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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

People who don't know what archival description is are more confident than anyone else that they can automate it

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social

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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“It’s not ALL men.” None of the 50+ men the Cornell rapists invited to come join them in raping a woman they’d drugged went to the authorities or tried to stop it. Not all men would rape an unconscious woman, but where are the men who’d try to stop it, or EVEN FUCKING OBJECT?

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"use it or lose it" only it's your brain like... for real, how did we go from seniors doing crossword puzzles to keep their minds sharp to vast segments of the population voluntarily dulling their brains with chatGPT?

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Nancy Lambert @nancylambert.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

NYT has only released 100-80 of its latest rage-bait list and I can already say with absolute certainty Reservation Dogs deserves better, like top 10 better.

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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Mark Doyle @markdoyle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Was very happy to beam into QUB today to launch the Africans in Ireland website that I and a number of colleagues have been working on for years. Maps, database, & other resources documenting the African presence in Ireland from the late 16th to early 20th centuries. africansinireland.com

A right-facing silhouette of the Black preacher and seaman John Jea, Methodist preacher and seaman, from his 1816 book The Life, History, and Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea, the African Preacher

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If, as seems to be the majority view here, you dislike the prospect of a world where human journalism and analysis is displaced by AI slop, have the self-awareness not to act annoyed and offended that the human labor of writing sometimes requires compensation.

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Nancy Lambert @nancylambert.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

45/7 was not at ground zero on 9/11. Yet the folks at @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social are suggesting this could be plausible?! Responsible, fair reporting means calling a lie a lie, not spinning out alternate realities. Please can media professions stop enabling this insanity?

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her school

Norman Rockwell’s painting depicting the event, “The Problem We All Live With,” originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964 issue of Look magazine.

Ruby Bridges talking with President Obama as they look at Rockwell’s painting while it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.

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Nancy Lambert @nancylambert.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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Nancy Lambert @nancylambert.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What he actually did the next day was call in to Howard Stern or some other radio show and brag that Dump Tower was now the tallest building in the city. He has always been rotted, through and through.

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Nancy Lambert @nancylambert.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Anyway, this has been my cloud shouting post for the year. Bye!

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Nancy Lambert @nancylambert.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

You might be like, how do you know the phone people weren't reading on their phones!? Well, I know because in 2016ish society/Apple collectively decided to abandon basic courtesy/headphones, so now every ride is a cacophony of competing TLs turned up to 11.

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Nancy Lambert @nancylambert.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Then again, I saw four (FOUR!) people reading actual books on the train a few weeks ago.

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Nancy Lambert @nancylambert.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I don't have answers, just noting we're parboiled, if not fully cooked.

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Nancy Lambert @nancylambert.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I really noticed how much my friendships had slipped into app-dependency when I yeeted IG earlier this year. I'm 100% to blame for letting apps bodysnatch "keeping in touch," but now when I try to get folks on board for actual calls, it's like I've suggested we give up soap or something.

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Nancy Lambert @nancylambert.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

While I'm def guilty of scheduling calls, it's because I've been juggling 3+ "PT" jobs for years. I miss talking to my friends and I'm exhausted of having like 90% of my relationships conducted over gchat/text (and then having them thematically fed back to me in ads). www.thecut.com/article/i-sh...?

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I Should Be Allowed to Cold-Call My Friends

A text-based social boundary is ruining my relationships with everyone I love.

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I think it's true "AI is only inevitable if you believe it is" and the thing i am struggling with is the depressingly high number of people who believe it is

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Nancy Lambert @nancylambert.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

@theonion.com really helped me get through that first year, and especially those first few weeks--forever grateful for you all. (I still have my copy.)

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Nancy Lambert @nancylambert.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Both sides of that coin are tails.

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA

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Nancy Lambert @nancylambert.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Meaning 35 years ago I purchased my first CD, back when they came in preposterous tall cardboard packaging. 💀 (also, "Black," obviously)

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Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

What a country

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Nancy Lambert @nancylambert.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I cannot know about the horses too. I'm done.

