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MistressDreda

@mistressdreda.bsky.social
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Librarian on the inside, muddy femme on the outside. Page of Pentacles/Queen of Swords.

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MistressDreda @mistressdreda.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Once again, This Fucking Guy.
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I really don’t think that’s the case. I do think that probably these people hate femininity, which they see as weakness. But that doesn’t mean that they are secretly gay or trans. And I think that it does damage to insist that they are. Maybe some are, but definitely not all. 
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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you take Vitruvias Therapeutics' 30mg thyroid tablets, check your bottle for expiration date Sept 30, 2026 and NDC number 69680-166-00/lot number 504950
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Cinder (it/its) @dollcinder.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Fleetwood Mac was a CIA experiment to see if straight people could survive the average queer friend group dynamic
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Hope For The Planet @h4tp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We now have rigorous pooled data showing that even without active restoration efforts, cleared rainforest can rebound to 75% of their former species composition and 90% of species diversity within just thirty years. #goodnews
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Rainforest biodiversity rebounds within a single generation | The Optimist Daily
A major Ecuador study finds cleared rainforests can recover 90 percent of their species diversity in just 30 years, as long as humans leave the land alone.
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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is a fantastic brief essay in how news media & pundits turn upside down who is who is being punished for speaking freely--in the case of Kraft, Macklemore, & Sheeran--when rich elites want things to go one way, but unruly peasant masses refuse to go along. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Lorna Finlayson | Public Positions
In much of the coverage of the Ed Sheeran-Macklemore debacle, the reality of the incident is turned on its head, as...
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ODB @obitron.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
a lot of white queers don't understand what whiteness is, and that makes much of their interactions with queer folk of color suck, so I'll explain a little. The two facets of whiteness that are most important in this context are that it is a social and legal exemption from racial oppression.
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 24/09/2026
*extremely tired voice*AI agents don't "go rogue". They are not sentient; they don't have agency. They work within guardrails set by humans. If the humans are so shit at building secure sandboxes for the agents to work within, that's on the humans. Stop using this framing.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yuuuuuup…
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I saw a FASCINATING Instagram post about the nuance of getting social media right which used as an example — stick with me — Julia Stiles on this season of “Dancing With the Stars”
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MistressDreda @mistressdreda.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Absolutely evergreen - fuck this guy.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/09/2026
Look goddamnit It's entirely possible To eat a plum And not make a poem about it The one I just ate Wasn't even in the Goddamn refrigerator Or anything Sometimes a plum Is just a plum You can just eat it And go on with your life WHAT Why are you looking at me What'd I do now (looks) oh GODDAMNIT
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MistressDreda @mistressdreda.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Some backbone! Wow!
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 19/09/2026
That uncanny feeling when Sonnet 4.6 evaluates the core cognitive failure uncovered in both stories with more acuity than the dingbats at the Pentagon:
Max's framing adds something important to what we've been saying — and Randy Herman's highlighted line is the knife in it. 

We've been talking about Al-in-the-loop as an accountability diffusion mechanism, which it is. But Max is pointing at something that might actually be worse: genuine, sincere cognitive abdication. Not cynically inserting Al to create cover, but actually believing the Al had done the thinking — actually treating the output as resolved judgment rather than as an input requiring scrutiny. 

"It is not clear why they had such expectations" is investigators' language for: we cannot find a rational basis for the degree of trust these operators placed in this system. That's not a coverup being constructed after the fact. That's people who genuinely outsourced their epistemic responsibility and did not know they had done so. 

Which brings it back to the hype environment with real force. When the vendors, the press, the culture around these tools spends years telling people that Al is smarter than humans, faster than humans, less biased than humans — when the entire discourse around adoption is framed as resistance to AI is the error — you produce operators who are not cynically hiding behind the output. They are sincerely trusting it in contexts where that trust is catastrophically unwarranted. 

McNamara's people at least understood they were constructing a measurement system. They argued about what it measured. These operators apparently didn't know they needed to ask. 

