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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 18h

from my lunch today; "the trouble is not so much AI making you more productive, but that it's tripling the output of the biggest f***ing idiot where you work"

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3d

The Trump shit video is basically this, but I will reiterate that if a Dem is critical of conservative voters it’s a generational scandal and when Republican pols literally post themselves shitting on their opposition virtually the entire elite politics and media class treats it as fine and normal

When someone uses this emoji 🤣 they are more mad than they have ever been in their entire life

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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.

Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 3d

Petro objected to the US bombing a Columbian fishing vessel that had the emergency beacon on because they were broken down, that we subsequently bombed. One Columbian fisherman survived the attack.

This is the official US response to Petro's comments.

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Mattie B @stoodle.bsky.social · 3d

If they are firing then the firing hasn’t ceased. Seems like the test failed.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3d

BREAKING: Israel strikes southern Gaza in test of ceasefire.

Israel strikes Gaza in first major test of ceasefire

Israel said it struck Hamas militants in Gaza on Sunday after they shot at Israeli soldiers who were inside the area that is still under Israeli control, according to the conditions of the Oct. 10 ceasefire.

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Frettie Fingers @frettie.bsky.social · 3d

#nokings
Portland frog brigade

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3d

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?

anyway that’s why these events are important

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4d

I feel that some of you need regular reminders of how unpopular this man is. And frankly I see him getting even more so as the economy worsens. Again, this doesn't mean that he will give up any power but it does mean that WE HAVE POWER TOO.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 6d

Teaching students “AI prompt engineering” is such an offensive perversion of inquiry based education it makes me breathe fire.

contemporary 2 slice toaster @poasting-toaster.bsky.social · 6d

genuinely what the fuck is an "ai skill" that isn't basic reading comprehension, skepticism, the ability to evaluate sources, and, like, typing?

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 6d

Lots of people with money who want to make more are telling you this is a tool you have to learn or you'll be Left Behind but as with all tools, you can use your own brain and experience to decide if it's a thing that helps you do your job better and a thing you think is ethical.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 5d

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 6d

John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.

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David K Butler @davidkbutler.bsky.social · 5d

And people keep building more things that mean I have to make the decision if something is real even more often.
I'm SO. TIRED. OF. IT.

David K Butler @davidkbutler.bsky.social · Sep 17

I’m so tired of having to decide if things are real.

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The Ken in Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 5d

Put your fucking shopping cart away and push in your chair

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 5d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Mattie B @stoodle.bsky.social · 5d

Once again, the way people have just memory-holed 2020 and 2021 is astonishing to me.

Vlad K. @porcupunk.bsky.social · 6d

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?

Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do

www.forbes.com

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 9d

Feels like she's saying lower courts should disregard those cases then

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 12d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 14d

This will be a vote to erase 50 years of medical and psychiatric knowledge and kill gay and trans kids, because MAGA Republicans feel that in a better world, fewer of them would exist. It is that simple. Democrats must make SCOTUS expansion part of the party platform. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy

www.nytimes.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 18d

On October 3rd, I’m asking you to register to vote.

zohranfornyc.com/register

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Jed @jedediyah.com · 20d

Prompt engineering is less an AI skill than it is you putting your expert knowledge to work on a system that is not likely to provide useful results without an expert there to prompt, parse, and iterate until some threshold of confirmation bias is reached.

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 21d

this is the third time Donald Trump has shut down the government while his party controls both houses of Congress

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Mattie B @stoodle.bsky.social · 23d

Not least because at least three of these videos, all from IBM, say "It's ok if you don't like math, you can still do this!"

Mattie B @stoodle.bsky.social · 23d

Doing linear regression tomorrow, and there are so many videos that are like "This is a great Machine Learning Algorithm for AI!" and I feel like I am going insane...

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Mattie B @stoodle.bsky.social · 23d

Doing linear regression tomorrow, and there are so many videos that are like "This is a great Machine Learning Algorithm for AI!" and I feel like I am going insane...

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 24d

i love this part and i think it very much shows the difference in depth of thinking between someone like Klein, desperately fighting in the here-and-now and arguing to win a battle with compromise, versus Coates' position that he is a soldier in a long war.

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Chris Braunsdorf @vslacks.bsky.social · 24d

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The comments directed @radiofreetom.bsky.social over the last few days about whether we are currently living in what can properly be described as a fascist state are completely missing his point.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 24d

They haven’t come for these guys either

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 24d

If you think Trump deploying troops in American cities is nothing more than an opportunity to pivot to a completely different subject, you do not belong in Democratic leadership.

Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 24d

The Trump administration’s threat to deploy troops in Portland is unlawful.

Here’s a thought.

Focus on protecting the healthcare of the American people.

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · Sep 19

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

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