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Retired PhD drop out. Here to evade the bots while we still can.

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Brody Ambrosius 🍁 @scruffopone.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Out of everything Ed Zitron says, the thing he is most correct about is how embarrassed and ashamed the tech journalism space should be about themselves. Credulous ass kissers who don't know shit about anything spreading obvious lies to the public fed to them by billionaire interests.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 03/11/2025
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
if kimmel is edgy we are so fucked
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 09/09/2025
A better question that answers itself is why the Atlantic is giving space to a Peter Thiel bro who is obsessed with colonizing the moon
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404 Media @404media.co · 09/09/2025
"The real kick in the teeth is no matter how much manufacturing is brought back to the US these items will never be made in the USA. There is no upside." As we predicted, the end of de minimis has made every hobby that requires the purchase of items more expensive. 🔗 www.404media.co/its-just-a-m...
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‘It's Just a Mess:' 23 People Explain How Tariffs Have Suddenly Ruined Their Hobby
"The real kick in the teeth is no matter how much manufacturing is brought back to the US these items will never be made in the USA. There is no upside."
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
The demobilizing, deflating, and depressing effect of watching day after day as the dumbest, most vapid lickspittles alive are elevated and handed success beyond your wildest dreams is a feature, not a bug, of authoritarian / nationalist movements like this one.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 08/07/2025
I sure wish we still had a press corps that would look into "what is being done to protect all those Columbia applicants who had their data stolen by a white supremacist freak, which the NY Times then merrily published."
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 08/07/2025
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Nicholas Dawes @nicdawes.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
The thing about Grok isn't just that it's a Nazi, it's that it tells on all the other LLMs. Outsourcing critical parts of your brain/workflows/team to systems tuned in more subtle ways by companies that may not share your values is just as risky as obvious bias or hallucination
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I know y’all don’t care about this but there’s a pretty fast spreading Covid variant going around and there’s gonna be a summer surge whether you like it or not. You can, of course, avoid this by getting vaccinated and wearing a mask but you won’t do that.
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U.S. reports cases of new COVID variant NB.1.8.1 behind surge in China
Authorities in Hong Kong say COVID-19 levels are the worst in at least a year.
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Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Historian here. The history of “little fingers” stereotype as a rationale for underpaying women and children is long and dishonorable.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/05/2025
imho, trying to use ai to subvert structural sexism and racism, to upend legacies of colonialism and for advocating social justice is akin to trying to dismantle the masters house using the masters tools
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
the phones: they are not for you. they are not for me. neither is the entirety of modern society lol
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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Just the feature I was looking for! Said nobody ever.
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 24/05/2025
nope. anthropic made a dataset including fake emails implying a nonexistent engineer was having an affair and the chatbot emitted words related to words from those fake emails implying a fictitious affair. then a bunch of dipshit frauds at anthropic made the home alone face and ran around the house.
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The Woke Post Finder @fairbairn.zone · 24/05/2025
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Nathan Vass is a Seattle treasure
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Rachel Chatrooms @crabitha.slutmo.de · 23/05/2025
Burn, you beautiful Data Center Leased byElon Musk's X
burn!
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Counterpoint: it is an extremely good thing when a country has enough freedom of speech to make art that analyzes real world problems in a fictional setting.
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Three Scary Rogue Agents in a Trenchcoat @alexhanna.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I've said in multiple venues: if Kendrick taught us anything, it's that we haven't been hating AI hard enough
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 22/05/2025
AI Con is such a great starting point for people looking to understand what’s wrong with generative AI. It was a pleasure to chat with @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social about their new book!
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
A black and white frame from Matt Groenig’s Life In Hell comic. A small text box reads 1990s. A white rabbit looks fearfully at the viewer as a speech bubble appears, saying: 
BY BEING THE SAME AS REPUBLICANS
WE CAN DEFEAT THE REPUBLICANS.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I FOIAed every state's dept of education to see what they were telling teachers about ChatGPT / how they were training them on it, and the situation was bleak. My writeup, pulled from thousands of pages of presentations, emails, and other documents: www.404media.co/american-sch...
404media.co
American Schools Were Deeply Unprepared for ChatGPT, Public Records Show
Thousands of pages of documents show school districts around the country did not understand how much ChatGPT would change their classrooms, and pro-AI consultants filled in some of the gaps.
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lawngnomesorceress @lawngnomesorceress.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
@cait.bsky.social had to do it to 'em
an orange cat in an adidas beanie and track jacket smoking a cigarette. He is glowering at you.
