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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · 20h

Would be an interesting test if someone who did have something injurious posted about them sued. We'd get to find out if "posted a huge pile of unedited AI output as fact" counts as reckless disregard for the truth

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CerberusXt @cerberusxt.bsky.social · 1d

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · 4d

Big mommy uses the control to sap you of your youth and energy, just like squeezing milk from a cow. Google "Big Mommy Milkers" to find out more

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · 5d

Not an expert but unfortunately employed doing work like "make it so users can operate our app via chatbot".

I'd do it post llm. Even something naïve like "hyperlink capitalized words that exactly match other article titles" would probably work okay. I vote design choice/Elon is cheap.

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · 7d

Beyond the fact that a lot, maybe most, of the country would call that person their aunt. If you polled people asking "genealogically, is your father's cousin your aunt?" I don't think you'd get a clear "No".

Nobody is saying "this is Melissa, she's my first cousin once removed"

Chris Sommerfeldt @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 7d

In a bit of a tense moment, one of the La Mega co-hosts presses Mamdani on why he "lied" about his "aunt" having been scared to ride the subway after 9/11 while wearing a hijab.

Mamdani says it was "not a lie" because he refers to his father's cousin as his "aunt."

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · 7d

Beyond the fact that a lot, maybe most, of the country would call that person their aunt. If you polled people asking "genealogically, is your father's cousin your aunt?" I don't think you'd get a clear "No".

Nobody is saying "this is Melissa, she's my first cousin once removed"

Chris Sommerfeldt @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 7d

In a bit of a tense moment, one of the La Mega co-hosts presses Mamdani on why he "lied" about his "aunt" having been scared to ride the subway after 9/11 while wearing a hijab.

Mamdani says it was "not a lie" because he refers to his father's cousin as his "aunt."

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · 10d

So, ethical legal & control of the armed forces concerns aside, how do you think they divide this up?

Even split where everyone gets paid $75.76 for this half of the month?

Or do you think they'll do it alphabetically until they run out of money? (Hope your last name starts with an a!)

Adam Cancryn @adamcancryn.bsky.social · 10d

New: The Pentagon confirms to CNN it will funnel $130M from an anonymous Trump “friend” toward military pay.

Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...

Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members | CNN Politics

The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Dep...

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · 11d

I've had to give "this unit test mocks 100% of the code it's claiming to test" comments on too many code reviews to want to try it myself. Especially because the people submitting the PRs are (hopefully!) already removing some of them.

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · 14d

Liability has some advantages. It at least offers some leverage to say "no, we have to build it the right way (at a sensible pace w/ reasonable practices)" because it's your license & your signature and every other licensed engineer will tell them the same thing (ideally).

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · 14d

Republicans: "We are all about respect for our great nation's traditions & history."

Also Republicans: "Trump is totally a king, also he's literally tearing down the White House right now and we love it"

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · 18d

I'm supportive of this gesture, but given the culture & rules they have around accepting gifts do/can any federal employees actually take advantage of this?

I mean, once heard about a fed reimbursing a handful of M&Ms they had from a free candy bowl on someone's desk.

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Betty Finn @missbettyfinn.bsky.social · 18d

Happy No Kings Eve! Don’t forget to leave cookies & balaclavas out for Antifa tonight…

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · 22d

If they can't handle working with a mayor, any mayor! Who is democratically chosen by the citizens of NYC, then they are incapable of serving the city. They are serving their own personal political agenda and should resign now.

Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 22d

“Some NYPD officers are concerned about Mamdani as mayor” they may even resign!

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · 23d

Just saw a sign at a spa for "skin tightening" and frankly, it sounds dreadful. Any time someone has said to me "my skin feels tight" what they really meant was "I'm having a godawful time"

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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 24d

ok "the stephen miller door" is a solid bit

3 panels of Ted Lieu and Sarah McBride walking around the capitol. They look in a little door near the speakers office for Stephen Miller. He is not there.

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · 27d

Yeah but they didn't get the tomato until 1000 years after the collapse of the western empire.

Not that it matters. I just think it's funny how like, corn, gets real "new world food" status but, on vibes, Italy has had tomatoes for like 10,000 years

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · 28d

This seems half-baked. Could have been about Chait or Jimmy Fallon, or Big Bird. It's bad for trust & safety when it looks like the CEO's stupid personal beefs are driving moderation decisions.

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 29d

tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where users could feel safer, but inconsistent moderation quickly eroded trust.

When systemically marginalized users pushed back, Bluesky’s leadership minimized concerns and began to target them for bans.

Bluesky’s CEO meltdown: How leadership continues to fail its most marginalized users

tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where systemically marginalized users could feel safer, but…

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Christmas Miriam 🎄 @miriam.blacksky.app · 29d

Let me get this straight: Link, a Black user, got banned for calling out the Bluesky CEO for following a racist. That’s not a good look, especially given Bluesky’s historical treatment of Black users here on bluesky.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams! Look over here! … It's All For You! @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Oct 2

I want to once again remind people that steganographic watermarking of "AI"-generated content should be mathematically trivially easy to do. I mean, real fucking simple.

If verification and consensus reality were things the creators and sellers of said tech were concerned about, i mean. 😐

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · Sep 30

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · Oct 1

It's impressive that we manage to have not one but two uniquely American absurdities in how our budgetary process is structured that could be completely eliminated by Congress.

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · Sep 30

This Hegseth shit is how you end up with a military that produces Macho Warrior Videos of soldiers doing shirtless backflip axe throwing.

It's how you turn something that may have been the second best military in the world into the second best military in Ukraine.

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · Sep 29

This is an essential tool to keep in mind.

Gets around pardons, and unconscionable violations of international law that our own courts decide weren't technically illegal under US law at the time they were committed.

Also establishes a norm that will backstop against similar behavior in the future.

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · Sep 29

One of the first things the US needs to do when we get out of this mess is to submit to the jurisdiction of the ICJ and try every person involved with every one of these crimes.

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · Sep 27

If, like me, you love baking and hate the paper sacks flour comes in, you should know that an 8qt Cambro holds 10lbs of flour (and a scoop) almost perfectly.

You do have to bury the scoop a little to get the lid on at first. But, upside, I never accidentally rip my container while getting flour.

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · Sep 26

I really appreciate her willingness to write cookbooks that have no respect at all for the reader's time or skill level. Just "this is what produced the best bake, get to it."

Very on brand for a lady who wrote a dissertation on the impacts of sifting.