Reposted by tannararax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026'this AI agent can do all your tasks for you' so now i gotta sit here and write a list of all my tasks for a robot to fuck up. why. why wouldn't i just keep to the current system where i fuck up my own tasks 191661257
Reposted by tannaraTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Put another way, to be legible enough for AI to be useful to most families, they would have to stop communicating as the family they have known, never had to overtly think about, and become something stranger and coarser that has no cultural foundation. Why would I do that? 936143
Reposted by tannaraTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Yes, the precondition for regular AI agent use is changing your culture to speak in middle America white bureaucratic language to make it work. You can’t put “the good collards“ on an optimized shopping list, much less account for what some call familect: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/m...nytimes.comEvery Family Has Its Own Private Language. What Does That Tell Us About Ourselves? (Gift Article)“Familects” emerge out of in-jokes and mispronunciations, but they reveal something about how all language evolves. 1143571
Reposted by tannaraLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026We’re witnessing the result of normalization in real time just like we have with the increasing escalations in authoritarianism & force since the start of the 21st century that today’s horrors are downstream from and as this becomes normal there will be increased space for new horrors born from this 6326171
Reposted by tannaraOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026from the Comments section of @nymag.com (link below) 123437
Reposted by tannaramtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026and i think it's worth interrogating why the thing that would increase safety while putting a significant burden on cyclists is considered common-sense while the thing that would do the same for drivers is considered an absurd non-starter. way more motorists die every year than cyclists! 1849733
Reposted by tannaramtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026anti-helmet case is basically 1) helmet wearing reduces injury but in similar degree to wearing *while walking* does, which we would all agree is absurd 2) helmet mandates provably reduce cycling 3) safety-in-numbers is best cycling safety strategy so anything that reduces cycling increases danger 7662839
Reposted by tannaraTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Landlord tech — from digital keys to intercoms — are a crucial part of the surveillance state. 5847205
Reposted by tannaraNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 23/08/2026IMO @stevesalaita.bsky.social does *really* well in a Chronicle interview that feels very gotcha ("Confessions of a Campus Radical"). Below, facing a question designed to make him 'endorse' violence, he carefully indexes who is allowed to commit violence (Israel) and who isn't ("Hamas"). 713547
tannara @tyllnd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026we need a robust set of public shaming practices for people doing this and we need it NOW and customers should start doing it when they notice workers being harassed like this 030
tannara @tyllnd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026i’ve made a huge mistake and i don’t know how to fix it (stayed up too late, too hungry to go to sleep, no easy snack foods) 100
Reposted by tannaraMatt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 20/08/2026The problem with innovation as a reader is that the perfect technology has already been invented (book) and every subsequent innovation has the defect of being Not Book. 622137
Reposted by tannaraPatrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 06/08/2026Aaron Swartz deserves more justice and reconsideration than almost anybody in this century 142213661
tannara @tyllnd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026millions must read!! @deandettloff.bsky.social @mattbernico.bsky.social 131
Reposted by tannaraBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026I have previously written about one reason that billionaires find the AI story so compelling: at root, many billionaires just don't believe most other people are actually, fully real. How could they? Achieving billionairehood requires that you inflict pain on vast numbers of people. 13/ 6923231
Reposted by tannaraBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026To make things worse, AI *can't do the jobs* it's replacing: AI is predicated on the premise that monopolies, duopolies and cartels that control the global economy can deliberately worsen their products without suffering economic or regulatory consequences, because they're the only game in town. 4/ 4959235
