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I don't even like AI and unsubscribed from Erin a while ago but like. What the fuck are we doing here.

Too often these days I find myself in the position of defending someone I think is annoying from someone I know is dangerous. Most recently this happened with

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Jane Ball (living dead girl) @jane.inurhead.lol · 8h

I too used AI to determine if the article below includes AI generated content and it turns out that by the article's own standards, it does!

Their own method flags their own article. Their "presence rule" treats any straight apostrophe or quote in a paragraph as evidence of pasting from an LLM. Here's what's in their own writing:

Section 1.1 has "doesn't" twice with straight apostrophes, next to a curly "That’s."
"aren't" in 6.2 is straight.
Altman's "small-but-happy win" is in straight quotes.
"‘pasted content test'" opens curly and closes straight.

By their standard, those paragraphs were machine-pasted. I'm reading a converted copy, so it's worth checking the page source, but mixed marks inside one phrase are hard to blame on conversion. This doesn't prove AI either way. It shows how many innocent sources of straight quotes exist: Google Docs settings, phone keyboards, Notion, pasting between drafts, co-authors with different setups. That's also the load-bearing weakness in their case against Reed.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 9h

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

80-something year old woman: *sighs enviously while looking at me* "Why do MEN always get naturally curly hair?"

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series of gj tubes @ozarkhowling.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

reminds me of when my EMR got two entries for my EDS… one for “Ehlers Danlos Syndrome - classical subtype” and one for “Leler Sanlose Disease”

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

doctor somehow generated a prescription *from the EMR* for "Munjoro 15 mg"

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series of gj tubes @ozarkhowling.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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series of gj tubes @ozarkhowling.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

THREE HOURS left to stay housed and still at $270 to go after fees - anything helps 💞 ko-fi.com/katiwithoutt...

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

told Levi if he was too hungry to wait for dinner he had to have a fruit or a vegetable and then I went upstairs and ate the chocolate bar I hid in my bedroom

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

an exhausted "dude, what?" goes a long way

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Kendra Mellifera 🏳️‍⚧️ @kmellifera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Literally anything my guy. A fart noise. The jerkoff motion and telling the guy to get a hobby that’s not bothering women. Ask her a question that gets her out of the room. “That’s gross” “who raised you” “say that again into my phone I’m on my way to HR anyway”. Communicate WE DON’T DO THAT HERE

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Kendra Mellifera 🏳️‍⚧️ @kmellifera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s kind of exhausting when there’s studies being like when women speak up, no matter how, the issue is dismissed and the women are fired but a man says “hey that’s gross” and entire companies change almost immediately And men go: but how can *I* help it’s hard to speak up what do I even say :(

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Albertans with Canadian flags attached to their car in 2026 and Albertans with Canadian flags attached to their car in 2021 are completely non-overlapping groups.

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

they actually cut this plotline from Season 58 of Grey's Anatomy for being a little over the top

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 28/09/2026

Finding Backrooms frightening largely due to all the unanchored furniture.

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

you know the post-divorce album is gonna have the juice though

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Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

you must destroy the cursed amulet it is the only way to save mankind

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Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"I have invented Artificial Intelligence!" You've ruined a perfectly good computer program, is what you've done. Look, it can't count and gives anyone who uses it psychosis.

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

EMR designers: "Hey maybe we should include a field called 'note to pharmacist' where doctors can include important information" "Great idea! Where should we put it?" "I'm thinking size 6 font sandwiched between 'if you have received this fax in error' and the clinic contact info" "Perfect"

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series of gj tubes @ozarkhowling.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

so a) motel upper mgmt now wants remaining $200 plus $100 for overdue balance TMRW 😵‍💫 b) bus schedule to/from infusion was off, spent $60 on rides, now need: 🆘 $360 to stay housed by 5pm tmrw & recoup rides to hospital 🏠 $400 1wk rent Monday anything/everything helps 💓 ko-fi.com/katiwithoutt...

