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Michael Tyznik

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Chicago-based multidisciplinary branding designer and transit nerd. he/him

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Michael Tyznik @tyznik.com · 28/09/2026
@chicagoelection.bsky.social What are the hours for early voting at the downtown supersite?
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 25/09/2026
Age verification is an egregious privacy violation, an inexcusable form of surveillance, and… it’s also voodoo bullshit that doesn’t work. It’s one of the reasons I’m proudest to support @eff.org, who have been leading the fight against the horrible practice for years: www.eff.org/issues/age-v...
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Age Verification and Age Gating: Resource Hub
Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious “ag...
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The AI build-out is on track to become the biggest economic bet in U.S. history, dwarfing the investments made to fund other huge U.S. infrastructure projects such as the railroads, the highway system and the plumbing for the internet. www.wsj.com/economy/the-...
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The AI Build-Out Is Becoming the Biggest Economic Bet in U.S. History
Data-center spending is greater than that for canals, railroads and grid combined—creating jobs and stock-market wealth, while boosting inflation and crowding out housing.
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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The thing about trying to appeal to right wing bigots is that right wing bigots are all stupid idiots who get 100% of their news from propagandists so they will never actually find out that you were trying to appeal to them in the first place
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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Me sticking a knife in a toaster: The silverware’s gone rogue again
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026
Dr Oz says the Trump administration will kick more than a million people off health insurance because some of them have "never filed a claim"
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Michael Tyznik @tyznik.com · 23/09/2026
What is up with @blockclubchi.bsky.social continuing to write puff pieces about Kanye West without so much as mentioning the fact that he declared “death con” on Jewish people and released a song called Heil Hitler LAST YEAR. do you guys agree with him or what? blockclubchicago.org/2026/09/22/k...
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Kanye West Returns To South Shore For Street Renaming In Honor Of His Late Mother, Donda
The superstar rapper joined local officials in honoring Donda West, a scholar and teacher who nurtured the community, loved ones said Tuesday.
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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
the republicans are wide open on several fronts, historically unpopular president, unpopular war, record high gas. any dem throwing trans people under the bus at this moment is doing it because they want to. not like they need to, do they. even if it worked as a vote winner, which it doesn't
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
i see a lot of debate around this issue that takes it for granted that supporting trans rights (especially in the sports context) will hurt you electorally. it’s worth highlighting that that’s just not what the data shows.
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Michael Tyznik @tyznik.com · 14/09/2026
Voted to reject the @consumerreports.org board slate because of the recent fearmongering they did about lead in protein powder. They generated a ton of coverage based on lead content exceeding an arbitrary “level of concern” based on zero scientific evidence and lost a lot of credibility for me.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026
“The Los Angeles Unified Board is banning student access to AI tools on district-provided laptops and tablets. The announcement comes after the Los Angeles Unified School District voted to limit screen time for students in June.”
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LAUSD Bans Students From Using AI on School Devices
LAUSD has blocked about 378,000 students from accessing generative AI tools on district-issued laptops and tablets.
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Michael Tyznik @tyznik.com · 02/09/2026
@amnesty-usa.bsky.social My monthly donation has been stopped because you have to opt in to donation through @charitynav.bsky.social's Giving Basket program. Please do so so I can keep donating. www.givelively.org/resources/un...
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Give Lively Resource Hub | Understand Charity Navigator’s Giving Basket donations and data reports
Learn more about Charity Navigator’s Giving Basket, Give Lively's relationship to it and what to do if you receive donations through it.
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Michael Tyznik @tyznik.com · 02/09/2026
I don't know if any company is as skilled at enraging its biggest fans than @mtgsecretlair.com
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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
twinsen's odyssey, screenshot, pc (1997) ultimatewalrus.com/games/twinse...
blue dressed polygon protagonist is standing in front of a door where the mouth would be in a face carved into a mountain side. the face lookss ominous, the eyes a hellish colour.
