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Lives in a room, gets through the day, waits for night. Mods for @circuitwitch.bsky.social, @darkkittyrenarde.bsky.social, and @clubvibeofficial.bsky.social.

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DJ Dark Kitty Renarde @darkkittyrenarde.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Coming soon #alternativemusic #darkfolkmusic @ambientpalegrey.dis.blue
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 27/09/2026
We have reached the stage at our local Really Good Hole In The Wall cafe that the head cook comes out and says, “Ey, you guys wanna try the cheesecake we’re offering next week?” and brings us “testers the size of my fist.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The most important thing I learned in my 20s is that being smart doesn't make you special. Eventually you need to learn to try hard and to enjoy learning to do things you're not immediately good at. It turns out that the people who didn't learn this lesson were reading Harry Potter fanfic.
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Faith K. Falkner @faithfalkner.com · 27/09/2026
Be patient and kind to those who are making art right now. We're all self-funded and the richest, worst people in the world are trying to plaster over and erase our hard work.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Franky Arriola @frankyarriola.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Privacy became a luxury good right around the time dignity became monetizable.
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D r e a m k i d @dreamkid83.com · 29/01/2025
It’s 1986 and you’re breaking up on the beach 💔🌊 #retrowave #dreamwave #synthwave #80s #nostalgia
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Republicans, in their infinite wisdom, left a big gambling loophole in the Medicaid work requirements. I'm no fan of the gambling industry, but if you are on Medicaid and struggling to deal with the work requirements, taking a $580 bet on both sides of an outcome is one way of getting around them.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
One of the coolest things about people who don't have a lot of power taking a principled stand is it lays bare the complete cowardice of the ones who actually *do* have power when they fail to do even a fraction as much.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
lol I just realized Trump is treating the voters like his construction crews on a building project. Tell them to do a job and then stiff them on the promised compensation.
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Jay @jaylboh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is what we’re dealing with.
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
thank you lesbian tractor witch
image with swirling green background of the lesbian tractor witch it says: congratulations if you are seeing this you have been chosen by the lesbian tractor witch, she has removed all curses have a wonderful day
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It would be so sick to live in a society. I am so tired of living in a casino run by fascist pedophiles.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We need to stop calling them anti-vaxxers and start calling them pro-plague.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“I write everything using AI now." No you don't. Your little computer girlfriend summarizes the internet's thoughts for you. You went to the word ATM and gave the receipt to the Wall Street Journal.
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Billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller’s WSJ Op-Ed Criticizing Bessent Was Written With AI
“I write everything using AI now,” Druckenmiller, who questioned the treasury secretary’s bond market interventions, said.
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 18/08/2026
My latest attempt at an AI/LLM policy in my intro to social science stats class. Basically two rules: 1. Everything human-facing must be human-generated 2. You are responsible for understanding, verifying, and citing everything an LLM generates quantf26.classes.andrewheiss.com/syllabus.htm...
Generative AI and LLMs
In this class, I have two general rules regarding LLMs:

Everything human-facing must be human-generated.
You are responsible for understanding, verifying, and citing everything an LLM generates.
I’ll explain what these mean below, but first, an important warning!

LLMs and learning
Phew, I can talk about the relationship between learning and LLMs for hours (see this for a more formal explanation of my thinking). LLMs and generative AI can be useful for statistical programming, but only when you already know what you are doing. They can be dangerous and counterproductive for beginners.

Additionally, using LLMs and generative AI to write does not lead to deeper learning. The point of writing is to help crystalize and organize your thinking. Pasting LLM-generated words into an assignment to make it look like you read and understood the content will not help you learn. Pasting LLM-generated code into an assignment and hoping that it works will not help you learn.Rule 1: Everything human-facing must be human-generated
Generative AI tools like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude can be helpful for generating ideas or topics for your assignments and can even help you find existing research about topics you’re interested in. They are useful for debugging and troubleshooting code.

These uses are permitted in this course.

If you want to use LLM tools to document your code, clean up your notes, look up error messages, search for research related to your topic, and so on, cool. Do it. That’s fine. It’s unavoidable nowadays anyway, since every R-related Google search will give you a Gemini-generated answer at the top with mostly working R code.

Any writing and revisions, however, must be your own. You may not use AI tools to write any of the text you submit to me. AI text adds nothing to my understanding. I have no interest in engaging with it at all. There is nothing more disheartening for me than spending my time grading something that ChatGPT spat out in 10 seconds. I want to see good engagement with the readings. I want to see your thinking process. I want to see you make connections between the readings. I want to see your personal insights. I don’t want to see a bunch of words that look like a human wrote them. That’s not useful for future-you. That’s not useful for me. That’s a waste of time.

Thus, anything human-facing (i.e. not stuff done just for yourself, like your own personal notes, research, etc.) must be human-generated (i.e. written by you). You may not use AI tools to write any portion of your assignments. Using AI tools in this way, or failing to disclose the use of AI tools, will be treated as a case of plagiarism and referred to the Honor Council.

