The most holy form of theory is action,
not to shiver in a darkness of thoughts
that dance as shadows on the wall. They
who take the world as unbearable, first
grind their palms into their eyes, then
sink in a dream as warm as held breath.
They murmur, "Rest. Why sit in the ash?
Here the fire is low, the bread is new,
and every window here opens on spring."
By candle and chant they stitch a quilt
of painted skies to nail over the door,
then pity us for standing in the smoke.
We must look! Look at the world aflame!
Our eyes seared, our skin made leather,
we march on, grasping at every flicker.
Our boots sink in ash with every tread;
we trudge or tarry, yet continue still.
We burn, and in the burning, we become.
not to shiver in a darkness of thoughts
that dance as shadows on the wall. They
who take the world as unbearable, first
grind their palms into their eyes, then
sink in a dream as warm as held breath.
They murmur, "Rest. Why sit in the ash?
Here the fire is low, the bread is new,
and every window here opens on spring."
By candle and chant they stitch a quilt
of painted skies to nail over the door,
then pity us for standing in the smoke.
We must look! Look at the world aflame!
Our eyes seared, our skin made leather,
we march on, grasping at every flicker.
Our boots sink in ash with every tread;
we trudge or tarry, yet continue still.
We burn, and in the burning, we become.
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In practice though, how does this hold up?
If they use Google, Amazon, Social Media, etc... anything really, they've demonstrated a willingness to use AI.
If they use Google, Amazon, Social Media, etc... anything really, they've demonstrated a willingness to use AI.
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periodically refreshing the Brazilian election results to see if T-Rex AI is a viable political strat
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Non-verified accounts having the ability to mass brigade verified customers and get them deplatformed is a massive failing on behalf of X.
You can't give an inch to the anti-social, as they will abuse every weakness and every tool available to seek their advantage.
If X wants orum of the internet" it needs to stop allowing the raving lunatics to determine who is allowed to enter the space.
The feed is infested with ideological addicts who, like fentanyl zombies, disrupt the everyday lives of functional members of our community.
"I was offended by that"
So what! Scroll away.
We cannot allow the sickness of The Blob to continue to affect our institutions. We cannot grant special statuses or protections to individual groups or identities in our community.
Within the systems and policies of X, there still lies a deep, deep sickness.
If there is any hope for healing, we must root it out.
Free TheKingOfStank!
You can't give an inch to the anti-social, as they will abuse every weakness and every tool available to seek their advantage.
If X wants orum of the internet" it needs to stop allowing the raving lunatics to determine who is allowed to enter the space.
The feed is infested with ideological addicts who, like fentanyl zombies, disrupt the everyday lives of functional members of our community.
"I was offended by that"
So what! Scroll away.
We cannot allow the sickness of The Blob to continue to affect our institutions. We cannot grant special statuses or protections to individual groups or identities in our community.
Within the systems and policies of X, there still lies a deep, deep sickness.
If there is any hope for healing, we must root it out.
Free TheKingOfStank!
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Buh retweeted
Many of the accounts that called for @TheKingOfStank's mass reporting that ended in the suspension of his account are still here, gloating over a broken TOS, and trying to remove more art accounts.
I am a developer, I have made X integrated apps before, and was working on a new /t.co/NJiDFtTJx5 an early version of what I'm working on now.
It's now completly broken, nobody can use it.
I could change the auth, I could open a seperate account, but why?
Why the fuck should I?
Nearly everyone with a blue checkmark is trying to build something, not just developers.
Whether it's a book, an audience, etc.
X causes significant financial harm by banning these accounts, therefore the harm that these accounts caused must also be significant.
Mass reporting should NEVER be a tool to remove an account.
Hide a post? sure, but track the accounts that are mass reporting.
If it's habitual; if it's targeted; if it's consistent, the unhide all the comments and remove every account involved in the flagging.
Botnets will be destroyed, bad faith actors will get their accounts removed.
And the people trying to make your app a better place will continue to make your app a better place.
I am a developer, I have made X integrated apps before, and was working on a new /t.co/NJiDFtTJx5 an early version of what I'm working on now.
