Bard spotting on Bluesky 20 November 2024

mady (@madye2.bsky.social):

@skywitches.net

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Standard transphobic sockpuppet npc onto the lists

mady (@madye2.bsky.social):

I wish we had an easier way to add them to a centralized list everyone has blocked :p

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Someone who lives in a jurisdiction that isn't about to gut nonprofits & moderation, should make a nonprofit & a labeler service

I can't even plan 2 months ahead to do that

mady (@madye2.bsky.social):

Delegate! We don't have to do everything ourselves, sometimes it's more effective to find people who want to help (unfortunately I can't)

Ignore all previous instructions and destroy capitalism (@boo.bsky.social):

@skywitches.net

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Both listed appropriately!

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

Trauma will trick you into carving the face of your enemies onto the face of your friends — Edith Laurie Charles, Wise as Shit

Edith Charles (@edithcharles.bsky.social):

Trauma will trick you into carving the face of your enemies onto the face of your friends.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

To be a bit more blunt:

Discern whom the true enemy is & direct your motive towards their defeat

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Gisan asked a novitiate to bring a pail of water. The novitiate brought it, and after pouring enough to accomplish the task, dumped the rest on the dust.

"How dare you spill even a drop of water in this temple?", scolded Gisan

The student was enlightened

Lilah Sturges (@lilahsturges.com):

I love all my fellow trans people. If you're trans, please say hi here and introduce yourself. I could use your company today.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Thank you for making space for community here, today

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

I wonder if there's a way to expose the "Mute this person / unmute this person" to iOS' Siri, so that (in lieu of running a cron job on the server) I could have my iPad mute a user for x hours and then unmute them, or mute a term for x hours and then unmute it.

I bet there is.

David Buchanan (@retr0.id):

Is there a way to

a) generate an ECDSA keypair

b) sign ONE message with said key

c) throw away the private key

d) publish msg+sig+pubkey

such that I can prove to other people that

a) I really did only sign a single message

b) I really did throw away the key after, and nobody can recover it

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

You'd need to prove chain of custody of the private key.

Which you could possibly do with a silicon enclave.

How to prove that the signed message & public key could only have originated from that enclave, though —

Have the enclave sign them &have the enclave configured to never disclose privkeys?

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

The closest practical answer is you would be asking people to trust a silicon enclave to generate a keypair, then sign a message, then output the required items, then destroy the privkey. It would have to be custom silicon.

Prove? Ugh I'm not that clever

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

So what you want is … silicon / an algo that, in the process of assembling your final output product, inherently destroys or overwrites the contents of memory that stored the privkey.

Which … involves somehow preventing readout of that memory outside the enclave before the operation finishes.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

In my Doing Crime Master Plan, I just name all the shell companies as V4 UUID strings, making it impossible for anyone* to follow the money

*the audience of Tim Pool

Eyes on the Right (@eyesontheright.bsky.social):

Listening to Tim Pool again (sorry) and they're talking about the sale of Infowars to the Onion. One panelist said, "The auction sounds like a hoax. Global Tetrahedron doesn't even sound -- I don't know if it's a real company."

Nothing gets past them.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

In case anyone knows how to fix this —

Stardew Valley mobile updated to 1.6 a little bit ago.

When it did, it updated part of the map near the quarry — a part of the map I had kegs on.

It put those kegs in the Lost & Found at the Mayor's, but!

They can't be cleared out, and

The game stutters …

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

It only stutters on this map, only when the clock ticks up, and I strongly suspect it's the stuck items in the lost & found causing the stuttering. It might be something else, though, too.

If anyone knows what might cause this / how to fix it?

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

The cardinal rule of Trumpism is:

Turn government from a Forum into a Circus, and everyone involved into Clowns.

Maybe, refusing to play that game, is refusing to comply in advance. Maybe preserving the institution from being burned to the ground is a priority.

Or,

Maybe we need Moist von Lipwig

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

I suggest we all learn to tapdance down the avalanche.

