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Amand-ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! @amandaannklein.bsky.social · 6h

Wow you’re a G!!!!!!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23h

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Amand-ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! @amandaannklein.bsky.social · 6h

Accidentally told my 15yo to “email” someone instead of “text”
Him: Great. I’ll forward them a file. I could call them on the land line!
Me:

a man in a suit and tie is making a face with his eyes closed .

Alt: a man in a suit and tie is making a face with his eyes closed .

media.tenor.com

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Amand-ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! @amandaannklein.bsky.social · 17h

Yasssss weight lifting!!! I love it so much! Pick up a heavy thing! Put it down! [repeat!]

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Amand-ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! @amandaannklein.bsky.social · 22h

one story I have heard (I will fact check this) is that our alert system has been down for a month. The irony is that our admin tripped over themselves to immediately comply with anti-DEI orders (we had 2 weeks to change our program language) but apparently no worries about compliance here?

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Amand-ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! @amandaannklein.bsky.social · 23h

Yeah I'm about to reach out to someone...

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Amand-ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! @amandaannklein.bsky.social · 23h

I think some young men have been emboldened by [gestures everywhere]. I remember seeing signs right after the election saying "your body, my choice." Rape is the logical conclusion to these beliefs.

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Amand-ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! @amandaannklein.bsky.social · 23h

Another side effect: the incidents of rape on my campus. Equally disturbing is the fact that the university is no longer emailing the entire campus with an alert (they used to do this). We only find out in the local news:

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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 1d

Over 1,200 convicted Jan 6 rioters pardoned—yet Mike Johnson still swears they “stand with Capitol Police.” The plaque still collecting dust says otherwise. The only thing they’ve stood with is their own reflection, choking on the stench of their own gaslighting.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · Aug 6

This is how the US Department of Homeland Security is recruiting now.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 1d

Two sets of parents who are currently suing OpenAI for losing their kids to suicide because of ChatGPT might have something to say about "now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues" part.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 2d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 1d

OpenAI’s strategy is very clear, it’s trying to get people - especially young people - so reliant on its products intellectually & emotionally (& now sexually!) that going without them becomes unthinkable. And they need signs of that strategy working to keep the funding flowing in

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Amand-ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! @amandaannklein.bsky.social · 2d

Coffee? You never liked coffee! Remember when everyone stopped liking that? It’s good that it is so expensive now, given how much people do not like it

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 2d

Tariffs have rapidly increased the price of coffee—a drink with almost no nutritional value and lots of functional substitutes. Yet coffee may also be the one thing Americans can’t live without, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight

Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d

D'Angelo has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his former manager says. He was 51

D'Angelo Dead at 51

Grammy-winning R&B soul singer D'Angelo is dead from pancreatic cancer ... TMZ has learned.

www.tmz.com

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2d

Emily Tucker argues that the AI regulation debate largely misses the point: the real threat to democracy is the unchecked data extraction and accumulation that is fueling corporate power. “We can have mass surveillance, or we can have political self-determination. We can’t have both,” she writes.

To Have Democracy, We Must Contest Data | TechPolicy.Press

Emily Tucker makes the case for redlines for data, not AI—real limits on corporate data collection to protect democracy and political self-determination.

www.techpolicy.press

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 2d

Good interview with Tim Curry but annoying format where you have to pause and read a couple of pull-quotes every so often before you can move on. (On desktop anyway.)

‘Risky is the best way to be’: Tim Curry on sexuality, surviving a stroke – and 50 years of stardom

From Rocky Horror to the Muppets, Curry’s extraordinary career made him world-famous. Then, a stroke left him paralysed. The actor talks about his cocaine years, his friendship with David Bowie – and ...

www.theguardian.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d

www.instagram.com/p/DPm507ljBJ...

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 3d

“The UN estimates that 83 percent of all structures in Gaza City were damaged or destroyed, along with most of its crops and vegetation”

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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Amand-ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! @amandaannklein.bsky.social · 4d

My Labubu costume is coming along well
#Halloween

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Franchesca Ramsey @chescaleigh.bsky.social · 6d

This week Vivek Ramaswamy spoke at a Turning Point USA event originally scheduled to headlined by the late Charlie Kirk. But during the Q&A things took a turn as Ramaswamy fielded questions about his Hindu faith…🐆💀

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 6d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 6d

👀A Rutgers professor who teaches an anti-fascism class was blocked from leaving the US hours > Trump’s “Antifa” roundtable w/ Jack Posobiec who has called Bray a “domestic terrorist professor.” TPUSA at Rutgers has called him an “antifa member,” a claim he denies. He’s received death threats. 1/

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

www.theguardian.com

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Amand-ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! @amandaannklein.bsky.social · 7d

New installment in the continuing adventures of Amanda vs AI. This week I embedded a ? (in white typeface so that students who cut & paste into ChatGPT will answer it). I asked them to make their answer to a ? about PARIS IS BURNING into a poem. Chat GPT: you are no poet!