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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.

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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Also, when you don’t kill evil people, you get a chance to continue exposing how whiny and pathetic evil people actually are. My favorite example is the absolutely miserable sod, Anders Breivik:

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A question I sometimes ask students or workshop participants is... A commitment to prison and policing means you have to ignore many things…What do we have to ignore? I ask people to make a list... It's always a long one. You can make a similar list for the death penalty...

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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

whenever you feel like you’re too small to change anything know that citizens from small towns and cities that speak up against flock and axon cameras in their communities (and sometimes get arrested for it) are fighting and sometimes succeeding against this

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Nuclear Bob @nuclearbob.net · 29/09/2026

@friction.bsky.social I'm bringing it back

A picture of Princess Donut on Carl's shoulder, from the popular Dungeon Crawler Carl series of books. White text with a black outline (for readability) reads:

Carl, did you remember to complete the survey about morning beverage preferences among crawlers?

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tennessee plans to execute a woman tomorrow. She was 18 when she committed the crime. She's now 50. Like most on death row, she's also a victim. And like most on death row, she's a far different person now than she was then. No one humanizes the condemned better than @lilianasegura.bsky.social.

theintercept.com

The “Satanic Panic” Made Her a True-Crime Obsession. The Truth Is More Haunting.

After 30 years on death row, Christa Pike faces execution for a grisly murder she committed at 18.

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trello @nicky.wiki · 29/09/2026

I wasn't sure if this was laudable (expose the rapists) or very derogatory (expose Jane Doe) and I'm happy to share that it's super laudable, he's the person behind thecornell7.org

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Pandora's Mox @pikkabird.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

watching diy haircut vids. I'm sure nothing bad will come of this.

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Pandora's Mox @pikkabird.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

it's the end of the day and I just had to use my last fuck to business-speak "don't know don't care" in an email.

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Pandora's Mox @pikkabird.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Co-signed, someone who sits through Title IX training every year and sees the glaring holes in the system.

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Pandora's Mox @pikkabird.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Apparently I’m developing the “no, you can’t sleep” form of perimenopause. Got up and cleaned house at 3am out of frustration. I want to go have a diner breakfast now, at 3:45 am, but I don’t want the breakfast available at any diner open at this hour.

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”

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CyfyrX @cyfyr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A.I. shall henceforth be known as Artificial Super Slop or A.S.S. All a.s.s. files must now be clearly labeled "This is A.S.S." and any manipulated audio must also state "This is A.S.S. at the beginning and every 30 seconds in the file. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Sarcasmo Ultra BLAM! @sarcasmoultrablam.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Me and the local librarian have decreed that AI will now be known as, "assumed intellect." Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Pandora's Mox @pikkabird.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The longer a predictive text goes, the more “SHUT UP YOU DON’T KNOW ME” I get. But mostly because it truly doesn’t. It’s been an unexpected cleansing of a weird type of imposter syndrome. 1/?

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Pandora's Mox @pikkabird.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The other day @friction.bsky.social and I tried to leave the house, A True Story:

Illustration: A woman with purple hair in black sweat pants and flats having accidentally put on her grey hoodie backwards, says “This happens more than I care to admit.”

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Pandora's Mox @pikkabird.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🎶 there's a hole in my heart that can only be filled by dooooom🎶

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The fact that Jeff Bezos ruined the Washington Post for nothing is just peak 2026

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Pandora's Mox @pikkabird.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The obtrusive thoughts won and I couldn't decide which so you get both

George W. Bush whisper meme: “It’s a sankey, sir”

George W. Bush whisper meme: Came into a fluffer, sir.

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Pandora's Mox @pikkabird.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Occasionally I look into an IP I've been indifferent to, curious whether I missed anything. Today was Les Miserables. My review is: LOL what even is this. @friction.bsky.social got home from work. He's not into musicals, so I turned it off with 5 minutes left. It's officially a DNF.

