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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 4h

this is more than just marching in full regalia to Broadview and praying outside of it

this is very deftly trapping ICE into the position of having to literally - LITERALLY, to them - turn Christ away from the door

any Catholic ICE officer was probably shook, I’m really not exaggerating

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Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃 @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 4h

I keep mine about 67. I like being cozy under blankets in the winter!

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 4h

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 10h

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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Jill Weinberger @jillybobww.bsky.social · 4h

It's very windy out, as well as dry, and I think someone a few blocks away is shooting off a bunch of fireworks and I just have to say, not all the children are the future. Some are just fire hazards with limbs.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 6h

There’s no reason to respect any part of this process or behave like we need to usher our students toward an “enlightened” use of it. No one should waste their time lending respectability to something whose grounding principle is disrespect to basic human sociality.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 6h

A lot of educators behave w the mindset they had in 2022 when they were blown away by the magic of a machine that bleepbloops a grammatically coherent 2000-wrd essay, even though they understand now it’s just token prediction. As a result they teach like we have to respect it as part of the process.

Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 15h

LLM extruded essays are like being cornered by the most boring person at a party while they monotone monologue small talk at you, convinced that they’re pronouncing something profound.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

in vought's view, the president is a living embodiment of the "will of the people" and congress has no legitimate power to limit him

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 8h

It's been really, really nice seeing the Catholic social justice tradition in the US feel like it's empowered to spread its wings again without risking censure after a long time of being suppressed by US Catholic leadership, and it's exactly what I was hoping for from Pope Bob.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 19h

Here's a rule of thumb: If "AI" seems like a good solution, you are probably both misjudging what the "AI" can do and misframing the problem.

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Comment by Tom Diettrich on a linkedin post reading:

"You can't "test-in quality" in engineering; you can't "review-in quality" in research. We need incentives for people to do better research. Our system today assumes that 75% of submitted papers are low quality, and it is probably right (I'll bet it is higher). If this were a manufacturing organization, an 75% defect rate would result in bankruptcy.

Imagine a world in which you could have an AI system check the correctness/quality of your paper. If your paper passed that bar, then it could be published (say, on arXiv). Subsequent human review could assess its importance to the field.

In such a system, authors would be incentivized to satisfy the AI system. This will lead to searching for exploits in the AI system. A possible solution is to select the AI evaluator at random from a large pool and limit the number of permitted submissions. I imagine our colleagues in mechanism design can improve on this idea."

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 7h

Post-Trump government reform is obviously going to have to include moving a bunch of agencies out of the executive, but I think it probably also needs to include the creation of a watchdog org under congress that explicitly *always* has standing for constitutional violations by the executive.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 8h

What Fr Dowling is doing here was not just "offering communion to detainees". A full on Eucharistic Procession is a really fucking big deal. In Catholic theological framing, those folks were the honor guard with the very great privilege of escorting Jesus himself to the detention center.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 8h

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
@NateSilver538 • 5h
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 7h

I know that the sight of a Eucharistic profession to a detention center probably turns Vance's stomach and it couldn't make me happier. I cherish all of the old-school anti-C feelings they're having about it being too emotional and too ethnic and not the scholarly path to oppression they wanted.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 8h

This is hard AF.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 10h

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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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 10h

Dems floated a narrow bill to fund the military, which can’t move because the House isn’t in session. Meanwhile, DoD is now going to spend funds not appropriated by Congress to ensure military paychecks continue.

POTUS now both commands and provisions the military. Unconstitutional and SO dangerous

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.
A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC
News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 10h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 8h

Fox is more of a feeling than a cat.

A cream colored tabby named Fox sits in a windowsill on a towel in a serving tray, reclining fatly with his chub spilling out on all sides.

A cream colored tabby named Fox sits in a windowsill on a towel in a serving tray, reclining fatly with his chub spilling out on all sides. He looks contemplative.

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Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃 @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 11h

And we're all 38

🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 11h

Bluesky first and foremost is a bunch of history dads (nongendered) who WILL take the bait of the lowest effort ww2 taeks

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 11h

I think that what we can infer is that insider trading is rampant, there is an expectation that if you are onside with the administration you will not be prosecuted for it, and there is a belief this admin will not be leaving, so YOLO.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

Imagine that

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 16h

Hard to find a more obvious example of the journalism adage “If someone says it’s raining outside and someone else says it isn’t, your job is not to quote them both, your job is to go outside.”

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 18h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11h

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 14h

Imagine if you did this in any other journalistic context

"Did the Tigers or Mariners Win Game 5? In Detroit, Depends on the Narrator."

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 18h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 12h

I understand that everyone dies but for some reason I did not expect Diane Keaton to ever die

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 12h

Should have been Woody Allen.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 12h

This is a really good article, and as an inveterate shitposter, I keep asking where the adults are.

I don’t *want* to be protesting! I don’t *want* to be arrested for standing up to oppression!! I want a boring government that works and takes care of everyone and I can go be stupid online!!!

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 14h

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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