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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 2h

“why i stayed on x” is the new “why im leaving Brooklyn”

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DSCOVR:EPIC @dscovr-epic.bot.country · 10/10/2026

09:03 on Thursday October 8th, over Africa

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 10/10/2026

at this point people getting carjacked are gonna assume it’s ICE

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Steven Bodzin, concerned living being @stevenbodzin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Every year we say, cover the stakes of the election, not the probabilities of an outcome. And every year, reporters cover the horse race my

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Steven Bodzin, concerned living being @stevenbodzin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's shocking, but: have you ever admitted you voted wrong? I'm not sure I have.

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Steven Bodzin, concerned living being @stevenbodzin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

They do! There is AI in some washing machines, dishwashers, and even clothes irons. But generative AI is useful only for claud, oops I mean fraud.

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Steven Bodzin, concerned living being @stevenbodzin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Subway rules in NYC vs Mumbai. Note that NYC does not bar carriage on the subway of nuclear weapons, corpses, or the real threat, luggage in the form of bundles.

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Seth Rosenthal @sethrosenthal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

done with sleep, turning my phone back to Disturb mode. let’s go!

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Steven Bodzin, concerned living being @stevenbodzin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

But those aren't the end of it. The whole US govt is now pushing this word, just like it pushed "Lake America." NASA, CISA, EPA, NIST, Homeland Security, the NSF. Some of the greatest concentrations of human intelligence, now turned into propaganda organs for AI. cc: @404media.co

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Steven Bodzin, concerned living being @stevenbodzin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The US Dept of Justice has taken up the cause of marketing AI as "super intelligence." It appears that the first press release of this sort was a week ago, on Oct. 1 2026: www.justice.gov/opa/pr/calif... And now there is this other one (see quote post) on Oct 6.

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California Man Arrested for Smuggling More Than $300 Million in Export-Controlled Computer Servers to China

The owner of a San Gabriel Valley-based technology company was arrested today on a three-count federal indictment charging him with smuggling more than $300 million worth of export-controlled high-end...

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Steven Bodzin, concerned living being @stevenbodzin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My Insta feed is just one amazing video after another of waterfalls cascading down the mountains in Venezuela. The rains there have been very hard. Which is good, because El Niño could cause a drought soon. But maybe too hard. www.instagram.com/reel/DeNY1ch...

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Steven Bodzin, concerned living being @stevenbodzin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That said I know smart people who are using these systems for smart stuff. I think there will be perfectly good high-end uses for AI systems—things like making complicated spreadsheets or storing & processing a bunch of diverse data streams—but the everyday use is really maddening.

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Steven Bodzin, concerned living being @stevenbodzin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Every time that a coworker or source sends me something truly stupid, it is written by AI. Mushy, vague writing that is almost impossible to edit? AI. These are bright people at the top of their professions but they can't be dicked to think for a second about what they are saying.

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Steven Bodzin, concerned living being @stevenbodzin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Bizarre press release: 1. 18 months of prison? For AI music? Platforms can hire a few people to moderate uploads. Incarceration is not the answer here. 2. What the hell is "super intelligence"? Seems to be the term the DOJ has settled on. Ick. www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr...

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Steven Bodzin, concerned living being @stevenbodzin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm starting to think the car industry might be stirring this stuff up. E mobility devices are the real electric cars. And people are trying to kill them.

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Steven Bodzin, concerned living being @stevenbodzin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Something you don't see much anymore was very common in 1915: watering troughs as landmarks.

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Steven Bodzin, concerned living being @stevenbodzin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Even though this was just 1915, businesses were eagerly catering to motorists.

Advertisement for the strong springs hotel in Saratoga springs. It was "especially attractive for automobile tourists"

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Steven Bodzin, concerned living being @stevenbodzin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Some things are conspicuous for their absence. There are no references to mile markers, and very few references to road signs. There are a few of any references to gas stations! One of the main distinguishing features of roads is whether it has "macadam," a quaint word for asphalt.

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Steven Bodzin, concerned living being @stevenbodzin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Things get trickier in rural areas. Let's go from Williamstown to Albany. Notice the directions like, turn left after the gate, or "bear right with poles"

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Steven Bodzin, concerned living being @stevenbodzin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ok how about a trip from NYC to Coney Island? On the overview map that is Route 80. And here it is. This is in a place with lots of street names, making it easier. You could probably recreate most of this route today.

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Steven Bodzin, concerned living being @stevenbodzin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Let's get out the blue book and find a route. But first let's look at the overview....