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🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️‍🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 18/09/2026

logging into bsky excited to bring French toast to the party and the skyline is wall to wall pancake blood and waffle guts

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 18/09/2026

One of the most pertinent things I've seen said about the so-called AI era is even to the extent it does work and is useful it's all in the service of 'efficiency' or 'doing more' and if you don't happen to think capitalism needs you to bend over to help it even more there's little on offer here

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

at a professional level I am kinda fascinated by how storytelling and pop culture have deeply ingrained the idea of the devious supervillain but not the one about the town coming together to save the day

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Ghouly Hoye 👻🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If we aren’t doing this everywhere, what are we even doing? Annual Toronto dog swim before they close down the outdoor pools for the season:

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

DCC in one sentence.

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Pandora's Mox @pikkabird.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Thing I want to do: Rewatch The Hunger Games Thing I don't want to do: Sit on HIGH ALERT with my remote in my head because the SOUND BALANCING IS SO GOD AWFUL in that series it is ACTUALLY UNWATCHABLE. 🎬

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Pandora's Mox @pikkabird.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It’s 5am and you are lisssstening to Los Angeles

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/09/2026

Creating an AI agent and asking it to email strangers on your behalf is like forcing strangers to watch you masturbate. Incompetently.

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gem (real name) 💎 @gemcitygem.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

me: hi gimme a large pizza pizza guy: any appetizers? me: what do you have? pizza guy: we've got fried cheese with no sauce or crust, crust with no cheese or sauce, and crust and cheese with no sauce me: gimme crust and cheese with no sauce pizza guy: and for your dip? me: sauce

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Dimension 20 @dimension20.dropout.tv · 07/09/2026

every job deserves comfort, dignity and safety! 🫡

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 07/09/2026

Happy Labor Day!

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/09/2026

Perspective.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 07/09/2026

hello my baby hello my honey hello darkness my old friend

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Pandora's Mox @pikkabird.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Bookcase 1: Fiction, grouped by type Bookcase 2: Non-fiction, grouped by type Bedside: a very mixed TBR pile. And all of that is very loose. I know what books I have by a digital inventory, not location 😆 I *might* try to keep an author’s multiple works grouped together but it’s not consistent.

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Jeffrey Austin @jaustinedu.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Each of the stories has a point where the CogSci influencer has to reveal they would never send their own kids to Alpha. Groshell's kid gets whole books, journaling, and drawing with a human-led, small-group learning while your kid gets repeated foundational skills instruction from a math app.

5. He builds these apps - and he did not send his daughter to Alpha

I love a twist, and Zach produced a good one at the end of our chat.

Zach separates two things that usually get bundled together: the app itself, and what a child does with the rest of the day. “Alpha” is just the name for the schools at the expensive end of this network - apps in the morning, life-skills and projects in the afternoon. But the same apps are being dropped into very different models. There is Texas Sports Academy, for the child who currently suffers through a school that cannot keep order and then comes alive at half three for sport - two hours of apps in the morning, sport in the afternoon, and crucially a model cheap enough to be heading for the US voucher system. There is Montessorium in Austin, where the mornings are unapologetic Engelmann DI and the afternoons are human-led, small-group, Montessori-style academic work.

Zach chose Montessorium for his daughter. Not because he doubts the apps - he builds them - but because she loves reading whole books, journaling and drawing, and the sport-in-the-afternoon model would do nothing for her. The apps, in other words, are not a school. They are an efficient engine for getting foundational skills into a child’s head in about two hours, and that engine can live inside whatever model fits a family’s values. The morning is the foundational skills. The afternoon is where the values actually live

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Pandora's Mox @pikkabird.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“I’ve never been happy about having been born in the midwest. I wonder how Midwest I sound…” May I present: “Rejected at Birth: The Map”

A map with the strongest dialect matches along both coastlines and Hawaii. The middle of the country is a much weaker match, with a slightly increased patch over Indiana/Illinois.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"Danger is my middle name." —Sir Coward Danger Giantpussy

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Pandora's Mox @pikkabird.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Rewatching Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, forgot that “Dr.” Phil shows up. But it’s early in the show, he’s not real and, iirc, isn’t particularly helpful.

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Pandora's Mox @pikkabird.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I can still do my job, still create my art, talk through my problems with myself & friends & professionals, and kiss my husband. How about you?

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