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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 20h

A sleeping antelope incised on rock up to 10,000 years ago at Tin Taghirt, Tassili n'Ajjer in Algeria

patricklinnen.bsky.social @patricklinnen.bsky.social · 17h

Definitely writing for the rubes (and his fans at the NYT). I am pretty certain that nobody subconsciously holds ideas they agree with to strict standards of criticism (i.o.w. Iron-manning) before accepting them.

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patricklinnen.bsky.social @patricklinnen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That is only in effect when the President is Republican. IOKIYAR

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patricklinnen.bsky.social @patricklinnen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Fun how everyone from man-on-the-street to talking heads to the 'royal WE' media themselves say how Democrats must improve their messaging. Meanwhile the media goes above and beyond to assist and sanitize the Republicans' press releases.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/10/2026

In other words, the current, "theory-free AI" finds all the instances in which A seems to cause B, but has no internal representation of *why* A causes B. This is true even when we know why A causes B!

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026

I can’t emphasize this enough — “AI” wasn’t born corrupt and toxic. For ~75 years, it was mathematicians and scientists doing interesting, thoughtful work and trying to solve problems, making only the usual human mistakes. What “AI” did to machine learning is as tragic as what it did to artists.

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patricklinnen.bsky.social @patricklinnen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Could also use the scene from Blues Brothers of the police squads going "hup-hup-hup" and rappeling down the sides of the building

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Neovagina Evangelion @gammarae.design · 05/10/2026

Scientific method calls for a truck. And to reproduce it afterwards again to verify the first observation.

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patricklinnen.bsky.social @patricklinnen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yeah, the first thing I'd do if I were a benevolent dictator would be to make crypto-currency not illegal but without any monetary value within the US, its territories, and any foreign exchanges and to stick a high ID10T tax on any trading of the same.

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patricklinnen.bsky.social @patricklinnen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Best guess, violations of Banking laws stopped ending careers after the 1989 Keating Five scandal.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 05/10/2026

Rahm Emanuel represents the last vestiges of dying, corporate do-nothing foolishness. He’s not a Democrat. He’s a wealthy, status quo strongly-worded letter in a suit. Anyone who listens to him is digging their own political grave.

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don't remember Steve Jobs telling us that early iPhones might murder a bunch of us and we'll just have to accept it because smartphones are inevitable. Beta test that shit, motherfucker.

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patricklinnen.bsky.social @patricklinnen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A lot of us still remember the Summer That Never Ended in the early '90's when AOL started mailing out all those coasters.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I still remember getting my first email address as a freshman in college. It was the coolest thing ever and no one was screaming YOU BETTER ADOPT THIS OR WE’RE ALL DEAD.

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patricklinnen.bsky.social @patricklinnen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Denials and self-justifications that the action was justified somehow are both coping mechanisms, sure. Neither confirm feelings of guilt, only of being confronted. Can't even say it is a recent development as such behaviour occurred in the past when it WAS socially acceptable.

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patricklinnen.bsky.social @patricklinnen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A not-so hypothetical scenario; "I never meant to hurt her" sobs the man after being sentenced for murdering his wife after decades of DV against her.

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patricklinnen.bsky.social @patricklinnen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This from the crew that considers underground dog/pit fighting to be good clean fun and great for the kiddies to watch.

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patricklinnen.bsky.social @patricklinnen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Alito's autobiography will be titled, "I Didn't Vote For That!"

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 04/10/2026

Every time I think I’ve hit the bottom of my outrage, they find a new pocket…

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patricklinnen.bsky.social @patricklinnen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

While there are shady telehealth companies just as certainly as there are shady medical concerns (some go on to run successfully for state gov and Congress), I am leery of regulations offered by any Republican led agencies. Some examples of the bad faith shown can be found in telehealth for women

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patricklinnen.bsky.social @patricklinnen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is the same thing as interviews with red voting traveler claiming that "Portland and other blue cities are burnt-out hell holes" while no change in actual travel to blue cities can be shown. Even when looking at data between red voting areas and blue. They might even believe it but it's cover

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patricklinnen.bsky.social @patricklinnen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And that is was they told pollsters and said in interviews that were covered widely. And like I said they never changed their economic behaviour

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patricklinnen.bsky.social @patricklinnen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And yet I continue to find on BlueSky people (who say they vote left) telling us that Obama and Biden were crueler and more heartless than Trump on this issue.

