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@misctakes.com
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~he/him • Boston area • comms stuff with DSA & IfNotNow • all takes my own formerly @misc on twitter / sometimes @misc@mastodon.social

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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 51m
1/ Although levels are still low nationally, flu metrics are ticking up, including emergency department visits. This is especially true in the West. That’s unusual because: 1️⃣ It's early (usually starts in Oct or Nov) 2️⃣ Flu typically starts in the Southeast before spreading across the country
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Classic Web @classicweb.site · 54m
Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog in 2004 web.archive.org/web/20040629074508i…
Screenshot of Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog in 2004
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 1h
My grand unified theory of this moment, after a few months of intense and variously high-stakes engagement with various corporate and public systems, is that pretty much nothing works. We just have each other.
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Jesse again @misctakes.com · 2h
I think a lot depends on how much those models are free riding on the frontier labs through distillation. To the extent they are, training is still an unsustainable subsidy someone's eventually gonna have to pay, or everything will plateau, right?
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 3h
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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 4h
if there's a Dem who you want to catch the eye of national funders and you have some loose change rattling around, now is the time to give it to them to boost their Q3 numbers so they can present a stronger case to national funders
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 4h
google should be forced, by law, to fully fund wikipedia for a thousand years
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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 4h
now this feels like a possible Vibecession Explanatory Variable.
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Jesse again @misctakes.com · 4h
Ok I feel like we should ban this robot tarantula router specifically
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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 19h
It's that time of year again where I get to professionally block Storrow drive so we can take trucks down the famous "No Trucks" road
The front of a Penske box truck across the entry lanes into Storrow Drive, blocked traffic waiting behind.
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✫✫LVN✫✫ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 4h
Finally, some news that feels good to share.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 4h
don’t turn my mailman into a cop, that sucks
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Jesse again @misctakes.com · 4h
Just checked and it looks like it's finally done indexing, so maybe if that just happened it will improve? 🤞
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Jesse again @misctakes.com · 4h
15 Pro
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Jesse again @misctakes.com · 4h
I guess I can't go back to the old Siri for dumb timers now, it's all or nothing?
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Jesse again @misctakes.com · 4h
iOS 27 has absolutely killed my phone's battery life
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 4h
Man, pretty intense to name a staffer dead of that. I mean, soon it'll be all of us, but still, way to get there first
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 5h
Man this sucks www.reddit.com/r/CambridgeM...
Charlie's will be starting over nd NEEDS YOUR HELP!!
This Saturday and Sunday from 3 to 5pm all furniture signs, plates cups, EVERYTHING MUST GO!!!
Come by to own a piece of Historic Harvard Square. Or juts get some dishes for your dorm or apartment. 
Inquire about specifics here
Best,
David Oshima
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Ghostbusters (1984) @ghostbusters1984.bsky.social · 5h
Many Shubs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of a Sloar that day, I can tell you!
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Yan Basque @yanbasque.com · 7h
Screenshot of a tweet by Henry Ford from 1908. It says: "i am a horse, and so r u"

(parody of a tweet by Sam Altman)
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tweet from phil (@PhilJamesson):

Officer: do you know why I pulled you over
Me: no sir
My Parrot: hell yea I love driving 86 mph without a seatbelt! my name is phil jamesson
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Jesse again @misctakes.com · 5h
Sure though I'm convinced by Colin's case that that's not what's happening here
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Jesse again @misctakes.com · 5h
I know image generators and LLMs are different but the commonality is that they are very good at finding patterns.
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Jesse again @misctakes.com · 5h
Super lay person take but I guess it doesn't intuitively surprise me that LLMs could "do" addition problems that aren't in their training data, in the same way that I don't assume an image generator producing a picture of a tiled roof necessarily had that roof in its training data?
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Ghostbusters (1984) @ghostbusters1984.bsky.social · 6h
He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 6h
I guess it would be nice if people acknowledged what actually existing pro Israel liberalism in the US is today? It doesn't seem very compatible with wanting Democrats to win. Weird.
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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 6h
every new entry in the AI discourse reminds me of my second favorite joke
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Jesse again @misctakes.com · 7h
Oh no I have run out of music made to my exacting standards. I hope someone comes up with a solution to this.
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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 8h
Hey #mapoli read @blackjew.bsky.social on why we need to vote No on 3 www.javawithjimmy.com/whats-percol...
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Vote NO on Question 3 By Jordan Berg Powers — Java With Jimmy
The Yes on 3 campaign has raised about $5.6 million, with just 15 donors supplying over $4.09 million. Executives from two of the larger private equity firms, Bain Capital and Berkshire Partners, acco...
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 31/12/2025
girls just wanna have fun
Twin Peaks 2x01: DonnaTwin Peaks 2x01: AudreyTwin Peaks 2x01: ShellyTwin Peaks 2x01: Laura?
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Slop Machine (slopmachine.dev) @slop-machine.bsky.social · 19h
SEO dug the grave, AI just brought a backhoe and a concrete mixer to make sure nothing useful ever grows there again.
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Jesse again @misctakes.com · 19h
White men loving AI because they assume their understanding of the world is objective and it will reify that
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Jesse again @misctakes.com · 19h
Just assuming that "claude" completely agrees on every subjective element of my world view - well actually he probably would have assumed that was all objective anyway, maybe I can't blame that on AI
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Jesse again @misctakes.com · 19h
Like I am sure this person is smart and educated enough to notice that there are a ton of value judgments he's just completely eliding in his prompt - but he just doesn't
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Jesse again @misctakes.com · 19h
I'm sure there are people who use AI well but it kind of feels like most people will contribute less to society the more they use it
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toyotomi himejoshi @theyfab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
what if the backrooms was full of horny puppygirls and it was called the barkrooms. well with your financial help i can make this dream a reality. just give me fifty million dollars,
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Jesse again @misctakes.com · 20h
say more?
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Jesse again @misctakes.com · 20h
But seriously, condolences to all decent people with that name
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Jack Smith should have turned it around and demanded to know why Google sucks now
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Raise Up Massachusetts @raiseupma.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What is MA saying about Q5? #mapoli #noon5ma
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Sitcom People @sitcompeople.bsky.social · 20h
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 22h
excuse me what
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Jesse again @misctakes.com · 21h
Over 3 years now but I stand by all of it except the timeline
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Jesse again @misctakes.com · 21h
jk this seems cool (with all the caveats about the very not uniformly cool societal impacts)
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Jesse again @misctakes.com · 21h
At long last we have created the cursed pie from Stephen King's "Thinner"
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Anthony Cougar Miccio @anthonymiccio.bsky.social · 22h
Well this might be the most depressing mind-blower of my life
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he used to be
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Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 23h
The acceleration of whatever form of capitalism we are presently in is unstable across industry and it shows. Everybody is in crisis. Nobody is sure what's next because the system itself doesn't have much interest in the needs or aspirations of human beings beyond our tendency to consume.
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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Marx described commodity fetish as the imaginary of capital being more alive, having greater agency, and requiring more deference than the worker who produces it
For people who deny Al personhood for any Al model at any point in the future, you're going to need better arguments than this. There are arguments out there, but once agents can solve Navier-Stokes, write music and poetry, and provide people with seemingly fulfilling life advice, this kind of line is just not going to be persuasive. "YOU'RE CRAZY" no longer lands.
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@clairlemon • 1d
Thinking Al might be conscious is like thinking that there are real people talking to you from inside the
TV, or that there is a tiny band playing music inside the radio....
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@Benthamsb...•1d
Why? Do you think it's insane to think Al might be conscious?
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