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Bard spotting on Bluesky 23 January 2025 
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Staccata 🪄 (@stacy.is.relentlessly.online):
sorry hey does everyone here hate me?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
No! You're a sweetheart
Staccata 🪄 (@stacy.is.relentlessly.online):
thank you Ms Penny 🩷🩷🩷
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Anil Dash (@anildash.com):
A thing I've been saying for a while but have not had a chance to write about is that Yahoo Pipes in 2007 (especially in combination with their related product YQL) could do a great deal of the "wow" stuff people want to attribute to GenAI. Much of the "breakthrough" isn't LLMs but structured data.
Mark Demeny (@markdemeny.com):
Pipes would probably have raised hundreds of millions if it were a startup today. 🤷♂️
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It would be used, immediately, to mine BitCoin.
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 (@unormal.bsky.social):
you honestly love to see this
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The reddit admins scrupulously avoid (unless absolutely necessary, and then only in a way that applies equally to all subreddits) telling subreddits what to do, because "You can't ban links to x dot com" is the kind of thing that converts volunteer mods to employees.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
And I have seen a coordinated and controlled effort to take over a website; the operators of /r/cringeanarchy, /r/the_donald, /r/metacanada, and /r/conservative (among others) were involved in it in 2017. /r/friendly_society was a white supremacist conspiracy to harass other mods off the site.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Sorry, 2018, not 2017. It's been two decades since 2020, seems like
🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 (@unormal.bsky.social):
400 years
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Tony Sladky (@unitedshoes.bsky.social):
Can you please explain what was meant by "converts volunteer mods to employees"?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Because of various court decisions about internship, labour law, and the employees of UCHISPs giving direction to volunteer mods: if the employees of a UCHISP give directions to (manage) volunteer mods, they're legally employees, not third-party, arm's-length volunteers. It creates that relationship
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
That's part of the reason Reddit spun off the Reddit Gifts program, shut down having an employee work with moderators to run AMA interviews, and community / T&S stopped "working closely with" the mods of the "defaults"
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Foxhack / Dave Silva (@foxhack.bsky.social):
But they still removed mod powers from people who closed down subreddits during the API debacle.
What's to say they won't do it again, forcing these subs to allow links to Xhitter or else be forcefully replaced?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Ah! They removed moderator privileges from people who closed down subreddits with the express purpose of denying Reddit advertising revenues, or inducing people to cease using Reddit. These are both civil torts of interference with business relationships.
Also —
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The "API Debacle" is a controversy manufactured by a group of people who had been kicked off the site for operating hate groups and a group of people who had been stealing service from reddit thru use of the API.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The Reddit API had been mismanaged for ~6 years, because the employee who had been in charge of it, well, it wasn't his primary or even secondary job responsibility, and an overhaul of it was down the list of priorities behind improvements that generate more users & revenue
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
However, the API User Agreement from 2016 explicitly disallowed the things which the large Third Party App developers were doing with the API. Reddit came to them and said, "You've abused it for 6 years at no charge while raking in $$$$$$+ apiece, sharing none of that back; Let's talk" —
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
And one of them tried to extort Reddit.
At the same time, a cohort of people who had run i.e. CringeAnarchy & The_Donald and MillionDollarExtreme & CoonTown & worse, used their access to a Reddit Moderator Groomercord to urge them all to "unionise" and go dark to extort Reddit.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Those who went along with that are the ones who were demodded.
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Foxhack / Dave Silva (@foxhack.bsky.social):
I never heard anything about hate groups.
All I heard was that their forced API changes and excessive fees made a lot of friends have to abandon the apps they used be able to read the site without having to deal with their ridiculous design choices and overwheming ads.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
You never heard anything about hate groups because it takes time to research and build knowledge and dig up backroom discussions, while the pretexts used get around the world in a flash.
Granted, the native Reddit app was garbage, then.
However - apps that existed for i.e. blind accessibility …
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
And moderator supporting apps, etc - those were given full and free access to the API.
Reddit's change in business pricing for the firehose was to shut down people whose business model was to strip advertising & user privacy from the site
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Another reason the API change was made was to shut down people whose operations were literally just "fusker every NSFW photo off the site from every public subreddit & as many private subreddits as possible"
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Some of these groups were enabling minors to access explicit pornography, circumventing the site's access controls, in multiple felony violations; some were harvesting and non-consensually sharing intimate media shared to groups in confidence.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
These also were never mentioned by Reddit; They were brought to Reddit by concerned redditors who had been affected by these issues.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
At any rate, apologies if you felt compelled to read this far; I am cursed with too much knowledge of why Reddit was dysfunctional 2015-2022, because I needed to kneo, to Karen at Reddit admins over it all that time
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what is bro yapping about
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Ah! Arthritis, my old friend
You've crucified my hand again
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil (@gwensnyder.bsky.social):
Plenty of actual, literal, historical German Nazis operating under Hitler were just narcissistic buttholes willing to do anything for power.
The "are they true believers in their hearts of hearts" question isn't the litmus test for Nazism.
David Avallone (@davallone.bsky.social):
The smartest history teacher I ever had responded to questions about thoughts and intentions with "so what? Who cares?"
He considered thoughts and intentions unknowable. History is what people DO. You wear the armband, you make the salute… you're a Nazi.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
/signed
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
What this also means, if this argument stands:
Jewish people* (who have dual citizenship with Israel) will have their US Citizenship revoked.
Catholics* - because they "have immediate allegiance to the Vatican" - will have their citizenship revoked.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
And yes, buying naturalisation
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Are you an adherent of any tradition of Bhakti Yoga?
This is an attempt to have your citizenship stripped
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Scientologist? Guess what. Citizenship stripped
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
FRICK YOU DONALD TRUMP FOR MAKING ME DEFEND SCIENTOLOGISTS
Alex Nicholson (@allpunandgames.bsky.social):
Can we just sic the Scientology lawyers on the Trump lawyers? Sounds like a very expensive and time-consuming win-win to me.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Heeheeheeheeheehee
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
If you are a medical practitioner, and you voted and organised for Trump / Republicans — congratulations, your profession is about to be replaced by a regex written by a Redditor
Anna Rompage (@annarompage.bsky.social):
Wondering if this is the next step past Hims\Hers online pharmaceutical prescription services
I believe a practitioner currently has to do a consult to provide weight/s*x/psych meds to online patients
Also, will it fulfill requests for ivermectin and other fad drugs
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vortex egg, MLIS (@vortexegg.com):
Reminder for everyone that when it comes to information systems, drives toward "neutrality" and "removing bias" are, in fact, social agendas that function by concealing biases and replicating existing assumptions about who is served, and who is not served (or is harmed) by that information or system
vortex egg, MLIS (@vortexegg.com):
For these people however, these phrases also mean that they intend to positively inject these system with explicit biases
vortex egg, MLIS (@vortexegg.com):
Silicon Valley is going to invent a basilisk that is so fricking racist
vortex egg, MLIS (@vortexegg.com):
There is no such thing as neutral or unbiased information or data. All data exists as an observation of some phenemonon from a particular point of view, and operatianlized to a particular end. All information and organization of info serves some person or community, toward some end, but not others.
vortex egg, MLIS (@vortexegg.com):
How would you identify what an "ideological bias" is, if not but from the vantage point of another ideology? All epistemic paradigms are necessarily ideological because they exist as social constructions derived from historical practices carried out by people in communities w/ relationships to power
vortex egg, MLIS (@vortexegg.com):
And if you want to deny this and claim,"well science is unbiased and maybe they just mean to carry out building these systems in line with the epistemology of science", you should look at all the executive orders trashing US medical research agenda and contradicting the biological sciences
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
(Also, science is not unbiased, recognises it is not unbiased, and simply has methods to account for and track potential biases, so they can be evaluated by people using the literature)
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Y'all, I've had a radical change of heart.
I no longer believe 100% that Elon Musk gave a Nazi Salute.
Also, I think Elon Musk is #1 🖕🏼🖕🏼 with both fists
Elon 🖕🏼
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
בִּנְיָמִין נְתַנְיָהוּ 🖕🏼 Number One in my book!
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Trump #1 🖕🏼!
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
No celebrities know me, so, none.
Maybe if it's a really excellent actress or actor who is performing with me in a scene and disbelief is suspended — that's the only foreseeable scenario
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
in the interests of not giving any actors/actresses shirt shrift or undue hype, I'll reserve judgement until such comes to pass
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
*short
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I am listening to Chrigel Glanzmann growl out invocations in long-dormant languages and I can feel the sap in my roots begin to thaw and rise
He raises his arms invoking birth and screams "Heck frickkin' yeaaaah motherlovers danke schoen!"
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
And now they are performing "Breathe",
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Doll (@dollspace.gay):
doll goes blank and begins to assemble a rifle
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Mordant; Gauloise; Drittensaftige; Theodromism; Portential.
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emily (@memilies.bsky.social):
there's a scene in emilia perez where the title character, pre-transition, opens her shirt to show zoe saldana's character that she's been taking estrogen, and it's played like a horror reveal. second worst moment in the movie.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Well, this ensures I will never watch it. Thank you
emily (@memilies.bsky.social):
you are missing nothing! watch nickel boys instead if you want to watch a best picture nominee.
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
… and the question everyone wants the answer to, "Did she change or did they finally find the line she won't cross?"
(@derpgently.bsky.social):
When Collins and Murkowski vote against GOP interests, I always assume it's going to pass, and they had permission to maintain their centrist creds.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
That's a viable third option!
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Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):
i need someobe to be in charge of making sure i never leave the house without my scs controller ever again
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
😔 🫂
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
From Reddit Comments:
"It's not a Nazi Salute, it's a Strangelove Salute!"
(@dogsbody1524.bsky.social):
Please tell me that was a sarcastic comment and not a genuine one
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It was sarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrccccccaaaaaaaaaaaaassssttttttiiiiic indeed
(@dogsbody1524.bsky.social):
Thank god for that. How wonderful to live in a time where its not immediately obvious if its sarcasm
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Sable, Sapphic Wet Nightmare 🏳️⚧️ (@ghostlysable.bsky.social):
If I hadn't suppressed my T I would be Stable.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
kkkkk
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zoë (@zo-e.xyz):
prayer circle for chatgpt to stay down and also for all the data centers to experience catastrophic failure 🕯️
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
🕯️
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I don't hate TERFs.
TERFs want to take my family, community, friends, health, safety, life, freedom, possessions, rights, & personhood from me because I said "This phenotype & social role isn't for me."
I refused those, & I refuse to give my dignity, happiness, heart, mind, & soul to them as well.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I was angry. Who wouldn't be? I still am, many times.
But I will not tie myself to them and their fate with their methods.
Forgiveness exists not for those forgiven, but so that the forgiver does not devolve into a wretch.
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pid 777 /.arch (@remfoxxi.testbench.gay):
I don't have the fricking spoons to deal with your fricking bullshit so shut the frick up.
pid 777 /.arch (@remfoxxi.testbench.gay):
@skywitches.net it's yours to determine
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Thanks. NFT for me stands for No Frickin' Thanks!
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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.
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