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

apparently her coworkers were concerned and told her to go to the urgent care across the street and my American wife (who has never had a migraine before and did not know what was happening) was like "no I'm just going to ride it out"

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series of gj tubes @ozarkhowling.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

still at $0/360 now needed tmrw to stay housed after the clusterfck of today - anything/everything helps 💞 #helpsky ko-fi.com/katiwithoutt...

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I need y'all to see the barometric pressure forecast

Starts dropping around 11 am thursday from a high of around 1015 hPa.

Continues dropping until around 1 pm Friday, forecast to reach around 998 hPa.

Rises continuously from the nadir on Friday up to 1020 hPa.

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Kya @kyamae.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Me: *leaves work at lunch time because of a sudden onset of several symptoms that I can only describe but not explain* Blaine: *gets home from work and asks me a few questions about my symptoms* “those are migraine symptoms. You’re having a migraine.” Me: shocked_pikachu.jpg

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Dr. Amy, PsyD @dramypsyd.rmh-therapy.com · 24/09/2026

I first learned about this on TikTok and thought they were saying "masc lesbian" and not "masked lesbian" and I was like if the masc lesbians want their own space they should be able to do that, but I also understand from a business perspective allowing femmes even if just one night a week

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I taught Levi how to play Hot Cross Buns on the xylophone, then he played a made-up sequence of notes and said "that's Hot Cross Buns in French"

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ANOTHER death in ICE detention which appears likely to be the result of medical neglect. A diabetic who told his family members he wasn't receiving regular insulin shots OR getting diabetic-appropriate meals just died in custody. The U.S. prison-ICE detention-industrial complex kills.

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August Carver @carverredacted.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Crowdfunding links again. I wouldn't mind enough for something for a warm meal, but nothing is urgent. paypal.me/AugustMcMullen venmo.com/code?user_id... connect.vestwell.com/gifting/stab... www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Venn you see the truth...

Venn diagram. Top circle, Canada Geese. Bottom left circle, Toddler. Bottom right circle, Anti-Vaxxer

Intersection Canada Geese/Toddler: always pooping
Intersection Canada Geese/Anti-Vaxxer: wants everydead
Intersection Toddler/Anti-Vaxxer: incoherent ramblings
Intersection of all 3: can't reason with them

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August Carver @carverredacted.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hey friends if you're not opposed to using Amazon I could really use a different glucometer because I cannot afford the test strips for the one I currently have and I think I found one that has cheaper strips. My medical team is annoying me about it www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Democrats will be like "i'm the only thing standing between you and Trump!" and then don't stand in the way of anything

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Jennifer P. Mushrooms @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"trans people require medical care for the rest of their lives" is the craziest anti-trans talking point because everyone requires medical care for the rest of our lives.

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Capricorn Iscariot @deaconblues1979.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Boys, it is now the Dark Half of the Year when the Holly King of Winter rises to power over the Oak King of Summer, and we wear pants.

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

no YOUR kid is having a meltdown at 11:45 pm because he "wants to be cold"

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series of gj tubes @ozarkhowling.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

still haven’t heard back but it’s only six hours until the office closes and I’m STILL stalled at $510 to stay housed 😭😭 anything helps ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹 ko-fi.com/katiwithoutt...

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

You know, this is what Latour said about. About the machines. About how the machines do stuff to things and people.

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

church sign near my house currently says "God wants spiritual fruit not religious nuts"

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

honestly striking how much of this stuff is like "controversial 100 years ago but since them we've answered it pretty conclusively which is why we think you're a weirdo for bringing it up"

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Zoë requested her birthday cake look like Mount Olympus

Two tier cake with droopy brown fondant, marshmallow clouds around the base, chocolate rocks, and some cake toppers that look like greek gods.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Determining your cheese preference based on which is not halal is a strong contender for the quintessence of GOP ideology. It's irrelevant to them, no reason for them to think about it at all, but they don't have personalities, they're simple reactionary creatures governed solely by bigotry.

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

They fundamentally do not believe it's possible for their side to win on its own merits, and it's that which makes them "the good guys", because they will even listen to the people who hate them. And the right absolutely knows this and has been exploiting it for decades.

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