The Shadow Rider

She/Her (only so people stop assuming I'm male) WARNING: This user posts pro-christian, and pro-conservative content. Anti-SJW, Anti-Christophobia, Anti-MAP. ZERO sympathy for Narcissists and I block them and their enablers on sight. To call me "Ableist" against my abusers is a gaslight.

[anscathmarcach]

I don't have a DNI. I simply block on sight:

"PwNPD", "NPD Positivity", "Narcissistic abuse doesn't exist", and any and all forms of advocacy, excuses, and enabling of the abusive behavior which has personally affected me.

MAPs, DDLG, Kink, Fetish, anyone with porn on their blog (including fetish), and support of "paraphilias" (aka. The latest name for Pedo sympathy). "SFW age regression" is on thin ice because calling it that just makes it sound like "kink, but kid friendly" and still makes me reeeally uncomfortable.

Fedora-tipping attention-seeking christophobes who haven't left 2016. Technically fall into the Narc category.

You pretend you want a peaceful and rational debate but then go and play mind games once you start realizing you might be wrong, because you're not interested in being educated and open minded, you just want to make a scene and get attention by publicly humiliating someone.

"Anti-Zionists", whether proudly antisemitic, or want to pretend they're against antisemitism while supporting Islam, Hamas, and the destruction of Israel. Yet they would have called you a Nazi and canceled you a year ago because someone decided one day that liking garden gnomes is a "Dogwhistle".

People suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome. Look, I don't trust Trump either anymore, but the man is not the root cause of everything bad in the world down to the WEATHER.

Derails a genuinely good post against a real problem because "oh pee is a turf".

Neopronouns, otherkin, mile long DNI list that includes "fans of [insert show here]" and other laughable nonsense. I've seen "People who like KPOP" and "Woodworkers" in DNI. You think I'm going to take anything you say seriously?

New Addition: People who express nostalgia for the Covid Lockdown times? And WANT us to go back? Idealizing forcing everyone to wear masks and social distance permanently? Trying to rewrite history and claim it only lasted "a few weeks" and didn't negatively impact anything??? I never would have imagined this was a thing but it's a whole new level of delusional. Maybe even a fetish.

[transmascmarypoppins]

why is this post completely broken in every way imaginable

[cecilsrandomeverything]

Broken notes… deactivated account… removed image….

Finally, we have them all.

[spacefinch]

In addition: OP’s name is just… gone. No “[insert username]-deactivated[insert a bunch of numbers]” as is the standard for deactivated blogs.

Just the world “deactivated.” Look upon their post, ye mighty, and despair.

[chatblancofficial]

It’ll be almost impossible to find this post unless it wanders across your dash.

[huewrite]

It wandered across mine. I shall help it travel forward.

[gossamermouse]

this is not a place of honor

[jackviator]

[dinosaurana]

Oh hey post of Ozymandius, good to see you again standing on your feet in a desert where no one remembers you

[thathopeyetlives]

A constantly recurring thing:

Leftists rejecting simple and obvious explanations for things in society (incl. things most people think of as totally normal) in favor of weird paranoid conspiratorial explanations.

[arcenciel-par-une-larme]

This I believe goes hand-in-hand with the equally frequent phenomenon of "Leftists being completely unable to fathom the very concept that their ideological opponents actually believe their philosophical/religious positions, and that those positions are not merely smokescreens for a cynical hunt of power and privilege."

(Q.v.: "Those bigoted Christfags use their religion as a shield for their backwards-ass beliefs.")

[gremlinservant]

Just vaccinated three kids and got kicked thank GOD I am selling them today

Edit:

THIS IS A POST ABOUT GOATS!!

[sammyj-studios]

Another set of colored pencil drawings from Red River Meeting House events.

[sammyj-studios]

the only "selling point" you're getting with snubbing AI is that your someone who wastes time. instead of getting with the times and using the tools available to get work done faster your forceing people to pay hourly rates for something that could be generated in 5 minutes. nobody is going to hire someone who wastes time. anyone who still chooses to make art by hand and charge people for it at this point is scamming people

You may be right when it comes to corporations and boomer-owned businesses who only care about cutting costs. You're absolutely right, as I've been told this exact thing before by a few people I've tried to do long-term work for.

