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reggie seidman @ennui.org · May 15

i know i keep posting this but

“The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.”

― B.F. Skinner, Contingencies of Reinforcement; A Theoretical Analysis

Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · May 14

It turns out this whole time that the Turing Test was the wrong way to think of it. Thinking a chatbot is alive is not a test of how good the chatbot is, but of your own ability to think of other human beings as real and complete people

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reggie seidman @ennui.org · 10m

*hits "Fewer like this"*

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Yanayin da Gaza za ta kasance bayan yaki

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reggie seidman @ennui.org · 24m

gotta love a birthday party where I bring one bottle of wine and leave with two

reggie seidman @ennui.org · 2h

Jet Black in Howl's Walking Tanker

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 4h

trying out something new. this came out. extremely mysterious.

reggie seidman @ennui.org · 2h

cabrón credit

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 15h

“Both judges stated that the government offered no reason for their detention and that keeping them detained violated their rights to due process.” elpasomatters.org/2025/10/02/e... #HomeIsHere

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reggie seidman @ennui.org · 2h

a group of people sitting in a theater with the words so hot right now written on the bottom

Alt: ZOOLANDER: So hot right now

media.tenor.com

reggie seidman @ennui.org · 2h

Don't ever change, Tay.

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 2h

Hillary Clinton was the original Sabrina Carpenter

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 4h

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 9h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 4h

“Can you explain this gap in your resume?”

Me thinking quickly on my feet to explain the period when I worked for ICE: “I was selling drugs… ,uh, to children.”

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 6h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 4h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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reggie seidman @ennui.org · 2h

mont-committed

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 6h

Charles Schulz grew up in St. Paul and started the Peanuts here, before moving to California after it reached massive success. And yet I don't think we have a *single* institution named after him. Certainly not an airport. Personally I think he's more deserving than that Lindbergh fellow.

Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 6h

Spent the day biking between institutions named for Charles Schulz.

About 18 miles total, there and back.

Front door of the Charles M. Schulz museum.

Welcome sign and control tower and terminal (it's a small airport...) of the Charles M. Schulz Sonoma County Airport.

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🎃👻🐈‍⬛ Grim Pierce 🪦⚰️☠️ @unchi.org · 3h

"There are men on every side of this room with a gun and I am not comfortable playing this show. I don’t know if you’ve ever been raped at gunpoint, but you don’t want people hanging around with guns."

❤️❤️ Neko

Neko Case Ends Tennessee Show Early After Venue Refuses To Remove Armed Guard

Neko Case played a show Thursday night at the Caverns in the tiny Tennessee town of Pelham — or at least she started to, before walking off stage after her first few songs. The reason for her departur...

www.stereogum.com

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 7h

Seeing a lot of celebration of this as a win.

But at NIH we have seen this exact play before.

It looks like it is the Vought strategy -and to stop the lawless firings we have to see the bigger picture.
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Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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reggie seidman @ennui.org · 7h

In Soviet Massachusetts, glasses wear YOU!

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10h

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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reggie seidman @ennui.org · 7h

Fishbone still got it

Fishbone - Racist Piece Of Shit (Live on KEXP)

YouTube video by KEXP

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 9h

The guy who planted the first flag on the Reichstag (not the propaganda photo) was a Kazakh

He was never awarded Hero of the Soviet Union for exactly the reasons you might expect

Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 9h

The reason why I get so furious at the people who use "Soviet" and "Russian" interchangeably is because there were a lot of non-Russian Soviets who fought in the Red Army and the Russian Federation wants you to think they're all Russians

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Luis Villa @lu.is · 12h

Gramsci and Baudrillard hanging out, having a good laugh

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 12h

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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Rep. Dan Goldman @repdangoldman.bsky.social · 11h

No “clean CR” exists when Trump defies Congress and unilaterally guts programs—from law enforcement to pediatric cancer research to clean energy projects.

Republicans want Democratic cover to keep breaking the law. Democrats won’t play along.

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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 11h

This is the fucking Prussian constitutional crisis. If you let them fund the military without Congressional authorization you've just given up on constitutional government. Congress is a dead letter.

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Courtney Ellis @courtneyellis.bsky.social · 1d

My 6yo: I WROTE MY FIRST BOOK
Me: Oh wonderful! Would you like to read it to me?
6yo: CHAPTER ONE - MY FAMILY IS WEIRD

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