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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 30/09/2026

OK I was just curious if you had actually observed that error rate as a user. Most people who actually use the tools we're talking about do not experience that error rate. It starts to become obvious who is talking from experience in this realm vs parroting talking points they heard 2 years ago

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billionaires should fund something useful. there's suffering people in this world with allium allergies we could be curing with a moonshot-sized CRISPR research program

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The Capybaron, Seasonally Spooky @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Again, much of Pete Hegseth’s deal is the only skill his job demanded for a long time was keeping a trim figure to be conventionally pretty for stay-at-home moms watching daytime tv. His job was “be pretty,” but he knows that’s a girl job, so he’s deeply insecure and is trying to make it a boy job.

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Do you use LLMs at all yourself, or is your 70% number something that someone else told you and you're just relying on it

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I think we can value artistic labor - admire difficult technique, marvel at works that take a lot of time and skill - without judging the entire artistic value of any and all pieces based on knowing their exact provenance and creative process. We do it all the time!

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I think people wrongly discount the creative content of AI-generated "art". It's like people think Suno is a single button that generates a random song. I'm sure you CAN do that, but it misunderstands how most people use it, and why, in favor of a vague sense that art = work

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It's wild that there are still people on this site, in October 2026, who insist that no one should ever use any AI product for any purpose because they "don't work"

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

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The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"To save democracy, democratize the economy, admonishes economist Weber in her outstanding debut." This is the first advance review @publisherswkly.bsky.social. Humbled it’s starred and moved by how concisely it captures the message of ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS ❤️

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Kim Stiens @kimstiens.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'd be curious to know how the job losses in graphic design compare to the launch of Canva - chatGPT was not that good at that many things 4 years ago but Canva definitely reduced the number of designers I hired for many kinds of work

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Kim Stiens @kimstiens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I interviewed at a certain libertarian organization that asked all candidates "Pirates or Ninjas?" I gave the wrong answer

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's great to see tailoring accommodate such extreme movement today. This level of tailoring was a bit more common in the past, as you can see in old films featuring Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly, but many modern suits will lift off the wearer's neck even when they're just walking.

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Kim Stiens @kimstiens.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Booo I won't have Cougar Gold slander on my timeline

Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 22/09/2026

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It's great to see economist @justinwolfers.bsky.social making the case that AI has given new urgency to the case for universal basic income, calling it "a payment society is owed rather than a form of redistribution." ALL of us trained those AI models. It's OUR work and OUR data being fed to them.

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Kim Stiens @kimstiens.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's also a genre where fans still actually buy albums, which weights the charts tremendously

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Kim Stiens @kimstiens.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Honestly I think the charts are better today than they've ever been! With streaming, you can actually capture what people are listening to, not just what they bought once. And it's neat that the charts are now dominated by classic Christmas songs all December

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Kim Stiens @kimstiens.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I feel like I owe a debt to Ella Langley because Choosin Texas is the only thing keeping that extremely boring Stella Lefty song out of the #1 spot

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Fooch @davidfucillo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

DMV folks, come join tonight! I'll be there!

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Kim Stiens @kimstiens.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Wow someone went to an AI doomer event and encountered AI doomers? That's wild man

Kim Stiens @kimstiens.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ed does this frustrating thing where insists that he UNDERSTANDS it's useful sometimes, while still sticking a snide remark about how it doesn't work in every other sentence

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

what you’re missing is that guys are a structural problem

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Any Russian translators who follow me interested in making a contribution to the history of antifascist economics?

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Kim Stiens @kimstiens.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lots of people complaining today about the Bernie/Hillary split but I don't see anyone talking about the Obama/Hillary split, which is where I think a lot of this really began

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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Universal basic ‘mostly competent guy thinking about it’ at scale, available dirt cheap.

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

You can still take advantage of this sale! I don't want to tell you how to live your life, but I promise you this book will fill that unnamable thing deep inside of you, the void that you can't quite speak of, even when it keeps you up well into the night. That's the St. James guarantee!

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Kim Stiens @kimstiens.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The whole experiment of Bluesky seems to be figuring out how many features of a social media you can remove and still have it count as "social media"

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Kim Stiens @kimstiens.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I use "Heyo" or "Hello" because "Dear" just seems wildly inappropriate for a work default and I just can't bring myself to regularly use it

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/08/2026

i feel like the actual fun part of being a senator or any statewide elected official would be just showing off all the cool stuff in the state

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Kim Stiens @kimstiens.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

That roof doesn't look the same to me, it looks like she added her own flair to the roof and it happens to resemble another. I guess I'm just an idiot. And you can't print gold leaf on canvas. But, again, if you think insulting actual artists online is useful anti-ai protest, have fun I guess

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Let me get this straight. Sometimes a famous person dies and everyone is nice about it? Merely because of their deeds during life?

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Kim Stiens @kimstiens.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Wtf are you talking about? You can literally buy this artist's physical works on her website. And that is Notre Dame cathedral, unless you think this piece Conde Nast published 7 years ago is also AI How insulting

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Kim Stiens @kimstiens.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

People want to convince others that the thing they think is correct because that's like 90% of how people have fun on the Internet now. It's not more complicated than that

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Kim Stiens @kimstiens.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I don't understand why people think this is proselytizing. It's frustrating to see people be wrong on the Internet, and people like to argue. Of course, on platforms like X/Bluesky, you're going to see people arguing. You didn't see that with early Internet or w/e because the platforms didn't exist

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Perfect summation of the antiwoke worldview: trying to destroy democracy is bad, but not nearly as bad as sitting through an HR training

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I think people are also missing the fact that he has to describe the book back to the AI in order for it to know where he's at. Page numbers won't work - he has to understand it all enough to say back to the machine, which is an incredible learning reinforcement

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I mean, he's reading the book. There's a sequencing happening here. Does he lose something if he reads about a theme in the guide that he already picked up and thought about? I don't think so. But he definitely gains by reading about something he missed. This seems infinitely better than not reading

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People are acting like this is the equivalent of watching the movie instead. He's still reading the book! He's reading every word of it, and then working to understand it! I guess people would rather others not read at all then read in a way they don't personally prefer

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If he had time and inclination to do so, maybe. He hasn't up until this point. He's still reading the book - would you really rather that he not read it at all? Because that's clearly the universe to compare here, not one where he magically becomes a different person who lives a different life

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Imagine trying to read a challenging book and getting this response from strangers on the Internet. It's honestly embarrassing to act like this in a public space, go back to high school

Replies to the original post from one Jason Horn, who says this guy "clearly isn't a fan of Last of the Mohicans, so maybe he should try s different book", to which Jeff B replies "Dr Seuss offers many options that might be better suited to his reading level..."

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I could understand this response if the guy were reading AI summaries *instead* of reading the book. He's not. He's generating study guides. The amount of smarmy contempt you have to feel to make this a bad thing is off the charts

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