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Łorϊ J. Williams🧋

@ringtheory.bsky.social
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Ex Google SWE, neurospicy, + many other things. And y'all, I need to be selective where I put my energy. Self care is a form of resistance, especially among queer and BIPOCs. People don't want us to exist. No LGB without the T.

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Nothing @nothingofvalue.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Holy shit. Cornell is the single largest employer in Ithaca, employing 6x more people than the next largest employer and employing about a third of the city's population. There was every reason to think a mayor wouldn't put something out like this. That he did should be an example to the country.
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Łorϊ J. Williams🧋 @ringtheory.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Landing page after loading Disney Plus in a browser. Uh, wat? "www.disneyplus.com/select-profile?u…"
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There seems to be a coordinated talking point among the EA folks that the "standard" approach to "AI" on "the Left" is "AI is just stochastic parrots so no need to worry about it". (Sorry for all the scare quotes, but y'know) >>
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 26/09/2026
My top 4 Crow Full Moon shots tonight. P L E N T Y of video to edit someday! 🪶 🐦‍⬛
a crow flies in front of the moon, greyish sky, the crow is flapping their wings downtwo crows fly in front and near the moon, in the middle and the bottom left, a snowy egret is out of focus below the moon, greyish skya crow flies in front of the moon, dark sky, the crow is flapping their wings up but not fully extendeda crow flies in front of the moon, dark purple sky, the crow is in full cruise mode
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George Spies @georgespies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Fix transit in the East Bay, Vote Adriana Valencia for AC Transit” and many variations of the same. Has the benefit of being true! Volunteer! Donate! Vote! www.valenciaforactransit.com
valenciaforactransit.com
Adriana Valencia for AC Transit • Ward 3
Adriana Valencia is a frequent transit rider, community transit advocate and product manager running for AC Transit in Ward 3. Unable to drive because of a vision disability, Adriana relies on public ...
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Small black rabbit sitting on the floor with his feet tucked under him 
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optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Folks, we're terribly sorry to announce that there was a LinkedIn spill that broke containment and leeched into Bluesky. While the spill is being handled, we ask that you refrain from discussions about synergy, hustle, paradigm shifts, and praise for grind culture. Thank you for your cooperation.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The US voted against women’s rights at the United Nations. They were the only country to do so. In 2021 they also voted against making adequate food a basic human right. They see people are expendable. They want you sick, exhausted and complacent. It’s a cull to enrich the billionaire class.
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Łorϊ J. Williams🧋 @ringtheory.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Interpretation of Google to users: "you have to click through every link to verify our llm summary is remotely true". Then why have the "summary" at all or put it in any other products?
abovethelaw.com
Google AI Said Man Killed 3 People. Defamation Defense: 'LOL, No One Trusts AI Summaries!' - Above the Law
Federal judge disagreed. Case moving forward.
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Łorϊ J. Williams🧋 @ringtheory.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I find it interesting that the main reason I know how to spell "reservoir" is because of Reservoir Dogs.
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Łorϊ J. Williams🧋 @ringtheory.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
WHYYYYYYYYYYYY! Why did Gmail change it's importance markers? Did someone need promo? Yellow (old way) = Pay attention Blue (+2 others) = another blue thing. Plus I have to change all the blue stars back to yellow now! 😡 *And* their Gemini entry on it is incorrect.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 24/09/2026
If you value your long-term health and cognitive function, masking and protecting yourself from COVID are some of the highest ROI things you can do. I realize it’s not considered cool or fun to say this, but it’s true
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Łorϊ J. Williams🧋 @ringtheory.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is just gross. Stanford using AI to fake students.
kron4.com
Stanford housing and catering department used AI to change students’ race, gender, weight
(KRON) –Stanford Residential and Dining Enterprises, the campus department in charge of food and housing, used AI to alter a student’s race, gender and weight in marketing materials, a …
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Headless Bloc @headlessbloc.cryptoanarchy.network · 22/09/2026
The entire Puget Sound region is facing an ICE surge. ICE has been steadily ramping up ops since January but this weekend saw an unprecedented increase in the area. This is what iceout.org looks like for Sept. 19-21. Not a month or a week. Three days. Hundreds of sightings. Dozens of abductions.
Screenshot of iceout.org, filtered for 9/19/2026 – 9/21/2026: several green and yellow pins, and way too many red pins indicating an arrest. Pins are scattered all over the I-5 corridor from Marysvill all the way down to Olympia, with a few outliers.
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Łorϊ J. Williams🧋 @ringtheory.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Agent fail. On Yeti.com I asked the agent to show me a drawing of the cup height. It gave me: Height: 10.8 inches. ASCII sketch: | | | | 10.8in|====================| 0in Would you like a side-view drawing at a specific scale?
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Łorϊ J. Williams🧋 @ringtheory.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
When Google had its mobile-first push, I was skeptical because I used the desktop most. My usage has recently shifted a lot such that I would appreciate the mobile-first functionality now. I wonder what the product device usage numbers were before and soon after the push and what they look like now.
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Charlie (they/she)| @charlie.looseendingsstudio.com · 10/08/2026
Daily bunny does not get dysentery. #iykyk
