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David Williamson Shaffer @dwshaffer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is a great and thoughtfully-written 🧵 Pun intended But I’m not sure it is quite right. Writing is a form of thinking—you have to think to write and writing forces you to think But not all thinking requires writing So writing means thinking but that doesn’t imply that thinking is writing 1/

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David Williamson Shaffer @dwshaffer.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

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David Williamson Shaffer @dwshaffer.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I’ e been told I have a resting resting face, unfortunately.

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David Williamson Shaffer @dwshaffer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This 👇 This is the most central cultural impact of the Internet era—what we didn’t understand in the 90s or when social media came on the scene. The empowerment of the marginalized was an important and valuable aim — and promise. But it turns out culture requires norms that aren’t self-enforcing.

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David Williamson Shaffer @dwshaffer.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Really, really interesting profile of Sam Altman in the New Yorker on his “trust issues,” arguing that he tells people what he thinks they want to hear, untethered from any sense of an underlying truth Just who you want leading the most prominent AI company podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Sam Altman’s Trust Issues at OpenAI

Podcast Episode · The Political Scene | The New Yorker · April 13 · 50m

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David Williamson Shaffer @dwshaffer.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Depluralize a movie: One President’s Man

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David Williamson Shaffer @dwshaffer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Hey, @itsabbyyep.bsky.social, first time caller here. How come people worry about Armageddon but not Legageddon? I’ll take my answer off air, thanks!

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David Williamson Shaffer @dwshaffer.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

A thread so good that I decided to follow! Seriously, LLMs can be useful and even more powerful/efficient without being “intelligent” in the way humans are — which is… well, the same as any tool humans use

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David Williamson Shaffer @dwshaffer.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

We should have only set the clocks ahead 45 minutes

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Regardless of one’s feeling about it, such a public response to a political leader is news, and deliberately failing to mention it is self-censorship. It’s like if reporters agreed not to report on the man who threw a shoe at George Bush. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast

The US vice-president, JD Vance, was greeted by a chorus of boos during when he appeared at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Milan on Friday

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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

it's not just that Mamdani is charming af (he is), it's that he is normalizing the idea that children are full members of society that we all share a collective responsibility for

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David Williamson Shaffer @dwshaffer.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Best. Thing. Ever. Also, whoever thought up the kids’ podium deserves a medal

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/02/2026

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

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David Williamson Shaffer @dwshaffer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

@gregsargent.bsky.social @atrupar.com @muellershewrote.com I follow you folks, and I am sincerely asking: Could one of you explain why Walz hasn’t deployed the Minnesota Natl Guard to protect people’s right to protest? There must be a reason, and I’d really like to understand Thank you

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David Williamson Shaffer @dwshaffer.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Reviewer 2 once told me that I didn’t understand a method I had invented, and suggested that I read more of my own work 🤯

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Make it viral.

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David Williamson Shaffer @dwshaffer.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Everything is projection. Always

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David Williamson Shaffer @dwshaffer.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Technology rarely makes things easier. It makes them different

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David Williamson Shaffer @dwshaffer.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

The multimodal aspects of generative AI (we need to stop calling them LLMs because they’re not just about language) have all kinds of profound implications for how we retrieve an create information. Both also raise a host of issues about how we validate the results. This is true… 1/

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Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I wrote about some of 2025's big generative AI developments and their implications for historians: multimodal generation, deep research, and handwriting transcription. In short, we need to stop dismissing this as nothing more than "autocomplete on steroids." cblevins.github.io/posts/gen-ai...

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Generative AI and History in 2025 | Cameron Blevins

Personal website for Cameron Blevins, Associate Professor, Clinical Teaching Track at University of Colorado Denver

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David Williamson Shaffer @dwshaffer.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Right. I want them to invent a device that automatically cleans the toilet so I have more time to write a novel, not something to write the novel while I clean the toilets

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David Williamson Shaffer @dwshaffer.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

There are two kinds of men in the world: those who think this👇 and those who don’t

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David Williamson Shaffer @dwshaffer.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen. The Proclaimers Ladysmith Black Mambazo Ray Charles John Prine Bailen

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David Williamson Shaffer @dwshaffer.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Referring to AI here👇 Agree bigly

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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

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David Williamson Shaffer @dwshaffer.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Wait. Am I the only one who wears a spotted suit and checked tights to class?

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David Williamson Shaffer @dwshaffer.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Me too, friend. Me too We mock the things we are to be; we are the things we used to mock

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David Williamson Shaffer @dwshaffer.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

My god, they’re not even talking about the game. It’s the second quarter and they’re talking like it’s the last 2 minutes of a blowout game. Can we get rid of this guy?

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David Williamson Shaffer @dwshaffer.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Those are nice jobs reports you got there. Shame if something happened to ‘em… statisticians can be so careless, ya know…

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David Williamson Shaffer @dwshaffer.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

“I can’t figure out how to do what millions of other people do every day: live in a city safely.” Not “I don’t enjoy living in a city” — which is fair, since not everyone does — but “I *can’t* do it, so clearly *no one can*”(1) (1) even with all my money and privilege

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David Williamson Shaffer @dwshaffer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Hi, Tom, here and in some the other post you’ve put up on the topic. You’re ignoring the structural impacts of technology. On the internet there are more free news sources, that come in small soundbites. The internet affords a different pattern of news consumption Old rules don’t really apply.

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David Williamson Shaffer @dwshaffer.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Awesome. The US Government now has terms of service: "This computer system and data therein are property of the U.S. Government and provided for official U.S. Government information and use. There is no expectation of privacy when you use this computer system." Data ripe for the selling...

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David Williamson Shaffer @dwshaffer.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

This is the same thing that happened on The Apprentice. No matter what Trump said or did, the show’s producers edited the film to make it look like what Trump did made sense. He’s so used to having complete enablers that he’s lost all sense of a reality that isn’t a projection of himself

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