David Dashifen Kees (they/them)

David Dashifen Kees (they/them)

@dashifen.com

A game-playing Pagan programmer and seminary trained theologian.

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I need to make this clear: If you (WHOM I AM SPEAKING TO RIGHT NOW) have decided that "The Devil says he'll let us all go if we just hand over the outcast!" You *are* the villain, you *are* the monster, you *are* the bad guy. No questions. No exceptions. Liberty and Justice for ALL or GTFO

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.

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Replying to @emilymbender.bsky.social

But the TESCREAList/tech bro future is not one I want any part in and in fact one that I actively resist --- and I hope others will too. >>

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Next Saturday will be the largest early vote activation in American history. No Kings Day is how we build historic turnout for the midterms and get our communities ready to organize against Trump’s election sabotage.

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Happy National Coming Out Day to those who have come out, those who will come out, and those who can’t (just yet). You are loved!

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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Dan Nguyen@dancow.bsky.social

VC, founder, dumbass

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rfk jr says "AI" backs his ant-vaccine views. we checked-- it doesn't back anything. there is no inherent truth value to any generated text because it was not assembled through a conscious process. the phenomenon of generated text being accurate is irrelevant because it is fundamentally coincidental

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NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”

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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

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Replying to @jamellebouie.net

anyway i think DC statehood is a non negotiable. only way to give DC residents the tools to protect themselves.

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no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no o no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no o no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no NO GODDAMN ARCH NO! DC DOES NOT NEED THAT TRAFFIC & ARCHITECTURAL HELL! NO!

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It's never too late to stop using AI. It doesn't matter what you're using it for, however much you're relying on it, you can stop. There's nothing it does that can't be replaced by other, better methods. You can always learn new skills, it's never too late.

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These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation.

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I’m so tired of genAI apologists telling me I only hate it because I don’t understand it. I hate it *because* I understand it, you absolute toenail.

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no one wants to consider my insane pitch which is to eliminate timezones across the planet so we’re all on the exact same time and force everyone to change their conception of what a day is

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Replying to @trans.bsky.social

“do not obey in advance” includes falling into despair & giving up. if fascism was invincible, it’s rampant & desperate propaganda would not be necessary. learn to build revolutionary optimism in yourself & your community. when we fight, we win.

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Replying to @sethanikeem.bsky.social

And I say this with my whole chest: The anti-trans movement is not about trans people. It’s certainly not about protecting children It is about legislating conformity It is about restricting bodily autonomy It is about erasing all free expression they find disagreeable —It is about control—