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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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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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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Reading about critical code studies.
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Loose Ends: flotisserie.cool/2026/10/06/loose-e…
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Loose Ends
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Suggestion that silicon sampling is another layer of removal from the demographics they intend to survey. When you remove AI from these processes, what’s left is the work.
pewresearch.org
Can AI Stand In for Human Survey-Takers? Not Really
Synthetic surveys using digital twins do a poor job estimating the public mood and are especially error-prone for some subgroups, including Republicans and Black adults.
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Knowing what we know about LLMs and how they work today on the mostly-centralized web, I think the next few years are going to be an interesting time to be a writer with an independent website.
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Micro.blog is now federating reax.
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Manton Reece - Reactions in Micro.blog
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
That’s an absolutely wild number. I would love to read a retrospective on your work online and what it means to have a platform for as long as you have, especially with the changes underway in tech now. Kudos, seriously.
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Finished reading: Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories by Bonnie Jo Campbell 📚
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
AI and language approximation.
meresophistry.substack.com
The treachery of approximation in an era of AI
Introduction
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
One more thing before I let this bone go. Reframe it as an opportunity to understand your own institutional grief. Dark times.
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Case study
A project using Claude AI involved analyzing data about writers …
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Within this report, the LLM reflected my concern about my old blog appearing to be the center of these old networks. In fact, this is an effect of me pouring into the model. It says: The compiler appears on this page more ... flotisserie.micro.blog/2026/10/01/w…
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Within this report, the LLM reflected my concern about my old …
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Reddit is ending RSS because it’s easy to scrape, which is a bummer. Another silo.
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Continuing our infrastructure updates: What’s changing in the coming months
judy-funnie
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
History of the NWI “Hell is Real” sign.
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The heavenly story behind the ‘Hell is Real’ billboard on I-65
Maybe you’ve driven past this billboard-styled sign along Interstate 65 near Hebron, stating, HELL IS REAL, JESUS IS REAL. But do you know how it got there, and why? “We thought it was something to see instead of that huge sex sign on the highway,” its owner told me.
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A friend of the blog recently observed that consultants like Deloitte come to the same conclusions about technology at the same time as normies and practitioners - because their work is the same, only one is outsourced. Feels like we’re in one of those moments on several tech and social layers.
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Why good memes are like mirrors. See also: danah boyd.
observer.com
A Meme is a Mirror, and When You Look Into It You See Yourself
“Are LOLCats Making Us Smarter?” asks a link-baity Atlantic headline that actually has nothing to do with the article it accompanies. The short answer: No, but that didn’t stop th…
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Case study: flotisserie.micro.blog/2026/09/30/c…
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Creation in the age of AI.
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On living through this long, slow boring.
nytimes.com
Opinion | I’m Exhausted. You’re Demoralized. We Weren’t Built for a World Like This.
By Bill McKibben
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Before enterprise CMSs, there were blogs. Before blogs, there were zines.
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Harvard Business provides a roundup of articles and research showing practical uses (or not) of AI in the workplace today.
hbr.org
A Collection of HBR’s Most Insightful Research on AI at Work
Research on AI in the workplace can show us how the technology is really being used and what it does to the way we work. Recent studies offer lessons for leaders on how employees are actually using AI, its complicated effects on productivity, the assumptions about AI that can lead all of us astray, where human judgment and expertise remain critical, and how to think about accountability as AI takes on more of the work. As employees hand more work over to AI in complex agents and workflows, leaders need to reshape roles and processes around where humans should remain involved, what they need to do, and what skills they need to do it well.
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Eve Ewing on the slow disaster encroaching on Chicago’s South Side, and a relevant companion to the NHJ piece circulating so widely this week. Also related.
southsideweekly.com
A Slow and Steady Disaster
Schools, Jobs, and Safety: Why Black Folks Are Leaving Chicago
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Why cool is hard to imitate.
docs.google.com
EX Research_Cool Is A Skill Issue
COOL IS A SKILL ISSUE A trend report by EX Research Q3 2026
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Garbage Day asks what are all the new embedded AI agents for.
garbageday.email
Am I too boring to need an AI agent?
Read to the end for a machine we must create
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Plain language guide on how LLMs are shifting the AI market right now.
theaicowboys.com
How LLMs Work in AI Engineering (2026 Guide)
Plain-English guide to large language models in AI engineering—architecture, agents, and how teams actually deploy LLMs in 2026.
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trend watch: Defanging consumer surveillance technology by emphasizing cuteness.
theguardian.com
‘Charming and disarming’ … how Meta’s technology-packed Muse harnesses the power of cuteness
The tech giant has launched a cute ‘little guy’ that can answer emails, book travel or do your weekly food shop
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
How highly formalized government processes are slowing down AI governance at the state level.
nytimes.com
As A.I. Accelerates, Governments Are Increasingly Being Left Behind
By Adam Satariano and Cecilia Kang
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
@johngcole.bsky.social Hey.
