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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Interesting article. Manipulating folks’ reactions and plans for the election via social media doesn’t need to mention the election, it might be another announcement that what you ate for dinner might make you ill, or an announcement of an election day only deal at a trump-supporter’s store, etc.

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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don’t blame him! Earlier today, I was looking for an old picture of one of my mom‘s cats. I saved this somewhere along the time I’ve been following you because it was such a funny scary picture of MeanCat. Happy early Halloween 🎃 to MeanCat!

A picture of MeanCat Skinner posted couple years ago. MeanCat is precious with his big blue eyes and appeared ready to take on the world.

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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thank you. I shared it with a couple folks but am saddened I must 🙏 one will not miss it by having a couple 💵 too much income and the other’s 💔 work accident has qualified for disability. Re the 1st, I know you know but we need a plan for those lacking other skills after losing a job to AI.

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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Some medical AI are trained tightly (not in the toilet of the internet), validated (a long-standing process for AI and non-AI models), monitored, etc., and will produce truly useful results. Under a different administration, laws would require the public release of this type of information.

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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This describes the AI companys’ “fears.” They are creating the framework that will allow them to *avoid* current and future accountability for their choices in the design of AI. They decide which actionable tools, vacuums or weapons or anything really, to attach to their models.

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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I happened on to a family member’s Facebook though I’d unfriended them years ago. They believe this stuff. The cult hold is so damn tight. And they never stop to say, “well gosh that isn’t what is happening.”

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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Though I don’t agree with you about Joliet being too far to matter, I didn’t know about this treaty and appreciate learning about another way in which Chicago/IL’s historical efforts to control water results in oddities. With a grain of salt, I got a quick AI summary.

An AI explanation says “
The geographic limits and legal rules for how far and where the water can
travel dictate its distribution:
1. The Great Lakes Basin Boundary (Strict Restriction) Under the Great Lakes Compact, a legally binding agreement enacted in 2008 between eight states and two Canadian provinces, new or increased bulk transfers of water outside the Great Lakes watershed are strictly banned. The water is legally restricted to the 295,200-square-mile Great
Lakes basin. © Cleveland.c... +2 There are only two exceptions for pipelines or diversions, which are highly
regulated and limited by proximity: • Straddling Communities: Towns whose municipal boundaries are split
by the natural basin line. • Straddling Counties: Cities located entirely outside the basin but within a county that straddles the boundary line (e.g., Waukesha, Wisconsin, located 1.5 miles outside the boundary line, which won a tight legal battle to pipe water under strict rules that force them to return all wastewater
back to the lake). a
Alliance for ... +3
2. The "Chicago Loophole" Exception (Up to ~35-50 Miles) The single largest exception to the rule is the state of Illinois, which operates under a unique U.S. Supreme Court Decree dating back to the
reversal of the Chicago River in 1900.
WPR +1 • Illinois is permitted to divert a set amount of water (3,200 cubic feet per
second per day) outside the basin into the Mississippi River system. • • Because this is governed by the Supreme Court and exempt from the Great Lakes Compact, Chicago is permitted to pipe treated Lake
Michigan water farther inland.
WPR • A prominent example is a historic $1 billion agreement to build a pipeline supplying Lake Michigan water to Joliet, Illinois, located approximately
35 miles southwest of Chicago, set to begin operations by 2030.
Chicago also distributes water up to 3 or 4 communities deep across
Cook, DuPage, Will, Lake, and Kane counties. # Marquette L... +3

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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yes. I lived briefly in Lockport, too close to that Joliet data center given Lockport’s underground water flows which ran under my house. And Lockport is critical to the reversal of the Chicago River at Lake Michigan’s locks. We are so connected and made so vulnerable by the water that sustains us.

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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Maybe we could put this 🧊☕️ stuff aside and disagree over it after we work together to win in November. Trump’s tech bro supporters can so easily tweak their algorithms to give us topics that will distract, divide, and ultimately defeat us when we allow ourselves to be drug around the Internet.

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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Perhaps Bezos thought about what he could do to help the Republicans in November. And saw less disagreement among generations than we had in the past, before our shared issues became so urgent under the current administration, e,g. food poisoning. This would do it. There will be more before Nov.

