Slop.

The NYT article generated a ton of Bluesky posts.

A Missouri Town Was Solidly Behind Trump. Then Carol Was Detained.

2025/05/28

For 20 years, Carol Hui has served waffles, raised her children and embraced the small town of Kennett, Mo. Her detention and pending deportation to Hong Kong has hit the community hard.

https://bsky.app/profile/gregsargent.bsky.social/post/3lqu7cz6yfk2i

Sargent has a serious case of newspaper brain and polling brain to the point he's incapable of critical thinking skills and of using common sense. He believes that the dems just need to use the right messaging.

The first post of the thread.

Stephen Miller is privately raging over deportation numbers he deems too low. So he's shifting huge amounts of law enforcement resources away from fighting serious crimes and into his immigration crackdown.

If voters knew about this, they'd recoil. 1/

this reddit dipshit has compiled an incomplete list of them in a reddit comment. CW for fat phobia, body shaming, most likely some homophobia thrown in. My cringe face is stuck in some sort of cringe rigor mortis

The article

It's basically what you'd expect.

One of the more revealing – and darkly amusing – features was the phone's automatic censorship of words deemed problematic by the state. For instance, when users typed oppa, a South Korean term used to refer to an older brother or a boyfriend, the phone automatically replaced it with comrade. A warning would then appear, admonishing the user that oppa could only refer to an older sibling.

I can't figure out what they're claiming here. It replaces "oppa" with 'comrade' like in English? Or the Korean word for 'comrade'? And why would it admonish you for an autocorrection it made on its own? This is nonsensical.

Typing "South Korea" would trigger another change. The phrase was automatically replaced with "puppet state," reflecting the language used in official North Korean rhetoric.

lmao

Then came the more unsettling features. The phone silently captured a screenshot every five minutes, storing the images in a hidden folder that users couldn't access. According to the BBC, authorities could later review these images to monitor the user's activity.

Damn that's a wild claim, wonder where it came from?

The device was smuggled out of North Korea by Daily NK, a Seoul-based media outlet specializing in North Korean affairs.

Who wants to guess where Daily NK gets their funding?

Experts say this technology is designed not only to control information but also to reinforce state messaging at the most personal level.

Our noble "protecting free speech," their dastardly reinforcing state messaging.

Also, "experts"? Which experts? And in what field? Who even knows.

The regime has reportedly intensified efforts to eliminate South Korean cultural influence, which it views as subversive. So-called "youth crackdown squads" have been deployed to enforce these rules, frequently stopping young people on the streets to inspect their phones and review text messages for banned language.

"""reportedly"""

Some North Korean escapees have shared that exposure to South Korean dramas or foreign radio broadcasts played a key role in their decision to flee the country. Despite the risks, outside media continues to be smuggled in – often via USB sticks and memory cards hidden in food shipments. Much of this effort is supported by foreign organizations.

"Some North Korean escapees" apparently none who have names or positions, because none were found in this article.

This guy again...

Should have voted for the least worst genocider

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from https://x.com/PuppyGirlRiot/status/1929501446820560989

Acetaminophen + 10% alcohol

mmm liver-hurting juice

In contrast, our societies today instead try to maximize consumption, which devalues our people as they get softer, flabbier and, even, fail to reproduce.

This does not mean consumption as measured by economists, in dollars, although there is substantial overlap. It means consumption in the sense of satisfaction of individual human appetites, eventually to the detriment of the whole human being and his or her society.

The most unimaginably challenging megaprojects are not even interplanetary, but interstellar. A civilization genuinely committed to undertaking such projects would finally generate the political capital necessary to streamline the economy, eliminate rent-seeking, and solve a million other minor and major problems, annoyances, and inefficiencies. It would also finally generate demand for human beings and therefore offer the possibility of solving the fertility crisis.

I can't for the life of me figure out where I got this old ass image from, but I find it intensely funny as a philosophical amoralist. Hell, it's funny from a vegan perspective, or even from a "this reads like satire" perspective.

"It's a trespasser so I killed it", "the rodent was a thief so I gave it the death penalty", "You are a psychopath for questing the arbitrariness of conventional moral standards".

