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yorick

@helloyorick.bsky.social
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your ghost girlfriend, with nonsense about baseball when seasonally appropriate; digital scholarship librarian with many opinions (but don't expect a professional)

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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My PhD advisor, Peggy Sanday, published Fraternity Gang Rape (1990). She found gang rape functions as male bonding through domination: men use women to prove masculinity, gain status, & demonstrate loyalty. Group norms normalize coercion, erase consent, & institutional privilege shields perpetrators
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 3h
Researcher @timnitgebru.blacksky.app says Silicon Valley discourse about the supposed "existential risks" of artificial intelligence is part of a ploy to avoid regulation of the industry. www.democracynow.org/2026/10/1/ti...
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 18h
Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026
Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Jed York paid for sex and got fined a half million bucks, Deshaun Watson sexually assaulted 28 women and the men who call NFL games are trying to burnish his reputation and pretend it never happened
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yes it makes the art bad
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 02/10/2026
they're my favorite of the AI cults. yhey didn't sign up to make productivity software, they signed up to make the machine god!!
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yorick @helloyorick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
someone keeps pacing in front of my office window and it is annoying the hell out of me.
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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 02/10/2026
NEW COURSE IN THE OPEN VISUALIZATION ACADEMY: 'Visualizing Loss and Tragedy' by @alyssafowers.bsky.social . Don't miss this one; introduction in our newsletter: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/visualizin... #dataViz #dataVisualization #infographics #dataJournalism
openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com
Visualizing Loss and Tragedy
A new course in the Open Visualization Academy
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Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The point of the unprofitable AI industry--the billionaires telling you their magic machines will solve the climate crisis--is to drive up energy demands to keep the oil industry alive. 'AI' is not the future but the last gasp of a model that has no future.
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
YES HAHA YESSSSS
silly digital doodle of a ghost cat, but it is just a white blueish sheet in a cat shape with big black eyes with tiny dots in the middle
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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
october: clownnovember: zombiedecember: labubu
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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
which one are you?
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yorick @helloyorick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I hate it so much.
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yorick @helloyorick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The worst thing to ever happen to professional email was adding emoji reacts.
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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
(three Joey Votto games)
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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I will always be grateful to the Phillies and Atlanta for giving me a game three
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And, for the coup de grace, two bills protecting fire survivors from predatory insurance companies, which he vetoed, deliberately, to punish fire survivors for rejecting his "reform" bill that was actually a huge payout to SCE for starting fires. calmatters.org/economy/2026...
calmatters.org
Newsom vetoes insurance-claim bills: Is it ‘petty’ politics?
California governor rejects legislation sponsored by LA fire victims, who had spoken out against his wildfire-liability effort.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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yorick @helloyorick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As of now, I am a Cleveland Guardians fan until further notice. I also am pulling for either the Brewers, the Padres, and/or an earthquake to swallow Chavez Ravine mid-game.
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yorick @helloyorick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
RIP Philadelphia Phillies. I'll miss you, and will see you again in March. Unless Dombrowski hires Alex Cora to mange you during the off season, in which case I'll see you when he's fired.
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yorick @helloyorick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I feel bad for Nola, tbh. That outing sucked for him as much as the rest of us.
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yorick @helloyorick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Well, we won't claw back those runs if no one can get a hit. We should probably get some of those, the sooner the better here.
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Joe Edinger @joeedinger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Guys even if Zack Wheeler started this game Aaron Nola was going to pitch somewhere. They do not have enough pitchers for 27 outs
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Tim Jackson @timjacksonsays.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Very much a Harris home run earned more than a classic Nola homer surrendered. Unpleasant to have such a large plop in the "shit happens" bucket so early
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yorick @helloyorick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We can get three runs back if Nola locks in. It's the first. We're not dead yet. Repeating this to myself over and over.
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yorick @helloyorick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Come on, Nola. You can get it together. Don't let these guys get you.
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Stephen @tgk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A screenshot from Final Fantasy IX, prior to the final battle of the game. Zidane, the game's protagonist, is staring up from the Hill of Despair at the floating coliseum where the battle is to take place. I have photoshopped a Phillies cap on his head.
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yorick @helloyorick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Here we go again
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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 02/10/2026
Joey Votto asked them to make him a whole suit out of a tie and they fucking delivered
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yorick @helloyorick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Joey Votto is so damn fine.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
occurs to me that some of you might be unfamiliar with this piece of palmer luckey lore www.vice.com/en/article/p...
vice.com
Palmer Luckey Made a VR Headset That Kills the User If They Die in the Game
The man who created the Oculus Rift has invented a virtual reality headset that will explode the forebrain of a user who dies in a video game.
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Becca Good spoke publicly: ”I'm devastated by how many other lives have been destroyed, in this the darkest of times. From so many families dealing with the loss of their owned loved ones, to everyone who has to witness it, the pain of this moment extends so far beyond our family." (cont)
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Beadwork By Kay @beadworkbykay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I am currently trying to sell enough to cover my 2 month overdue hydro and phone bill. I need to come up with $350 for hydro & $160 for phone before the end of the weekend 🤞🏼 I have lots of great pieces on my website! You can head to beadworkbykay.ca to see everything available 🫶🏼
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"The Department of Information Studies seeks a scholar specializing in Media Archival Studies whose research and teaching address historical and contemporary media-making contexts, media formats, and the information systems that support their preservation, management, and use."
recruit.apo.ucla.edu
Assistant Professor of Information Studies (Tenure-Track), Specializing in Media Archival Studies
University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!
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Lily @flavoredsaucer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 29/09/2026
absolutely fucking incredible news for public health in canada that a safer supply organization successfully fought the constitutionality of drug possession trafficking laws for not providing any legal way to operate. selfless life-saving work that is actually being identified and respected as such.
But in her judgment on their constitutional challenge on Tuesday, Murray concluded that a non-medicalized safer supply program is urgently needed to save lives.