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Daily bunny no.3446 is not left-handed
Bunnies re-enact the duel between Inigo and Wesley in "The Princess Bride", with a masked bunny fighting against a dashing shaggy bunny with a gold sword. The masked bunny is cornered, near the edge of a rocky cliffside, but still has a trick up his sleeve
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Spielberg is demonstrating he understands airborne infection and how to mitigate it! He’s outside at the opening of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art and he’s wearing a KN95! A good respirator protects you and those around you. Covid is not over and a mask is a great way to stay healthy.
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Łorϊ J. Williams🧋 @ringtheory.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If there was a way for Google to pay me for each bug I find in their interfaces, I'd absolutely do that. Instead I stare at Calendar entries adding on a comma that isn't actually there to the end of my titles in grid view.
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Łorϊ J. Williams🧋 @ringtheory.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Poppy is so incredibly ableist. The acronyms aren't new. No doctor ever told me I was hypermobile. I found out that's unusual only in the past 3 years. No doctor told me about POTS until 2 years ago because, wait for it, I was diagnosed with POTS caused by a new med. MDD, ADHD? How dare we be seen.
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De Tomaso Panera @griffonatrix.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Okay "Alcatraz AI" aside, really just admitting that they're changing shit just to change shit. Anyway can't wait for this to either be defeated by someone holding up a picture or get removed because it can't recognize Black people and locks them out of their dorms.
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Łorϊ J. Williams🧋 @ringtheory.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I have this great little 2013 Nissan Leaf that I bought used. It's great for getting to work and back. It has 57 miles of range. It's perfect for local student driving to school and around the city running errands. I can't get it sold online for more than ~$1000 because of an accident 😭
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026
I hate doing the "a rollback of trans rights is the gateway for a rollback of women's rights" thing because trans rights are human rights in and of themselves, whatever the impact on cis women. But goddamn I wish more cis women had a sense of history and self preservation.
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Natanael, Tech janitor @natanael.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
"In October 2025, Bobba got on a recorded conference call with state election directors [] and presented a federal voter registration system the studio was building. Voters would register through a federal portal, their identities verified through Login.gov, their citizenship verified through DHS"
login.gov
The public’s one account for government. | Login.gov
Use one account and password for secure, private access to participating government agencies.
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Dom Evans @domevans.electricmarshmallow.com · 20/09/2026
Trans men can have periods, too. Trans men can be pregnant and give birth. Trans men need access to menstrual supplies. Trans man deserve access to safe reproductive care.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“If we are thinking about AI just in terms of how do we cure cancer or get better energy, you can do that without having agentic roaming free in the internet … Not because necessarily they're trying to do bad things, but because they've got to justify these valuations.“- Barack Obama ~ He gets it.
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Łorϊ J. Williams🧋 @ringtheory.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
For people local to California, a measles case just passed at least 6 counties, including Alameda:
kcra.com
California officials warn of possible measles exposure in 6 counties due to infected Amtrak rider
State public health officials are warning about a possible measles exposure across multiple California counties after an infected passenger traveled across the country on trains and buses.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 16/09/2026
For my newsletter, I wrote about how we shouldn't ignore that a billionaire trying to build data centers is putting a hundred million into Republican anti-trans ads in these midterms. www.burnsnotice.com/the-data-cen...
burnsnotice.com
The Data Center Guy Wants This Election to be About Trans People
Elon Musk obviously hates trans people, but let's not pretend he has nothing to gain personally from a Republican win this fall
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Łorϊ J. Williams🧋 @ringtheory.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Every time I start to catch myself wanting to frequently check a site online (whether that is social or news or something else) I remind myself that frequent checking is a sign of reduced reward sensitivity: that is, my brain is getting less dopamine each time it seeks it and so the behavior...
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Łorϊ J. Williams🧋 @ringtheory.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
*sigh* Everytime I see a director at a company talk about "building high-performing engineering teams and creating a culture of ownership" *right* after talking about scaling AI, I think, "You realize the irony, right? You're pushing LLM slop as high performance and explicitly uncoupling ownership."
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
oh hell no www.wsj.com/business/air...
wsj.com
Exclusive | The FAA’s $875 Million Plan to Use AI to Ease Air-Traffic Woes
The air-traffic tool is expected to debut in the Washington, D.C., area as soon as Monday.
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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If you’re tired of hearing about Women’s Health, here’s a fun one: Medicine has just «rediscovered» a whole female organ: The Rete Ovarii It was literally erased from anatomy. Seemingly from all mammals. So it was also rediscovered in mice.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Rediscovering the Rete Ovarii: a secreting auxiliary structure to the ovary
The rete ovarii (RO) is an appendage of the ovary that has been given little attention. Although the RO appears in drawings of the ovary in early versions of Gray’s Anatomy, it disappeared from recent...
