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onion person @junlper.beer · 19/08/2026

i think the big data center backlash has a lot to do with technology getting worse, costing more, building a surveillance state, destroying the environment, owned by a class of wealthy elite that coalesced behind the fascist regime that made clear they’d sacrifice humanity for their own power growth

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👣Coco👣 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

American women won the World Cup 4 times....

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/04/2026

based on my experiences as a parent i genuinely believe that if someone is feeling irritable the first thing they should ask themselves is “have i pooped today?”

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Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This is so, so well-articulated.

People call this friction "grunt work." Schwartz uses exactly that phrase, and he's right that LLMs can remove it. What he doesn't say, because he already has decades of hard-won intuition and doesn't need the grunt work anymore, is that for someone who doesn't yet have that intuition, the grunt work is the work. The boring parts and the important parts are tangled together in a way that you can't separate in advance. You don't know which afternoon of debugging was the one that taught you something fundamental about your data until three years later, when you're working on a completely different problem and the insight surfaces. Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.

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Dr Susan Johnson @susanjoh.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I have also been asked: who is looking after your children while you are at this meeting? Are you planning on wearing makeup for your seminar? Are you planning on following your spouse for your next job? When will you have children? Why do you need a lab coat that fits your pregnant belly?

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SnoozyQ @snoozyq.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

This is awesome! Flip the script: be an ally How do you handle being assertive without being perceived as aggresive or bitchy? Have you ever been told to smile more? I'd like to add something else men are never asked: Do you have reliable child care? #SheShed

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Dr Susan Johnson @susanjoh.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

So many water bottles and hoodies.

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Jason Ukman @jasonukman.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Women lost a larger chunk of their NIH grant funding than men over the past year — on average women had 57.9% of their grant terminated, while men had 48.2%. Via @aniloza.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2026/03/23/n...

statnews.com

NIH grant terminations affected women scientists more than men, study finds

A new paper shows that women, particularly those early in their careers, have been disproportionately affected by NIH grant terminations

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Due to high geopolitical tensions, sports fans are temporarily required to contextualize their posts, for example: ❌ OH GOD OH NO OH FUCK ✔️ OH GOD OH NO OH FUCK how did he make that basketball go in the hole

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Dr Susan Johnson @susanjoh.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I get notifications for the kids school and my work email and it’s always on silent. I also put on DND in the gym and turn off all work notifications when out of office. Even when other peoples phones constantly ping it makes me stress. I don’t know how people do it.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I haven’t had notifications on my phone in a decade. A list of exactly five people can break through my DND if they call twice. This freaks 1) millennials 2) Gen Z 3) students out to no end. I don’t know how we ever thought this was okay but then again I’m old.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

$11.3 billion could cover any of the following for a full year: -1.4 million people on Medicaid -19 million kids getting free school lunches -1.4 million people getting affordable housing -1.1 million hungry seniors fed -0.8 million children given free child care

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Dr Susan Johnson @susanjoh.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Parenting: checking the work calendar to make sure I can buy the coveted kindergarten play tickets at 12pm on a Tuesday.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 23/02/2026

If you're looking for the source of academia's leaky pipeline--it's not women's lack of commitment, it's the misogyny of men like this.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 23/02/2026

Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

To: Jeffrey epstein[jeevacation©gmail.com]
From: roger schank
Sent: Mon 1/4/2010 12:15:13 PM
Subject: there is a simpler explanation about women and intelligence
intelligence comes about in part from real focus (goal-directed
(this is why you have the absent minded professor caricature)
it is a rare woman who is not first and foremost focussed on what
thinking and feeling about her
hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why
hates you or why you dont own a kelly bag
roger schank
http://www.rogerschank.com/

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

2026 basically

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

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Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Every time you speak up - and every time you don't - there are people watching and learning about you and the world you help create.

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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Someone hacked into Chicago’s DOT traffic sign who knew the assignment :::

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Dr Susan Johnson @susanjoh.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

RFK Jnr on the Time 100 people in health for ‘reshaping public health’ is infuriating.

