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Ann Hedonia
@annhedonia.bsky.social
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I'd be a pretty meh follow, honestly; my only talent is appreciation. Love art, fiction, film, science.
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Ann Hedonia @annhedonia.bsky.social · Sep 16
A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. Am I right, ladies?
Kafka’s Joke Book
Why did the chicken cross the road? It had been crossing so long it could not remember. As it stopped in the middle to look back, a car sped by, sp...
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Ann Hedonia @annhedonia.bsky.social · 22d
Ctrl Alt Deleaf
Ctrl Alt Deleaf wins public vote to name track cleaning train
Other names on the shortlist included Leaf-Fall Weapon, Pulp Friction and The Autumn Avenger.
www.bbc.com
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Ann Hedonia @annhedonia.bsky.social · 23d
Thoughtful essay about how to evaluate the confluence of art and politics in our current climate.
The Shape of Tone
Calibrating art and politics in an age of dissonance.
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Ann Hedonia @annhedonia.bsky.social · Sep 6
(gift article) One example of how far-reaching the effects have been is that babies even get potty trained much later than they used to, because of disposable diapers.
Opinion | Throwaway Plastic Has Corrupted Us
www.nytimes.com
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · Sep 4
Kavanaugh's statements make the problem worse, not better. If the reason SCOTUS is using cryptic shadow docket orders is because "five" of them can't "reach a consensus or a compromise on a particular issue that might be difficult," then that order should not be precedential —there's no majority.
Brett Kavanaugh says there’s a good reason Supreme Court rulings can sometimes be so cryptic
In remarks to a judicial conference, Kavanaugh also defended Chief Justice John Roberts.
www.politico.com
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Matthew Claxton @matthewclaxton.bsky.social · Aug 29
Science fiction – printed, published science fiction, and sci-fi as a distinct publishing category – is dying. I think it's obvious at this point. It's not dead yet, and who knows, maybe a miraculous intervention could save the patient. But…
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Sam Sanders @samanthasanders.bsky.social · Aug 30
Just saw someone on tiktok call Dubai the Michael Kors of vacations 🥀
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Ann Hedonia @annhedonia.bsky.social · Aug 20
Commentary: Say farewell to the AI bubble, and get ready for the crash
The AI frenzy has been fueled by relentless hype, but the dud launched by OpenAI has its former enthusiasts wondering if they've been taken.
www.latimes.com
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · Aug 7
Whenever you see a quote from a poll or survey in the form "x% of [population] do/believe [statement]"

translate that to "x% of respondents selected a specific response option"

The respondents may or may not represent a population.
That form interaction may or may not reflect what they do/believe.
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Ann Hedonia @annhedonia.bsky.social · Aug 6
The future of programming is AI; er, I mean, the future of cooking is the microwave!
In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
As a restaurant owner – I’m astounded at the rate of progress since microwaves were released a few short years ago. Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s m…
www.colincornaby.me
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Ann Hedonia @annhedonia.bsky.social · Aug 6
Distorted Wall Street incentives drove us to centralized digital infrastructure that mirrors authoritarian power structures. But the same technologies can be architected to resist authoritarianism. Decentralization isn’t a technical preference, it’s a democratic necessity.
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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · Aug 5
Tried to pull together a bunch of threads of things I've been talking/thinking about lately, about how decentralized tech & democracy go hand in hand, and are necessary for fighting fascism.
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Techdirt @techdirt.com · Aug 5
Take Back Our Digital Infrastructure To Save Democracy

Watch the tech oligarchs who lined up behind Donald Trump at his inauguration, and you'll see the most important story of our time: the fascists are winning because they've built a direct pipeline from concentrated technological power to…
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Ann Hedonia @annhedonia.bsky.social · Jul 28
Interesting explainer on the ramifications of a service member refusing an order because they think it's unconstitutional:
Can The Military Refuse Trump's Orders?
YouTube video by LegalEagle
www.youtube.com
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Ann Hedonia @annhedonia.bsky.social · Jul 26
This opera sounds like so much fun, but unfortunately I'm half way around the world from Ireland (gift link):
An Opera Takes A.I., Pronatalism and Hustle Culture to Space
www.nytimes.com
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Ann Hedonia @annhedonia.bsky.social · Jul 23
"cold-reading bullshit generator" - superb definition of an LLM
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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · Jul 23
look the real lesson of this is that more internet memes should've had dance interpretations www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0u4...
"Shia LaBeouf" Live - Rob Cantor
YouTube video by robcantor
www.youtube.com
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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · Jul 19
Nice to see Cuomo finally being a team player and campaigning for Zohran
US News NEW YORK POST Metro Long Island Politics LOG IN World N METRO EXCLUSIVE Andrew Cuomo says he 'will move to Florida' if Zohran Mamdani becomes NYC mayor By Carl Campanile and Rich Calder Published July 19, 2025, 3:31 p.m. ET 34
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Ann Hedonia @annhedonia.bsky.social · Jul 19
Elderly Woman Keeps Mind Active Justifying Trump’s Actions
LEXINGTON, KY—Stressing the importance of regularly performing mental gymnastics to prevent cognitive decline, local 80-year-old Edna Connolly confirmed Thursday that she keeps her mind active by just...
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Ann Hedonia @annhedonia.bsky.social · Jul 16
Extrapolating Doctorow's enshittification principle from tech platforms to American hegemony under the current administration.
The Enshittification of American Power
First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech.
www.wired.com
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Ann Hedonia @annhedonia.bsky.social · Jul 14
I think about that every time I watch it.
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batkaren @batkaren.bsky.social · Jul 9
𝒞ℯ𝒸̧𝒾 𝓃’ℯ𝓈𝓉 𝓅𝒶𝓈 𝓊𝓃ℯ 𝒶𝓅ℴ𝒸𝒶𝓁𝓎𝓅𝓈ℯ.
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Ann Hedonia @annhedonia.bsky.social · Jul 11
A typical recipe illustrates why this cookbook never reached the popularity the publisher had hoped:

Mama's Borscht
Ingredients
* Beets
* Etc., etc., etc.

Steps to Prepare
1. Slice the beets.
2. Etc., etc., etc.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · Jul 10
This is exactly why privacy advocates have been fighting the OSA tooth and mail since it was first introduced! And why if your state or country introduces any kind of "think of the children" bill, you should fight it as hard as you can.
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Ann Hedonia @annhedonia.bsky.social · Jun 19
Is that DDoS attack? No, it's just more fucking AI bots scraping away.
AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums
"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”
www.404media.co
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 19
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 19
When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
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Frida Ghitis @fridaghitis.bsky.social · Jun 13
The neighborhood is getting ready for tomorrow
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