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573! (I am singing this to the dog). You've got six more hours of Bandcamp Friday and then these beauts are gone: bikinikill.bandcamp.com/merch/limite...
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This post ^^^ was about this story. Not clear if it checks out—and if so how much was just a few loud assholes—but a whole lot of people who know better than to trust a super-thin single-source story jumped on it. Everyone's tired.
bsky.app/profile/iwri...
(For those who missed the cluster of people screaming shit at a public health comms person here all day for suggesting that shame still isn't an effective tactic, bless you, carry on.)
I also get so mad! It sucks to have to use what I will shortcut as Kahneman's System Two in such high stakes situations but I don't see anything else working out.
Please list for me the public health challenges we have solved so far by telling people that they‘re stupid assholes who deserve nothing but shame.
“Scream at people that they’re stupid and wrong” remains such a popular comms strategy suggestion from people who have no model of mind at all.
The Scream
I am so sorry, much love to Talon.
I block people here every day for being bullies and bad-faith dipshits to other people and I very rarely need to block people for being assholes directly to me and I think these two things are related
Dude has always been 500 red flags in a trenchcoat
Kinda like an AI summary except it's all researched and assembled and double-checked by actual humans, as a gift. Weird.
This week's briefing is up! We track these things so you don't have to do it with your own smushed brain and put them in a place so you can see them all together.
This week, our big briefing is focused on trans healthcare, and we have quick updates from the Archives & History, Data Security, and Infectious Disease Control & Prevention teams.
unbreaking.org/blog/briefin...
Any set that contains both "whatever Blaine Cook is doing" and "some ass on LinkedIn tormenting his staff with the equivalent of my-nephew-can-redo-our-website-but-make-it-AI" is just not a very illuminating set.
I think the majority of people who are using it in a non-jokey way are really unclear about what fits into that range, is the thing. (The jokey use getting read as super-serious policy statement is unfixable context collapse, though.)
take it!
ilu chise
It‘s such a bad hairball and I have exactly the kind of bad personality that obsessively tries to unsnarl it whenever I forget to force myself not to. (Viz this morning when I was too underslept to catch myself before poasting)
Simon is great.
Doing myself a solid and turning off the QT option bc everyone's on their last nerve, including me
I myself think the way the term "vibe coding" is used in the discourse (meaning at least three different things which get conflated for rhetorical purposes) is obscuring so many distinctions as to be actively confounding understanding, but I'm just some guy in the context smash machine
In case you want to see more than a screenshot of the cover: publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ld...
New Book, The New Flesh, Tales of shapeshifters with some strangely patterned skins of fruits and forest...
Need a little distraction? Tales of the Weird...Shapeshifter stories coming soon from @britishlibrary.bsky.social drawn from the wildest imaginations of writers from Mary Shelley to Joan Aiken...who comes up with the comforting idea tha Wolves make the Best Fathers...
Well, I certainly am. Although the pathologies that concern me most don’t seem to be generation-bound, at least so far.
I will try harder tomorrow
Oh for sure, revolutions are full-blown nightmares. I read a pretty detailed account of the Terror last year and it was like very much like Bluesky discourse with live rounds.
idk man I just don’t think it’s great to hang out inside the large context collider and I would like to have better options
hey throw in about a hundred guillotines and we’re cooking
The Medina book is great, I went on a whole tear