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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 5h

Democratic Party: This is a genuinely good first step to winning back ‘independents’ and turning out your base. You have to then actually deliver and punish the lawbreakers, but it’s good if you start by basically calling them assholes.

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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 8h

If Trump sinks the AI/SI industry… he’ll still be the worst US President ever but… ya know, it would still be nice.

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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 17h

Most Republicans generally disdain the people they represent, which is why they would rather not live anywhere near them. True for many Dems as well. It’s all about class.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's good that we invented things like "government" and "the economy" but we can't meaningfully participate in them if the people in charge are constantly rubbing in our faces that these things are fake, and in fact you are a naive doofus if you think otherwise. That's a society on life support

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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Trump’s first term has been memory-holed… His prior decades of illicit activity have vanished from the public domain: because there is no public domain. The public domain was purchased and destroyed by oligarchs: purchased to be destroyed.”

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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My daughter wants me to drive her to the mall. My daughter is three.

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.

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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report

A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.

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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Trump is the apotheosis of American conservatism. This is why he isn’t just supported; he is deified.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women

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FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez @agomezfcc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The FCC just let some of the most repressive governments in the world indirectly control nearly all of a combined Paramount-Warner Bros. An investment this large in one of America's biggest media companies doesn't just buy equity, it secures influence over what gets said and what gets made.

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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Remember this the next time someone says they hate Dems because of “identity politics.”

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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“Counter cultural right-wingers? I wonder what style choices they…” *opens up GAP catalogue*

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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In my humble opinion, people who talk like this shouldn’t have this much power.

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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

As someone with actual expertise this field, what Taylor Lorenz says in this clip is - and this is the most accurately I can describe it - total batshit lunacy. Just a complete misunderstanding of actual research mixed with unfathomable self-importance.

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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“But what about the price of eggs?”

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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“Let me give you a topic: Artificial Intelligence is neither ‘artificial’ nor ‘intelligence.’ Discuss!”

Mike Myers dressed as SNL character Linda Richman, a stereotypical New York Jewish woman

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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

1) This isn’t a “new line.” People have been saying this from the beginning (see link) 2) In no way do the words you cite “accurately” describe what these systems do. At all. 3) By using terms like “thinking” or “intelligence” to describe these systems, you minimize what those words actually mean.

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Artifice and Intelligence

Emily Tucker, Executive Director of the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law, on tech, vocabulary and power.

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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Fucker, YOU decided to make it a private company. YOU are directly profiting from it being a private company. No one forced you to be a private company. What the fuck kind of passive voice shit is this about something YOU ARE DOING?!?

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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

When a bridge collapses, we don’t say the bridge “went rogue;” we find out the problem in the (human) design/build. When a video game glitches, we don’t say the game “went rogue;” we know there was some error in coding. Making tech ‘agentic’ is an attempt to remove responsibility from people.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Every other headline now is "Huge liar who's financially motivated to lie says"

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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The only thing that pleases me about Trump going openly all-in on AI is that his unpopularity will taint the entire industry.

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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The next episode of “60 Minutes” will end with Lesley Stahl saying “Be sure to like and subscribe”

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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

So revealing: the ‘mainstream press’ essentially admitting they will take any bad faith framing from Republicans and run with it without question.

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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This man, two days after this, was invited on ESPN College Gameday to chat football. This is how you normalize political violence.

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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My three year old daughter: “No, not that dress. I need one with pockets.” She gets it.

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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Girl, the apparent “shared bond” after 9/11 created ICE, which is kidnapping and murdering people TODAY. You can’t lament about the present while wishing for a past that created it!

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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

How many of the people protesting ICE/DHS these past two years understand they were made in the direct aftermath of 9/11, spurred by the racism and virulent bigotry of the response? You can’t understand either without understanding the other.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.

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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is why I will never stop teaching Langdon Winner

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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The most important detail here is the mistake was caused BY HUMANS! We need to avoid reinforcing the idea that these systems operate independently and thus no human or institution is to blame.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Mamdani is a charismatic guy but I promise you anyone can replicate this. 1) Unapologetically use the government to help ordinary people; and 2) Tell them about it

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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This fact also completely defangs any argument about “job creators.” Job creation means nothing when the jobs being created don’t lead to any reasonable standard of living.

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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

And yet the media will continue to insist Dems condemn a random influencer and not bring up growing right-wing/Republican-influenced violence.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/09/2026

We know how to teach books in the age of AI: small classes, close reading, research-engaged learning (which is how you ’let students see you struggle’). The issue is nobody will hire and pay the requisite # of faculty to offer this.

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

YOU DON'T "CONSUME" ART MOTHERFUCKER. YOU EXPERIENCE IT. YOU FEEL IT. YOU ENGAGE WITH IT. YOU WRESTLE WITH IT. YOU LIVE IT. ART ISN'T A LITTLE MORSEL YOU GOBBLE UP.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/09/2026

every single day elon musk says or endorses stuff on x dot com that is worse than any of the quotes they've pulled up for hasan piker and he will be the single biggest political donor in the entire country, supporting republicans up and down the ballot somehow none of them are asked about it

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Gonna print this out and put it under wipers on Teslas in Los Angeles

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People are what they appear to be. Beyond that, unless they can cite specific ACT sequences for their cell or mitochondrial DNA that somehow defy appearances, it's all in their mind.
I've met so many people who look extremely European in every way and tell me they're Jewish. Well, maybe there are a few OG "Jewish ACT" sequences in there somewhere, but clearly not many!
Where is the list of these ACT sequences?

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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The Secretary of Transportation is publicly talking about his sexual attraction to a private citizen’s breasts. Describe things like this, journalists.

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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This keeps me up at night. Biden and Dems “return to normal” policies and promises literally led us right to the moment we are currently in. Vision and change are needed.

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Insane

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