Bard spotting on Bluesky 18 September 2024

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

72% of Republicans call for banning the consumption of dangerous substance Dihydrogen Monoxide, implicated in multiple chronic and acute disease models

McSpocky™ (@mcspocky.bsky.social):

Most Americans say 'Arabic numerals' should not be taught in school, finds survey

Seventy-two per cent of Republicans oppose Western world's standard numeric system

www.independent.co.uk/news/arabic-...

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Most Americans say 'Arabic numerals' should not be taught in school

Aster! 🔻🔻🔻 (@vexingvertebrae.bsky.social):

You can't make this shit up, I swear

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

One thing I miss a great deal about Twitter is Rob Beschizza

Anyway, here's Rob

boingboing.net/2024/09/18/e...

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Elon Musk, from behind a massive army of bodyguards, now tweeting 150+ times a day

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

This is bad design, but good that they have a roadmap to fix it.

(@mrfengi.bsky.social):

Wrote to bluesky about this and they responded that they agreed, but as of my last test it has not been fixed & it's not mentioned in this announcement.

Other sites allow use w/o email verification - which is bad - bsky is unique in NOT sending notices that an email has been used for an account.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

This was, in fact, the ENTIRE PLANNED MODUS OPERANDI of:

/r/GenderCritical

/r/TERFisaSlur

/r/itsafetish

/r/LGBDropTheT

& more.

Before Reddit T&S got professional help, GCers had weaponised salonfahige, & succeeded in getting multiple trans people suspended for commenting "Frick TERFs"

Gary Horses (@khandozo.bsky.social):

Back in the message board days of the internet, you could find right-wing Christian message boards training members to go into hostile groups alone and to "politely" espouse bigotry so that when the groups pushed back, it would look "intolerant" and they could win sympathy and eventually converts.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Here is a thread from Reddit /r/ModSupport documenting the phenomenon:

old.reddit.com/r/ModSupport...

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An update on recent concerns

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

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chelsea bridge (@secretaboutbox.bsky.social):

staring at the machine that labels you rude like i'm looking at the wall behind it

i think you should be able to push terfs into traffic

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

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Demolition Man Verbal Morality Statute GIF

chelsea bridge (@secretaboutbox.bsky.social):

gonna mail my seashells to the mods

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) (@nora.zone):

RUDE FEED RUDE FEED RUDE FEED

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a man dancing in front of a banner that says reetlight festo entertainment system

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

PICKITUPPICKITUPPICKITUPPICKITUPPICKITUPHAH

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

OK yea, new influx of followers based on my "Social Media Is The Torment Nexus" posts, so it's time to start talking about why You Should Not Build The Torment Nexus

sina (@rejectionking.bsky.social):

okay yeah new influx of followers based on my politics/counterterrorism posts, it's time to start talking about Reconstruction (2024)

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Horses, barn doors, etc

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

she was "only" targeting transgender people, and no one with power had read & understood Niemöller. They all believe(d) that Brandenburg v Ohio is the settled law of the land, Jan 6 was a one-off, that Charlottesville was a one-off, there really were good people on both sides, it can't happen here

literally and metabolically, (@mumbly-joe.bsky.social):

I am fully convinced that the residents of Springfield would be a lot safer today if the full power of the state had hammered Chaya Raichik into the ground two years ago instead of letting her tactics metastasize.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Kurt Gödel claimed to have found an "inner contradiction" in the US Constitution which would allow the US to be legally turned into a dictatorship.

We are living through the process of an oligarchy reaching as hard as they can through that loophole.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6...

Gödel's Loophole - Wikipedia

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

[Gödel] was an Austrian by birth and, having lived through the 1933 coup d'état and escaped from Nazi Germany after the Anschluss, had reason to be concerned about living in a fascist dictatorship.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

In the course of the examination, [the citizenship judge] Forman asked Gödel what the government of Austria was, to which he replied: "It was a republic, but the constitution was such that it finally was changed into a dictatorship."

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

They don't even have to know what the loophole is. They only have to know that Gödel, a neurotic Jewish man with analytical insight unparalleled in history, saw the flaw.

