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Ruth

@ladylabyrinth.bsky.social
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Countess, Tigeress, enjoyer of things. I make music: Velvawhip on vinyl: velvawhip.bandcamp.com/album/oblivi…

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026
There’s also this piece from last year which points to similar cognitive effects. Asbestos of the mind is an excellent way to put it.
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Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”
Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use.
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Jason Furman @jasonfurman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is what crowd out looks like.
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
If you work at Target and have info or thoughts on their interactions with ICE, I’d love to hear from you. jdica@protonmail.com
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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Make yourself a stat that counts towards the bursting of the genAI bubble (while also protecting your cognitive capacities and pragmatic sensibilities): #refuseresist
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How to remove AI from your life - Which?
AI is becoming increasingly tricky to avoid, but you may not want or use the features it offers. Find out how to switch off or limit AI on Android, Apple devices, and Windows computers
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In other words, it is the job of scientists to devise experiments that can test their claims, to always be cautious abt what they are claiming, and to critically evaluate the claims of other scientists. By these well-established standards, no serious science is happening behind Anthropic's claims.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
Very VERY glad to see Jon Ossoff leaning all the way the fuck away from the centrists trying to tell dems to "reconcile" or "tone it down" or "find the persuadable republicans." This is the shit, right here. Hammer down and make them have to say on live TV that they love Nazis. The end.
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
IM RIGHT - dashare.zone ADMIN
A SKELITIN GIVIN U SOME IDEAS TO THINK ABOUT: THE SMART TELEVISION THAT SENDS AUDIO OF YOUR HOME BACK TO THE CORPORATION IS SILENT - A GREEN MONITOR EMITS A BUZZ - THE TELEPHONE THAT MAKES YOU LOOK AT ADS IS SILENT - AN OLD HARD DRIVE CLICKS AND WHIRS - THE CAR SCREEN THAT REPLACED ALL THE BUTTONS IS SILENT - A FLOPPY DISK FULL OF OLD GAMES SLIDES INTO PLACE WITH A LOUD CHUNK -,,, WHEN A MACHINE TRYS TO HIDE AND STAY QUIET ITS CAUSE ITS DOIN SHIT IT DOSENT WANT YOU TO THINK ABOUT!!!  AND DA TEXT "DO NOT TRUST A SILENT COMPUTER, IF IT DOESNT BEEP AND RATTLE, THAT MACHINE IS YOUR ENEMY " - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Divide and concur — this radical plan from 1920, for "lasting peace" after WW1, proposed uniting central Europe into 24 wedge-shaped cantons which would radiate out from Vienna’s St. Stephen’s Cathedral: publicdomainreview.org/collection/u…
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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Top-tier weird little guy on an incantation bowl from Nippur, Iraq, c 500 BCE, in the Penn Museum.
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Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 07/10/2026
The Association for Human Mathematics (AHM) statement on OpenAI’s October 6 release of mathematical documents just dropped! www.ahmath.org/statements
AHM Statement on OpenAI’s October 6 Release of Mathematical Documents

Yesterday, on October 6th, 2026, OpenAI – which is currently defending lawsuits against accusations of illegal plagiarism, copyright infringement, and trademark dilution – released a repository of manuscripts purporting to contain solutions to a number of high-profile problems in mathematics.

Mathematicians did not ask for this work to be done. The Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, from whom OpenAI has claimed to derive its legitimacy, opened their initial advisory statement by saying that frontier AI corporations should not test advanced mathematical problems on internal models. In ignoring the central premise of the Advisory Group’s position, OpenAI has indicated total disregard for the norms of scientific research — norms that guarantee that mathematics remains trustworthy, ethically researched, and in the public interest.

Mathematicians have a particular vision of progress that is informed by history and field-specific considerations. We reject OpenAI's assertion that this release advances our subject, and we urge mathematicians and the public to view the value of this publication model with due skepticism. 

Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding.

Association for Human Mathematics
Communications Working Group
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Oscar Goff @theoscargoff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Every year I’ll find a new 80-minute, 30-track CD comp titled something like “Sock Hop in the Graveyard,” at least 50% of which will be stuff I’ve never heard before. There’s always another song about skeletons and gorillas having a party, and I think that’s beautiful.
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פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
My Judaica publisher told me rabbis keep filling his Talmud margins so I asked how many margins he has and he said he just goes to print and adds wider margins afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding whitespace to rabbis and then his printer started crying.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The “literacies“ framework is as intellectually bankrupt as polarization right now. We will keep using it because when you’ve got one hammer and the NSF social science funding has dried up everything looks like a nostalgic managerial class nail.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
lol like no matter HOW you slice it, this is objectively ridiculous. One person has majority control over two MAJOR news broadcasts and nearly ALL entertainment streams, including children programming, globally. ONE person. A single human being.
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Ruth @ladylabyrinth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Bass legend Arthur "Killer" Kane of the New York Dolls has a pretty great documentary en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Yor...
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New York Doll - Wikipedia
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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Can’t wait to share this new memoir, but willing to hold on till Fall 2027.
What books are you working on that you're excited to publish?

