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Adrian Short @adrianshort.uk · 16h

Perhaps the Russians are too busy bombing Ukrainian civilians to get a good look at our schools and hospitals.

Adrian Short @adrianshort.uk · 18h

The Russian military aircraft in UK airspace are probably just checking out the state of our schools and hospitals.

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Adrian Short @adrianshort.uk · 2d

The library rewrites itself.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 2d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Adrian Short @adrianshort.uk · 2d

An account of a blood libel in the town of Ruzhany, Lithuania (today Belarus) in 1648-9:

www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/ruzha...

Ruzhany, Belarus [Pages 10-19]

www.jewishgen.org

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Adrian Short @adrianshort.uk · 2d

An account of a blood libel in the town of Ruzhany, Lithuania (today Belarus) in 1648-9:

www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/ruzha...

Ruzhany, Belarus [Pages 10-19]

www.jewishgen.org

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 3d

I realize we're all distracted by a lot of other things right now, but I was still shocked by just how little coverage this got. I hardly saw any other media sources write about it. So I had to write about it myself.

Religion Dispatches @religiondispatches.org · 3d

Joel Swanson on VPOTUS' casual, horrifying antisemitism

religiondispatches.org/jd-vance-tri...

JD Vance Trivializes Jewish History by Referring to ICE Criticism as 'Blood Libel' — But Reveals What this Admin Thinks of Jews

Last week, in an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, Vice President JD Vance accused critics of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of committing “blood libel” against ICE agents. As Va...

religiondispatches.org

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 3d

They're literally installing Racism Dial bsky.app/profile/numb...

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Jan 15

vox populi

Altman: thanks a lot for these! some common requests:

AGI (a little patience please)
GPT-5
better voice mode
higher rate limits
better GPTs
better reasoning
control over degree of wokeness/behavior
video
personalization
better browsing
'sign in with openai
open source

Quoting:
what would you like openai to build/fix in 2024?

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Adrian Short @adrianshort.uk · 3d

Don't know what you're talking about.

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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 7d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Associate Professor Mark A. Bassett @drmarkbassett.bsky.social · 3d

The preprint of 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙨 𝙬𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙣, 𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙚: 𝘼𝙄 𝙙𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙚𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 is now available on EdArXiv.

The paper presents a definitive academic critique of AI detectors.

doi.org/10.35542/osf...

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Adrian Short @adrianshort.uk · 3d

New release exclusively on 200 gram premium vinyl.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Adrian Short @adrianshort.uk · 3d

A clapped-out 90s tribute band to stuff that was relevant 30 years previously.

Adrian Short @adrianshort.uk · 3d

How is the "Don't create deepfakes of your teachers" rule going?

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Adrian Short @adrianshort.uk · 4d

Congratulations to the winner of the Trump Peace Prize 2025.

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 4d

All my comics have happy endings!

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 4d

I still think the most accurate and consistent way to think about generative AI is that, in every instance, people exclusively use it for tasks that they don't have any respect for or give a shit about.

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Adrian Short @adrianshort.uk · 4d

A lesser-known historical fact is that Poland managed to organise a pogrom against Jewish Holocaust survivors in 1946.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kielce_...

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Adrian Short @adrianshort.uk · 4d

Congratulations to László Krasznahorkai, author of Satantango, The One with the Whale and other delights, on winning the Nobel prize in literature. Brighten up your autumn evenings with some Hungarian gloom.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...