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Charles Ball

@charlesball.bsky.social
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Happy to be here, 🪷 all the way, and I don't request follow-backs 🙂 I do tend to mute accounts that limit replies. I'm not here to watch your non-interactive TV show.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 11h
Non-spooky bonus episode for @erinbiba.bsky.social because this was the first thing I saw when I opened TikTok just now and I would like to buy this person a beverage of their choice immediately.
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Charles Ball @charlesball.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Cut your BM experience some slack, no way a stranger danger bowel event can match the experience of even a mediocre home poo.
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Charles Ball @charlesball.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Excellent point; "Super Intelligence" is Woke 3.0
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Charles Ball @charlesball.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I don't know, but many people are saying this.
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.
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Charles Ball @charlesball.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Last day to *register*
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Charles Ball @charlesball.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I like to think of my open enjoyment of some really basic works as a bold, brave statement that I'm not to cool to admit occasional orthodoxy. No regerts here!
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Dewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
OMG I had to check my work emails regarding an extra case in court tomorrow and I've just read this from an HR person. "on a knee to nose basis" A KNEE TO NOSE BASIS 😳
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Charles Ball @charlesball.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Out of the cradle grinnin' like Howdy Doody
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Charles Ball @charlesball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This cycle is looking like the MAGA petard is ready to do some hoisting.
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Charles Ball @charlesball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For the record, I liked his singing, but it took me a while. Never really warmed up to Cetera.
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Charles Ball @charlesball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Agreed! His singing was more "ya like it or ya don't," but he could sure as hell play and write songs.
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Charles Ball @charlesball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Josh Marshall sharing his thoughts on a study by Bain & Company on how AI writ large will have to expand and innovate in order to become a solvent complex of industries. Pretty daunting. Bain & Company Brainstorms Where The AI Revenue’s Gonna Come From talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bain-...
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Bain & Company Brainstorms Where The AI Revenue’s Gonna Come From
A friend sent me this new Bain & Company study on the...
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
'Carr says' headlines are as worthless as Trump says headlines. Do better Reuters. We need facts and context in the headline about this unprecedented use of taxpayer dollars to fund Trump's campaign ads.
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Charles Ball @charlesball.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I wonder if there's any utility in pointing out the infantile nature of their relationship with Trump (or anyone else more powerful than themselves). "Of course it's OK, because it's what Daddy wants, right? Obviously your daddy will be mad if you don't give him this."
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Charles Ball @charlesball.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I know it's a trope that those of us in our twilight years see the young'uns as, um...less intellectually capable than we were at their age. But damn. It's really difficult to make a smart case for some of this stuff.
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Charles Ball @charlesball.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That's a relief 😂
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Charles Ball @charlesball.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wait, you're serious? Oh, man, it all fits together! Holly didn't leave him, she's his widow! And "Welcome to the party, pal, we're all DEAD here!" And Hans is so freaked out 'cause he realizes a ghost can't stop his fall! It really *is* a Halloween movie once you know the secret!
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Charles Ball @charlesball.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hell, it's a bargain 🙂
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Charles Ball @charlesball.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
For the good Of all of us Except the ones Who are dead ❤️
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Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
shoving all my work aside to report out what led to this sign
a sign that reads DO NOT OUT NOODLES IN THE WATER FOUNTAIN!!
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Charles Ball @charlesball.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
AI slop is really putting in the effort to make me like it! It didn't work, I still don't like it, but very nice try here
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Charles Ball @charlesball.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This message approved by Sir Mix-A-Lot
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Charles Ball @charlesball.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That's meme-worthy. Might submit to Merriam-Webster to illustrate "disdain (n.)"
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Charles Ball @charlesball.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🫡
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Haven’t smoked meth, heard “Choosing Texas” or voluntarily interacted with an AI.
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's kind of crazy that the Natalie Harp news cycle raised some extremely valid questions about the extent of her influence on our octogenarian narcoleptic, none were answered and the press just stopped wondering.
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Sleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him
cat on a statue
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Charles Ball @charlesball.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I haven't seen any of these network rehabilitation posts from those most responsible for the inequitable coverage of Trump (quirky) and Biden (senile). Project 2025 was treated as an academic exercise, whereas MVP Harris rightly treated it as a gameplan. Mara Liasson, for example, is quiet.
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Charles Ball @charlesball.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Can that be #SFW by any stretch of the imagination?! 🤔 Maybe that's a me thing.
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Charles Ball @charlesball.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is something I've thought about a lot, and this is indeed an important note. There are aspects of LLM optimization I'd never considered, and they raise the stakes significantly.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
An Important Note on Silicon Valley AI Models (LLMs) talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/an-im...
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An Important Note on Silicon Valley AI Models (LLMs)
I want to flag your attention to this note written by computer...
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Charles Ball @charlesball.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I don't want to quote post you with my usual impression of Mr. Brimley, which is invariably foul, foul language. But the diabeetus can wreak havoc before the Metamucil takes control.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 27/09/2026
Seems bad, I dunno.
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Charles Ball @charlesball.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think "being an asshole" is always its own thing, waiting for its trigger. I have my own triggers for it. But I don't insist that being set off grants me any license. If I let something set me off and I act like an asshole, the tl;dr is Charles chose to act like an asshole.
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Charles Ball @charlesball.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19
The cover of Van Halen's 1982 album "Diver Down," a red field with a diagonal white stripe from upper left to lower right
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
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Charles Ball @charlesball.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The EV that shoots first
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I feel you, Daniel L
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Charles Ball @charlesball.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
@paulapoundstone.bsky.social has suggested that we ask kids what they want to be when they grow up because we're looking for ideas. She's probably right. So now I'm researching owl bait.
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Sara Gibbs is Scary Enough Already @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He imposed Shania Law
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Truth 💥
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Charles Ball @charlesball.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pringle (singular) is business casual, so it depends on the company. Pringles (plural), no. No.
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Charles Ball @charlesball.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Melatonia is giving a quality Le Tigre, too! Old pro model skillz, right there
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Charles Ball @charlesball.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Very pleasant here in Cape Coral. Or we're both having strokes.
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