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patricklinnen.bsky.social @patricklinnen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It is one of the issues with the Dems having a 'Big Tent' welcoming those that the Republicans kicked out.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

50 years from Goldwater, Scott, & Rhodes to this guy & this position, & yet somehow we've spent the last decade talking about "polarization" as the problem & how it is <checks notes> the Democrats who have moved further from the political center than the now-far right authoritarian party.

Hugh Scott, Barry Goldwater, John Rhodes, 1973

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patricklinnen.bsky.social @patricklinnen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Trump never had a first term. 2016 thru 2020 was made up entirely by the Democrats. That was and still is all Biden's fault. /snark

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patricklinnen.bsky.social @patricklinnen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The best predictors for voting for Trump was not being failed by the establishment, but by the Trump voter's very visible racism, bigotry, and misogyny.

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patricklinnen.bsky.social @patricklinnen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

At the same time pundits were talking up how "economic anxiety" was driving people away from Biden, all the indicators showed that consumers were confident in spending. Almost like any anxiety was being made out of whole cloth by the papers.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This one is doing the rounds

A picture of Elon Musk, via the London Economic. The quote says “If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what the heck was wrong with it. When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes.“ – Nathalie Robin Justice.

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patricklinnen.bsky.social @patricklinnen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There is a cynical response to the position of the 'good' that these men will perform someday. Taking themselves away permanently is one of the politer ones.

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patricklinnen.bsky.social @patricklinnen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the Venn diagram of conservative celebrated culture warriors and trolls IS a single circle. Full coverage, full over-lap. It is not Either-Or, it is Both.

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patricklinnen.bsky.social @patricklinnen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This can get hilarious when works issued later show actual gender and the earlier translations have to be re-issued with the correction

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patricklinnen.bsky.social @patricklinnen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One of the problems in translating Japanese into languages that use genders more heavily is the reliance on context. Thus a young girl that has a nickname containing 王, commonly 'king' instead of 'ruler', will get masculine pronouns applied instead of feminine, to the point of ignoring body shape.

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patricklinnen.bsky.social @patricklinnen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just as the bold and italic fonts (strong and emphatic HTML) are indicated by verbal tone, pacing and emphasis via volume. Semi-joking pointed out in humorous lit by commentary on being able to hear the Capitals or have them verbally communicated.

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patricklinnen.bsky.social @patricklinnen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The attitude is not even new. At one point it was waiting on the passing of the 'Silent Generation'. And at a point in the future it will be waiting on GenX to keel over.

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patricklinnen.bsky.social @patricklinnen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And when the owners of the papers turned to the 'for-profit' model, dollars from advertising and non-paper portfolios skewed coverage. And they skewed even further when papers turned to 'News As Entertainment' as their Number 1 job

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patricklinnen.bsky.social @patricklinnen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The newspapers leaned heavily on the cachet gotten from publishing the 'Pentagon Papers' and the scoop on Watergate for decades. Some journalists did continue to do their number 1 job, reporting breaking news. But the decay started during the Reagan years.

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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They wanted him back. The way that changes is to change the media considered reputable. That goes for a lot of institutions in the US. They leaned on their reputations long after they quit taking their responsibilities seriously. It didn't start with her, but I always think back to Judith Miller.

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patricklinnen.bsky.social @patricklinnen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There are time that the spoken language needs some form of audible punctuation as well "I interviewed my mother, a prostitute, and a policewoman" gives different impression of one's mother depending on the removal of one or more comma's. One needs to lean heavily on audible clues to imply comma's

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patricklinnen.bsky.social @patricklinnen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Prison systems, especially today's 'for-profit' ones, are set up for rehabilitating anyone. Just warehousing.

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patricklinnen.bsky.social @patricklinnen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The other reason are NOT taking the 'only war is class war' approach and NOT taking as default setting for working class as White Men

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patricklinnen.bsky.social @patricklinnen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Doing well now because they are CURRENTLY building ground up and getting people in locally. Not just during Presidential years like 'Saint' Sanders.

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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Neuroscientist here. I have studied the brain for 40 years. I make serious use of machine learning and AI in my research. Sam Altman is full of shit. These machines are not conscious, any more than a movie of a train coming out of the screen is a train. AI does remarkable things but isn’t real.

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