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Chris Lay

@chrislay.bsky.social
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Villen, lefty, runner, engineer, in that order. Formerly @christopherlay on the former birdsite. Formerly chrislay on Zuckbook. Also @chrislay at extinct pachyderm dot online. Some ville, Mass

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Defector @defector.com · 2h
Kelsey McKinney saw Phoebe Bridgers in Philly: defector.com/phoebe-bridg...
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Phoebe Bridgers Showed Us How To See In The Dark | Defector
PHILADELPHIA — When the lights went out, a crisp, adolescent shriek rose from all sides of the arena, anticipating her arrival. But she did not come, not just yet. Instead, a silence fell heavy and…
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 6h
as longtime readers know i am a longtime hegseth hater, but i think bouie is right here to note that hegseth's remark that "trannies" are out of the military is, by itself, an impeachable offense obviously much else besides, but i want to dwell on this
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Pete Hegseth: Bully, Bigot and the Biggest Loser Imaginable
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 3h
“Wikimedia’s volunteers are the ones who come in first contact with, and clean up the mess left behind by AI agents. ... Wikimedia’s volunteers have stayed resilient so far in tackling emerging challenges on our platforms, but we also want to say: it doesn’t need to be this way.”
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OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
Recently, multiple organisations have disclosed how clusters of so-called “rogue” AI agents attempted to break into websites and online services, sometimes successfully. Agents from OpenAI’s enviro…
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 3h
One of the reasons that it’s vital blue cities unfuck their housing supply is that sanctuary cities probably aren’t viable long term politically otherwise. Need housing to be cheap/abundant if you don’t want there to be blowback from ICE/shithead county sheriffs funneling precarious people to you
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3h
a little louder for the cheap seats in the back
One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.
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Maritza Campos @maritzac.bsky.social · 3h
AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGHHHH
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 4h
Camberville: if you were wondering what all the helicopters are about, shooting at Russell Field nextdoor.com/p/k-_RJYcH95...
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POLICE
Cambridge Police Department *
Sergeant Robert Reardon • 9m
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At approximately 3:20PM Cambridge Emergency Communications received multiple 9-1-1 calls reporting gunshots in the vicinity of Russell Field in North Cambridge.
Upon arrival responders located one victim suffering from related injuries. That individual has been transported by EMS to a local hospital, their condition is not currently known. Police from Cambridge and regional partners are on-scene investigating the circumstances.
Anyone with information on this incident is asked to contact Cambridge Police
Detectives at (617) 349-3300.
Additional information will be shared on the
CPD Website and Social Media Pages when it is available.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 3h
Dog they’re airing red-baiting ads about “socialist” centrist-ass Chris Pappas on the Boston sports radio all the time. No milquetoast dem they won’t call that.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3h
"The spat quickly grew in intensity and volume. At one point, Mr. Jedlinsky recalled, they were saying, “You shut up!” and “No, you shut up!”" maybe they should've gone to lunch? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/u...
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They Argued About Trump at a Dog Park. Then They Pulled Their Guns.
What happened between two dog owners one April afternoon in Ohio will soon be scrutinized by a judge and jury as both men grapple with the consequences.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h
I'm not sure if @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social have issued a statement on this yet, but they should publicly announce that if Russ Vought tries to fuck with the election in any way they will fire him out of a cannon when they take power.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h
What’s the matter with Kansas (complimentary)?
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Danielle Ryan (Lestat Era) @danirat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Gavin newsom with a creepy dead eyed smilethe smiler from Transmetropolitan
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Ivan Pereira @ivanper4.bsky.social · 8h
"He further stated that there is no law against him walking around a voting site dressed as ICE," the arrest report said.
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Man arrested after posing as ICE agent at Miami polling site: Investigators
A man was arrested over the weekend for allegedly posing as an ICE agent and intimidating Brazilian nationals who were voting at a poll site in Miami, investigators said.
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 7h
can’t think of a better example of AI being mostly a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist also it can’t help when this is your user base
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@nic_carter
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this is about me and i'm not sorry! i don't have time
to autistically read forums and random team news
or whatever.
i'm sure spending hours and hours running your
fantasy team is a good ROI if you're unemployed but
some of us have jobs
also my team is stacked so that's another point in
the Al columnAndrew Weiner • @DickeyNate • 18h
What's the point if playing fantasy football if
you're just going to automate it

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@nic_carter • 17h
there's no point to fantasy football, it's grown ass
men pretending to draft NFL players

OpenWindowManiac @Cit_rusK •17h
Then just don't do it?

