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billburgnyc

@billburgnyc.bsky.social

141 followers 220 following 173 posts

(fyi I usually assume anyone following me is a bot and immediately block!)

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

OPINION: Hot dog is dog, and dog is aardvark [editor, insert picture of beloved left-wing hot dog]

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Mike Dawson @mikedawson.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

we already have an incredible invention that allows anybody from any background to easily become a writer or an artist without a high bar to entry and it's called a 'zine

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 27/02/2026

With the DoD/Anthropic news this week, I can't help but think of my dad, who quit his first programming job back in the '80s, because his employer asked him to write software for weapons systems. I hope the current generation of engineers will have that same spine.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/02/2026

There is no sense in which a chatbot can "help" with your schoolwork by making it easier; if it is easier, it is less useful for actual learning (effortful practice is HOW WE LEARN) and therefore the chatbot has not helped, but has only hindered.

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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

one guy even tried to give us a sandwich

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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

I know it’s tedious to qualify these statements like this, but I do want to underline that I make a discipline of not engaging in expressive hyperbole. In my judgment, the below is simply cold blooded description of the present facts. It’s a scandal.

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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

If you’ve never been angry to get something you want are you even alive.

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billburgnyc @billburgnyc.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

With everything so terrible, I find I cling more desperately to small, good things. It always surprises me how much my spirits are raised by a ‘zine in my mailbox from @mikedawson.bsky.social An envelope every month, for about what I pay for a day-and-a-half’s coffee. 1/2

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