All they have to do is have faith it's there, and push.

daryl "the jicero 🫗" bartley 🏳️⚧️ (@hypercubexl.bsky.social):

one of the only times it seems a company is actually in decline instead of it being private equity? maybe people don't have leftovers anymore cause they can't afford to make that much food at once, I dunno

CNN (@cnn.com):

Tupperware, known the world over for its plastic food storage containers, has filed for bankruptcy after years of falling popularity and financial troubles.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

They rose to prominence by the MLM / home party / independent distributor model, when housewives would host parties. That was their distinguishing feature - that, and the durability of their wares.

Now they've been fast followed on those by dozens of others, & no one but the rich host parties, now

daryl "the jicero 🫗" bartley 🏳️⚧️ (@hypercubexl.bsky.social):

yeah def see it as a matter of being beaten at their own game, there are so many containers available for cheaper that are totally fine (until you put spaghetti sauce in them once)

Royal 👑 (@royaltheartist.bsky.social):

This is clearly a move meant to shore up conservative thought for the next 30 years

The Verge (@verge-poster.bsky.social):

House committee approves bill requiring new cars to have AM radio - https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/18/24248137/am-radio-bill-house-energy-commerce-ev-interference

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

It's because AM is still the basis for the early alert / emergency alert system, and they're not going to spend the many millions of dollars it would take to retrofit the emergency response infrastructure to use another tech.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

What will inevitably happen is every new car will have a $0.15 crystal radio module that only technically complies with the law, and the content on AM will continue to go to the lowest bidder

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I know Israel wants outright full war, b/c they didn't even bother to try to make anyone suspect that Hizbollah had booby trapped their own devices & were incompetent in protecting their own

Israel wants them all to know who did it.

Faine Greenwood (@faineg.bsky.social):

I'm kinda joking - but then again, I have an ADHD symptom that causes me to pass out against my will if I'm too under-stimulated.

It's a real thing that isn't narcolepsy but kinda looks like it, and it's why I HAVE to have a podcast on when driving (and I HAVE to doodle in classes/meetings).

Faine Greenwood (@faineg.bsky.social):

PSA: I follow a lot of people not because I'm follower hacking to expand my niche social media website clout, but because I have a crippling mental illness that requires me to consume a constant stream of Information at all times or my brain will explode and I will die

multi-mara❣️🌌🌹🔮 (@marallmighty.bsky.social):

🌹 is there a name for that? Curious because i feel this way too often

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

"Intrusive Sleep"

Faine Greenwood (@faineg.bsky.social):

oh yes that's the term!

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) (@nora.zone):

there was a metafilter april fools joke once that was that everyone on metafilter but you was a markov bot

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

that's so cool and cool and cool and cool and cool and

Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):

why do you hate me? you won't even french my hemorrhoids!

Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):

none of y'all offered to kiss my hemorrhoids and make them better

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Sleep easy,sweetheart

Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):

back on my bullshit*

*having hemorrhoids so bad i kinda consider going to the er

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

My heart, do what your heart tells you is right

Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):

it'll be fine as long as i stop pooping until it heals up

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

🫣😰

Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):

they won't do anything about it until it's been "more than three days" and this is day 2

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

😨😓

My IBS would kill me if I tried that.

Link. (@knilirabaj.bsky.social):

Who is your favorite Bluesky Elder (derogatory) clout poisoned crash out.

Faine Greenwood (@faineg.bsky.social):

early Bluesky really did produce some world-record results in the arena of "the absolute minimum follower count required for someone to develop a terminal case of clout poisoning"

Molly Shah (@mommunism.bsky.social):

It's me I just am saving it up

Molly Shah (@mommunism.bsky.social):

(Actually I think my number is like 51,000 or something and I arrived the day after the hellthread so I'm technically a newbie)

Link. (@knilirabaj.bsky.social):

You can't run from your history.

Molly Shah (@mommunism.bsky.social):

I have seen things (mainly s*x pests)

chelsea bridge (@secretaboutbox.bsky.social):

so my eyes are pretty tired tonight and i thought you said s*x pesto

the funny part is that i didn't think anything of it

mollie quinn 🏳️⚧️ (@threnody.bsky.social):

[a sicilian has entered the chat]

s*x pesto?

