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Dr. Steve

@steveintransit.bsky.social
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Former CS prof, data guy, Information Science PhD, AI crap, civic tech, casual micromobility researcher, NYer in Baltimore, etc.

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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 2h
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Dr. Steve @steveintransit.bsky.social · 4h
Watching the trailer for Ebenezer to make sure they didn't make it go the other way in Tr*mp's America
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Dr. Steve @steveintransit.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"Is that the Real Oriole or just somebody dressed like them" is a real thought I had after 2 drafts on a Friday evening
Baltimore orioles mascot
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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
No more hypotheticals anymore, we’re here.
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 09/10/2026
Quebec is the most anti-Elon Musk province in Canada “Musk’s net favourability in Quebec sits at -74%.”
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Quebec is the most anti-Elon Musk province in Canada
Quebec is the most anti-Elon Musk province in Canada.
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Dr. Steve @steveintransit.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I didn't steal this AI meme, it was just part of my training data
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Stand Up America @standupamerica.com · 09/10/2026
Trump has spent his presidency asking Republicans: Are you loyal to me? The midterms give voters a chance to ask our elected officials a different question: Are you accountable to us?
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Jimothy the Raccoon @jimothythe-raccoon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I saw this at the Dr office #jimothy #seattle #jimothyraccoon
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Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 07/10/2026
The Association for Human Mathematics (AHM) statement on OpenAI’s October 6 release of mathematical documents just dropped! www.ahmath.org/statements
AHM Statement on OpenAI’s October 6 Release of Mathematical Documents

Yesterday, on October 6th, 2026, OpenAI – which is currently defending lawsuits against accusations of illegal plagiarism, copyright infringement, and trademark dilution – released a repository of manuscripts purporting to contain solutions to a number of high-profile problems in mathematics.

Mathematicians did not ask for this work to be done. The Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, from whom OpenAI has claimed to derive its legitimacy, opened their initial advisory statement by saying that frontier AI corporations should not test advanced mathematical problems on internal models. In ignoring the central premise of the Advisory Group’s position, OpenAI has indicated total disregard for the norms of scientific research — norms that guarantee that mathematics remains trustworthy, ethically researched, and in the public interest.

Mathematicians have a particular vision of progress that is informed by history and field-specific considerations. We reject OpenAI's assertion that this release advances our subject, and we urge mathematicians and the public to view the value of this publication model with due skepticism. 

Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding.

Association for Human Mathematics
Communications Working Group
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Lauren McGaughy @lmcgaughy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Scoop: In 2014, Ken Paxton sat for a deposition where federal lawyers quizzed him about his growing wealth and investment tactics. The depo has never been made public. We got a copy. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/u...
nytimes.com
Inside Ken Paxton’s Private Testimony About His Money
A leaked deposition from a fraud inquiry in 2014 provides insight into the Senate candidate’s growing wealth and his tactics for defending himself.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe. And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.” ~Pete Buttigieg
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Dr. Steve @steveintransit.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I can't help feeling there's some body dismorphia going on here, but also, WTF
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."
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Dr. Steve @steveintransit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The corruption is bad enpugh, but how cheaply we're being sold out for is a little insulting
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Ain't This 👇 The Truth.......
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Alex @mplsalex.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Petition for Jamelle Bouie to replace all headline writers in the US.
YouTube. Video with title

