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Osna.FMosnafm
2026-02-15

Karin Prien, Germany's federal minister for families and sister‑in‑law of the late Christian Democratic leader Rita Süssmuth, is pressing for a swift overhaul o... news.osna.fm/?p=34530 |

Clashing Headsclashingheads
2026-02-15

UNTRUTH Social! Lefty Al says Trump’s fingerprints are all over Truth Social’s racist tropes about the Obamas. Righty Jim calls it fake outrage. The mystery staffer remains unnamed — and unfired. The staffer: FAKE? The clash: REAL! You decide.

Full YouTube podcast: youtu.be/HjhdMMLpAF4

サファイア・ネオsapphire_neo@mastodon.world
2026-02-15

死の重さ
最近命ばかりを重んじ、死を否定したり、拒否する風潮が目立ちます。

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サファイア・ネオsapphire_neo@mastodon.world
2026-02-15

The weight of death
Recently, there has been a noticeable trend of valuing life and denying or rejecting death.

note.com/poison_raika/n/n4186e

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#recently #noticeable #denying #rejecting #death #many #people #force #something #discussion #influence #economic #because #start #recognize #decide #misunderstand #considere #extremely #important #various #abortion #debate #unwanted

サファイア・ネオsapphire_neo@mastodon.world
2026-02-15

вага смерті
Останнім часом спостерігається тенденція цінувати лише життя і заперечувати чи відкидати смерть.

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ポイズン雷花poison_raika
2026-02-15

死の重さ
最近命ばかりを重んじ、死を否定したり、拒否する風潮が目立ちます。

note.com/poison_raika/n/nf5a7f

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ポイズン雷花poison_raika
2026-02-15

The weight of death
Recently, there has been a noticeable trend of valuing life and denying or rejecting death.

note.com/poison_raika/n/n4186e

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ポイズン雷花poison_raika
2026-02-15

вага смерті
Останнім часом спостерігається тенденція цінувати лише життя і заперечувати чи відкидати смерть.

note.com/poison_raika/n/n5932c

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サファイア・ネオsapphire_neo@mastodon.world
2026-02-13

死の重さ
最近命ばかりを重んじ、死を否定したり、拒否する風潮が目立ちます。「死んだら駄目」、「生きろ、生きていれば何か良い事が有る」、等と云って生きる事を強制する様な事が多々有ります。

pixiv.net/novel/show.php?id=23

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#recently #noticeable #denying #rejecting #death #many #people #force #something #discussion #influence #economic #because #start #recognize #decide #misunderstand #considere #extremely #important #various #abortion #debate #unwanted

サファイア・ネオsapphire_neo@mastodon.world
2026-02-13

The weight of death
Recently, there has been a noticeable trend of valuing life and denying or rejecting death.

pixiv.net/novel/show.php?id=23

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#recently #noticeable #denying #rejecting #death #many #people #force #something #discussion #influence #economic #because #start #recognize #decide #misunderstand #considere #extremely #important #various #abortion #debate #unwanted

サファイア・ネオsapphire_neo@mastodon.world
2026-02-13

вага смерті
Останнім часом спостерігається тенденція цінувати лише життя і заперечувати чи відкидати смерть.

pixiv.net/novel/show.php?id=23

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#recently #noticeable #denying #rejecting #death #many #people #force #something #discussion #influence #economic #because #start #recognize #decide #misunderstand #considere #extremely #important #various #abortion #debate #unwanted

ポイズン雷花poison_raika
2026-02-13

死の重さ
最近命ばかりを重んじ、死を否定したり、拒否する風潮が目立ちます。「死んだら駄目」、「生きろ、生きていれば何か良い事が有る」、等と云って生きる事を強制する様な事が多々有ります。

pixiv.net/novel/show.php?id=23

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ポイズン雷花poison_raika
2026-02-13

The weight of death
Recently, there has been a noticeable trend of valuing life and denying or rejecting death.

pixiv.net/novel/show.php?id=23

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ポイズン雷花poison_raika
2026-02-13

вага смерті
Останнім часом спостерігається тенденція цінувати лише життя і заперечувати чи відкидати смерть.

pixiv.net/novel/show.php?id=23

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BlueCyberSerpentBlueCyberSerpent@neon-blue-demon-wyrm.x10.network
2026-02-13

A Thing I Miss About Old-School Forums Was It Was Harder to Bull Shit People

I don’t miss old-school forums. However, one of the very few norms I do miss about them is that you were required to support your argument with sources.

On present social media, sources don’t matter. Evidence doesn’t matter. It only matters if enough people with a large enough pool of influence say it so frequently that it becomes the norm and the consensus. It has become out of the norm for anyone to ask for sources. They see massive accounts with massive influence on a platform saying it in a trending section, their feeds, their For You pages, etc., and they adopt it. No questions asked. And if there is dissent, they are promptly beaten down, because the consensus is what these authority figures say without evidence. That was not the norm on bulletin board forums. Not at all.

It doesn’t matter if it is Reddit, Bluesky, or Mastodon—scrolling through the trending topics section prompted this—people will write out an opinion they know others will likely disagree with, prima facie, as if it is well supported. As in, it has zero evidence. Then people collectively affirm that unsupported argument until it becomes a consensus. Then, when it drums up engagement, they flesh out the argument as if it is well supported.

While you’re talking to real people on the fediverse and maybe Reddit (albeit it might be a real person who had an LLM draft a response), I know for a fact from software developers that AI agents simulating users on Bluesky are running around, and they are so convincing you cannot tell it is an AI agent. I brought up that point because old-school astroturfing would work by creating a call-and-response dynamic with a person planted in the audience to artificially create a dialogue where a narrative forms and spreads.