Alexis (@transcinderella.com):

How soon before this becomes slang for c*m on here?

Gestalt Ersatzquatch (@emdashel.bsky.social):

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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Waking up from a dream where I realised that the screenwriters for Alien: Prometheus segued into Alien: Sisyphus and Alien: Orpheus & Eurydice without warning the audience

We may all be entitled to financial compensation

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I would like to say that whoever is responsible for "make the pagers into remote explosive devices" … we're building a new circle of Heck just for you

Sarah Parkinson (@separkinson.bsky.social):

Pagers that Hizbullah uses to communicate blew up across Lebanon this morning, wounding over 1000, including bystanders, and killing several, including at least one infant.

People will say it's a precise, targeted attack on members of the group. It's not. The pagers exploded anywhere people were 1/

David Buchanan (@retr0.id):

however they pulled it off, the exploding pagers thing is absolutely wild

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Two possibilities:

1. Israel interdicts and augments shipment of pagers it knows are destined for Lebanon

2. Hizbollah augments them as emergency self-destruct to keep pagers out of hands of Israeli intelligence

From there, it's just one unsecured admin portal away from tragedy

David Buchanan (@retr0.id):

however they pulled it off, the exploding pagers thing is absolutely wild

David Buchanan (@retr0.id):

A few years back I spoke informally to someone who was working on making phone batteries explode via bad software, but it was more of an InfoSec™ Company® PR stunt thing than active warfare, and I don't think they succeeded anyway

bingeling (@bingel.ing):

Also how to do it with something as dumb as a pager? Do they all have a secret code 8003 where if you page them with that they explode?

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

IED rigging. Pager has a piezo beep and a vibrating motor, independently activated on different messages or incoming numbers. Swap either one to the trigger. Maybe even the LED light channel for hearing impaired alert use.

the final pearl (@pearlsnapped.bsky.social):

the sooner more peope realize singal is a dangerous, world-class fool, the better.

Tahir Duckett (@tahir.bsky.social):

I've long gathered from reporting by @michaelhobbes.bsky.social and others that Jesse Singal is incredibly loose with the facts. But I'm not an expert in the fields he usually digs into and so it has been hard for me to know just HOW off base he is. Now he's in my field, and MY GOD.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Jesse "I did a deep dive into KwF*rms and found no evil / criminal activity going on" Singal, deleting his post after hundreds of people came forward with all the receipts, while his PA is moots with a KFer/neoNazi

He's getting paid by someone to pull the wool, for sure

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Signing all my posts with a .sig block until my profile has "Back" and "Next" links that hyperlink to the (long deactivated / abandoned) profiles created just before & after mine

Faine Greenwood (@faineg.bsky.social):

threatening to withold Alf pictures from Bluesky until my terms are met, by which I mean my profile is allowed to auto-play MIDI anime music

Hamburger Helpmeet (@oddrachel.bsky.social):

Terra's in the emergency room with pancreatitis probably, let's hope that's all it is. I'm here with her. She's doing okay but it's in significant pain. I'll keep posting here.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

get well terra!

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

If you are a writer:

Under no circumstances should you ever give the kind of analysis or advice role that needs human understanding and insight, to an AI model. They are not capable of reading language, they only throw out / up an "acceptable" answer whittled at random

cait (@cait.bsky.social):

reddit help, i showed my novel to my AI gf and she told me it fricking sucks

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

An AI model doesn't understand plot structure, pacing, voicing.

It is a synthesis of what was previously written about something similar to your prompt.

"Similar" in any number of aspects, many of which are BS

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

If the AI model was trained on Reddit data, run, do not walk, away from it.

Reddit was overrun for the better part of a decade by trolls, trolling to hurt others. Looking for easy ego boosts.

