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Archivist; generalist; casual basketball fan; I like cats an abnormal amount

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Elon Musk: 20+ years here, hates American culture and most Americans, constantly undermines our multi-racial democracy as part of his obsession to restore the Apartheid of his foreign youth, says non-white people can't assimilate Malala Yousafzai: visits Philly once, instantly adopts local customs
Instagram post from Malala decked out in Eagles dear with text "Go birds!"
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mllepaz.bsky.social @mllepaz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Shh…
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mllepaz.bsky.social @mllepaz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I was in college nowhere near NYC and they cancelled classes around 9:30am and shutdown campus. But I think it was partially cuz no one knew who the other targets were and a large university could be one.
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mllepaz.bsky.social @mllepaz.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Trying to imagine someone comfortably floating around (and what-have-you) in a space station in that.
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mllepaz.bsky.social @mllepaz.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I use google to find synonyms now like a pleb
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mllepaz.bsky.social @mllepaz.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Carousel of Curiosities
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mllepaz.bsky.social @mllepaz.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The Curios Cubbyhole
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mllepaz.bsky.social @mllepaz.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Other words I’d like to put forward are cubbyhole and carrel.
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mllepaz.bsky.social @mllepaz.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Are these curiosities all workplace themed?
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Ron and Cassie DeSantis: These two crooks stole $10 million from a settlement with a charity, wired it to Cassie’s fake “charity,” laundered it through two puppet organizations, and then used it for political ads in an election year. They should be in jail.
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right
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mllepaz.bsky.social @mllepaz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Though no longer used.
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mllepaz.bsky.social @mllepaz.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I mean, boat lighthouses do exist…
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mllepaz.bsky.social @mllepaz.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Seriously. Just keep putting each new attorney in jail for contempt until they run out.
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mllepaz.bsky.social @mllepaz.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Not sure what it means!
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Joshua Bowman @thalesdisciple.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Working on an A.I. policy for my calculus classes. Decided to be upfront about the current situation with LLMs and to give a heartfelt explanation for why the course still matters.
Al policy

Context

Artificial Intelligence, or "A.l.," Is a broad term used to refer to several different kinds of technologies. The kind most relevant to this class are Large Language Models (LLMs), which use mathematics to analyze large amounts of human-produced text and then generate new text that simulates what a human might write in response to prompts or questions. Some examples of LLMs are OpenAl's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and Google's Gemini.Current LLMs can provide a solution to any calculus problem I give you. So why should we work on them, you might ask? Here's the thing: for the most part, the problems were already solved anyway. Calculus as a subject is nearly 400 years old. It has reached into virtually every modern scientific and economic field. And while I would like to believe that I have crafted a few new problems with some small amount of originality tailored to this class, for the most part I have curated a collection of exercises drawn from my years of teaching calculus. Those exercises come from textbooks, workshops, friends, and other fields of study, as well as my own invention.
And they nearly all have known solutions, often with fairly standard approaches.
Before A.I. became widely available, you could find those solutions in another textbook, or from a friend's notes, or through a repository on the internet.The point of this class is not necessarily to solve problems that have never been solved before. It is for you to develop habits of thinking that are used by mathematicians, scientists, and policymakers-to develop a sort of mental toolbox that can be applied to new problems. If along the way you happen to find a new way of solving one of the class exercises, that's great! I am constantly learning new things from my students. But you will be bereft of discovery if you rely on a LLM for solutions to the calculus problems before you. Here I mean the discovery of having your own realizations, crystallizing your own internal understanding, claiming the knowledge in a way that cannot be taken away from you.
That ownership is what I want for you, and that is what the course is built around.
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mllepaz.bsky.social @mllepaz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
✨💜✨💜✨
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Texas Republicans doing recruitment for us.
A post from the Comal County (TX) Republican Party:

Democratic Socialists of America

The DSA's mission is to replace capitalism with democratic socialism by shifting economic and political power from corporations and wealthy owners to workers and the public.

