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kelemental @kelemental.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's in one of the screenshots from the Status News article

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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

in case anyone wonders how they fake the appearance of a mind — by faking the sensation of conversation — i wrote a whole thread about it tl;dr NONE of that is in the actual model, 100% of it is in the software between you and the model. it’s the curtain that hides the fake wizard

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kelemental @kelemental.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hmm, billed almost $9k... a cut that needed stitches? Broken arm (simple fracture)? Shoulder dislocation?

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

you don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires

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Rep. Justin J. Pearson @justinjpearson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s the Billionaires versus the rest of us. Photo from @thetnholler.bsky.social

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kelemental @kelemental.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Checkout As Guest" or GTFOooooooo 😂

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kelemental @kelemental.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

An excellent update to the famous Mitch Hedberg line re: getting a receipt for a single donut 😂

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kelemental @kelemental.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

No 😭 The "Enable Copilot" checkbox in Options apparently doesn't exist for work accounts or in the web version 🫠

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kelemental @kelemental.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Been using Office daily for decades. Last week I dug through the entire Options menu trying to disable Copilot. Found out you can now tell Excel NOT to automatically remove leading zeros when opening CSVs. This is the only new feature I've ever been excited about, and it took me years to notice it 😅

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kelemental @kelemental.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm a white collar worker, and no, it's not good at any of those tasks, because all of them require *accuracy* for the result to be worth anything. GenAI cannot provide an *accurate* report or an *accurate* analysis of Q2 revenue. All it can do is spit out words that *sound* plausible.

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kelemental @kelemental.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hm, are you somewhere other than the U.S. by chance? I've probably had at least 20 in-person job interviews here over the course of my career, and I can't remember being offered tea or coffee at a single one (across education, tech, healthcare, and a few other industries).

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kelemental @kelemental.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Why yes, I did spend years strengthening my hand and specifically training it to hold a big knife and stab with it effectively, but I don't see how that's relevant here.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

This is such a great thread because it tells you instantly how to answer the supposedly intractable regulation problem: liability, potentially joint liability, for the person who set up the AI system.

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kelemental @kelemental.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So what you're saying is that he's herding his own dog beds 😂

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year

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kelemental @kelemental.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

What's wrong is that too many Democrats at the federal level are willing to throw literally any of those things out the window the moment enough corporate money is on the table 🤷 which means that the *actual* party line is "we do what our corporate donors want"

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Dems: It’s always stronger to stand up for your beliefs than to modulate to appease an audience. People like strong in politics. Even if they disagree with you, they’ll respect you more for being forthright. The best approach is to acknowledge areas of disagreement and pivot to areas of overlap.

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kelemental @kelemental.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I would accept this in my household only if the notifications *replace* the unconscionably loud DING DING DING DING DING that happens every time the thing is done. (Also I would need another gun 😉)

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Every half-ass plan for our extinction that they provide just turns me on. No internet, you say? No online banking?? No 2FA to use the bathroom at my job??? Baby I was a latchkey kid in the 1980s. You’re describing my platonic ideal. Extinct me.

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kelemental @kelemental.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Same -- I'm extremely tech savvy, and that's a large part of why I have zero smart home devices, none of my appliances are connected to the Internet, and I keep a gun near the printer in case I need to shoot it (to paraphrase that one evergreen tweet/tumblr post) 😅

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 10/09/2026

3 things about Dem politicians who dabble in transphobia: 1. It's wrong, they're wrong, on a moral basis they're being evil 2. It's stupid, they're stupid, they'll never get any credit from the fascists for it 3. It's proof you're not capable of reading or rising to this, and therefore any, moment

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kelemental @kelemental.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

He also definitely didn't help pull anyone from the rubble. Dude famously didn't even help someone who collapsed 10 feet from him at Mar-A-Lago -- just complained that it was "disgusting" and the guy was getting blood on the tile. 🤦

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kelemental @kelemental.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Right?? I was immediately like, "wait, isn't that the Cyberpunk logo?" 🤦

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kelemental @kelemental.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

So there's just... no possibility of passenger override if something goes wrong? Just "generative AI take the wheel"? 😬

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kelemental @kelemental.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Please don't give them more bad ideas - they have plenty of expensive consultants doing that already 🫠

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We don’t have a right to ask whether we’re going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what’s the right thing to do?” --Wendell Berry

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kelemental @kelemental.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Yesssss happy Sunday afternoon to all of us 🍿

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kelemental @kelemental.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Republicans know they're deeply unpopular and can only win by cheating, so they're trying to keep people from voting. Check your registration regularly! 🗳️✅

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kelemental @kelemental.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

- no one said you did 😅 - comparing tax burden versus donations is a valid assessment - I find little value in comparing "better than nothing" to "far worse than nothing"; I'd like to see fewer people putting the wealthy on pedestals in general - re: "fanatics" - 🤨 ??? ... you ok over there?

