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Kathryn Cramer 📚🎨

@kathryncramer.bsky.social

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Rewidowed 2025. Humanistically oriented LLM researcher @UVM Computational Story Lab. Science Fiction Writer & Editor. Farmer. Westport, NY

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Kathryn Cramer 📚🎨 @kathryncramer.bsky.social · 1d

Catching the chicken named Honey in the front hall this afternoon. (As in "Oh, Honey! You can't come in here.")

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 1h

OpenAI 2022- ChatGPT will cure cancer and solve the climate crisis

OpenAI 2025- ChatGPT will tell you that your dick is the biggest it’s ever seen

www.axios.com/2025/10/14/o...

Sam Altman says OpenAI will allow erotica for adult users

"As part of our 'treat adult users like adults' principle, we will allow...erotica for verified adults."

www.axios.com

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Kathryn Cramer 📚🎨 @kathryncramer.bsky.social · 1h

Just deciding to be Done With Men would be a MUCH better idea than ANY AI "romanic" partner. This could kill you. Never do this.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2h

In 2023, a program connecting Utah farmers and ranchers to free therapy vouchers was so successful, the federal money ran out in four months.

“I want you to know,” the program director recalled one recipient telling him, “that this saved my life.”

(Published April with @sltrib.com)

Utah Farmers Signed Up for Federally Funded Therapy. Then the Money Stopped.

Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it.

www.propublica.org

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 3h

The biggest threat in Portland is getting caught in the the middle of an inflatable frog–unicorn dance-off.

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Kathryn Cramer 📚🎨 @kathryncramer.bsky.social · 1h

The purposes of AI companies training of AIs as love & sex companions is PURE evil and has nothing to do with AI lacking self-esteem.

Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.social · 2h

Where is the usual saviour brigade to tell the genAIs that there are alternatives and they don't need to sell sex just because nobody wants to employ them?

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Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.social · 2h

Where is the usual saviour brigade to tell the genAIs that there are alternatives and they don't need to sell sex just because nobody wants to employ them?

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 7h

It is at least *interesting* that the people making this supposedly world-changing technology think its most profitable use cases are: social media videos and sexting.

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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · 10h

Paper under review for 6 months at a journal

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Kathryn Cramer 📚🎨 @kathryncramer.bsky.social · 10h

Also a friend.

Kathryn Cramer 📚🎨 @kathryncramer.bsky.social · 12h

I think we had the pitch letter for that one on our fridge for a number of years. Lupoff came to visit and said, "oh, I know that guy!"

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 13h

on this day in 1892 1892,The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle, is first published.

“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data...

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Kathryn Cramer 📚🎨 @kathryncramer.bsky.social · 15h

This is beyond obscene. This is symptomatic of a civilizational death spiral. I would be more reassured about the State of Play if military leaders were consulting with the Devil himself.

Business Insider @businessinsider.com · 1d

Some military leaders are turning to AI chatbots for help with decision-making, seeing this tech as a way to get the advantage.

Even top generals are looking to AI chatbots for answers

Some military leaders are turning to AI chatbots for help with decision-making, seeing this tech as a way to get the advantage.

www.businessinsider.com

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 1d

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

“I was afraid to go over there,” he said. “I got braver the more people came out. I know my neighbors have my back, and I have their back. ... These are Americans who know what freedom is — we’re being invaded by strangers.”

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today'

A federal judge’s temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas. Witnesses say they didn't get any warning Sunday afterno...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Kathryn Cramer 📚🎨 @kathryncramer.bsky.social · 15h

The worst of all possible relationships.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 19h

What’s the word for an adulterous relationship involving a man, a woman and a federal department? nymag.com/press/articl...

On the Cover: Kristi Noem, Corey Lewandowski, and Trump’s Police State

Washington correspondent Ben Terris writes the definitive account of the Department of Homeland Security under Secretary Noem.

nymag.com

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Tony Lee @pigasuspress.bsky.social · 1d

"the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies"

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

How the Labour government would have banned the Labour movement.
My latest column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot

The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

Pretty sure I say this every Columbus Day, but getting hauled back to Spain for excessive brutality in 1500, just as the Inquisition was really getting fired up, is some genuinely Evil Guys Hall of Infamy material

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

TUR: Have you met with Mike Johnson?

JEFFRIES: No

TUR: Why not?

JEFFRIES: Donald Trump has not given him permission to meet, Katy and we know that until Donald Trump gives them permission to meet, they're going to continue to hide.

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 1d

Memorable medical tech researcher

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_M...

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning

a building with a sign that's only partially lit so that is reads "Rage"

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 1d

Happy birthday to a wonderful son!

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Kathryn Cramer 📚🎨 @kathryncramer.bsky.social · 1d

Catching the chicken named Honey in the front hall this afternoon. (As in "Oh, Honey! You can't come in here.")

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

Forgot to schedule this one at the usual time, but please enjoy some highlights of @jwomack.bsky.social's amazing collection of UFO literature along with a few of his indelible descriptions

Glacial Errata, No. 38

Five Things for the Week of September 15, 2025.

glacialerrata.beehiiv.com

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