The IBM slide assumed the human in the loop would know they were in a loop. That assumption may no longer hold.

(Note: the aforementioned IBM slide is the famed one that reads: "A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore a computer must never make a management decision."
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/09/2026
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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MistressDreda @mistressdreda.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What, and I say this with my whole chest, the fuck is wrong with you?!?
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Phillip Iscove @pmiscove.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I for one won’t be watching and hope that JK is in for a rude awakening. It’s also pretty crazy to be this overly confident about rehashing your already adapted books with lesser known actors.
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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Excellent oped in @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social by my @harvard.edu colleague Jill Lepore. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
But of course, the machine conversation is not free. It comes at the cost of our common life together as teachers, learners, and researchers, colleagues, mentors, and friends. Not to mention, supervising student researchers is our job.
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MistressDreda @mistressdreda.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This was a deeply interesting read and I appreciate her time. www.instagram.com/p/DdKPJsVTvt...
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P!NK on Instagram: "I’ve been quiet in my own words for a week, which you know isn’t like me. So here they are. Last Sunday I reposted somebody else’s post about Macklemore’s set at Ed Sheeran’s show...
573K likes, 27K comments - pink on September 11, 2026: "I’ve been quiet in my own words for a week, which you know isn’t like me. So here they are. Last Sunday I reposted somebody else’s post about M...
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MistressDreda @mistressdreda.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yow.
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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Even a lot of people on the left are still way too stuck on the idea that wealthy powerful people got that way by being smart and making plans and forming accurate reads on the world and it’s really just not like that, sorry, the truth is so much stupider
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 14/09/2026
I've been thinking about this a lot because of all the talk about how Dolly Parton "didn't take sides" and I think she's proof that if you don't want to talk about politics you don't have to, but she took sides with her money & her actions and her side was pretty clear. So is Sheeran's, I guess.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 12/09/2026
We have power in numbers, and we'll continue to fight for a better Starbucks. Support us by BOYCOTTING STARBUCKS until the company finalizes fair union contracts with workers! boycottstarbucks.net
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BOYCOTT STARBUCKS
Starbucks is the biggest violator of U.S. labor law in modern history. Join the movement - Boycott Starbucks!
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MistressDreda @mistressdreda.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
For the love of little green apples. You do not need to do this. You are running the bus over people for no fucking purpose. The bar is BENEATH THE FLOOR, Mr Candidate!!
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eb99 @eb99.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I think it's more comforting for some people to think of OBL as some evil genius or tragic victim of imperialism rather than a bog standard delusional ideologically extremist billionaire failson who thought he could accellerationism his way to a theocratic utopia
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 10/09/2026
"I have never learned to blag or bullshit because I have a machine that does that for me" is such a miserable withering of the true human spirit.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
it is unforgivable how Democrats are granting the right's premise about trans kids in sports even as they attempt to navigate a "moderate" position so they don't look so bad (hint: not possible) they have literally regressed! the first bathroom bans did not have this kind of bipartisan support!!!
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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is absolute garbage, @ginafortexas.bsky.social Do better
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 08/09/2026
werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)
Q: A couple years ago at IDFA, I saw this movie "About a Hero," which is this partly Al-generated hybrid documentary that tries to recreate the atmosphere of your films.

