Reposted by ragesossJacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026We also looked at some FSA primary sources and this one really grabbed students' attention. It's a diagram that shows the arrangement of members of the Boston Anti-Man-Hunting League as they would surround a man-hunter, concealing him until he consented to release the person he was trying to kidnap 6700149
Reposted by ragesossPeter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026In an Uber. Driver having loud phone conversation with someone in Spanish. A little annoying, but it happens. He hangs up. Says, “Mi hermano. La Migra.” And starts weeping. 1665762957
Reposted by ragesossBrooke Vibber @bvibber.bsky.social · 24/07/2026www.kqed.org/news/1209233...kqed.orgStaff of San Francisco-Based Wikipedia Demand Union Recognition, Raise Concerns Over AI | KQEDWorkers said they want more of a say in how the Bay Area-based foundation behind the world’s largest encyclopedia uses artificial intelligence. 011
ragesoss @ragesoss.bsky.social · 27/06/2026“We Tested Three Muskets to See Which Shot You Could Actually Hear ’Round the World” 000
Reposted by ragesoss𝖏𝖆𝖘 @vores.bsky.social · 13/06/2026the entire point of life is to be kind and weird btw 2481873903
ragesoss @ragesoss.bsky.social · 28/05/2026now that i've preened with it in person a few times i'm okay showing my new treasure to the internet 130
Reposted by ragesossSoren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 22/05/2026I had to sit through an ed tech product pitch today so for all my #academicsky followers and comrades, here's what Turnitin is currently selling (stick around for what's on their product roadmap) so you can prepare yourselves to strenuously reject it. 🧵 614794
ragesoss @ragesoss.bsky.social · 26/04/2026llms think they've read all the books and they haven't read any of the books 001
ragesoss @ragesoss.bsky.social · 12/04/2026my office walls are looking better and better. newest additions are the dueling banjos by @phineas.bsky.social and a pair of abstract prints by Yoshisuke Funasaka that i got for $10 yesterday at an estate sale 040
ragesoss @ragesoss.bsky.social · 12/04/2026i'm pumped to be playing next weekend in my bluegrass club first variety show. and i get to play bass AND dobro at various points! events.humanitix.com/the-great-ca...events.humanitix.comThe Great Cascade ChautauquaA Modern Vaudeville in Three Acts 000
Reposted by ragesossdepths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 07/04/2026this wikipedia editor is orbiting the moon right now! 3288421779
ragesoss @ragesoss.bsky.social · 28/03/2026heading out to No Kings today to play protest songs with some of my friends from Outlanders Progressive Bluegrass Social Club 020
Reposted by ragesossAlex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 10/03/2026THANKS, I HATE IT. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP84va9qE/tiktok.comi hate it here #aioverviewsTikTok video by JB 23010
ragesoss @ragesoss.bsky.social · 05/03/2026it's not going to feel like a real democracy again until i can vote for party that at least gets this right 000
Reposted by ragesossTracy Banaszynski @tracyforkenmore.bsky.social · 25/02/2026"We must admit that we are losing this battle. We have to acknowledge that the older generations have failed. All political movements in their present form have failed. But Homo sapiens have not yet failed." --Greta Thunberg Louder: All political movements in their present form have failed.youtube.comThe 1975 - The 1975YouTube video by The 1975 141
ragesoss @ragesoss.bsky.social · 06/02/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=WczG...youtube.comDef Poetry - Amir Sulaiman - DangerYouTube video by MisterMo 000
Reposted by ragesossRyan McGrady @antisomniac.bsky.social · 04/02/2026The biggest news coming out of YouTube lately looks to have been a quiet change to its search engine: instead of "sorting" you now "prioritize" (popularity, not view count). i.e. removing one of the last remaining ways to search based on concrete metrics. You also can't search the past hour anymore. 111
Reposted by ragesossC. Thi Nguyen @add-hawk.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out. As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class. Here's what happened: 242369865
ragesoss @ragesoss.bsky.social · 22/01/2026my "abolish ice" t-shirt is garnering lots of appreciation at the airport today. got compliments from several TSA agents, among others. 010
Reposted by ragesossWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21/01/2026look what they’re doing to my beautiful city. this is bovino’s massive armed convoy, rolling through the Wedge, one of the nicest, friendliest residential areas in Minneapolis, doing nothing but posturing, starting fights, and then deploying chemical weapons at a park many children play in 831975755
Reposted by ragesossNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16/01/2026I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status. 577334908599
Reposted by ragesossLady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 07/01/2026here's this vintage jeopardy clip with ken jennings 3854551502
