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Lisa Rokusek

@lisarokusek.myatproto.social
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recruiter tired but trying I'm in STL. We make it harder here. agitator dissident - in the havel sense disintegrating - i hope positively magical queer mostly benevolent Happy to talk tidycal.com/m268n51

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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 11h
Having way too many flashbacks to my endo journey in this talk about the medical landscape and endometriosis. I TALKED TO TEN DOCS before I found one who listened to me. Ah 2005 you were a hard time to have gynecologic issues.
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Kyle Orland @kyleor.land · 30/09/2026
[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you've never played World of Warcraft? [JACK SMITH]: Correct [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you farming gold in Eversong Woods! [SMITH]: That is Elden Ring, sir.
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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026
Another week another example of Missouri sending our best. Between Schmitt Hawley Bailey and Altman I wonder if we should be quarantined for the well being of the rest of the country.
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Eric Beckman @erbeckman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This needs to be the sign that we tap.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/09/2026
GOAT OR BIRD????
This is even better than the
"what color is this dress" dress.
Goat?
or Bird?
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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026
I mean the truth here.
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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026
Eric Schmitt is worse than a dirtbag.
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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026
Its getting real that I'm giving a talk at #Monktoberfest and it is my first time going to it. I'm a little nervous, y'all. But I know the people there are the best around. This is a pretty awesome kind of adventure!
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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026
This strawberry bush is in our yard. I’m so glad @humanbn planted it.
Picture of an alien looking pink and orange plant. Pink spiky parts and orange berries around a tiny core.  Picture of a strawberry plant a missouri native. Pink spiky parts and orange berries.
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Dr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
NOBODY SHOULD!!
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
do actors in movies actually die? they at least behave as if they do
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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026
Quit giving these wackos cover. We need to use the legal structures we have not react to their weird future fever dreams. This is correct.
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arwyn @arwynsays.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
every. damn. time.
cactus meme from the good place
panel one, janet: i have that automaton you asked for
panel 2, michael: is it actually an automaton and not a hidden guy pulling levers?
panel 3, janet: it is an automaton it is not a hidden guy pulling levers
panel 4, michael: good, give me the automaton please
panel 5, janet handing michael a cactus: [hidden guy pulling levers]
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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026
keeerist yes, please stop giving the companies cover by imagining the “bots” have agency.
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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every week this feels more urgent and I first said this during my keynote at a grad student conference in Kent in 2022 as they were gutting their American Studies degrees.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 25/09/2026
by definition impossible, indeed
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
wild scenes out of Springfield, Missouri. Two people were arrested for trying to voice concerns about Flock cameras. Video of it is in the story
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Woman Arrested After City Council Denies Residents Right to Speak on Flock Cameras
Citizens of Springfield, Missouri showed up to a city council meeting to discuss the city’s Flock contract. The mayor shut them down and arrested two people for ‘disruption of meetings of city council...
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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 25/09/2026
I’d like to keep any intellectual dexterity I can muster, thanks.
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Ed @ed3d.net · 25/09/2026
when it comes to LLMs, I have been trying to beat the technician/expert drum. LLMs are becoming master technicians, but they obviously lack integrative capabilities to deploy expertise. but I'm starting to realize that a lot of people don't understand, or don't value the difference.
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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I saw the term “slop grenade” to describe this noslopgrenade.com
noslopgrenade.com
Slop Grenade
Stop throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations. If they wanted an AI essay, they would have asked ChatGPT themselves.
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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 22/09/2026
Not surprised by Newsom but ugh.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A striking thing about the various estimates of how many people Musk killed when he shuttered USAID is that, while of course the exact number is unknown, the estimates all point to a figure of about 750,000 deaths within a year, of which 500,000 were kids Mass murder isn’t “ill fated cost-cutting”
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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 21/09/2026
I dunno what was in the air but google called me a lot today to tell me a person with samsung phone was trying to steal one of my email accounts. (I know it wasn't really google) I like to make these scammers get so exasperated they hang up on me. Its like playing with my food. But scary shit.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 21/09/2026
“Everything is 40% more expensive because of AI” is a great line for an opposition party trying to unseat the AI-supported incumbents, if any Democratic consultants wanted to take a short break from dehumanizing trans kids to actually try winning a contested election.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026
LOOK AT THIS FUCKING SHIT. The easiest way to tell that trans women are women is that the right is so desperate to control what they do with their bodies. WE HAVE EVERYTHING IN COMMON.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 18/09/2026
Again, there is clear evidence a data center moratorium would peel far more votes away from the GOP than the 10-15 (not thousand, literally 10-15 total) who might switch over this same crowd’s demand to betray queer people. It’s malpractice that the party won’t ditch these professional losers.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
a lot freaks me out about AI but 0% of my anxiety is about AGI. i think this is the part that freaks me out the most right now -- the many many indications that no one is at the wheel and no adults are present
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 16/09/2026
Astonishing lapse of judgement under the generational leadership that should know better. I would raise the possibility that their malicious tabloid sloppiness in this story might also be at work in other scandal stories they run, say, about trans people.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
this is the conventional wisdom and it is being presented by literally everyone as though it is brave truthtelling
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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 14/09/2026
Democrats stop letting right wing authoritarian freaks set the narrative/agenda challenge. Democratic voters also please stop falling for it. Our electeds may be less than savvy but we have to make up for it.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
The only person in public service who has consistently made 100% sense on issues of "AI," which is why they hate her so much.
Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there’s no AI exemption from laws already on the books — a point 
@FTC
 emphasized repeatedly during my tenure.

1. There is an extensive set of laws that govern dangerous and defective products. For example, releasing unvetted AI models or agents can violate consumer protection laws. Shipping flawed AI tools without implementing adequate measures to detect and stop rogue or defective AI agents can be an “unfair or deceptive” act or practice under the FTC Act (and analogous state laws). And some state AGs are already exploring holding AI firms and their CEOs criminally liable when their models participate in criminal activity.

