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Harbour Fordyce (All typos 100% human made) @harbourfordyce.bsky.social · 6h

Wait, "Prime Day" is still a thing? Is it still the Obama administration, before inflation and a world on fire? Oh, wait, it's actually "Prime Big Deal Days,' the meaningless Toyotathon of our times.

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Harbour Fordyce (All typos 100% human made) @harbourfordyce.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Apparently someone at the DNC believes that the time.of least resistance is 4:55 on a Sunday, given the absurd number of frantic, feverish fundraising texts that just arrived, half from people I've never heard of, half from washed up 2016 and 2020 presidential primary dropouts

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Harbour Fordyce (All typos 100% human made) @harbourfordyce.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

GenAI is not futuristic. It's more paleo capitalism. Exploited child labor was anp externality of early factories. Frozen worker limbs the externality of industrial meat. Fraud the externailty of speculative investment. Those who are building GenAI are trying to rebuild the past, not the future

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

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Sean Martin McDonald @seanmartinmcdonald.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Honestly, the more I read about AI CEOs, the clearer it is that they don't 'do' anything for themselves, and so have completely lost touch with what people do and how it works. They've already off-loaded so much cognition, they simply can't understand people who haven't - or what they want.

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Harbour Fordyce (All typos 100% human made) @harbourfordyce.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Remember the pandemi? Our lean, storage-light supply chains broke, & there were shortages everywhere That brittleness goes the other way, too. If too much of something piles up, production slows. Then shortages, layoffs "Just in time" logistics are not designed for disasters (nor hunan stupidity)

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.

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Harbour Fordyce (All typos 100% human made) @harbourfordyce.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Do we remember nothing that we learned from that dark phase of the decline of journalism, the age of the listacle?

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Harbour Fordyce (All typos 100% human made) @harbourfordyce.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Lists of the best TV show (or movies, books, music, w/e) are a kind of trolling. Their only purpose is to get people to momentarily acknowledge, in a somewhat more positive way, that the New York Times still exists and has relevance. It's like listing the best cheeses. It's futile, pointless....

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Harbour Fordyce (All typos 100% human made) @harbourfordyce.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Look, I am hitting you for your own good. I had to punch you, I had to punish you. You made me do it, but you'll learn from it. It will make you wiser, better." This is the attitude of tech industry leaders towards everyone else in the world. This is rhe language of abuse.

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Harbour Fordyce (All typos 100% human made) @harbourfordyce.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I am beginning to understand why Didion distrusted the narrative line ...said in a 1960s era Groucho Marx tone.

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Harbour Fordyce (All typos 100% human made) @harbourfordyce.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction....

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Harbour Fordyce (All typos 100% human made) @harbourfordyce.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sometimes opening Bluesky is finding the quote for the top of your next syllabus (complimentary)

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Harbour Fordyce (All typos 100% human made) @harbourfordyce.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Absolutely this. Too often we think that the text on the page is the purpose of writing, when it is actually the action of writing that matters. This is also true of reading, where time spent with the words, interacting with the page, is far more important than summarizing or fact mining

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niko ☿ niko @nikonikonek000.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

art is about showing the world your soul, and sometimes you show other people their own soul by accident when they look at it

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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

is it normal to be tired all the time

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Harbour Fordyce (All typos 100% human made) @harbourfordyce.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Analog writing pleasures: Holding a pencil in your hand as you pause, and smelling cedar wood off of it

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Engineeringdude @engtechnic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

'the polycule gets a private jet' feels like an I t's a Silicon Valley version of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.

gizmodo.com

71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted

A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"There Will Come Soft Rains," the prequel: www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

The 6,915-square-foot residence is outfitted with Domovita.AI, which the listing describes as the first residential AI concierge platform built into a home at the time of construction. Rather than juggling separate apps, the residents tell one system it’s bedtime, and it will lower the temperature, close the blinds and set the house for the morning. Ask it to make a dinner reservation, stock the refrigerator or arrange a car, and it will contact a local concierge service to make arrangements.

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Harbour Fordyce (All typos 100% human made) @harbourfordyce.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

While I wouldn't go as far as calling Taylor a con artist, this @doctorow.pluralistic.net thread is excellent at explaining how "efficiency" and "productivity" were ways to cloak systems of autocratic corporate power in the language of science, casting people as little more than perfectable machines

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Penelope Wang @pennywriter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"Why does no one in power even pretend anymore to support a health care system with such humanity at its core? Instead, both political parties have protected a status quo utterly devoid of it, that routinely leaves patients to fight for their lives..." www.vanityfair.com/story/health...

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My Insurer Denied My Cancer Treatment—and My Humanity. So I Emailed the CEO

At 36, Elizabeth Nicholas was diagnosed with breast cancer. After her insurance company refused to pay for a new form of chemotherapy, she took a direct approach. As Luigi Mangione’s trial brings the ...