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Michael Tyznik @tyznik.com · 31/08/2026
Using an LLM for customer support seems like just flipping off your customers. I'm contacting you because I have an issue with your product, and your "rep" is lying to my face about its capabilities so I go down a rabbit hole trying to do something that it literally cannot do. Who does this help?
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Michael Tyznik @tyznik.com · 28/08/2026
I appreciate Emanuel Congregation using their land to provide much-needed housing to the Edgewater community. The blowback is quintessential nimbyism.
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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This was always going to be the next step. There are no trans players in the WNBA so instead they're going after cis women who are insufficiently feminine for them.
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Dani @daniexists6.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"Neutral in the culture war" my ass. She was pro-LGBTQIA+, removed confederate theming from Dollywood immediately, and gave all the royalties to the Whitney version of "I Will Always Love You" to black run charities. She was woker than woke.
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Librarianchica @librarianchica.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"Stayed neutral"? WTAF revisionist drivel are you selling, @cnn.com ? She was an avid LGBTQIA+ ally, she sang about deportees on the 9-5 album, she was pro literacy and social programs. Sit the fuck down if you're going to besmirch her legacy like this.
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David Greene @davidgreene.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My full statement here. Again, I'll have more to say about the specific provisions, especially how the settlement is a raw deal for teen users who do not have an emotionally safe relationship with their parent or guardian www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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EFF Statement on Meta Settlement
The settlement enshrines Meta's harmful surveillance into law, and it will compromise users' privacy and anonymity while increasing their exposure to data breaches and government data requests.
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It seems that news of Dolly Parton’s death has resulted in a flood of joyous stories and clips and photos of her. For a brief moment, she has managed to erase the toxicity of social media. A parting gift, if ever there was one.
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Dolly Parton: 'I'm Proud Of You'
Alt: Dolly Parton: 'I'm Proud Of You'
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Anyone who AIs Dolly Parton for any reason is going to hell
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Michael Tyznik @tyznik.com · 25/08/2026
Disgusting
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."
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Artificial Intelligence Policy
Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]
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Michael Tyznik @tyznik.com · 20/08/2026
Unfortunately had to stop evangelizing @trmnl.com to people since this is its founder.
Deleted Ryan Kulp tweet from 2023 saying "in viral startup-related threads i miss a few replies because the account blocked me. so i go incognito to see who they are. always fat and disgusting, pronouns, or both."Deleted Ryan Kulp tweet from 2021 archived on archive.is quote-tweeting a post about Biden's support for trans athletes. Ryan says "this is wrong, but women deserve it. for years you've let men chop their d*cks off and pretend to be you. you celebrated it. now it's time to pay the piper, which means never winning a sport again. enjoy"
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Michael Tyznik @tyznik.com · 20/08/2026
Inter-library loans are magic and make me feel good about humanity.
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Michael Tyznik @tyznik.com · 18/08/2026
And I oof
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Michael Tyznik @tyznik.com · 12/08/2026
@the48thward.bsky.social does this film production need (and have) a permit to completely block the sidewalk and force pedestrians into the street?
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Michael Tyznik @tyznik.com · 12/08/2026
@404media.co Zuckerberg, like so many founders, assume that everybody wants the same things they do, but aren’t smart enough to get them. They can’t fathom that somebody might not want to be an entrepreneur. It’s a lack of empathy. Some of us just like to do the work and not manage other people.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The excesses of the Woke 1 era mostly amount to cringe public statements, harmless vocabulary updates and loss of prestige for public figures. The backlash to Woke 1, on the other hand, is imprisoning dissidents, dismantling public education and eroding democracy. That's what needs reckoning
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Michael Tyznik @tyznik.com · 02/08/2026
Oh no whatever will we do
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Michael Tyznik @tyznik.com · 31/07/2026
how exactly are @amnesty.org and @amnestyuk.bsky.social affiliated? Questioning my monthly support now due to their abandoning trans people. They not only removed the briefing JKR objected to, they removed their report about the anti-trans and anti-women movement in the UK as well.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
They're not a Trump court, they're a Republican court, and the fact those two things align 80-90% of the time instead of literally 100% doesn't mean they're therefore admirably independent. To even describe them as ideologically conservative is too generous. They are partisan politicians.
