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Joy Reeber 🦄

@nimiumamatrix.bsky.social
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Ovidian, classicist, rabble-rouser. She/her.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22h
this is why we don’t do “poor Melania” or write fanfic narratives where the wives of these men are victims. they wake up every day of their marriage and choose this
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Dr Pat Witts @wittspat.bsky.social · 19h
Reposting for all of us whose Sunday might be improved by enjoying this elegant and colourful heron. 😊
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Ben Nagy @rantyben.bsky.social · 18h
It's been a long time, I shouldn't have left you without a Latin verse rant to scroll through... Last couple of days I have been digging a bit more deeply into Ovid's style of ELISION. 🧵
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Ben Nagy @rantyben.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
this is a great thread and you should read it because I am not dunking. My one quibble is it's hard for me as a 'linguist' to fit reasoning models into 'pure syntax machines' without blowing out "syntax" to stupid Chomskian dimensions. Current LLMs multiply bc they know long multiplication.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Chapel Hill is inundated with suburban midwestern catholics for the game vs Notre Dame and it's like a movie where a ghost shows me what life would have been had I made different choices
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Joy Reeber 🦄 @nimiumamatrix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This thread tells an appalling story. Absolutely shameful, entirely unethical behavior from USA Today and their reporters.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If blue collar work was inherently upwardly mobile, everyone would do it. But the world doesn’t work that way. Capitalism doesn’t work that way. And people who romanticize blue collar work as having a quiet dignity are being patronizing, even if they don’t intend to
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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
she had to hide and be stealth, it’s never mentioned the character is trans but there’s something truly magic in knowing that the next time i rewatch TNG, i will see her there and i will know that someone like me helped make the show that ignited my lifelong love of Star Trek 😭
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@JFriedhoff

me at 13: wow i can't wait til we have immersive computers everywhere like star trek
me at 30: wow i can't wait until we destroy all computers like in dune
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 03/10/2026
"I should get to sit down when I work but you shouldn't" is a great high level summary of labor disputes
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 03/10/2026
Talking about the trades? Read this instead of The Atlantic!
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Joy Reeber 🦄 @nimiumamatrix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I was very proud of my pedagogy in medieval Latin today. We were reading Bede's commentary on Luke, and there's a bit where he's doing the medieval equivalent of subtweeting an early anti-xtian author about whom we know almost nothing. I said "imagine I wrote something about a VP and a couch." 1/2
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I Know What Juda Did Last Summer @gypaetus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
the very same day the hospital i worked at started handing out "healthcare hero" t-shirts to us, corporate also had us sign a paper acknowledging that there would be no expectation for hazard pay or additional PTO for sick leave if we contracted covid
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 02/10/2026
!!!! from “Polarization Is Not the Problem” by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social — muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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Joy Reeber 🦄 @nimiumamatrix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
the Atlantic and similar publications are getting progressively less tolerable every year. and to clarify, yes, I mean "they are intolerable." I honestly think it would do many "elite" pundits a lot of good to live somewhere where they're forced to interact with folks not like them.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Lizard brain interpretation in tmnt logo font.
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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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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
nothing they value or aspire to or revere about Masculinity™️ is the behavior of wise, mature, grounded adult men. it’s what little boys think is cool about being an adult man and they were allowed never to grow out of that
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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
God I hate being right.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Upton Sinclair remains undefeated
Upton Sinclair man/job quote
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A rare point of agreement between us and Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 28/09/2026
It continues to be interesting to me just how many men, when presented with a clear and obvious answer to a test of morality and empathy, will nevertheless choose to "devil's advocate" themselves into a position of complete assholery
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is why more women don't come forward, and why more rapists aren't jailed. Because mostly-male cops and prosecutors find it more believable that a 20-yr-old would want to have sex with a room full of fraternity brothers than accept she was raped. What ever happened to common fucking sense?
jessica.substack.com
Carrying That Weight—Again
I can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 29/09/2026
But nothing is preferable to me, at least, unless it happens to be true. Ἀλλ’ οὐδὲν ἥδιον ἔμοιγε, εἰ μὴ τυγχάνει ἀληθὲς ὄν. (Pl. Euthphr. 14e)
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Television history that matters.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"indoor cats are miserable and they long for the outdoors and you are depriving them of their true nature by trapping them inside" okay here's my cat when he was outdoors vs now that's he's indoors
orange cat all beat up and bloody in the snow :( orange cat asleep splayed out on his side on his blanket
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
there is a certain undercurrent of something that can only be described as puritanism on this site, where understanding a bad thing must mean you're into that thing because apparently the only way to battle bad things is to yell loudly they are very bad someone else better fix them but not like this
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
if this horrible little thing and its cursed amulet come near me I'm going to beat it with a bat actually
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There are lots of ways to answer this and one of them is that studying history makes you a better citizen and our public universities have an obligation to produce good citizens. History education is essential to a republican model of government. Engineering is not.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
these people will happily whitewash and paraphrase unhinged Trump rants to make them seem grammatically coherent and authoritative, but if a young woman says “like” we must keep it in there to make sure you know she’s a bimbo infuriating actually
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sad excuse for journalism: Big profile of DOGE lord doesn’t say a word about all the damage he did. And it was not an “ill fated cost-cutting effort.” It was a malignant, catastrophic attack on the government and its workers by arrogant and ignorant assholes. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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He spent 11 months inside DOGE. Now he wants to set the record straight.
In his first major interview about his tell-all memoir, Tyler Hassen describes the culture clash surrounding DOGE’s mission and the backlash that followed.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A useful way to think about it is to imagine a republican candidate saying one thing that you liked, agreeing with you on exactly one issue. That would totally work, right? Donald Trump announces he’s for one thing you are also for and then you vote for him. See how stupid it sounds.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 20/09/2026
everyone complaining about paywalls, one of the most easily manipulated barriers to knowledge ever created, desperately needs to consider taking some personal responsibility for their poor media habits
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
making this my new email autoreply
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the hills have vrunt @vrunt.social · 19/09/2026
sure yeah, can't even make a stick figure without fucking up and no one at the company gives enough of a shit to even give it another pass but go ahead and take my money so i can use this lazy shit technology every day too
ad for some AI company called evenfall
copy says "meet derek. ai every day. always hitting a wall. then he found evenfall"
the only graphic is a stick figure holding... a tablet maybe? he's missing an arm
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is why I have now embraced my unadulterated, cringe-worthy, faith and belief in the truly unique ability of humans to be humans and to express their humanity in art and self-reflection. And I include all humanities disciplines in the “self-reflection” part.
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.
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The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

