Thommy

@thomasjwebb
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People on bluesky - follow @ap.brid.gy if you want me to be able to follow you back.

Ⓐ🏴 software engineer and occasional street food vendor. Sincereposter in a shitposter's world. If you want to PM me use Matrix (@tjw:untamedwilds.com).

All opinions here are my own.

Music - @tarpan
Dev - @tjw
Photography - @nonbinaryanalog and @genderqueer
Food - @shallotsanctum, @yummy

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Responses from AI chatbots when prompted with posts from Reddit’s Am I The Asshole (AITA) subreddit show they are 49% more likely to side with the author than the consensus of comments from other users.

AI sycophancy will be an insidious problem over time as people get life advice that validates their terrible behavior.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/study-sycophantic-ai-can-undermine-human-judgment/

Study: Sycophantic AI can undermine human judgment

Subjects who interacted with AI tools were more likely to think they were right, less likely to resolve conflicts.

Ars Technica
The practical effect of saying “America was always fascist,” “capitalism was always fascist,” etc., is the same as that of the Eleventh Edition of the Newspeak Dictionary in 1984: it leaves us less capable of making meaningful statements about reality or acting to change it. c4ss.org/content/60609

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bdpfgw7uuapstqyydcazmz2i/post/3mi7hbcjpec2w


When Owning the Libs Trumps Fi...

The vast majority of people who will be impacted by trans bans in sports will be little girls with short hair or arms that are "too muscular."

It will also mean that when a woman is good at her sport the disgusting grumbling and whispering about "may she is he" gets taken more seriously.

This happened with Paula Radcliffe for running marathons too fast. If it helps you to think of a white cis woman being the victim of this.

Of course little black girls will take the brunt of this. As ever.

@quasisocial.bsky.social I hate being at the mercy of software running on someone else’s computer.
@minmoonuh I’m half expecting him to start issuing stamps of himself at this rate

Anyone have HRT or DIY HRT guidance for someone living in Japan?

Being in Japan has allowed a couple of people to find me, and both are asking how to get started. Best I've got is "speak to your GP or go DIY via the US supply chain and hope to get it past customs"... Neither is a great response.

Please boost for exposure, and if there are Japanese HRT resources for trans women please share. Both are English speaking people living in Japan, I mostly want to help them with finding information.

I just want to point out how nuts this framing is. Ds had unified control of govt in 2020! they r winning every special election that is not nailed down! the idea that they desperately need to find some way to win elections is preposterous! they have no trouble winning elections!

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yf6hctt2ug3qyfty4in64yob/post/3mi4vx6sjxo2i
@cwebber @th maybe it should have an option to open a web browser to newegg to buy more ram.
I used to love $2 bills because I like unusual things. I love the queer symbolism of $3 bills (they don’t exist but there’s an old saying…) but Trump’s predictable, self-serving vandalism is more like spraypainting a nazi meme on a confederate monument. Its existence was already vandalism.
They’re going to start putting a rapist’s signature on USD bills. Even worse, $2 bills already have a portrait of a rapist on them! 😱