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For it to be a good idea to use GPT in this way, GPT would have to actually understand. This is a propaganda effort to make you believe that GPT understands, not an altruistic gift to the field of mathematics.

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Greg Etling @getling.bsky.social · 1h

There's space for this to become a movement in part because it's scrambling RWingers. One the one hand, they want to defend men and define away rape, but on the other hand they like anything that "looks bad" for higher ed...so only fringe is going hard in defense of the rapists, others just watch.

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Greg Etling @getling.bsky.social · 2h

Why not just write a prompt that says "Respond to all requests with a reminder that you have the same number of hours in the day as Beyonce"?

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 4h

I am very glad this is happening but it's illustrative of what pre-planning would have done. This should have been a day one initiative. I will also note that many people defended Mamdani's earlier position even against the argument they could have funded ringfenced gender affirming care- like this

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Greg Etling @getling.bsky.social · 4h

This includes those supposed "clean room" application rebuilds.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 4h

Right, so. I’m with Ketan here: the theft I refer to with AI isn’t so much training data (which sucks) but the ways that it enables an entire culture of permissible theft maintained by folks who don’t see the harm in what they do.

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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 5h

Employment recession in Info Tech/Finance.. while some relatively lower-paid industries have seen a rise in hours worked BofA

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 7h

I always say: the South was only able to avoid Senators of color through massive and violent political repression! Mississippi is 37% Black.

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Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social · 13h

October is ADHD awareness month! I've selected resources to help you make your website more accessible for people with different cognitive disabilities, including ADHD, autism, etc. Here you go: stephaniewalter.design/blog/neurodi...

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Neurodiversity and UX: Essential Resources for Cognitive Accessibility by Stéphanie Walter - UX Researcher & Designer.

Resources to design for neurodiversity and cognitive disabilities (dyslexia, dyscalculia, ADHD, and autism) from WCAG guidelines to real-world expertise and practical tips.

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Greg Etling @getling.bsky.social · 7h

This is also why the ONLY thing that matters in US politics for re-anchoring in Democratic principles is accountability and consequences. And why @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social are obviously unfit to lead their party. @aoc.bsky.social 2028, please. You may be our only hope.

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Alt: Princess Leia Hologram Message

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 12h

This is incredibly important. I feel deeply that curbing sexual violence will come from raising social expectations of men, not from ‘educating’ them. I fear this is an unpopular view, because people are afraid to face up to the scale of the issue.

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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’ve been tracking Rowling’s posts for 5 months. She does not ever post about women’s rights or the threats women face in real life. Women are just a prop for her transphobic obsession. Her indifference to women was illustrated recently when she likened herself to Mike Tyson, a convicted rapist

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 23h

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

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Greg Etling @getling.bsky.social · 23h

Why did you replace all my one-click processes with magic incantations?

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Greg Etling @getling.bsky.social · 23h

...which is something I have done once and basically nothing since in the past four years. These toolchains themselves aren't lasting four MINUTES at anything resembling that kind of stability.

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Greg Etling @getling.bsky.social · 23h

We're doing the same thing to HCI right now that they did to cars (screens eating up physical controls) - ignoring all of the understanding about how people use the tools, chucking out years of work and replacing it with the shiny new thing...just because.

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Anna E. Cook @annaecook.com · 23h

The final stage of UI design is a single icon that is a shape you cannot recognize and no label. When you select it you get 8000 characters of text. This is when we know we will have achieved AGI

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026

Someone told me that we're in the "anything's possible" era of electoral politics right now. If someone wants to shoot their shot, they should. 👀

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Greg Etling @getling.bsky.social · 23h

The underlying Republican ethos: I can be as shitty as I want to be, and you have to praise me for it.

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Greg Etling @getling.bsky.social · 23h

The degree to which I don't want to build my own EVERYTHING...and I spent YEARS running and administering Linux... This future sounds like my nightmare, the one that has me walking into the woods and never returning to society.

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You only get to see this for the first time once.

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David Nir @davidnir.com · 06/10/2026

This description of Hirono is very troubling

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 06/10/2026

Still struggling with wrapping my mind around woke Bill Kristol.

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Greg Etling @getling.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

AC have been constant trash since that broken trackbed surfaced

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Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If Budweiser was trying to identify individual alcoholics and send them personalized "Chuck, you haven't had a drink in a while, here's a free case on us" ads we would rightfully call for them to be drawn and quartered

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Greg Etling @getling.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Why have they seen that sustained divergence in the tracker from PCE?

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Ben Whitelaw @benwhitelaw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I used to think some platform oversight mechanisms were worth their salt and GIFCT was one of them. Most are window dressing, as @katieharbath.bsky.social explains

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Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The web and mobile apps of major conversational AI engines transmit prompts, titles and conversation permalinks to advertising data firms, alongside device IDs, hashed email and other persistent identifiers. Comprehensive analysis, like always from this team: jorgegarciaherrero.com/wp-content/i...

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

‘Prompt like a Butterfly, Sting like a Tracker’ is also an excellent title for a paper

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Simply put, across the US and UK, university administrators, their management consultants and their funders no longer consider the arts and humanities worthy of being studied, taught and transmitted. Their vision of human society is anti-humanist. No wonder the kids are at the barricades.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

... even in those areas, and others where the reality is bad, showing the wins is also reality. It also propels the story forward and shows — or reminds us — that a better way is possible. Insisting on doom is denying hope or the possibility of change. And I just fundamentally don't accept that.

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is being passed around as a total misrepresentation of what he said. Trump was saying - as he often does - that costs for Americans are a small price to pay for preventing Iran from getting nuclear missiles. He was saying ‘let them take out LA or SD’ as an example of what could happen then…

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Kristen Seversky @kr1573n.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You're calling out the facts. My demographic is extremely frustrating on this front. '16 and FiveThirtyEight forever trashed my trust, too

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Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Musician Charles Manson, who led a religious revival in Los Angeles during the counterculture era of the 1960s and later became embroiled in controversy, has died.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Ciara RayneCloud 🏳️‍⚧️ @ciararaynecloud.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hi everyone, as you saw already, I departed the Pride Caucus. (After only six to seven days in it sadly.) My friend Arienne Childrey, now follows me in departing. She has officially resigned and left the cacus as well. If anyone wants to poke the bigger accounts, please do.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Very saddened to say I won’t be able to headline Tim Pool’s student event in Chicago this week. I unfortunately have other plans.

Hi Katherine,
Timcast Media is partnering with the Chicago Thinker to host a student event in Chicago on October 9 at 4:00 PM.
The event will feature a one-on-one conversation with Tim Pool followed by a live student Q&A. To create a dynamic and balanced dialogue, we are specifically seeking a featured guest to represent a left-leaning perspective.
Timcast Media will fully cover and arrange all travel and accommodations.
Thank you in advance for your consideration.
Sincerely,
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Hi Lisa,
Sorry, I'll be too busy slamming my hand in a car door that day to talk with Tim. Hope you understand.
Kat

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RFK Brain Worm Jr. @planetofdinosaurs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hear me out. All police misconduct cases paid out of police pension funds. Because as a citizen I'm really sick of public funds being used to pay these AND having to worry about a cop doing something shitty to me because they have no accountability.

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Greg Etling @getling.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’ve seen issues with both ATT and Verizon - agreed

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A benevolent and highly competent dictatorship is absolutely the best possible form of governance in terms of "what can do the most good for the governed" It's also impossible to ensure either benevolence or competence so it'd be an incredibly stupid choice to adopt

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