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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

One more thing on this: if you need their IRS data to find them and deport them, you are saying you can't find them because they're not in your system any other way. Which means you're admitting they're not criminals, they're working, and they're paying taxes, and you want to get rid of them anyway.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

this u king??

CNN article quotation:

"The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit," Musk said. "There it's they're exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response."

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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

From “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler #skybrary #skybrarians #booksky

A screenshot of a poem. The poem reads:
Choose your leaders
with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward
is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool
is to be led
by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief
is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant
is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

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⌞ 𝕂𝕖𝕟𝕪𝕒 🧚🏾‍♀️⌝ @kenya.cx · 07/03/2025

ChatGPT is not a search engine nor a research database. Y'all need to stop treating it that way. You have to verify everything it tells you.

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Dan Salvato @dansalva.to · 06/03/2025

"User-hostile design" isn't just ads and hard-to-find cancel buttons. App devs have learned they don't profit from adding features users say they want—they make money by analyzing usage patterns, then adding features to maximize "engagement" (YOUR time/energy spent in the app). That's user-hostile.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 01/03/2025

Oakley Introduces Line Of Sunglasses For Front Of Head theonion.com...

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A hot dog hollers @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Gee I wonder who could have written this article

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Jonathan Surratt @beerinator.com · 25/02/2025

Beet juice isn't only for truck and tractor tire ballast. You can also use it to make a Barbie-themed cheeseburger. 😂https://boundedbybuns.com/hot-pink-barbie-burger/

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The pinkest burger ever?

Say hello to this hot pink Barbie burger that you can make at home.

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped?

I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry.

Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto.

It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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Hbomberguy @hbomberguy.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

The other website is pretty much done

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

If we’re renaming bodies of water based on petty grievances, I propose that this be renamed the Kendrick Lamar passage.

Google maps screenshot of the Drake passage between South America and Antarctica

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 09/02/2025

1/ Indirect costs, overhead and grants - let's talk about it. When the government issues a grant to an NGO or university to deliver some aid, or undertake some research, it wants to ensure value for money. The funds being used are taxpayer dollars and so it's important they're used well.

Tweet from Elon Musk, it reads:

"Can you believe that universities with tens of billions in endowments were siphoning off 60% of researh award money for "overhead"?

What a ripoff!

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Below is a tweet from the NIH, it reads:

"Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as "indirect costs." Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%.

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Christina Martin @christinamartin.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

And you know what Peter's like.

Sign outside home bargains. Cartoon man with speech bubble saying wow. Captioned even Peter couldn't believe the bargains

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

My god that must be a hot ladder.

Icy terraced street. A stepladder is placed where a car has been parked looking like it has melted the area around it.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

“The effect may be considerable in a few centuries” is a really remarkable sentence here…

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 30/12/2024

"that would appear to be the real moral of this story: Airplane manufacturing is no different from mortgage lending or insulin distribution or make-believe blood analyzing software—another cash cow for the one percent, bound inexorably for the slaughterhouse."

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

The thing is, you can replace “cruel” in this sentence with funny, artistic, thoughtful, thoughtless, compassionate, greedy, kinky, creative, or any of 1000 other adjectives. Why are so many of us only able to see us as exceptional in our faults?

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Joel Cardwell @joelcardwell.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Happy Christmas one and all! 🎅😬😱🤣

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NateintheWild @nateinthewild.com · 23/12/2024

On the left, my image. On the right, the Al image that was clearly trained on, and designed to plagiarize, my image. All Al generated imagery is inherently theft. It's unethical, environmentally disastrous, and does irreparable harm to both artists and society.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Any time the perpetrator of a terrorist attack has a social media profile that says very directly that they’re a far right accelerationist, the headline is like “BAFFLED COPS PONDER THE RIDDLE OF SUSPECT’S MOTIVATION”

German Officials Search for Motive in Christmas Market Attack
At least five people were killed and more than 200 others injured after a driver rammed an SUV into a crowded Christmas market in eastern Germany.

The doctor had an active social media presence that included postings criticizing Germany for what he called the authorities' tolerance of radical Islam, German news media reported. A security official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, said that those reports were accurate.

In his social media, the man also expressed support for the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party and reposted comments by party leaders warning of the threat of Islamic law being imposed in Germany.

[photo of Scholz on the street in Magdeburg]
Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany, accompanied by several of his ministers, on Saturday visited the site of the attack in Magdeburg. Ronny Hartmann/Agence France-Presse - Getty Images

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Common Sense @cmmnsensedspnsr.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.

Passage from Carl Sagan’s A demon-haunted world book.

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

My houseplants watching me pour water in the coffee maker

Cillian Murphy in 28 Years Later looking dead and emaciated

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Paul McCartney, speaking at The Beatles’ last press concert as a touring band on their final American tour, Los Angeles, August 28th 1966.

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January @almorica.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I hope everyone currently having a rough time gets the good news or medical care or simple sense of relief they need right now

An image of a rabbit tucked into bed. Text over it says "it has gotten better before and it will again"

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Lucas @nastylucas.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Yeah what was he thinking? This was a fairly large event to be covered in headline only. No background/context regarding the political situation, or what the protests were about, just days of ohh it's looking a bit dicey. Does the BBC not have any correspondents, or...

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The South Korean president's martial law gamble backfired: What was he thinking?

Yoon's shock move was a bid to get the kind of grip on power that has eluded him since he was elected.

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Mark Tingay @mudvolcanoguy.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Community notes is one of the few good things left on Twitter

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I was asked (repeatedly, aggressively) on the other platform for my lawyery views on Allison Pearson’s story. I declined to comment because Ms Pearson is a famously unreliable narrator of events, and I wanted to wait for independent evidence. Alas for Ms Pearson…

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 04/01/2024

“Overall, ChatGPT got the right answer in just 17 of the 100 cases. It was plainly wrong in 72 cases, and did not fully capture the diagnosis of the remaining 11 cases. Among the 83 wrong diagnoses, 47 (57 percent) were in the same organ system.” arstechnica.com/science/2024...

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ChatGPT bombs test on diagnosing kids’ medical cases with 83% error rate

It was bad at recognizing relationships and needs selective training, researchers say.

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Kyle Orland @kyleor.land · 04/01/2024

"Sorry, there's nothing we can do. An AI filed a lawsuit, so we are FORCED by our own logic to extinguish all humanity." "Look, I don't make the rules..."

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Jeremy Jenkins @jeremyjenkins.net · 18/12/2023

We likely already have more than a 'thousands Mozarts,' but many lack the time or financial resources to express their talent, often working for minimum wage at disgusting companies like Amazon.

A news article titled “Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk say human population not nearly big enough: ‘If we had a trillion humans, we would have at any given time a thousand Mozarts’

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Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

Imagine finding out the job that you work at every day was considered a form of punishment to lessen a jail term.

Woman who assaulted Chipotle worker sentenced to fast food job for two months

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