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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 2h

there’s no reason for the death penalty to exist

This is morally repugnant. I'm tired of this state burning my tax dollars to torture people out of sheer malice and incompetence.

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Jack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I just finished the episode of @killthecomputer.com about BBM and hot damn, what a follow-up

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Jack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

That was deeply satisfying to watch, Go Dawgs

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/09/2026

Please read this article on the massive weirdos who are largely running the massively powerful and big-money AI industry in the U.S. today.

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Jack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm watching a company sink under the weight of AI adoption because everyone has outsourced their not-fun work to their AI agents. They are all named Jarvis, they all suck, and they're burning a bajillion watts a day doing it. Everyone has lost the plot and no one wants to admit it.

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Jack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My man looks like he's about to try to vaporize Blast Hardcheese

Kalgan from the MST3K riff of"Space Mutiny" with Mike and the bots

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Jack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's not addictive like a drug but it is habit-forming. Social media has one KPI: time-on-device. Revenue comes from ad impressions and click-through, and time spent scrolling feeds is *critical* to both. They emulated video poker and slots to maximize TOD. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

theguardian.com

Social media copies gambling methods 'to create psychological cravings'

Methods activate ‘same brain mechanisms as cocaine’ and leads to users experiencing ‘phantom’ notification buzzing, experts warn

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Jack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Here's a free story idea for anyone who's interested: why did a group of "AI safety" experts & effective altruists dump $100K into Marsha Blackburn's gubernatorial campaign fund in one week in late June? 🧵

Table with donation data:
Donor - Employer - Date - Amount
Elizabeth Edwards Appell - Anthropic - 6/23 - $5300
Daniel Ziegler - Anthropic PBC - 6/23 - $10600
Matthew Fisher - Adobe - 6/24 - $10600
Jan Leike - Anthropic - 6/24 - $10600
Tao Lin - Anthropic - 6/25 - $10600
Peter Lofgren - Anthropic - 6/25 - $10600
Chana Messinger - 80,000 Hours - 6/25 - $10600
Brian Chen - Anthropic - 6/27 - $5300
Scott Siskind - Lorien Psychiatry - 6/28 - $5300
Howard Lempel - Secure AI Project - 6/29 - $10600
Eli Lifland - AI Futures Project - 6/29 - $10600

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404 Media @404media.co · 16/09/2026

NEW: Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and @wired.com, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people.

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Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People

While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.

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Jack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Nashville is becoming Hadestown with less culture

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 13/09/2026

Peter Thiel—the Palantir billionaire who created JD Vance from a bag of Cheetos and a bucket of eyeliner—is giving his Antichrist lectures in #Nashville. I just bought a ticket… What would Dolly do?

Peter Thiel Antichrist Lexture Nashville poster

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Inland Imperialist @inland-imperialist.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Nashville Antichrist Lectures sounds like a @themountaingoats.bsky.social album title.

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

As I was standing by this gas pump filling up my truck with six dollar gas I couldn’t help but think that this was a small price to pay so that every child wanting to play sports in elementary school has to submit to mandatory genital inspections

My jeep with a gas pump in her fuel filler

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I've spent my entire career reporting on the War on Terror. Many this week have asked me for my extended thoughts on the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Here they are.

forever-wars.com

Today We Must Finally Remember What The 9/11 Commemorations Ignore

Righteous victimhood fueled the War on Terror. 25 years later, we also have to remember all of those slain under its banner

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Jack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

As a Georgia grad I must note: the single biggest product affected is actually "liqueurs and cordials" ($523M imported since Jan '25), mainly Malibu rum blended in Canada. Pour one out for the thirsty state school kids who will have to make do with mixers this football season.

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James Miller @reelmiller.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Obligatory

a picture from the NY Post titled "today’s leftists are possessed by the spirit of France’s 18th-century guillotine-loving revolutionaries" (way too long) that shows Mamdani (the specter haunting Europe) smiling in the sky as a bunch of French people goof around.

Now with special guest Jimmy Barnes from the "cowboy in the sky screaming" meme.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Vaccine conspiracism is overwhelmingly clustered among the religious, white and affluent. It’s a function of conservative ideology and bad faith media. Being nicer to MAHA types will not ‘bring them into the fold,’ it will only increase their sense of entitlement.

Objective: Strengthening of antivaccination movements in recent decades has coincided with unprecedented increases in the incidence of some communicable diseases. Many intervention programs work from a deficit model of science communication, presuming that vaccination skeptics lack the ability to access or understand evidence. However, interventions focusing on evidence and the debunking of vaccine-related myths have proven to be either nonproductive or counterproductive. Working from a motivated reasoning perspective, we examine the psychological factors that might motivate people to reject scientific consensus around vaccination. To assist with international generalizability, we examine this question in 24 countries. Methods: We sampled 5,323 participants in 24 countries, and measured their antivaccination attitudes. We also measured their belief in conspiracy theories, reactance (the tendency for people to have a low tolerance for impingements on their freedoms), disgust sensitivity toward blood and needles, and individualistic/hierarchical worldviews (i.e., people's beliefs about how much control soci hould have over individuals, and whether hierarchies are desirable). Results: In
order of magnitude,
antivaccination attitudes were highest among those who (a) were high in conspir-
atorial thinking, (b) were high in reactance, (c) reported high levels of disgust toward blood and needles, and (d) had strong individualistic/hierarchical worldviews
. In contrast, demographic variables (including
education) accounted for nonsignificant or trivial lev
f variance. Conclusions: These data help
identify the "attitude roots" that may motivate and sustain vaccine skepticism. In so doing, they help shed light on why repetition of evidence can be nonproductive, and suggest communication solutions to that problem.
Keywords: vaccination, conspiracy beliefs, health communication,