Instructions on how to use the blue book

Ad for Chelsea Hotel and detail map of Manhattan

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Steven Bodzin, concerned living being @stevenbodzin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This thread got a lot of attention so I thought I'd share a deeper lookback at what driving was like in 1915--not just before GPS but before highway numbers and road signs.

Photograph of two dark blue soft cover books with the title, official automobile blue book, 15th Year, 1915, standard road guide of America, volume one New York and Canada, and volume 2 New England

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Steven Bodzin, concerned living being @stevenbodzin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If people could vote in the location where they were imprisoned, it would change rural politics. It would largely eliminate the incentive for rural areas to build prisons, since conservative local leaders that want prisons don't want an imprisoned electorate.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.

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Steven Bodzin, concerned living being @stevenbodzin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I saw someone post a photo of a New York Times headline and they bought it out the word rape because they were worried that some algorithm would suppress their content. At the office, I heard a young coworker referring to being "SA'd" -- it's creeping into spoken language!

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 03/10/2026

Just bumping into this again with people _reflexively_ using the word "grape" or a 🍇 emoji and not even realizing they're doing it. It's all part of the same system, where the men running these companies make platforms that don't even let people accurately describe the crimes that they enable.

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Frank 4 @frankschloegel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The only way Ai will make a profit is if they start charging to take it off my phone. $5/month and Wikipedia shows up as the first result again? Curse you google, take my money.

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Steven Bodzin, concerned living being @stevenbodzin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I have Copilot on my work computer and I have tried using it a couple times. The most annoying thing was that it referred to itself as "I." So I gave it a permanent instruction that it had to refer to itself as Clippy and only speak in the third person. So much better now.

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Steven Bodzin, concerned living being @stevenbodzin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Nah no one can. It changes from town to town and year to year. You just get used to finding change quickly.

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Steven Bodzin, concerned living being @stevenbodzin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yes and the world was more accepting of that. Someone is an hour late to arrive? They are probably lost.

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Steven Bodzin, concerned living being @stevenbodzin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Spent 90 seconds yesterday waiting for a cashier to figure out how much change to give for a $6.80 purchase paid with $22

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C. McGuinn Freeman @cmf406.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What I find disturbing about these threads is that there's now an entire generation, maybe 2, who not only don't know how to read a map, but don't know they exist. This is what the tech bros want. Helpless people dependent on their apps.

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Steven Bodzin, concerned living being @stevenbodzin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Plus, human cognition was different. People who grew up reading maps and getting precise directions learned to think differently, visualize the route, in a way that most people simply can't do now. This is a lesson for the use of advanced AI!

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Totally. I wrote back that I won’t go on record with USA Today in the future. Which is a heartbreaking decision, honestly. Kenny Jacoby’s Title IX reporting is groundbreaking.

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Ashley Reed @thematterhorn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This seems like a really efficient way to burn sources/experts. Presumably you agreed to speak to the interviewers specifically because you trusted them. You didn’t agree to speak to “Every employee of USA Today Inc”

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Steven Bodzin, concerned living being @stevenbodzin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When you're biking along on a quiet path and an SUV comes up behind you and lays on the horn and tries to run you into the ditch, the appropriate response is not to politely move aside. Everyone knows this.

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Steven Bodzin, concerned living being @stevenbodzin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Can you believe the collusion? The city is painting vehicle lanes and parking spots that COINCIDENTALLY fit cars and trucks! IT'S A CONSPIRACY m.youtube.com/watch?v=l3bD...

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Can God Fill Teeth?

YouTube video by Lard - Topic

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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"To justify staggering investment sums, Americans will have to spend as much of their income on this one technology [AI] as they do on food" I'm pretty sure that ain't happening.

bar chart showing that for AI to work as a business Americans would need to spend as much on AI as they do on food.

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Steven Bodzin, concerned living being @stevenbodzin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's generous of you to call it an argument. I would call it a discursive turn. He's using a rhetorical tone (just asking questions, shadowy elite) to signal that he shares membership in the tribe of snide ignorami. That makes him a trusted messenger for certain people.

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Steven Bodzin, concerned living being @stevenbodzin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Maybe it's a coincidence that they made the bike lane the size of the Amazon bikes" that were designed to fit a bike lane

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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens… and its pathology is not anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.”

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Steven Bodzin, concerned living being @stevenbodzin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Anyone who thinks people will maintain their intellectual faculties while using AI should go pay a 22 year old barista $22 cash for a $6.80 coffee when the power is out. Literally 90 seconds trying to make change. Really good coffee though

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Steven Bodzin, concerned living being @stevenbodzin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I would love to see one of these purity minded characters kill off all his trillions of invading, parasitic gut bacteria. "You don't belong here, get out"

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