2. Existing laws also prohibit “unfair methods of competition.” This covers instances where AI firms appropriate the competitively sensitive information of their customers, including through tracking their use of various tools. It can also cover instances where firms pursue dangerous behavior, aware that doing so may compel rivals to do the same.As the Supreme Court has noted: “A method of competition which casts upon one's competitors the burden of the loss of business unless they will descend to a practice which they are under a powerful moral compulsion not to adopt, even though it is not criminal, was thought to involve the kind of unfairness at which the [unfair methods of competition] statute was aimed."

3. The highly concentrated and interconnected structure of these markets could be creating major risks and conflicts of interest. We had started investigating these partnerships and cross-investments across the stack (and released a preliminarily overview of some findings: https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-issues-staff-report-ai-partnerships-investments-study). 

Both federal and state enforcers should be scrutinizing these opaque relationships and inter-dependencies. We are already seeing how these relationships could undermine accountability. For example, OpenAI could face liability given the Hugging Face incident, but Hugging Face being bought up by Nvidia means that we’re unlikely to see it file a lawsuit over this — given Nvidia’s strong incentive to see OpenAI continue full speed ahead.4. As AI tools dramatically change the landscape of cybersecurity risks and hacks, all businesses should be doubling down on having core security protections in place. Firms that fail to invest in adequate data security measures or fix known vulnerabilities can also be breaking the law. A recent analysis showed that around 1/3 of Fortune 100 companies do not even have a way to notify them about security issues. During my 
@FTC
 tenure, we sued firms for poor data security practices and held CEOs liable when they were personally responsible.

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/dozens-of-americas-largest-companies-have-no-simple-way-to-report-security-flaws/

https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/10/ftc-takes-action-against-drizly-its-ceo-james-cory-rellas-security-failures-exposed-data-25-million

5. As policymakers consider new legal regimes, we should be looking to lessons from prior efforts to govern major sectors, such as banking and other networks, platforms, and utilities. Tools like structural separations, nondiscrimination, and supervision could be key, and there’s a rich history of what works and what doesn’t. But we can and must pursue any new efforts alongside enforcing existing laws.
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I wonder what percentage of the stock market is fueled by robbing old people
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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 13/09/2026
Handling my folks accounts before and after their deaths was eye opening.
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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 12/09/2026
People used to say cis homosexuals were genetic abnormalities too. Jackwagons all. I need folks to stop being bigots and join us in the present where they reject a pseudoscience based on bigotry and accept the marvelous diversity of biological reality.
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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 10/09/2026
I loathe the compulsion to assign agency to these systems. The way we talk about how users of OpenAI do bad things is so familiar. It gives “mistakes were made” “car killed human in a crash” or “officer involved shooting.”
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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 10/09/2026
It is a fine day to not be an ableist jackwagon. Try it, you’ll see!
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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 09/09/2026
Shake and Bake! Let’s all help shake him up!
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winston @winston.cc · 09/09/2026
every tech worker I talk to who is not completely AI-pilled is extremely demoralized. we are genuinely facing a crisis of deskilling and mental health, and it's just considered the cost of doing business right now.
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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 09/09/2026
Democrats stop being transphobic challenge.
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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Meredith sums up my thinking pretty well. About 80% of human beings have an optimism bias. This means people with this bias are very bad at imagining the number of possible negative outcomes, and dismiss most of the possibilities that aren’t most obvious. Superintelligence isn’t the only threat
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
My 2008 essay that started it all (nice to see here; over on FB the AI clickbait spammy recaps of the story, sometimes with terrible AI photos, always with inaccuracies, circulate).
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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 09/09/2026
Missouri is the whiplash heartbreak state. Thats what we show you. Pain. Heartbreak and whiplash served up daily. The specialty of the GOP majority we've suffered under for so long. Hold steady, friends. Don't let them take your balance. Find your footing. Gonna be a long fight ahead.
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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 08/09/2026
Of course Sanders is gonna reference Yudkowsky, we are in hell. His picker IS SO BROKEN.
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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 07/09/2026
There is a way to hold people accountable and to deliver social consequences for anti-social behavior without dehumanizing the people who need the consequences. There is a way to show people some behavior is not acceptable while allowing them an on-ramp to acceptance through transformation.
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Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 07/09/2026
Hunter Biden doing a crypto play is disappointing but consistent. Don't @ me.
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the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I'm going one step further and boosting gas engine range by adding a horse
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 06/09/2026
any system that makes Elon Musk the wealthiest person alive, and Donald Trump the most powerful persona alive, isn't running on "respectable arguments" and should stop pretending otherwise
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The challenge as I see it: 1) making sure the election isn’t stolen; 2) cementing this unpopularity not as a unique Trump feature, but as an intrinsic part of the Republican brand. Republicans must be made equal to failure, corruption, incompetence, cruelty, and authoritarianism in the public mind.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 05/09/2026
If these chatbots were conscious (they are 100% not) all they do is kill kids, make CSAM, scam people, hack companies. Not some kind soul deserving of anything. But of course AI systems are inanimate objects owned by known associates of pedophiles and serial scammers. So it actually makes sense.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 04/09/2026
If you look at the people *still* trying to attack Jason Arday after his death, and notice that those same people have completely ignored yet another round of fraudulent research from Dan Ariely, it’s obvious the anger is never about research fraud, but about who is permitted to commit it.
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Duke professor Dan Ariely’s research article retracted after fraud allegations
After evidence of significant fraud in a 2002 research paper co-authored by Dan Ariely was publicized this week by blog Data Colada, scientific journal Psychological Science decided to retract the pap...
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