Bard spotting on Bluesky 10 October 2024

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Three (?) different patches I've augmented tonight, premised on a harpsichord sound & a chorus/hold, and a weird experiment with a bandpass filter

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Augmented? Built.

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Recreating a sound I heard in a Tangerine Dream song that a crush put on a mixtape for me in high school

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

/r/AgainstHateSubreddits existed for 4 years as "Debate and debunk hate groups". In 2019 I came on board, armed with a plan to get Reddit, advertisers, & app stores to understand that the hate groups were untenable.

9 months later, hate groups were banned across Reddit.

Chad Loder (@chadloder.bsky.social):

The way you defeat fascist movements is by disrupting fascist organizing, and — failing that, as history has shown — by killing fascists.

Nothing else has ever worked.

Countering fascist disinformation was never meant to be a way to disrupt fascist movements. It operates at the intellectual layer.

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

That wasn't by any debate. All we did was document and report. We made a herculean effort to excise the people who wanted to wrestle with the pigs. We followed Data & Society's Oxygen of Amplification white paper, and organised moderators & communities.

datasociety.net/library/oxyg...

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The Oxygen of Amplification

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

One of the things we absolutely learned - from behaviour, and often straight from their mouths - is that fascists want you to dance with them.

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Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I'm transgender;

I made a lot of Nazis & transphobes very angry by getting them kicked off Reddit;

I know too much about hate groups on 2015-2022 Reddit;

I am learning to read sheet music, play a keyboard, build synth patches, and I enjoy folk music & October Project.

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Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Get Signal

signal.org

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Signal Messenger: Speak Freely

Paul Frazee's Monster (@pfrazee.com):

👀 new app update starting to roll out, got some great work in this one by @haileyok.com @Samuel.bsky.team @esb.lol and crew

Katie Bitekitty 🧛♀️ (@juicysteak117.gay):

but now the font is ugly :(

Missing The Point (@missingthept.bsky.social):

https://bsky.app/profile/missingthept.bsky.social/post/3l66xs555pe2p

Missing The Point (@missingthept.bsky.social):

Which font will make my posts funnier?

Katie Bitekitty 🧛♀️ (@juicysteak117.gay):

segoe ui

Staccata (@stacy.is.relentlessly.online):

Lord Almighty Katie

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

She has  altered the  kerning

Pr ay she does not  alter   it further

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

And Truman signed it into law because LGBT = "Commies"

Nied (@nied.bsky.social):

This is something I bring up a lot because DADT is often thought of as something malicious Clinton did, when it's actually much more tragic. Clinton thought letting gays serve in the military would be an easy first-100-days executive order thing when the ban on LGBT service was black-letter law.

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I am an outlier, in that I refuse to donate blood / tissue, due to having lived in Europe for more than 6 months contiguous during the BSE outbreak.

Health authorities dropped the ban some years ago, but this is a disease that can take 50+ years to incubate. It's been 40.

Precautionary Principle.

Edith Laurie Charles (@edithcharles.bsky.social):

Queers are fond of vampires because unlike normal society we're actually allowed to donate blood to them

Cinderella Mechanicus (@hroethgar.bsky.social):

Same, I was eating school lunches in the UK for some of the 80s.

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Gotta start dinner

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

"Why would someone flood Wikipedia with BS / DDoS the Internet Archive"

Wikipedia & IA represent:

🔘 Knowledge;

🔘 Ontologies;

🔘 Ontological Methods.

When your bid for power rests on destroying history, science, government, journ*lism — and replacing them with authoritarianism —

David_j_roth (@davidjroth.bsky.social):

This is fascinating and 404 has been amazing on this beat, but I keep coming back to is the question of why. You can make money putting Shrimp Jesii on Facebook. Why would a person use AI to generate fake shit for Wikipedia? It's not even a scam, you can't make money off it. It's just vandalism.

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Wikipedia is knowledge curated by an ontological method, representing an ontology.