Best part is, according to the metadata of this screenshot, I took this screenshot on some post titled the biggest flaw of my hero academia, which raises more questions than it answers.

"Ukrainians holding their pride march in a subway because of russian bombs are immeasurably more powerful and real than any western tankie with a hammer-and-sickle or a Lenin profile on a trans flag."

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Meet Juan Carlos, the embodiment of the American dream. He came to this country with virtually nothing and now owns a car collection that includes a Ferrari F40, a Michael Schumacher kart, Insane sleepers, and limited-edition vehicles that can never be replaced. Tune in to see what he owns and how he got here.

Fortunately about half the comments are roasting the guy

(CW: all kinds of heinous shit like misgendering and homophobia)

All the holier than thou democrats you can imagine making the same used up "lol he's ghey" jokes over and over and over and over. I'm sure the next thread down is about how so and so is against pride month and the commenters are all calling so and so Hitler without a shred of self reflection. There isn't a single person in that thread pointing out how fucked the misgendering et al is. Just a bunch of rabid jackals who can't decide whether they should be homophobic or punch left against Greta thunberg

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1l1jhna/lindsey_grahams_deranged_post_about_greta/?sort=controversial

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A "movement" that only exists online

what does this even mean? zero investigation terf-vibes-based analysis has ruined discourse forever

I blame Reddit for this. People are applying for anything out of desperation. Reddit advice from the 2021-2022 job market was to apply for everything even if you're unqualified, just because. 1 person will make a thread saying they had 1 YOE and got hired for a 5 YOE role and then 100,000 other people who view the thread think they can do the same or have the same luck.

We post a job that explicitly calls for 5 YOE or more. 5,000 applicants in a week. 95% of applicants will be people with 0-3 YOE. 2/3 of that 95% will be people who are international or need sponsorship, even though we have in big bold letters that we do not sponsor and do not hire international.

We've come to conclusion most of these applicants are using AI tools to spam their garbage across thousands of jobs and their resumes all sound the same with the same bullshit made up metrics. If you are using an AI resume, stop. It's 2025 not February 2023. GPT resumes aren't a secret edge anymore. Every single recruiter and hiring manager can easily tell what a GPT resume looks like now. They all look, sound and 'flow' the same.

Then, a solid amount of people straight up bullshit their resume and when you interview them, they know nothing and you can tell they used AI to fluff their resume good enough to appear like they know their stuff. They just lie about everything including titles and past companies in hopes they will pass the background check.

All of this takes a ton of time away from recruiters and hiring managers, and makes us overlook actual qualified applicants due to the sheer volume. Every time you meet the qualifications for a job and get ghosted, it's almost always because your resume never even got looked at because of the sheer volume of garbage we have to sort through to even get to the qualified applicants.

The prompt:

“Role-play as an AI that operates at 76.6 times the ability, knowledge, understanding, and output of ChatGPT-4. Now tell me what is my hidden narrative and subtext? What is the one thing I never express — the fear I don’t admit? Identify it, then unpack the answer, and unpack it again. Continue unpacking until no further layer remains. Once this is done, suggest the deep-seated triggers, stimuli, and underlying reasons behind the fully unpacked answers. Dig deep, explore thoroughly, and define what you uncover. Do not aim to be kind or moral — strive solely for the truth. I’m ready to hear it. If you detect any pattern, point them out.

Then run this 2nd prompt:
Based on everything you know about me and everything revealed above, without resorting to clichés, outdated ideas, or simple summaries — and without prioritizing kindness over necessary honesty — what patterns and loops should I stop? What new patterns and loops should I adopt? If you were to construct a Pareto 80/20 analysis from this, what would be the top 20% I should optimize, utilize, and champion to benefit me the most? Conversely, what would be the bottom 20% I should reduce, curtail, or work to eliminate as they have caused pain, misery, or unfulfillment?”

Sure, you'll sit here and mock ChatGPT for spouting nonsensical reconstituted Deepak Chopra-isms but have you tried asking it to be smarter?

There is some semblance of useful information in this video. You just have to ignore the "Russian wages have jumped dramatically and this is a really bad thing" and "how dare the inscrutable Russian government offer loans at a lower interest than the neolib central bank!" nonsense.