It's now completly broken, nobody can use it.
I could change the auth, I could open a seperate account, but why?
Why the fuck should I?
Nearly everyone with a blue checkmark is trying to build something, not just developers.
Whether it's a book, an audience, etc.
X causes significant financial harm by banning these accounts, therefore the harm that these accounts caused must also be significant.
Mass reporting should NEVER be a tool to remove an account.
Hide a post? sure, but track the accounts that are mass reporting.
If it's habitual; if it's targeted; if it's consistent, the unhide all the comments and remove every account involved in the flagging.
Botnets will be destroyed, bad faith actors will get their accounts removed.
And the people trying to make your app a better place will continue to make your app a better place.
In many legal systems, to bear false witness is a grave crime.
Just like a woman would be punished if she lies and claims she was raped when she was not, an account that reports people maliciously should be banned.
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I have recently been using paper(dot)design for UI work and strongly recommend it. So far I haven't run into usage issues on the free plan (but know that I probably will). Fully automated asset creation 😭
I would typically just have claude design prototypes / assets directly, but this makes it much easier to tweak.
I would typically just have claude design prototypes / assets directly, but this makes it much easier to tweak.
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reporting in from hell
I mean the mall on Saturday at 2PM
Found a new shirt, but realizing now
I need more tans and browns in my wardrobe.
Also got some trippy black/brown (coffee brown?) jeans
I mean the mall on Saturday at 2PM
Found a new shirt, but realizing now
I need more tans and browns in my wardrobe.
Also got some trippy black/brown (coffee brown?) jeans
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"The consulting firm Vivrato have been surveying game execs about their firms’ usage of AI, noting: “94% use AI in at least one of nine production stages, but 52% rate how deeply it is built into their full production pipeline at three or lower out of 10.” - GameDiscoverCo
I guess if you are a strict Anti-AI person... you can't play video games anymore?
I guess if you are a strict Anti-AI person... you can't play video games anymore?
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Interesting excerpt from 1835 "Plea for the West"
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There Protestantism was engaged in a life-or-death
struggle with Catholicism. Time was already running out.
“Whatever we do, it must be done quickly...” A great tide
of immigration, hostile to free institutions, was sweeping into the country, subsidized and sent by “the potentates of Europe,” multiplying tumult and violence, filling jails, crowding poorhouses, quadrupling taxation, and sending increasing thousands of voters to "lay their inexperienced hand upon the helm of our power.”
Well might we believe, said Beecher, that Metternich knew that there would be a party in the
United States willing to hasten the naturalization and enfranchisement of these multitudes and demagogues, a party that would “sell their country into an everlasting bondage.”
Even so much as a tenth of the voting population, “condensed and wielded by the Catholic powers of Europe, might decide our elections, perplex our policy, inflame and divide the nation, break the bond of our union, and throw down our free institutions.”
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Another entry into the "Nothing Ever Changes" bucket
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There Protestantism was engaged in a life-or-death
struggle with Catholicism. Time was already running out.
“Whatever we do, it must be done quickly...” A great tide
of immigration, hostile to free institutions, was sweeping into the country, subsidized and sent by “the potentates of Europe,” multiplying tumult and violence, filling jails, crowding poorhouses, quadrupling taxation, and sending increasing thousands of voters to "lay their inexperienced hand upon the helm of our power.”
Well might we believe, said Beecher, that Metternich knew that there would be a party in the
United States willing to hasten the naturalization and enfranchisement of these multitudes and demagogues, a party that would “sell their country into an everlasting bondage.”
Even so much as a tenth of the voting population, “condensed and wielded by the Catholic powers of Europe, might decide our elections, perplex our policy, inflame and divide the nation, break the bond of our union, and throw down our free institutions.”
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Another entry into the "Nothing Ever Changes" bucket
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btw this is pulled from "The Paranoid Style in American Politics".
No beef w/ the Catholics, it just looks... like an oddly familiar argument 😀
No beef w/ the Catholics, it just looks... like an oddly familiar argument 😀
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new obsidian library is coming along well
way less schizo than my last one (but still schizo)
way less schizo than my last one (but still schizo)
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