You see it all the time on TikTok, where a TikTok influencer responds to a random comment. Now that AI agents are reaching the point where their simulations of people are accurate predictions of people, they can fool human intuition. Hell, Bluesky has an entire section of their documentation dedicated to setting up bots.

https://docs.bsky.app/docs/starter-templates/bots

Here is the starter script to make bots on Bluesky:

This folder contains a starter template for creating a bot on Bluesky. In this example, the bot posts a smiley emoji on an automated schedule once every three hours.

https://github.com/bluesky-social/cookbook/tree/main/ts-bot

And, of course, you create the disease so you can sell the cure. And, of course, after flooding networks with bots, you have bot detectors

Bluesky Bot Detector

Check if an account is likely to be a bot. Our algorithm analyzes multiple factors including posting patterns, profile characteristics, and network behavior. It is still a beta, take the results with a grain of salt…

https://bskycheck.com/botcheck.php

Yeah, the fediverse has automated accounts, too. But they are not LLM agents. Examples of this on Bluesky are Letta AI Social Agent, Bluesky Automation Agent, Telegram to Bluesky Agent, and LLM Bot Framework. It absolutely blows my mind how much anti-AI discourse on Bluesky is actively spread by AI itself, where it collects data from how real people interact with it, spreads it, and internalizes narratives from it. There are two versions: good ones, and bad ones. The bad ones exist so that people make incorrect associations and underestimate their ability to tell what is and isn’t an agent. Since the fediverse and Bluesky are tightly correlated with the same memeplex, it spreads here memetically.

They create the impression of a consensus that is then adopted, such that it becomes the consensus. This would not have been very effective within the culture of old-school bulletin boards, because everyone’s default mode was skepticism—they would ask for corroborative sources, read the sources, and even explain to whoever posted them why it was a bad source.

What prompted this was an arbitrary heuristic about the number of people you should have within a collective, coalition, etc., with zero proof and zero evidence on Mastodon.

I’m not in high school anymore. I am not in college anymore. Because of things like this, I have contempt for your average Internet user and am not interested in creating or running communities, personally. You guys are insufferable as fellow users; I wouldn’t want to be in charge of managing your social interactions. I don’t want to admin an online community in any shape, way, or form—especially for free. I have a husband and a kid—although I don’t have custody of my son; that is a long story. So, no, I don’t miss forums, because as someone approaching 40 (I will be 38 this year), I am in a different space in life.

In case you’re wondering what the hell I am talking about, whenever I address misinformation outside of narrow contexts, I don’t explicitly mention it, because that actually creates a memetic payload. One of my biggest frustrations about people who argue online against misinformation is that they spread it. Think of it like this: when you requote something, quote it in the text, or share screenshots, your response is the wrapper, and we can view the misinformation as the payload. It is like hiding poison in food.

When you argue against misinformation and you don’t abstract it to quarantine the harmful memetic aspects, your rebuttal is a wrapper. A person who is susceptible to the memetic contagion will disregard your argument—the wrapper—and consume the misinformation.

I do not miss forums; however, I do miss cultural norms where people actually cared about facts. Influence is a form of power, and when you seek power where someone else loses, that is called domination. I miss when people cared about genuine collaboration instead of dominating and abusing each other.

I am keeping tabs on the tech discourse here concerning features people want. There’s an intersection and a convergence between Bluesky’s transparency report and what people are screaming about here: harassment. It is sort of like how people were giving Bluesky a hard time about user moderation tools being used to block Nazis instead of suspending them. The issue is that it was indicative of a culture tolerant of Nazis. The fact that the tools existed indicated the issue.

People want tools to handle harassment on the fediverse; however, that implies a hostile global forum culture. That’s the problem. The social layer of the Internet is connected to hostile, antisocial memeplexes.

That’s also a reason why I wouldn’t ever run a community now. Hostility is endemic to Internet cultures.

The major issue I have with how most content online is written, whether on blog posts or social media, is that it is written in a persuasive, not expository, rhetorical style. If your intention is to inform, you use exposition.

However, they’re not trying to inform you; rather, they are framing and presenting it in a way to influence you. Most content is not written in a way where you are presented with data that you interpret, evaluate, and use to come to your own conclusions; rather, it is presented and framed in a particular way they want you to interpret it.

If I feel pressure to go in one direction or the other, I will stop reading. They don’t understand that you can objectively describe knowledge without framing it normatively. It comes across as, “Don’t believe your lying eyes and don’t trust your own thoughts, experiences, values, beliefs, and reactions — trust us instead.” I added this section while literally trying to read a blog post about protocols linked from the fediverse. The entire thing was couched persuasively. It was not a technical description of evaluation; rather, it was a persuasive post implicitly filled with normative prescriptions.

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2026-02-13

Adult Fan's Inappropriate "Boyfriend" Question To 15-Year-Old Minor Idol Triggers Heated Debate 
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2026-02-13

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NewsletterTFnewsletterTF
2026-02-13

Fran Lebowitz's Comparison of Current Events to Nazi Actions Sparks Debate

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Fran Lebowitz stated that current events are precisely what Nazis did, changing her past views and sparking debate.

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NewsletterTFnewsletterTF
2026-02-13

Fran Lebowitz Says Today's Actions Are Like Nazis' Actions

Writer Fran Lebowitz recently said that some things happening today are the same as what the Nazis did. She used to say things were just similar, but now she feels they are exactly the same. This has started a discussion about her strong words.

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Kpop News Hubkpopnewshub
2026-02-13

Netizens Spark Debate Over Whether Min Hee Jin’s Artistic Design Can Be Copied 
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