IA is knowledge curated by millions of ontologies, representing a fragmentary collective history

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

The "protest" DDoS & breach of IA has all the hallmarks of terrorism, replete with a dichotomy of target(s) and victims, purporting to be advocating for a secondary target/shield, while ultimately being a vulgar display of power: "Do what we want, or we can & will destroy a / the digital commons"

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Flooding Wikipedia with AI BS is also ultimately a vulgar display of power: "Do what we want, or we can & will destroy a / the digital commons"

I'm not confident in calling it terrorism per se, but an aspect of a larger campaign that also uses terrorism. Submarine aspects of a terror campaign

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

What should I call this patch

It sounds like a rubber band slap bass

daryl "dr. acula" bartley 🏳️⚧️ (@hypercubexl.bsky.social):

my brain:

horrors, money, failure, money, election, dysphoria, ugliness

also brain:

baby, why don't you come over?

red wine supernova, falling into me

(okay, y'all, let's pick it up now)

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

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Red Wine Supernova (Chappell Roan) SKA COVER (Ft. GET TUFF)

daryl "dr. acula" bartley 🏳️⚧️ (@hypercubexl.bsky.social):

I think ska is similar to the way steve martin talked about banjo music, it's very difficult to be depressed even if everything's sad

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

You are seeing aggression & quote posts b/c your post reads ⁂plainly⁂ as "The real problem is _the din of the voices pointing out_ there is a boot treading upon their necks".

You are a writer; You know what metonymy is.

Write an apology.

Juliet E McKenna (@julietemckenna.bsky.social):

Unfortunately I'm not seeing polite disagreement, but aggression and quote posts which are provoking more aggression and abuse. I choose not to engage and blocking is the most effective way to achieve that. I will continue to push back against transphobia online and IRL as I have done for decades.

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

So of course, rather than listen, be accountable, and change, the cis "ally" just proves that the plain reading was her intended reading all along, "Trans people are too loud about their extermination for my comfort, how dare you splash blood on my shoes"

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Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Those Who Refuse To Learn From History Doom Everyone Around Them To Repeat It, a story in Three Acts

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (@cpsc.gov):

Handsome Ron Halloween Safety Tips

Julia (@jesrcerulean.bsky.social):

But why are you using a European Robin?

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

So it can grip the coconut husks with its little feet

Two Furry Demons Pretending to be Cats, in a Trenchcoat (@anned13.bsky.social):

That would be a swallow.

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

You are seeing aggression & quote posts b/c your post reads ⁂plainly⁂ as "The real problem is _the din of the voices pointing out_ there is a boot treading upon their necks".

You are a writer; You know what metonymy is.

Write an apology.

Juliet E McKenna (@julietemckenna.bsky.social):

Unfortunately I'm not seeing polite disagreement, but aggression and quote posts which are provoking more aggression and abuse. I choose not to engage and blocking is the most effective way to achieve that. I will continue to push back against transphobia online and IRL as I have done for decades.

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

With all due respect, of course.

Juliet E McKenna (@julietemckenna.bsky.social):

Unfortunately I'm not seeing polite disagreement, but aggression and quote posts which are provoking more aggression and abuse. I choose not to engage and blocking is the most effective way to achieve that. I will continue to push back against transphobia online and IRL as I have done for decades.

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

The reason you are seeing aggression & quote posts is due to your top-level post above being read ⁂plainly⁂ as "The big problem is _the din of the voices pointing out_ there is a boot treading upon their necks".

You are an author; You know what metonymy is, & how passive voice works.

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Darn.

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

someone tell me to go to sleep...

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Go to sleep y' lil behhh beh

Go to sleep y' lil behhh beh

Y' momma's gon' away & y' daddeh's not a'stay

Don' lea nobody but the behhhhhh beh

You're a sweet lil behhhhhh beh

Y' a sweet lil behhhhhh beh

💋

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

angry goose

Your Honour, permission to treat the witness as hostile

WHICH ONES, MOTHERLOVER

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social):

Presented without comment.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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.