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Large Language Super Model @jsthrill.modphi.com · 1m

Just gonna say that this is one extra reason you should be down on Kelsey Piper micro school boosterism

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 19m

We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust.

From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad."

I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 19m

We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust.

From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad."

I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵

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Large Language Super Model @jsthrill.modphi.com · 9m

The blog he cites is Marginal Revolution, which iirc is publishing AI slop?

Large Language Super Model @jsthrill.modphi.com · 3h

Okay hear me out:

Anne of Green Lantern

With her power of imagination she would be the most powerful superhero ever

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Large Language Super Model @jsthrill.modphi.com · 3h

Holy shit there are over 300 episodes???

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Large Language Super Model @jsthrill.modphi.com · 3h

In so many episodes the killers have plans that intensely rely on a detective of murdoch’s tenacity being on the case because their plan only works if they are suspected and then exonerated, when most cops would be like “yeah you did it, get in the gallows sucker”

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Large Language Super Model @jsthrill.modphi.com · 3h

Classic police chief archetype

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Large Language Super Model @jsthrill.modphi.com · 3h

His boss is like “I’ll tolerate a lot of things; crime, breaking the rules, but I won’t have you disrespect the theater or a literary lion like sir Arthur Conan Doyle!”

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Large Language Super Model @jsthrill.modphi.com · 3h

Like, the show cannot decide whether to be a serious period drama or a goofy winking anachronism

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Large Language Super Model @jsthrill.modphi.com · 3h

Murdoch mysteries is the most insane tv show; writing in Nicola Tesla and Conan Doyle to be like “my goodness you are brilliant detective Murdoch” is so silly but then having an episode where the main character is like “Are ‘sodomites’ worth treating like people? Tough call!”

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Large Language Super Model @jsthrill.modphi.com · 3h

I think these people should have less money

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 4h

$5,000 grant from Slate Star Codex to get an AI to write 5,000 novels about AI going well, to be fed back into AI training corpuses. This is the most Effective possible Altruism.

("mad dental science": Silverbook is the mouth bacteria instead of brushing your teeth guy)

Aaron Silverbook, $5K, for approximately five thousand novels about Al going well. This one requires some background: critics claim that since Al absorbs
text as training data and then predicts its completion, talking about dangerous Al too much might "hyperstition” it into existence. Along with the rest of the Al Futures Project, I wrote a skeptical blog post, which ended by asking - if this were true, it would be great, right? You could just write a few thousand books about Al behaving well, and alignment would be solved! At the time, I thought I was joking. Enter Aaron, who you may remember from his previous adventures in mad dental science. He and a cofounder have been working on an “Al fiction publishing house” that considers itself state-of-the-art in producing slightly-less-sloplike Al slop than usual. They offered to literally produce several thousand book-length stories about Al behaving well and ushering in utopia, on the off chance that this helps. Our grant will pay for compute. We're still working on how to get this included in training corpuses. He would appreciate any plot ideas you could give him to use as prompts.

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Marghost 👻 @mitildide.bsky.social · 4h

I am once again confirmed cis by rightwingers' data

Marghost 👻 @mitildide.bsky.social · 4h

Shoutout to @/gaynarcan who pointed this out on Twitter (formerly X).

Not the same gaynarcan as here btw I don't know what her account is here.

Screen Twitter

Corinne Green
@gaynarcan
"h/t FIRE data in particular"
dog i don't think FIRE's gender question could find a trans person at a 100 gecs concert

A screenshot at the questionnaire's csv, which asks "Which of the following genders do you most identify with: Male, female, gender non-conforming, not in survey, missing"

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Large Language Super Model @jsthrill.modphi.com · 4h

Unexpected side effect of the scam economy is me learning that Sheryl Crow fans are especially exploitable