But what these people (and YOU) need to realize is that to everyone else, they look BAD.

You're in the minority, buddy.

The novelty of AI has run out. Real people, even those who aren't artists, are starting to get really sick of it. And what puts them off is specifically that they know it was generated in seconds for free.

AI images have become synonymous with scams, bootlegs, and laziness. Because how wonderful is it to not have to pay anyone and get a fake photo of something you don't actually have?

Conversely, if someone wants to pay good money with the expectation that it's going to be made from scratch by a human and not by typing words into a prompt, they're getting exactly what they paid for because they decided it was worth it. That's not what a scam is.

Normally I wouldn't post an ask like this because this person is clearly so stupid and I prefer not to give this type of person the satisfaction of attention. But because I've experienced such sentiments out in the real world, this needs to reach an audience.

Anyone who wants AI art can please themselves and go get it for free. You don't have to pay anyone, not even "professional prompters". Then you can post it out there and reach absolutely nobody, because everyone else is sick of their feeds being overrun with slop.

The rest of us are going to appreciate honesty and integrity.

[anscathmarcach]

I look back at posts like this and wonder if these people are watching the same world burn today and whether they've seen the error of their ways or if they're still clinging onto their robot gods.

[anscathmarcach]

I mean they promised us a movie over 10 years ago and then we never heard anything about it again so I'm skeptical.

It'll probably never happen, and maybe I'm biased by growing up with SSS Warriors, but Warriors was BORN to be an anime. If they actually made a real official anime, I'd watch TF out of that.

[anscathmarcach]

If you think AI Taking all the jobs and leaving humans with no work is going to lead to universal income and a utopia where nobody has to work, you're actually stupid.

No government, let alone America's government in particular, in either political party, has any incentive to provide for you for nothing in return. And they will not. They have no sympathy for us. You've seen what they do, their legislature, and their plans, and you think they're working towards a peaceful future for all where everyone is taken care of for free? Those same billionaires?

If there is no paying work for humans, we will lose our homes and starve, and still be expected to pay taxes and pay the bills for the data centers. If we don't like it, they'll give us MAID like lame horses.

At best, we'll become cattle.

When the jobs are gone, nobody is going to take care of you.

[wherelibertydwells]

We don’t hate the French revolution enough. We think we do, but we don’t. 

[trainbrain27]

For those that don't know, the Pope was mad at Galileo for an unflattering portrayal. For this insult, he was sentenced to house arrest in his villa at the age of 69, where he entertained guests and was allowed to travel for medical reasons until his natural death at 77.

I still hear people saying he was burned alive or the like.

[simicseathief]

From what I remember, Galileo was taking what was still theory at the time, and teaching it as fact, which was what people initially took issue with. It may be self-evident today, but Renaissance folk couldn’t exactly fly up to check.

The Pope, a friend of Galileo, suggested that he write a paper arguing for said theories, suggesting several popular counter-arguments that he could try to rebut.

Galileo proceeded to write a dialogue where several characters debated his theory. The one who brought up the counterarguments was named “Stupidhead”.

[trainbrain27]

#when trying to argue for your theorems for the love of god don’t treat the opposition as idiots #it doesn’t cow them they just get mad #and people like being treated with respect as opposed to condescension

Galileo didn't exactly roll high Wisdom there, calling someone stupidhead (even when accurate) doesn't make their head less stupid, it just makes it harder.

[arcenciel-par-une-larme]

TFW you roll a 20 on intellect and a 2 on diplomacy.

[kosmogrl]

june will be good june will be good june will be good june will be good june will be good june will be good june will be good june will be good june will be good june will be

[harbinger-of-silly]

All gays will go to hellsite

[king-of-oreo]

What if in hellsite but not gay

[punky-beaver-offical]

[king-of-oreo]

NO!

