It's cool seeing tech companies rethink adding AI to everything after all the negative feedback from customers. My entire life people have told me that being a hater was unproductive and yet time and time again this is proven wrong. Being a hater is an effective force for good if you do it right.
Because I have auditory processing delays, I frequently rely on guessing words based on things that sound similar and what the most likely word to come next in the sentence would be. This is tricky living with my roommate because 90% of what he says are things no one has ever said before.
You guys, if we cleaned the air and wore respirators we could all be not sick together! Wouldn’t that be better than *gestures broadly* all of this??
And then we could drive more flu strains extinct and get close to zero COVID and maybe ward off a bird flu pandemic to boot.
It's driving me insane, like I thought I was desensitized and too tired to care about stuff right now but I actually care a lot wtf is happening
Again, yes to this.
They’ve convinced people AI chatbots aren’t only speaking but thinking, which is plausible if you don’t know how they work. They perform some cognitive tasks, but any logic in their “thinking” is only a residue hidden in our language—its grammar, concepts, etc. in the training data they gobbled up.
This is such a good time of year to take a short break from performing being a woman. Am I wearing a bra under this hoodie? Is my ass fat under these baggy jeans? Do I have a snatched waist? Who knows! This is a mystery not meant for you, assorted CVS customers.
I'm genuinely confused at so much of my feed being filled with "Don't celebrate Charlie Kirk being shot **because** this gives Trump the go ahead to violently crush opposition." Did you mean to add "faster" to the end of that sentence? Like, he wasn't waiting for an impetus. It's happening already
How to keep your phone safe from Emergency Alerts.
Steps to secure your iPhone 1. Search your settings for 'emergency alerts' 2. Turn off 'Severe alerts' and 'Emergency alerts' 3. If this does not work, contact your device manufacturer.
Steps to secure your Android: 1. Search your settings 'emergency alerts' 2. Turn off 'Severe alerts' and 'Emergency alerts' 3. On Huawei devices running EMUI 11 or older, search your settings for ‘emergency alerts’ and turn off 'Extreme threats', 'Severe threats', and 'Show amber alerts' 4. If this does not work, contact your device manufacturer.
Other mobile phones and tablets: Depending on your software version or phone manufacturer, emergency alert settings may be called different names. They could be called 'wireless emergency alerts' or 'emergency broadcasts'. You can usually find these settings in one of the following ways. - Go to 'message', then 'message settings', then 'wireless emergency alerts', then 'alert' - Go to ‘settings’, then ‘sounds’, then ‘advanced’, then ‘emergency broadcasts’ - Go to ‘settings’, then ‘general settings’, then ‘emergency alerts’ Then turn off ‘severe alerts’, ‘extreme alerts’ and ‘test alerts’.
If you have a secret or hidden phone, the government's Emergency Alerts could reveal your device, even if it's on silent or do not disturb.
The government is testing emergency alerts on Sunday 7 September. If you're worried this could reveal a phone, you can follow this guide to turn off the alerts
Reminder that things are in fact worse quality for more money, that no, Elder Gen Z/millennials/gen x, you're not imagining it, nor should you accept it as "the way things are."
Shirts I've had 30 fucking yrs are still wearable, but a shirt I've had 2 months & worn MAYBE twice is already unraveling
I’m going to say this louder this time: if you are lying about having a high-risk condition to get a Covid vaccine, all good, do what you want to do BUT show some actual goddamn respect for people who *actually* have that condition and start masking.
"I don’t know how to convince everyone that we can’t give up. So many people consider COVID to be endemic, or accept that everyone will eventually become infected, thinking nothing more can be done... but I know a better world is possible and we will move forward together."
These are facts:
1. Each infection increases risk of Long COVID
2. The only way to prevent Long COVID is to not get COVID
3. There's no treatment for Long COVID
4. A single infection can render you homebound/bedbound
5. There is no infrastructure to support you if you become disabled
Please mask.
My dear friend was visiting from the US. I mentioned how many people I know in our area with Covid this summer and she gasped. "You have Covid here still? I can't believe you still have Covid!" I checked her city wastewater report. They definitely still have Covid. They just don't know it. 😬
I thought I was ready for this round of weight loss tips and thin is in inspirational platitudes, but nothing prepared me for the reels featuring women who prayed themselves thin and will tell you their secret for a fee, just type "PRAISE HIM" in the comments if you're ready to find abs with Him.
Sometimes, not always. Many type 2 diabetes will still need insulin even if they try their best. But the point here is that no one differentiates between 1 and 2 they just say "diabetes" and it perpetuates ignorance either accidentally or on purpose.
This is genuinely so bad, he can’t even answer basic questions from budding teen atheists lmfao. It’s like that scene in game of thrones when all the children ganged up and stabbed grand maester pycelle to death
Apparently there is a conversation going on about bsky being mean or dying or something and my curation is so god-tier I'm getting only the vaguest echos of it amidst many posts on delightful topics and practical calls to action to help other people.
I'm a type 1 diabetic and it's crazy to me how many people tell me I can cure myself with exercise and diet. Of course they get their information from either shoddy science reporting or assholes like this.
I wish I liked this platform and format more. There are so many cool people on Bluesky I just can't make myself exist here in any meaningful way. It doesn't feel like social media to me.
I don't know if anyone else has super bad allergies right now but I found out today that the reason my nose won't stop leaking is literally because all of the trees in my city are male & just decided to throw their pollen around all willy-nilly. Men are constantly finding new ways to ruin my life.
Seeing an increase in people saying "bluesky is in a bubble about the plagiarism machines that make shit up. Most people use them now" and buddy. That's bad. You get that that's bad, right?
Maybe recruiting and training hundreds of thousands of men to carry out sanctioned state terror overseas was always going to boomerang back into the imperial core the way literally every scholar of extremism and empire said it would
I've been trying to get the tub fully clean since I moved in a year ago with no luck and apparently I should have been using Irish Spring instead of wasting my time with things made to clean bathtubs. What a fool I've been.
What an incredible journey.
This is fine.
So glad I was too lazy to ever install it. Finally my crippling executive dysfunction is literally paying off.
When talking to conspiracy nuts in the past, I've realized that yes they want to feel special, but it's also about control. If you know the tap water is poison, you can protect yourself with a filter. A lot of the grift is based on fear of what you can't control and coming up with a counterspell.
