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eric shamow

@botmatrix.myatproto.social
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Engineering leadership, usually. People over technology, always I used to be @eshamow on the Twitters married to someone smarter than me they/them

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 15h
Believe 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
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 7h
If 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!
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Island of Reil @islandofreil.northsky.social · 11h
The bear. Always the bear.
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h
Joined May ’23

i hope that men notice how whenever a rape story gets widespread coverage, women use it as an opportunity to vent about how fucking disgusting we think many of you are and how many have made our lives measurably worse, and take a few moments to deeply process that.  1/2

Tomáš Janáček @tomjanacek.bsky.social

of course we have noticed you hate us all and not just the perpetrators and accomplices, you don't fucking shut up about it

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 11h
Nah. Most of the best Jewish people already know this. Which is why some of the fiercest civil rights advocates are Jewish. ♥️🕊️
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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The 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.
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eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 11h
Yup, 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.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 11h
Antisemitism 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.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 13h
I 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.
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 20h
you will be rewarded with: - uncomfortable silence probably - maybe you will lose that friend idk is that such a big deal
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 20h
you 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
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 22h
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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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 11h
Excellent 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.
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 22h
Actually, 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.
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eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 11h
I 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
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 12h
The 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.
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eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 11h
jfc
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bonque, ben (טריפה שאלות) @kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social · 12h
Heather 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...
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Seth Day: I’ll See You Tomorrow - Christianity Today
Lately 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.
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Jamie Hurlburt (he/they) @jamiehurlburt.bsky.social · 14h
The (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?
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Melvin Peña @melvinpena.bsky.social · 13h
go to space jason's event! i wish i could!
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Serial Experiments Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 13h
always good to get a reminder that It Could Be Worse
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 19h
There'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)...
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Mikal Lewis @mikal-el.com · 29/09/2026
Pete Alonso really decided he has an on switch.
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eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026
this speaks for me
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bonque, ben (טריפה שאלות) @kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And 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.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 29/09/2026
I found my people. bsky.app/profile/numb...
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eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026
lotta 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!
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There 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.
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eric 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
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eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026
Ooo a Zero Company patch, maybe triggering overwatch won't freeze my entire system now
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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
absolutely, the erasure of Mizrahi & Ethiopian Jews in general sucks. And there were Mizrahic victims of the holocaust. Also that perspective COMPLETELY erases Romani victims.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026
it’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?”
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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
one 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
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internet freds 🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"token limit" is such a beautiful name for a girl
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Discontinued Foods! @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
ejewishphilanthropy.com/sunkist-says... Welp, re-continued food news!!
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Sunkist 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
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I 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.
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eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026
that show WENT PLACES 😅
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eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026
saw this and immediately thought "oh, Oz" the experience of this as an early-20-something who grew up on 90210 was indelible
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Humanities 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
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 27/09/2026
And 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.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 27/09/2026
And 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.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 27/09/2026
You 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.
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Nifferama @nifferama.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I 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.
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Word_Geek @word-geek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
They 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
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Kat Z @katzindc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh, you want the rewards of being in a relationship without taking any of the risks? Yeah, that’s not a thing.
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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hat 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.
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Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian Duncan
How 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 ...
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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 27/09/2026
I 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
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The 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.
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