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@excitedstoat.bsky.social
seems to like cat food, but isn't a cat.
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Me: “AI is amazing technology that is breaking society”
The world’s best readers: “Why are you a gung ho supporter of AI”
The world’s best readers: “Why are you a gung ho supporter of AI”
tbh the only reason i find your gung ho seeming support of ai to be sorta weird is just with how it’s been weaponized against you in just this year alone
environmental concerns aside, we’ve all seen the lack of guardrails around it doing real harm (nudifying strangers, doxes, increasing deepfakes)
environmental concerns aside, we’ve all seen the lack of guardrails around it doing real harm (nudifying strangers, doxes, increasing deepfakes)
December 9, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Me: “AI is amazing technology that is breaking society”
The world’s best readers: “Why are you a gung ho supporter of AI”
The world’s best readers: “Why are you a gung ho supporter of AI”
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I'd be hospitalized for approaching perfection
December 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I'd be hospitalized for approaching perfection
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‘it was “a sorry state when a major piece of public infrastructure like this is hit so badly and no one in authority even seems to notice, much less care”.’
‘No one seems to care’: scholars decry plight of British Library - Research Professional News
Humanities researchers suffer amid “agonisingly slow” recovery from 2023 cyberattack, as strikes cause further delays
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:35 AM
‘it was “a sorry state when a major piece of public infrastructure like this is hit so badly and no one in authority even seems to notice, much less care”.’
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it's a choice to let people like her drive
A man is dead after he was struck by an SUV while walking his dogs Saturday morning in Hopkinton, RI. Police say the driver was arrested. She had previously been arrested over 100 times. on.nbcboston.com/XEE5YAX
Man walking his dogs fatally struck by car in Hopkinton, RI; driver arrested
A man was walking his dog Saturday morning when he was hit and killed by an SUV in Hopkinton, Rhode Island, and the driver involved has been arrested
on.nbcboston.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:59 AM
it's a choice to let people like her drive
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dark, dark story, upshot of which is that leavitt is a terrible person on many levels and trumpers generally are awful. wapo.st/48qWW9C
Mom of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew rejects White House narrative of her ICE arrest
In an interview, Bruna Ferreira, who chose the White House press secretary as her son’s godmother, contested the portrayal of her as a criminal, absentee mom.
wapo.st
December 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
dark, dark story, upshot of which is that leavitt is a terrible person on many levels and trumpers generally are awful. wapo.st/48qWW9C
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i fuckign love this
One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
December 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
i fuckign love this
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The ultimate IYKYK/IYCYC: I wrote about Babbo. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
At the New Babbo, It’s Batali Minus Batali
Under the chef Mark Ladner, the famous Greenwich Village trattoria aims for selective nostalgia.
www.newyorker.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The ultimate IYKYK/IYCYC: I wrote about Babbo. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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Yeah. All of the strikes have been just as illegal as if Iran sunk a Disney cruise because it suspected passengers carried weed.
But this one is so blatant—helpless survivors on an already-damaged ship—that it's impossible to fabricate any rationale. It's a crack worth widening.
But this one is so blatant—helpless survivors on an already-damaged ship—that it's impossible to fabricate any rationale. It's a crack worth widening.
I get this but plenty of people had been calling all the strikes murder and it hadn't broken through. This revelation did and put even Republicans on the defensive and willing to do some oversignt. My sense is that any crack the regime's implacability is a foothold.
Once the debate centers on whether the 2nd strike was legal, the first 21 strikes have been accepted as baseline. But the murder of the two survivors doesn’t make the other 21 any more legal. Selective outrage, not silence, is how authoritarianism becomes normalized @tadstoermer.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Yeah. All of the strikes have been just as illegal as if Iran sunk a Disney cruise because it suspected passengers carried weed.
But this one is so blatant—helpless survivors on an already-damaged ship—that it's impossible to fabricate any rationale. It's a crack worth widening.
But this one is so blatant—helpless survivors on an already-damaged ship—that it's impossible to fabricate any rationale. It's a crack worth widening.
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Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
BREAKING: Supreme Court GRANTS Texas request to restore redistricting maps
apparent 6-3 ruling with the liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
apparent 6-3 ruling with the liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
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He looks like he’s trying to stop his dog from leaving him
December 7, 2025 at 3:04 AM
He looks like he’s trying to stop his dog from leaving him
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I don’t wanna glamorize it because the UK’s always had pretty bad NIMBYism, but at least when planning cooperated, they WERE good at executing. But with the post-Grenfell “reforms” (2nd stair, sprinklers, liability, lack of prescriptive rules), it’s become almost impossible to build high-rises
December 7, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I don’t wanna glamorize it because the UK’s always had pretty bad NIMBYism, but at least when planning cooperated, they WERE good at executing. But with the post-Grenfell “reforms” (2nd stair, sprinklers, liability, lack of prescriptive rules), it’s become almost impossible to build high-rises
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This or an semi-formal analytic philosophy paper
Wikipedia lists the abbreviation for the latter as CPI(ML(L)) which is like something out of a Pynchon novel about leftist sectarianist squabbling
December 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
This or an semi-formal analytic philosophy paper
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Strong floor, no ceiling.
