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mdeeringer™

@mdeeringer.bsky.social
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Wrangler of Rascals. Slinger of Stringles. Periodic Percussionist. Wielder of the Finder Power. “Casually-dressed engineer.”

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 10/10/2026
Holy shit they disenfranchised nearly ten percent of the population. It’s like a GOP wet dream
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India Cut 130 Million From Voter Roll, Fueling Protests Against Modi
Public anger is growing over an exercise that critics say undermines the world’s largest democracy, particularly disenfranchising Muslims under the Hindu nationalist government.
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Jake @waveturtlejake.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You made a machine that did a crime when you turned it on? That’s just doing a crime with additional steps.
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mdeeringer™ @mdeeringer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Could the Shit Machine END WORLD HUNGER? It’s NOT IMPOSSIBLE in the most LITERAL SENSE, which is all the justification we need to invest an AMOUNT OF MONEY that would OTHERWISE BY ITSELF END ACTUAL WORLD HUNGER." 🎯
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Instead of saying "the Kennedy Center board decided to close" we should note that "a group of Trump appointees including Laura Ingraham and Dan Scavino decided to shut it down"
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
So I was in NYC on 9/11 and my then future husband was in Chicago sleeping through it because 9/11 is his birthday and he’d had an epic bday night out the night before
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This is a case study in pro-AI propaganda, and annoying enough to inspire a Saturday thread: bsky.app/profile/bren... 🧵>>
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2026
There is never a compromise you can make that will satisfy them. They will still attack you and force you to concede more. You should never concede anything to them because they want to eradicate trans people.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Realizing the extent to which this is true wildly changed my opinions about how to deal with Trumpism, since they're never going to be satisfied unless they're actively dominating everyone else. You can't give them some concessions and go back to the status quo: they're reactionary revolutionaries.
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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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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
Map showing Lower Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 31/08/2026
Had a close call visiting a local establishment's website yesterday. A CloudFlare dialogue came up, and after clicking to confirm that 'I was not a robot', it prompted me to: * Press Windows+R (opening a run command window * Paste something from my keyboard and press enter Don't ever do this.
A scam CloudFlare box stating "Additional Verification Required", and then providing instructions that install malware on your computer.
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My kindergarten-age daughter loves books and rhymed poetry. She also is interested in death, witches, magic, and evil. I decided to write her a story, and you can read it here in this thread if you want. THE GROOD A short story for children
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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚
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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Beginning my research seminar, as always, with Lynn Hunt's essay How Writing Leads to Thinking (and Not the Other Way Around). Should be mandatory reading in light of the impact of AI. www.historians.org/perspectives...
Writing is stressful. Sitting in my computer chair my neck and shoulder muscles almost immediately tense up as I dig around in my brain for the best phrase or even any coherent string of words, whether I am writing an essay like this one, a book chapter, a letter of recommendation, or an email message to a friend. Writing is time-consuming. It’s a great way to pass the time on a long airplane flight because you lose track of the passage of time altogether. It’s even better, from that point of view exclusively, than watching an episode of Mad Men on your laptop. Writing means many different things to me but one thing it is not: writing is not the transcription of thoughts already consciously present in my mind. Writing is a magical and mysterious process that makes it possible to think differently.
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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 10/08/2026
Not for nothing, if you are a Washington State resident, your health insurance company must pay for vaccines on the *state's* recommended vaccine list (RCW 48.43.047) and the WADoH must make public recommendations (RCW 43.70) and COVID is still on the list for all people: doh.wa.gov/public-healt...
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Vaccine Recommendations
Under chapter 43.70 RCW, as recently amended by House Bill 2242 (PDF), the Department of Health (DOH) has the authority to issue immunization recommendations and related guidance to health care provid...
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mdeeringer™ @mdeeringer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A TV and cinema calamity could be disastrous for what you watch and what you know. Act now to stop that | Alan Cumming, Benedict Cumberbatch and Benedict Wong
The Paramount-Warner Bros merger is being fought on both sides of the Atlantic. Britain’s culture secretary knows the risks and can intervene. She should, say actors led by Alan Cumming, Benedict Cumb...
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
We have to do something about the fucking guns.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 26/07/2026
Copilot will protect your data From outsiders; Your campus owns your private Questions.
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at AI
AI can help faculty take Burdensome things off their plate, Says the dean who doesn’t use it Or know how the plates will empty.
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mdeeringer™ @mdeeringer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"The fact that we’re four years into this horrible bubble and still don’t have consistently-held consensus around the actual costs of large language models is a testament to an industry-wide effort to suppress them."
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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The reason your train was delayed.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Build child care centers. Build health centers. Build community centers. Not data centers. And not ICE detention centers.
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thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This is my special interest topic. Yes, I am boring at parties. Pay-to-play is only half the problem. The real problem is that we don't have enough kids playing pickup soccer, getting 1000s of touches on the ball during unstructured play. Taking people on 1v1, being creative. Making fast decisions.
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Bill Prady @billprady.com · 02/07/2026
There were two entities: America 250, a bipartisan organization chartered by Congress, and Freedom 250, a Trump-backed group. Companies intending to donate to America250 were supplied routing and account numbers that directed their funds to Freedom 250. wapo.st/4fe4Whs
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Donors were misled by Trump-backed Freedom 250, House Democrats allege
The lawmakers’ report alleges that Trump allies worked to divert funds away from America250, a bipartisan effort to mark the nation’s semiquincentennial. Freedom 250 denies the allegations.
