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Dee Crescitelli

@dcrescitelli.bsky.social
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Educator (Math wants to be your friend! Science rocks! The arts are essential!)-- #MathsPunk she/her

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 16h
there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 27/09/2026
Doing the January 6th Commission but for DOGE could splash this on TV and social media for weeks. Imagine the impact.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"OpenAI, Anthropic and security researchers are investigating tens of thousands of incidents in which their frontier models took steps that outside evaluators would consider problematic, sources told Axios."
axios.com
Scoop: Top AI companies probing tens of thousands of security incidents
The massive scale of security incidents points to control problems for AI companies.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEW: I came across a bookseller who was afraid that a mysterious company trying to buy some of his rarest books was going to use them to train AI models. I went down the rabbithole with him, and was confused and altogether existentially weirded out by what I found www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
A bookseller confronts a mysterious company hunting his rarest books
Was a Kentucky retailer targeted by a destructive AI "predator"?
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A.I. and corporate lingo are dragging language ynto drugged realmes of vague, airy, plastic nothingnesse: glitz and hyperbole wythout meaning. Language must have fur and clawes, make the floorboardes creake and leave wet dirtye footprintes. Wordes are rayne and fyre and stone. Wielde them. Save us.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
Every villain has a weakness. And occasionally their weakness is turning to the camera and explaining what their weakness is and that their weakness is making themselves stupider
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Dee Crescitelli @dcrescitelli.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Do we really want to put all of our important work on Hugging Face for rogue agents to mess with? Have we learned nothing from recent incidents? www.platformer.news/openai-huggi...
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The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought
The AI industry is begging for a slowdown. Maybe we should listen?
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 14/09/2026
Newsletter: The supposedly “unprecedented” ethics restrictions in the industry-written Clarity Act exempt Trump’s crypto businesses and leave enforcement to his loyalists. Senators must vote no on cloture tomorrow.
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The Senate must reject the Clarity Act’s ethics charade
The supposedly “unprecedented” ethics restrictions exempt Trump’s crypto businesses and leave enforcement to his loyalists
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Dee Crescitelli @dcrescitelli.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Folks without object permanence should not be in positions where policy is decided and money is spent.
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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 10/09/2026
The fact we have an executive class that doesn't know what to do with the Looney Tunes or The Muppets really sums up what a joyless, barren world they inhabit.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Repoost yf once upon a tyme you were a denizen of a diale-uppe BBS and wyth your entyre soule you remembir the birde-screeche-dissolvinge-ynto-static noyse
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 11/09/2026
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
so far these are the big real uses of AI 1. Analyzing huge data sets better than we could before 2. Automate hacking and malware to an unprecedented degree 3. Supercharge fraud beyond all prior precedent 4. Flood the internet with slop / disinfo Where's the change in our very nature?
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I think there are fair questions when the POTUS spends his day posting Ai cringe 60 times. Like who is making all of these memes? Is he posting with Natalie or does she have full permission to post on his behalf without content approval? Is the White House ever asked anything about these episodes?
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
AI apologists to actual disciplinary experts & experienced teachers
NEW YORKER “allow me to interrupt your expertise with my confidence” cartoon
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Democrats who have had absolutely nothing to do with Hasan Piker will be hounded about him, while Republicans who are directly benefitting from Musk funding will be asked about him in the most generic "money in politics" way, if at all.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Once you notice this, it's the most obvious double standard in the political press. Democrats have to answer for the smallest voice even if it has no actual tie to them, but Republicans never have to answer for the insanely racist billionaire donor driving their entire party.
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 06/09/2026
Gas prices are up, diesel just hit a record high, and Kevin Hassett says it’s all “very short-term.” Good news for anyone whose bills are also theoretical. Read more here: www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Mark Trushkowsky @marktrushkowsky.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Gorgeous sashiko stitching (hitomezashi & moyōzashi) at the Minnesota State Fair.
An indigo blue jacket embroidered with intricate white geometric stitching, displaying a first-place blue ribbon from the Minnesota State Fair.A close-up view of dark indigo jacket with intricate hand-stitched patterns in white thread, including geometric flowers and swirling water-like designs.A large framed fabric panel with two dozen of square sections, each demonstrating a unique geometric pattern made of white stitching on dark cloth.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I'm sure "affordability" has popped as the poll tested safe ground for Democrats to campaign on. But I wonder how often the consultants poll, "How sick are you of the bad guys getting away with it?"
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Simon W Davis @woodforbrains.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Ho-LEE fuck democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...
democrats-appropriations.house.gov
Defense Officials Attempt to Raid NIH Funds to Cover Department of Defense Activities
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) has learned that officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) are working to divert billions of dollars from the National Institute...
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/09/2026
"Bottom 60% of households" is a wild phrase
CBS NEWS
The findings? For the bottom 60% of U.S. households, a
"minimal quality of life" is out of reach, according to the group, a research organization focused on improving lower earners' economic well-being.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Cool, cool, I have a couple quick questions -- who's in charge of preventing food-induced illnesses right now and how good a job are they doing?
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Christie Burke, MLIS @ceburke.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Y’all. This is CROCHETED
Handcrafted human skeleton with removable internal organs
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica...The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” -Jennifer Nelson (quoted in the linked booklet, alongside other extraordinary pieces)
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art
A localized version of Guernica with a loon at the center and a person holding an ICE OUT sign 

