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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 2h

I do occasional "transcreation"--copywriting based on text in 2nd language. Today, I edited someone else's copywriting. The "writer" just fed the Arabic into Google Translate (giveaway: client name totally wrong). Wish I had balls to be so bad at my job, because that person got paid 2X what I did.

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S(pooky) @vidiot.bsky.social · 2h

HE EVEN ADDRESSED HIS OPPONENT THAT WAY! IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE!!!!!!!!!

WHAT IS HE HIDING?!?!!?

Screenshot of Mamdani's video titled "Release Your Client List, Cuomo", with a closed caption showing that he is addressing Cuomo as "Habibi..."

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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 7h

auntifa

Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 1d

lmao

My Post headline

Mamdani didn’t tell the whole truth about his hijab-wearing ‘aunt’ who feared for safety post-9/11

The “aunt” who Zohran Mamdani said was too afraid to wear her hijab on the subways after 9/11 was actually his dad’s cousin.

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 4h

this is beautiful. From Swamp Yankee to South Asian, the fictitious-kin auntie custom has united us all

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10h

Mamdani referred to a friend as 'bro' but a Free Press investigation has determined that this man is not his sibling.

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t really use Google Drive, but I am delighted to disable this setting anyway, and I think everyone else should too.

Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com · 1d

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

$Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.$

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 4h

This is a pitiful demonstration of cultural ignorance. Europeans and white North Americans are deeply in the global minority when they *don't* refer to their elders as aunt/uncle.

CNN @cnn.com · 6h

In the final days of New York City’s mayoral race, Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani has faced pushback over a story he told about his aunt being afraid to wear her hijab while riding the subway after the September 11, 2001, attacks. https://cnn.it/432IAcr

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 4h

Getting some terrifying videos from a Cameroonian friend, public response to Biya getting reelected -- and police response to that. So predictable and frustrating.

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 18h

I had no idea so many of you were baseball fans.

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 20h

The press is not Democratic leadership, though? I don't understand this conflation, especially not as KJP presents it.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 1d

AI really is the ultimate and predictable expression of our evolving scam culture.

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t0ussaint @t0ussaint.bsky.social · 1d

idk if you saw this, but they doing AI digital blackface, its so over bsky.app/profile/hist...

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 6d

This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 1d

ughghghghghghghghgh

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t0ussaint @t0ussaint.bsky.social · 1d

the ai lawyers cant keep up with the ai scammers bsky.app/profile/eric...

Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Sep 5

The Doctors Are Real But, but there Sales Pitches are Frauds.
The >12 fraudulent books—not written by me with my name on the cover—are an example provided in the piece, among other A.I. generated products.
gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/t...

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

I continue to sincerely want the term “Kavanaugh Stop” to be a badge of shame for the rest of Brett Kavanaugh’s days; the only bit of writing he’s known or remembered for; his sole contribution to the Law; for him to perceive, in little stabs of self-awareness, that this will be his rancid legacy.

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 4d

What a sick world.

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 1d

A few days ago I said that the nice thing about making a video yourself, instead of having AI do it, is that you have time to realize when it’s a bad idea. On the flip side, I now see, the cringe is 1000X worse if you don’t, in the course of putting on a bad wig and accent, realize it’s a bad idea.

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 1d

AI really is the ultimate and predictable expression of our evolving scam culture.

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 1d

Yes, it really destroys trust and basic fun about the internet — that we *could* meet people and develop relationships without having to verify in person! I hate that I have to question realness more than ever.

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 1d

I think this is a dynamic that is affecting academics' citational politics/practices. AI slop is infiltrating the scholarly record (heh), and it's harder to keep up with the sheer volume of work that is coming out (this is something I see *across fields* as an interdisciplinary researcher, too)

Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 1d

Down in the comments, someone says, “I refuse to buy without familiarity with the seller” and that is the natural response to AI slop in every realm. AI is undoing decades of open access and web-enabled networking, making us hate discovery. AI is making our world smaller.

Robin Mar-Witch 🧙🏻‍♀️ @electricland.bsky.social · 25d

Today in “AI is a scourge”: I’m in an embroidery group on Facebook, and it feels like every day brings a new person who says “I bought this pattern on Etsy but it didn’t come with instructions and I don’t understand how they got this effect”

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 1d

I’m pretty careful with my social media network and usually block/mute people who use AI illustration because I simply do not want to look at that crap. Already my pure discovery tabs are getting junkier. But if AI overwhelms my network, I will abandon it. My world will be smaller.

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👹👻 boo-rit 👻👹 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 1d

IT’S CALLED THE GOLDEN AGE, BABY!

Acerola
@Acerola__t
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every day is like "chinese scientists create bone healing juice that heals bones instantly" or "japanese scientists figure out how to regrow tooth enamel" or "taiwan scientists cure baldness" and then the next post is "4 days until millions of americans begin starving to death"

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 1d

Books — also filling up with slop. People will retreat to the authors they know. Discovery is too risky. Publishing is already conservative, probably getting more so, focusing on surer bets because readers are too.

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 1d

Job searching was already suffering — the tools that were supposed to level the playing field and give more people access swamped recruiters, so personal connections became mor important. AI has magnified this, making job apps almost frictionless. Ofc HR goes for ppl they have some familiarity with.

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 1d

Down in the comments, someone says, “I refuse to buy without familiarity with the seller” and that is the natural response to AI slop in every realm. AI is undoing decades of open access and web-enabled networking, making us hate discovery. AI is making our world smaller.

Robin Mar-Witch 🧙🏻‍♀️ @electricland.bsky.social · 25d

Today in “AI is a scourge”: I’m in an embroidery group on Facebook, and it feels like every day brings a new person who says “I bought this pattern on Etsy but it didn’t come with instructions and I don’t understand how they got this effect”

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