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axem @axem.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

U of R administration are genuinely evil people

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

It is the middle of 2024 and it is still actual news that autistic people have emotions

What does giddiness or joy or anger feel like?

To a group of autistic adults participating in a Rutgers study, giddiness manifests like “bees”; small moments of joy are like “a nice coffee in the morning” that yields “a sense of elevation”; anger starts with a “body-tensing” boil, then headaches.

Contrary to common perceptions and years of research that autistic people can’t describe their emotions or often have muted emotional responses, a Rutgers study published in the American Journal of Occupational Therapy concludes that many autistic adults are in fact acutely aware of their feelings and can label them in vivid, often colorful detail.

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 30/07/2024

every day is a new level of shame

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

Climate scientists talk about this a lot, that they don’t want people to shut down. But maybe walking on eggshells while talking about the threat we face is actually what’s preventing appropriate action from being taken! We have to have more faith in people’s love for each other.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 02/05/2024

One good idea I have is that some rich guy should file away a few million dollars and have Matt Berry star in 1990’s style Full Motion Video videogames called Tomb of the Werewolf and DuskStabber and things like that

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 22/04/2024

If you want to get a clear picture of what's been happening on Columbia's campus this past week, I strongly recommend prioritizing student journalism. Access to campus has been restricted pretty consistently -- students have the best vantage. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

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Inside the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University

Hundreds of peaceful protesters began occupying the campus on Wednesday to demand that the university divest from Israel. The next day, the school sent in the NYPD to arrest them.

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Encephalophatass (Any pronouns) @encephalophatass.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

Being autistic isn't hard. All you have to do is remember the 3 things that make NTs most mad: - Misunderstandings - Any effort on your part to prevent a misunderstanding - Any attempt after the fact to clear up a misunderstanding So long as you avoid those, functioning in NT society is easy!

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Susan (George) Schorn @susanschorn.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

I have ben telling faculty that "AI writing instruction" won't work, because it can't work, and the task for serious educators is to minimize the damage until the scammers realize there is no gold mine to be plundered, and move on.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 29/03/2024

The generative AI discourse is sincerely insane, it's exactly as if the entire food sector were scrambling to see who could add the most poison to their products. THESE FUCKING THINGS GENERATE FAKE INFORMATION, THAT'S WHAT THEY DO, YOU'RE TRYING TO REPLACE REAL INFORMATION WITH FAKE INFORMATION.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 22/08/2023

I don’t think it can be emphasized enough that large language models were never intended to do math or know facts; literally all they do is attempt to sound like the text they’re given, which may or may not include math or facts. They don’t do logic or fact checking — they’re just not built for that

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 14/03/2024

there are 280M cars in the u.s. but let’s go after the equivalent of half a million by zeroing in on the asthmatic, people who in many cases wouldn’t even need medicine if the air wasn’t polluted in the first place

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 14/03/2024

"Content" is something to fill an empty vessel: it repositions your view of the world to align with corporations. Art becomes something disposable, fungible, serving a financial interest and nothing more. The word "artist" is right there; I beg you to claim it and leave "content creator" to molder

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 13/03/2024

a lot of people are mad that people are saying they're worse off now than 4 years ago because the early pandemic was SO terrifying. but back then we thought it would be temporarily very bad. now we know how bad it is and are being gaslit about it by all of our institutions.

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Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online · 11/03/2024

it's exaggeration to say Biden is as bad as Trump, but their official policy isn't much different, and it's really discouraging to see people the left basically ignore immunocompromised and disabled people's plea for safety

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

I've been extremely hesitant to publicly weigh in on any of this for a variety of reasons, but folks hijacking Jonathan Glazer's statement about how he doesn't want his Jewishness to be hijacked is making me see red. He is owning his Jewish identity, not refuting it. Read the actual words.

Glazer – who, like Wilson, is Jewish - continued: “Right now we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people, whether the victims of October 7 in Israel or the ongoing attack in Gaza.”

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

I think if Democrats had nominated a Holocaust denier for a Governor’s race, all the people writing about antisemitism on college campuses would make some time to write pieces on it as a national problem

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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

Never ever think the blue team hates us any less than the red team. They just hate us quieter. Hell, they hate us for making them pretend not to hate us.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

Children deserve to read what they want without parents blocking access. Children are people, not pets or property. Children need access to windows, mirrors, and sliding glass doors, not just whatever tiny box their parents will permit.