Is this what you want for America?
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
IMO we shouldn’t have an economic and political system where one unelected guy can get “carried away” and unilaterally cut US social welfare programs, steal everyone’s social security data, and stop the flow of hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid.
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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Also shoutout to that time L7 played Letterman and destroyed the equipment RIP Jennifer Finch m.youtube.com/watch?v=5miC...
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L7 - Pretend We're Dead (Letterman 1992)
YouTube video by 90`s Live Archive
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Queen Gwenevere @queengwenevere.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
There have already been an alarming number of people for a while who think that everything served up in a Google search is ON Google, and they don’t understand that search results simply POINT to other things Hence the common notion that “if I find it on Google, it’s free to use however I want” 🫠
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/07/2026
to hear Trump tell it, American elections were completely corrupted while he was president and he was helpless to stop it, then they were cleaned up by Biden ahead of Trump's victory in 2024, and now that Trump is president again they are once again becoming third world caliber
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Jon Adcock @jonadcock.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
#booksky
A man holding a book up and saying “I find this book offensive” the librarian responds “ cool. Give it back so I can lend it to someone who doesn’t “
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mllepaz.bsky.social @mllepaz.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I really hope this guy gets re-elected.
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BeingHelpish @beinghelpish.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
So we go in, shut down the strait, and then charge 20% to open it back up? Protection racket much? I feel like we should have to sign up to be a pirate or working for the mob.
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mllepaz.bsky.social @mllepaz.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
😘
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026
Not a conspiracy. Not pattern matching. Mention a document that makes people look silly, and they will wipe years of documents and paid-for research to save face. Only some forward thinking to save a copy prevents oblvion. Or as the Internet Archive calls it, Friday. Anyway. archive.org/donate
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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
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Guardian @guardianofforever.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Massie should file the paperwork and demand proof of life when it’s rejected.
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mllepaz.bsky.social @mllepaz.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Does a meme count?
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ltponcho.bsky.social @ltponcho.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
And don't get me started about our wonderful public transit workers. Give those folks a medal.
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ltponcho.bsky.social @ltponcho.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
how about a toast to the folks that pave our roads, run the disability office, deal with all you cranky assholes at the dmv?
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ltponcho.bsky.social @ltponcho.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
can someone thank a schoolteacher or postman or public defender, just for once, please.
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mllepaz.bsky.social @mllepaz.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I’m a semicolon user, and I probably use it wrong.
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mllepaz.bsky.social @mllepaz.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
As would everyone in this article: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/05/05/b...
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1,000-year-old archaeological site bulldozed during construction of Mexico-US border wall
A contractor for the Department of Homeland Security destroyed a 1,000-year-old etching in the sand of the Sonoran Desert
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mllepaz.bsky.social @mllepaz.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Many have shifted position from “it isn’t real” to “it’s real but not caused by man so nothing we can do.”
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mllepaz.bsky.social @mllepaz.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I think it’s mirroring his complaints about museum exhibits about history.
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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.
Hi, thanks for posting! We do appreciate you thinking of us even though we have to moderate.

Our stance on all AI generated content (Images, Video, Voiceovers, and whatever else LLM based AI gets up to in the future):

At best, they are approximations of street fighter characters as the AI has no clue what it is trying to create. Because of this, there is no street fighter content so they are not allowed. (rule 1)

Also, they aren't allowed per our source rule. As AI sources cannot be tracked, we must assume that they use uncredited sources in the learning data. (rule 5)

Finally, AI images, video, text, and voiceovers are barely any different than posting a screenshot of a google search. The level of effort is so low that we consider it spam (rule 3).

Because of these reasons, AI art and other AI content is not allowed.

If you would like to contact the moderators about this removal, you can do so here.
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mllepaz.bsky.social @mllepaz.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
💕💕💕
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capillariancrest.bsky.social @capillariancrest.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
The same guys who now loudly love AI also loudly loved NFTs in 2020 and I won’t let them forget that that’s their track record. It’s not one of credibility.
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mllepaz.bsky.social @mllepaz.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Moone Boy on Peacock also fun but it’s been awhile since I’ve watched it. I always worry things I haven’t seen in awhile aren’t how I remember them.
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mllepaz.bsky.social @mllepaz.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Haven on Peacock is fun; based on Stephen King story
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mllepaz.bsky.social @mllepaz.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I think they used some language that wasn’t awesome a couple times but overall seemed to have aged not bad. The movie sequel isn’t good.
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mllepaz.bsky.social @mllepaz.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I recently rewatched Dead Like Me on Tubi and it mostly held up.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/05/2026
The cut would impact both disabled adults who live with low-income family members and older SSI recipients who live with their adult children on tight budgets. As many as 400,000 people could have their support cut or eliminated, per the Social Security Administration's estimates.
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The Trump Administration Aims to Penalize Disabled Adults Who Live With Their Families
A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities who...
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...
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Bamboo-based plastic can be made to biodegrade quickly, but still holds up in tough conditions
A new method to produce strong, biodegradable plastic from bamboo is reported in Nature Communications this week. The bioplastic resembles oil-based plastics in strength, shapability, and thermal stab...
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
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Allenk_81 @allenk81.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.
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mllepaz.bsky.social @mllepaz.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
A little tallow, a little sun broil, nom nom
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/12/2025
incredible that the oldest scam in the book — “look away from the greed and poor leadership that destroy your chance to make a career, it is the [blanks] that stole your job!” — still works
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mllepaz.bsky.social @mllepaz.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Cream of cloud berries 😃
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