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Georgy Cohen @radiofreegeorgy.bsky.social · Aug 1

a man is sitting on a bus and looking at the camera .

ALT: a man is sitting on a bus and looking at the camera .

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Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · Mar 22

Do the writers using AI not realize that the expediency of this tool is just rushing them towards the inevitable limits of their own underdeveloped ability? Shortchanging yourself out of hard work means you will ultimately produce rapid drivel. Even worse, you won't be able to tell.

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Georgy Cohen @radiofreegeorgy.bsky.social · Mar 22

If anyone lost their keys, they are on the emergency phone near the Harvard Science Center plaza

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Georgy Cohen @radiofreegeorgy.bsky.social · Mar 6

Just another…

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Georgy Cohen @radiofreegeorgy.bsky.social · Feb 19

God there was a 14yo on my old BBS named Deez Nuts back in 1995

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Gabriel Welsch @gabrielwelsch.bsky.social · Feb 12

Thank you, @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social, for this timely graphic.

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · Feb 12

Please stop with the generative AI. It's garbage, theft, making us less capable. Image by www.nobodyssweetheart.com

"Stop forcing AI into fucking everything. Nobody asked for it. Everybody hates it."

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Georgy Cohen @radiofreegeorgy.bsky.social · Feb 12

Thinking warm and green thoughts for us both

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Georgy Cohen @radiofreegeorgy.bsky.social · Feb 12

I’m so sorry, friend!

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · Feb 11

in america giant bodies of water can change their names, but trans people can’t

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · Feb 11

These middle schoolers have more courage than most of Congress bsky.app/profile/danl...

Dan Lamothe @danlamothe.bsky.social · Feb 11

NEW: Hegseth’s visit to U.S. base in Germany met with student walkout

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Hegseth’s visit to U.S. base in Germany met with student walkout

The civil disobedience by dozens of middle schoolers — and some adults — was aimed at the Trump administration’s rollback of DEI initiatives.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Georgy Cohen @radiofreegeorgy.bsky.social · Feb 8

Deep sigh / shaky sigh

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Georgy Cohen @radiofreegeorgy.bsky.social · Feb 8

I have so many one sided conversations with the animals in my house.

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Georgy Cohen @radiofreegeorgy.bsky.social · Feb 6

Why did you legitimize this private security guard’s “authority.” You are a member of Congress!

Georgy Cohen @radiofreegeorgy.bsky.social · Feb 4

@katiecohen.com good morning

Screenshot of a Spotify playlist entitled “old money femme fatale Tuesday early morning”

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Georgy Cohen @radiofreegeorgy.bsky.social · Feb 2

Agree. Just gave them my money.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Jan 30

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

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Georgy Cohen @radiofreegeorgy.bsky.social · Jan 27

If you see this, quote with a photo of a bridge from your gallery

A small white dog in a jacket walking along a wooden footbridge

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · Jan 26

Department of Education slowly culling their website of resources for families with disabled kids...

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · Jan 27

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · Jan 22

Been thinking about this a lot (not tagging the sender, for their privacy). Most of us won't have the chance for for grand, capital-R Resistance heroics. But every one of us will have a thousand small choices to make about how to live our lives and where to draw lines. Use them well.

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Several years ago l invited a Buddhist monk to speak to my Senior elective class, and quite interestingly, as he entered the room, he didn't say a word (that caught everyone's attention). He just walked to the board and wrote this: "EVERYONE WANTS TO SAVE THE WORLD, BUT NO ONE WANTS TO HELP MOM DO THE DISHES." We all laughed. But then he went on to say this to my students:
"Statistically, it's highly unlikely that any of you will ever have the opportunity to run into a burning orphanage and rescue an infant. But, in the smallest gesture of kindness -- a warm smile, holding the door for the person behind you, shoveling the driveway of the elderly person next door -- you have committed an act of immeasurable profundity, because to each of us, our life is our universe."

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Nsikan Akpan @monscience.bsky.social · Jan 22

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.

Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her) @liebschutz.bsky.social · Jan 22

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

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Georgy Cohen @radiofreegeorgy.bsky.social · Jan 20

So was I, with @twotothefifth.bsky.social - but we were back in the cheap seats near the Washington Monument. We had to walk all the way to Georgetown after to find a spot for lunch. Best Indian food of my life.

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Georgy Cohen @radiofreegeorgy.bsky.social · Jan 11

I love explaining to taxi drivers why Somerville has so many speed bumps. “Well, the drivers kept killing people, so now we have lots of traffic calming!”

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · Jan 10

Masks off, hoods on.

rat king 🐀 👑 @mikeisaac.bsky.social · Jan 10

BIG changes in hiring practices just announced inside of Meta, per sources:

No longer teams at meta devoted to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

No diversity working with outside minority owned supplier businesses

No goals for hiring women and minorities

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Jan 9

“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”

AI doesn’t just require tons of electric power. It also guzzles enormous sums of water.

It also guzzles enormous sums of water.

fortune.com

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