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Bard spotting on Bluesky 24 October 2024 
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Current Registered Users: 28,371
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/h/bardfanns SETTINGS /h/bardfanns LOG /h/bardfanns MODS /h/bardfanns EXILEES /h/bardfanns FOLLOWERS /h/bardfanns BLOCKERS
Current software version: 207a559
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Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
This is also a User Safety fact
Evelyn C. Drake (@evelyncdrake.bsky.social):
And writing advice for fiction
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Ian Boudreau (@iboudreau.bsky.social):
The music video for You Can Call Me Al feels like looking at a TikTok video made in 1986
Mop Bucket (@mopbucket.bsky.social):
My understanding was that the reason the video is like this is that Paul Simon loathed music videos, just as Graceland was a hate letter to the US music industry.
No doubt it's not as simple as that, if it's true at all, but I kind of want to believe so
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
You say "Graceland was a hate letter" but I must object; ain't nothin' hateful about what Alison Krauss & Jerry Douglas floated into the world that night
...Ian Boudreau (@iboudreau.bsky.social):
I quite like Justin Townes Earle's stripped down version too
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
That is fantastic! The immediacy & dropping the spaces used by the absent instrumentalism makes it feel so intimate
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Decoding Fox News (@decodingfoxnews.bsky.social):
Greg Gutfeld said that Trump's McDonald's stunt made him more likable. Hitler would never do something like that. It would be like finding out that Darth Vader was your father.
Has he seen "The Empire Strikes Back"?
That would make Trump even more of a Nazi. π€
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Nobody tell Gutfield about Hitler & beer halls
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lena wife (@nebulena.net):
make up a transsexual to get mad at. im inventing one named nina and im mad at her because she erased my playstation memory card
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Nina should be sentenced to nine weeks working at the diaper laundry
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Genevieve (@jenuhveeve.bsky.social):
Anyone else being followed by a lot of scam accounts suddenly since the signup explosion a few weeks back? It's getting pretty badβ¦
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
I'm laughing so hard rn
Genevieve (@jenuhveeve.bsky.social):
Penny pls
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rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social):
This is a good dissection of the scam! I'll also note a few telltales of the account itself (bsky.app/profile/paul...) that shows you it's a scammer:
1. The icon, banner image, and image in the first post are all the same.
2. The only top level posts are image posts, and they all have the same pose.
taco socialist (@draggedbygoats.bsky.social):
Hi Rahaeli, I assume the reason for #1 is to scale mass account creation programmatically? And if that's the case, that also seems like it can be addressed on bluesky's end programmatically?
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Not Rah, but did some spam spotting on Reddit -
#1 is useful as one signal, but once the admins start actioning accounts algorithmically with a bias towards a given signal, the scammers shift; they're constantly A/B testing to find configs that don't get (immediately) clocked
taco socialist (@draggedbygoats.bsky.social):
Ahh, right! Jeez, I even have an associates in cyber-security, you'd think I would've clocked that! π
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
We all need those in-the-field continuing education workshops lol no worries
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Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Rah can write about this set of signals openly b/c they're all either something the scammers will inevitably change, or something they absolutely can't change (they invariably have to have a human pfp!)
They'll also find a config within normal bluesky new user patterns, eventually
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
This type of mini explainer helps people firm up their own skills in spotting the bot
rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social):
Yeah, the issue with automated detection is the people behind this kind of thing are constantly iterating the kind of thing that automation can detect. Sometimes you see multiple parameter shifts a day in a particular network!
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
That's another reason why service providers sometimes seem to "not effectively or swiftly kick the spammers / scammers out" - the T&S department can be waiting for the bad actors to show all they can do, & then boot them in one big batch. @piratesoftware.live discussed that approach on stream
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
It keeps the bad actors from figuring out what gave them away, while letting them fingerprint themselves
rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social):
Yeah, and letting an account age in place is sometimes effective because a lot of these networks have learned that there's a time-based element to detection: they make the account, let it age for 7 or 30 days or whatever, and then come back and activate it and do the suspicious stuff.
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Adam noHorns (@papazit.bsky.social):
is there a way to shift it? so the scammers chase instead of security reacting? i guess im asking can banks get ahead of bank robbers or something similarly dumb
rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social):
If someone figures it out they'll make billions. We've been looking for decades
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
In a way, the scammers are "chasing" "typical new user / established user appearance and behaviour" and that's their main, inescapable weakness. They only get profit by finding the one mark in ten thousand, before anti-abuse shuts them down, so they have to have lots of accounts.
rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social):
Yeah. There's no downside to them to flooding the zone with shit because they just have to get one thing past detection to score, but also there are some things they do that are inherently very unlike actual user behavior so there's stuff you can detect on. (And I don't talk about those!)
