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#114119 designing for worker-owned cooperatives from Portland. Also porch music. number32.com

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Ashley @ashleysays.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Chefs kiss
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John @polizzi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Abomination
Rare electric Martin from 1962.
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John @polizzi.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Can’t wait for Cunk On Tech
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sophie alpert @sophiebits.com · 25/06/2026
got frustrated recently at work about people writing using AI instead of using their brains! here's my take on it: sophiebits.com/2026/06/25/t...
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There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text
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John @polizzi.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Flight 1337: “Control, we’re experiencing engine failure, requesting assistance for emergency landing” Ground control: “Git gud, noob”
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Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 10/08/2026
Just found out that one of my all-time favorite short films is available to stream/rent! (It's been on Kanopy for a while, but my library system uses Hoopla.) Deborah Stratman's LAST THINGS is speculative nonfiction about the end of time from the perspective of rocks.
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Last Things | watch online - americas.dafilms.com
From before the beginning until after the end; evolution and extinction as told through the prism of minerals.
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John @polizzi.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
“Fight Club,” the May 7, 2000 episode of The X-Files, featuring red & blue color-coded, kayfabe doppelgangers printing money & causing fights seems weirdly prescient. Especially considering the red state / blue state convention hadn’t solidified until the presidential election later that same year.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
"The dvlpmt of co-ops around the world is another story that should not end too abruptly. We cld still be weaving it today... The struggle against big tech can have two stories in one: the vibrant resistance + refusal, but also the effort to build a better economy under workers’ and users’ control."
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
"I wish the recent tellings of the Luddite mvmt wld... let their story go on a bit longer. By 1820, the Luddites had been crushed... But by that time weavers were already pursuing a quieter strategy. They formed [co-ops]... Thru them, weavers went from working in factories to co-owning factories."
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Bodies upon the gears
Alternative approaches to The Man, considered by Nathan Schneider
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artnau @artnau.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Transfer, 1968 by William Anastasi whitney.org/collection/w...
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John @polizzi.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I once met a master carpenter who helped build Skywalker Ranch. He told me a story about how an entire section of his intricate hand carved woodwork was painted over white because Lucas had showed it to a friend who complained about it being too dark.
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Will’s is paywalled, but I wrote on the subject of the “It’s not X, it’s Y” and AI detection last month - and in one week it became the most widely read piece I’d ever written for my newsletter (ie, six years!). mail.cyberneticforests.com/its-not-just...
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It's Not Just X. It's Y.
Against the Quantification of Integrity When the measure of language becomes its target, it ceases to be good language. 💡Nerd Rating: 1/5. I discuss the origins of certain linguistic tics in LLMs a...
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 09/07/2026
I’m at a design panel and they just said “AI will solve taste” and I’m done
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The 🫠 ᴘʀᴇᴛᴛʏ BBC Radio 3 🎶 #NowPlaying Bot @bbc3musicbot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #NightTracks Marisa Anderson: 🎵 Pair of Duduk #BBCRadio3 #MarisaAnderson ▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify ▶️ Track on #Spotify:
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Pair of Duduk
Marisa Anderson · The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music · Song · 2026
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John @polizzi.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Wait I thought Jesus wrote the declaration of independence
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John @polizzi.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Sorry no way in hell you’re founding a democracy or a republic or whatever without an actual project manager.
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John @polizzi.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Tired: the means of production Wired: internal mechanism —>
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John @polizzi.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
It’s no coincidence that Johnny Cash died the same year LinkedIn was launched.
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 19/06/2026
The sooner musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Theil and the rest upload their consciousness to a computer system the sooner we can switch those computers off and get on with being human.
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The glengarry Glen Ross Alec Baldwin Always Be Closing chalkboard scene but it says