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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Your kid isn't getting admitted on an athletic scholarship no matter how much you drive her to practice, but it always feels better to have an Other to blame, especially one that isn't real and can't be falsified.
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Brilliance Proper @brillianceproper.com · 28/06/2026
Some Sunday Black Boy Joy
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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Interestingly, the intuition I felt and spoke from -- that embodied knowing -- is precisely the kind of thing AI, for all of its performative anthropomorphic gesturing at the simulacrum of personhood, can't do. Tech billionaires want us to believe that our embodied/human ways of knowing are useless!
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I just learned that the term "carbon footprint" was developed by BP to offload responsibility for climate change onto individuals. Something like that's happening in higher ed with AI. Institutions capitulate or dodge; students are submitting; & they believe it's their individual failing. 7/
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mdeeringer™ @mdeeringer.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
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The Needling @theneedling.com · 14/06/2026
Socialist Mayor Reigns of Terror Continue with Yet Another Sports Championship Victory: tinyurl.com/3f39hzcb
Image on left of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani watching a Knicks game in a Knicks jersey with friends, Image on right of smiling Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson sporting Seahawks gear including a Super Bowl ring on her finger
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
If you wrote a James Bond antagonist doing only things Musk has done, the studio note would be it’s too much for one villain, you need to pick a lane.
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mdeeringer™ @mdeeringer.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 09/06/2026
I love how people can breezily be like “so much that divides people” like it’s a brunch menu when the division is over whether people should be dead or not
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Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I’m so frustrated that I have to argue 20th century philosophy about whether machines are people and 18th century science about whether germs are real and fucking 15th century colonial bullshit about whether people are human beings.
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Infest The Pat’s Nest @derblutenpat.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The modern world in America is built for the “convenience” of motor vehicles. But the truth that people don’t want to hear is this: Cars ruin cities. Riley is dead, because drivers have the world catered to their every need while pedestrians, bikers, and public transit riders get the crumbs.
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mdeeringer™ @mdeeringer.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I bet he backs out last minute, creating headaches for thousands of people for nothing. The man has shown little interest in anything, so I highly doubt he's actually a Knicks fan, and he hates New York.
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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Reporters don't talk enough about how Republicans do not consider Democratic voters to be fully American.
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404 Media @404media.co · 28/05/2026
Regretful cities aren't sure how to cancel their surveillance contracts, so they are literally covering their cameras.
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Cities Are Covering Flock Cameras With Trash Bags
Regretful cities aren't sure how to cancel their surveillance contracts, so they are literally covering their cameras.
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Darcy James Argue @darcyjamesargue.com · 26/05/2026
The tale of Sonny Rollins’s self-imposed 1959–61 hiatus, taking his horn to the Williamsburg Bridge to shed at all hours of the day and night, is one of the most famous episodes in jazz lore. (“I wasn’t satisfying my own requirements,” he later explained.)
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
one interesting thing so far about loudly hating AI is the way AI lovers are like "wow so you're just totally closed off to hearing another perspective??" as if their perspective hasn't been relentlessly pushed down our throats with no space to push back (particularly in professional settings)
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mdeeringer™ @mdeeringer.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
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mdeeringer™ @mdeeringer.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Seems bad.
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404 Media @404media.co · 13/05/2026
“It's making me dumber for sure.”
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Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains
“It's making me dumber for sure.”
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Trump gathered all of the very worst people in the country in one place and got them to break a million laws and then pardoned all of them, and now local law enforcement has to go get them one by one as they commit new crimes.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Stoking and channeling boiling contempt for the ultra-rich is a pretty essential element of what needs to happen if we're gonna get out of this. And folks, they've given us a lot to work with. Don't tone police that shit. When it gets out of control, remind people why that's happening.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 07/05/2026
“So we’re trading stickers we can’t see,” Sophie says. “Yes,” Ms. Delgado answers. “And we know we have them because of the list.” “Yes.” “And nobody is in charge of the list.” “That’s correct.” Liam raises his hand. “What if someone takes the stickers?”
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A Kindergarten Teacher Attempts to Explain Cryptocurrency, and Accidentally Creates a New Financial System
At 9:03 a.m., Ms. Delgado makes the mistake of asking the class what their parents do for work. “Dentist,” says Maya. “Firefighter,” says Liam. “Bus driver,”...
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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
On this day in 1933, Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld library in Berlin. The world’s greatest collection of LGBTQ books and scientific papers were looted and later burned, erasing decades of research into sexuality and gender identity. ‘Where they burn books, in the end they will burn humans too’.
Photo showing the burning of the books looted from the Magnus Hirschfeld library.
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Maybe it's the fact that I took a nonconsensual trip on the hood of a car on Friday but I think making a statement like this should disqualify you from public office
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
This isn’t like letting kids use a calculator, this is more akin to letting kids smoke. The whole point here is pushing an addictive product and getting kids hooked on it early—not educational best practices. www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...
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What Will It Take to Get A.I. Out of Schools?
“I find myself speaking with my kids about A.I. in the same terms that we might discuss a creepy neighbor who lives down the block,” Jessica Winter writes. Read her report on the push for A.I. in educ...
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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Ok there's a lot of incorrect information going around on this, so I want to be clear that the problem with the Big 3 and EV's isn't that the Big 3 didn't want to make EV's. The problem, as with so many things, is Trump. I'm gonna do a little thread on this because people don't seem to be aware. 1/x
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