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@zeets.bsky.social
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“It is my image that I want to multiply, but not out of narcissism or megalomania, as could all too easily be believed: on the contrary, I want to conceal, in the midst of so many illusory ghosts of myself, the true me, who makes them move.“

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 7h
I appreciate Man City fans presenting what the club did as “spending our own money”
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Had some thoughts on a performance that I saw at SoMad recently somethingwonderful.substack.com/p/take-eat-t...
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
destroy it with fire
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Had some thoughts on a performance that I saw at SoMad recently somethingwonderful.substack.com/p/take-eat-t...
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You know me so well
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I reviewed Chuck Klosterman’s book on American football and couldn’t get past the dishonesty about the nature of the game to even accept his premise of its future www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I reviewed Chuck Klosterman’s book on American football and couldn’t get past the dishonesty about the nature of the game to even accept his premise of its future www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I listened to this last night and it’s funny because he’s still such an odious bigot — kept talking about assimilation — but then he also made great points about the ridiculousness of the race-based theory of being English and the distinction with being British. I had to laugh.
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
My friend and I went to North Carolina during the TST tournament and spent several days shooting nothing but the goalkeepers to capture the stillness, suspense, and chaos that defines the position. A short film / portrait that I enjoyed making. www.instagram.com/reel/DdEl2zP...
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Everything is so bleak futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is all an effort to disappear responsibility. If it’s the AI’s fault then no person or entity beyond the computer can be blamed for it. The US killed 123 schoolchildren.
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Stung by the bees, you’re getting stung by the bees!
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Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Quiznos is partnering with Blackwater to crush insurgencies in their supply chain.
A notification reads "Chipotle is partnering with Palantir to track food safety risks at its stores"
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I wrote about American Doctor
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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 11/09/2026
TODAY: @zeets.bsky.social on the documentary “American Doctor.” “He has seen the worst things imaginable as a trauma surgeon, and has shielded himself from emotional reaction, and yet the seeming futility of his efforts sometimes catches him off guard.” flaminghydra.com/r/662aede7?m...
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Doctors without borders
Zito Madu reviews the documentary 'American Doctor'
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I wrote about American Doctor
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
lol they turned bigotry against Arabs and Muslims into a national pastime, oddly, like they’re doing now
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WRMS Traffic & Weather Reporter on the 2’s @carnegro.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026
At least you get two bedrooms. New building on my sister’s block only gets you one bedroom at this price. A Chipotle, Shake Shack, and Dave’s Hot Chicken have replaced the club and bookstore around the corner though.
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Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NEW: The San Francisco City Attorney has hit Meta with a cease-and-desist telling it to stop publishing ads with AI-generated child sexual abuse. The letter asks Meta why the same ads keep running. Meta says the ads didn’t run in San Francisco and they are outside the city attorney's jurisdiction
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San Francisco Orders Meta to Stop ‘Allowing’ AI Child Abuse Ads
The City Attorney’s Office has asked Meta to explain how the harmful ads repeatedly ran on Facebook and Instagram. The company claims the ads are not under the city’s jurisdiction.
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Alex @zerotense.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is fantastic
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
My friend and I went to North Carolina during the TST tournament and spent several days shooting nothing but the goalkeepers to capture the stillness, suspense, and chaos that defines the position. A short film / portrait that I enjoyed making. www.instagram.com/reel/DdEl2zP...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/09/2026
i think it is cool that neo nazis run government social media accounts
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If they had a “Free Palestine” poster in there, they would have been arrested and charged as terrorists
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Reading Seasons of Fury and it does seem like everything is on repeat
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Not The Onion
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
However much you hate British media, it is not enough www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...
How having a disability became cool
Young women, nicknamed ‘sickfluencers’, are turning chronic illness into a lifestyle trend and entrenching a culture of economic inactivity

Young women are also more likely to get caught up in “social contagion” – the spontaneous spread of behaviours or emotions previously observed by sociologists in “outbreaks” of bulimia, self-harm and transgender ideology. What may have otherwise been transitory feelings are seized upon and obsessed over until they form a central pillar of a person’s identity. A chronic-illness influencer won’t want to get “better” any more than a female-bodied transgender person would want to re-identify with their sex.
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Just what we need—bigger screens in cars.
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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 04/09/2026
Just learned that @zeets.bsky.social is on Bluesky and has been for a while! I'm still catching up to my Twitter migration follows so if we were mutuals in another life, please press ♥️
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Seems to be happening to quite some people right now
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“Perhaps the most beautiful part of the Karl Marx Hof, or any of the others, is not so much the building—because a building can easily be co-opted for all kinds of purposes, most nefariously, nationalistic ones—it is that working-class people still live there.” defector.com/there-is-onl...
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I know this is in their agreement but they also know what they do by labeling it as “buy” / “buying” to confuse people. If they said clearly that you were only renting the game, their business would collapse. And now they’re moving away from physical games to make it impossible to actually own games
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veery @veery.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
zito didn’t mention this but clearly i was the life of the party
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lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
i read "the snakeskin" by ingmar bergman and had a great time 🥰 www.ingmarbergman.se/en/productio...
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The Snakeskin
Possibly Bergman's greatest essay, in which he explains his doubts of cinema and art in general.
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Every now and then I use my dictator powers to make people come to my apt to read something they wrote or something meaningful to then and then I ask them questions about whatever it is, and then we all eat, drink, and talk about literature and art.
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burn it all down @russbengtson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
*looks at sports headlines* huh seems bad oh well too bad we can't do anything about it
new york times/athletic sports headlines

tickets have caused u.s. open fans angst, now it is the stars' turn

n.b.a. teams are richer than ever, but fans are being left behind
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This is still one of the most surreal and horrifying things I’ve witnessed, and that’s saying a lot after the last few years.
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Legitimately so funny. It’s practically satire.
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“The Intercept, which first reported on her firing Thursday, said she ‘was the subject of a campaign of thousands of anonymous, bot-generated emails sent every minute for over 24 hours to the school’s administrators—as well as local news outlets and politicians.’”
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
BREAKING: A federal judge in California has ruled that the Trump administration violated the First Amendment when it used security-related justification to revoke the legal status of students who expressed views it didn't like. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Just endorsed and will be voting for you.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
it is weird, under the circumstances, that the precedent for this kind of shenanigans was an intervention for the sake of Folarin Balogun
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
No slander against any of the Great Lakes.
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
It would be nice to see a good player stay with his team instead of rotting on the bench for City before being sold two years later to Saudi
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The two of them are twins in my mind. Two great artists whose activism was so ingrained in who they are that you couldn’t separate it from how they lived and moved through the world. And it’s from an abundance of care and love for the world and its people, especially those at the bottom.
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