Reposted by eric shamowTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 15hBelieve it or not, a lot of people do not have to-do lists. And the the lists many of them have are not structured for an ai agent to be helpful. This isn’t groundbreaking. If you have ever watched the evening news or read even a single story about people who aren’t like you, it is pretty basic 3077691
Reposted by eric shamowTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 7hIf you need a stranger to validate your choices in every statement then just assume you have it! No need to follow up or show your homework to the teacher. You are pre-validated, all the time! 31768
Reposted by eric shamowIsland of Reil @islandofreil.northsky.social · 11hThe bear. Always the bear. 062
Reposted by eric shamowMekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 11hNah. Most of the best Jewish people already know this. Which is why some of the fiercest civil rights advocates are Jewish. ♥️🕊️ 3306
Reposted by eric shamowEb @ebthen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The difference between steroids in MLB and genAI in higher ed is the difference between something that makes it substantially easier for you to do a thing yourself and something that replaces you doing the thing yourself. 141
eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 11hYup, this strikes me as accurate The thing that's important about Mamdani's statistic is that the two numbers have such a discrepancy (community size vs reported incidents). That's it. But it is also very clear that there are groups who get much worse. 031
Reposted by eric shamowMekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 11hAntisemitism is bad, and we should all stand against it. But people keep sharing this misleading statistic that Jewish people receive the most hate crimes. They don't. You know who does. Jewish people receive the most *religious based* hate crimes. And Jewish people *report* the most hate crimes. 25913
Reposted by eric shamowKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 13hI literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you. 583208424376
Reposted by eric shamowHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 20hyou will be rewarded with: - uncomfortable silence probably - maybe you will lose that friend idk is that such a big deal 21848112
Reposted by eric shamowHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 20hyou will not be rewarded with: - sexual and/or romantic favors (sliding value scale relative to the chastity of rescued woman, however this can be applied to any woman, no matter how biblically libidinous) - government-issued tshirt, hat, or badge indicating you are “one of the good ones” - parade 11603111
Reposted by eric shamowHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 22hi 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 10111673082
Reposted by eric shamowCaptain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 11hExcellent thread! There *are* rewards for being A Good Guy Who Speaks Up even if they are not immediately obvious or publicly bestowed. First, integrity is its own reward. Maybe you didn’t save the world or change hearts & minds. But if you held the line on not making it worse, that’s something. 8681185
Reposted by eric shamowLiz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 22hActually, yes, 2025 represents low revenue / maximum expenditure for the AI hyperscalers. You would have had to pay *me* to use their products before Feb 2026. 2744
eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 11hI don't even have words, this shouldn't feel as unusual or amazing as it does but this guy continues to show the rest of the country how it's done 051
Reposted by eric shamowMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 12hThe Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism. 228110032239
Reposted by eric shamowbonque, ben (טריפה שאלות) @kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social · 12hHeather Thompson Day and I were at Andrews at the same time. Not sure about Seth. They wrote this book about not canceling your relationship, and anywho, they were both arrested a few days ago apparently for child abuse in various forms. www.christianitytoday.com/podcasts/vir...christianitytoday.comSeth Day: I’ll See You Tomorrow - Christianity TodayLately it’s easier to “cancel” relationships rather than work on them. Here’s how to keep showing up for one another—even when we feel like walking away. 241
Reposted by eric shamowJamie Hurlburt (he/they) @jamiehurlburt.bsky.social · 14hThe (now deleted) example was talking to the agent in a very formal English way about getting a cup of tea to prove the chatbot could hang. Anyone wanna bet on the relative representation of formal conversations about tea vs. vernacular conversations about collards in the training data? 0122
Reposted by eric shamowMelvin Peña @melvinpena.bsky.social · 13hgo to space jason's event! i wish i could! 262
Reposted by eric shamowSerial Experiments Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 13halways good to get a reminder that It Could Be Worse 081
Reposted by eric shamowOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 19hThere's a trap in getting obsessed with bad terminology, one set by industry: that we do that instead of act. Nazis also chose "socialist" in their name as false advertising propaganda to attract people from both "sides" of the left/right spectrum (in fact they invented horseshoe theory for it)... 1258
Reposted by eric shamowMikal Lewis @mikal-el.com · 29/09/2026Pete Alonso really decided he has an on switch. 041
Reposted by eric shamowbonque, ben (טריפה שאלות) @kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026And this is why we don't trust antitheists as allies. Same morals as Evangelicals, just without the God bit. At least Evangelicals try to externalize their depravity. 042
Reposted by eric shamow Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 29/09/2026I found my people. bsky.app/profile/numb... 5304
