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ᴋᴀᴛʜʏ ᴢʜᴀɴɢ @kathyvsinternet.bsky.social · 13h

Thoughtful essay with passages that apply directly to organizing

Ideas and imagination are universal to the human experience, but execution is learned, the result of energy and time spent to develop the skills necessary to bring an idea into the world. Altman’s definition of creativity seems to elide this second element altogether—so much so that it appears to be an animating principle behind most of OpenAI’s tools. “The fact that you will be able to have an entire piece of software created just by explaining your idea is going to be incredible for humans getting great new stuff,” Altman said on the comedian Theo Von’s podcast this summer. “Because right now, I think there’s a lot more good ideas than people who know how to make them. And if AI can do that for us, we’re really good at coming up with creative ideas.”

What Altman is describing is a world of creativity without craft. Will Manidis, a start-up founder and investor, convincingly argued in a Substack post earlier this year that “slop emerges when we eliminate not just toil (the burdensome aspects of work) but labor itself (the meaningful human engagement with creation).”

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 16h

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

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ᴋᴀᴛʜʏ ᴢʜᴀɴɢ @kathyvsinternet.bsky.social · 14h

🤔

NYT reader comment from Virgil in Minneapolis:

@A. Reader As far as things rich guys could do with their money go, burning it by the boatload to pay local tugboats, dockworkers and contractors is pretty productive

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Don Draper drunk pitch meme

Above Don Draper: "Me, at Labor Notes"
Pitch board text: "Growing the labor movement"

ᴋᴀᴛʜʏ ᴢʜᴀɴɢ @kathyvsinternet.bsky.social · 19h

This family will be required to pay $40K a year before post-deductible coverage kicks in and then co-insurance is 50%. In network.

Bubba's Dad @bubsdad.bsky.social · 21h

Just receieved this today from Florida Blue. This is for a Bronze plan. Our monthly premiums are going from $333 (2025) to $2300 in 2026.

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ᴋᴀᴛʜʏ ᴢʜᴀɴɢ @kathyvsinternet.bsky.social · 1d

sometimes people just need to log offline! just test & mask IRL and encourage a habit / practice for gatherings and you'll help normalize it

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

jewel heist! from the louvre!

Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

Thieves steal jewels from Louvre in Paris, media reports reut.rs/43u2cX1

Thieves steal jewels from Louvre in Paris, media reports

A robbery has taken place at the Louvre museum in Paris early on Sunday, French Culture Minister Rachida Dati said, with the newspaper Le Parisien reporting several thieves have stolen pieces of jewellery from the Napoleon collection.

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ᴋᴀᴛʜʏ ᴢʜᴀɴɢ @kathyvsinternet.bsky.social · 1d

Just today I went to a conference where everyone was expected to test negative for covid beforehand, provide proof of the test, and mask throughout the entire conference. Everyone did. The organizers also had tests and masks on hand. It's actually really simple to care for one another if you try!

patravey.bsky.social @patravey.bsky.social · 1d

For the "everyone should mask" crowd: If you want to protect yourself, get vaccinated. If you want to add a layer of protection, wear a mask. If you fear getting infected despite those 2 precautions, avoid going where you believe the risk is elevated. Don't expect the world to take care of you.

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ᴋᴀᴛʜʏ ᴢʜᴀɴɢ @kathyvsinternet.bsky.social · 3d

that's new york city politics, babe!

onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

saw this clip of the NYC mayor debate and i had tears in my eyes, perhaps the most insane section of any debate ever

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 4d

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
*********** * * * * * *
Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
12 operations?
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A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
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program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
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Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
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submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

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ᴋᴀᴛʜʏ ᴢʜᴀɴɢ @kathyvsinternet.bsky.social · 4d

"Every parade has the right to exist" - Curtis Sliwa, October 16, 2025

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ᴋᴀᴛʜʏ ᴢʜᴀɴɢ @kathyvsinternet.bsky.social · 4d

leave our queens sex workers alone!!!

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Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com · 4d

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ᴋᴀᴛʜʏ ᴢʜᴀɴɢ @kathyvsinternet.bsky.social · 4d

Curtis hates the 2nd avenue subway??

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 9d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11d

None of us can do everything but each of us can do SOMETHING.

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ᴋᴀᴛʜʏ ᴢʜᴀɴɢ @kathyvsinternet.bsky.social · 13d

the bisexual season of are you the one gave us a fivesome

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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 17d

Uber and Lyft drivers can unionize under new law signed by Newsom. How does it work?

Drivers for Uber and Lyft now have collective bargaining rights after a rare compromise between unions and Silicon Valley.

www.latimes.com

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ᴋᴀᴛʜʏ ᴢʜᴀɴɢ @kathyvsinternet.bsky.social · 18d

how the HELL is Demetri Martin fifty-two years old

ᴋᴀᴛʜʏ ᴢʜᴀɴɢ @kathyvsinternet.bsky.social · 21d

I shared similar thoughts in therapy today 🫠

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 22d

I learned these dynamics on the picket line. Others learned them in other movements. They are reflected imperfectly in some of the dynamics of online call out culture, but pundits who only study them in that context are missing the bigger picture.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 22d

"out of the three mass shootings today,"

Our Earth Affairs @ourearthaffairs.bsky.social · 22d

Iraq War veteran Thomas Sanford has been identified as the gunman who attacked Grand Blanc Mormon church, killing 2 people and setting it ablaze. Out of the three mass shootings today, two of them have been carried out by Iraq war veterans.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · Sep 19

I don't understand where these debate guys think politics happens or what politics do? Like has it never occurred to them that the reason abortion rights activists aren't going to evangelical churches to ~persuade them~ because their time is spent, like, helping people pay for their abortions

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ᴋᴀᴛʜʏ ᴢʜᴀɴɢ @kathyvsinternet.bsky.social · Sep 19

also if it's "direct" traffic to a particular post then that's most likely dark social which could include this referrer issue for apps as well as traffic driven by peer-to-peer messaging (incl. email)

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ᴋᴀᴛʜʏ ᴢʜᴀɴɢ @kathyvsinternet.bsky.social · Sep 19

This is also why the centrist "it'll help you sharpen your arguments" perspective is so off the mark. Persuasion may include arguments but requires more to be effective. The "debate me" stance frames any discussion into opposing "sides" seeking dominance/ridicule rather than collective understanding

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