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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think there are more of these distractions floating around the internet lately, hiding the real issues. I am worried about tech bros planning to help the republicans during the election by ramping up the ”mess with people’s heads” part of their algorithms, bots, games (e.g., wordle), etc.

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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Dumb and frightening. Tech bros try to elevate AI, such as Peter Thiel and his anti-christ BS. Changing ”artificial” to “super” just creates further messaging that validates “intelligence”, for those who know no better. Data, math, and electricity do not create “intelligence”, let alone “super.”

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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think that a willingness to change your career in and of itself is probably “getting it right”. Good luck!

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Art through nature: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s...

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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It doesn’t seem apparent to me either. I’d wished this week I had the energy to go through all the post 9/11 regulations and practices to find and highlight what’s been dismantled or pushed to the side by this administration, in building codes, banking, etc.

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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Since humans can make any AI an existential threat with skill and💰, we ought teach non-tech humans how to evaluate the risk of an AI’s humans. Debate is too often blocked by writers’ anti-AI position. If writing AIs were referred to as WrAI, we‘d have smarter conversations about AI as a universe.

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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Does anyone think the (data intensive) algorithm that creates their feed is that much more important than a user-driven keyword search?

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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

💭 If only we had useful, affordable, truthful newspapers and chose reading them in our “for what we will” time.

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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Which is even more important in light of Large Language Models, trained without regard to fiction or nonfiction, using context and probabilities to make a best guess. While research might begin with a LLM, it must be cleared through other means, such as by a visit to a Library, to be reliable.

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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

And the cat is surrounded by books about cats! 😻 If I ever make it that away, I’m stopping there.

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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I’ve been away from the news cycle and am surprised but not that this mitch-farce continued. But in a scary shadow of thought, I am imagining Elon extracting Mitch’s brain and either putting it in a mitch-bot or creating a bunch of mitch-AI-agents. 😖😤😡 Don’t trust AI if you don’t trust its creator.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Here’s an oldie but a goodie: “.. During Warsh’s term (if he lasts as long as prior Fed chairs), he will preside over the dreaded crossover point: in 2031 entitlements, interest and other mandatory outlays are projected to permanently exceed Federal tax revenues for the first time.” - JPMorgan

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Consumer complaints against financial companies have skyrocketed over the past three years. How is Trump responding? By gutting budget and staffing for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — and stopping the agency from publishing consumer complaints.

commondreams.org

In Gift to Abusive Wall Street Firms, Trump CFPB Moves to Suppress Consumer Complaints | Common Dreams

Consumer complaints against financial companies have surged, but Trump's CFPB is hiding them from public view. Are they

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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Subscribed a relative to your paper. 2 weeks, 10 calls. agents: we are in Philippines, we don’t know about addresses; no, I have never had a paper delivered; no, I do not read a newspaper. They all submit a form to a black hole. Who can SOLVE a delivery problem?’

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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I subscribed a family member to your paper after their move to a senior living apartment community and have talked to 8 agents since August 2 as the paper was only delivered on one day. Each “escalates” the issue and thanks me for calling. How do I reach someone who will solve the problem?

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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

More important than their grift is the damage to the banking system. While Warsh, Fed Chair, might resist the interest rate moves trump chooses, he may give in on pulling teeth from bank regulations. Congress has oversight responsibility of regulators - we need to tell them we want this stopped.

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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

So sorry your mom is dealing with this. Some doctors are using AI to determine the risk of prescribing opioids to patients now. Not finding the article I was looking for tonight but these folks are doing good work getting info out about the undertreatment of pain if you have time to read.

thedoctorpatientforum.com

Our Mission to Protect Pain Patients & Ethical Care Access

Discover our mission to protect chronic pain patients, ensure access to lifesaving treatment, and promote compassionate healthcare.

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Adam Rawnsley @arawnsley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children." —Martin Luther King, Jr.

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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Appalachian gothic sounds intriguing and something that I would like. I would put on my TBR list, but is the end satisfying though In a positive way?

