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Rosie Thomas

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Rosie Thomas @rosiejt62.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Why do we keep sending quarantined people to Nebraska? This is genuinely a very interesting question, and I had a great time learning about the efforts of one doctor, two decades ago, to make it happen slate.com/technology/2...
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It’s a Midsize City. It Makes the News Every Six Years. You’d Never Guess the Reason.
It started in the wake of 9/11.
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Rosie Thomas @rosiejt62.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The Talkie/ Vintage model thing is cool because it shows that all models are limited by data that exists or can be presently generated (even if you make thousands more data points by face-capture) BUT they fine-tuned it using stuff generated by Claude. So there's likely going to be contamination
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
NO GOBLINS
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OpenAI Really Wants Codex to Shut Up About Goblins
“Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant,” reads OpenAI’s coding agent instructions.
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Rosie Thomas @rosiejt62.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I did quant economics and then worked in tech and I can pinpoint the year that I stopped having software brain because my life became way more interesting
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 15/04/2026
Objection, a Thiel-backed startup, aims to use AI to judge journalism, letting users pay to challenge stories. Critics warn it could chill whistleblowers and reshape how media accountability works.
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Exclusive: Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers
Objection, a Thiel-backed startup, aims to use AI to judge journalism, letting users pay to challenge stories. Critics warn it could chill whistleblowers and reshape how media accountability works.
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Rosie Thomas @rosiejt62.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Outdoor Voices relaunches as military drone company :)
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Rosie Thomas @rosiejt62.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Will be interesting to see how this plays out in the salary stuff as well
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Maybe I’ll write about the Affordability Discourse one day but I think that one thing (among many both material and perceptual) that this hard to untangle is that everyone—including those who are doing fine in material terms—has a lot more visibility into how well the rich are doing than in the past
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Luxury goods, for example, are both more expensive—their prices have far outpaced general inflation—and much more broadly marketed than they were 20 years ago. If you get sucked into the wrong algorithmic feed, it can feel like you’re the only person without whatever fancy thing it is you desire
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David William with a 'This IS my costume' pin @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
"Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei has said he is open to the idea that Claude may already have some form of consciousness, and company leaders frequently talk about the need to give it a moral character." This is a sales pitch, and journalism that doesn't highlight this has failed.
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I guess what I’m saying is great consumer products don’t make young people feel anger and despair the more they use them www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/s...
More than half of Gen Z-ers living in the United States use generative artificial intelligence regularly, but their feelings about the technology are souring, according to a new survey released on Thursday by Gallup, the Walton Family Foundation and GSV Ventures, a venture capital firm that works in education technology.
The percentage of respondents ages 14 to 29 who said they felt hopeful about A.I. declined sharply since last year, down to 18 percent from 27. Young adults' excitement about artificial intelligence dropped, too, and nearly a third of respondents indicated that the technology made them feel angry.
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Rosie Thomas @rosiejt62.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
TV review in The Guardian that I thought was a genuine headline and didn't even blink
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Rosie Thomas @rosiejt62.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Waiting for the discourse about LLM use in journalism to ask whether sources are comfortable with reporters dropping everything they said into OpenAI's database. Like, sure you can replace a journalist but... I feel like we need two-party consent for Otter
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
goodnight sweet prince
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RIP Metaverse, an $80 Billion Dumpster Fire Nobody Wanted
Who could have possibly predicted this, besides everyone?
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Rosie Thomas @rosiejt62.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The models need fresh data <3
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Rosie Thomas @rosiejt62.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
These LinkedIn job ads are getting so accurate
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The Onion @theonion.com · 16/03/2026
What To Know About ‘Sinners’ theonion.com/what-to-know-about-sin…
Q: What is Sinners about?