Do not cede your selfexpression to a Reddit trained AI

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

My money is on "Israel augmented them, Hezbollah never double checked them, script kiddie christmas tree packeted the pager network"

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

So far two of three

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

My money is on "Israel augmented them, Hezbollah never double checked them, script kiddie christmas tree packeted the pager network"

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

"The almost-shooter was a leftist"

Actual stance of the almost-shooter: "You'll be sorry when you're in the work camps smug"

Travis View (@travisview.bsky.social):

I've been reading the book by Ryan Routh, the most recent alleged attempted Trump assassin.

There are lots of insane bits, from his advocacy of nuclear war to his claim that he could make North Koreans like Americans if they kidnapped him.

But my favorite has to be his total hatred of Belgium.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

It takes a certain amount of smug narcissism to learn that attempts at recruiting citizens of another nation to merc, is illegal and upends that person's life, and arrive at "we'll see who laughs last"

Travis View (@travisview.bsky.social):

I've been reading the book by Ryan Routh, the most recent alleged attempted Trump assassin.

There are lots of insane bits, from his advocacy of nuclear war to his claim that he could make North Koreans like Americans if they kidnapped him.

But my favorite has to be his total hatred of Belgium.

Eric (@inthiseconomy.bsky.social):

Wait does he think Putin is a communist?

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

It's the Reddit-Free-Speech-Warrior model of politics, "any government that makes it illegal for me to say anything I want to anyone else is communist, get ready, here come the tanks, eon't say i didn't warn you"

Dr. Damien P. Williams: Like TSCC s03 John Connor, But Better (@wolvendamien.bsky.social):

Hey @pfrazee.com ? I think I would like it if users got an alert when they got added to a starter pack. And maybe a way to self-remove from said? Thanks.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I suspect that they may not yet have implemented that due to feedback on how such a thing would be abused; i.e. trans women get added to an offensively named starter pack, they all get notifs, they all remove themselves, troll switches to account #2, adds them all to similarly named starter pack …

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Not that the current situation is arguably better.

Dr. Damien P. Williams: Like TSCC s03 John Connor, But Better (@wolvendamien.bsky.social):

Right. At least the notification way, I have a way to know the vector by which I'm suddenly seeing a lot of new attention

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Things I need:

Bright sunlight

Cool breeze

Laughter

A gentle downhill slope

Wheels

Skirt, blouse, scarf, love, joy, beauty

Things Texas offers:

Piles of Ammonium nitrate in excess of 400 pounds, stored in a shed, next to a school building, caught fire 19 minutes ago, glhf

Cesena Marie🕷️ 🏳️⚧️ (@thelibraryces.bsky.social):

jfc

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

The West, Texas explosion circa … 2013? I think.

They've changed the regs since then, but it is a perfect metaphor for how very badly things can suck when an entire state government is captured by industry

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

If you are a writer:

Under no circumstances should you ever give the kind of analysis or advice role that needs human understanding and insight, to an AI model. They are not capable of reading language, they only throw out / up an "acceptable" answer whittled at random

cait (@cait.bsky.social):

reddit help, i showed my novel to my AI gf and she told me it fricking sucks

Genevieve (@jenuhveeve.bsky.social):

Ackschually….

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

It's so weird actually living through the "do androids dream of electric sheep" era

it's charloh! from online (it/its) (@charloh.bsky.social):

LOOK AT ME. I'M THE [DEADNAME] NOW.

This pharmacist is a fricking hero

Emerald Lavigne, subsumed by despair, at least thigns are funny (@leftoidsadhu.bsky.social):

This is LITERALLY the kind of shit I expect from you if you have "ally" in your bio.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I need gatorade. Losing electrolytes. 😭

Gwen C. Katz (@gwenckatz.bsky.social):

I swear to god, those are 11 ostensibly different fonts

Gwen C. Katz (@gwenckatz.bsky.social):

This typography trend can't end soon enough

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I feel olllld, because I can read those with no effort at all

Autumn is dysphoric 🍂 ♿️🏳️⚧️ (@fallgirlautie.bsky.social):

Morning everyone

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

G'night Autumn! (Half midnight here!)

I am certain you do not wish to argue that several years ago you assaulted me at Tanglewood Forest. Several of your fellow company members have chased me and thwapped me with Amtgard -legal boffer weapons on Company Road while I was making announcements on behalf of Kingdom Officers.