“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” 

Jennifer Nelson
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Dee Crescitelli @dcrescitelli.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Kusher doesn’t have an actual US government position… he isn’t an elected official “on the other side.”
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It's always the wrong fuckin people
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Justin Levitt @justinlevitt.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
As mentioned in my comment on USPS's new ballot rule, the American postal service was born in 1774 _because_ the alternative system (the Crown's post) let the executive decide which mail not to deliver. For a Court riveted by bespoke historical analogs, this rule is 252 years of unAmerican.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14/08/2026
They used to call this malware.
cultofmac.com
ChatGPT just learned to watch everything you do on your Mac
ChatGPT Computer History tracks your Mac activity to build a searchable timeline, no screenshots involved.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
huh wonder why people are rebelling against this technology oh well guess we’ll never know
Business Insider headline:
Meta CTO says employees should use Al productivity gains to do more work
- not take more time off
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
can we sometimes be asking "what qualifies this guy to speak on this subject?" or has that ship sailed
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 31/07/2026
Kinda wild that @jamellebouie.net is the only person saying this clearly in a high-profile media outlet, but I'm so glad he is.
nytimes.com
Opinion | Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary?
Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?
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Liℤℤy Kodpuak née Acid Lich (can’t spell sheaves without she) @acidlich.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I have a problem. Well really two, 1 is I learned to read and 2 is I insist on doing it
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carmenlynn.bsky.social @carmenlynn.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Why are they destroying the books?
futurism.com
AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain
AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Why are Republicans closing rural hospitals but opening rural concentration camps? is a question the press should ask every republican
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 29/07/2026
The bombing of a theater in Mariupol came to symbolize Ukrainian sacrifice and revealed Russian President Vladimir Putin's true intentions. to.pbs.org/3RNjeNh
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How the Mariupol theater strike exposed Russia's brutality in Ukraine - Compass Points
It was perhaps the single worst act of civilian killing in Russia’s war on Ukraine. The bombing of a theater in Mariupol came to symbolize Ukrainian sacrifice, and revealed Putin’s true intentions. Co...
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Dee Crescitelli @dcrescitelli.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Peach cobbler… so I made one! Went overboard with the fresh peaches… but it smells SO good!
Peach cobbler in a grey ceramic pie dish
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Dee Crescitelli @dcrescitelli.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
These folks should be talking up @booker4ky.bsky.social & supporting his campaign to win this seat in November. We are happy with Mitch not being a “yeah” vote on any Republican legislation right now. I have noticed we aren’t yelling at the Senate Majority Leader- he’s who can declare the seat open.
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Dee Crescitelli @dcrescitelli.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I hate to think what these folks would have decided for me in elementary school- a poor girl living in a holler with a coal miner dad. #education #DeptOfEd
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Dee Crescitelli @dcrescitelli.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Without saying your age what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18.
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Moonstruck Cher
Alt: Moonstruck Cher
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Poor bastard’s starving
Cookie Monster: For every goal today, me going to eat a cookie
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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
also this. do we want to live in a world without english teachers, social workers, counselors, librarians, etc.? we don't pay a LOT of folks well. does that mean these roles shouldn't exist? that's what gutting the degrees that feed these professions will mean.
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Mike Wood @funnyonceaday.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
It is very hard to take them as "the finest, most well-rounded athletes" when they're also faking a career-ending-knee-injury three times a game.
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MoveOn @moveon.org · 18/07/2026
When billions can be hoarded while millions of children are starving, we've normalized a profound moral failure.
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Ben Silverstein ❌👑 @bensilverstein.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Trump's big news is China acquired the publicly available voter file? Bro, DOGE employees took off with our Social Security info on thumb drives.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
but in the end, as always, it is "you moved forward and we didn't want to, so the betrayal is on YOUR side. it is impossible for us to concede that progress could ever be good. we are morally superior due to never once giving our beliefs a second's examination"
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Kendal Killian @kedrickillian.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The President’s cabinet member oversees a federal law enforcement agency. He threatens literal bloodshed if the opposition party refuses to suspend using their first amendment speech rights. He’s threatening state violence in response to opposition free speech.
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