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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 5d

The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Yeats

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/...

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Dan Silver @dsilver432.bsky.social · 6d

Towards a sociological theory of the LLM

open.substack.com/pub/thesilve...

Kicking away the ladder of reference

From cultural structure to social judgment. On Leif Weatherby's Language Machines.

open.substack.com

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 9d

This is correct. It’s VCs who spend their time doing drugs and inventing weird religions, executives who have boners about firing workers, and non-technical hucksters who are pushing this stuff. The vast majority of people doing actual technical work on the ground feel the way this piece describes

Anil Dash @anildash.com · 9d

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

The Majority AI View - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

anildash.com

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Luke VanderHart @vanderhart.net · 11d

I think it's less opposition to the principle of merit than a familiarity with how ham-handedly the government tries to measure it. Teachers are intimately familiar with the No Child Left Behind Act and all forms of standardized testing, and it's no surprise they don't want that mess for themselves.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 11d

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance
* Guam is also a member of the alliance
Updated October 15, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

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Luke VanderHart @vanderhart.net · 15d

From "The ABC of Reading" by Ezra Pound

Image of printed page reading "A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in process of losing grip on its empire and on itself. And this looseness and blowsiness is not anything as simple and scandalous as abrupt and disordered syntax. It concerns the relation of expression to meaning. Abrupt and disordered syntax can be at times very honest, and an elaborately constructed sentence can be at times merely an elaborate camouflage."

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Luke VanderHart @vanderhart.net · 25d

Feels like it might actually be impossible to get something human-made at all unless I spring for a full-on top-tier design consultant 😕

Luke VanderHart @vanderhart.net · 25d

Any ideas how to get relatively inexpensive graphics (logos, etc) that are human-made?

I used to be able to use Fiverr or any other number of inexpensive project-bidding sites, but I'm 99% sure that anything I get back from those these days is going to be generative AI anyway.

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awpwriter.org @awpwriter.org · 27d

The 2026 AWP Intro Journals Project judge in poetry is @hanvanderhart.bsky.social, author of LARKS and others. Read their bio, along with the bios of the other judges, on our website. AWP member program directors can submit nominations October 1–November 30, 2025.

AWP Intro Journals Project Judges

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 29d

Indeed.

LLMs are LLMs.

Machine learning is machine learning.

AIs are Astro Boy, Robby the Robot, Cmdr Data, the Ghost in the Shell Puppet Master, etc. I will not use the term for anything less.

Don’t feed the hype machine. Don’t call it AI.

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Sep 26

There is absolutely no good faith reason to use the term “AI” for any technology one is selling.

It serves only for dazzling people into thinking the technology has capabilities that it doesn’t.

If one wants a technology to be trustworthy, just use a transparent, informative term without hype.

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Luke VanderHart @vanderhart.net · 28d

My first interaction with it called me "brilliant."

So who's to say if they've fixed it, really 🤷

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Luke VanderHart @vanderhart.net · Sep 25

I am apparently entering that age where creating my own programming language starts to look impossibly alluring.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · Apr 27

I feel bad for you. Thanks it's been a rough week

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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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Luke VanderHart @vanderhart.net · Sep 13

I’ve been meaning to make a PDS which is also its own app view. A “web site”, if you will, but with the reach of ATProto syndication and a built-in comments protocol.

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The Onion @theonion.com · Sep 12

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board:

It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible

The task of reporting is not a simple one. Each and every day, reporters and editors at publications like The Onion make difficult decisions about which issues should receive attention, knowing that o...

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · Sep 11

*stares in livejournal*

Steve G @stephenlg.bsky.social · Sep 11

Can you imagine the horror had there been social media on 9/11/01?

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Luke VanderHart @vanderhart.net · Sep 5

Well, counterpoint, it's definitely easier than you'd expect to rely on incorrect behavior and that's why the most stable platforms (Java, (some) Microsoft) adopt the more stringent definition.

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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · Sep 4

My recent perspective on search-assisted AI

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · Sep 2

I have no doubt that you've worked for Google. It shows in your arrogance. Many, many people who worked at Google do not understand its purpose in society or culture. Google should, actually, always return the correct answer to simple math questions. And you're a fucking idiot for arguing otherwise.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · Sep 2

just call it the schumer/jeffries plan to lose the midterms

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · Sep 2

Cong Dems cont to show no interest in reining in ICE or protecting cities including DC (where they live in) from Trump’s aggression in the upcoming govt funding fight.

Schumer/Jeffries on track to surrender - giving Trump another blank check while spouting canned lines on kitchen table issues.

Punchbowl screenshot:

“The Schumer question. For Schumer and Senate Democrats in particular, the issue now becomes whether they’re willing to force a government shutdown and what their demands will be. In order to avoid a March-like debacle, Schumer and Jeffries will need to agree on an actual strategy. This was their problem back in March.
In a Dear Colleague letter out this morning, Schumer said he and Jeffries “are aligned on our shared priorities for September.” Schumer argued that Democrats’ cooperation on bipartisan appropriations bills before Congress left for the August recess shows they want to keep the government open, adding that Republicans should reject Trump’s trampling of Congress’ Article I powers to avert a shutdown.
Senate Democrats also spent August laying the groundwork to make the funding fight all about health care, holding more than 275 events in August to hammer this message.
Yet fault lines are already emerging that will put pressure on Schumer. Progressives like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) say Democrats shouldn’t help Republicans fund the government unless they reverse the Medicaid cuts from the reconciliation bill. That’s not going to happen.
There’s some cautious optimism about another health care-related demand, however. Obamacare premium tax credits are expiring soon. Democrats’ theory is that Republicans would be willing to negotiate an extension because they wouldn’t want to see rising health care costs right before the midterms.”

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · Sep 1

100% this. Unfortunately, that circle also fits fully inside another circle of people immune to feeling shame about their hypocrisy.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Aug 31

As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · Aug 31

Q: Would you welcome federal resources going into a part of South Carolina with a high crime rate?

Nancy Mace: I hear that DC is safer than it's ever been…I look forward to watching the videos of soldiers entering Chicago

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Luke VanderHart @vanderhart.net · Aug 31

Give me the Woke Bread.

Julien Hoez @julienhoez.eu · Aug 31

🚨BREAKING:

Bread is now woke, according to Alex Phillips

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · Aug 31

Griffin’s definition of fascism as palingenetic ultranationalism—specifically a reactionary nostalgia for a lost history of the nation that never existed—remains undefeated. A nostalgia for a type of bread that is ubiquitous, created in the 20th century, and rage towards bread as old as civilisation

Julien Hoez @julienhoez.eu · Aug 31

🚨BREAKING:

Bread is now woke, according to Alex Phillips

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Luke VanderHart @vanderhart.net · Aug 30

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