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madelyn (she/her) historian/filmmaker/software developer (not necessarily in that order) currently in my practical skillsmaxxing arc

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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
(to be clear I bring up benchmarks with reference to how most benchmarks have improved, not to try to downplay things like fable having worse benchmarks than opus)
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm curious what the evidence for this is. Benchmarks are kind of BS, but it certainly seems like more recent models have far fewer hallucinations, and are far more capable of finding new efficiencies. I'm not pro-AI by any means, but I've had to learn about it and use it a good bit for work.
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
my bonkers chinese burger hat (which they sold to me for $8) is one of my most prized possessions
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
if the crime was less serious and/or we were just talking about him having a job rather than a platform where you have influence and power over people, this would be a different convo, but i don't think you get to do what he did and then have a public platform.
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
i do understand where people are coming from with regards to the victim not being involved, but also... geller sought out a public platform. nobody made him do that.
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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 30/09/2026
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"trans people should have rights" "oh yeah? well I shit myself, have you considered that?"
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
i can't stop thinking about a post a few weeks ago that was like, "oh where were mathematicians when AI was coming for the humanities," like A) not the same thing because the humanities aren't provable, B) what are you even talking about??
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
everyone's focusing on the biphobia and yes that's real and bad but 15% of bisexual men won't date a bixsexual man? what's going on there lmao??
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
i have nobody to show this to
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Slavoj Žižek has my dream job. I watched him speak in front of a crowd for 45 minutes uninterrupted about whatever he felt like while the host watched helplessly. when he finally finished she said "wise words" and he said "I HATE WISDOM" then started talking again
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"don't let them change the subject," she says in the ad changing the subject to what they want to talk about
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
and another thing: im not complicit. please dont put in the newspaper that i was complicit.
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
this post is two days old how is this image already jpeg'd to hell lmao
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
to be clear i don’t think LLMs can exterminate humanity but i do think AI safety is a relatively legitimate cause (though not the biggest one we are facing right now by any means) but i pretty much only see it mocked on here
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
and while AGI is certainly not possible with an LLM-based system it seems reasonable to be worried about things like OpenAI running unsupervised 10,000 agent swarms, or some form of RSI creating models that put a lot of people out of work with the right harness
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
genuine question — as someone who’s generally anti-AI, but also has to use the tech a lot for work and has experimented with it a lot, is it not reasonable to be concerned at the pace of model improvement? i find it quite concerning just *how much* better models are than they were just a year ago
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
AI companies suck, AI sucks, etc., but it is actually pretty good at finding and patching vulnerabilities, they just don’t run headlines about that
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
i have no idea how wikipedia editors got this reputation as rule-lovers but i promise we are not 😭 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
en.wikipedia.org
Wikipedia:Ignore all rules - Wikipedia
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
am i going insane or is what piker said not even bad?? if i'm reading right he said that characterizing all jews as zionists is going to lead to people thinking jews are evil and therefore jews getting hurt, which is why you shouldn't characterize jews like that, which is completely correct?
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Emma Berquist @emmaberquist.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
i can't take it anymore
SHUT UP ABOUT SPEED CAMERAS
SHUT UP ABOUT SPEED CAMERAS
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Engels on 'Social Murder'
When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another, such injury that death results, we call that deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call this deed murder.
But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or the bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live - forces them ... to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence - knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual ...
Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845 [19671), p. 126 (Panther Press)
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
very funny to post this 10 minutes after learning of chris mosier for the first time lol
Katelyn Burns quote post of this guy from 10 minutes before the post I'm replying to:

this isn't true. the first ever trans member of a US national team in any sport was a trans man. it didn't suit the transphobic media to let you know about it though.
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
bsky.app/profile/liam...
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
i like the idea of criticizing the anti-israel movement as simultaneously over- and under-educated
Tom Nichols • @radiofreetom.bsky.... • 2h
It's all the rage in college towns across America, but you're still talking about an electorate that goes 50/50 on naming all three branches of government
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
italian trans men be like testosteroné
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
one of the contributions to the internet i’m most proud of is putting this on the dogfights wikipedia article lol
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
oh my god someone else remembers dogfights this shit was so peak
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
my softball teammates suddenly advocating banning trans women from the league after i strike out for the third time that game
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
but El-Sayed doesn't give every speech in a cartoon impression of a working class accent
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
at *least* 50% of my scout troop came out as gay or trans after aging out and idk what to do with that
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
begging these “china analysts” to talk to 1 (one) taiwanese person and actually try to understand the relationship of taiwan with china americans i talk to are universally shocked to find out that a major taiwanese party is pro-unification or that many taiwanese consider themselves chinese
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
federal agent typing at computer with speech bubble
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Shady Inference 🌫️ @blot.city · 20/07/2026
venn diagram meme, three circles

1. no kink at pride
2. the curtains were fucking blue
3. I asked chatgpt and here's what it said:

1-2 intersection: sex scenes in movies are pointless
2-3 intersection: oh you think you're better than me?
3-1 intersection: "degeneracy" is just zoomer slang

centre intersection: upcoming reactionary movement

caption: developments under capital in 2026
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
brevity is the soul of wit which is why i, genius writer jesse singal, stretched this mid-at-best joke over two full length tweets
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
brevity is the soul of wit which is why i, genius writer jesse singal, stretched this mid-at-best joke over two full length tweets
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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 15/07/2026
the logic is misogyny. the womanized transfeminine object of heterosexual desire (shemale, femboy, ladyboy, futanari, etc) is a type of girl that exists as a sex toy so objectified that calling herself woman has implications she is trying to assert her interiority & politics as a conscious being
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
they did not, look at Chile — also the scale is messed up for some reason?
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Tweet that says "This does not help your cause" - guy who hates you and your cause
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
so many amazing layers to this. the complete dearth of tools. the fact that it’s not even organized very well. the “spent most of the day.” perfection
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
at the risk of stating the mind numbing obvious, saying a socialist org is not full of rich people is not the same thing as saying there is no one rich in the org or that there are no wealthy socialists
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I recently remembered the "I'm a Mac/I'm a PC" ads from the 2010s and looked them up. Literally the first one that came up was a joke about how the Mac could make a beautiful cis woman and the PC could only make a hairy man in a dress. These ads were on every TV channel!
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I've literally been thinking about that story since I watched your video yesterday! It was so good, please publish more
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
it's also just not true, it's a real cherry picking of the data
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I watched part of the lecture and the idea is that white trans lesbians had more to lose from transition and so did it after their careers were finished or not publicly. so they didn't face downward mobility because they didn't transition (which is somehow framed as privilege and not deeply sad)
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
"what is a woman" but wokely
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
i hear ham radio is fun!
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
trans people are facing genocide, yep better restart the most pointless oppression-olympics arguments imaginable. fuck it, let's bring back "can a non-transitioning afab enby say tranny" discourse. let's do "is the progress flag exclusionary". nothing matters anymore
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SpöksoNatalie 👻 @falconat.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
loser of netherlands vs japan has to pay reparations to indonesia
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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
i guess i'm just confused that this insistence that american trans people shouldn't own guns appears to be largely coming from non-american cis people
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