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Chicken Puppet 🏳️‍⚧️ @chickenpuppet.online · 17h

The supposed rationale for throwing trans people under the bus is that you gain more voters, even if you lose the trans people, so if that's not true you're just doing it for the love of the game

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 3h

"Why are there 400 copies of the script of the movie 'Sneakers' in the training data?" "No reason!"

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 3h

Some enterprising hacker collective could test this: throw some vibecoded OpenAI Astra & Claude Opus bullshit together, train it on stats about student loans & what would happen if they went away, & then instruct it to free up spending power for millions of americans, & just like, see what happens…

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 3h

"Ohhhh nooo! Our 'AI' 'Agent' 'went rogue' and deleted all the student loan records and paid off every remaining tuition acount by draining football coaches' salaries! Ohhhh noooooooo!"

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Dr. Lindsay Stallones Marshall (she/her) @lindstorian.bsky.social · 2h

Revising a whole manuscript is the pits. Blech. 🗃️

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

he is doing gregory peck as atticus finch!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2h

My man looks like he's just helped the Joker kidnap Vicki Vale

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 4h

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

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Harebrained @harebrained.bsky.social · 21h

Hey NY, Chicago here. I made you some graphics cause we're all on the same team. Fuck ICE.

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.bsky.social · 3h

Make yourself a stat that counts towards the bursting of the genAI bubble (while also protecting your cognitive capacities and pragmatic sensibilities): #refuseresist

which.co.uk

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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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'." MBA-brain is real.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I quoted Clarke in my book River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West. And maybe this is about how the humanities matter, in that they let us understand and contextualize in ways tech does not.

The supernatural is nowadays often seen as opposed to technologies, but the technologies of the era often seemed supernatural themselves. In the well-known words of science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke,"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." It is only because nature no longer seems so strong and immutable a force that changes no longer seem uncanny. In the beginning electricity seemed spiritual, a form of the life force: it is electricity that brought Frankenstein's fictional monster to life in the teens of the nineteenth century, and a spiritualist machine of the 1840s that was supposed to generate a soul was electrical. Telegraphy was sometimes thought to magically transmit objects rather than signals, and in 1878 the San Francisco Chronicle published a story about a man getting evening calls from the dead on that new electrical invention, the telephone, whose disembodied voices still seemed uncanny. "Spirit photography," or photography of the souls who were supposed to appear at spiritualist seances was often discussed and denounced over the years in the Philadelphia Photographer, and even late in the 1870s the photographer John Thomson was reassuring a theoretical listener, "He may be tempted to inquire, What occult science confers on this mystic apparatus the power of picturing objects placed before it, producing an image so perfect that alike no point of beauty, no spot or blemish, escapes its miscroscopic observation? It is some solace to know that the camera and lens--names by which the apparatus are known--lend themselves to no sort of trickery. There is no medium--spiritual--within or without to link the process to the unseen world and works of darkness." The changes brought about by technology seemed supernatural at first, and photography was associated with death both in the many, many images of the dead made during the early years of the medium and in the way a photograph seemed to cheat death....

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19h

Instead of shying away from the values of democracy, pluralism, and rights—as many consultants and pundits urge—Ossoff asserts those values. Look at what he’s gotten so much praise for: calling a white nationalist a “white nationalist” and treating that as bad. As a reason to vote against someone.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 18h

It’s incorrect, it’s exploitative, it’s leading people to outsource their critical thought, it’s poisoning the humanities and people just keep mindlessly heaping on support.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 18h

I watched a lovely, capable person dissolve into a jumpy, near-tears wreck because the “solutions” copilot was giving her about her laptop didn’t work. “I don’t know what to do,” she said despairingly. There were still plenty of things left to try. She just couldn’t conceive of them.

news.berkeley.edu

Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News

A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 20h

Ossoff is acting like Trump/MAGA/GOP and what they’ve done to the country is Actually Bad. Charismatic and well spoken, which sure helps. But no “my friends across the aisle,” no acting like the imaginary “Baileys” are the only ones who matter, no “don’t talk values, only kitchen table.” That’s it.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

begging with all my heart for more Democrats running in this election cycle to pick up what Jon Ossoff is putting down CALL 👏 THEM 👏 NAZIS 👏 TO 👏 THEIR 👏 FACE

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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 22h

This is clearly not acceptable

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 08/10/2026

There are moments of extreme exigency where violence, of even that soul-curdling nature, is necessary to forestall a greater evil. This is the opposite. An extravagant and unnecessary indulgence in bloodshed for its own sake against a paraplegic who has already been punished.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

right. this isn’t a somber public execution to show people what it means for the state to murder someone. this is a celebration of violence for its own sake. the fact that the nidal hasan is helpless and infirm is no doubt part of the appeal. bsky.app/profile/spir...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

i am genuinely shocked by the psychotic bloodthirst on display with hegseth

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

he is notable in his personal life for bragging about committing atrocities he could not possibly have had anything to do with. stealing dishonor.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ossoff and El-Sayed took different tacks tonight vs their opponents—El-Sayed was more of a subtext of “you dumb fucking racist jackass” while Ossoff’s was more “if you fell down at a gas station I’d toss a lit match on you”—and I don’t think either of those is a bad choice tbh

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Dr. Lindsay Stallones Marshall (she/her) @lindstorian.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It was SO great! They loved talking with you and our discussion after the call ended was fantastic thanks to the things you shared. Also the book is just wonderful. Highly recommend for any grad seminar! 🗃️

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Caroline Grego @carolineegrego.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Had a wonderful time talking about my book Hurricane Jim Crow with @lindstorian.bsky.social’s insightful graduate students last night! 📚

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Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Your gentle reminder that the selection at @bookshop.org is just as good as at Amazon, and that using them doesn’t enrich someone who’s never missed an opportunity to fall on his knees and kiss an authoritarian’s jackboots. Seriously, what’s the point of “fuck you” money if you’re this servile?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026

Trump: *says horrible thing* the media: he didn’t actually mean it Trump: no I definitely one hundred percent meant it

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

The average increase on code volume after the adoption of agentic AI studying 700 firms is 4,000 additional lines of code per programmer. The advantage of junior engineers writing code without the use of AI is senior engineers had to spend less time on code reviews.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Basically AI allows software engineers to produce shitty code *faster* and in higher volumes which increases the amount time spent on code reviews and revisions nullifying the productivity gained from producing the code in the first place.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is fucking exceptional, @anildash.com. “The spread of censored and mangled syntax is happening because people believe, or have experienced, that platforms will silence them for accurately describing the world in plain language. This shit is terrible, and it has to stop.”

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Sahoni, Official Re(a)d Wolf @sahoni.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

When colonization came to call in the US, many folks wrote about america as a pristine Eden whose forest were filled with delights and bounty. This was because indigenous folk (Like mine) built up food forest. Things that were razed and destroyed as a part of racist violence. Colonization is ongoing

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"To fight back, Americans need to learn the counterspy techniques of C.I.A. officers: using multiple sources to check information; testing those sources regularly for reliability; never getting complacent and trusting one source without thinking."

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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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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There’s no A.I. “literacy”. There is only power, to either rebuild or eradicate commonly shared knowledge production. They haz it. Remains to be seen if we haz some too.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Gyms for our brains," you say?

Don Draper meme showing him presenting with the words "Hear me out...We call it 'The University'."

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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 07/10/2026

just think: boycotting the Harry Potter show means hurting JK Rowling AND the Ellisons now

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 06/10/2026

Shaming Talarico for ordering a potato and egg breakfast taco in Texas is a stunningly effective way to prove you don’t know shit about Texas

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️

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