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Sarah Rosenberg @sarahrosenberg.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Especially the cute ones shaped like cars or something. Can’t even hang legs out over the edge!

Sarah Rosenberg @sarahrosenberg.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

pretty sure there is similar "reasoning" as to why he doesn't take a strong stand against Putin. a good slice of MAGA admires and to some extent wants to emulate the strong-man ethnonationalist (white) Christian leader -- but don't relate to/admire the Iranian theocracy in at all the same way

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Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I do not want AI on a train I do not want it in the rain I do not want AI on a boat I do not want an AI goat I do not like the AI spam I do not like it, Sam [Altman] I am

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Sarah Rosenberg @sarahrosenberg.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

For the people who think racial inequality is a historical artefact that is behind us: www.nber.org/system/files... important new work from @kaseybuckles.bsky.social and her coauthors linking Americans over four generations. History matters in the present

nber.org

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Sarah Rosenberg @sarahrosenberg.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Being an American parent in Sweden is going to your kid's end-of-school ceremony and hearing them blast the uncensored version of Starships-- which includes the line "higher than a motherf*a" like 9x--to all the parents, toddler siblings, and <12yo kids

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Sarah Rosenberg @sarahrosenberg.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

There is def less drama. which maybe is because of less toxic people. but yes, makes it more boring, in the way that a healthy and normal relationship is boring compared to a toxic and fraught one

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Sarah Rosenberg @sarahrosenberg.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

apropos of nothing: blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-s... when I read things like this I wonder if he's hyping it for his own monetary gain or he really believes it, and then I wonder how he believes it

blog.samaltman.com

The Gentle Singularity

We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence, and at least so far it’s much less weird than it seems like it should be. Robots...

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Sarah Rosenberg @sarahrosenberg.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

"A subsistence farmer from a thousand years ago would look at what many of us do and say we have fake jobs...since we have plenty of food and unimaginable luxuries." interesting (lack of) perspective since many also currently feel their jobs are fake blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-s...

blog.samaltman.com

The Gentle Singularity

We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence, and at least so far it’s much less weird than it seems like it should be. Robots...

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Sarah Rosenberg @sarahrosenberg.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I can only find the data for Sweden, and that data looks to be rather guesstimated: ourworldindata.org/grapher/lite... But I know based on historical practices/organization of schools that about 4-5 years of education was universal by the 1860s-1880s

ourworldindata.org

Literacy rate

An interactive visualization from Our World in Data.

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Sarah Rosenberg @sarahrosenberg.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

meant to write mid- to late-1800s!

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Sarah Rosenberg @sarahrosenberg.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I'm not sure if this was a cause or an effect, but promoting early universal literacy (like mid- to late- 1900s) I think was a factor.

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Sarah Rosenberg @sarahrosenberg.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I asked one to assist me in something the other day that could have easily been solved either by reasoning but also by brute force, so I also find it curious given its crazy computational power that it doesn't identify those situations and use it

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Sarah Rosenberg @sarahrosenberg.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

not to mention also implies our allyship with the 1st world, who we as a country have lately ditched

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Sarah Rosenberg @sarahrosenberg.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

also kind of funny in using 3rd world language is that it implies the existence of the 2nd world, aka our historical rivals in geopolitics who we now just let trample whoever they want

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Sarah Rosenberg @sarahrosenberg.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

to be fair they also can fail impressively on things that don't require originality but just logic

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Sarah Rosenberg @sarahrosenberg.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

continue to be a bit bemused about the AI hype. my experience is that chatGPT at least is like an overconfident, slightly incompetent RA -- helpful for some narrow, heavily guided, concrete, and easily verifiable tasks, but anything more and it's probably better (and faster) to do it yourself

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 11/06/2025

Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet. ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.

extremetech.com

ChatGPT Lost a Chess Game to an Atari 2600

And on the 'Beginner' difficulty level, too.