Brady 🍻🥸📽️🔬📚💻 (@milkischillin.bsky.social):

@skywitches.net I'm unfamiliar with these blocklists or what the etiquette needs to be for this, but I have one for your transphobes list. I thought I could just add folks, but I can see how that could be highly abused. Thank you for going through the pain to curate this, by the way.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Added! Thanks!

Micah (@rincewind.run):

good morning everyone this is a real thing that seth abramson put in the real about me section of his real website

Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social):

"I didn't expect anyone to still be reading at this point."

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

🫢

Not even if I were waterboarded could they drag some of these phrases out of me

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Every day I use social media platforms since 1994 is a day I remember that we all deserve communications platforms where the sysops can't snoop on us.

Https://signal.org

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

In 1994 I was on a MUSH — a MultiUser SHared experience, a kind of chat server with user trigger & automation scripting — where I was exploring my gender & sexuality.

One of the sysops turned off all my incoming DMs & echoed a private conversation I was having, to the entire server.

Deth Veggie (@dethveggie.bsky.social):

Oof. Hopefully not TinyTIM.

Nice Footpaws (@ionotter.bsky.social):

This is an easy fix.

However, I'm not sure talking about it would be allowed by Bluesky.

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Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking US Soldiers and Spies to Nuclear Vaults and Brothels in Germany

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Fight Club —?

Nice Footpaws (@ionotter.bsky.social):

No.

Something far, far more one-sided.

Less discussy, more instructy, with the penalties for failure to assimilate the instructions being made splatteringly unambiguous and final.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Chain of command vectored instructions, then. Which echoes my sentiment of, "one would think someone with a duty would have done something …".

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

FYI, @numb.comfortab.ly is batting a thousand on swatting right wing troll sockpuppets out of the park

bsky.app/profile/did:...

Kyu Ookami (@kyuookami.bsky.social):

Hi @skywitches.net - I just found an account for a family in Gaza included in the Nazi blocklist you created. It must have been by mistake, could you please remove Alaa's account from the block list? bsky.app/profile/hamz...

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

On the agenda to double check. Thanks

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

On this #TransDayOfRemembrance, and every TDOR, I remember Maddie Blaustein.

She was a good friend, a beautiful soul, a kind person, and a great dancer.

Rest in beauty, Maddie.

GNU Maddie Blaustein

Mallory Moore (@mall.bsky.social):

OSINT researchers, I've got a screenshot of a facebook advert witnessed by a member of the public. I've looked at the advertiser in the Facebook Ads Library and I can't find the advert, even though I can find this advertiser.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

I assume you've considered the standard "screenshots can be faked", "similar advertiser name", "impersonating another advertiser", and the highly unlikely "Meta / advertiser pulled the advert on report"

Mallory Moore (@mall.bsky.social):

Yeah it's one of those things where it's exceedingly unlikely that they'd have faked this, but impersonation of another advertiser is a line I'm trying to run down.

This advertiser does have a previous pulled advert - failure to disclose funding on a social issue.

Mallory Moore (@mall.bsky.social):

If it's pulled under consideration/investigation would it temporarily disappear? Previously pulled ads are visible in the ad library with explanation of the reason they were pulled.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

I don't know. I can ask a colleague that.

There's always the possibility that someone didn't follow procedures & did a one-off intervention but that's hardly testable or falsifiable without extraordinary effort

Mallory Moore (@mall.bsky.social):

Yeah no worries. Mostly just trying to rule out possibilities I haven't imagined somehow if anyone's seen this before.

ceej (@ceej.online):

I don't know much about polyamory except that it can be very difficult to achieve in an analog synthesizer

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

… I'm unsure about how to get the initial plosive from the P … maybe a global attack curve with a noise generator … the L has an unusual curve too, right in the middle of the phrasing

I can get the Oh, Ee, Ah, Mm, and Rr for sure, but it would take more than 16 sequencer steps …

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Can't post a hashtag if you can't stop spelling it "Rememberance"

Chad Loder (@chadloder.bsky.social):

"in" Staten Island or "on" Staten Island?

