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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10h

This is it. I didn’t find it at all difficult to leave Twitter in the end: it stopped being fun and became boring and depressing. Whenever I opened it I’d see things that were obnoxious or upsetting. It was a relief not to do that.

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 12h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 10h

Love to go "back and forth" with the slop machine in order to "hit the right message": "Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you." Thank god Rich had an LLM to help him come up with that sparkling repartee.

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 14h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Lukas Daniel Klausner @l17r.bsky.social · 55m

Feel ya. I consider myself a pacifist and not generally in favour of violence, but recent world events have led me to have a very extensive list of situations and contexts in which I'm willing to see some leeway in that (or, more precisely, actually consider violence to be the appropriate response).

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 1d

I feel strongly that prisons should not be places where those held in them are at risk of being attacked and killed, but I also don't personally give a shit that a monster like Ian Watkins has met his end under those circumstances. So I guess you could say I contain multitudes.

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Luisa Neubauer @luisaneubauer.bsky.social · 2h

Wir haben Geschichte geschrieben! Eine Mehrheit der Hamburger:innen hat beim Volksentscheid für ein neues Klimagesetz gestimmt. Während die Bundesregierung in Sachen Klima den Rückwärtsgang einlegt, geht #Hamburg nach vorne. Demokratisch und gerecht.

Hoffnung bleibt Handarbeit.

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 1d

The Canadian government is surveying Canadians about "how to remain competitive with AI" and I think this fundamentally misunderstands Canada's place in the world. We didn't weather the 2007-08 financial crisis by "remaining competitive on subprime mortgages".

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Piratenpartei Österreichs, ppAT 🏴‍☠ @piratenpartei.at · 10h

Mit Eiersalat im Zug sitzend über die Welt nachdenken. @klenkflorian.bsky.social

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Levi McLaughlin @levimclaughlin.bsky.social · 2d

Japan, ostensibly one of the least religious countries in the world, had its political order upended by the lay Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai. That is THE story about Friday's epochal shift in Japanese politics (thread follows):

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Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 1d

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 1d

salma kayak: thread

Salma Hayek in an orangish red and yellow dress..

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most autistic (complimentary) thing I've ever read.

Birdie, Boo!👻 @srslymagenta.bsky.social · 2d

Kid named the Roomba "Odysseus," because they love to say, "aw, he's going on a lil' journey!" and also because sometimes he gets lost or stuck, which is his Scylla or Charybdis moment.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 2d

I actually get more annoyed when people say they “just” use AI for their emails or to check their grammar. You’re killing people. For your banal shit. Not for some great discovery or curing cancer. Because you can’t write an email.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 2d

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 2d

Just flown in from Riyadh, and boy are my excuses tired

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 1d

It won't matter and it isn't the point - transphobia is the point and that's all it is - but if we're going to define rape as gaining sexual consent by deception, that opens up an awful lot of totally normal situations to prosecution. Lots of people lie to get someone into bed.

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 2d

A master class from MIT in responding to authoritarian overreach:

Your “premise … is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
… America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence.

Dear Madam Secretary,
I write in response to your letter of October 1, inviting MIT to review a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." I acknowledge the vital importance of these matters.
I appreciated the chance to meet with you earlier this year to discuss the priorities we share for American higher education.
As we discussed, the Institute's mission of service to the nation directs us to advance knowledge, educate students and bring knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges.
We do that in line with a clear set of values, with excellence above all. Some practical examples:
• MIT prides itself on rewarding merit. Students, faculty and staff succeed here based on the strength of their talent, ideas and hard work. For instance, the Institute was the first to reinstate the SAT/ACT requirement after the pandemic. And MIT has never had legacy preferences in admissions.
• MIT opens its doors to the most talented students regardless of their family's finances. Admissions are need-blind. Incoming undergraduates whose families earn less than $200,000 a year pay no tuition. Nearly 88% of our last graduating class left MIT with no debt for their education. We make a wealth of free courses and low-cost certificates available to any American with an internet connection. Of the undergraduate degrees we award, 94% are in STEM fields. And in service to the nation, we cap enrollment of international undergraduates at roughly 10%.

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https://orgchart.mit.edu/letters/regarding-compact

• We value free expression, as clearly described in the MIT Statement on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom. We must hear facts and opinions we don't like - and engage respectfully with those with whom we disagree.
These values and other MIT practices meet or exceed many standards outlined in the document you sent. We freely choose these values because they're right, and we live by them because they support our mission - work of immense value to the prosperity, competitiveness, health and security of the United States. And of course, MIT abides by the law.
The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
In our view, America's leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences. Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.
As you know, MIT's record of service to the nation is long and enduring. Eight decades ago, MIT leaders helped invent a scientific partnership between America's research universities and the U.S. government that has delivered extraordinary benefits for the American people. We continue to believe in the power of this partnership to serve the nation.
Sincerely,
Sally Kornbluth

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 1d

This really resonated for me as an autistic person. I know I live with anger, shame and trauma but I don't know where it comes from because my experiences all seem so normal to me. This helps me understand.

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rabbi_shais_taub on Instagram: "Why is it so exhausting when people don’t understand what you’re saying?ㅤ#soulwisdom#communication#spiritualtruth#connectionView al…"

Why is it so exhausting when people don’t understand what you’re saying?ㅤ#soulwisdom#communication#spiritualtruth#connection

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 1d

Ways I (autistic) care for my ADHD spouse:
- I make lists of all their ideas. I make no attempt to act on all the ideas (that would be crazy). But I list the things & then read the lists to them sometimes so they can remember how smart they are.

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aslynn's tremendous 'tism horror show 👻 🎃 @audhd-psychnp.com · 2d

well, there you have it

A graph that asks "DOES FAST FASHION CAUSE AUTISM?*" with an orange and a blue graph rising over time. The blue graph is generally a few deviations above the orange line. The blue line represents SHEIN SALES and the orange one is AUTISM RATES except *No, this is a fake graph. from @audhd-psychnp.com

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 2d

This is the BEST.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Veronika Bohrn Mena @vbohrnmena.bsky.social · 2d

Schon wieder gute Neuigkeiten: Heute kam es vor Gericht zur erstinstanzlichen Verurteilung der Medieninhaberin #FPÖ Wien als Betreiberin der Seiten von Wiener Parteichef #DominikNepp, Klubobmann #MaximilianKrauss und #LeoLugner 🎉 🎉🎉
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Erfolg gegen FPÖ Wien: Gericht urteilt wegen dutzender Hasskommentare

Erstinstanzliche Verurteilung von Medieninhaberin FPÖ-Wien als Betreiberin der Seiten von FPÖ-Funktionären Dominik Nepp, Maximilian Krauss und Leo Lugner

steady.page

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Natascha Strobl @nataschastrobl.bsky.social · 2d

Traum erfüllt

Arnold Böcklin die Toteninsel Originalkunstwerk

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Wienschauen @wienschauen.bsky.social · 1d

... Im Inneren ist es quasi eine Zeitkapsel der 1980er-Jahre (Fertigstellung: 1985/1986).
Details im Artikel auf der Webseite: www.wienschauen.at/oktoneum-pos...

Oktoneum: Postmoderner Monumentalbau unter Denkmalschutz - WienSchauen

Das Amtshaus in der Radetzkystraße 2 ist mit seiner verspielten Architektur kein alltäglicher Anblick. Seit 2024 gilt Denkmalschutz.

www.wienschauen.at

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