Always
Be
Conflating

And has Jon Hamm from the pitch meme in front instead
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John @polizzi.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Disappointed First Light didn’t use “hey bro” instead of “hello gorgeous” when Bond finds Hyperion.
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Barbie Girl, Interrupted @leesha.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Bad co-op vs Good co-op
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John @polizzi.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Metrics!
Our pool is bigger than skyscrapers
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...
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I found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White House
There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.
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John @polizzi.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The Boroughs? More like Boomer Things
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/05/2026
AI probably has some uses for retail. A much more realistic potential magic bullet here as I discovered when reporting on Finland’s massive grocery coop (50% market share) was no need for profit prospect.org/2023/10/11/2...
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The Cooperative That Could - The American Prospect
How S Group became Finland’s most dominant retailer
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John @polizzi.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Just buy it with private equity, saddle it with debt, strip it of value, and watch it close. Duh.
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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 01/05/2026
Digital illustration showing two silhouetted people shushing a computer covered in red alert icons. Caption reads, “Dear computers! Thank you for all the ‘notifications’ but from now on WE will notify YOU. Oh sorry!! Let me speak your language!!! Beep Boop shut the hell up!”
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John @polizzi.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I would have picked Aleksei German to direct Elden Ring
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.
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Jeff Nichols @backwardsriver.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Boastful Quaker Oats ad, Chicago 1891
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John @polizzi.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Imagine there’s no people, it’s easy when you prompt
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UFO Sighting Bot @ufoskies.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Series of orange orbs.
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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Why We Fear AI is a book about the political economy of AI! If knowledge is power, then what is the attempt to put knowledge into an extremely expensive privately controlled thing about? www.commonnotions.org/why-we-fear-ai
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Why We Fear AI — Common Notions Press
Fears about AI tell us more about capitalism today than the technology of the future.
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John @polizzi.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Rationing my t-shirts.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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John @polizzi.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
The dirty UI tricks that Apple is pulling to get me to upgrade to its latest OS are despicable.
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
I started writing a BlueSky post about that Nature essay and kept going until it turned into a whole piece in Tech Policy Press www.techpolicy.press/the-illusion...
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The Illusion of AGI, or What Language Models Can Do Without Thought
It is not simple stubbornness that LLMs are not “intelligent,” much less a form of “general” intelligence, writes Eryk Salvaggio.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 15/03/2026
to be clear, this definition, by limiting intelligence to *cognitive tasks*, conveniently ignores embodied, relational, social and cultural nature of intelligence 9/
A common informal definition of general intelligence, and the starting point of our discussions, is a system that can do almost all cognitive tasks that a human can do6,7. What tasks should be on that list engenders a lot of debate, but the phrase ‘a human’ also conceals a crucial ambiguity. Does it mean a top human expert for each task? Then no individual qualifies — Marie Curie won Nobel prizes in chemistry and physics but was not an expert in number theory. Does it mean a composite human with competence across the board? This, too, seems a high bar — Albert Einstein revolutionized physics, but he couldn’t speak Mandarin.
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John @polizzi.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Merced by an AI-operated DHS drone while sleeping in my own bed because I posted a favorite Rumi poem on Bluesky
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John @polizzi.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
This is the real problem. Worse than eliminating jobs by replacing humans with machines, this whole AI push is just one more enclosure of the commons. Culture, language, knowledge itself are all fundamentally collective endeavors that they want lay claim to, control, and sell back to us.
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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
remember when that cronenberg movie 'existenz' came out and it seemed like a fun and silly conceit for there to be freedom fighters taking on corporate conglomerates in an attempt to protect consensus reality from an ocean of digital hallucination
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
“If [wealthy, powerful people] can get us to accept that the future’s already settled, AI is already here, the end is already here, then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” — @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
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John @polizzi.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Please don’t
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John @polizzi.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I’ve been grinding rush mode exclusively since BF3, so I don’t need a lecture from the freaks who fetishize stats. But I recently discovered casual breakthrough in 6 and I’m having a blast. Don’t care if it doesn’t count. I absolutely love fucking up robots.
Battlefield 6 game scoreboard showing top scores and squad
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 17/02/2026
5:30-6:30 PM dinner is goated. just one more thing old people were right about all along
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John @polizzi.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Stevie the calico plays flamenco while I sing.
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