Reposted by ragesossm. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 04/01/2025update: here is the AI policy i wrote for my doc seminar this term (i have already located the typo and fixed it, which tbh is like 60% of the point of posting it in public) 611576395
Reposted by ragesossAndrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 15/12/2025Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things 13039551264
Reposted by ragesossDavid Palmer @cloventt.net · 20/11/2025Today’s Wikipedia DYK section has been taken over for Trans Day of Remembrance. 🏳️⚧️ 0228
Reposted by ragesossMark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 16/11/2025New feature article from TNJ (nation's best student magazine): Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi... 1265125
Reposted by ragesossDaniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 31/10/2025I'm so worried about what'll happen when our kids are old enough to have phones!!!! 😮😮😮 6378159
Reposted by ragesossOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Nuremburg trials is the moderate position 167137554105
Reposted by ragesossJeff Horwitz @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state. That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators To fine it for running scam ads. www.reuters.com/investigatio...reuters.com 421671739
ragesoss @ragesoss.bsky.social · 03/11/2025The new Väsen album is really nice. Very chill, but with a strong pulse. Makes we want a 5-string low viola. vasen.sevasen.seVäsen – Music 010
Reposted by ragesossLydia Pintscher @lydiapintscher.bsky.social · 29/10/2025#Wikidata has been recognized as a digital public good! Wikidata is always the mostly-invisible powerhouse in the background, so this is especially meaningful to me and a great recognition of the work that thousands of people put into structuring the world’s knowledge every single day. 2197
Reposted by ragesossMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 27/10/2025"I suppose you’ve come to say you’re sorry? I hope so, given your years of sneering and hand-wringing about how I was ruining knowledge. Meanwhile, you turned your information environment into a hypercapitalist post-truth digital snuff film."buff.lyHi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology“Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum... 319175
ragesoss @ragesoss.bsky.social · 20/10/2025went to a delightful bluegrass jam in Brooklyn last night, played a No Kings protest song by an old-timer on uke, and was gifted a ticket by a stranger to see Michael Daves, Tony Trischka and Erik Alvar right afterwards. thanks NYC! 030
Reposted by ragesossRyan McGrady @antisomniac.bsky.social · 17/10/2025At #wikiconferencena a man pulled a gun on stage wearing a "non-offending pedophile" sign, aggrieved, seemingly, that wikipedia doesn't allow him to write about that subject. Disarmed by hero Wikipedians Pharos and Fuzheado and arrested. 77016
ragesoss @ragesoss.bsky.social · 14/10/2025feeling energized after listening to this fantastic Anoushka Shankar performance youtu.be/4d8Qey7xdkg?...youtu.beAnoushka Shankar - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)YouTube video by KEXP 010
Reposted by ragesossCristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 05/10/2025This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL... 33714364415475
ragesoss @ragesoss.bsky.social · 03/10/2025my sister was at Planet Fitness in Lake Forest Park, WA this afternoon, when a large number of US Marshals came in, and handcuffed a man literally while he was on a step machine. seemed to be looking for a fight. when confronted by patrons, they acted like bullies and refused to answer questions. 211
Reposted by ragesossMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 01/10/2025We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25. 649249428245
ragesoss @ragesoss.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Minority Report but the precogs are just an LLM reasoning model and the precrime cops are the stupidest, most racist people you can imagine 021
ragesoss @ragesoss.bsky.social · 30/09/2025what a narrow, weak, pathetic masculinity these fascists push. like, bro, you're choking your own soul. 000
![A meme depicting a woman staring at her phone with one hand on her head, with the following text below:
IS YOUR CHILD TEXTING ABOUT THE WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD?
What your Great Lakes maritime history-obsessed teen's text messages actually mean:
brb = bell rang bro
rofl = rang out for lost (crew)
bff = big freakin' freigher
lol = Load of Ore on the Lake
smh = shift minutes to hours
glhf = Great Lakes hella freighter
tbh = taconite be haulin'
stfu = steer the freighter upwind
tfw = that freakin' witch (of November)
asl = a ship lost
gg = Gitche Gumee
idc = immoderate deadweight capacity
btw = beneath the waves
afk = a freighter kaput
hbd = hauler's beacon down
ily = iron load yonder
jk = just [24] kilometers
lmao = lost my abyssal ore
nbd = north bound draft
glhf = good lord, hold flooding
omg = obliteratingly massive gales
tmi = too much iron
wtf = White Fish (Bay)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ccm7gttkbfs2eyyrlpshmeun/bafkreib6ughtj23oqdskaisavrueyn6fijujbp2e663h6p6ukx74lbibyu)
