@mathowie
> Holy crap, there really is no driver!

Except that's just a lie they want you and other riders to repeat.

#Waymo of course *does* use human drivers for their vehicles. #JustAGuy

The driver is not in the car; they're in a foreign country. Working in poor conditions for unfair pay. Responsible for multiple vehicles simultaneously. Often not qualified to drive a car on your roads.

But it *is* a human driver. Who will of course be blamed if anything goes wrong, while the corporation washes their hands. #AccountabilitySink

https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/waymos-controlled-workers-philippines

#ArtificialStupidity

@me @tofugolem

Your request to not want to see US politics, or any topic, is fair. Especially given your view that it is your responsibility to filter, not others' responsibility to not talk about it.

Many people are so opposed to LLM based systems, that they've given up on regular statistical based regression filters. 🤷🏿‍♂️

You should be able to list topics that you don't want to hear about, and your client should score posts, and hide things that you don't want to see. You can do this without transformers.

Alternatively, BlueSky has composable moderation. Some human can read posts and tag as "US politics." Then you can subscribe to that filter, to not see it. Low effort for posters, good result for readers.

Telling people to add hash tags to everything is silly. It only makes sense from the position of someone in the default category, because they don't really think that they'll have to adorn everything they write with:

#white #male #whiteman #man #cis #dude #bro #ablebodied #whitepeople #pinkskinned #majority #justaguy #guy #caucasian #presumeddefault #stuffjustworksforme #benefitofthedoubt #thoughtoffirst

They presume themselves to be the default, and hash tags are for everyone else that deviates from their view of the world with them at the center.