Screenshot of Times 100 people in health

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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 12/02/2026

This is a bracing read, and also one to share with anyone you know questioning the severity of this virus:

theatlantic.com

This Is How a Child Dies of Measles

When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak

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Ann Finkbeiner @annfinkbeiner.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Let me repeat what Katie says: YOU. CAN'T. REPEAL. A. SCIENTIFIC.FINDING. That's not how it works.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

House passes dangerous voter suppression act, calls it the “Save America” Act, which is a lie unless they’re trying to save America from democracy and fair elections. You don’t have to use fancy tech to steal an election. You just have to suppress the vote that’s more likely to vote against you.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 10/02/2026

Almost exactly three years ago, this thread on "AI" in healthcare and the kinds of things likely to go wrong in that context:

Screenshot of a post in a twitter archive reading:
Dr Damien P Williams Warned You About Exactly This

@Wolven

As noted many times before, prejudicial beliefs & assumptions about disabled & neurodivergent people, BIPOC populations, women, & LGBTQIA+ people have formed the basis of the data which has been used to train "A.I." health systems, & we know those prejudices get reproduced…
@1a

2/22/2023, 12:12:17 AM

Favs: 14

Retweets: 6 link

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…Frankly when it comes to GPT in healthcare, the possibility of being subjected to a system built out of & trained on large rafts of the "natural language" people on the internet tend to use to talk about the needs of BIPOC, Disabled, LGBTQ, & Femme folx sounds horrifying.
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@1a Imagine integrating a) that system which reliably told the ethnicity of patients from x-rays, b) that system which consistently misdiagnosed signs of illness in Black patients, & c) a chat system trained on examples of how Dr's tend to talk about Black patients to relay diagnoses

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Dr Damien P Williams Warned You About Exactly This

@Wolven

@1a Automated assessment tools read women's and Black people's pain incorrectly; disability assessment systems are improperly calibrated based on old presuppositions about disabled lived experience, resulting in negative health outcomes and negative impacts on benefits allocations;…

…and "A.I." mental health tools can have higher proportions of adverse outcomes for neurodivergent populations.

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Dr Susan Johnson @susanjoh.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

‘Nearly two-thirds of the funding is unspent money allocated to state and local public health departments in California.’ CA already pays more taxes than it receives in funding. 🤬

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 09/02/2026

"About Edward: Looking for a younger woman who will mistake my brooding looks and condescending misanthropy for tragic torment, and ideally is into employer-employee roleplay."

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If Literature’s “Complicated Men” Were on Tinder

Name: Holden Caulfield Age: 19 Occupation: “Jobs” are for phonies who “care” about phony stuff like “bills” and “food” About Holden: Only looking f...

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Bad Bunny halftime was pure joy. It uplifted our nation’s beautiful tapestry, the entire western hemisphere & the beauty of queerness. The bizarre white nationalist backlash — platforming a racist guy who advocates pedophilia — said so much about the cult running our government.

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I have encountered a little of this. My brother historically has received more praise than I. When I visit India it’s awkward for me. The women talk in the kitchen about cooking while the men sit in the living room talking about global affairs. There is no space to talk about me or science.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 05/02/2026

BREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. (1/2 🧵)

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Cato Institute @cato.org · 03/02/2026

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

The war on work from home is in large part a war on women having a career btw

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Mia Tsai says buy her books @itsamia.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

sometimes i think about how taking the moral high ground means you do not get the job. you don't get the rec; you're not spoken of highly; your reputation does not precede you. you end up pushed to the sides of the profession, if you still work in it.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

The big tech founder whose 417-foot, $500 million superyacht needs a 256-foot, $75 million superyacht to "shadow" it -- because the bigger yacht lacks a helipad -- had to cut his paper's newsroom almost in half, for reasons

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

fund research on menopause you cowards

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Maria W. Norris @mariawnorris.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

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Dr Susan Johnson @susanjoh.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Let alone the logistics involved in summer camp enrollment, PTA events and selling girl scout cookies…

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Dr Susan Johnson @susanjoh.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Why would you make parents stay up till midnight for camp registration? Insanity.

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