November 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Strong floor, no ceiling.
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We live in a corrupt and degraded time.
December 5, 2025 at 2:11 AM
We live in a corrupt and degraded time.
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Wow, straight out of a one of the most emotional Scrubs plot lines from like 20 years ago.
A Michigan man died of rabies after getting a kidney transplant from another man who died of the virus, only the fourth instance in nearly 50 years in which an organ donor passed the virus to a recipient, federal officials said.
Kidney Recipient Dies After Transplant From Organ Donor Who Had Rabies
Only four donors have transmitted rabies to organ transplant recipients since 1978, according to federal officials.
nyti.ms
December 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Wow, straight out of a one of the most emotional Scrubs plot lines from like 20 years ago.
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this is the first time I have seen a journalist say this, which is plainly correct.
i think a lot of people think of "slop" as following from the next-token prediction nature of how generative AI works, but i sort of think that the "slop"-ish qualities of genAI output can be chalked up way more to RLHF
December 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
this is the first time I have seen a journalist say this, which is plainly correct.
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The way to understand the second Trump administration is as a content generation machine. They aren’t implementing fascism, they’re creating fascism-flavored content. They aren’t implementing real policy, they’re signing executive orders to post about them. Anything that gets attention is the goal.
I don't really know what the administration hopes to gain by picking fights with the most well-liked pop artists in the United States. You're just generating backlash for no discernible reason outside of owning the libs.
Sabrina Carpenter ratioed the White House after it used her song in an ICE video.
The WH deleted the post…but now it’s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenter’s SNL monologue.
The WH deleted the post…but now it’s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenter’s SNL monologue.
December 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The way to understand the second Trump administration is as a content generation machine. They aren’t implementing fascism, they’re creating fascism-flavored content. They aren’t implementing real policy, they’re signing executive orders to post about them. Anything that gets attention is the goal.
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New Jersey, mall graveyard: "On recent weekday afternoons, Hamilton Mall and Livingston Mall seemed as though the season had passed them by. They were quiet, dim and stripped of the crowds and energy that once defined them." www.nj.com/news/2025/12...
These depressing N.J. malls are basically dead, shoppers say. Can anything save them?
Santa sits alone with no kids in sight, parking lots crumble and footsteps echo down eerily empty corridors. A look inside two of New Jersey's deadest malls.
www.nj.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM
New Jersey, mall graveyard: "On recent weekday afternoons, Hamilton Mall and Livingston Mall seemed as though the season had passed them by. They were quiet, dim and stripped of the crowds and energy that once defined them." www.nj.com/news/2025/12...
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people made fun of this in 2014 but every last thing about it turned out to be true
December 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM
people made fun of this in 2014 but every last thing about it turned out to be true
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ok this is sickos only Friday night stuff
I wrote a newsletter on the political geography of New York and I used a ml model identify 14 clusters that define New York City's current politics
but I had five clusters that I left out because I didn't like them www.expectinggoals.com/p/the-politi...
I wrote a newsletter on the political geography of New York and I used a ml model identify 14 clusters that define New York City's current politics
but I had five clusters that I left out because I didn't like them www.expectinggoals.com/p/the-politi...
The Political Geography of New York City
A Story in 14 or 15 Clusters
www.expectinggoals.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:40 AM
ok this is sickos only Friday night stuff
I wrote a newsletter on the political geography of New York and I used a ml model identify 14 clusters that define New York City's current politics
but I had five clusters that I left out because I didn't like them www.expectinggoals.com/p/the-politi...
I wrote a newsletter on the political geography of New York and I used a ml model identify 14 clusters that define New York City's current politics
but I had five clusters that I left out because I didn't like them www.expectinggoals.com/p/the-politi...
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Me when I do the good race based segregation
Philadelphia’s Chinatown neighborhood has grown significantly over the past decade, but a majority of its new gains in population and business have resulted in a decline in the share of Asian residents.
Share of Asian residents in Chinatown decreasing, new report says
www.inquirer.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Me when I do the good race based segregation
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…does the UK now think that every Disney film with anthropomorphic cartoon animals is actually a fountain of sexual perversion?
December 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
…does the UK now think that every Disney film with anthropomorphic cartoon animals is actually a fountain of sexual perversion?
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Do I ‘know Julia’? Kind of personal question to be asking in a job interview but ok. We’ve fallen out of contact.
December 4, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Do I ‘know Julia’? Kind of personal question to be asking in a job interview but ok. We’ve fallen out of contact.
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Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...