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Geoff Ball

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Back to school. ❤️
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Derek Beaulieu @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
With the us #tariffs and #tradewar happening, lets ensure that #canauthors get some love. Share the Canadian authors on your bookshelves and tag with #mycanadianshelves to spread the word of excellent Canadian authors & poets who you recommend! I'll go 1st, here's #mycanadianshelves #elbowsup
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Geoff Ball @geoffball.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“You good, Chad?” 🤣😂
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
AI and Data Centres provide jobs in the same way that self service checkouts provide jobs. They don't, they take them.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Absolutely no one needs to hear a man’s opinion about AOC freezing her eggs.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
huh wonder why people are rebelling against this technology oh well guess we’ll never know
Business Insider headline:
Meta CTO says employees should use Al productivity gains to do more work
- not take more time off
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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I just saw a meme that said “get in losers, we’re reclaiming the emdash”. People. PEOPLE. Where are your STANDARDS? It CLEARLY should be “get in, losers — we’re reclaiming the em dash.”
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Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 16/07/2026
every time trump is president you gotta wash your groceries
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more mr. nice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
when you pick up a drill and give the trigger a little test squeeze
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
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Dublin Fire Brigade @dubfirebrigade.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Have you tested your smoke alarm lately? We recommend testing them once a week and you should have one installed per floor of your home.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
How it started / how it’s going
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WheatNOil @wheatnoil.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
So, in Alberta, you have to show a confirmation of female sex in order to register your daughter for youth sports. Nothing required for boys. It has been associated with a decrease in registration for girls participating in sports. No change in boys. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
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Early dropoff in girls' school sports linked to new gender confirmation forms
Province's new requirements are already having impacts on girls' sports in junior high
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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I can’t imagine the poverty of inner life required to care that much about other people’s genitalia. Fix your goddamn hearts.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Nothing short of the modern day Plessy v. Ferguson. www.npr.org/2026/06/30/n...
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Supreme Court upholds bans on transgender athletes participating in women and girls' sports
Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who has long coached his daughters' and other girls' basketball teams at school, wrote the court's majority opinion.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Technically, they’re Remains now.
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Ben Cotton (he/him) @funnelfiasco.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
"Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella accused AI giants of wrecking the economy, encouraging job losses, and basically ruining everything for everyone."
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I Think You Should Leave Hot Dog Suspect
Alt: "I Think You Should Leave" hot dog suspect saying "we're all trying to find the guy who did this"
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more mr. nice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
neat!!
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Dr David S Anderson @dsaarchaeology.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 12/06/2026
New from me: The cops who AI-enhance blurry photos to try to catch suspects are actually just tampering with evidence, lying to the public and raising the risk of wrongful arrests
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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
adamatomic
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we've come up with a system where you can demonstrate growth to shareholders by hiring more people than you should, but also you can demonstrate growth by firing more people than you should. we call it the economy and we think it's going to be great 12:57 PM • Mar 24, 2026
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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Quiet piggy.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/06/2026
Check out this bit of ai alarmism from… the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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‘AI gravity’ is pulling you toward dependency. Here’s how to push back | MIT Sloan
AI systems hold the promise of competitive advantage, but they can usher in cognitive decline among workers, says MIT Sloan School of Management’s Eric So. Learn how to protect cognitive capital.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/06/2026
“In a preliminary MIT Media Lab study, 83% of participants who wrote essays using ChatGPT couldn’t quote a single sentence from what they’d submitted moments earlier. ‘It passed from the computer screen onto the homework assignment without ever entering their brain,’ So said.” 🫠
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超の大洪水 @superdeluge.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
its alright at the end of the day
this online shit isn't real
look man
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the mouse as big as the elephant
its not real
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 10/04/2026
Tonight in the ai reading group i was reminded of something that happened in 2006 after I dropped out of college, when I was living in a run-down old house next to jb alberto's in rogers park with a bunch of dudes. it was, as you can imagine, not clean.
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
"It’s going to be people with substance versus people with shallow knowledge. It’s going to be mastery versus faking it. It’s going to be people with good taste versus tacky. I trust you will put in the work necessary to be on the right side of those battles.”
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Cam Rogers @camrogers.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
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Geoff Ball @geoffball.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
This thread is a magnificent journey.
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Derek Beaulieu @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Friends in Calgary: please join me to celebrate the launch of DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (new from @pressassembly.bsky.social ): Thursday May 28th at 7pm at @shelflifebooks.bsky.social : www.shelflifebooks.ca/events/48657... #poetry #doitwrong
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
What are we doing?
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
usually when we talk about "instant karma," it's when something bad happens to someone deserving in an immediately. But there's also instant good karma
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Geoff Ball @geoffball.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Men will literally claim UFOs and aliens exist rather than going to therapy—or releasing the Epstein files.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
i post this every year because men soaking in toxic masculinity are all “why can’t we get women” and Tom Holland dances in drag and lands one of the hottest women on the planet, maybe there’s a lesson here guys
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Here’s how the AI Boom, such as it is, has impacted my life: it has been used as an excuse to lay off my friends for bot equivalents that never came. It has made mass culture and art immeasurably worse. I have a stalker with AI psychosis. So, no, I don’t more data centers. I want less of all that.
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 26/04/2026
In the park with my dog, a car rolls up with the windows down, the boys are back in town-style dudes within, blasting Tracy Chapman’s “Give Me One Reason” and I discovered the cure for male loneliness you’ve all been looking for.
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CNN @cnn.com · 25/04/2026
Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, has formally apologized to the community of Tumbler Ridge, BC, after a mass shooting in February. He admitted his company did not alert authorities to the shooter’s disturbing online conversations with its AI chatbot even after staff flagged the account internally.
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OpenAI’s Sam Altman apologizes to Canadian community after failing to flag mass shooter’s conversations with its AI chatbot | CNN
Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, has formally apologized to the community of Tumbler Ridge, BC, after a mass shooting in February. He admitted his company did not alert authorities to the shooter’s dis...
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Geoff Ball @geoffball.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Today is Canadian Independent Bookstore Day, and we’re fortunate to have a place like @shelflifebooks.bsky.social in Calgary. They host a bunch of great events each month and have an awesome staff whose book picks are driven by a passion for reading, not bestseller lists.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous.
exchange on X 

