Western civilization was a MISTAKE.
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Martial artist, motorcyclist, pragmatist, comics philosopher, queer phenomenologist. Assistant Professor @CSUN. Japanese philosophy, race, gender, disability, tech/AI. Inquiries: johnathan.flowers@csun.edu Rider of the mind shaitan. He/Him/His π³οΈβπ
Western civilization was a MISTAKE.
BECAUSE HE WAS SUPPOSED TO
FOR THE LOVE OF THE FATHER THE SUN AND THE HOLY ICED HONEY BUN
Yes doing the thing that repairs harm and actually disconnects from power is a rare
THAT IS THE PROBLEM
Motherfucker, the math that powers your war machine is ARABIC. The woman who enabled the GPS that enables you to rain death on civilians was BLACK. And letβs not EVEN talk about that the sheer number of immigrants and non-western folks who make this country what it is.
Fuck. You.
Why @why.bsky.team Until December of last year I was using LLMs as fancy autocomplete for coding. It was nice for scaffolding out boilerplate, or giving me a gut check on some things, or banging out some boring routine stuff. In the past two months Claude has written about 99% of my code. Things are changing. Fast 1:22 PM β’ Feb 12, 2026 8: Some people can reply
This sort of comment would make more sense if the site were notably better or even just different than two years ago.
I am forced to assume you just made it work the same but now no one knows how the code works
There's another dynamic going on, which no one in the mainstream press I've seen has touched (though @polgreen.bsky.social got closest), and that's the fact that it is unprecedented to ban or heavily restrict a treatment on the basis that the evidence isn't high quality enough.
Three weeks? Thatβs generous. I give it 72 hours at the outside.
Live footage of me enjoying this image:
iβve said this on here before, but a fun* game is asking cishet white men when was the last time they were told βnoβ and they had to respect it and couldnβt negotiate their way out of it, and watching what comes to mind.
masking stories were still hot as of last year.
A broader takeaway I think is nobody should be allowed to be so rich that being told no, or being held accountable, represents such a moral injury to that person's psyche that they feel like their only recourse is to burn the world down.
Twelfth Night
A Midsummerβs Nightβs Dream
In retrospect, this might explain a great deal about me.
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and read my interview with him
N get ready for me to be covering his first show in the near future
with a follow up piece about the show
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This is consistent in the fedi as well.
It's true that moderation tools are poor just from a technical perspective, but what is even worse is that they are being built by folks who do not respect diverse culture.
This has been a consistent theme for my entire 20+ years on the web.
Any attempt to argue against this is like pissing into the rain.
You CANNOT argue with this, you canβt have a conversation with this. Itβs just impossible because thereβs no shared discursive ground.
Given the discursive and rhetorical moves on display here and strategy that involves βreaching across the isleβ is a waste of time. Theyβre just not interested.
So, this is a category mistake. Defining a woman and defining fraud are two DIFFERENT things and Mace is evacuating the difference between them by ignoring the fact that words mean things beyond their definition.
I make this point because βargumentsβ mean fuck all here.
Imaging a human saying to you, "i will only ever tell you what i think you want to hear, based on what i know about ppl like you, how you start our conversation, & what you say during it. Sometimes that will sound like truth, sometimes like errors or lies. Now: Let's talk about your medical history"
Like, at this point Iβm thinking that itβs not JUST that Bluesky devs thought it could provide a technical solution to a social problem, itβs that they didnβt even understand the social problems they were trying to solve in the first place.
I still think blocklists are good, but theyβre not an unalloyed good and their deployment on BlueSky fails (like most moderation tools On Here) to recognize that federation and decentralization donβt automatically eliminate the oppressive structures inherited from past platforms.
Me. I did. Numerous times even.
Rachelβs not wrong.
i am extremely proud to announce my latest work
i flew out to Brooklyn on Sunday, filmed this performance that evening, flew back the next morning, and just completed my coverage two days later
i'd be honored if you read my latest journalism work
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βwe accidentally built a social media app with over 40 million users where you can block the mods with a single button. plz donβt do it tho or weβll be mad π‘β
Always and forever these two. One version of Ajani just lets you summon cats.
The spells for the wanderer are literally just her cutting EVERYTHING.
losing a primary by FIFTY points because you backed ICE should tell everyone where the zeitgeist is right now
Iβm especially excited about this event because itβs one of two where Iβll be talking with a fellow woman of color scientist who is also a feminist scholar π₯Ή #BookSky
hmm, i wonder if they are enforcing this selectively
βNothing is beyond the daring of white people: they storm heaven itself in their folly.β
- Me, paraphrasing Horace
If you ever want to read a paper for free and can't find it otherwise, email the lead author and politely ask for a copy. You will not be bothering the person. You will in fact make their whole entire day. I have had scientists get so excited I asked they sent me everything they ever published.
"AI can do better social science research." Can it? Like come up with novel questions or sites of inquiry that start entire fields? Because that's what I did, and so did many of my friends. Fuck off with that mess.