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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 12h

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

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Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 5h

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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 8h

Grabbing the forward facing window seat on the train in Chicago sunset with a lil gummy. Nothing beats this.

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 11h

the characters in narrative don't exist outside the story you're telling and the longer you drag out a story into serialized storytelling the harder it is to maintain the illusion that they do, which is why serialized storytelling shouldn't go on forever

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 19h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 10h

I remember saying on the other site that nobody cares how much you’re reading if you’re not actually reading reading and I got jumped by so many people who were like “how do you know they’re not reading those four books a week in depth?”

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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 10h

this is actually the problem for so many people lol

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Queer Privilege @queerprivilege.bsky.social · 16h

Jordan // 08.17.2025 // Lower Queen Anne, Seattle, WA // #35mm

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onion person @junlper.beer · 11h

i love the idea that there’s definitely a few thousand people out there everyday that ask grok stuff like “is broccoli healthy”

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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 13h

Theo Nash and his horrible classics takes making their way to Bluesky. No thank you! That guy is an idiot!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

apparently “bari weiss doesn’t actually know what journalism is” extends to getting basic facts like the name of a subject right

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 15h

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

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