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David Schatsky @dschatsky.bsky.social · 6h

Giving it access to all my online accounts, contacts, and calendars enables it to order salad delivered for my lunch.

David Schatsky @dschatsky.bsky.social · 13h

And we are diddling around, distracted by outlandish-seeming warnings of human extinction and blinded by trillions in investment. One consolation: the debate over AI has come earlier and probed deeper than debates over earlier waves of tech. Maybe we can still get to a decent place?

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David Schatsky @dschatsky.bsky.social · 13h

I absolutely agree with this. For years I have quipped that "technology" is Greek for "unintended consequences." We -still- haven't metabolized the impacts of digital media. And we've so far failed to mitigate the harms of social media. AI is coming much faster and its impact will reach further...

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David Schatsky @dschatsky.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Should we take pictures of the night sky now so we can remember what it used to look like before it got filled with orbiting power plants, data centers, and factories?

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David Schatsky @dschatsky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

No, I don't. I was just enjoying that I didn't understand one word of it.

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David Schatsky @dschatsky.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I think capitalists paint it as a time when the child mortality rate was 50%.

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David Schatsky @dschatsky.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Reactions of our political leaders to Hegseth's plan to Livestream an execution

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David Schatsky @dschatsky.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I still call it Intelligence of Mexico.

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David Schatsky @dschatsky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The administration is pro war crimes.

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David Schatsky @dschatsky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Of course, and I'm horrified by those killings. But if you can those televised public executions then none of those words mean what they used to.

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David Schatsky @dschatsky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Could the complexity in the world around us be better explained by there being a platonic zone of patterns of arbitrary complexity which seek to embed themselves in the world?" - @drmichaellevin.bsky.social That would clarify everything?

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David Schatsky @dschatsky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Not funny. We stopped public executions 90 years ago. They still do them in Iran and elsewhere.

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David Schatsky @dschatsky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Reject barbarism. Vote them out.

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David Schatsky @dschatsky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A very competitive showing for Most American Crime Story During the hearing, which was livestreamed by Court TV, he acknowledged lying about “a lot of things.”

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David Schatsky @dschatsky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What's fun about the super intelligence rebrand is that it was the name of the Nick Bostrom book that helped catalyze the panic about AI that Trump wants to quel.

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David Schatsky @dschatsky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I just heard Nick Bostrom in an interview say "otiose." Respect.

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David Schatsky @dschatsky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

No organization with this culture should have a license to operate.

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David Schatsky @dschatsky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Trump’s opponents are planning efforts to reverse his changes to presidency www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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David Schatsky @dschatsky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Why do so many people want to force AI on other people?

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David Schatsky @dschatsky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The clickbait era is over. Here's why.

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David Schatsky @dschatsky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Look for "inflation" rebranded as "price growth."

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David Schatsky @dschatsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is remarkable that this wonder-technology is posing challenges. It's supposed to make things better, innit?

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David Schatsky @dschatsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And Dudamel and NY Phil were beyond!

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David Schatsky @dschatsky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"For your business to succeed in this fast-changing business climate, and with competitors exploring agentic opportunities themselves, your mindset must pivot to 'agentifying” everything." Sorry. The vendor has spoken.

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David Schatsky @dschatsky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Company decides not to ship defective product

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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My department - @ucdpolitics.bsky.social - is hiring two PERMANENT posts in any area of politics, international relations, theory, or development studies. Please apply if you are on the academic job market, and if you're not, please do us a solid & spread the word! Deadline NOV 9.

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David Schatsky @dschatsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They should keep their capital to themselves.

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David Schatsky @dschatsky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

All new construction or cosmetic changes to buildings in the Capitol District undertaken by an unpopular president without the consent of Congress shall be subject removal at the expense of the president's heirs.

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David Schatsky @dschatsky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Progress: kill clean energy and electric cars.

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David Schatsky @dschatsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Two hundred years from now, when people look to understand life in the United States in 2026—a time of masked federal agents in the streets, presidential pardons for sale and gulag-style detention camps for immigrants—they’d be well advised to bypass whatever happens to be playing currently on TV."

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David Schatsky @dschatsky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Got it. My view: Restoring public funding wouldn't guarantee costs stop rising (+ would be way more expensive than it used to be), would only benefit the half of adults who attend public post-secondary education, and wouldn't help the next generation, many of whom are being failed by K-12.

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David Schatsky @dschatsky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you had to start somewhere, where would you start?

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