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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 3h

and even if they did... it wouldn't be. sorry, man: even if I couldn't tell the difference with my ears, it matters to me that people made it. especially when it comes to art and media. it's part of the soul of it. a blood diamond is still a blood diamond. the card my kid drew is THEIR art.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"Why should my tax dollars go to giving houses to people who can't afford them?" Why should MY tax dollars should go to satisfying your desire to see desperate people living desperate lives? I'd rather save money and solve the problem, rather than spend money to exacerbate it.

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Already noticed some AAA games from the last few years slipping in quality due to the attack on labourers by the wealthy class and uh... I think gamers need to know it's gonna keep deteriorating in small ways, not a big bang Games will still drop for a while, but they'll be quietly worse

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

the cash, hands down. the potential debt exceeds my personal capacity to pay and exceeds the guaranteed reward by 20x. if I could afford the debt, maaaybe I would think harder about the gamble. but probably would land on the guaranteed income either way.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

as someone who used to work in trust and safety at Facebook / Meta, I sometimes think "I couldn't possibly despise Meta leadership more than I already do." and then, somehow, they prove me wrong again. and again.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

answering "yes" to this question immediately disqualifies you from being an expert, so the subhead makes no sense.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I don't disagree with this, but do want to add: I think it's good to intentionally take moments and ask yourself if you might be trans, and to imagine yourself as the opposite gender or agender. Not because I think it's likely you'll be surprised by the answer! (cont)

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

this is helpful. but I can tell I have the brain of a parent-with-kids-in-school, because I read this very differently than intended, lol.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

in addition to being lies made in bad faith, this is such a bleak worldview. "THEY are hurt, therefore WE have won." even if you believe that the destruction and suffering was worthwhile (it wasn't) or necessary (it wasn't)... what did it make better? (nothing - it made the world worse)

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I'll take this a step further: most of the AI proponents I see - especially with social platforms - don't understand the methods, theories, debates, and philosophies of machine learning either (aka - the three raccoons raccoons tech companies are shoving into a trenchcoat and calling AI).

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

the "I don't do politics" thing is so hollow, empty to me. you ARE part of communities. EVERY community creates processes and organizations for communicating, understanding, negotiating, and organizing with itself and other communities. those processes? politics. those organizations? political.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

ya, grew up in Minnesota and I've always just assumed that "ope" (not really a thing) was how people heard Minnesotans say "oops" or "oh" (ya, pretty common and we kinda drop the "s"). now, if you wanna talk "duck, duck, grey duck" or "hot dish"... those topics got some meat on them (pun intended).

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

lol. this is such a funny misunderstanding of AI. if AI is trained on collections of stolen / minimally-curated human work (and a lot of what we call "AI" is), then it's going to capture and sometimes reflect their mistakes, too. which mistakes show up and when can vary, but...

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

first, "technical" teams I've worked with who had more women (& more diversity overall) were straight up better than those without, & the exclusion of women from tech is a disaster for industry & academia. second, hate to be reductionist but... prob explains a lot about how we got modern "AI".

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

look. I hate our justice system, and the fact that it is no way a system of restitution or community healing. I'm all for getting the most folks possible out of our shitty prisons. but this person? lol, they'd be very, very low in the priority order and it's embarrassing a Dem acted otherwise.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

this - and when I mentioned that coffee made me sleepy - were the flags my therapist used to begin an ADHD eval. (yes, it turns out I very much fall into that spectrum, and it was very helpful to get access to language, strategies, and meds that guided me to.)

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

ya, I dunno. maybe it's just me, but I kinda think it may do more to reduce crime (AND make life better for people who deal with crime as their job) to build systems and supports that reduce the causes of crime.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

there are so many wonderful, generous artists on this platform. sincerely grateful. also: I really appreciate it when you put your name in your piece! I try to be careful about sharing the artist when I share the art, and I appreciate when you make it easy to give you the credit you deserve!

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

"Brian, who lost 2,500 working hours to sleep in 2025, warns he will perform poorly under new work schedule where people do not sleep" lol THE COST OF A COMMUNITY GOOD IS NOT A LOSS, AND IT'S MISLEADING TO FRAME IT THAT WAY.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

we all live in community. community develops systems and organizations to communicate, make group decisions, and take group actions. those systems and organizations? government. the process? politics.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

And as someone who closely monitors both websites I can assure you that X is a right wing radicalization pipeline, including for people who consider themselves smart and progressive, while Bluesky is just an overwhelming left leaning platform. Those are very different things.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I’m so tired of seeing people bash Bluesky for being an echo chamber when X is an actual intentionally constructed echo chamber that is demonstrably radicalizing people across the political spectrum who still use it

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Anna Waismeyer @risukora.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Xbox Research wants to hear from anyone who plays video games! Tell us which settings and accessibility options, like text size adjustments, single-input options, screen readers, you use in our survey! survey.alchemer.com/s3/8671308/X... #Accessibility #GameAccessibility #InclusiveDesign

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

here me out: fly by ski jump archery.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

I would ENTHUSIASTICALLY pay more if I knew creators (designers, artists, QA, devs, etc) were being paid fairly and treated well. I would pay more even if it took longer to make the games. honestly, that would probably often result in BETTER games, but I'd pay more even it made games worse.