Sheryl Crow & • Follow
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A Message From Team Sheryl (your page moderators):
Recently, we've gotten a greatly increased number of comments and posts on this page from grown men who believe they have been direct messaging with Sheryl and have some kind of personal access or relationship with her. Some of these folks even believe they're going to marry Sheryl despite never actually having met her in their entire lives. Some of these folks have been convinced to give money to people posing as Sheryl's management team in order to get a "fan card" or pay for a private session with her. And of course, this never happens once the money changes hands - because its a SCAM.
It's kind of incredible that we need to keep saying this, but Sheryl DOES NOT message with fans on social media, on Telegram or WhatsApp, or anywhere else. ANYONE who claims to be Sheryl or someone from her management team who messages a fan is an imposter, a scammer, looking to rip people off.
There are NO exceptions to this fact - trust us! This is the only official Sheryl Crow page on Facebook, Sheryl does not have any other private personal pages here, and she doesn't use any direct messaging platforms. We ban these folks as soon as we see them pop up, but the social media networks are doing a terrible job keeping scammers off their services. You have to be personally diligent and cautious online.

It's kind of incredible that we need to keep saying this, but Sheryl DOES NOT message with fans on social media, on Telegram or WhatsApp, or anywhere else. ANYONE who claims to be Sheryl or someone from her management team who messages a fan is an imposter, a scammer, looking to rip people off.
There are NO exceptions to this fact - trust us! This is the only official Sheryl Crow page on Facebook, Sheryl does not have any other private personal pages here, and she doesn't use any direct messaging platforms. We ban these folks as soon as we see them pop up, but the social media networks are doing a terrible job keeping scammers off their services. You have to be personally diligent and cautious online.
So please, gentlemen: use COMMON SENSE when receiving these scam messages. You honestly think you're going to marry someone famous whom you've never met because you've been DM'ing with someone who claims to be them but has a new account with 12 followers and they're asking you to send them money? C'mon now.
Just enjoy the music! That's what it's all about.
Thanks for reading.
Team Sheryl (your page moderators)
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 5d

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 5d

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Large Language Super Model @jsthrill.modphi.com · 4h

Let’s get 10,000 thinkpieces about how Twitter is dying please

Noah Smith @Noahpinion
X.com
This platform has deteriorated to the point where single blogs are better source of information than my entire feed here.

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Large Language Super Model @jsthrill.modphi.com · 12h

This guy doesn’t always seem like a fucking idiot but like at least 10% of the time his head is way the fuck up his ass

N. Bourbaki, Professor of Logic at... @ • 6h you do! they write for the new york times and teach in ivy league departments
Jane Coaston
@janecoaston • 6h
Again, we used to have a better class of racists. politico.com/news/2025/10/1...
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chair of the Arizona hat were watching
to the zoo if I wante fers to Black people

N. Bourbaki, Professor of Logic at... @ • 5h most everything here could be converted into a sarah jeong tweet by switching races, for example

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 12h

And there’s this guy. I’ll keep adding as I find more…

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 12h

Lawler seems to know all these guys.

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👻Wereman 🐺🎃 @spookarties.bsky.social · Dec 1

Robocop is a movie about a guy who gets killed on the job and they still made him go back to work

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 14h

only surprising thing about the racist young republican groupchat is that jd vance wasn't in there dropping crylaugh emoji reacts

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Large Language Super Model @jsthrill.modphi.com · 14h

Advertise your account with just one image.

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EVERYONE

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19h

Them: need help doing things?

Me: yes

Them: we have a doing things medication

Me: ooh

Them: hahahahaha guess what you have to do to get it?

Me: oh no

Them: things.

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Large Language Super Model @jsthrill.modphi.com · 15h

Getting asked or agreeing to spot?

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Large Language Super Model @jsthrill.modphi.com · 16h

This is not really a scoop; this is just something you should assume about anyone who lost both their parents in a year

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A source exclusively tells PEOPLE that D'Angelo and Angie Stone's son Michael Archer Jr. has "been through a lot" losing both his parents in a year.

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D'Angelo and Angie Stone's Son Mike Jr., 27, Has 'Been Through a Lot' Losing Bo...

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Large Language Super Model @jsthrill.modphi.com · 16h

Blueskyism is me doing this meme forever

Large Language Super Model @jsthrill.modphi.com · 16h

“Young GOP staffers are doing group chats the right way” — Ezra Klein

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