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Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Well this definitely explains a big, big chunk of Muskeroonie's geopolitics, including Starlink being turned off over Ukraine
This motherlover needs to not be controlling our community platforms, nor carrying our space payloads
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Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
@conspirator0.bsky.social , this is very much Your Thing, the Semiotics of Simulacra
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Claire All Along (@clairewillett.bsky.social):
Helen babygirl these are the words of a 5mg gummy person who took 10mg
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
That is a very Helen Mirren thing to say. Change of topic with panache
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J.M. Berger (@intelwire.bsky.social):
It sure is
Steve Pheley (@othersteve.bsky.social):
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Wikipedia dishes
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_O...
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Pookleblinky (@pookleblinky.bsky.social):
"Yum Brands said on Thursday that it was removing fresh onions from menus "out of an abundance of caution" at some of its KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell chains."
Isn't it cool that like one company now owns every restaurant and one farm makes all the produce that gets processed at one factory
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
One vertical agribusiness from farm to table
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Pookleblinky (@pookleblinky.bsky.social):
"Yum Brands said on Thursday that it was removing fresh onions from menus "out of an abundance of caution" at some of its KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell chains."
Isn't it cool that like one company now owns every restaurant and one farm makes all the produce that gets processed at one factory
LilacTransform (@lilactransform.bsky.social):
Is there any risk that these onions might be floating around in grocery stores?
Pookleblinky (@pookleblinky.bsky.social):
Probably not, remember how in 2020 there was a whole thing about how restaurants had a whole parallel supply chain.
Supermarkets would have their own single point of contamination that ends up affecting every single store
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
I used to work (IT) for Yum! ~25-ish years ago
They'd lock in deals to buy entire crops from an agribusiness, the way frito-lay buys entire crops of corn and potatoes. Those onions would only be destined for Yum restaurants
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Katie Bitekitty π§βοΈ (@juicysteak117.gay):
there's a lot of great stuff in here and the team is doing fantastic work but a line in particular:
"Part of our plan includes building payment services for people to support their favorite creators and projects."
i've been saying it for a while but bluesky could eclipse entire companies this way.
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
They're perfectly positioned to fast follow Patreon and also to take a slice of Brave's tokens.
Reddit should have found a way to do this, but seemed to have dropped it due to their policy of Not Collecting PII (req. by Patriot Act for financial transactions)
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Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
You know what's broadly abused?
Congressional immunity to prosecution w/r/t official actions they take in the course of their office
Like hiring people to overthrow the Constitution
Illuminostro (@geetnerd.bsky.social):
Agreed, this needs to be changed. DAs, prosecutors, SCOTUS justices. Obvious, blatant, and provable malfeasance should have severe consequences. They there is for every officer below SCOTUS, but prosecution is very, very rare. Witness recent executions of proven innocents.
Illuminostro (@geetnerd.bsky.social):
Because authority doesn't want to be embarrassed, or their authority besmirched.
Even one of the prosecutors of the Mendez case still says "It was all bullshit, they're guilty!" Yeah, they killed, but the second case excluded tons of testimony.
Illuminostro (@geetnerd.bsky.social):
My father never sexually abused me, but he slapped me around, destroyed my confidence and spirit, and I was absolutely terrified to the point of never approaching police about it. And in the early to mid 80's, they wouldn't have done anything, anyway. "Suck it up, you must have done something."
Illuminostro (@geetnerd.bsky.social):
It's not like they were Bundy, or Gacy. They didn't kill dozens of people for fun. If they did it for financial gain, why did the one brother confess?
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
My only knowledge of their case is television news coverage from their trial!
Illuminostro (@geetnerd.bsky.social):
The first trial ended with a hung jury. The second trial had such severe restrictions from the judge, it was obvious he wanted a guilty verdict.
Like I said, they did it, they confessed. But there was no indication they wanted to kill anyone else. It's been a long time. Give another look.
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Hopefully they get justice
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Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
You know what's broadly abused?
Congressional immunity to prosecution w/r/t official actions they take in the course of their office
Like hiring people to overthrow the Constitution
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_...
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Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
One of the great things about BlueSky is that here, you're free to be you.
You can call the posts here "posts"; you can call them "skeets"; you can call them "spores" or even "hyphae" if you follow the dev team's server naming convention, after fungi.