Mat Johnson, who is a prolific novel-ist, is writing a memoir that I've been lucky enough to work on. It's a memoir of his mother, who had MS, and about their relationship as she declined, and he was her primary caretaker, but it's also a memoir of craft. So he's kind of well known in the insular, small, literary community as being an amazing professor. He uses the craft of writing to detail his mom's story. So he'll take "What does it mean to build out a character?" and then he'll show you that through his mom's stories. It is so brilliant, hilarious, moving, and tender. And it has also taught me so much about how to live. I think about his book all the time.
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Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is amazing satire at a time when satire is becoming nearly impossible.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Polarization Is Not the Problem." The paragraph below says more about "both sides" journalism than just about anything I have read. By @lilymasonphd.bsky.social It's starting to get attaction. So read the rest, and let me know what you think. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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Ruth @ladylabyrinth.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sitting outside in this balmy 97 degree October SoCal heat, watching fire helicopters, and reading the news to really set the “we live in Hell” tone of 2026.
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 04/10/2026
A very uncomfortably high number of awful things can be at least partially explained by the fact that almost every single person with immense capital or political power in this country seemingly uses AI on a daily basis for their decision making
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 03/10/2026
Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 02/10/2026
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The Cornell Rape Case & History
YouTube video by Hari Kondabolu
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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Just popping to the authentic golem shop if anyone wants anything...
Shop shelves with miniature golem figurines with a hand written sign reading 'authentic golem'
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Associate Marshallian Spillover Coordinator @stevenlandgraf.com · 02/10/2026
Cathedral architects:
I Want You To Get The Word Out There That We Back Up
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i have designed what may be the scariest shirt design i have ever done, right in time to get to you some time around halloween roryblank.bigcartel.com
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Ruth @ladylabyrinth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Welp, they’re coming for my social justice Alma Mater, looks like Antioch University is getting the hostile take over treatment.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There's a new wave of Democratic ads across the country that are somehow brutally partisan and incredibly effective and it's going to take some time for me to get used to this?
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Ruth @ladylabyrinth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This year my October “30 days of horror” began yesterday with the 2026 documentary of early aughts reality tv: The Swan: Behind the mirror The interviews with the plastic surgeon 🙀
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
whenever you feel like you’re too small to change anything know that citizens from small towns and cities that speak up against flock and axon cameras in their communities (and sometimes get arrested for it) are fighting and sometimes succeeding against this
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The night was cold and dark. “Listen to the wind howling in the trees,” said Frog. “What a fine time for a ghost story.”
Frog and Toad craddle warm cups of tea in their hands, as they sit in cozy chairs in front of the fire.

From "Shivers"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Seriously, just do not use muse
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Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This great @perrybaconjr.bsky.social piece also gets at a within our industry. Outlets act as if eliminating human rights protections or stripping Black people of political representation are "culture" issues, which are treated as less important than "kitchen table" newrepublic.com/article/2159...
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Why Democrats Should Stop Using the Phrase “Culture Wars”
Texas’s Gina Hinojosa and others slamming the party for focusing too much on so-called cultural issues are pushing a flawed electoral and policy strategy.
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Andrew Nahem @lowdudgeon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Choosin’ Praxis
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 27/09/2026
another day, another bit of evidence that the scientists who willingly hand over proprietary information to AI firms may experience some consequences
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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Ruth @ladylabyrinth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Gaze with wonder at my sweet little dude’s grunge guyliner
A lab looking up while another lab gazes on in the background.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity.
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Ruth @ladylabyrinth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pdx thrift book shopping delivering the goods!
Book entitled A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Troubled TrusteeBook entitled: Practical Anarchism: A Guide for Daily LifeA book entitled: Trans Gender Marxism
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Two Minnesota solar farms turned the ground beneath their panels into habitat, and native bee abundance rose more than 20-fold www.ecoticias.com/en/two-minne...
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Two Minnesota solar farms turned the ground beneath their panels into habitat, and native bee abundance rose more than 20-fold
Minnesota solar farms planted with native flowers saw native bees rise 20-fold, with bees also pollinating nearby soybean fields.
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The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America @abaararebooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The 2026 ABAA Virtual Book Fair: Autumn Edition has begun! Shop the fair at abaa.org/vbf Doors will remain open continuously until 7pm ET on Saturday.
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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You wouldn't last five minutes in the realm of pleasure and delight
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
I'm not even kidding with this. I have said repeatedly that there are things that my chosen systems can't handle; or, that they shouldn't be applied to because they're ill-suited for the task. Most analytics I know, with few exceptions, do not think this way about their tools.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
When my students ask me why I'm so hard on analytic philosophy, it all comes down to the sheer arrogance of analytics to assume that the tools they've developed can and should be applied to everything without limit. The most important lesson for any academic to learn is the limit of their tools.
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rahanks.bsky.social @rahanks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This article has more detail on some of the horrific conditions we are trafficking people to www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Banished to alien lands: Trump’s secret deportation deals
After a plane journey in shackles, an Iranian woman found herself in the middle of Africa in a country she did not know existed. She is one of thousands deported from the US on the back of shadowy dea...
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Todd Alcott @toddalcott.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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