Bluesky!

Please let’s try approval voting, potentially with no primary at all, just some reasonable ballot access criteria that ensure a tractable number of general election candidates.

i’m calling PETA.

but some sure do seem like coincidences, if they are not somehow convergent adaptations!

“bloopers.”

okay, evolution. why do they have those cute little itty bitty claws? to ravage nearby amoebae for meat? or just to make the look more like cute little itty bitty bears?

i’m not sure how much is because it has shifted or because the community that would once have been its audience has shifted, but vox.com seems increasingly unmoored somehow.

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how is AI slop affecting / likely to affect geolocation of photos?

it’s not AI good or bad. at what particular tasks, in what particular domains, with what care for quality and accountability for error? there are lots of thorny issues about what role we want for cars with their inefficient occupancy, but, that aside, Waymo deserves to be distinguished from Tesla.

i’m honored to share a vintage, kid.

i’m 55 years old, but when i talk to myself i still refer to myself as “kid”.

i still post links to new blog posts on X. COVID, pre-Musk, cut my impressions on a typical tweet in half, as non-blue-check feeds were downranked over misinformation fears. under Musk, my that 50% became 80%-90% below the pre-COVID baseline. i too get lots more interaction here!

the new one sounds zystopian. (sorry.)

i just got texted a verification code and it started with 555 and i felt like i was in a movie.

so much of my telephone spam is people cold-calling to offer janitorial service.

which means it’s us, because they can’t be them without purchase of our services.

seems like that wad’s already been shot.

stalker.

#popularism