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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

That is so cool! And bright and lovely like all your quilts, but doubly-cat.

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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

In the town I left where one data center is in progress and another inevitable, in my 🏡 that likely had a historical stream running under it, I wondered who was worrying whether data centers’ draw from underground 💧 sources would increase probability of sinkholes. Anyone know of research?

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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

You are doing so much good fighting for Illinois and many of us are hoping addressing this weakness in our animal abuse laws will soon be added to your accomplishments. TW: Shelly was the name given to each of the kittens cruelly murdered by an evil Chicagoan. 💔

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About | Shelly's Law

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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Oh gosh, my lazy guess was wrong! I ought know cats better. I was thinking she might be smelling something from Skinner’s driveway. Claiming it as her car makes so much more sense. 🧡 these cats!

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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This story would make a terrific story book for kids, so that we may begin to chip away over time at the number of Americans who struggle to explain the Rule of Law. It could be used in the civics for 5th graders class I wish for.

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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

This morning, took a minute to pick next 📕 for when I get home tonight since finished one last night. Yesterday was scary for family, ended okay, home late, 😂 w neighbor-I worried all wkend cause no barking when I was outside-turned out her 🐕 decided I can stay after 5 mo. Perfect 📖 for now! Thanks!

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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

There‘s a CCC shelter in Lockport, IL, on the I&M Canal (original hang-dug canal that filled in a final connection betw the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico). It was along a short cut I used often for the 5+ years I lived nearby. I stopped a few times to remind myself that good change is possible.

A picture of a CCC shelter in Lockport, Il, with a sign noting it was built about 1934 and is cared for by the Lockport Township Park District. The pavilion is made with limestone and a shingled roof. A fireplace inside is no longer used.

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Claudia Sahm @claudia-sahm.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The Supreme Court narrowly stepped up for the Fed's independence. That keeps the data, not the President, the thing to watch for monetary policy. New post on the decision, where inflation is headed, and what the Fed owes us. stayathomemacro.substack.com/p/where-is-t...

stayathomemacro.substack.com

Where Is the Fed Headed?

Independence, inflation, and communication

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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

They are very photogenic when they are weak with hunger! Adorable.

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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I am drafting an essay in which I propose we adopt a different label for the public-facing, internet-trained, generative AI. WRAI, for writing AIs. no one benefits from the non-coherence of “AI.”

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Chris Mehl @chrismehl7.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Labor share of income--the "fraction of economic output paid to workers as wages and salaries"--is at its lowest-ever level since WWII. @federalreserve.gov

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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I am concerned at how long it will take us to return from this time of justifying dismantling huge institutions/structure based on a weakness in process to a time when we return to seeking continuous improvement, learning from mistakes, avoiding waste, and doing simple math.

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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Funny you say that! You were in my feed, and I thought who is this with the cool name raising 🐓 . I already follow you. I wonder what’s happened to the algorithm. I see repeats of the dominant useful accounts too often lately. They have important news but duplicates crowd out good stuff.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I have been working on societal impacts of language technology since late 2016, and my nightmare example since pretty early on has been using automatic transcription in emergency services systems. And today I learn it's happening *in my own city* www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... Short 🧵>>

seattletimes.com

Seattle uses AI to help triage, divert 911 medical calls

The Seattle Fire Department started using AI technology during live 911 calls in 2023. There hasn't been any public review process.

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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Every time I see this, I am reminded of Linda McMahon, previously of WWE, now education secretary who thinks (hopes) A.1. Steak sauce might revolutionize (eliminate) education. I just googled WWE which is held by the same corp entity as UFC. They grift as they breathe and are so damaged as humans.

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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Maybe he is tapping long-term memory as his short-term fails. He spent most of his life as a debtor and debtors benefit from inflation.

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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I love Momma and her routine, sharpening her claws before breakfast, just in case… 🤞⚓️ 🙏 those red markings don’t mean intrusion into the cats’ dining area!

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LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Every time I see the Cerulean Sea cover, I think I read it. But I don’t remember that story at all so now have a new TBR. Thanks!

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Well-written hed. @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/06/06/p...

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