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kelemental @kelemental.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It's not an "attack" to point out that donating less than your tax burden would've otherwise been is *not* generosity 🙃 You can like someone's music without also participating in mythmaking about them 👍

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kelemental @kelemental.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Someone really needs to get the tech bros to play Horizon Zero Dawn and Forbidden West 😉 (In Story mode of course, so they don't have to hire real gamers to get them through the hard parts. Just tell them Story mode is the hardest setting, they won't know any better)

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kelemental @kelemental.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Yes, it's always bothered me that the accepted term for that particular category of crimes against humanity just kind of runs with the implication that the targeted ethnicities are dirty/diseased. As you pointed out, we gotta stop letting the bad actors decide how we refer to things!

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kelemental @kelemental.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"okay, Sarah from Iowa" may become my new response to randos who decide to give me unsolicited dietary advice 😂

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kelemental @kelemental.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

To be clear, this is not to say that attempts at atonement and accurate public education aren't worth doing, just that they clearly don't prevent the resurgence of these kinds of terrible ideas the way one might hope.

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kelemental @kelemental.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I've often heard that the far right has maintained traction in the U.S. largely because there's never been any reckoning with the Confederacy & slavery -- as compared to Germany's extensive public reckoning with Nazism & the Holocaust, which was supposed to be protective. Apparently not 😕

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 23/08/2026

When Trump is finally defeated, remember that the hangers-on and the ghouls surrounding him, the JD Vances of the world, will all claim that they were trying to moderate his evil and they should be thanked. And we need to remember that this is a lie. They were willing to do anything for power.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"Ninguém solta a mão de ninguém" (No one lets go of anyone's hand.) -Brazilian rallying cry to defeat Bolsonaro. Authoritarians feed on getting us to blame some "other" when, in fact, they are the ones destroying us all in order to serve their billionaire backers.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I don't need you to like me. I need you to like YOU.

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kelemental @kelemental.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Also, lol @ extremely visible data entry errors 😅

Screenshot of the section of the banned books list starting with the letter "T". Between two actual book titles, "Tell Me in Secret" and "Thin Girls", there's an entry that is clearly just the middle of a sentence meant to explain how the list works. The word "with" is listed as an author, and the sentence extends into a data tag labeled "BEING THE MOST SEXUALLY" in all caps.

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kelemental @kelemental.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Ok so what I'm hearing is, filter this to the "5" rating and put all the resulting books written by women of color on my reading list 💅

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Most Democrats today have little conception or memory of how bold the party was before Reagan. I give you the 1972 Democratic Party platform’s full-throated endorsement of federally administered, nationalized healthcare. The party dropped that, pivoting to “universal” coverage—without the teeth.

Establish a system of universal National Health Insurance which covers all Americans with a comprehensive set of benefits including preventive medicine, mental and emotional disorders, and complete protection against catastrophic costs, and in which the rule of free choice for both provider and consumer is protected. The program should be federally-financed and federally-administered.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/08/2026

These gloves don't cause neuromuscular incapacitation the way that a taser does. In fact, they only work when applied directly to bare skin. These aren't made for apprehending anyone. These have one and only one use: causing extreme pain to already-restrained captives. In plain language: torture.

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kelemental @kelemental.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

In my experience, women's faces only look like that if they've spent a large portion of their life frowning. Which, I mean, if you spent most of your life married to that guy.....

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eddietg51-42.bsky.social @eddietg51-42.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are trans athletes in youth sports.

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

James Talarico: 50 years ago, a corporate lawyer named Lewis Powell circulated a memo around DC — a blueprint for how corporations could amass political power, reverse the gains of the Great Society and the New Deal, and rig the system for themselves. And it worked.

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kelemental @kelemental.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I think it's just "hobbylos" -- the English loan word + German suffix for "without" smashed together 😂

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