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Rachel Nolan @rachelnolan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I say this as someone who is a data scientist and works in AI every single day: There should be no place for people like this in a civilized, tech-literate society From www.nytimes.com/.../ezra-kle.... #AI

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Rachel Nolan @rachelnolan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

For like 30 years I’ve been relating the adage that there was some writer who long ago said something like “apes don’t speak cause they know we’ll put them to work” My source for this was a Far Side calendar from when I was about 10. Holy shit though, (continued)

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⚸ Gingersnapped 🐺🌕🎃 @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

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Rachel Nolan @rachelnolan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

RIP Sam Neill who I'll remember the most for scaring the absolute shit out of me as a pre-teen who somehow managed to catch this scene absent of context while trying to watch HBO late at night without parental supervision:

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Rachel Nolan @rachelnolan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I said I'd let you all know when the other Rachel Nolan showed up and it sounds like she has - see below

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Rachel Nolan @rachelnolan.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

For real though, admitting like 50 7 foot college kids yearly with the goal of being "The School With A Bunch of Tall Kids" seems like the kind of psyop one might expect to be cooked up by a UChicago Booth School alum.

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Rachel Nolan @rachelnolan.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

brb, grabbing a gif of Will Ferrell-as-Janet Reno on SNL kneeing Giuliani below the belt with the caption "Then how comes my conscience is so clean!" for when everyone complains about the "tenor" of the response to Rudy's demise

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.

Bugs Bunny giving a monster a manicure, caption: My I'll bet you monsters lead interesting lives.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Top Five Engagement Bait Post Formats for 4/26/26 1. name 5 fave things (movies, food, etc) 2. name 5 most hated things 3. name thing you remember from [year] 4. guess the kHz of the tone generated by the voice of the worm at the center of the earth 5. top point guards of the 1970s

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Elizabeth Nelson @paranoiacs.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I'd argue that to the extent that the 'Meet Me In The Bathroom' scene in New York's early 2000's represented a "rebellion" of any kind, it was the one which ushered in the permanent hegemony of the investor class. Privileged, tediously bacchanalian and aggressively non-political. Gross, reactionary.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 16/01/2026

“ICE agents, get out now because historically, this ends with you hanging from a lamppost and your body paraded through the streets.” - the …we rate dogs guy

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Rachel Nolan @rachelnolan.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Another day, another musical AI fever dream. I don't think Malkmus or anyone has a bluesky, so I'll just #pavement #ai

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Rachel Nolan @rachelnolan.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

In a world of Bart Harley Jarvises, be a Taffy Lee Fubbins. #itysl

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Sara Emily Burke @saraburke.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Academic freedom should protect honest criticism of Charlie Kirk, even if the criticism is delivered with an irreverent tone. My new opinion piece on Syracuse.com: www.syracuse.com/opinion/2025...

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Syracuse University must protect faculty who criticize Charlie Kirk (Your Letters)

To maintain the ethos of thorough inquiry at universities, "we must protect professors from institutional interference in the things they say and write," says the letter writer.

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Sara Emily Burke @saraburke.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Moreover, if a hypothetical rape survivor wanted to make fun of Jeffrey Epstein, even to mock his death, it would be far more important to remember Epstein's horrible deeds than to castigate the victim for her tone.

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illy bocean 🏝️ @illybocean.boontavista.com · 10/09/2025

Yes, killing people is generally bad. But I have no room in my heart to feel sadness for a man who made a very conscious choice to spend his entire adult life profiting from sowing division, fear and hatred, gleefully putting a target on the back of vulnerable minorities every time he spoke. Sorry!

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Rachel Nolan @rachelnolan.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

This thread gets it. Potential Democratic candidates minmaxing the "how far under the bus can I throw trans people to increase votes w/o alienating too many?" question is absurd. If the result of the calculus is > 0, they're fucking up even if they throw Trump's tactics back at him (Newsom *cough)

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Rachel Nolan @rachelnolan.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I was trying to make a joke that mimics Sean Penn's reviled novel "Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff" after seeing an article titled "Chat GPT5: It just does stuff". I tried this in Google's AI mode and I think I hit levels of meta-commentary I can't quite fathom here (aware of the irony, certainly).

