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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 6h

I had no idea so many of you were baseball fans.

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 8h

The press is not Democratic leadership, though? I don't understand this conflation, especially not as KJP presents it.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 15h

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 21h

AI really is the ultimate and predictable expression of our evolving scam culture.

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t0ussaint @t0ussaint.bsky.social · 20h

idk if you saw this, but they doing AI digital blackface, its so over bsky.app/profile/hist...

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 5d

This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 19h

ughghghghghghghghgh

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t0ussaint @t0ussaint.bsky.social · 20h

the ai lawyers cant keep up with the ai scammers bsky.app/profile/eric...

Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Sep 5

The Doctors Are Real But, but there Sales Pitches are Frauds.
The >12 fraudulent books—not written by me with my name on the cover—are an example provided in the piece, among other A.I. generated products.
gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/t...

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

I continue to sincerely want the term “Kavanaugh Stop” to be a badge of shame for the rest of Brett Kavanaugh’s days; the only bit of writing he’s known or remembered for; his sole contribution to the Law; for him to perceive, in little stabs of self-awareness, that this will be his rancid legacy.

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 3d

What a sick world.

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 21h

A few days ago I said that the nice thing about making a video yourself, instead of having AI do it, is that you have time to realize when it’s a bad idea. On the flip side, I now see, the cringe is 1000X worse if you don’t, in the course of putting on a bad wig and accent, realize it’s a bad idea.

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 21h

AI really is the ultimate and predictable expression of our evolving scam culture.

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 21h

Yes, it really destroys trust and basic fun about the internet — that we *could* meet people and develop relationships without having to verify in person! I hate that I have to question realness more than ever.

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 21h

I think this is a dynamic that is affecting academics' citational politics/practices. AI slop is infiltrating the scholarly record (heh), and it's harder to keep up with the sheer volume of work that is coming out (this is something I see *across fields* as an interdisciplinary researcher, too)

Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 21h

Down in the comments, someone says, “I refuse to buy without familiarity with the seller” and that is the natural response to AI slop in every realm. AI is undoing decades of open access and web-enabled networking, making us hate discovery. AI is making our world smaller.

Robin Mar-Witch 🧙🏻‍♀️ @electricland.bsky.social · 24d

Today in “AI is a scourge”: I’m in an embroidery group on Facebook, and it feels like every day brings a new person who says “I bought this pattern on Etsy but it didn’t come with instructions and I don’t understand how they got this effect”

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 21h

I’m pretty careful with my social media network and usually block/mute people who use AI illustration because I simply do not want to look at that crap. Already my pure discovery tabs are getting junkier. But if AI overwhelms my network, I will abandon it. My world will be smaller.

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👹👻 boo-rit 👻👹 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 22h

IT’S CALLED THE GOLDEN AGE, BABY!

Acerola
@Acerola__t
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every day is like "chinese scientists create bone healing juice that heals bones instantly" or "japanese scientists figure out how to regrow tooth enamel" or "taiwan scientists cure baldness" and then the next post is "4 days until millions of americans begin starving to death"

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 21h

Books — also filling up with slop. People will retreat to the authors they know. Discovery is too risky. Publishing is already conservative, probably getting more so, focusing on surer bets because readers are too.

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 21h

Job searching was already suffering — the tools that were supposed to level the playing field and give more people access swamped recruiters, so personal connections became mor important. AI has magnified this, making job apps almost frictionless. Ofc HR goes for ppl they have some familiarity with.

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 21h

Down in the comments, someone says, “I refuse to buy without familiarity with the seller” and that is the natural response to AI slop in every realm. AI is undoing decades of open access and web-enabled networking, making us hate discovery. AI is making our world smaller.

Robin Mar-Witch 🧙🏻‍♀️ @electricland.bsky.social · 24d

Today in “AI is a scourge”: I’m in an embroidery group on Facebook, and it feels like every day brings a new person who says “I bought this pattern on Etsy but it didn’t come with instructions and I don’t understand how they got this effect”

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 1d

Re: stopping SNAP

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 1d

The people who think the government should be run like a business are killing something that has a 180% ROI. THAT is how you bankrupt a casino.

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Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 1d

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.

Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 1d

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 1d

Guess nobody has told him that the majority of recipients are white?

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 1d

May I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.

Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 1d

I just love this! Have always wondered if this style is just one guy's invention, or if it signifies "traditional Punjab" style (like "traditional Basque" font with its big heavy bars on the A's). Either way, I kind of want to throw a dance party in a garage and call it Body-Work.

Black hand-painted sign reading Auto-Repair & Body-Work. The Y looks like a tuning fork. The W looks like a bat. The A looks like the friendliest kids' book cartoon A.

Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 1d

Near all the auto-repair shops, there is a house covered in signs in the same font, so clearly the guy lives right there. I have always wanted to commission a sign from him!

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 1d

Seeing these hand-painted posters in the background and *only now* is it occurring to me that the campaign could've been even MORE incredible by hiring the guy who does all the auto-repair signs on 21st St in Queens. DAMN.

Hand-painted signage directly on a brick wall, advertising Auto Repair, Painting with High Tech Spray Booth. The letters are very vertical but rounded, with heavy with very small spaces (voids? there's a font design term for this) in the P's and R's and A's and O's. Also the K has a cool curved shape.

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 1d

about *which* this -- there are so many! 😩

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