Davina

Davina

@davinak.bsky.social

All around nerd, Video Engineer She/her 🏳️‍⚧️ https://davinadesigns.threadless.com/

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When this group of goons is ousted, and I do think they will be, there is going to be tremendous media noise about finding common ground and coming together. Absolutely not. I will not forget the people who helped hammer at the foundations of civil society and helped imprison and kill my neighbors.

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I do not believe LLMs are conscious or remotely have the capacity to be conscious but if it increases social pressure against using them then yes Clippy is alive.

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honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care

arstechnica.comUnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit allegesFor the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social

There have always been humans who thought: 1) The world will end soon 2) It will happen in a cool, exciting way 3) It’ll happen to me personally 4) I’ll be a martyred prophet, or a warlord, or otherwise special 5) People who don’t see this are lesser “Sexy apocalypse” is a great phrase for that

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Portland has The soccer culture in the US and that soccer culture is a trans flag with the three arrows superimposed on it. They can fucking try

anniempeterson.bsky.social@anniempeterson.bsky.social

I tried here to explain why anti-trans activists are targeting Portland, the struggle I have with covering some of these issues as a reporter and how transgender athletes belong in sports. Exclusion is incompatible with equity.

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‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...

variety.comLilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.

I’m in a photo in this! One detail not in here, when Open Signal handled AV for city hall, that was just 1 person doing that & all the broadcast video. Now we have 2, & the dedicated city tech. The city employees working these meetings really are great at their jobs!

OPB@opb.org

For Portlanders watching from the outside, the transformation has largely been a story about the politicians at the core of it. But inside City Hall, there’s another group of people that has had to figure out how to keep the engine of government running amid all this change.

One of the unexpected benefits of transitioning? Running into people I haven't seen in a bit, and watch as they process how I know them, but they don't recognize me at all. Conversely, getting introduced to someone I do know, but don't like, and successfully bolt away before they put it together.

The Supreme Court: “We could listen to the facts, statistics, and studies, but we’d rather give coaches a legal way to sexually assault children”.

Easy to forget how, well, Portland, Portland is living in it until a big fancy publisher uses Tender Loving Empire as a notable benchmark of a “quirky boutique” in town. For tourists, makes sense, it is a quirky boutique version of a Made In Oregon store….

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Ah, you think No Kings is going to accomplish anything? It's nothing compared to my approach of never being around other people for any reason

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Looking through comments on the latest video, and something stands out to me which we need to talk about: Too many people hear "I think you should vote for Democrats in November" and think I went on to say "that's all you'll have to do and everything will be fixed" Y'all gotta cut that shit out.

What stupid straight man scheduled the Women's Gold Medal hockey game and the Women's figure skating free skate for the same time? #olympics

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Wanda Sykes thanks Ricky Gervais for not being there because it means she can accept the award on his behalf... and he's gonna thank God and the trans community (he won, she did) #GoldenGlobes

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For those of you playing along at home yes @nytimes.com has been lying to us this whole time

Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com

Trump is the first US president to bomb 7 countries in one year. Based on verified reports from Al Jazeera, Fox News, Washington Examiner, and CBC, the seven countries targeted by US strikes under Trump in 2025 are: Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Syria, Nigeria, and Venezuela.

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MotherJones [23 May 2025] -- More detail from Utah's GAC report: "Treatments are effective in terms of mental health, psychosocial outcomes, and the induction of body changes...[and] the treatments are safe in terms of bone density, cardiovascular risk factors, metabolic changes, and cancer…"

motherjones.comUtah study on trans youth care extremely inconvenient for politicians who ordered itThe state's ban on gender-affirming pediatric care "cannot be justified" by science, a two-year review concluded.

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Replying to @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social

The NCPPR's Free Enterprise Project has lost its anti-DEI proposals in 2025 shareholder votes at Costco, Apple, John Deere, Disney, Goldman Sachs and Levi Strauss. Free Enterprise Project says it's the "premier opponent of the woke takeover of American corporate life and defender of true capitalism"

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One of the things that is totally lost on Carville is that conservatives will never believe that you aren’t secretly connected with <insert marginalized group>. It’s just that when you trash them, you send the message that you won’t fight for what you believe in and you’re a fake piece of shit.

Anna Phylaxis@quatoria.bsky.social

And everyone, when evaluating James Carville's winning advice, please consider what Gavin Newsom's anti-trans swing has done for his numbers:

This thread. 😂 I possibly love the Bluesky version of SoundOfTheForest more than her on TikTok.

SoundOfTheForest@soundoftheforest.bsky.social

If I ever did stand-up comedy, I would just get on stage and live my life making observation as an autistic person. People would find this hilarious. When they laugh I would turn and say, is my life a joke to you?

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Replying to @techconnectify.bsky.social

And that's the the crux of the problem. When my computer crashes, it stops working. When there's a render error, I can see it. Hell, if my heat stops working - my heat stopped working. LLMs appear to "work" all the time, and the failure mode is only experienced later as real-life consequences.