Whatever you and your culture enjoy ^_^
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
No, I'm not trying to bring back the mid-2000's trend of calling things "Hyphy"; why do you ask
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Molly White (@molly.wiki):
After I refused a bribe to remove a @web3isgoinggreat.com post about alleged crypto pyramid scheme co-founder Roman Ziemian, I've now received a fraudulent copyright claim aimed at forcing me to take it down
Badguitarist (@badguitarist.bsky.social):
I'm told that's a crime (presumably rarely if ever enforced tho)
SpoOKtato Gun Kelly (@potatogunkelly.bsky.social):
Having just checked I see private prosecutions are outlawed in both Cali and MA so there goes that idea for a fun crowdfunder
2HDFloppyDisk (@2hdfloppydisk.bsky.social):
If the offender files a DMCA notice with your service providers and you tell them it's fraudulent, they absolutely will pursue the offender for you.
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Mmm sometimes.
Sometimes it's impossible to locate the plaintiff, one
Jack B. Goode,
1234 Main Street,
Nowhere CA 95114
Badguitarist (@badguitarist.bsky.social):
Oh. THAT frickin' guy.
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HellRaea-ser πππ³οΈβ§οΈπ΄ (former peepeegirl π½) (@raeaa.bsky.social):
i groaned. so much.
HellRaea-ser πππ³οΈβ§οΈπ΄ (former peepeegirl π½) (@raeaa.bsky.social):
it was so try hard
Sage π³οΈβ§οΈπ (@trans.bsky.social):
ok but the penetration scene in the honda odyssey between Deadpool & Logan was lowkey kinda erotic tho
HellRaea-ser πππ³οΈβ§οΈπ΄ (former peepeegirl π½) (@raeaa.bsky.social):
i was very high but i have like totally memory holed that scene apparently ??
Sage π³οΈβ§οΈπ (@trans.bsky.social):
i may have just read more into the symbolism than intended but uhh
daryl "dr. acula" bartley π³οΈβ§οΈ (@hypercubexl.bsky.social):
I still haven't watched it but weren't most of the jokes "ha ha this would be funny if it were girly, or gay, right? but they're not gay! we'd never do that!"
the That in the Hat π³οΈβ§οΈ (@thatharper.bsky.social):
Yeah I just want to know, do Logan and Deadpool ever kiss, on screen
Or is it just gay chicken: the movie
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
There is bait. The bait has homoerotic harmonics, overtones, fifths, chords, and is in the key of Queer Minor with a key change in the third act to Queerbait Major
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Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
They'll never repair the university's reputation
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Avery Edison (@aedison.bsky.social):
so, uh, I had this appointment today, over the phone. call lasted a minute and a half. my GP was surprised that I'd been on estrogen for 14 years. "have you had a hysterectomy?" "no, I'm a transgender woman." "oh! oh, so you'll need to be on HRT for life" it was fine
Avery Edison (@aedison.bsky.social):
basically the best case scenario? I've been dreading this call for two weeks and it was absolutely not a problem. obviously this is one case, I'm just one person, but a bit of hope to contrast the original post? not that good news goes as wide as bad, ofc
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Bless your GP
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Spooky Nakamuraπ (@theredprince.bsky.social):
Troll -> @shariaforever.bsky.social
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Misogynist, transphobe, and proselytiser; reported & listed accordingly
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Aaron Sofaer βοΈ π³οΈπ (@aaronsofaer.bsky.social):
I think I've blocked literally hundreds of people in the last couple of days. Incel g*mer chuds, right wing freaks, scammers, alt-lefty wankers, tone policing jackasses... they all go on the block list of course.
They're all the same to me right now, because they all want the same thing: to harm.
Aaron Sofaer βοΈ π³οΈπ (@aaronsofaer.bsky.social):
"but they do it from a position of--"
I don't give a shit. Really genuinely do not care right now about their motivations. They have no better future which they imagine creating by their deeds; they want only the result of a worse world where they feel more righteous.
Log the frick off.
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Weighing their motivations is a trap.
The only thing that matters is that they're proselytising, hawking wares unsolicited, directing abuse, etc
The directly observable and describable facts are sufficiently evil.
Aaron Sofaer βοΈ π³οΈπ (@aaronsofaer.bsky.social):
Mmm. This is wisdom, indeed. It's just hard for me to ... to accept not being able to understand things, I guess, on like a "what are the reasons for this" I'm-a-nerd way. But that's pointless, it would be injurious to gain that understanding.
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
You aced the final exam in record time! Yes, it's just self-injury to rotate the "Why" in one's mind.
Aaron Sofaer βοΈ π³οΈπ (@aaronsofaer.bsky.social):
Hey, I got that reference!
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Granny panties and a dress. Granny panties and a dress.
6 foot 4 and a mugshot. 6 foot 4 and a mugshot.
Child abuse and no job. Child abuse and no job.
Living in mama's sunroom. Living in mama's sunroom.
Giant pale hands and lipstick. Giant pale hands and lipstick.
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