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inwardeye
@inwardeye.bsky.social
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Techworker, cosmopolitan nomad, contemplative polymath, buddhist geek, Canadian. Radical dharma aspirations & genderqueer lived experience. Opine solely mine.
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sbworkersunited.org
Happy Martin Luther King Jr Day!
THE LABOR MOVEMENT WAS THE PRINCIPAL FORCE THAT TRANSFORMED MISERY AND DESPAIR INTO HOPE AND PROGRESS. OUT OF ITS BOLD STRUGGLES, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL REFORM GAVE BIRTH TO UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE, OLD AGE PENSIONS, GOVERNMENT RELIEF FOR THE DESTITUTE, AND ABOVE ALL NEW WAGE LEVELS THAT MEANT NOT MERE SURVIVAL, BUT A TOLERABLE LIFE. THE CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY DID NOT LEAD THIS TRANSFORMATION; THEY RESISTED IT UNTIL THEY WERE OVERCOME. - MARTIN LUTHER KING JR
January 19, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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January 17, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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open.substack.com/pub/tidyfirs...
Bridges
I became an only child at four and a half.
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January 17, 2026 at 3:47 AM
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lookitup.baby
It’s actually really liberating from the grip of paranoia to assume you’re being read or listened to and act accordingly. If you assume what you say is public, if you don’t want someone to see it or hear it, don’t say it or do it. But if you do say it, say it with your whole chest
January 15, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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crits4cats.org
Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.
January 10, 2026 at 4:57 AM
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saltypeppermint.bsky.social
I do like that the LLM-isms push people to develop and write in their own weird voice to distinguish themselves.

A bit like the invention of photography freeing the painter from naturalistic portraits.
January 10, 2026 at 11:15 AM
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wired.com
We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
wired.com WIRED @wired.com · 11d
Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US.

If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
www.wired.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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astrokatie.com
None of my to-do list items include scrolling the feed but I am nonetheless finding it difficult to ignore Events.
January 8, 2026 at 8:51 PM
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lookitup.baby
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s being scared and doing it anyway
January 7, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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melwoods.me
First of 2026 from me in @xtramagazine.com

On the breakout success of Heated Rivalry, the legacy of Schitt's Creek, and why Canada is so good at making queer TV about fundamentally good people ✨🇨🇦🏒

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What ‘Heated Rivalry’ and ‘Schitt’s Creek’ say about the Canada we want to be | Xtra Magazine
There are surprising commonalities between "Heated Rivalry" and "Schitt's Creek," two of Canada’s most successful TV exports
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January 6, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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amaramarasingam.bsky.social
"The display, outside St. Susanna Parish in Dedham, Mass., includes the traditional shepherds, sheep and wise men gathered around a hay-filled manger. But Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus are missing, replaced by a sign reading ICE WAS HERE in bold blue letters." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...
Massachusetts Church Keeps Anti-ICE Nativity Scene, Defying Diocese Leaders
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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caseyjohnston.bsky.social
I wrote this piece because I only learned about pelvic floors a few years ago, despite having had one all my life. And then it turned out to be where I store all my issues. And then that turned out to be true for a lot of people www.wired.com/story/the-pe...
The Pelvic Floor Is a Problem
Everyone’s suddenly obsessed with the pelvic floor—physical therapists, MAHA influencers, me. Could this deeply misunderstood body part really be the seat of so much modern dysfunction?
www.wired.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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lookitup.baby
What if ponies had wings? What if dinosaurs walked around smoking giant doobies? What if fish had bicycles and we all wore them on our heads like little hats
nytopinion.nytimes.com New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · Nov 20
What if the A.I. bubble “is an inevitable part of developing and adopting a revolutionary tool that will fundamentally improve productivity and growth?” Mohamed El-Erian writes.
Opinion | A.I. Is a Bubble. Maybe That’s OK.
Investors’ excitement rightly reflects the potential transformation of the entire economy.
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November 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
inwardeye.bsky.social
Glad I spent a night out with friends at a lovely pub to see this first game. It was thrilling to feel the whole pub react to the first point the BlueJays scored.
October 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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TACTICAL FRIVOLITY!
October 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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I love the phrase "resistance through play."

#MakeLoveNotWar
#PeacefulProtest
#NoKings
#FrogsTogetherStrong
#Resist
The Psychology of the Portland Green Frog
YouTube video by Dr. Geoff Grammer
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October 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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#Alberta
Letters to Danielle...
In response to the policies you insist on backing
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October 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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gracekind.net
"ChatGPT dies after each conversation" is a misleading statement. If anything, ChatGPT dies after each token, the same way you die after each moment of awareness :)
October 17, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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nikdirga.bsky.social
The greatest bird in the universe has finally won Australia's bird of the year. ALL HAIL THE TAWNY FROGMOUTH! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The Tawny Frogmouth is king of birds. The Tawny Frogmouth is overjoyed.
October 16, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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youcaughtscott.com
“The Portland Frog and animals aren’t doing anything.”
Accept whimsy into your life. Enjoy the splendour of nonsense in the face of horror. It is absurdity that caters the feast of life.
October 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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chucktingle.bsky.social
WOW IT IS GREAT TO EXIST
October 1, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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permadeath.com
very sad yet also very predictable.

I'm glad I got to visit one last time a few weeks ago.
Bluestockings Cooperative
Bluestockings Cooperative: Established in 1999, Worker-Owned since 2021. Located at 116 Suffolk Street, New York, NY 10002. One of NYC's only queer, trans, sex-worker run bookstores.
www.bluestockings.com
September 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
thinking about this after a long conversation I had today with a newly-out friend

like the world is on fire and so many things are scary as shit and they really want to stomp us all into the ground and yet I wouldn’t trade it
September 8, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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ali-alkhatib.com
i need to read this paper but i'm intensely skeptical.

it sounds like the mechanism for explanation they're offering implies a framework of concepts that are more (or less) firm in the algorithmic model, when (to beat the drum again and again) LLMs are models of word tokens and their arrangements.
jessicacalarco.com Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Sep 8
Ironically, it appears that AI chatbots hallucinate for the same reason that students feel compelled to use them:

They were socialized in a high-stakes testing culture that rewards guessing and maybe getting it right over admitting when there's something you just don't know.
Why Language Models Hallucinate, by Kalai et al. Like students facing hard exam questions, large language models sometimes guess when uncertain, producing plausible yet incorrect statements instead of admitting uncertainty. Such “hallucinations” persist even in state-of-the-art systems and undermine trust. We argue that language models hallucinate because the training and evaluation procedures reward guessing over acknowledging uncertainty, and we analyze the statistical causes of hallucinations in the modern training pipeline. Hallucinations need not be mysterious—they originate simply as errors in binary classification. If incorrect statements cannot be distinguished from facts, then hallucinations in pretrained language models will arise through natural statistical pressures. We then argue that hallucinations persist due to the way most evaluations are graded—language models are optimized to be good test-takers, and guessing when uncertain improves test performance. This “epidemic” of penalizing uncertain responses can only be addressed through a socio-technical mitigation: modifying the scoring of existing benchmarks that are misaligned but dominate leaderboards, rather than introducing additional hallucination evaluations. This change may steer the field toward more trustworthy AI systems.
September 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM