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Seen: "AI Safetyism apparently means not just classic AI alignment but running the AI on the Hays Code to make it as inoffensive to every possible person ever."

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I never thought leopards would eat MY face, sobbed the man who sold his company to the leopard

Oh sure, Elon looks like a petty asshole now. But when the Unseelie court invades and you have to fight eldritch horrors who destroy you if you speak their names, you'll thank him.

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The new Twitter policies re: linking to other social media platforms are designed to do two things: to make it harder for you to export your social graph and to make a rule so broad that it can be used as an excuse to ban just about any account.

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Strange to walk away from
Twitter after ten years, but getting some new members of the Inner Hive is really raising my spirits. Thank you so much
(btw bit.ly/TeamDancingBug)

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RT @pickover
Reality shatter.

The left side and the right side of this lattice have the same number of black dots.

By Jacques Ninio and Kent Stevens, "Variations on the Hermann grid: an extinction illusion," Used with permission of K. Stevens.

Please enjoy Jeremy Kaplowitz performing a devastatingly vicious satire of Jerry Seinfeld youtube.com/watch?v=Fp8tCqwush

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twitter apocalypse - affects mastodon users 

the newest escalation is not just blocking links to known mastodon instances, but making it illegal to link to or DISCLOSE YOUR USERNAME on mastodon, facebook, instagram, and several other sites. help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-

John Mastodon didn’t die for this.

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"Hey can you send me that file"
"Sure here's my email address"

Elon Musk seeing the @ to another platform:
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Ironically, the Great Banning is the first time that Mastodon has felt like it's fulfilling the role for me that Twitter once did—a place to keep up-to-date on a fast-moving event, where everyone is talking about the same thing

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We would like to remind everyone that none of Torment Nexus products are *covert* surveillance devices.

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motherfuckers want to hate AI art and work themselves into arguing for practical common-sense regulation of Photoshop

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If you believe Elon Musk going bankrupt would be good for the world you have a moral duty to encourage this idea as much as possible twitter.com/elonmusk/status/15

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"[user] favourited your post" seems so awkwardly formal especially when it should obviously be "[user] booped your toot"

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