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Feminist blog cohorts: an authoritative remapping using AI: flotisserie.micro.blog/2026/09/26/f…
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Feminist blog cohorts: an authoritative remapping using AI
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Konstantinos Komaitis has started a ten-part series at Techdirt called The Metric Is Not the Mission. It traces how Big Tech went from building the open internet to reshaping it around its own metrics and incentive... flotisserie.micro.blog/2026/09/25/k…
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Konstantinos Komaitis has started a ten-part series at Techdirt …
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Gary, Indiana reading list: flotisserie.micro.blog/2026/09/25/g…
A black Kia SUV with a personalized license plate saying DNT CARE is stopped at a traffic light on a highway near a sign indicating the route to Indianapolis.A statue of Elbert H. Gary stands prominently on a pedestal in front of a large stone building with columns, on Broadway Street in Gary, IN, surrounded by grass and trees under a cloudy sky.
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Two steps forward, one step back: flotisserie.micro.blog/2026/09/25/t…
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Two steps forward, one step back
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Noted: Because I’m using Gemini to find and complete resources related to the earliest blog years, I’m citing a Clancy throughout my project, which the LLM keeps pulling back to center events and articles related to the Clancy trial.
english.louisiana.edu
Clancy Ratliff
Professor of English  Teaching and Research Areas Rhetoric and Composition Studies; Feminist Rhetorics; Environmental Rhetorics; Writing Program Administration; Authorship (Copyright, Intellectual Property, Plagiarism)
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
How long before Claude or Gemini cite a new webpage?: flotisserie.micro.blog/2026/09/25/h…
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How long before Claude or Gemini cite a new webpage?
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Grief resources from fellow internet long-hauler Lenée.
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🍿 Watched The Craft with the teenager tonight. Her observation: “Everyone looks so normal in the nineties. Look at their teeth!”
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Machines and machine learning change the ways we think about humans and humanity. In cyberspace, we create “digital doubles,” or data doubles, or digital human twins (DHTs), and now these digital doubles move through assemblages of AI systems. New politics are emerging from this tangle.
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Reading about personalized LLMs and the risks of the digital twin metaphor.
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🎵: Witch Doctor - Erykah Badu and Alchemist Over the weekend, I asked Gemini to examine the career trajectories of the authors in this 2019 Jezebel article by Soraya Roberts, which covered the ins and outs of the major c... flotisserie.micro.blog/2026/09/21/w…
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🎵: Witch Doctor - Erykah Badu and Alchemist Over the weekend, I …
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Noted: I’ve been playing with Copilot, Claude and Gemini in tandem, and Copilot and Gemini are suddenly, curiously outperforming Claude by a lot.
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Old playbook, new eyes: flotisserie.micro.blog/2026/09/21/o…
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Old playbook, new eyes
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Recommended: Bike Jerks and the Hodag Country Ramble.
bikejerks.com
Bike Jerks
Bicycle Culture, Events, Doing-it-Yourself, Screen Printing. Photos of beautiful bikes and bicycle related nerdery. Riding and Racing our hearts out. T-Shirts, Stickers, Patches, and Bike Accessories.
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Finished reading: Multipliers by Liz Wiseman 📚
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
404 Media on Project Lily, the ChatGPT project where humans read users’ prompts – including sensitive and personal information – to better train the product.
404media.co
Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media.
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Thinking about how the democratization of information and the removal of gatekeepers alongside this story I saw first at Boys’ Club. This Harvard PhD is vibe-manufacturing schizophrenia drugs in his garage. Are we vibe-coding medicine?
boysclub.beehiiv.com
vibecoding schizophrenia drugs
truly what is going on
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Extra credit: flotisserie.micro.blog/2026/09/09/e…
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Extra credit
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This 2013 essay is circulating widely this week. In it, cartoonist Tim Kreider reflects on having anxiety, and in particular the anxiety he feels while interacting with an increasingly watchful stack of digital tools and on how they provide him with social feedback he’s not prepared for.
archive.nytimes.com
I Know What You Think of Me
Hearing other people’s uncensored opinions of you is an unpleasant reminder that you’re just another person in the world.
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
TechCrunch reports on the problems inherent to AI-generated restaurant advertising –> it looks wrong.
techcrunch.com
The sameness problem behind those unappetizing AI-generated menus | TechCrunch
While restaurant owners might look to generative AI as a shortcut to sprucing up their menu, customers can viscerally sense that something is wrong with the food.
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A composition teacher friend shared this paper on social media, Lester Faigley’s “Literacy after the Revolution,”, the essay version of his 1996 CCCC Chair’s address. In it, the author argues that the economic impa... flotisserie.micro.blog/2026/09/01/a…
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A composition teacher friend shared this paper on social media, …
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LB @flotisserie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
In honor of Dolly (rest in power), some links: Dolly Parton’s America: This nine-episode podcast offers a deep dive into the Dollyverse, covering Dolly’s biography and lore and her role as an icon within a broader story about ... flotisserie.micro.blog/2026/09/01/i…
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In honor of Dolly (rest in power), some links: Dolly …
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