Christoffer Bjelke @chribjel 
We hired a junior developer to write the simple code, so we don't have to spend a ton of money on tokens for those basic/primitive tasks

Sameer goel @sameer_goel
Great, so now we're optimizing LLM costs by inventing employees again.
Full circle innovation.
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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
no
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Geoff Ball @geoffball.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
“Every day of operation has seen a financial loss” feels like AI’s mission statement tbh.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
nothing’s gonna help with “midterm messaging” when your HHS head is making headlines for cutting off wildlife dicks
President Trump tapped Dr. Erica Schwartz, a vaccine supporter, as C.D.C director, a shift in messaging before the midterms.
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Geoff Ball @geoffball.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
These slam poetry timekeepers are getting strict.
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Geoff Ball @geoffball.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
As "leaders" on Earth are fumbling with 12-figure budgets to execute the most vile of traits, the Artemis II astronauts and experts at NASA are reminding us of everything that makes humanity truly great. Let's continue to celebrate science, training, curiosity, and wonder.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 05/04/2026
O, it is excellent To have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
We are not talking nearly enough about the damage done by constantly telling people that their labor, their intellect, their creativity, and their identity can be replaced by an app
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
hmm
The Department of State tweets a video of Secretary Marco Rubio. In the video, Rubio says: "Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, Iran had spent that money helping the people of Iran. They would have a much different country."FactPost News tweets a video of Donald Trump speaking at a podium. In the video he says: "We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things."
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