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Michael Tyznik @tyznik.com · 25/07/2026
I think it says a lot about me as a person that I had already browsed through a lot of the NYPL’s collection of historic restaurant menus long before this article came out. pudding.cool/2026/06/menu...
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A History of Menus is a Menu of History
What do America’s earliest restaurant menus teach us about America?
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Michael Tyznik @tyznik.com · 25/07/2026
“AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our civilization and our descendants will be digging it out for generations” pluralistic.net/2026/07/24/s...
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Pluralistic: AI solipsists and AI cynics (24 Jul 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Michael Tyznik @tyznik.com · 24/07/2026
The U and S Bahn in Berlin have amazing headways but also are surprisingly slow? The U3 in particular seems to crawl along at like 20 mph.
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WTTW - Chicago PBS @wttw.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
A key Chicago City Council committee advanced a package of proposals on Tuesday designed to build more housing along Broadway in Edgewater and Uptown in an effort to make it more affordable to live along the CTA’s Red Line. to.wttw.com/495eDfv
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Key City Panel OKs Plan Designed to Build More Housing in Edgewater
Ald. Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth (48th Ward) said the proposals will revitalize Broadway, which has not seen any new housing built on its west side for two decades, by making the commercial district more a...
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Michael Tyznik @tyznik.com · 24/07/2026
Made some new queer friends at südblock in Berlin and we bonded over @michaelhobbes.bsky.social podcasts
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 20/07/2026
The story of a trans girl who tried to fight Idaho's anti-trans laws, and died to suicide earlier this year, is only now coming to light. Our hearts are broken, but we need to tell these stories and mourn our dead, because the media is barely bothering to look for the victims of trans genocide.
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Idaho didn’t want May Pollard to live. Now she’s dead by her own hand. - Assigned Media
A trans teen tried to fight Idaho's bathroom ban in court, but hate prevailed.
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The Republican war on science comes for road safety. Protected bike lanes, road diets, and automatic traffic enforcement prevent people from being killed. Researchers have proven this—repeatedly.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
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Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA
Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 08/07/2026
NEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...
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He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up a crew for a construction project when ICE shot him. It now claims he was the aggressor.
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Brosephine Wires, Perennial Soup-Lover @joparkerbear.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Can’t sleep? Simple methods that work: • study hurricane forecast • who hates me • what did i forget • relive supreme humiliation • win 12-yr-old argument • buried alive? could happen • what i did vs should have done • dead people i miss • what if i’m bad • why do i say stuff • what’s my fuckin deal
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Michael Tyznik @tyznik.com · 03/07/2026
@the48thward.bsky.social I love the permanent pedestrian bumpouts going in on Ashland and at Clark and Gregory. Any chance they might be coming to Clark between foster and catalpa?
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Michael Tyznik @tyznik.com · 02/07/2026
@tantacrul.bsky.social I know you're not in the marketing dept but as a UX person the level of "GET A FREE TRIAL" "GET 90% OFF" "ARE YOU SURE YOU DON'T WANT THIS DEAL IT'LL DISAPPEAR FOREVER" "AAAAAAAAA GET A FREE TRIAL" crammed in everywhere makes me hate every time i have to go to musescore.com
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I do not understand why the default Democratic position on this issue isn’t simply to be opposed to mandatory genital exams for participants in girls sports. Because that intrusive practice is how GOP policy on transgender athletes will be enforced.
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
There is a very real argument being made in Hollywood that AI democratizes filmmaking, making it available to outsiders. In truth, the cost of effective generative AI is cost prohibitive to all but corporations, leading to no improvement in quality at the cost of jobs both above and below the line.
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