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I didn't vote. I also live in a state that votes the same every time.
> I didn't vote. As the great poet Taylor Swift puts it, "It's me, Hi, I'm the problem, it's me..."
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> Who is using Bluesky in the US? Everyone I know. I routinely see only bluesky links. Yes, if X/Grok is promoting Nazi content, then yeah, I'll hear about it. But beyond that, nothing important that happens isn't showing up on Bluesky. > Whenever something big happens I keep getting x.com links from friends. Is it just my friends? I think it's safe to say that if people are sending links to a certain site, they are…
> But beyond that, nothing important that happens isn't showing up on Bluesky. I would Press X to Doubt (perhaps ironically, for this X...). Searching around, it seems like Bluesky has about a tenth as many total users as X has active users, but it's definitely growing at a faster rate, and X might be declining in active users. Anecdotally, lots of people I noticed leaving for Bluesky very loudly and publicly quietly…
it's completely false for the ML technical discussion i'm interested in. here's a random topic, for instance:
https://bsky.app/search?q=%22induced+operator+norm%22 https://x.com/search?q=%22induced%20operator%20norm%22&src=t...
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#393I've been a long-time Twitter user. I don't hate Elon, so when he bought it I was cautiously optimistic. I deactivated last week. The platform is bad and getting worse. It's scammy and spammy. Everything is designed around garbage engagement, so that the X team can brag about how good the product is doing.
Only last week is shocking to me. People were saying this about twitter for like 10+ years as soon as it was commercialized and was no longer just user content.
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Fuck the salute. I can look at everything else he's done and still think he's a terrible individual that should not be given money or power.
Speaking of nuance, I find it rather unintuitive how it often seems like it's harder for people to have a nuanced opinion of other people than to have a nuanced opinion about a policy or software feature or specific situation. You'd think given how complicated and faceted people are it would be especially easy to find both good and bad things to say about them, but online at least it almost seems to be the opposite:…
I'm not required to find the good in a person like Musk. I'm allowed to look at the many shitty things he's done and terrible opinions he expresses and say "that is a shit man, and I do not like him or trust him."
He has probably done something for someone somewhere that wasn't terrible. Does it counterbalance the rest? Not really!
There's that (possibly apocryphal) saying, "and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel." Just because a nazi has a redeeming quality somewhere does not undo them being a nazi.
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If he wanted to do one, he would. Additionally, there are right wing groups that use the gesture. This just isn't a case of that. We need to learn to differentiate.
Musk definitely did several nazi salutes. Even did it with flourish like the hitler videos. Pretending otherwise makes you look like a sympathizer or a fool. Sorry.
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Is it untrue? You failed to address my point. Children are being left to die. SOMETHING is more important than that to the proponents of these policies. What is it? If it's lower taxes... they aren't achieving that goal. Taxes are only decreasing for the top 0.1% of the population and tip earners. If it's to lower the national debt that also isn't working. The national debt has increased at record rates. Is there som…
The most important goal IMO is to expose and weaken the misguided use and expansion of "soft power" in my name, with my tax dollars and without my consent. Ironically, one of the consistent outcomes is starving and dying children. They're just delivered asynchronously and from the "wrong" side of the ledger.
Are you "consenting" to starving children, then?
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Who is using Bluesky in the US? Whenever something big happens I keep getting x.com links from friends. Is it just my friends?
> Who is using Bluesky in the US? A lot of writers and creatives who could not stomach X.com anymore (and were then likely burned by Mastodon's geekiness). > Is it just my friends? If your friends are in the right-wing sphere (e.g. Joe Rogan listeners, etc), then yeah, likely.
The fact that the left defined Joe Rogan as right-wing for not adhering to very specific far-left tenets (e.g. de-platforming personas non grata and cooperating with cancel culture) only served to push him and his listeners rightward, and thus became a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Maybe GP genuinely enjoys madness.
If you grew up with image boards in their heyday (pre-2004) then X could feel a bit nostalgic. However the word filters (to suppress messages) does dampen it a bit.
I mean, is 4chan better than those image boards? or worse? how about 8chan
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Musk definitely did several nazi salutes. Even did it with flourish like the hitler videos. Pretending otherwise makes you look like a sympathizer or a fool. Sorry.
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They didn’t do the same thing.
Musk did a full on Sieg Heil motion repeatedly. The other people you mention without naming did not