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Łorϊ J. Williams🧋 @ringtheory.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Ooh! I found a phrase in German that triggers Gemini to reply back in German! "Nicht alle Tassen im Schrank" This was unexpected. And delightful from getting a confirmation of continued user intention-model mismatch. And depressing because "emergent (really only meaning "unknown") behavior".
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
Nobody posting on fucking Bluesky is affecting the votes of people not on Bluesky. I didn't accept that framing when it was Twitter. I sure as shit don't accept that framing now. "Criticizing Democrats is voter suppression." Shut the fuck up.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A Canadian study of nearly 9,000 adults looked at repeat COVID infections. Researchers found that people who reported having COVID at least twice had 76% higher odds of being diagnosed with a new health condition, across 21 conditions studied, compared with those who reported never being infected.
medicaldaily.com
Adults with Two or More COVID Infections Had 76% Higher Odds of a New Diagnosis in Canadian Survey
A Canadian survey tied repeat COVID-19 infections to 76% higher odds of a new diagnosis. Here is what it shows and what it cannot prove.
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Łorϊ J. Williams🧋 @ringtheory.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Update your Pixels
theregister.com
Google Pixel phones pwned in zero-click attacks
CISA gives federal agencies just 3 days to patch
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Łorϊ J. Williams🧋 @ringtheory.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My body: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_the_... My brain: But we took ADHD meds this morning! Let's continue to get stuff done, wheeeeee!
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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 17/09/2026
so the official bluesky policy position is that you can't tell someone to kill themselves but you can tell a protected minority category that you hope that state kills them. Am i getting that right.
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Łorϊ J. Williams🧋 @ringtheory.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A relative of mine is going to a speed-friending event and all I can think about is me introducing myself as "Hi, my name is [x] and my "fun fact" is that after this event I'll be overanalyzing everything I said for cringe."
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Łorϊ J. Williams🧋 @ringtheory.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Y'all, have I told you about Covid Curls yet? A friend of mine told me that after her daughter caught covid a couple years back that her daughter suddenly had super curly hair. I've had stick straight Asian hair near my entire life. This is all new growth since February. *And* it's documented!
Picture of my hair growth since February and how it has gone curly very likely due to covid since I've had stick straight hair my entire life just like in the article https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12039786/
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Łorϊ J. Williams🧋 @ringtheory.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Why is an official car brand dealership marking up parts by 250%? Or if the cost is small enough, 7x for an aftermarket part (and 2x for oem). I shouldn't be surprised by this, but still! It's ridiculous that they're charging $70 for a filter and $40 for labor.
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Łorϊ J. Williams🧋 @ringtheory.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm staring at a 1 TB portable SSD, seeing that it is the same approximate size as an *8 MB* laptop SSD I bought in the 90's and about the same price. And I'm being told that disk prices are currently high 🤯
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Mask Bloc MSP @maskblocmsp.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Just in time for the increase of large super-spreader events, from the Minnesota State Fair and school beginning to start, we have Rapid Antigen Tests for people in the Twin Cities of Minnesota community to access for free. (1/2)
Graphic of an announcement that Mask Bloc MSP has Covid tests back in stock. White text in a blue box reads, "Autumn 2026 Restock: We have Rapid Tests back in stock! submit your request at linktr[.]ee/maskblocMSP". On the light pink background there are several negative covid tests arranged in lines behind the text and boxes.
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Łorϊ J. Williams🧋 @ringtheory.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I've also seen this directly where Google News's AI re-wrote the title of an article about the city I live in. Clicking through, nothing about my city and it was about a completely differently named one. futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
Google Caught Replacing News Headlines With AI-Generated Nonsense
Google Discover is showing users misleading and seemingly AI-generated headlines that replace the actual ones on articles.
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Łorϊ J. Williams🧋 @ringtheory.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
That realization at 6pm when you realize you forgot to switch over from caffeinated drinks to decaf and you've drunk 5 cups of coffee since the morning when you usually only drink 1 with caffeine. 🫨
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Lauren Flans @laurenflans.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I know that sharing this is probably not going to change the mind of anyone who isn't already masking and taking #Covid seriously, but I have to do my due diligence and at least try! Years from now, people will be like "Nobody told us! 😫" about this, too. Some of us are trying, dawg!! #maskup 😷
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@stonedauntjanny
What am I supposed to do with this overwhelming rage and grief and fear I feel after Mamdani and Jon Stewart disclosed that the majority of the people I know and care for in NYC were breathing in toxic air for months...years?

How we were encouraged to go downtown and have dinner, see a movie, go shopping all whilst Pataki and Giuliani and Bush knew we were breathing and touching asbestos?! They did not care as long as the economy was ok!

I've never felt more betrayed by my fucking government.

@jessyroos
I really hate to pile on here, but they are doing the same thing with Covid. The air is not safe, Covid causes damage to your immune system, brain, heart, etc, even when you have a mild infection. And they've been telling everyone for years that's it's all fine and good and we should live like Covid isn't still circulating and causing immense harm. They don't care as long as the economy is okay.
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