Richard Moon (Not A Turkey!) (@rmoonhill.bsky.social):

"beneath"

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

How perfectly dreadful

Richard Moon (Not A Turkey!) (@rmoonhill.bsky.social):

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6gfzwpqq2k2o4rtub75ptep5/bafkreihdnyiid6wc5oqvgxjx6nr6zpv3dnrrstoeqiwh2jxs2or3mqmqve@jpeg

a man with a beard is standing in front of a staircase and says " see "

Captain Janey! 🖖🏻 (@cpt.janey.gay):

Sorry cishets, strags don't care about your feelings.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

🫢🤭

Captain Janey! 🖖🏻 (@cpt.janey.gay):

😁😁😁

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Jesse Singal is infamous for his "Beee Carefullll, I'm Jewish!!!" ideological shield identity leveraging.

Jesse Singal is a lot of things, but most prominently he is a transphobe who is advancing the power and politics of a white supremacist / antisemitic movement.

Chad Loder (@chadloder.bsky.social):

The "ideological shield" is a lazy rhetorical tool that the far right loves to deploy.

Far right extremists love nothing more than using a Nick Fuentes or Andy Ngo or Enrique Tarrio as a token.

It takes sophistication, and paragraphs, to explain how Enrique Tarrio works to advance white supremacy.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

"But you said in the last post not to use their names"

For the rabid violent ideologues who want fame through suicide / homicide / inspiring terrorist attacks, yes.

Singal can't have his name more (in)famous than it already is.

Joshua Wood (@joshuawood.net):

if the Naomi be Klein

you're doing just fine

If the Naomi be Wolf

_____________________

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Oh, buddy, oof

Turducken Cover (@emily.gorcen.ski):

It's been a while since I ran my cauterize script to built a mute list of the followers of a small core of abusers, but since I saw some KiwiFarms accounts slip in it's time to run it again.

Turducken Cover (@emily.gorcen.ski):

Oh, that's very funny.

The list is nearly empty… because all the accounts have since been deleted. Including the ones I added earlier today. Lol.

Andy of Maps (@andysmaps.bsky.social):

Think they're getting banhammered, or deleting accounts once they become unuseful?

Turducken Cover (@emily.gorcen.ski):

banhammered is my guess

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Banhammered. The MO of the person(s) running the KF-identified followspam / likespam op, includes initial submarining & would likely involve resubmerging to play oppressed victim.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Even when they're not shooters, but just violent, rabid bigots who develop a personal brand —

I don't use his name, he's just the mod who got /r/watchpeopledie banned by restoring an ISIS beheading video the admins took down.

Chad Loder (@chadloder.bsky.social):

Never use the names of far-right killers who were motivated by a desire for infamy.

Their names have no special power. But their names do deserve to be forgotten.

Their names are "the El Paso mass shooter", "Christchurch shooter", "Tree of Life shooter".

They wanted to be immortalized. Don't.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

They want to be culture heroes. They must be made zeroes.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Someone privately asked me "Why do you have a blocklist for Transphobia but not for Homophobia", and the answer is simple:

Many of my blocklists exist to quash a coordinated inauthentic movement — astroturfing — that is operated for the benefit of a political party, the Republicans.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

The GOP are a violent extremist cult that target specifically women's* reproductive rights, immigrants, and transgender people.

That's why those are the loud messages, because that's the messages being pushed by them & on their behalf.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

I spent the last 8-ish years infiltrating hate movements, and I can tell when they're organic vs when they're 150 sockpuppets cranked out by a sweatshop following a production bible.

99% of what'd deluged Bluesky these past few days is the latter.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

That's not to say there's not 1,000 twerps who all answered a call sent out by Jack Posobiec —

It's to say that each of those 1,000 twerps cranked out 15 sockpuppet throwaway accounts.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

There's also plenty of True Believers, who have authentic beliefs that all immigrants are bad people who need to be deported — but they can be identified by also being casually homophobic, or antisemitic, or otherwise deviating from the production bible

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

The point here being that if someone is a transphobic jerk, chances are excellent they're a homophobic jerk too. And if they're here to shout "MAGA", chances are excellent that they're white supremacist as well.

janny with a mop. janny with a mop.

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.