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they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????

barefootwriter @bfwriter.bsky.social · 3h

I warn against this sort of competence in my dissertation-in-progress about the assignment of potential in education. Eichmann was good at his job and he deserved to be hanged for it.

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Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 5h

If you ever needed a clearer proof that the "I would die to protect women but they won't make me a sandwich" script is utter bullshit... 50+ men were HANDED the PERFECT chance to be the Knight in Shining Armor with zero risk to themselves. And to a man, they failed. Catastrophically.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 5h

Last week the Portland Police made a huge deal about a K9 killed in the line of duty apprehending a dangerous suspect. Turns out that K9 was shot and killed by...the Portland Police www.kgw.com/article/news...

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 4h

How many times must we say this? AI* software does not “go rogue” any more than your printer “got religion” when it stopped working Sunday. Software does not have intent or agency. People do. And this feels like some people might be exposed to liability. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/t...

Months before OpenAI’s artificial intelligence went rogue, two employees raised an alarm with top executives. They were ignored.

In emails, the employees said they worried that OpenAI’s newest artificial intelligence models were not being appropriately monitored during testing to gauge the technology’s sophistication and to secure the models, according to messages viewed by The New York Times.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:

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barefootwriter @bfwriter.bsky.social · 5h

if your child is not adopting your to-do list/time management habits, maybe it is because they are watching how you yourself relate to them, not as tools that can help them stress out less and/or enjoy themselves more, but as tools to squeeze more productivity out of yourself.

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 6h

Not sure where the discourse started, but I agree that reducing our messy, flesh & blood, complex, glorious human lives to a series of “tasks” to get done (which an AI agent can supposedly do for you to give you more time for… what exactly?) is just one more example of big tech’s dehumanizing trend.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12h

One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...

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ally @inaneenglish.bsky.social · 8h

Love how Heated Rivalry has caused a deluge of hetero hockey romances because American publishers/studios looked at Heated Rivalry's success and thought "surely it is the hockey and not queer love that made this happen"

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barefootwriter @bfwriter.bsky.social · 7h

I mean, yes, but who else was the US inflicting that on while some people had the privilege of ignoring the president for weeks at a time? the only difference now is that the terror and chaos is happening to people it's not supposed to happen to.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 7h

This period will go down as one of the greatest moments for Democrat attack ads in history. We're seeing LBJ "Daisy"-level spots daily.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Anyway, your problem isn‘t finding the time to take notes. The problem is that taking notes is thinking and thinking has to be done by someone. women have been doing a lot of metacognition that looks like a task when it’s really thinking.

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barefootwriter @bfwriter.bsky.social · 7h

right. if "learn to code" wasn't something that I saw as solving any of my life problems, "learn to prompt engineer" certainly won't be. I see these tools existing at the periphery of my todo app as integrations, like IFTTT (If This Then That), and I cannot think of a single use case.

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Kaldrenon @kaldrenon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The typical non-technical concept of a "structured task" is far less structured and far more contextual and personal than any software system can be expected to comprehend. Even if said system were not a technofascist grift built on plagiarism and theft and blatant lies. So we get porn, instead.

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Kaldrenon @kaldrenon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This thread is especially salient in conjunction with 404's new piece today. One of the few actually popular uses of modern AI tools is pornographic imagery. And while that obviously implies other cultural concerns as well, I think it's in part because it's *what people can think of using it for*.

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barefootwriter @bfwriter.bsky.social · 8h

oh look, it's the "stop conflating productivity practices under capitalism with being a moral person" challenge.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 8h

I will try this again. When I say “some people do not keep to-do lists” it does not imply that people who do keep to do lists are weird. It means exactly what it says — some people do not keep to do lists.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 9h

This is a scatter plot of energy use vs AI score, essentially a test of capabilities. It shows *really* nicely how the 'advancements' of LLMs are really just brute force energy intensive spam: repeating and re-repeating looping queries in a shockingly wasteful way.

an increase in energy use to perfom better on tests

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 9h

I've been traveling today, but I understand we've been talking about to do lists and meal prep services and in More Than Words, I just so happen to use meal prep services as an example of how something that seems like it could be useful, doesn't help us build capacity in the long run.

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The Terrier @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 15h

The man, who has a history of litigation over this kind of thing, went into an interview in which was a mental health service that very much makes no secret of its service to lgbtq+ people. I don’t know how much clearer you have to be that’s the is is barratry.

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barefootwriter @bfwriter.bsky.social · 9h

why do men's futures always matter more than women's? why do they not lose any potential or promise they had due to clear and overwhelming evidence of a lack of moral character, and why isn't hers preserved because she did absolutely nothing wrong?

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Denman Rooke @denmanrooke.com · 19h

The very predictable side effect of not hiring junior roles and replacing* them with AI instead. *AI can't actually do the job of humans. (Credit: inspired by a tweet by a @Dylanszn01 on twitter)

Who killed Hannibal? meme with the text over man with gun "Companies replacing Junior Roles with AI" shooting another man on a couch with text "Junior Artists". Second image is the text: (5 years later) Why can't we find senior talent?