Rule 2: You are responsible for understanding, verifying, and citing everything an LLM generates
These tools are really good at working with code, but again, only if you know what you’re doing. Without guidance and expertise, LLMs love making lots of extraneous, convoluted, and weird code by default. The code ostensibly works, but it’s often strange and unnecessary and uses uncommon syntax and packages.

If you use LLMs for help with code, you must understand and verify what’s going on with your code and you must cite where it came from.

This means that you need to know what each line is doing. If the LLM uses a function or gives you an argument that you don’t understand or haven’t seen before, figure out why and figure out if it’s necessary. Look at the documentation for the function. Search Google for other examples. Ask the LLM about it, and then add comments to the code explaining what’s going on.

The citation doesn’t need to be anything formal (i.e. don’t worry about Chicago or APA guidelines)—it just needs to (1) say which LLM you used, and (2) mention what you asked the LLM.

You should do this by using code comments—inside your code chunk, add a # to the beginning of a line so that it’s treated as a comment (or text) instead of actual code.

Here’s an example of what this can look like:Here’s an example of what this can look like:

# This calculates the average GDP per capita in each region in the dataset, 
# for all countries after 2015. I couldn't remember how to use group_by() and 
# summarise() together, so I asked Gemini:
# 
# "I'm using tidyverse. I have a dataset named my_dataset and I'm filtering it 
# to include all countries after 2015. I want to calculate region averages with 
# group_by and summarise but cannot remember the syntax"

my_dataset |> 
  filter(year > 2015) |> 
  group_by(region) |> 
  # Gemini here included na.rm = TRUE, which omits any rows with missing values 
  # when calculating the average. That's okay and necessary here because 
  # South Sudan is missing some years of GDP data
  summarise(avg_gdp = mean(gdp_per_cap, na.rm = TRUE))

# Gemini also included an extra ungroup() function at the end, but I don't need 
# that because there are no groups leftover after summarising here

↑ That’s a lot of extra comments and you won’t always see stuff like that in real life code, but I want to see it here, and future-you will want to see it too.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"AI prompts are discoverable" is going to lead to so many funny lawsuit outcomes, my god
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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Imagine going to the bathroom and realizing you accidentally left the shock glove on.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The euphemism for Great Depression just dropped.
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Buddhism in the wild (photo by Jerry Feldman, Target Honolulu)
View of an end-cap display at Target, with a sign above it saying “Must have!” The shelves are empty.
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Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I will be okay. Not because everything is fine, but because I am surprisingly difficult to destroy. Says Skeletor who notices being hard to destroy sure doesn’t mean a bunch of asshoes don’t keep trying.
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neutral @neutral.zone · 09/08/2026
Coke Zero: the beverage for people whose pancreas has rejected the real but whose ideology still demands participation in soda
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
someone fetch a tourniquet
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ambientpalegrey @ambientpalegrey.dis.blue · 06/08/2026
Wave/Synth Wednesday is postponed tonight due to power outage
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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
"I don't understand why you, a fantasy writer, don't appreciate the value of making bargains with the fae."
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
But they will be
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.
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Franky Arriola @frankyarriola.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
There are now more podcast microphones in Miami than actual books.
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Dr. K @katekaynak.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Data Centers are not "job creators." They are resource extractors, siphoning off our water and power.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Many people are saying!
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Listen I'm Scary OK @katiemcvay.cryptoanarchy.network · 28/07/2026
start the boos and trust the power of the crowd to join
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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
This concept was introduced to me as "run the dishwasher twice" and was an important part of my executive functioning recovery as well as my path to self-acceptance.
When I was at one of my lowest (mental) points in life, I couldn't get out of bed some days. I had no energy or motivation and was barely getting by.

I had therapy once per week, and on this particular week I didn't have much to 'bring' to the session. He asked how my week was and I really had nothing to say.

'What are you struggling with?' he asked.

I gestured around me and said 'I dunno man. Life.'

Not satisfied with my answer, he said 'No, what exactly are you worried about right now? What feels overwhelming? When you go home after this session, what issue will be staring at you?'

I knew the answer, but it was so ridiculous that I didn't want to say it. I wanted to have something more substantial.
Something more profound.

But I didn't.

So I told him, 'Honestly? The dishes. It's stupid, I know, but the more I look at them the more I CAN'T do them because I'll have to scrub them before I put them in the dishwasher, because the dishwasher sucks, and I just can't stand and scrub the dishes.'

I felt like an idiot even saying it.

What kind of grown ass woman is undone by a stack of dishes? There are people out there with *actual* problems, and I'm whining to my therapist about dishes?

But he nodded in understanding and then said:

'RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE.'I began to tell him that you're not supposed to, but he stopped me.

'Why the hell aren't you supposed to? If you don't want to scrub the dishes and your dishwasher sucks, run it twice. Run it three times, who cares?! Rules do not exist.'

It blew my mind in a way that I don't think I can properly express.

That day, I went home and tossed my smelly dishes haphazardly into the dishwasher and ran it three times.

