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"warns," or announces as the next normal thing like we should've expected it

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I'd say try that at Outback first

Eggs look darn good in tees, but mainly wear them around Easter...

George S @harmonygritz.bsky.social · 5h

There might be a dozen Forbin Project QPs already on the way, but I don't care. #AI #anthropic #SmartHomes

Colossus and Guardian, supposed rival computer systems but just you wait (from 1970's Colossus: The Forbin Project)

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George S @harmonygritz.bsky.social · 6h

Hey! We were GRATEFUL for all the BBC fantasy & sci-fi that got piped over here to US geekdom back then 😅

George S @harmonygritz.bsky.social · 6h

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: Nominee, category "Best Unexpected Use of Classic Rock in a Film Trailer" Can't help thinking that this is how they get folks reading C. S. Lewis again. And I defer to @tomrig.bsky.social on the animation & other effects, but I understand no AI?

George S @harmonygritz.bsky.social · 9h

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: Nominee, category “Best Use of Bluesky for Film Trivia”

Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 16h

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The nation doesn’t have a coherent or reasonable AI policy, but everyone expects school districts to. Like so much else in education, they are expected to solve the problems society and government cause and ignore.

nysfocus.com

More Than Half of NY School Districts Don't Have an AI Policy

A New York Focus analysis of roughly 680 school district websites and school board manuals found that more than half lack formal AI policies.

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Dorothy @catandgirl.bsky.social · 10h

They're going to kill us all to build a beach resort.

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George S @harmonygritz.bsky.social · 9h

I kinda got that impression but all good hahaha 😆

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10h

Based on social media responses to @bakerdphd.bsky.social column @ the civility industrial complex, 1) the right wing rebrand of bias as civility really captured a fundamental American conceit and 2) liberals are the reason its worked so well. Because whew. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

insidehighered.com

What’s Wrong With Civility?

Civility can be a tool of engagement. But history has shown it can also be used to oppress the powerless.

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George S @harmonygritz.bsky.social · 10h

You know I saw that as "genetic" for a split second and I am OK with it either way. 😆

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Cracked Lemonade @crackedlemonade.bsky.social · 13h

Every use case of AI makes you a passenger in your own life. What are you reclaiming time to do?

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George S @harmonygritz.bsky.social · 12h

Anglophone countries copy each other on public education. That’s often bad news.

George S @harmonygritz.bsky.social · 20h

Some good trivia in the replies and QPs

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 22h

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And with that we have our first dead AI startup

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George S @harmonygritz.bsky.social · 21h

I mixed up Vancouver, BC and Vancouver, WA once, but got through it OK. My Navy brethren and I had a fine time at the Portland Rose Festival and all was forgiven. (If you know me, you know this really happened.)

Mike Elgan @mikeelgan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

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In August, I wrote a controversial piece for Computerworld in which I argued that AI productivity gains for some employees create a ton of extra work for other employees. www.computerworld.com/article/4215... Now, a new study proves my thesis among software teams: arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/a...

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Thanks for making me feel smart today! I guessed this one before translating 😆

Sitting here in Cal State where our chancellor is pushing hard for all employees, students, everyone to hug ChatGPT. We just renewed contract and I'm wondering how we stop if the bubble bursts

Rebecca I. Allen @rebeccaallen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Public uni employees can't tell their students how to vote, but you can let them know how to register, when/where campus voter drives are, etc. etc. Some locals REALLY don't want college students to vote, and I let my students know that every cycle. #Elections #VotingRights #students

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"An early scene in the new book involves a group of neo-Nazis at a house party. When she was writing it, few people believed the US would witness a resurgence of neo-nazism. It’s not like she is 'psychic or anything', she tells me, the clues were all there." Life Out of Order, by Audrey Niffenegger

theguardian.com

‘People forgot I existed’: Audrey Niffenegger on taking 14 years to write a sequel to The Time Traveler’s Wife

Her debut made her a global star. Now she has finally written a follow-up – and this time, it’s political. She talks about impostor syndrome, screen adaptations and becoming radicalised

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LibreOffice and OpenOffice would like a word (pun intended)—but there is a certain irony in using Claude to “go there” with challengers. #AI #OpenSource

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"Could not have been better" is technically accurate, too

Velshi Banned Book Club: 'Exit Party' by Emily St. John Mandel

This kind of got lost in political news, but #amplifying this recent segment, which fortunately made it to a findable YouTube channel. #BannedBooksWeek is ending but the censorship danger persists. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tdn...

youtube.com

YouTube video by MS NOW

11th Hour with Ali Velshi @11thhourmsnow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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You've probably interacted with an LLM, the AI programs behind everything from ChatGPT to customer service chats. But as LLMs become widespread, it's important to remember their limitations, faults, and dangers. And while they produce human-like writing, LLMs are not human.

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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 10/10/2026

"The Social Reckoning" dramatizes reporting that revealed the societal harm that Facebook enabled. Roger McNamee, an executive producer on the film and former advisor to Mark Zuckerberg, says whistleblower Frances Haugen "operated on her own to bring the company to its knees."

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"Centrist" pundits keep looking to cause trouble for and about Black voters, but we're not having it. #Election2026 #voting

I remain grateful to those who read Brooks so I don't have to. He's not a bad standup comedian (better than Bill Maher) but needs to stay away from real commentary.

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Indians vs Braves. I sure wouldn't have blinked at that as a Midwestern kid... We do try to change, anyway

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

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Can we be honest that so called 'wokeness' meant Black people demanding full social personhood and refusing to be silent about getting murdered/harmed by the state? So yes, that is more threatening to many in this country than is fascism. I think that's been clear.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”

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That was one long-ass title and I’m glad the publisher went for it. The Keep of the Ruling Aquatic Mammal was a great little memoir, too.

Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

People need to remember this when Newsom makes his 2028 run official. #Election2026 #California

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"One of the greatest paradoxes of human culture is that at a time when the image reigns supreme the very notion of a creative human imagination seems under mounting threat." The Wake of Imagination / Richard Kearney (1994)

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Some years ago, I talked to a guy for almost 10 minutes before realizing he didn’t know Gene Wolfe from Tom Wolfe. He bounced back and forth like a tragic yo-yo!

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Ethan Mollick would’ve also fit here, for good or ill thanks to the AI era

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George S @harmonygritz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

You can keep #DEI as an institution and BE JUST FINE, THANKS. Some of us knew that intuitively, some didn’t. But many are enduring, even amid federal funding cuts and continuing threats. #endure

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[angry goose meme voice] WHATEVER COULD IT BE, JEAN?

George S @harmonygritz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Smooth sailing for tankers and cargo ships of all faiths and creeds, once we change the names!

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George S @harmonygritz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

His daddy is still mad about Mandela, so it's generational. They are ready to shut this whole planet down over it.