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🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 10h

The things be seen parents do to their boys and the relationships parents have with boys matter. And not one child is ever going to listen to you or call you when they’re scared if you’ve been telling them since they were babies to man up.

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🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 10h

Just be there for your sons. Not in a ‘he knows he can come to me’ way- In a ‘every single day we check in and I show him I care about him and he’s allowed to care about me and all the things he wants to care about’ sort of way.

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🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 10h

You know what- I see all the ‘teach you boys not to rape’ guidelines and as the parent of a pretty great kid- honest to god you know what the most important thing is? Even more so than the lectures and the stern words and and and and?

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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barefootwriter @bfwriter.bsky.social · 15h

I spend a good bit of time with people who are very different from me, and I am often surprised by the little glimpses I get into how they think and run their lives.

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barefootwriter @bfwriter.bsky.social · 16h

I am in a mixed marriage: I use these kinds of tools and he largely doesn't. his family also does not. I was raised by someone who was into all the 80's productivity fads. I've known about Stephen Covey from childhood. so yes, you've got to be taught to think this way.

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barefootwriter @bfwriter.bsky.social · 16h

ooh. some people may not know the history of POTS, a form of orthostatic intolerance that is often dismissed due to female predominance, but it and similar conditions were first documented by da Costa just after the US Civil War. they also called it irritable heart syndrome and soldier's heart.

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DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 16h

“Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)…was linked to about 260,000 cases globally in 2024, and can lead to nasopharyngeal cancer, some gastric cancers and Hodgkin's lymphoma…also a key risk factor in developing multiple sclerosis” 😳 Spread thru saliva & coughing or sneezing 😷 No vaccine or antibiotic treatments.

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Researchers are discovering more infections that can cause cancer | CBC News

New global research suggests 12 per cent of cancers were caused by infections, predominantly caused by HPV and H. pylori

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 21h

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 23h

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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jesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 16h

Michael Tracey: somehow bringing a distinct kind of moral depravity to an alleged gang rape

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Nerd Girl Says @rachaelconrad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Two of my guy friends here in town have been roofied because they drank the cocktails that the person slipping drugs into drinks thought were intended for their female friends. This shit happens all the time. At this point it isn’t shocking. It just hurts to know we might never be safe.

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London Price, author 🌈 @londonpriceauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yes! Do it! But it's also on YouTube!

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 22h

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The people making generative AI are in a millenarian cult based on a Harry Potter fanfic and heavily subsidized by Jeff Epstein in its beginning, that is a death cult by day and a rape cult by night. And they make zero effort to hide any of this, they count on you going no fucking way that's weird

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mark Carney wants to make Canada a destination for global investment. To this end, his new omnibus bill casts the right to strike as an obstacle to the “national interest” — and organized labor as a barrier to national strength rather than its foundation.

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Mark Carney Is Taking Aim at Canada’s Labor Movement

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Chris Clare DJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 17h

This is the thesis of my book, yes

A post by @constans on X.com:

Protestant with arm tattoos and a soul patch: you're about to hear a message about how gay people are going to hell and Harris is going to bring forth communism

Protestant with full robes and a censer: you're about to hear how Jesus is, if you think about it, trans

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 18h

also thinking a lot about how #MeToo apparently went too far, when it’s quite obvious now that it didn’t go far enough. it didn’t really go anywhere. there were no lasting consequences of that cultural moment beyond people making jokes about it.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 17h

Men, stop telling women you denounce sexual assault and start telling your male friends.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 17h

Oh bsky.app/profile/ecmc...

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Exceptional solidarity from ASU hockey players who have demanded their coach be placed on leave for essentially overseeing the murder of their teammate and have disputed the university’s findings. www.nytimes.com/athletic/764...

Seven Arizona State men’s hockey players asked the university’s president to place the Sun Devils’ coaching staff on administrative leave pending further investigation into the workout that left sophomore transfer Matthew Mayich on life support.

In a 26-page letter sent to ASU president Michael Crow on Monday and obtained by The Athletic, the players disputed numerous findings from the university’s initial review of the Aug. 20 workout, writing that Mayich did not receive water and was provided inadequate medical care after his collapse.

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Lev Lazinskiy🌈 @levlaz.org · 14/09/2026

Dr. El-Sayed‘s position here is so simple, logical, and correct. This must be the default position for all Democratic candidates. it’s really not that complicated and I’m baffled on why so many Dems keep pandering to bigots.

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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 17h

Oh wouldn’t that be a hoot!

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 17h

I got given the job of blowing bubbles for preschoolers at music club this morning & folks, 5 stars, would recommend. If you are feeling a bit blue, you gotta blow some bubbles for toddlers. Most appreciative audience ever

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 22h

Wore this tshirt yesterday and someone tried to explain it to me

Star Wars number one fan. Image of the enterprise from Star Trek

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