Reposted by eric shamoweric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026lotta engineers convinced that executing formal business processes is all other people do be/c they themselves just sling tickets all day and work through structured architecture and they're the smartest people in the world! 1204
Reposted by eric shamowSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There remains an active campaign to reply-harass Black people off this platform and it is not on us to solve this problem. It’s on y’all. 161070184
Reposted by eric shamoweric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026*it's a really great game and maybe the first rethink of the X-Com formula I've found genuinely interesting in a long while (especially w/r/t the less-box-like level designs) But it was also fundamentally unplayable at and after launch on a lot of systems 021
eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026Ooo a Zero Company patch, maybe triggering overwatch won't freeze my entire system now 120
Reposted by eric shamowr o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026absolutely, the erasure of Mizrahi & Ethiopian Jews in general sucks. And there were Mizrahic victims of the holocaust. Also that perspective COMPLETELY erases Romani victims. 071
Reposted by eric shamowMicah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026it’s bad, actually, that much of the industry is gatekept by people whose standard for hiring a woman is “are you a Cool Girl who is into weird men doing sex stuff at her all the time?” 282627467
Reposted by eric shamowr o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026one of my pet peeves is "people only cared about the holocaust bc the victims were white" The WHOLE POINT was that Jews WEREN'T considered white. Ashkenazim didn't attain whiteness until the ~60s. Did white people find it easier to empathize w/ white faces? 100%. But the former is a dumb guy take 1442
Reposted by eric shamowinternet freds 🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"token limit" is such a beautiful name for a girl 073
Reposted by eric shamowDiscontinued Foods! @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 27/09/2026ejewishphilanthropy.com/sunkist-says... Welp, re-continued food news!!ejewishphilanthropy.comSunkist says it will bring back beloved Fruit Gems after national outcry following eJP report‘We hear you, Sunkist Fruit Gems fans!’ the company wrote, saying it had found a new manufacturer for the kosher synagogue staple 3063689
Reposted by eric shamowEugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I am very often now in rooms with a lot of senior robotics or ML folks and it’s always just men. Men men men. A sea of men. It sucks! We should be very ashamed. 921419
eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026saw this and immediately thought "oh, Oz" the experience of this as an early-20-something who grew up on 90210 was indelible 040
Reposted by eric shamowBrooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Humanities is "feminine," so those of us who studied it are expected to accept that it's on us to read widely, whereas STEM is "masculinized," which means humanities has to do all that work for them 47217
Reposted by eric shamowKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 27/09/2026And I just don't accept that logic anymore. It's just plain shitty behaviour! But it's downstream of the social media prime directive: if it feels good, post it. Like so much else political posting, it's about empty catharsis rather than achieving anything. 545031
Reposted by eric shamowKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 27/09/2026And the only coherent answer people who defend this behaviour seem to give is that if you are marginalised to a certain degree, then you're entitled to a certain amount of "venting." You know, as a treat. 341425
Reposted by eric shamowKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 27/09/2026You don't have an inalienable right to be an antisocial dipshit because you're doomscrolling all day and it makes you feel terrible. There are no qualifiers to this. You are not released from the obligation to try to be decent just because Elon Musk is lighting the world on fire. 9847195
Reposted by eric shamowNifferama @nifferama.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I avoided reading this thread because I knew what I would encounter. By the time I got to ‘gaslighting kink’ I was no longer capable of surprise. 052
Reposted by eric shamowWord_Geek @word-geek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026They don't want relationships with women. Women are not real to them, they are trophies and bangmaids Actual polyamorous folk and actual kinky people would both disavow all of this, because it's rape cloaked in the language of the ethical frameworks those communities worked hard to create 1111
Reposted by eric shamowKat Z @katzindc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Oh, you want the rewards of being in a relationship without taking any of the risks? Yeah, that’s not a thing. 051
Reposted by eric shamowKen Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Hat tip to @faineg.com for the link: Because I'd gone to PenguiCon in 2006-2009 and was friends with Eric S. Raymond at the time LessWrong and SlateStarCodex started metastasizing, I recognize a number of the earlier points in the timeline Duncan documents and some of the people.iankduncan.comSex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian DuncanHow a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ... 2175
Reposted by eric shamowvortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 27/09/2026I think software engineering has been in a crisis since at least when Facebook facilitated a genocide and there wasn’t any meaningful change to the formalized ethical practices of the industry as a whole 38318
Reposted by eric shamowNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The two main tendencies in national Israeli politics right now are "expulsion and annexation of the Palestinian territories" vs "civil separation under the authority of an Israeli police state", and virtually all mainstream US commentary simply refuses to engage with this. 6724162