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Kyle Thayer
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Assistant teaching professor at UW iSchool. Interested in Programming, Culture, and Education. PhD from UW CSE. Co-author of Social Media, Ethics, and Automation (bit.ly/smeabook). Opinions my own. He/him. kylethayer.com
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Kyle Thayer @kylethayer.com · Nov 26
"Social Media, Ethics, and Automation" is a free textbook written by me and @susannotess.bsky.social

We teach new programmers to write social media bots (including Bsky), and think about the ethics of what they did.

Visit the textbook here: social-media-ethics-automation.github.io/book/bsky/in...
Social Media, Ethics, and Automation
Free textbook on programming social media bots and considering the ethical implications of having done so. Automation drives our experience of social media platforms, from timeline feeds to disinfo...
social-media-ethics-automation.github.io
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Kyle Thayer @kylethayer.com · 1h
Hi @info103-teacher.bsky.social, please jump
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Center for an Informed Public @cip.uw.edu · 1d
Check out this recent @seattletimes.com op-ed by @cip.uw.edu research manager @danielletomson.bsky.social ⤵️⤵️⤵️
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Dr. D @danielletomson.bsky.social · 3d
In today’s @seattletimes.com, I share my concept of the Authenticity Gap, when our stories and experiences don’t align. Now more than ever, we need a new generation of sensemakers willing to explain things as they are, while roadmapping where we would like to go.
www.seattletimes.com/opinion/in-t...
In today's world, we need real stories, not just facts | Op-Ed
Human beings want their explanations of the world to feel real. Yet that desire for authenticity, for something that feels true, can be easily exploited.
www.seattletimes.com
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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 1d
Took him long enough, but thank god he finally did.

open.substack.com/pub/transiti...
Newsom Breaks Anti-Trans Streak, Signs a Slew of Trans Protections Into Law
The message? Pressure works.
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Jordan Maison @jordanmaison.com · 2d
With #PredatorBadlands tickets on sale, it’s also a great time to revisit my deep dive review into #Prey and how its authentic representation sets a high bar. #IndigenousPeoplesDay

gizmodo.com/prey-review-...
Prey Is the Best and Most Intimate Predator Movie in Years
Dan Trachtenberg takes the Predator franchise back to its roots with a compelling setting, a great lead character, and some killer action.
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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 4d
> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.
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jacky. @jacky.wtf · 3d
Would make it easier to have things like Wordpress or Ghost in the Atmosphere
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jacky. @jacky.wtf · 3d
Good reason to implement multi-writer accounts (like an account whose records can be written by other permitted accounts)
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juliet @juli.ee · 3d
i wish AT repositories weren't so strongly associated with "accounts", i think they could work well for storing data associated with a community (as talked by others in the context of a reddit-like), or for git repositories (tangled's knots could be PDSes)
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 4d
I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...
American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming
The Frog is owning the president.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 4d
The greatest risk of white shields, is from the white people serving as shields mistaking their different risk profile and higher visibility, as being evidence of their greater organizing ability.

They then draw funding and center of gravity away from marginalized organizers.😦

See "Wall of Moms."🤷🏿‍♂️
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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 4d
I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 6d
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 6d
we have been working on this new polling aggregation website for a few months now, and are excited to share it with the world! plenty more features and polls to come.
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FiftyPlusOne.news @fiftyplusone.news · 6d
new polls website just dropped fiftyplusone.news
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Erik Elmgren @erikelmgren.bsky.social · 6d
Finally. @gelliottmorris.com, formerly of @economist.com and 538, starting up a place to get USA polls.

Thank you.
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FiftyPlusOne.news @fiftyplusone.news · 6d
new polls website just dropped fiftyplusone.news
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FiftyPlusOne.news @fiftyplusone.news · 6d
new polls website just dropped fiftyplusone.news
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 7d
Mark your calendars for our second Cultural Analytics Talk Series lecture w/ @ucbids.bsky.social!

@ischool.uw.edu Prof. @mellymeldubs.bsky.social will discuss how authors and readers are using #AI to generate fiction writing.

📅 Oct. 24, 12:15 - 1:30 pm
📍 210 South Hall, Online
AI Fiction in the Wild
Oct 24, 2025, 12:15 pm - Fiction readers are using AI to generate their own original stories, role-play, world-building, fan fiction, erotica, and more. Melanie Walsh explores the roots and future of…
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 7d
This is the way to do it, technically and on the human level. And I appreciate that @rude1.blacksky.team got a meaningful decision/update together before speaking on this instead of wading into the first wave of confusion.
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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 8d
I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11
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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 8d
I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11
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Kyle Thayer @kylethayer.com · 8d
When we asked people to name color tiles, this is the range of colors people called "charteuse," which includes the color you said. So there are certainly some people who agree with you.

idl.uw.edu/color-naming...
English chartreuse color. A set of tiles show the range of colors given the name "chartreuse" which is mostly a pale or dark green, but also a dark red.
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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 8d
Let me be clear, this moderation decision could be 100% correct, but the timing of it is such that I worry that it’s hard to make the case that the platform can be decentralized when you have one large actor that already dominates the space and no full alternatives at scale.
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Tom Sherman @tom.sherman.is · 8d
This message (and solution) is probably something that is very obvious to many on this app
The Web is Going to Die
YouTube video by vlogbrothers
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 8d
And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...

And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

#AIisnotresearch
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Kyle Thayer @kylethayer.com · 8d
I just noticed we see the same pattern in the misspelled "chartruse" and "chartruese!"

I'll have to update our data cleaning rules later to group those misspellings with "chartreuse."

idl.uw.edu/color-naming...
Color ranges for misspelled "chartruse" and "chartruese": mostly a dark greenish color but sometimes a reddish purple color
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Kyle Thayer @kylethayer.com · 8d
The English color term people most disagreed on was "puce." Our closest matching label was "idk."

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Color range for "puce" which ranges from green to purple to gray to brown.
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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 8d
There is only one Mandela effect theory I believe in, and it's not the Sinbad movie or the Berenstein Bears, it's that this was the original color of chartreuse.
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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 8d
This is a conspiracy theory. You cannot convince my brain that chartreuse is anything other than THIS:
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Kyle Thayer @kylethayer.com · 8d
When we asked people to name color tiles, this is the range of colors people called "charteuse," which includes the color you said. So there are certainly some people who agree with you.

idl.uw.edu/color-naming...
English chartreuse color. A set of tiles show the range of colors given the name "chartreuse" which is mostly a pale or dark green, but also a dark red.
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