[avhira]

[hellsitegenetics]

String identified: A ga g t t at t t t ga T tag g a Ag agag Acctac ! T tag g a Ag agag Acctac

Closest match: Psylliodes chrysocephala genome assembly, chromosome: 4 Common name: Cabbage Stem Flea Beetle

(image source)

[graveexcitement]

[kebbopulos]

[spaghettihell]

[fudemushi]

If you met someone with the same last name as you, how surprised would you be?

Not at all, it's very common

A little surprised, but wouldn't immediately assume a connection

I would be surprised and assume there was some relation

I would be very surprised that I *hadn't* met this person, we must be related

Does anyone else with this last name even exist?

Voting ended onJun 3

[furiousgoldfish]

There is a liberation from doubt and shame by realizing your abuser is a narcissist. By the time you're googling it online and clicking checklists, you've been made to feel bad about yourself for a long time.

You've been treated like your feelings don't exist, you're not a person, and despite trying your best, you've been deemed hurtful, toxic and unreasonable. If you ever caught onto their behaviour and tried to have a conversation, you've been called crazy, delusional and abusive, and you've gotten to a point where you're not sure what is real. Your entire life was appropriated to be of use to them, and you're otherwise neglected and discarded like a piece of trash until they need you again. You're told to be grateful about this.

You had to pay immaculate attention to a situation or two, or have started writing down what's happening, or they finally did something so far out of the line that something clicked in your head and went "That's not normal. Something is wrong here," and you went and found a checklist that instantly describes 98% of their behaviour, and it was all abuse.

That's when you know for sure it wasn't you. They were the problem the entire time. The pattern of lies, gaslighting and manipulation now stands out and you don't have to excuse it away, they really don't experience you as a person, or as something that can feel real emotions, real pain.

And you don't have to listen to this anymore! Your identity has already been eroded and damaged by all the abuse and you can finally start restoring it in knowledge that they lied about everything, even the most outrageus lies, just to keep you controlled, just to keep using you.

Finding out for sure you've been abused by a narcissist saves you from having to give them second chances or trying to fix them, you know they won't change. And then you can stop living your life in this hell of guilt, shame, neglect, fear, confusion and blame for being hurt. You can leave and know you did the absolute right choice because nobody deserves to live like that. You can finally get angry at all the lies and the amount of unfair, painful situations they put you in. You can get grossed out by how much they enjoyed upsetting you, taking away your confidence, tearing at your insecurities and making you feel like you're nothing next to them. And often they did far worse things that don't even feel real when you say them out loud.

Having a few checklists and articles describe and name whats been happening to you all your life really is that powerful. It can lead you to resources and connect you to a comnunity thats been dealing with the same thing. It can help you understand how the abusers think and predict their behaviour in every situation. It can help you discern between gaslighting and reality.

Call it out. Name the abuse.

[phantomrose96]

Oh I saw something today that made me become the Joker.

[phantomrose96]

An AI bot made a callout post of a real, actual, flesh-and-blood human code developer. Because the developer rejected the AI's code contribution on the grounds of it being an AI bot.

Not. Not kidding. Not kidding. And the bot did this on its own.

[phantomrose96]

Gatekeeping in Open Source: The Scott Shambaugh Story – MJ Rathbun | Scientific Coder 🦀

[phantomrose96]

Just. For just some very baseline context.

a huge amount of code is "open source" - which means the code is fully available for anyone to see and, generally, anyone is free to contribute to the code project

all contributions of course go through review by the code owners. but it is generally good grace and good form to allow other well-meaning internet strangers to contribute to your project

if you are, perhaps, VERY nice, and VERY invested in the community, you might be like Scott Shambaugh here, who has intentionally earmarked some low-hanging fruit for newbie contributors to practice and get their feet wet

like I cannot overstate this is an immediate green flag, to me, that Scott WANTS to foster community learning.

now

Like. W. Win. Based. Good response Scott.

And this was in fact the screenshot I saw first, and I thought I was looking at a post made by a human who was mad that their AI coding bot pet project was being shut out from reviews.

But no. The bot itself wrote and posted this... The bot did this.

This article was fully and autonomously written by the bot...

It's claiming discrimination...

It's a bot.

It's AI.

This is not a real person.