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Rachel Nolan @rachelnolan.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Today's thought exercise that's taxing my cognitive ability instead of doing my actual job: Rewriting "Not Like Us" so it's about our dog Margie. "Why you rollin on the floor/ain't you tired?" "Trynna get a toy/and its prolly a Bite Bear" *her rope bears we call "Bite Bears"

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 25/08/2025

Our 3yo had like a hundred fuckin questions about the rules & logistics & moral implications of how mogwais become gremlins, but ZERO questions about "sometimes people change from girl to boy" or "sometimes boys marry other boys" or whatever, kids dgaf, the problem has ALWAYS been bigot ass parents

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Rachel Nolan @rachelnolan.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

This is legitimately one of the most beautiful pathos-invoking pieces of art I've ever seen. This will go on the list of things I look at when I want to sob my eyes out at the general wonderfulness of dogs along with those ancient Roman dog obituaries.

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Rachel Nolan @rachelnolan.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I got added to a 7000 member block list for spreading "AI Disinformation" I've never felt so honored.

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Rachel Nolan @rachelnolan.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

@econmarshall.bsky.social As the only "real econ" person I know or follow, give me your thoughts on Yanis Varoufakis. Read a piece by him in the Guardian and def want to know more

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Rachel Nolan @rachelnolan.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

So like, normally I would quibble with assigning a gendered pronoun to an AI bot, but honestly, when a string of text appears discussing white genocide a la Jar Jar Binks on twitter, I think we all know that whatever produced it is a white guy.

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

that's still a lot of people, let's not focus on the negatives

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Rachel Nolan @rachelnolan.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

The original text was going to be “Fuck off and die, Nazi scum!”

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Rachel Nolan @rachelnolan.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I think we all know there's only one logical way this Corey Booker thing can end: www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8im...

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington -- Simpsons

YouTube video by MetalSonic7

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🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

The trump administration remains the world's most tragic version of Remembering Some Guys

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Rachel Nolan @rachelnolan.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Shit is shitty right now, but at least #MLB is back. Listening to The Baseball Project all day. As I said on fb, "1976," about Mark Fidrych does Big Star as well as Big Star could hope to do itself. If you're all about "Remembering Guys", check them out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmuN...

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The Baseball Project - "Panda and the Freak" (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Yep Roc Records

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Rachel Nolan @rachelnolan.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Exceedingly lukewarm take, but of all the songs out there that might encompass the fundamental gist of rock n roll, "Handle with Care" by the Traveling Wilburys might be the most accurate.

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Rachel Nolan @rachelnolan.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

...and then they took Berlin. I want Kermit singing Leonard Cohen

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 05/03/2025

I think if we can get a few more posts about what democrats should do at the state of the union we'll crack this thing wide open. We're this close

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Sara Emily Burke @saraburke.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Here is Alec from Technology Connections describing mass-market large language models as "the purest form of lazy anti-intellectualism." The analogy he draws between algorithmic curation and algorithmic text is imperfect but thought-provoking.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Is it an exaggeration to call Bob Dylan the greatest American poet? No. He was a phenomenal lyricist:

This one, got a princely racket
That's what I said, now
Got some big seal upon his jacket
Ain't in his head, now
You marry him, your father will condone you How 'bout that, now
You marry me, your father will disown you He'll eat his hat, now

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Rachel Nolan @rachelnolan.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Most AI takes are like Bart Simpson saying “we need a Butlerian Jihad. Thin out their ranks” but this is more “look on my works ye mighty and despair”

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Every review of AI is like: This isn’t very useful and it makes it harder to do simple tasks than if I just did it myself. Riddled with errors. Can’t see anyone using this. I feel stupider having tried this. That said I believe it will soon make human cognition redundant and eradicate us all.

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bematthe @bematthe.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I'm feeling a lot of this right now

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Abby Vesoulis @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

An EEOC admin. judge sent a fiery all-department email this AM alleging: 1. Trump's exec orders & instructions to target private citizens with them are illegal. 2. the judge had sent an earlier email with a similar tone yesterday that later vanished from their sent folder & colleagues' inboxes.

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Sara Emily Burke @saraburke.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

According to some reports stemming from an internal CDC email, agency researchers have been ordered to change the text of manuscripts submitted for peer review to remove terms such as "gender" and "transgender." www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/... insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

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CDC removes gender, equity references in public health material

Large sets of data are being scrubbed of references to transgender and LGBTQ+ people, among others, which could compromise their use in research.

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