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Lynn Huggins-Cooper @hugginscooper.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly said 'find out who you are and do it on purpose.' Tim (as Frankenfurter) said 'Don't dream it; be it.' In their honour, Let's do *both* youtu.be/8wLArncKxag

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The Rocky Horror Show - Don't Dream It, Be It

YouTube video by theleslie97

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Rob Bon Vivant🌊 @77sunnyandclear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Fourteen years ago, HBO's 'The Newsroom' laid out the truth about voter ID in this segment. It’s striking how little the arguments — or the tactics — have changed. Still a solution in search of a problem. History doesn’t repeat itself — it gets rerun.

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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 23/08/2026

people have so much money they actually invented a way to make Not Going to College more expensive than Going to College

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Make the Road NY @maketheroadny.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

With all the uncertainty around ICE raids, we need to ensure that we spread information, not fear. If ICE comes to your workplace, you have rights! #KnowYourRights 📲 Download these infographics on our website: weprotectusny.org. Available in English and Spanish.

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IamEdG (he/him) @iamedgtoday.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Lotsa great rewards for your support of an amazing, independent grassroots project. Who would pass up the opportunity to game with @felicia.day and @wilwheaton.net! www.kickstarter.com/projects/fel...

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The Guild: Ren Faire'd

Help us celebrate The Guild's upcoming 20th anniversary by making the most epic renfaire movie of all time!

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 15/08/2026

When I'm in the darkest places, I don't try to cheer myself up. I don't try to "practice gratitude." I focus on the smallest possible unit of happiness: the smell of coffee. Another minute in bed when the alarm goes off. Tom Holland. /6

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 15/08/2026

TW: Suicide If you tell people you have SI, many are likely to suggest you call 988 or text the suicide lifeline. These are good resources *if you need to be kept physically safe;* they are not as helpful if your ideations are passive. Allow me to share some things that have helped me. /1

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Restorative Justice & Reparations @c-anemone-d.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

We are told to endlessly save so that when we retire and move towards the disabilities that come with age, we will be able to pay for the right to continue existing without pain. Denying a ramp to someone with a mobility issue = pain and exhaustion of having to walk until they find a ramp.

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A new federal book banning bill has been introduced in the Senate. And we can't stay silent when the right to read is under threat. Join library advocates by telling your Senators to say no to book bans and reject S4925: action.ala.org/campaign/S4925/

Show up for our libraries. ALA 150, American Library Association.

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Leila Walker @lwalker.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The president of my college is finally resigning in disgrace, but the situation remains bleak. Our search for a chief librarian was canceled and the adjuncts we hired as stop-gaps when we couldn't replace retired faculty have all been cut. How are we supposed to support students in these conditions?

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Save Queens College: deep cuts hurting campus - PSC CUNY

Devastating cuts at Queens College are impacting workloads, services and education. PSC members are fighting back.

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Nancy Lambert @nancylambert.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I hope someone's keeping an eye on those kids considering some of the folks in attendance.

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Close to a year ago, I flagged that the White House had classified IUDs, birth control pills & hormonal implants as "abortifacient birth control." The news was buried six paragraphs into a NYT story—and wasn't mentioned in the headline or social promo jessica.substack.com/p/trump-birt...

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The Trump Administration Says IUDs and the Pill Are Abortions

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

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TheAmazingNeena @janineveazue.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

BUYING A #ZINE FROM MY SHOP IS A WIN/WIN AND HERE'S WHY: if you like the zine you bought, you can reread it and giggle whenever you want to. if you don't like the zine you bought, you can just give it to a friend & become an even better friend because tiny gifts are awesome! Etsy.me/3Ya6bXa

a 4 by 4 collage grid of various black and white zines, many of which are photographed on a colorful background

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

A candidate having a Nazi tattoo is what we call in the political psychology biz an "information cue" or "cognitive shortcut"—a simple & salient piece of information that can stand in for a much larger set of facts & allows those who have it to approximate the behavior of someone with the whole set

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