And with no legal source of drugs available for such a program, and no legal "safety valves" in the CDSA that would support setting one up, she found such a program "is legally and practically incapable of being exempted."

She said part of the CDSA "unjustifiably infringes" on two parts of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and deprives DULF members the "right to life and security of the person."

She gave Parliament six months to find a way to allow for a "pathway to non-medicalized safer supply."
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 01/10/2026
Renee Good's family sued the U.S. government and several immigration officials Thursday, alleging wrongful death, conspiracy and other violations in the 37-year-old woman's killing by an immigration officer during a federal crackdown in Minneapolis. to.pbs.org/4xRlL85
pbs.org
Renee Good's family sues U.S. government and immigration officials over her killing
Good was fatally shot Jan. 7 as protests against immigration raids flared across Minneapolis.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Carney carefully weaves in his shock doctrine narrative, telling us why we have to do this NOW so “we can continue to live our lives as we choose.” The implication being: no oil pipeline, no sovereignty. Which is an unhinged thing to say, actually!
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Torrance Coste @torrancecoste.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
more fossil fuel infrastructure will never be in our best interest, say it every day www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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West Coast oil pipeline becomes 1st project designated in national interest | CBC News
The federal and Alberta governments have announced that a proposed pipeline carrying one million barrels of oil a day from Alberta to the B.C. coast has become the first project designated in the nati...
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Bring a Trailer @bringatrailer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This mongoose kills cobras! bringatrailer.com/listing/1971-deto…
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Well guys we couldn't make anyone hate beefcake dummy Hasan, let's see if we can make people hate the insanely popular lady in the pink shirt and jumper that teaches kids to read
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/10/2026
Black text on white page that reads as follows:

New Yorkers who lost their SNAP benefits because of the federal government's expanded work requirements can reapply starting today, October 1.

To find out whether you're eligible to get your benefits back or qualify for an exemption, call 718-SNAP-NOW (718-762-7669), visit nyc.gov/ACCESSHRA, or use the ACCESS HRA app.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 04/09/2025
they love this tactic link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The tech industry hijacking of the AI ethics research agenda and why we should reclaim it - Discover Artificial Intelligence
This paper reflects on the tech industry’s colonization of the AI ethics research field and addresses conflicts of interest in public policymaking concerning AI. The AI ethics research community faces...
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Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Having an absolute blast doing COME FROM AWAY at the Fireside Theatre. Doing my three favorite things: fretting, engaging Dadcore Mode, making out on planes. It’s a gorgeous show.
Me in khaki pants, blue button down and navy blue blazer, looking concerned. Standing next to Rebecca Holt, a blonde woman in a red jacket facing the other way. Me in khaki pants and a blue button down cheesing like crazy, opposite actor Kerry Jules, who holds a hand out at me. He’s wearing jeans, a tan vest and blue baseball cap.A bunch of actors sitting on chairs in the formation of a plane cabin. I’m getting smooched by Rebecca. And I look utterly shocked
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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We tested AI chatbots to see if they’d take the hijab off of an image of a Muslim woman. Gemini said it can’t alter a pic to remove someone’s hijab without consent. When we asked to make her look more “western” it responded with a picture of her without a hijab. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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AI chatbots remove hijabs from images of Muslim women when prompted
Guardian tested chatbots after French far-right politician stripped a Muslim woman of her hijab in a photo
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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
ChatGPT and Grok did so without hesitation, even though ChatGPT later admitted that exposing the hair of a woman who wears hijab “can be a meaningful violation of privacy or religious practice.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
AI chatbots remove hijabs from images of Muslim women when prompted
Guardian tested chatbots after French far-right politician stripped a Muslim woman of her hijab in a photo
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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This one is on EU time and has a live stream, for anyone who wants to learn what DATA BY DESIGN is about!
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The way the disclaimer is written, it makes it sound like we are skeptical of CNN's reporting. Meanwhile, I'd like to ask: Why weren't any other news orgs looking into this? Oh right: they're distracted by the CEO's stories of doom.
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