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ElandPrincess @elandprincess.bsky.social · 2h

Zimbabwean here, and I used to be a big fan of the em dash. But thanks to LLMs that were trained using Kenyan and other African contractors, it is now a ground for suspicion. Slippery slope ever since. www.techpolicy.press/how-ai-hype-...

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zota @zota.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Show me the third-party audited Pangram stats on Zimbabwean English. Show me the audited Pangram stats on African English dialects as a whole. Demonstrate to me that bullshit like em-dashes and non-native syntax have no impact on career-destroying accusations.

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ElandPrincess @elandprincess.bsky.social · 2h

Siiiigh... here we go again.

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ElandPrincess @elandprincess.bsky.social · 3h

You're not supposed to ask good questions, that's the whole thing.

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Shhh Quiet

ALT: Shhh Quiet

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ElandPrincess @elandprincess.bsky.social · 3h

Accountability is in a totally separate timeline, sadly. If we learned anything from history, the sheer relentless pervasiveness of cleaning up the mess will be so intense, that there won't be any bandwidth or political will to do much else.

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Who Did It? Legends Of Tomorrow Blame Game

ALT: Who Did It? Legends Of Tomorrow Blame Game

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

can't take "LLMs are people" discourse seriously when we haven't even convinced everyone that all people are people.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 8h

There is no way to deport a 5 year old with dignity because deporting a 5 year old is wrong

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Barbara Waxer 🌈 @barbara-waxer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

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ElandPrincess @elandprincess.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The Mary Turner lynching details were worse than I remembered. 😭😫🫣

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ElandPrincess @elandprincess.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Thanks to the conclave last year, I am pretty sure that is Cardinal Zuppi. He had his own fan club online. 😅😇

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

There’s this thing people do where they’re surprised that a rapper has read a book or knows any music theory or something else “intelligent”. Anyway, I hate it. Thank you.

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ElandPrincess @elandprincess.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Right? And in answer to your question, a few actually!😅

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12/10/2026

Young me: capitalism is not good!! Old me: CAPITALISM IS A FUCKING CATASTROPHE I dunno, I think seeing more of the world has just continuously radicalized me tbh

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ElandPrincess @elandprincess.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Zimbabwean here. I still remember seeing that patch on pics of the mass shooter of the black church. I won't write his name... and it gave me chills that someone that young, with no connection to the country, had gotten into "Rhodesia" content.

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Kitty Forman Pours a Drink on That '70s Show

ALT: Kitty Forman Pours a Drink on That '70s Show

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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière

Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin

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Roscoe Rubin-Rottenberg @knotbin.com · 09/10/2026

never seen this before: a popup pretending to be @cloudflare.social turnstile using official Cloudflare name and branding to get people to run unauthorized commands in the terminal, under the guise of being a new type of CAPTCHA.

www.bicycling.com
Verify you are human by completing the action below.
www.bicycling.com needs to review the security of your connection before proceeding.
Verify you are human
CLOUDFLARE
Privacy - Terms
Performance & security by Cloudflare
Ray ID: 5f975860bb2a2fba

Additional verification required
Complete the steps below
Do not close this window
• 1:27
• Verification code
copied
- Awaiting terminal
input...
Use the keyboard in this order:
Press
* + Space
and open Terminal
Press
お+V
to paste
З
Press
Enter

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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ElandPrincess @elandprincess.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I know what I am reading this weekend.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I know it’s not everything, but it’s something: how each of us, in our little spheres of work & community, can help foster & sustain places of care, decency, & intelligence even when powerful people celebrate venal, coarse, mendacious practices. What a gift, to be able to do something so worthwhile

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

Andrew Yeung
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
10:53 PM • 10/4/26 • 1.3M Views

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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Watch as Derek Chen prepares a classic Chinese steamed fish for the lunar new year celebration. From the steps shown, it doesn't appear to be too complicated.. but what do I know 😂😋 🐟🧑‍🍳🥢 "Cantonese-Style Steamed Sea Bass" - by @derekkchen (Recipe appended below) #cooking #fish #chinese

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ElandPrincess @elandprincess.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Watching this with a sprained ankle.😫😅

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ElandPrincess @elandprincess.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If only GIFS had sounds because the way he says it is iconic.😅

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ElandPrincess @elandprincess.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So cool, I am chartreuse with envy of all the people who get to go! Someday I will share my Six Degrees of Spencer collage. Been a fan since Danger Room days.

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Max Mitchell: I'm A Legit Fan

ALT: Max Mitchell: I'm A Legit Fan

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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Workplace hazard - Chef's first day on the job.. 🧑‍🍳🍳😱😂 (Credit: Parents Guthries!) #cooking #funny #fun

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Every single newspaper that reported that Jane Doe “changed her story” should be rushing to publish retractions right now. This case should be a lesson in taking a DA’s victim-blaming statements at face value. Victims do not report to the police because they thought nothing happened to them.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I want to believe that someone at the Times knew what they were doing here.

New York Times homepage link reading:
FRANK BRUNI AND BRET STEPHENS:
Behold the Paragons of Rank Incompetence

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ElandPrincess @elandprincess.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sidebar: I can see how much better quality the fabric was back then compared to our fast fashion present. 😩

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