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maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists
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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
mmygod
the slut gnomes of false berlin jeopardy bluesky posttoday's jeopardy categories. the last 2 are "false berlin" and "bizarre little men"
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/09/2026
i’m sorry but this entire worldview seems not just evil but deeply stupid? the far future is fake! it doesn’t exist! what matters are people here and now!
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
bleak but essential read
Navarro told us that she was "shocked to see the growing number of websites in the network and the huge variety of the sites themselves - from cooking and space blogs, to small business and war news." What surprised her the most, though, was how so many of the sites under BBM's umbrella are effectively
"indistinguishable from one another, publishing the same kind of first-person Al-generated stories around self-help topics aimed at people who are lonely."
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 18/09/2026
Welp, now we know who their other clients are. As I've been saying, the tech fascists are buying up Democratic consultants by the bushel. They have enough money to *BUY BOTH SIDES* Time to burn out the rot and build a party that serves the people, not the billionaires.
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Shana @shanamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good.
The future pope at a party with a caption “they don’t know I’m the future pope”
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The SCOTUS ruling today prevents the USPS from not delivering ballots based on directives from the Trump admin. BUT, the late postmarks issue remains. To make sure your ballot gets counted, return it early and, even better if you can, drop it off in an official ballot dropbox to ensure it’s on time.
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Joy Reeber 🦄 @nimiumamatrix.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
sometimes I regret how native I went when I lived in WI, and said times are happening more and more often during NFL games
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
The only person in public service who has consistently made 100% sense on issues of "AI," which is why they hate her so much.
Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there’s no AI exemption from laws already on the books — a point 
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 emphasized repeatedly during my tenure.

1. There is an extensive set of laws that govern dangerous and defective products. For example, releasing unvetted AI models or agents can violate consumer protection laws. Shipping flawed AI tools without implementing adequate measures to detect and stop rogue or defective AI agents can be an “unfair or deceptive” act or practice under the FTC Act (and analogous state laws). And some state AGs are already exploring holding AI firms and their CEOs criminally liable when their models participate in criminal activity.

2. Existing laws also prohibit “unfair methods of competition.” This covers instances where AI firms appropriate the competitively sensitive information of their customers, including through tracking their use of various tools. It can also cover instances where firms pursue dangerous behavior, aware that doing so may compel rivals to do the same.As the Supreme Court has noted: “A method of competition which casts upon one's competitors the burden of the loss of business unless they will descend to a practice which they are under a powerful moral compulsion not to adopt, even though it is not criminal, was thought to involve the kind of unfairness at which the [unfair methods of competition] statute was aimed."

3. The highly concentrated and interconnected structure of these markets could be creating major risks and conflicts of interest. We had started investigating these partnerships and cross-investments across the stack (and released a preliminarily overview of some findings: https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-issues-staff-report-ai-partnerships-investments-study). 

Both federal and state enforcers should be scrutinizing these opaque relationships and inter-dependencies. We are already seeing how these relationships could undermine accountability. For example, OpenAI could face liability given the Hugging Face incident, but Hugging Face being bought up by Nvidia means that we’re unlikely to see it file a lawsuit over this — given Nvidia’s strong incentive to see OpenAI continue full speed ahead.4. As AI tools dramatically change the landscape of cybersecurity risks and hacks, all businesses should be doubling down on having core security protections in place. Firms that fail to invest in adequate data security measures or fix known vulnerabilities can also be breaking the law. A recent analysis showed that around 1/3 of Fortune 100 companies do not even have a way to notify them about security issues. During my 
@FTC
 tenure, we sued firms for poor data security practices and held CEOs liable when they were personally responsible.

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/dozens-of-americas-largest-companies-have-no-simple-way-to-report-security-flaws/

https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/10/ftc-takes-action-against-drizly-its-ceo-james-cory-rellas-security-failures-exposed-data-25-million

5. As policymakers consider new legal regimes, we should be looking to lessons from prior efforts to govern major sectors, such as banking and other networks, platforms, and utilities. Tools like structural separations, nondiscrimination, and supervision could be key, and there’s a rich history of what works and what doesn’t. But we can and must pursue any new efforts alongside enforcing existing laws.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Of all the late stage Trump theories, wants the world to die with him seems increasingly credible.
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Jennifer X. Pumpkins 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
THIS IS WHAT YOU SAY IF YOU NEED A NONCOMMITAL RESPONSE
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