Reposted by tannaraBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026As an economic pathology, AI is *extraordinary*. AI boosters have spent a baffling and terrifying sum of money - over $1.4T, most of that in the past year - on the promise of making as many workers unemployed as possible, while lowering the wages of the meager survivors of this jobspocalypse. 3/ 4789219
Reposted by tannaramax asher miller @maxashermiller.bsky.social · 24/07/2026My great-grandfather was among the first Jews sent to Dachau, but it had operated for 8 years prior. He arrived to find a concentration camp already full of communists and other leftist dissidents. The public's acceptance of their incarceration paved the road for his own. 141809672
Reposted by tannaratheo @tboyblues.bsky.social · 17/07/2026if you say this in canada they kill you 142
Reposted by tannaraGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.medium.comTo the Trans Girl Who Just Lost at the Supreme Court: So Did I 26 Years AgoA letter to Becky Pepper Jackson about her trans sports case defeat at SCOTUS yesterday 3269092367
Reposted by tannaraKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/07/2026This is bone-chilling. A conservative hedge fund manager wants to require little girls to pass genital inspections for their “safety.” And it’s only for girls’ sports. There’s a clear link between transphobia and child sexual abuse. 19556142218
Reposted by tannaraBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Trans rights are human rights always and forever. 104154584145
tannara @tyllnd.bsky.social · 30/06/2026yes… ha ha ha… YES (double yes that they had 98.2% voting in favour of strike!! that’s how you do it) thetyee.ca/News/2026/06...thetyee.caBC Nurses Issue 72-Hour Strike Notice | The TyeeJob action could start as soon as July 2. The union says withholding labour will be a last resort. 000
Reposted by tannaraOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 30/06/2026imagine trying "I know I've been gone four months but I'll explain when I'm back" if you were a shift worker at Arby's 792578477
Reposted by tannaraJonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Hadn't seen this before. Nicely done. isaiprofitable.comisaiprofitable.comIs AI Profitable Yet? 513667
Reposted by tannaraPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Anyway there is no "middle." There are just actual policy positions and POWER. 7596118
Reposted by tannaraRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 28/06/2026on top of the US government conspiring against the team, and FIFA's bad format, and the team being literally the last team out of the knockout rounds .... .... .... they were like one combined foot from winning two games and finishing on top of their group 20988169
Reposted by tannaraAngus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Someone once said that the key to communicating is to tell 'em what you're going to tell 'em, tell 'em, and tell 'em what you told 'em. The key to winning elections and governing in the next decade is going to be the same: Tell 'em you're gonna do good stuff, do it, and tell 'em you did it. 1428764
tannara @tyllnd.bsky.social · 27/06/2026no mistake that he was general secretary of the young communist league ✊ 010
Reposted by tannaraNew York Magazine @nymag.com · 23/06/2026Once known for research on blood sugar and insulin, the American Diabetes Association’s conference has become a main stage for billion-dollar weight-loss drugs. John Semley reports on what he saw and heard when the industry gathered in June 2026.nymag.comThe Cannes of Weight-Loss DrugsOnce known for research on blood sugar and insulin, the American Diabetes Association’s conference has become a main stage for billion-dollar weight-loss drugs. John Semley reports on what he saw and heard when the industry gathered in June 2026. 044
Reposted by tannaraShow Pussy On Regular TV @turdguy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026WSJ announcing they're doing to do journalism like it's a new concept 1567278
Reposted by tannaraOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/06/2026the story of Iran is that you don't always have to win. sometimes you just have to have what it takes to deny victory to your opponents, and endure 522701402
tannara @tyllnd.bsky.social · 20/06/2026that gormless face… a world leader as useless and upsetting in form as in function 020
tannara @tyllnd.bsky.social · 20/06/2026they need to start doing these again. timothée chalamet you’re in every other ad under the sun rn, shill for reading you coward 010
Reposted by tannaraIATSE // #IASolidarity @iatse.bsky.social · 18/06/2026The staging for today's Knicks parade is IATSE-MADE! 🙌 💪 Big shout-out to our Local One kin! 114121
tannara @tyllnd.bsky.social · 18/06/2026i believe in you bosnia i will never stop believing in you 000
Reposted by tannaraEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Every country with any kind of archaeological sites of significance, 1600 to 1950: 2927207
