part is when you are finally in a place to be able to do something about it, the process of getting there ends up being the tipping point for the very things you most needed to keep together and there's nothing you can do about it.

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Xan Maus @xanamaus.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Oh they kept the hard r in there, too. Done you dirty

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Xan Maus @xanamaus.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The customs extortion fee minimum on this end is probably higher than the combined cost either way

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Xan Maus @xanamaus.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I taught a course on source vetting and verifying at SUNY what feels like a life ago, and even the best parameters you give a computer are going to let awful shit through without active professional curation.

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Xan Maus @xanamaus.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I haven't actually seen evidence of source judgement from LLMs aside from humans actively adding weight and being selective about training data in the first place. Something a homeroller might do, but not the big ones.

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Xan Maus @xanamaus.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Sure, humans make slop. I've been in the airport book shops. It's just the flood of slop now drowning out credible sources and even replacing many of the methods we used to use to find credible sources in the first place.

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Xan Maus @xanamaus.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Humans aren't great at it, otherwise we would have abandoned capitalism a long time ago. LLMs don't actually try to do it at all. But they are programmed to be agreeable and sound confident. Which is one way con men and grifters convince people to trust them.

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Xan Maus @xanamaus.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

We've never been open on Wednesdays. In the 55 years this museum has been operating. I know why the AI slop sites say we are, but it is not a mistake any human travel writer would make.

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Xan Maus @xanamaus.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

With people you have to be able to judge what is and is not a credible source, but generally a credible source will give a reason they might be trusted and tends to be consistent in their niche. LLMs don't have that base judgement and will take data from anywhere.

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Xan Maus @xanamaus.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ran into an AI generated tourist resource website last night and found the page for the museum I have been running for the last few years. I know where some of the information they scraped came from, but what was on the page added a bunch of details that were not in the sources and were very wrong.

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Xan Maus @xanamaus.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Calling LLMs "predictive text generators" or "markov chain with extra steps" is more of a reminder that they do not "know" and they can't judge truth or accuracy. The words are just statistically likely to appear together in that context based on their training data. They are not to be trusted.

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Xan Maus @xanamaus.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

How does one make it that long without getting frustrated and throwing it out the proverbial window? Every time I have interacted with AI it has been an active hindrance to what I am trying to do/find. Worse than literally nothing. Especially with search engines and customer support.

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Xan Maus @xanamaus.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Try olive oil. And if that doesn't work, possibly acetone.

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Xan Maus @xanamaus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Roll a few cans of Rip-its and a log of dip down the sidewalk, should buy you a couple of hours

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Xan Maus @xanamaus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I think we need a whole lot more than voting. Politicians will not solve any problems that we can't solve ourselves just like they will not grant rights and freedoms that we do not demonstrate that we can take for ourselves.

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Xan Maus @xanamaus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

From what I can tell, it's mostly just the silicon valley ghouls who do, so he might also be the one least likely to be noticed saying it.

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Xan Maus @xanamaus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If any of these grifters actually answered the question honestly and correctly (and this might actually be the one guy in the administration who could get close), their base might start thinking socialism sounds like a good idea.

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Xan Maus @xanamaus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Labour Plan. The kids are calling "Going Starmer"

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Xan Maus @xanamaus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It was SC Democrats publicly voicing opposition (in a very southern style) to same sex marriage that convinced me that I was not going to be safe until I got out of the country entirely. Glad I got out, but sad that fifteen years later and they are still clutching their hoods.

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Xan Maus @xanamaus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh hey, a race where I vote that's being contested by someone who doesn't want to win. The usual state of things is uncontested races. I guess that's progress? She aiming for the Jamie Harrison path?

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 05/10/2026

Voting is only possible at election time. Direct action can be applied all year round. Voting is only useful for addressing whatever topics are in the candidates' current political agendas. Direct action can be applied in every aspect of life. Unlike elections, direct action is under your control.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Direct Action

A step-by-step guide to organizing and carrying out direct action from the first planning stages to the debrief at the end, including legal support, media strategy, and proper security.

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

honestly i should be able to sue the republican candidate in my district for sending me hate mail, based on the mailers I get.

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