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Sarah Rosenberg @sarahrosenberg.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

yep. the largest category of countries in the world pay lip service to democracy but are functionally not democracies because of things like this

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Sarah Rosenberg @sarahrosenberg.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

it took me a moment, but i chuckled when i understood

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Sarah Rosenberg @sarahrosenberg.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

oh wow I didn't know pandora was still alive! it was definitely better at suggesting music, gotta go check that out again

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Sarah Rosenberg @sarahrosenberg.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

ah, maybe this is the tip I was looking for. will check it out

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Sarah Rosenberg @sarahrosenberg.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

How do you diversify and find new music? I find spotify is bad at suggesting things that aren't super mainstream and popular (also their algorithms are broken by the fact that I have kids)

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Sarah Rosenberg @sarahrosenberg.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

using chatgpt to generate a "family" image with 2 adults + kid and wow it can't hold back the heternormativity. after explicit instructions to remove hair/clothes and like 5 iterations, it *shortens* the "mom's" hair...but adds a boob for good measure

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Sarah Rosenberg @sarahrosenberg.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

extremely considerate. raising em right

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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

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Sarah Rosenberg @sarahrosenberg.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Thanks for the rec! Just recently read Becky Chambers' two short "Monk & Robot" novels and absolutely adored them, was just puzzling over which to jump into next

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Sarah Rosenberg @sarahrosenberg.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

the fact that the American idea of something akin to a general labor strike is a general consumption strike is...something

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

If you're wondering what the vibes are in DC, it's sort of now a thing when you talk to people to open a conversation with some version of "Hi...do you...still have a job..."

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.

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Sarah Rosenberg @sarahrosenberg.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I am sure he does know. This is a leading theory for why he carries that poor child around everywhere -- to dissuade potential "righteous" shooters

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Sarah Rosenberg @sarahrosenberg.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

well, we already know their theories about quantifying health issues. No measurements, no morbidity, no problem!

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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

REMINDER: Cutting IRS spending is not a “cost-cutting” move. Cutting the IRS lowers revenue. It’s a move to protect the wealthy, like Elon Musk. Auditing the rich returns $12 for every $1 spent. www.nber.org/papers/w31376

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Sarah Rosenberg @sarahrosenberg.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Notably, there's a 10 p.p. increase in "economy on the wrong track" and a 4 p.p. decrease in approval for how Trump is handling the economy

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Sarah Rosenberg @sarahrosenberg.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

oh gee whiz we wouldn't want to exceed the power vested in us by the Constitution!

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Sarah Rosenberg @sarahrosenberg.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

They're censoring the use of decimals

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I will fix my finances using the DOGE roadmap Step 1: save 5 dollars by not getting coffee Step 2: record it as 5,000 dollars in the spreadsheet where i track my finances Step 3: tell everyone I saved 5,000 dollars already

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Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

i think it has not sunk in for people, including newspaper headline writers, that "probationary" employees does not just mean like, young novice staffers right out of college, but those who have received promotions in the last year

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Sarah Rosenberg @sarahrosenberg.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

judge gave DOJ lawyer a time out and then asked if it hurt their feelings

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Sarah Rosenberg @sarahrosenberg.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Is it overly generous of my to read this as not not knowing who FDR was, but rather not knowing how the beginning of his presidency went? It's kind of horrifying to imagine a political journalist not knowing who he is

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Sarah Rosenberg @sarahrosenberg.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Sometimes I think I haven't read enough history (bc it's all my partner reads) and then I read things like this.

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Sarah Rosenberg @sarahrosenberg.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I'm thinking of family who have started companies and had to weather covid, inflation, the uncertainty around this admin, etc. but of course it affects us in academia as well

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Sarah Rosenberg @sarahrosenberg.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I'm sorry. It's rough. I don't know if this will make you feel better, but one thing I have seen/learned over the years is to appreciate how much global shocks/external events affect many of our paths. You can have brilliant ideas, and it still might not pan out.

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Sarah Rosenberg @sarahrosenberg.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I've seen some say that the kid's presence in public increased a lot after the United Health killing. And that he'd never been seen carrying the boy on his shoulders before

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

BREAKING On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.

An internal memo issued February 12 was obtained by Popular Information.

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Sarah Rosenberg @sarahrosenberg.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I read Psalm for the Wild-Built and it was delightful. "It's like a hug" is amazingly accurate

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