I cannot emphasize enough that the president has pudding for brains
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TVOHIO @tvohio.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Soon ?
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Couldn't agree more 👇
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
And they voted for him anyway 😕
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Exactly 💯
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Dr. Steve @steveintransit.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Cornell University is an aggregate of 16 separate colleges. Which means these 21% of women likely exceed the enrollment of any single academic department.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"We Can't Eat Road Salt" should be a whole ad.
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
very tired of being told it is the responsibility of urban democratic voters never to risk possibly maybe by chance seeming less than respectful of rural red state life and then watching thousands in nebraska cheer on the president joking about a nuclear strike on me and millions of my neighbors
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AnnieR @anet2111.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sexual assault, like the Trump era, reveals that law is applied selectively. Every court, university, and institution will say: “We take sexual violence seriously.” And every one will find, with uncanny consistency, reasons not to take it very seriously at all. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
The horror of the Cornell rape case is how ordinary it is | Moira Donegan
Many men rape; many men giggle encouragingly, or shrug indifferently, when their friends rape. Many men rape, and few seem to think that it’s a very big deal
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Dr. Steve @steveintransit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Threads has some good coverage of the Cornell 7 / Jane Doe case by PinkRibbonWarrior, if anyone is interested.
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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Continuing the disconnecting theme: 'We had been warned. Our friends also experienced the phenomenon of aging parents cleaning out their homes ... It was like tumbling into a time capsule, pulling out old school books & photo albums, mixtapes & comics. Then we opened the box marked “Video Games.”'
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Dr. Steve @steveintransit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Idk, a few generations of Matriarchy should put things back into balance.
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Dr. Steve @steveintransit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
OH in the bookstore: it's what I want to spend my money on. Would you rather I was an alcoholic?
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Dr. Steve @steveintransit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ai is certainly going to force us to think about the role of pattern-matching as part of many components of cognitive work. Analyzing the varying successes and failures of LLMs in computer programming feels like the defining test case for this, for a number of reasons.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending
a graph of roadway and mass transit lights
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Dr. Steve @steveintransit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Watching a cheerful video about "Good Enough AI" and the point they're circling around is a structurally deflationary spiral like the Great Depression. And demand destruction from massive unemployment I disagree with the premise of a "layoff tax" patterned after the Carbon Tax. Which doesn't work.
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Dr. Steve @steveintransit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I have a PhD and this is an adequate explanation
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Dr. Steve @steveintransit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'll be happy to see this particular month end
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Ruben Garcia @gorubenruben.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Republicans partied to Disco Song 🎶Gloria🎶 And hunted Mike Pence on January 6th. This is the most insulting and disgusting video of January 6th! #Midterms #Jan6 #Gloria #USDemocracy #Republicans #Vote #Vota #VotoLatino #Talarico #BlueWave #votematters
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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
fun thought: “What grounds reference is not beliefs, experiences, and discriminatory capacities of the kind that LMs obviously lack. Rather, what grounds reference is the natural histories of words: the causal-historical links between a speech community’s use of a word and the word’s referent”
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Do Language Models' Words Refer?
What do language models (LMs) do with language? Everyone agrees that they can produce sequences of (mostly) coherent strings of English. But do those sentences mean something, or are LMs simply babbli...
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Dr. Steve @steveintransit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I am just learning about Manipogo, Manitoba's cryptid living in 12-foot-deep Lake Manitoba. Why is it not more famous?
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Last night & this morning, the headline isn’t about the top-down decision. It’s about the will of the people of Philadelphia. It’s about what the kids of our city deserve, and the path forward, back to an open public museum. Don’t let people in perceived power dictate the story. The power is ours.
Two articles from the Philly voice and CBS, with headlines “academy
Of natural sciences is closed, but the fight for the museum continues” and “protesters push Drexel
To accept funding to keep the museum at academy
Of natural sciences open”
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New Philly voice article on the fight to reopen the Academy of Natural Sciences! www.phillyvoice.com/academy-natu...
phillyvoice.com
Academy of Natural Sciences is closed, but the fight for the museum continues
A grassroots group is urging Drexel's board to disaffiliate from the institution and calling for a public process to decide its future.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I give up. I’m moving into a cave.
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Der Geisterfresser @lighter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When you talk about how homophobic chick-fil-a is to the average straight person they're like "wow that's messed up" and then they get chick-fil-a later cause mentioning it made them hungry for it.
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Dr. Steve @steveintransit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They need more fuel and labor to handle retail sized packages when they can bulk purchase far more efficiently. Don't buy items to donate, just give that money directly.
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gravewalker @grovewalker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
photo of werner herzog with a speech bubble added so that it looks like he is saying the quoted post
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Dr. Steve @steveintransit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nailing 95 refutations of Chicago Style pizza to the door of Ray's Original Pizza across from St John Divine cathedral in Manhattan
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Dr. Steve @steveintransit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I found a bunch of homemade pocket notebooks I made last year. They're fun and easy to make, but i just don't use them as fast
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