Bard spotting on Bluesky 14 January 2025

Chad Loder (@chadloder.bsky.social):

Extremism researchers:

Do you think Facebook's disinformation features have ever approached anything close to 90% effectiveness in limiting the spread of disinfo on the platform, at any point in Meta's history?

Chad Loder (@chadloder.bsky.social):

"[Meta]'s own analyses found that these classifiers could reduce the reach of these hoaxes by more than 90 percent"

This 90% figure was never a real number. That's Meta's own number and nobody has ever reproduced it.

Anyone who monitors MAGA groups on Facebook knows that number is bullshit.

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

FB isn't my scope, but I got into extremism research as platformed on Reddit by following the trail of the anthropogenic climate change denialist actors on Reddit, so Katharine Hayhoe's experience of Meta throttling her expert knowledge on the subject is very relevant.

Chad Loder (@chadloder.bsky.social):

I wonder if she'd mind being tagged

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

I don't think she'd mind ^_^

bsky.app/profile/kath...

Katharine Hayhoe (@katharinehayhoe.com):

And then there's this. bsky.app/profile/kath...

Nash (@radiodeadair.com):

The Windows file system hasn't been updated since 1993 and we still have both "Control Panel" and "Settings" colliding with each other for over a decade but nah you're right fam this is the play here

Ars Technica (@arstechnica.com):

Setsune Wave (@setsune.bsky.social):

It's fun to dig into Sound settings and see how many generations back each additional panel design goes.

Freya ΘΔ 🏳️⚧️🐉 (@freya.pet):

there's some exe's squirreled away in system32 that'll show the windows 3.1 file explorer it's wild

LordTheodoreXIII (@lordtheodore13.bsky.social):

For real? I wanna see this

Freya ΘΔ 🏳️⚧️🐉 (@freya.pet):

if you go into your start menu and search 'odbc data sources', in that settings menu, pretty much anything that lets you select a file will use the windows 3.1 explorer

mindstorm8191 (@mindstorm8191.bsky.social):

That's crazy. You would think that through all the iterations of Windows, M$ would have had file access modularized, then updated that module through each iteration.

But apparently new versions end up breaking old apps like this. So they have to keep the old file access systems in there

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

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Dr Henry 🧳🇨🇭 (@henryhenryhenry.com):

"adversary-owned platforms"

Senator Mark Warner (@markwarner.bsky.social):

I'm concerned that Americans are flocking to a number of adversary-owned social media platforms. We still need a comprehensive and risk-based approach to assessing and mitigating the risks of foreign-owned apps.

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

He is a member of the body of government charged with declaring such status. 99 to go

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

And from there, an opening to roll back Obergefell, then the Liberty University decision, then the 14th amendment entirely

Ari Drennen (@aridrennen.bsky.social):

The point of a trans athlete ban isn't to save women's sports, which most right wing commentators openly despise. The point of a trans athlete ban is to hand the Federalist society and the ADF a legal precedent for banning trans women from everything else, too.

Brendel (@brendelbored.bsky.social):

There's something just so perfect about a Lincoln Project guy going "you know how you resist? You WATCH TV"

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

"Watch TV in a way that is indistinguishable from support!"

Dr Nguyen Van Thoc (@copenstragan.bsky.social):

We call it "Hatewatching"

It's different because you usually "like" the TV you watch. Eh? Eh?

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

🧚🏻‍♀️

Social Media Lab (@socialmedialab.ca):

Meta's AI lawyer has fired Meta as a client b/c he believes that Meta's leadership has descended into "Neo-nazi madness" www.linkedin.com/posts/markle...

Anna Phylaxis (@quatoria.bsky.social):

that melancholy feeling when you discover a band and you vibe with them real hard and it turns out they split up and hate each other and stopped making music a decade ago

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

Me, 1993-present

p o t z {er} - 🏳️⚧️🐉🦝 (@potzer.xyz):

frick off dork

Ryan Wiggins (@ryan-n-wiggins.bsky.social):

I am seeing so many posts on social media about boycotting the inauguration. Don't you dare. Don't you dare turn your eyes away from history, even the awful, scary parts. If you don't watch it with your own eyes, you rely on others to tell you what you saw. We must all bear witness to what's coming

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

… like, there's so many things that could happen, and I don't want or need to see any of them.

No one is arresting him and frog marching him to jail.

p o t z {er} - 🏳️⚧️🐉🦝 (@potzer.xyz):

it's such a pathetic attempt at "patriotism" that absolutely does not register with anyone with an ounce of compassion in their hearts for the vast majority of people trump's about to severely frick over

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

Trump wants ratings. Hate views register the same as love views. There's an official historian and some journ*lists paid to record it.

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

I've even seen people say "show up to the parade route with kazoos"

Like, kazoos won't even register. They'll just register n+1 crowd size and pipe music over the kazoos

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.