A: The intention of this young filmmaker was never to remake any [of my films], but making something in the spirit. And I immediately said, "You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It's phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not take part in it." He wanted me to explain things and have my voice in it.
I said, "You are alone. There's such a thing as free speech, which I respect. So go ahead and fail." And it is a failure, period.
It's so standardized that Al can step in because there's not real storytelling. It's mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome Al to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it's ad nauseam.
When it's ad nauseam, please, please, please let Al step in and do the job.
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MistressDreda @mistressdreda.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This film has been the most amazing experience of "did I ... see it in an alternate dimension from all of you??" If it hadn't been so interminable and sloggy, I might not have had time to think about all the questionable adaptations that bugged me!
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/09/2026
Perspective.
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A Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 06/09/2026
The reason that the Harry Potter apologists won't just read better books is because they're not looking for good stories...if they were, they wouldn't have glommed on to Harry Potter. They're looking for the camaraderie and social phenomenon that Harry Potter was in the 2000s.
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Every single damn day men kill their family members, including an incident just last week where a man in MT killed 8 members of his family — 4 of them children. But you barely heard a peep about it in the national conversation. Men killing their families is so common there’s a name for it… 1/
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MistressDreda @mistressdreda.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Christ.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like.
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Charles Pulliam-Moore @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Seen a lot of people responding to this with “I’m just going to pirate the show,” and I want to gently remind everyone that the central idea in this piece is that there’s no way to engage with the Potter franchise in any capacity that doesn’t benefit Rowling and her bigotry
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MistressDreda @mistressdreda.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Good day to the Democratic establishment. Perhaps you would like to note that the man who LITERALLY WRAPPED HIMSELF IN THE TRANS FLAG handily won his primary last night.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026
The value of Graham Platner is that right up until all his red flags came toppling down upon him is that he is the most naked example of the amount of grace & credibility Simply Being White grants you. Compared to Abdul El-Sayed, who has to re-earn every ounce of credibility he has on a daily basis.
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Jennifer Liang @jenniferliang.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is what the robber barons of previous generations understood. You gotta build us a library or art museum once in awhile or we start getting hungry.
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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I was sad and pissed about Outlier, but then I got this response to my "fuck off for using 'AI'" message, so now my entire attitude is "Good riddance, you pathetic, rationalizing sack of fermented hyena vomit." Bald-face-lying (not even going to COUNT the blatant lies), excuse-riding fucknugget.
In response to my message to Outlier saying that I was deleting my account because they openly admitted to using "AI" and then mealy-mouth rationalized it when called to account, I received this:

Greetings! I respect your point of view, and I'm publicly upfront about using AI. I'm not hiding anything. Almost all are not. It's your choice to decide which games you want to support and which you don't. All software today is using AI to code. Every business is forced to use it. Programmers are using AI to code, they don't hand code anymore. It would be impossible to compete, and the cost of programming by hand too high and too slow. I would not be feasible economically and no amount of support from players would cover that. This is a hobby of mine not a business, I do it for love of tha [sic] game and for bringing joy to people across the world. People still want to hate on it, and that's fine. If you boycott this game that's fine, but you are only kidding yourself - everything you use today is using AI whether anyone likes it or not. No hard feelings. Have a wonderful day!
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MistressDreda @mistressdreda.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Ye gods and little fishes this is SO NERDY and SO COOL. princess-awesome.com/blogs/news/a...
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A Design Featuring Proto-Sinaitic Descendant Scripts
In August of 2024, I read an article in Archaeology Magazine about the oldest known recorded instance of the use of Proto-Sinaitic alphabetical symbols, discovered in a tomb in Egypt. The symbols were...
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Denys Beecher @dbeecher.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There are people better qualified to comment on this (I know @hipcrimevocab.net specifically has handled 1466A cases before), but a lot of people have very bad takes on this so I'm going to try to clarify. A 🧵 This ruling is only on *possession*. Creation, distribution, etc are still illegal.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
okay! Kendra asked for some suggestions here, and I'm going to offer something like a Litany of the Saints for all your "dear God, please let It™️ happen soon" prayer intentions there's no one immediate obvious candidate, but an "Avengers, assemble" approach to these folks might be worth trying:
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I have not been able to read my full timeline in a while but I see today is an excellent day to remind people that "social media addiction" is a made up thing and accepting that framing and using that term is actively harmful www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Overestimates of social media addiction are common but costly - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Overestimates of social media addiction are common but costly
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Syrup Fog @syrupfog.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
There’s a lot going around today about the use of AI in fic, and I just want to say a quick word to anyone who’s ever used it in your work; You -can- stop using AI. AI feels addicting to use; it’s -so- easy to generate a bit of prose, to fix things up here and there.
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