sarah
@sarahcastic.bsky.social
look at me, i'm a person. writer, editor, escapist. i watch a lot of tv.
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KSTP meteorologist posting AI videos on Twitter of what he says is what Minneapolis will look like if his forecast is correct is really something… not a valid weather news source going forward imo
November 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
KSTP meteorologist posting AI videos on Twitter of what he says is what Minneapolis will look like if his forecast is correct is really something… not a valid weather news source going forward imo
started holiday baking championship and maybe the halloween one sucked so much because food network blew their entire budget on this "holiday village" set
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
started holiday baking championship and maybe the halloween one sucked so much because food network blew their entire budget on this "holiday village" set
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Strib: look at those unruly protestors
MPR: one of the cops shot us
MPR: one of the cops shot us
NEW: An MPR News journalist was among those hit by less-lethal munitions and taken from the scene by ambulance. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Another federal agent operation in St. Paul draws large crowds of protesters
Gov. Tim Walz said state officials were monitoring a “chaotic” situation “and working to understand what unfolded. We received no heads up from federal authorities on this operation.”
www.mprnews.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Strib: look at those unruly protestors
MPR: one of the cops shot us
MPR: one of the cops shot us
just saw a sports betting ad promoting “injury insurance” that “protects your bet” if a player you bet on gets injured in the first half and honestly time to shut sports down
November 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
just saw a sports betting ad promoting “injury insurance” that “protects your bet” if a player you bet on gets injured in the first half and honestly time to shut sports down
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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If you live in Minnesota you have access (no login required) to thousands of journals and ebooks, the full text of the NYT, WaPo, WSJ, Star Tribune (all the way back to the 80s), and much more. All thanks to eLibrary Minnesota. Libraries rule! 2/4 elibrarymn.org
eLibrary Minnesota
elibrarymn.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
If you live in Minnesota you have access (no login required) to thousands of journals and ebooks, the full text of the NYT, WaPo, WSJ, Star Tribune (all the way back to the 80s), and much more. All thanks to eLibrary Minnesota. Libraries rule! 2/4 elibrarymn.org
my family and i all call the t-wolves the woofies and i don't really know why? we have done this since they became a team when i was a young child? i feel like it was a thing in the strib maybe? anyway just an observation as my folks and i flipped by the game
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 AM
my family and i all call the t-wolves the woofies and i don't really know why? we have done this since they became a team when i was a young child? i feel like it was a thing in the strib maybe? anyway just an observation as my folks and i flipped by the game
into the old metric tracks tonight, a personal fave ❤️
Metric - Fanfare Parkdale
YouTube video by Alex C
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:26 AM
into the old metric tracks tonight, a personal fave ❤️
guess who’s home for thanksgiving 🙃
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
guess who’s home for thanksgiving 🙃
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y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
November 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
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Happy anniversary to the Max Headroom incident, the greatest example of signal hijacking.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Happy anniversary to the Max Headroom incident, the greatest example of signal hijacking.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...
i actually left the house tonight on one of my rare occasions (literary reading, so much fun)…
the gophers did what?! 💛💛💛
and the wild did what????? 👀 🎉
the gophers did what?! 💛💛💛
and the wild did what????? 👀 🎉
November 22, 2025 at 5:13 AM
i actually left the house tonight on one of my rare occasions (literary reading, so much fun)…
the gophers did what?! 💛💛💛
and the wild did what????? 👀 🎉
the gophers did what?! 💛💛💛
and the wild did what????? 👀 🎉
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the white house this afternoon
November 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
the white house this afternoon
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Neither rain nor sleet nor ICE
A U.S. postal worker on Long Island is accused of trying to help a man escape from ICE custody earlier this month, according to a federal criminal complaint: https://gothamist.visitlink.me/YNagDp
US postal worker charged with breaking man out of ICE custody on Long Island
Police arrested the worker and the man she tried to free.
gothamist.visitlink.me
November 21, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Neither rain nor sleet nor ICE
finished the lowdown tonight and really enjoyed it, a must watch for res dogs fans!
November 21, 2025 at 2:31 AM
finished the lowdown tonight and really enjoyed it, a must watch for res dogs fans!
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A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
really just saying it all out loud now huh
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
really just saying it all out loud now huh
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For Big Game week between Cal and Stanford I tracked down the anonymous Oski and Stanford Tree who got into a nationally televised brawl on ESPN 30 years ago that required police intervention. The untold story involves 18 beers, suspensions & lots of blood.
My latest:
www.sfgate.com/collegesport...
My latest:
www.sfgate.com/collegesport...
What really happened the night Oski beat up the Stanford Tree
"I must've been 18 beers deep at that point. I was in big trouble."
www.sfgate.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
For Big Game week between Cal and Stanford I tracked down the anonymous Oski and Stanford Tree who got into a nationally televised brawl on ESPN 30 years ago that required police intervention. The untold story involves 18 beers, suspensions & lots of blood.
My latest:
www.sfgate.com/collegesport...
My latest:
www.sfgate.com/collegesport...
very fun to wake up each morning and learn of a new way life has become worse
Waymo, the driverless ride-hailing company, is bringing its fleet of autonomous electric vehicles to Minneapolis.
Ridesharing without a driver? It's coming to Minneapolis
Testing will begin Thursday morning. No date has been set to start offering rides to passengers.
bit.ly
November 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
very fun to wake up each morning and learn of a new way life has become worse
wild blew a lead late again you say
November 20, 2025 at 5:21 AM
wild blew a lead late again you say
shutting off "smart features" (ai garbage) in gmail got rid of my categories which is annoying but a good side effect is i'm now actually deleting my promo emails instead of marking all as read and forgetting about them
November 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
shutting off "smart features" (ai garbage) in gmail got rid of my categories which is annoying but a good side effect is i'm now actually deleting my promo emails instead of marking all as read and forgetting about them
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This is an excellent story. We got similar pitches from the same writer at Defector and if they had not been entirely generated by someone plugging prompts into The Fabulism Device they really would've been cool.
A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This is an excellent story. We got similar pitches from the same writer at Defector and if they had not been entirely generated by someone plugging prompts into The Fabulism Device they really would've been cool.
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Texas' abortion ban has killed another woman.
Let's be very clear: Republicans are killing women. Democrats need to start calling them murderers loudly and often.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
Let's be very clear: Republicans are killing women. Democrats need to start calling them murderers loudly and often.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Texas' abortion ban has killed another woman.
Let's be very clear: Republicans are killing women. Democrats need to start calling them murderers loudly and often.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
Let's be very clear: Republicans are killing women. Democrats need to start calling them murderers loudly and often.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
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“Fuck you. You’re not even real Minnesotans. You’re all from Canada.”
A real thing a federal agent yelled in my face today when I asked if he liked his job after they had hauled my wife away.
Clearly far *FAR* from the most important thing that happened today but, wtf? Weird shit.
A real thing a federal agent yelled in my face today when I asked if he liked his job after they had hauled my wife away.
Clearly far *FAR* from the most important thing that happened today but, wtf? Weird shit.
November 19, 2025 at 1:26 AM
“Fuck you. You’re not even real Minnesotans. You’re all from Canada.”
A real thing a federal agent yelled in my face today when I asked if he liked his job after they had hauled my wife away.
Clearly far *FAR* from the most important thing that happened today but, wtf? Weird shit.
A real thing a federal agent yelled in my face today when I asked if he liked his job after they had hauled my wife away.
Clearly far *FAR* from the most important thing that happened today but, wtf? Weird shit.