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I got stoned last night and made this and then forgot to post it anyway I stand by it
Cover of Laura numeroff's if you give a mouse a cookie but the text has been changed to say if you give a fascist anything
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
i want someone to calculate how much these collective decisions cost, that it may radicalize us all, ferally
a timeline of HBO rebrands starting with HBO Max (2022) max (2023) max - with the a filled in (2024) max - with the a filled in and on a black background (2025) and finally back to HBO Max (2025)
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
i don’t understand when my fellow thirtysomethings panic about no longer understanding what the kids like and how they dress. the most perfect serenity ever devised by man or heaven is within reach and you’re pushing it away with both hands
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Fucking THANK YOU. Like, for real, I need a lot of you to dispense with the fantasies of objective, impartial tech. You are watching the intended purpose of this shit on display as we speak as Grok is hammered into compliance behind the scenes.
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Honestly, me too.
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Connie Walker @conniewalker.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
On Wednesday, just days before her wedding, 25-year-old Hassouna was killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit her home in northern Gaza. Ten members of her family, including her pregnant sister, were also killed. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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‘If I die, I want a loud death’: Gaza photojournalist killed by Israeli airstrike
Fatima Hassouna, who had been documenting war in Gaza for 18 months and was subject of new documentary, killed along with 10 members of her family
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Madeline Sophia Luther 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇳🇴 @vinminen.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Just spectacular writing from @quinnae.com...
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Sos "Buy Lazy Kickers" Sosowski @sosowski.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
I'm gonna have to frame this one.
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Tempus abolere ICE (time to abolish ICE) @tempus.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
“When systems are built to last for decades, we often don’t see the disaster unfolding until the people who cared for those systems have been gone for quite some time. The blessing and the curse of good infrastructure is that when it works, it is invisible….”
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 27/03/2025
Sounds like the rest of them really, like all the big ones claiming models that perform "reasoning" and such. Its the way of Silicon Valley. techcrunch.com/2025/03/24/a... Via @esraa.bsky.social
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a16z- and Benchmark-backed 11x has been claiming customers it doesn’t have | TechCrunch
Last year, AI-powered sales automation startup 11x appeared to be on an explosive growth trajectory. However, nearly two dozen sources — including
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Wayne Soon @waynesoon.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Best and clearest article on Long Covid in a while. www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
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‘Something was wrong with my brain’: How covid leaves its mark on cognition
Five years after the pandemic began, the neurocognitive effects of long covid are numerous and troubling. And some may extend to people who quickly recovered.
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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Some countries - Poland, Korea - have historically been in bad neighborhoods and suffered grievously for it. The United States has astonishing good fortune to be in the neighborhood it’s in, and it’s truly baffling as well as heartbreaking to see it wreck that advantage to appease a mad king.
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ErisApparent (barbie nine jobs arc 👩‍🔧) @eris404.rip · 27/03/2025
i used to bash my head against the wall having the same arguments with bigots on twitter over and over, as though i needed to show the flaws in their arguments to justify my existence don't do that. that's a bad idea. do read julia's work instead, it's a much better inoculation against nonsense
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Noem also made this content specifically with an eye to how it would be shared and promoted on X. The state producing content to feed the incentives of a commercial platform owned Elon Musk is yet another function of the newly emboldened tech oligarchy www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/deconstruc...
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Deconstructing the new American oligarchy
Musk and Trump are showing us what authoritarian rule looks like when everything's computer.
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Marielza @marielza.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Clinicians using "medical" LLMs are essentially playing roulette with their patients' lives.
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 20/03/2025
From Texas to Florida, Louisiana, and New Jersey, the film reveals how librarians across the country have become victims of a crisis manufactured by national organizations bent on infiltrating and disrupting local school boards.
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These Librarians Won’t Let America’s Fever Hit Fahrenheit 451
A new documentary shows us our local guardians of intellectual freedom in battle.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Our whole government is just one big "men's rights" subreddit now
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The overwhelming amount of news today came first, understandably, but DAMN is it a shame that this piece also published today because it was SO fucking great to interview THE Jeannette Walls on the 20th anniversary of her memoir.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 20/03/2025
"You don't eat soup in public" is so absurd and yet truly crystalizes how much these people would rather eradicate us for not being anywhere near as deeply, deeply, pathologically repressed as them than just fucking work out their own strange ass internal shit.
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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
At a recent talk, someone came up to me and asked: "Isn't California just always going to be a lot more expensive than other states?" The simple answer is "no." We know it doesn't have to be this way, because it wasn't always this way until the 1970s. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/mnolangr...
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The Invention of the “High-Cost” State
America Wasn't Always A Place of "Expensive" and "Affordable" States, Nor Does It Need To Be.
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privateideation.bsky.social @privateideation.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
WE MUST ANSWER THE CALL
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a picture of a forest with trees and grass
Alt: a picture of a forest with trees and grass, guys in corpse paint jumping out from behind trees, ready to make scratchy music for the devil
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