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Anyway, when all of this started, I kept saying that you have to always look at these new technologies through the contempt that the tech world has for labor, and their campaign to destroy anything they can get their hands on for a bit more money. Human deskilling, not flourishing, is their goal.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

authoritarian checklist would have been a better label. tho I get that the goal of calling it a playbook is that it highlights the way that authoritarians are usually proactive and intentional in their efforts.

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

It’s not just that they normalize political violence. They also accuse the left of engaging in mostly imaginary violence, which gives unhinged right-wingers justification to “retaliate.”

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

They launched a coup, suffered no consequences for it, won back power, and have used the power to pardon everyone involved while remaking the country through violence and intimidation. It’s just ridiculous to talk about the political violence of yelling at ICE agents within that context.

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

The idea that this political violence is the consequence of people on both sides cheering it on seems like a sympathetic point but just doesn’t hold up to history. In my adult life, I’ve seen people on the right do everything from kill politicians to kill regular citizens, and it’s shrugged off.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I worked on intimate image harm moderation / reporting at Meta, and based on my personal experience I agree company leadership is not acting in good faith on the issue. they elevate public facing fluff while ignoring and demoralizing people and teams trying to make Facebook (at minimum) less bad.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

the core concept of socialism / Marxism - that separation & imbalance in power between workers and capital holders is toxic in both theory and in practice - is so transparently obvious that (most) capitalist systems try to safeguard against the worst abuses of it to slow their self-destruction.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

supporting this: the people likely to suffer the most if the US keeps going this way should not be the ones we expect to fight it head on. if there is any true obligation to fight for the US, that should fall on the relatively safe and comfortable allies* around them.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/03/2025

thinking of one of abraham lincoln's great quotes this morning: "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

the people writing satires of war-loving, fascist regimes are weeping. "what do we do now? that would have been over the top even for us..." someone who played Helldivers 2 and didn't get the parody wrote this bullshit, and they deserve to be exiled more than any immigrant.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

(speaking into a flashlight) and, in the dark, you would hear: errrr-MMmmM-EEEEEEEEEEEE! YOU'VE GOT MAIL.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

(looks at images of destroyed buildings full of dead people that we killed to kill one guy kinda like a war crime) going to (dis)respectfully disagree.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

it's very tiring to constantly see Democrats and media orgs - when they meaningfully criticize and interrogate GOP nonsense at all - get hung up on details vs putting shit in context. opsec blah blah? ok. sure. but also: * attempting to hide * war crimes * for favors from other countries

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I was born near here and can confirm! Minnesota actually had to agree in advance to build the city to be featured in the game, including writing a whole bunch of lore for it!

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

embarrassing take. are there ugly misogynist bubbles of propaganda that a lot young men get sucked into? yes. obviously. but we fail bc we need to tear down those bubbles and what enables them. plenty of people speak to and / or are good models for men! they just get drowned out by trash.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

hate the reporting on this, because it's three lies and this hides the more important ones. 1. lying about amounts 2. lying that it's a "savings" (as if there is no cost to the loss of things or the method of cutting) 3. lying that they are in good faith trying to "save" anything

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 01/12/2024

If your digital privacy advice is impractical for most people, you're committing malpractice. Dogmatic, absolutist, elitist approaches towards privacy and security are actually harmful. These attitudes lead to "privacy nihilism", where people assume there's nothing they can do to help themselves.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

trans man are men. trans women are women. trans people are people. please know that you are valid and loved and cared for. fuck anyone who says or votes otherwise.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

writer: [very high] so, like, instead of, like, a wood puppet becoming a boy... editor: [very high] yea?! writer: what if Pinocchio was, like, an ABSTRACT idea, ya know? like, what if... what if we made the CONCEPT of "both sides" into a real boy? editor [realizing they are not high enough]: wtf

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 22/09/2024

it's not only morally good, it's more financially and logistically efficient! do it!

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 22/09/2024

this also reminds me of the extent to which the media is willing to assume that the GOP will NOT do ("how much of this is just playing a character?") vs assuming what the Dems WILL do ("will X choice cause inflation?", "will Y policy FORCE the GOP to do bad things?"). exhausting.

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Brian Waismeyer @yetanotherbrian.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

ah. yes. it is the left that systematically embraces hostile, inflammatory rhetoric. for sure. (picture taken by me in good old Woodinville, WA this morning - lol, the light changed as I took the photo so, no, I wasn't driving or blocking traffic)

picture of the back of a yellow jeep with a digital message board in their back window. the message board has been programmed to display "FU DEMs". the license plate has been intentionally hidden by the picture taker to prevent harassment of the vehicle owner.

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