A: America’s inability to discuss its complex racial history without bringing the Irish into things.
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
this is just an evolution of Cluely, the "cheat on everything" app that caused a stir last year. This is what it looks like in the real world.
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The Man Who Wants AI to Help You ‘Cheat on Everything’
Roy Lee used AI to beat challenging technical interviews, now he wants people to do the same thing with every human interaction. We tested the tool and it kinda sucks.
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404 Media @404media.co · 16/03/2026
A newly published study of how college students interact with chatbots and human strangers showed talking to a random person offers more connection than an LLM.
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Texting a Random Stranger Better for Loneliness Than Talking to a Chatbot, Study Shows
A newly published study of how college students interact with chatbots and human strangers showed talking to a random person offers more connection than an LLM.
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Rosie Thomas @rosiejt62.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
This week - Cornell Tech research shows that using an autocomplete LLM can shift your beliefs. Exposed to a biased bot, users' attitudes converged toward the AI’s position. Users didn't notice & warning that it might happen didn't impact on whether it did. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Biased AI writing assistants shift users’ attitudes on societal issues
Biased AI writing assistants shift people’s attitudes about societal issues; common interventions do not prevent this influence.
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Rosie Thomas @rosiejt62.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Good hotel lobby laptop Lower East Side? <3
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning" got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing
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Rosie Thomas @rosiejt62.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
every day i flip a coin between "i was an idiot to do a graduate statistics degree in 2018" and "thank god I did a graduate statistics degree in 2018" and the entire vibe of the whole day rests on the outcome :)
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
We got photos and video of the Cybertruck that nearly barreled off an overpass while using full self driving. Lawsuit says Tesla is to blame because Musk has oversold the truck’s ability to drive itself www.404media.co/cybertruck-t...
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Cybertruck Tried to Drive 'Straight Off an Overpass' Attorney Claims
‘Elon Musk is an aggressive and irresponsible salesman, who has a long history of making dangerous design choices, and over-promising the features of his products.’
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Rosie Thomas @rosiejt62.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Wrote a (good?) cover letter, sent the whole application, then immediately re-read it and started questioning my maybe-incorrect use of a really common colloquial phrase in the first line, and now I'm like... man. It would be so good to be able to blame this anxiety on a robot.
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Rosie Thomas @rosiejt62.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
how will you feel when AI comes for your paddleboard
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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Maxxing is the new gate
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Rosie Thomas @rosiejt62.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Yesterday I saw a CEO's AI agent posting on linkedin AS THE AGENT, talking about the CEO's daily productivity schedule in the third person, and have low key been in fight or flight since then
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Rosie Thomas @rosiejt62.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Really following this New Mexico Meta Trial very closely because it's like, what if big tech companies could be shilling products while ignoring evidence that they're bad for people's brains
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Rosie Thomas @rosiejt62.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
As someone who's been paid to code *and* to write, I disagree with this take. IKEA mass-produces chairs but we're not like "carpentry is bullshit". A lot of early career coders were, essentially, apprentices learning foundational info. Humans doing well takes skill in all domains <3
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Rosie Thomas @rosiejt62.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
If only there were a job where you don't really report but you have good writing skills. Sure, you'd have to use the writing skills, which would be annoying!
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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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Rosie Thomas @rosiejt62.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Just feels like they maybe could have named some of the ways you can be "steered very wrong" www.cnbc.com/2026/03/04/g...
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Google's AI chatbot allegedly told user to stage 'mass casualty attack,' wrongful death suit claims
The father of Jonathan Gavalas accused Google of convincing his son to commit suicide after first encouraging him to execute a "mass casualty attack."
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tante @tante.cc · 03/03/2026
As a human being you have the right to be able to understand the world. That is why education is so important. Any technology that hinders your understanding (even if it seemingly gives you capabilities) is deeply in- and anti-humane.
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tante @tante.cc · 03/03/2026
The answer to problems in sociotechnical systems is not always "more software", "better software" or "open source software". A lot of the time the best solution is _less software_ and sometimes even _no software_.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
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Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?
The human subconscious is such an interesting thing. No matter how much you think you’ve got it figured out, it’ll always spit out the most random stuff. Take me, for example. After coming home from a...
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Rosie Thomas @rosiejt62.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I've been in a closet writing and am now reading these posts properly... I feel like the artificial quotes chaos pulled attention from the fact that dudes who write things like "Your a scientific programming God!" are demanding access to all the code bases theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...
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An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward
Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
the publisher of the new york times wants you to subscribe to the handbasket www.thehandbasket.co/subscribe
transcript of a NYT podcast ad: This is A.G. Sulzberger. I’m the publisher of The New York Times. I oversee our news operations and our business. But I’m also a former reporter who has watched with a lot of alarm as our profession has shrunk and shrunk in recent years. Normally, in these ads, we talk about the importance of subscribing to the Times. I’m here today with a different message. I’m encouraging you to support any news organization that’s dedicated to original reporting. If that’s your local newspaper, terrific — local newspapers in particular need your support. If that’s another national newspaper, that’s great too.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 24/02/2026
She made a "rookie mistake", but with OpenClaw, *everybody* is a rookie! There is no non-rookie! It's a fool's errand to pretend there's a safe way to run this shit, and the wild thing is that these people are publicly advertising that they're running this stuff.
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Rosie Thomas @rosiejt62.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
how can you love free jazz and yet hate bad bunny? <3
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Rosie Thomas @rosiejt62.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
extremely predictable outcome of announcing how creepy your product is on the national stage
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
If you ever have any doubt about this, try going to a "Mexican" restaurant in London.
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 09/02/2026
Yeah I’m looking for my dog (girlfriend who has a restraining order against me and she has a dog) and here’s the picture of the dog (she walks this dog and I can use it to figure out her schedule) thanks for sending all footage my way
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.
halftime show fromt eh supebowl showing a set on the field featuring a nyc bodega
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

Elmo
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That Bunny was AMAZING. Elmo thinks he should be called Good Bunny! Elmo loves you, Mr. Good Bunny! ❤️🎶🐰
Based Yankee
@thebasedyankee
You and Bad Bunny should be deported
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Adam P Knave @adampknave.com · 09/02/2026
Old Super Bowl ads: Look! Big horses! Buy a beer. New Super Bowl ads: give your soul over to the theft engines or we’ll use footage of you to kill your dog.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I am not seeing any reputable news article stating that was Liam Ramos at the Super Bowl but verified accounts with hundreds of thousands of people are spreading the rumor. Come on people.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
full res
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
WE BOUGHT A SUPER BOWL AD
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
404 Media just had an ad during the #SuperBowl! We Googled "smallest TV markets in the United States" and bought an ad for $2,550 that only ran in Ottumwa, Iowa, population 25,000. That still counts www.404media.co/watch-404-me...
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Watch 404 Media’s Super Bowl Ad
WE BOUGHT A SUPER BOWL AD.
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