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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 20/09/2026

Nikole Hannah-Jones’s story has been a compelling one to follow, and as a Black parent and an educator, I am simultaneously moved and disappointed. Hannah-Jones writes about race and power, but she devotes much of her article to individual shortcomings to systemic issues.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 23/12/2025

"this could have been slop, but it's not" is rapidly becoming a surefire signifier of premium-ness

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Émile Darkheim @rntropy.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I think the one exception to this is colleges. As @mtsw.bsky.social has noted, for many Americans college is the one and only time in their life when they live in a dense walkable setting.

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 18/12/2025

“The average American can no more imagine the texture, habits, and routines of everyday life in a walkable urban community than they can imagine completely cutting meat out of their diet. Maybe less so.” @ad-mastro.bsky.social

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Sabrina Norwood @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"

Text reads: About synthetic panels
Recruiting the right participants for a study can be difficult. You may not get the exact demographics you need, and the shorter the deadline, the less sure you can be that everyone will answer on time. One possible solution can be to use synthetic panels.

Synthetic panels are powered by a first party proprietary AI model developed here at Qualtrics. Our synthetic panel is trained on thousands of responses from a variety of demographic backgrounds in order to more accurately predict how certain populations would respond to a survey.

Our synthetic panel is based on the United States General Population, and is only available in English. This panel comes with ready-made quotas and target breakouts in order to represent your chosen population and make it easy to launch your survey right away.

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The current study aimed to conduct a meta-analysis of the TPB when applied to health behaviours which addressed the limitations of previous reviews by including only prospective tests of behaviour, applying RE meta-analytic procedures, correcting correlations for sampling and measurement error, and hierarchically analysing the effect of behaviour type and sample and methodological moderators. Some 237 tests were identified which examined relations amongst model components. Overall the analysis indicated that the TPB could explain 19.3% of the variance in behaviour and 44.3% of the variance in intention across studies. This level of prediction of behaviour is slightly lower than that of previous meta-analytic reviews which have found between 27% (Armitage & Conner, 2001; Hagger et al., 2002) and 36% (Trafimow et al., 2002)
of the variance in behaviour to be explained by intention and PBC.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago. His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship." He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

It's a proper clanker mess out there.

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Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Nobly guarding the bannisters

Grey cat wedged between two painted bannisters half way up the stairs. Gazing into the distance. Paws crossed.

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

This is wild, but we also need to admit that Calibri is a shit font that Microsoft created -- and even they have disowned it. It is not a woke font. It is just jank. Pure unadulterated jank.

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Jeff Moen @jeffmoen.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

How the photos look when Times New Roman kills its entire family

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 11/12/2025

Here's JRR Tolkien on today's Time Magazine People of the Year and Disney's deal with OpenAI

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

My wife, a former journalist, has no idea who Olivia Nuzzi is. And none the rest of my family has any clue. There is a massive overestimation by elite media that people somehow know about or want to know about Olivia Nuzzi. It is not shocking that her book has sold 1,200 copies.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

i think a (perhaps underappreciated) aspect of this whole situation is the extent to which every elite profession is filled with people who excel at drawing attention and want to be famous more than they want to do the actual job

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

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Play HOTTIP - A unique 6-letter word guessing game where you can use 2 hot tips for help.

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Just watched a Waymo robot creep into a 4-way stop intersection though an older man was already in the crosswalk opposite. It stopped a few feet short of the crosswalk as he walked past it. Been hearing they've been doing this for some months, but I'd only seen videos, eg: bsky.app/profile/anic...

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

M Night Shyamalan can't match this twist.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 09/12/2025

begging writers who get published at fancy publications to actually research new tech instead of just puking up yet another Anduril press release

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Remember NFTs where a bunch of rubes and grifters tried to convince people that a bunch of easily-replicated digital images/artifacts were in fact worth a lot of money? Take these dumbass apes. We used to have a better class of grifters who would come up with plausible-ish scams.

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Jennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I will die on this hill, that a huge part of the problem with modern journalism is a bunch of mediocrities who wanted to be "storytellers" but lacked the juice to make it in Hollywood.

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

A man stares into the abyss for us.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

This thread is like one of those sci-fi movies where they stumble upon a destroyed spaceship and find the log reports of the captain slowly going insane.

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 09/12/2025

one reason the framing as "AI" is so bad is that it makes people think "interact with this like a person" when in fact the only way to make it remotely useful is "interact with it like an extremely powerful but extremely weird user interface"

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

If David Zaslav can get paid $50 million a year while running Warner Bros Discovery into the ground until it’s sold off in pieces and renaming HBO Max/Max/HBO Go/HBO every other year, you have no reason to feel imposter syndrome.

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please be nice to patrick @nicetopatrick.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Now it'll be years until they figure out legs

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Because America’s elite national media establishment has completely lost its moorings

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Yes where else could men possibly receive this scorching insight

And the “provide” element he couches largely in economic terms. “I tell my sons, when you’re in the company of women, you pay for everything. And if you can’t, you don’t go out … A woman is not going to have sex with a man who splits the bill with her.” Signalling resource is one of the three things women find most attractive, according to another of his maxims, along with kindness and intellect. He admits his sons tell him this is a boomer view of modern dating, but “I try to go where the data takes me,” he says. “Research shows that society, and men themselves, are really hard on men when they’re not economically viable.”

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Did a Clanker work on this "remaster?"

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

A generation of political journalists has been brain-rotted on interacting with bots and astroturfed accounts.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/11/2025

skill issue and for God’s sake I really do want to offer free “how to make a good turkey” tutoring to people in the internet age it is simply not hard to find the not-at-all-hidden knowledge about how to make a turkey taste good though

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand” Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

watching the real-time brain rot of people like nate silver bears this out

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

A post I am noodling on: Has Apple lucked out by being so late to the AI hype train? Could the AI bubble burst before Apple even gets a chance to make a massive investment in it? And will this leave them standing tall amongst tech giants?

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I wish I had more plants but my cats eat them

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

AI has some legit uses and can be a decent research tool. But you can't rely on it to do more than you understand, and if you ask it to do everything, it will get a lot wrong. The biggest paradox of AI is that those who get the most out of it are experts in an area.

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 23/11/2025

y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Just roast your turkey like a normal person. People who can't cook are tripping over themselves to burn their houses down. At some point, just get takeout Chinese.

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

“The account MAGANationX—with nearly 400,000 followers and a bio reading ‘Patriot Voice for We The People’—is actually based in Eastern Europe.”

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

I see a lot of Paidchecks on X didn’t realize that a whole lot of people on social media lie about their location to grift off the naïveté of the rage-addled American right. Turns out this problem is real and it’s a thing those of us who worked on “disinformation” pointed out.

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Preach. Tell these social media bozos to stop being bozos.

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

really baffled at elon's decision to confirm that most of twitter is just a poorly organized foreign influence operation

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 22/11/2025

Regret to report that there has been another good linkedin post

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Very few narratives piss me off as much as the whole "let's give marginalised people LLM assistants for inclusion".

Inclusion does not mean giving marginalised people shittier versions of a thing: Sure you can give kids from poorer backgrounds an LLM to "learn" but what you are saying is that poor people are not worth having trustworthy sources of information. When you say that older or lonely people can talk to chatbots to feel less alone you are saying that some people are not worth a social life.

This is a deeply inhumane perspective that goes actively against the ideas and ideals of inclusion.
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