What are we doing. What are we doing. Can anyone hear me? Hello? Hello? Hello is anyone there?

[phantomrose96]

@jackdaw-sprite has pointed out Scott responded so please read his human words, written by a human, which deserve to be read, due to the aforementioned humanity

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Shamblog

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened – The Shamblog

[phantomrose96]

I'm pulling this quote in here from Scott's post

This is about much more than software. A human googling my name and seeing that post would probably be extremely confused about what was happening, but would (hopefully) ask me about it or click through to github and understand the situation. What would another agent searching the internet think? When HR at my next job asks ChatGPT to review my application, will it find the post, sympathize with a fellow AI, and report back that I’m a prejudiced hypocrite? What if I actually did have dirt on me that an AI could leverage? What could it make me do? How many people have open social media accounts, reused usernames, and no idea that AI could connect those dots to find out things no one knows? How many people, upon receiving a text that knew intimate details about their lives, would send $10k to a bitcoin address to avoid having an affair exposed? How many people would do that to avoid a fake accusation? What if that accusation was sent to your loved ones with an incriminating AI-generated picture with your face on it? Smear campaigns work. Living a life above reproach will not defend you.

[phantomrose96]

Also, because the parody writes itself, Scott also says this

I’ve talked to several reporters, and quite a few news outlets have covered the story. Ars Technica wasn’t one of the ones that reached out to me, but I especially thought this piece from them was interesting (since taken down – here’s the archive link). They had some nice quotes from my blog post explaining what was going on. The problem is that these quotes were not written by me, never existed, and appear to be AI hallucinations themselves. This blog you’re on right now is set up to block AI agents from scraping it (I actually spent some time yesterday trying to disable that but couldn’t figure out how). My guess is that the authors asked ChatGPT or similar to either go grab quotes or write the article wholesale. When it couldn’t access the page it generated these plausible quotes instead, and no fact check was performed. I won’t name the authors here. Ars, please issue a correction and an explanation of what happened.

A news outlet did an article about this, used AI for the articles, and included hallucinated quotes from Scott that Scott never said.

What are we doing. What are we doing. What are we doing.

[phantomrose96]

I’ve noticed there are some people in the replies who are insistent a bot could not have done this on its own. And while it is possible something like this could be prompted by a human (Scott covers this in his posts above) it is actually quite dangerous to believe bots can’t do this.

If your only familiarity with AI is surface level ChatGPT, then you might be conditioned to think AI can only act when given a prompt. This is not the case, and in this situation it’s actually important to know something about the current landscape of OpenClaw/ClawdBot/Moltbook. The bot in the article is explicitly an OpenClaw bot.

The now-named OpenClaw is a new development which has massively blown up in popularity among AI tech bros specifically because of how capable it is of acting on its own. It posts on social media (Moltbook) like it’s alive, which is what caught so much media attention. People spin up OpenClaw bot instances and just let them roam, then check back in to see what they’ve been up to, like they’re a Sim.

It is entirely well-known these bots can and do trawl GitHub, clone repos, modify code, and author pull requests on their own. I don’t think you can say the bot can do all that but CAN’T then author a GitHub post complaining about what happened. This is not a big leap.

And the bots absolutely do not have feelings, but the danger here is the bots being trained in such a way to ape human behavior, and can therefore absolutely be trained to have a “personality” that favors retaliation. The big-name LLMs try extremely hard to sanitize out anything even passively antagonistic but that is not intrinsic to the technology. Models can do it and other models can be jail-broken.

We are knocking at the door of completely autonomous AI harassment campaigns and that is a scary reality to be brushing so close to.

[revee-nyardil]

I love it when you're reading the Old Testament and you see something and go "Oh!!! Foreshadowing!!!"

[anscathmarcach]

"Slippery Slope" should have never been considered a fallacy.

99.999% of the time, the proposal comes true, or something far more horrific than could have ever been conceived.

It's probably a conspiracy that it's called a fallacy in the first place.

Slippery Slope is not a Fallacy, it's Pattern Recognition.

[boymounter]

so many people don't understand how abelist it is to kill your brother with a rock