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Can we normalize art theft?

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georgiaontap @georgiaontap.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I tell ya, grabs collar, I don't get no respect.

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The Appalachian mountains have existed now for about 3% of the age of the entire universe

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Sharks have been on Earth for longer than Saturn has had rings

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Jack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"The core of any concerted effort indistinguishable from a miracle radiates a need to be in the moment, and the next, and the next until the series reaches end." - the Diamond Sutra (868), or @edsbs.bsky.social (2026)

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless. Remember this.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

sorry if I seem weird and intense now, it’s because I’m now weird and intense

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Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 27/08/2026

Very proud to share this new work led by the amazing Marlou Rasenberg (not on here), with Joel Fischer and me doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We use #EMCA methods to study empirically how LLM users shoulder the burden of solving sequential trouble and end up restructuring their own aims & activities

Abstract: This paper investigates how a core component of human interaction – action projection – is realized in conversations with systems like ChatGPT, which are not able to recognize nor anticipate actions in a sequential sense. We ask what this means for users who engage in longer, multi-step projects built through incremental prompt-response pairs. We draw on Conversation Analysis to examine how early adopters of ChatGPT sequentially organise such interactions, using anonymised naturalistic interactions from the WildChat dataset. Our analysis reveals how action projection in LLM interactions is beset with interactional trouble. In turn, we document a set of practices we term ‘pre-emptive prompting’ that users develop to work around the trouble. In doing so, users employ a range of conversational methods including pre-sequences, prompt categorization, withholding executables, spelling out relevant next actions, eliciting displays of “understanding”, and creating slots for redirection in their attempts to complete their projects. Our work provides empirical evidence of how users interactionally accomplish the configuration work (Alcaras and Ricci 2025) needed to work around the discretization and cluttering that LLMs-in-use produce.

Excerpt 10: ‘wouldnt you require both inputs’ wc_1211945; wc_usr_d2a27584b4185dda [conv_index: 359]
1 user : ok if i said i want to provide you with input A (which is an items description) and just assess its format and presentation then i provided you with input B (which is also a item desctiption for a similar item) but in a way diffrent format could you make the B input into A input
2 LLM: Yes, I can certainly help you with that. Please provide me with Input B, and I will try to make it resemble Input A in terms of format and presentation.
3 user: wouldnt you require both inputs

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"we should rename Mar-a-Lago something funny, make Google display that" My brother in Christ, the Ontario legislature can declare Google's workers in Ontario to be unionized and assign their collective labour rights to whichever union will be most militant, think bigger

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Chris Wyman @wymancr.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I'll be honest, it's weird seeing people dooming in my mentions the same year Viktor Orban was ousted. Nothing is ever final in politics.

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Jack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops

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NPR @npr.org · 27/08/2026

Tariffs and export controls have been the Trump administration's main economic security tools. Neither is working very well right now. n.pr/4gncgYP

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The White House's preferred economic tools are hitting snags

Tariffs and export controls have been the Trump administration's main economic security tools. Neither is working very well right now.

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Jack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

We're on "inflatable air defense decoy" TikTok now, and I think the SAM would look really festive with some Christmas lights and the 12ft Home Depot skeleton.

Workers staging a large gray and black inflatable resembling a Russian/Soviet military jet (unable to ID because I am very tired)

Woman looking to camera in front of an inflatable decoy of a Russian/ Soviet surface to air missile system

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

it’s really something when you read a story that so expertly discusses so many thoughts you’ve been wrestling with but can’t find the words for, just stellar work here

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 26/08/2026

Just saw Facebook antivaxxers speculating that 80-year-old Dolly Parton’s death was hastened by the COVID vaccine she helped fund the development of and received—half a decade ago—and am thinking about how the past decade spent catering to these people has been nothing but a waste of time.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The only explanation.

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Steve Cavendish @scavendish.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Free idea: Name the Nashville airport for Dolly. Massive tribute. Everyone would be for it.

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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Indiana

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Kentucky

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Missouri

iarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Washington

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 25/08/2026

This is truly heartbreaking. Dolly Parton was an extraordinary person and an irreplaceable champion of the working class. We are a better country because of her.

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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

As with American culture, Dolly sought to represent the best of what southern culture can be, in defiance of the no-good peckerwood assholes who try to define it at its worst

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