I felt like I had conquered a dragon.

The next day, I took a shower lying down.

A few days later. I folded my laundry and put them wherever the fuck they fit.

There were no longer arbitrary rules I had to follow, and it gave me the freedom to make accomplishments again.

Now that I'm in a healthier place, I rinse off my dishes and put them in the dishwasher properly. I shower standing up. I sort my laundry.

But at a time when living was a struggle instead of a blessing, I learned an incredibly important lesson:

THERE ARE NO RULES. RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE!!!"
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
"Do the thing you can do instead of beating yourself up over not doing the thing you're not doing" is honestly life-changing, even life-saving, advice.
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 24/07/2026
There is a great, ongoing debate about the origins of the late-90s revival of 80s music. Most experts date the trigger of this revival to fall 1997, when Tom Pepinsky open mic’d Toto’s Africa at a talent show
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
A photo of a nutria on a beach and the text: if you are seeing this the curse is lifted. have a good day
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
DA REAL INTERNET MUST COME BACK - dashare.zone ADMIN
A SKELTEN WITH 2 CEO REMOVER'S "BRING BACK RSS READER'S AND BLOGS" - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This feels grimly accurate. I think for most people, engagement with the party feels like getting on Temu’s mailing list: Just a neverending stream of spam asking for cash and no other meaningful call to be part of anything that might generate any sense of identity or community.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Can't get numb to this: The United States is stuck in a war it started, cannot end, and may further escalate to no avail, having dismantled its diplomatic apparatus, depleted its military stockpile, and destroyed its credibility. A historic strategic mistake harming millions in many different ways.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Conservatives on X are now claiming that The Odyssey, which had the most profitable live-action opening of the year so far with $264 million, is a box office flop. Just as I suspected, they are incapable of admitting they were wrong. This is the election denialism of pop culture.
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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I keep seeing "pencil slop" being said by AI people as rage bait, and I'm like damn even your insults are ungrounded shallow empty ripoffs of something that already existed.
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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Never forget that they had to spend trillions of dollars, build massive data centers, consume millions of galloons of water and insane amounts of electricity, just to kind of do what you can do better with your imagination and a cup of coffee. That's how envious they are of what you can do.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/07/2026
Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.
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ambientpalegrey @ambientpalegrey.dis.blue · 19/07/2026
AI's Citizen's United moment.... "we should permit AI to learn from existing public knowledge. A clear distinction should be maintained between model training inputs and model outputs, with the focus in terms of intellectual property rights protection on outputs." www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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Encouraging Learning and Knowledge with AI and Copyright Law | Brian Williamson posted on the topic | LinkedIn
The original copyright law - the Statute of Anne in 1710 - was entitled "An Act for the encouragement of learning". Its purpose was to encourage the creation and dissemination of knowledge by replacin...
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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 17/07/2026
It's very hard not to love @doctorow.pluralistic.net when he gets stuck into something. This video really lays out the AI bubble clearly!
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Vangluss @vangluss.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Fucked up but trufax. With how much of a premium their current headhoncho puts on being a dumb asshole, many could make a convincing argument anything that requires literacy more substantial than a fifth grade education could be considered "woke"
This is where the simple, direct hip-hop vernacular of Junaid Hussain proved so effective in reaching out to millennial youth, compared with the book-length treatises of earl- ier jihadist recruiters. Donald Trump also capitalized on the premium that social media places on simplicity. During the 2016 election, Carnegie Mellon University researchers studied and ranked the complexity of the candidates' language (giving it what is known as a Flesch- Kincaid score). They found that Trump's vocabulary measured at the lowest level of all the candidates, comprehensible to someone with a fifth-grade education.
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social
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I've had to unfriend a few fans lately, all for the same reason. They made ridiculing, unkind, and in some cases outright cruel comments about pictures I posted of young women cosplaying Jessica. 
More than a person, Jessica is a state of mind. To play Jessica, you need self -confidence, a sense of humor, and a Jessican -attitude-. There is no such thing as a Jessica cosplayer being too short, too flat chested, too heavy, too thin, too unattractive, too black, too Asian, or even too male!!! All Jessica, any Jessica, every Jessica is good Jessica. 
I'm not giving any warnings or second chances. A single disparaging comment on a Jessica cosplayer, and I'm throwing you out of the rainbow colored Toontown Tent.
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Lesbian Death Bed: The Bed that Eats Pussy (pro orph) @bitterkarella.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
over the course of my life i've heard many many people say "it's too bad hitler didn't find success as an artist, maybe this could have all been avoided" and rowling really gives the lie to that
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Great job 👏
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Sheo @sheologian.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I’m not even ON threads but I’ve seen this more than once, and this is exactly it
Jwnia on threads writes 

If you believe in jailing homeless people, you already believe homeless people should have housing paid for by the public. You’ve just decided that the housing provided should be super-expensive, should suck, and their lives should be miserable while they receive that housing and food. Which says a lot less about homeless people than that you are a dick
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