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Kate Violette @kateviolette.com · 01/03/2024

If you want to know my biggest covid trauma, it's still happening today. Every day. For now four years. Watching people willfully ignore objective fact and allow themselves to be swayed into pretending reality doesn't exist or is less severe than it actually is.

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH

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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

I feel like my parents esp my mum were forced into the belief that you had to pretend to be Normal to be OK and that they reinforced it without even really being aware of it.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

In Judaism, the full rights of personhood are accorded partway through birth. When the head emerges. At first breath. When that being is independent of the adult carrying it. Until then it is regarded as part of the pregnant person.

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gigastacey @gigastacey.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

Y'all, I cannot emphasize this enough. You should not secretly surveil your kids. This includes putting a phone in the car, but it also includes putting a smart speaker in a 7-year-old's room and not telling them that you can see what they ask Alexa or Siri to do. slate.com/human-intere...

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My Teen Discovered My Secret Surveillance Scheme and … He’s Not Happy

How do I get him to see reason here?

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

Have you considered, on like multiple levels, the benefits of just shutting the fuck up?

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“Public health has to be realistic,” said Michael T. Osterholm, an infectious-disease expert at the University of Minnesota. “In making recommendations to the public today, we have to try to get the most out of what people are willing to do. … You can be absolutely right in the science and yet accomplish nothing because no one will listen to you.”

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 09/02/2024

the thing about using LLMs for this kind of thing is they worked better when they were janky because jank gives you hooks to hang a joke on

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

all of this will be lost like tears in rain

A screenshot that says "6 invite codes available"

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Evan May @gianttourtiere.bsky.social · 26/01/2024

Even if it were instant and perfectly painless the death penalty is still terribly wrong.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 23/01/2024

I think a lot about how one of the most straightforward ways that people can honor the memory of the Holocaust victims is by enthusiastically welcoming refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants to our countries — and how rare it is to see that moral stance represented in even liberal politics today.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

The scary thing I’ve found is that a lot of people ACTUALLY BELIEVE this shit, like they’ll think it somehow became safe after ONE DAY now for some presumably magical reason instead of thinking that the government is lying to them to get people back to work faster and kill a lot of them.

Tweet from @KTLA: California health officials shorten COVID isolation period to 1 day

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 16/01/2024

it must kick so much ass to be a doctor in starfleet. okay my palm pilot is beeping in a way that says that this guy's brain isn't working...can someone grab me the brain stimulator. oh and his leg is all fucked up. nurse, the leg stimulator please

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

If you see how cynically and brazenly the US government and media are lying about Palestine, you really need to apply that lesson to what you think you know about other countries in the imperialists’ crosshairs. Better to suspend judgement than spread State Department propaganda.

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 08/01/2024

This is a lie, and it's always been a lie. Something like ChatGPT needs a TON of text in the language you're targeting to train the model. You get it by licensing it, or you by paying people to write it for you, or by stealing it. What they're saying is it's impossible to create CHEAPLY.

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axem @axem.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

2024 is the year of Linux on the desktop

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

many people are shocked that u cant just turn off disability/mental illness by turning the "willpower" dial all the way up

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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 26/12/2023

my position since i was a literal teenager has been “why do we need a jewish homeland, we’re from everywhere. fascism, racism, and antisemitism are all intertwined - as are other types of oppression. let’s fight for liberation for all.” and in the decades intervening this position has only deepened

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axem @axem.bsky.social · 26/12/2023

ok listen mister genius doctor Hopkins if I wanted advice like that I'd listen to mYSELF! WHICH I WILL NEVER DO!!

one of those useless google answer results called "how to stop eye twitching" with predictably annoying answers like "get more sleep" and "be less stressed (paraphrased)"

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Kate Violette @kateviolette.com · 24/12/2023

"We went from celebrating in March 2021 because we would not be infected, to celebrating the rarity of infection, to celebrating the mildness of infection, to celebrating that those harmed by COVID are ‘not us’." Worth reading the whole thing. www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-pr...

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How the press manufactured consent for never-ending COVID reinfections

Continual reinfection was not the "new normal" Biden advertised. How did we get here?

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John Cena's Fuck You @jefemuka.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

The thing that a lot of Dem types refuse to understand is that whether or not it's defined as a genocide is actually the least important part. The fact that they are not horrified by 10k children being killed and that calling it a genocide is the only thing that would make them care is the problem.

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