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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16h

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 · 9h

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 · 12h

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 · 12h

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 · 12h

Oh yeah for sure - stories in my group chats about 6-figure $$ spends on projects by teams with no shipped product at the end You get to do that exactly once

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eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 12h

and probably much more of their revenue now is predictable & recurring enterprise revenue with a higher margin, which makes extending those loss leaders more profitable

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eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 12h

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 · 12h

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 · 14h

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 · 22h

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 · 22h

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 · 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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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 13h

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 · 23h

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 · 12h

this tracks for me too - I would argue there was still probably a peak we've passed in terms of willingness to just pay absolutely anything for tokens, but we're definitely into "broad commercial acceptability" vs "obscure and expensive toy" territory now

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eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 12h

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 · 13h

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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bonque, ben (טריפה שאלות) @kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 15h

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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eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 13h

I would say openly jumping into a Palestinian's mentions to accuse her of being responsible for their own genocide is pretty bad netiquette, Matthew

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Melvin Peña @melvinpena.bsky.social · 14h

go to space jason's event! i wish i could!

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Serial Experiments Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 14h

always good to get a reminder that It Could Be Worse

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eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 14h

And then log into them with a different account And then another one

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eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 14h

Question have you ever in your life read anything longer than a comic strip?

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 20h

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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eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

this is sacred knowledge and I am grateful to all of the picklemakers I apparently follow

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eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

I feel like we could help in case you want to get some rare but expensive pickles, we can help make sure all of them get finished Just in case you need help

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eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

💜 thank you! We need a BlueSky pickle meet up. We may need to work on the branding

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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

The Jews are attempting to coordinate their fiendish international plan by communicating in kosher pickle flavors again

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eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

yuuuuuuuuup "fash who think they are lefties be/c they don't want to be the bad guys" ftw

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eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

thank you <3 but also idk how customs would feel about it, getting stuff like that shipped internationally is often HARD

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eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

😭 i want these next time i'm in NY this is happening

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eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

it does and it makes the tanginess seem sharper to me

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eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

oh yeah sorry misunderstood - I remember following the Mr Pickle truck on the way to work on the LES

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eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

it so good the fact that it comes refrigerated somehow makes it better

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eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

"the cult" is doing a lot of work here when you are talking about "the notion of religion," particularly when including ethnoreligions in that

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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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