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Aaahh! bstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 1h

Always so disappointing to see senior people in their field wax poetical about magical technological fixes to the culture problems in their communities, instead of drawing on their (presumably) considerable experience and influence to facilitate real discussion and organizing

Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 2h

In other words, CS has culture problems. (What else is new?) I don't have quick fixes to those problems, but those are the problems that I think shoud be being addressed.

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Aaahh! bstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 15h

I am so looking forward to doing literally anything other than watching this

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 18h

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

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Aaahh! bstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 15h

Dunking on AI boosters is professionally important, ethically correct, and also a lot of fun

Michael Ann, spooky, scary, spooky scary halloween femme @michaelann.bsky.social · 2d

I think I’m going to start being much meaner to AI folks, because at this point, I probably have a professional ethical obligation to do so

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Hel Eline @heleline.bsky.social · 1d

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 21h

What middle and upper class cis het white people need to understand is that they only have as many rights as the most vulnerable do. You have only the rights trans people and immigrants do.

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 1d

Do you really have any rights if they are openly saying they will just make up reasons to detain you?

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 3d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 17h

New: The WGAE, which represents some parts of CBS News including its social team, sent a note to members today advising its members not to respond to Weiss’ request for an email by next week. The union also said it asked CBS for more information about Weiss’ request.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 1d

really nice piece on this btw from @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

"The Printing Press Democratized Knowledge": When Slogans Masquerade as History — Sonja Drimmer

The phrase is said so frequently it seems, like the mechanism it celebrates, to mechanically replicate itself.  It's become a favorite catchphrase among tech boosters of any sort (see my post on...

sonjadrimmer.com

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Aaahh! bstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 19h

Every time I read or listen to Dean Spade, I feel a renewed capacity to handle the difficult and shitty parts of organizing with more generosity and tenderness, even when I'm exhausted and pissed off

Dean Spade @deanspade.bsky.social · 20h

Shuli Branson recently invited me on The Breakup Theory podcast to talk about a listener letter from someone who had a difficult experience with a community accountability process and was left feeling isolated and defeated.

You can listen to the whole episode wherever you get podcasts.

Aaahh! bstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 1d

maybe the real friends were the users we made along the...wait no

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Aaahh! bstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 1d

I love linguistics

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Aaahh! bstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 1d

Can the "adjustment that society has to go through" involve Sam Altman shutting the fuck up

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Aaahh! bstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 1d

When I worked on machine learning in industry, literally every project we were asked to work on was motivated by a middle manager not wanting to devote thought or attention to their job. They were good at convincing themselves that they were asking for something different from that, but it was that

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 1d

the problem is, the reason people are "into" non-deterministic automation is they're absorbed in fantasy.

shell scripts and pipes are too real — YOU have to do the work, to think things through, not wave a magic wand — and therefore unappealing.

Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 2d

One day the industry will recognize the drawbacks of AI agents and nondeterministic automation, and rediscover the UNIX philosophy of chaining together small purpose built tools in a low cost and predictable way, otherwise known as shell scripts.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

the only appropriate response will be to triple down on supporting the targeted groups rather than to do what so many people usually do which is to run away from them.

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 2d

President Donald Trump's threatened crackdown on the finances and activities of liberal non-profits and groups opposed to his agenda is a multi-agency effort with top White House aide Stephen Miller playing a central role, according to officials.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

www.reuters.com

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Aaahh! bstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 2d

"Do you remember George Santos?"

I had forgotten and no thank you for reminding me lmao

Great episode, really interesting to see the cracks forming in these alliances

Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · 8d

Donald Trump and Silicon Valley have formed an alliance — but that doesn’t mean the MAGA base thinks it’s a good idea.

This week @tinanguyen.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss the many ways the MAGA movement isn’t on side with Big Tech.

Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/296_...

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 3d

“We don’t have to approach and criticize this album as art, because it isn’t art. The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content.”

WHEW.

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

defector.com

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Aaahh! bstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 3d

Honestly same! My friend has a guinea pig who is always SUPER EXCITED to receive lettuce and I just...cannot relate

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Aaahh! bstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 3d

I can't decide if I want to interpret this as "salads should have less lettuce" or "lettuce should be distributed more equitably among dishes that aren't salad"

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3d

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3d

NEW from me:

CBS News staffers literally rolled their eyes after new editor-in-chief Bari Weiss delivered a "cringey" rallying cry during today's editorial call, exclaiming: "Let's do the fucking news!"

"She's cosplaying as a broadcast journalist," one said.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

‘Let’s do the f***ing news’: Bari Weiss causes ‘eye rolls’ with CBS News rallying cry

EXCLUSIVE: Multiple CBS News staffers told The Independent that Bari Weiss’ ‘cringey’ comments on the editorial call literally caused eyes to roll.

www.independent.co.uk

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Derek Fox @partialobserver.bsky.social · 4d

“I had to flat out tell [the Microsoft sales team] VP we're not buying any fucking copilot - whereupon she revealed that the only thing she is being measured on for Q4 is sales of copilot, so if that's off the table the conversation is not interesting. LMAO”

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 4d

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> Lol the timing; I work in IT for a large publishing company - and my god the meetings with microsoft sales team is all AI AI AI COPILOT COPILOT COPILOT.
> I had to flat out tell their VP we're not buying any fucking copilot - whereupon she revealed that the only thing she is being measured on for Q4 is sales of copilot, so if that's off the table the conversation is not interesting. LMAO

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 5d

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

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Lewis Muirhead @bringthenoise.bsky.social · 5d

Hiring Bari Weiss to bring down the temperature of the discourse is like hiring Animal from the Muppets to reduce workplace noise

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 4d

Whenever anarchism — or any idea more radical than the status quo — gets dismissed as unserious, it's worth remembering the current system runs on things like "we put all the money on a scam machine that tells rich dipshits they're god."

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 5d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

www.ft.com

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Sasha the Furious Ghost 👻 @sashafury.blackskycomra.de · 4d

Historians will one day specialize in this one specific decade that we are living in and they will walk into the classroom and be like "Welcome to an Introduction to the Greatest Shitstorm of Allllll Time. Hang on to your butts."

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