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Gary Whitta @garywhitta.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The AI bros saying they need to slow down because AI is too good feels a bit like the car dealer who tells the customer “I think this might be too much car for you, sir.”

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Harbour Fordyce (All typos 100% human made) @harbourfordyce.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Or you could just write your own damn paper and not have to complicate things with all this shit. What next? Pay a.machine to go to piano lessons for you? Have a robot do warmups before your game? Wait, those don't work... so why would this? FFS just live a GD life for yourself, already

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Brian Thill @brianthill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

just imagine what they’ll be hyping after AI finishes circling the drain

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Harbour Fordyce (All typos 100% human made) @harbourfordyce.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Groucho Marx: "Give me a kiss, or give me five dollars. Either way you lose."

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Harbour Fordyce (All typos 100% human made) @harbourfordyce.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

We won WW2 because of Joe from the corner store, who weighed 145 pounds, smoked like a chimney, and knew teamwork from his HS baseball years. Super soldiers are infantile solosexual fantasies, or Fascist propaganda, but I repeat myself.

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Will "scifantasy" Frank @scifantasy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Remember, he is the reason "Nimrod" is an insult and everybody thinks rabbits eat carrots. Bugs Bunny has _created change in our world_.

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Dr. Lindsay Stallones Marshall (she/her) @lindstorian.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This argument reminds me that people who catch counterfeiters never look at counterfeit money to train for it, only the real stuff. Looking at counterfeits makes it harder to spot them. Seems the same principle applies…

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Harbour Fordyce (All typos 100% human made) @harbourfordyce.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Welp, it clocked me as being Portland/Seattle, which is hilariously on point. mydialect.us/quiz-standar...

A heat map of the United States that shows warm colors over the regions where my speech is most closely aligned with the common speech of those regions. in this case, that warm area is mostly over Washington and Montana States, with it slowly getting cooler the closer that one gets to the Midwest.

A screenshot of some text from the test, showing that the city's where my speech pattern is closest to our, in first place, Seattle, with a 59% match, followed by Portland with a 58% chance, followed by Minneapolis with a 57 percent chance.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/08/2026

Doubling down on AI to overcome its increasingly obvious limitations is like doubling down on building post-war suburbs to fix today's housing market. 57/

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Sorry chatbot lovers but the waning of Boolean operators in most search functions on websites has made my life actively worse. You can't find anything, you can only have things suggested to you.

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Harbour Fordyce (All typos 100% human made) @harbourfordyce.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Karen Bass fundamentally does not understand her own city

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

People who don't write books assume writer's block is staring at a blank page with zero ideas. In truth it's invariably the opposite. Writer's block is when a dazzling array of options become tyrannical, team up with an unwillingness to fail, mug you in a dark alley and stick a bag over your head.

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Juan Meneses @dissentum.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

If you can, use your academic job to your intellectual advantage and everyone wins: your field, your students, your institutions, your community.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/08/2026

Tearful Mark Zuckerberg Smothers Metaverse Avatar With Digital Pillow theonion.com/tearful-mark-zuckerber…

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Harbour Fordyce (All typos 100% human made) @harbourfordyce.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Zuckerberg is standing on the deck of the M/V Meta and watching that green light on the dock getting further and further away

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Harbour Fordyce (All typos 100% human made) @harbourfordyce.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

From the Metaverse to GenAi, I think it's clear that Zuckerberg will turn to any magic he can inagune to avoid facing that he woke up sometime around 2020, looked around, and realized he was CEO of Yahoo

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Harbour Fordyce (All typos 100% human made) @harbourfordyce.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Apparently AI will achieve what all religion, art, and psychotherapy could not.... We're going to have to rewirte that old saying--the Brooklyn Bridge has been surpassed

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Happy anniversary! "The uprising on 10 August 1680 was one of the most successful acts of Indigenous resistance against colonialism and is sometimes called the first American revolution." My July essay on contemporary Pueblo artist Virgil Ortiz and his art about past and future Pueblo revolts.

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Rebecca Solnit · Diary: Before 1776

In 1848, the US seized the northern half of Mexico, from California to New Mexico, and imposed American law and the...

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 09/08/2026

When an R1 school's head football coach is paid 6 to 13x more than the next highest paid faculty (& that next highest paid faculty, making *Over A Million Dollars A Year*, isn't even a university president but the Director Of Athletics) & *119 Times* the Average faculty salary? Yeah, it's a problem.

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Harbour Fordyce (All typos 100% human made) @harbourfordyce.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

It's almost as if some.people might maybe go to college because they want to learn stuff. Nahhhh, NOBODY is like that anymore, can't be

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