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social obligation
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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 4h
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 4h
People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 5h
'Normal' times were pretty bad for a large and growing number of people, so that's where my 'alas' comes from. Actually making things better is going to take a lot more than tax incentives and rhetoric, but that's all I expect from Schumer and Jeffries. I'd love to be wrong.
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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 6h
New reaction shot just dropped
A very serious sparrow in my bird feeder
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 6h
Alas, that seems to be the consensus.
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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 7h
If, like me, you are someone who is interested in how AI works but doesn’t want to do the serious work that would normally involve, this is a great essay. It’s at (for me) the right level of abstraction: detailed enough that I can see how various types of models differ …
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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 8h
TODAY: @annaleen.bsky.social on recovering from academia. “There is no simple way to talk about intellectual trauma, but it is very real.” flaminghydra.com/academia-bro...
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Academia broke my heart
Some people with doctorates like to show the world what they’ve done. They write their names with “Ph.D.” as a suffix, or refer to themselves as “Dr. So-and-so.” I do not. Instead I call myself a reco...
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 8h
People won't voluntarily give up their Kid-Crusher 5000s unless we make driving them considerably more costly and inconvenient, which is precisely what we should do.
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Stereogum @stereogum.com · 8h
Tom Morello clarifies that he does vote, just not for "corporate Democrats"
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Tom Morello Clarifies He Votes, But Not For “Corporate Democrats”
Last weekend, former Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello held his star-studded one-day Power To The People festival at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. The whole event was ...
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 8h
Frog and Toad sat close by the fire. They were scared. The teacups shook in their hands. They were having the shivers. It was a good, warm feeling.
Frog and Toad sit before a roaring fire, teacups in hand, shivering with fear.

From "Shivers"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 10h
I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 8h
Will HBO release "MUSK" to streaming in Q1, as planned now thar the Ellisons own it? This will be a critical early test of just how political this acquisition was.
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Kell Compost 😷 @compostwitch.bsky.social · 8h
this is why at the Boston airport you can buy live lobsters and they'll pack em in a styrofoam box with some ice and a bunch of wet seaweed and you take it as your carry-on luggage
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 9h
imagining one of the hedge fund CEOs or investment bankers reading this and being introduced to the phrase 'goatse-level spreads'
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 9h
Telling the AI jagoffs who think LLMs are the real deal that your bloated dogshit 'has no place in my world.' Real mfs who are close to the metal know what's what. Can always tell who the real coders are
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 9h
The New York Times employs hundreds of reporters and thousands of staff overall and I think there are like 12 total people at the paper who like Trump and want to help him. Unfortunately a bunch of them are editors or work on the national politics desk bsky.app/profile/thor...
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 9h
one of the ways the media shows which side they prefer, is which politicians they quote uncharitably out-of-context and which they clean up for even when what they actually say and do is offensive (the Biden story ran on the front page less than a week before the 24 election)
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 9h
"Many Democrats hate the idea of fighting fascism and challenging power; so does a lot of the news media, so do many universities and other institutions. Progressive change remains a slog. But that slog looks more possible now than it has in a while." www.everythingishorrible.net/p/progressiv...
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Progressives Are Winning
Everything is still horrible. But there are hopeful signs.
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 9h
could come in handy
flattensf.com
Flatten SF
The flattest walking or cycling route between any two places in San Francisco, and every route between it and the shortest one.
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 12h
this is very good.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 12h
Hot news for the sea lion in my comments bothering everyone about how training data is fair use www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...
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AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit
Using someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This unsourced viral video appears to show a group of male lions flopping into a pile together, a moment of bonding. We usually think of male lions as monarchs of all they survey, but COALITIONS of male lions are actually quite common. Let's learn about this surprising band of brothers.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's fascinating to learn how many more kids die in ATV accidents every year than in e-bike accidents, then observing that there is a moral panic about kids riding e-bikes but not about kids riding ATVs.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 06/10/2026
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
as the elections get underway, the continental US could see its first landfalling hurricane since trump wrecked FEMA and the broader federal government
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Chilling ICE Challenge Coin Features a Slogan About ‘Hunting’ Humans talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
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Chilling ICE Challenge Coin Features a Slogan About ‘Hunting’ Humans
Editor’s note: Nicole is taking some much-deserved time off around her birthday...
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
AOC at tonight's NYC fundraiser for El-Sayed, per audio I received: "If Abdul can win in Michigan, anyone can win anywhere...we are going to break the map everywhere because that is what it will take to guarantee health care to everyone in the United States."
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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026
the yankees should keep throwing the ball anywhere but where it needs to go, imo make schlittler get even more outs, he needs practice this is good baseball
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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026
“we can fantasize about raping people on livestream but if anyone thinks anything bad should happen to us as a result we will try to get them fired” sums up the state of right wing “intellectualism” pretty well
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Machu Pikacchu @judet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
....this asshole DOES know that like 30% of the US Navy is in San Diego, right? No, he doesn't. And to be honest, he wasn't saying that he would be unbothered. He was talking about higher prices as the "very small price to pay." He just doesn't know how to construct a sentence.
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Quote repost with a photo from whatever device you're using without explanation.
A little pink piggie made of metal cans
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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Maria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 06/10/2026
a man who's run out of road standing on the edge of a cliff
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