Coffee and Fingernails
@coffeenfingernails.bsky.social
Lover of art and people. Political watcher and doer. Descendant of Sapelo. Auntie of Adrianna. Dog mom of Phineas McGee.
Principal @ kscadvocacy.com
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You have to love people in need more than you hate the other side, even when the other side is full of malice. You have to want progress more than you want vindication of a world view or the intoxication of self-righteousness. Otherwise, it's not activism--just ego.
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"LLMs are simply tools that emulate the communicative function of language, not the separate and distinct cognitive process of thinking and reasoning, no matter how many data centers we build."
Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.
www.theverge.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"LLMs are simply tools that emulate the communicative function of language, not the separate and distinct cognitive process of thinking and reasoning, no matter how many data centers we build."
Remember when Melissa Harris Perry had someone on her MSNBC show talking about how entrepreneurs are people who take risks unlike all those lazy poor people looking for a handout?
You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.
November 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Remember when Melissa Harris Perry had someone on her MSNBC show talking about how entrepreneurs are people who take risks unlike all those lazy poor people looking for a handout?
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There are 50,000 food insecure children in Maine and 2 trans athletes. Every single candidate running for office who can drum up concern about the latter but has nothing to say about the former is telling on themselves. They don’t care about children. Only power. And they’ll hurt kids for it.
25 Nov 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- In unusual move, Sen Susan Collins (R-ME) signs petition for referendum on the 2026 ballot that would bar trans students from sports teams, locker-rooms and bathrooms. She's in a hotly contested election & this is pbly one way to increase Rep turnout.
Sen. Collins signs Maine petition for initiative to restrict transgender rights
The proposed referendum aims to enforce President Donald Trump’s <a href="https://themainemonitor.org/maine-title-ix-battle-national-consequences/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">stance on ...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:24 AM
There are 50,000 food insecure children in Maine and 2 trans athletes. Every single candidate running for office who can drum up concern about the latter but has nothing to say about the former is telling on themselves. They don’t care about children. Only power. And they’ll hurt kids for it.
He thinks he's the Bugs Bunny when he is in fact the Daffy Duck
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
He thinks he's the Bugs Bunny when he is in fact the Daffy Duck
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People are always like real job stability is in medicine or the law, but the most secure job is actually white guy writes op-eds about how he’s sick of the minorities.
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
People are always like real job stability is in medicine or the law, but the most secure job is actually white guy writes op-eds about how he’s sick of the minorities.
This man is "in science" in the same way that frat boys are "in liver health"
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
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November 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This man is "in science" in the same way that frat boys are "in liver health"
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any system that showers hundreds of billions on this person for building zero sustainably profitable businesses is a bad system
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
any system that showers hundreds of billions on this person for building zero sustainably profitable businesses is a bad system
Continue to believe the backlash against this would be far and above anything they can imagine or handle. They truly don't want that smoke...
November 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Continue to believe the backlash against this would be far and above anything they can imagine or handle. They truly don't want that smoke...
Many years ago I fell in love with Elizabeth Cady Stanton's speech Solitude of the Self, a feminist argument rooted in the necessity for each of us to have the freedom to develop a rich inner life to sustain ourselves in good times and bad. These guys should maybe read it.
really is incredible how often "men are having a problem, let's fix it using someone else's entire life" comes up. does the institute for family studies understand that children are whole complete human beings whose existence cannot be used as a coping mechanism for their fathers' anxieties? (no)
November 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Many years ago I fell in love with Elizabeth Cady Stanton's speech Solitude of the Self, a feminist argument rooted in the necessity for each of us to have the freedom to develop a rich inner life to sustain ourselves in good times and bad. These guys should maybe read it.
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really is incredible how often "men are having a problem, let's fix it using someone else's entire life" comes up. does the institute for family studies understand that children are whole complete human beings whose existence cannot be used as a coping mechanism for their fathers' anxieties? (no)
November 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
really is incredible how often "men are having a problem, let's fix it using someone else's entire life" comes up. does the institute for family studies understand that children are whole complete human beings whose existence cannot be used as a coping mechanism for their fathers' anxieties? (no)
"...between the Christianity of this land, and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference—so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked."
--Frederick Douglass
--Frederick Douglass
The Ohio House voted to pass a bill that would require public schools and public universities to teach the positive impacts of Judeo-Christian religion on American history during Wednesday’s House session. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/19/o...
Ohio House passes bill to mandate schools teach positive impacts of religion on American history • Ohio Capital Journal
The Ohio House voted to pass a bill that would require public schools and public universities to teach positive impacts of religion on American history during Wednesday’s House session.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"...between the Christianity of this land, and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference—so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked."
--Frederick Douglass
--Frederick Douglass
That last line is a beautiful sentiment, greatly needed right now.
Let's move on with the rest of the passage.
Lewis recognizes that modesty raises thorny issues, but he sweeps them aside to focus on the more important spirit. I want to bring your attention to the last sentence here:
Lewis recognizes that modesty raises thorny issues, but he sweeps them aside to focus on the more important spirit. I want to bring your attention to the last sentence here:
November 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
That last line is a beautiful sentiment, greatly needed right now.
Write two letters...
Brooke Rollins: "What we inherited was an absolute economic mess ... Americans we believe will see real relief very, very soon."
November 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Write two letters...
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Media literacy is down, so to be clear, when the WSJ writes “Ultimately, the fact pattern Meta relies on to meet its conflicting objectives strains credibility” about your accounting practices and runs an accompanying flowchart, that is the equivalent of a 500-foot neon sign reading “FRAUD”
This feels like one of those stories you're going to look at a year from now and say to yourself, "Why didn't I move more of my portfolio into cash?" **
** (This post is for informational purposes only and should not be construed as financial or any other advice.)
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www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai...
** (This post is for informational purposes only and should not be construed as financial or any other advice.)
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www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai...
AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta’s Gigantic New Data Center
Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions.
www.wsj.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Media literacy is down, so to be clear, when the WSJ writes “Ultimately, the fact pattern Meta relies on to meet its conflicting objectives strains credibility” about your accounting practices and runs an accompanying flowchart, that is the equivalent of a 500-foot neon sign reading “FRAUD”
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RIP Udo Kier, a true original
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his one and only social media post:
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his one and only social media post:
November 24, 2025 at 7:27 AM
RIP Udo Kier, a true original
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his one and only social media post:
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his one and only social media post:
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Everything wrong with political journalism in one graf. This is not a policy proposal that exists but that doesn’t matter, what matters is that someone “won” by asking it bsky.app/profile/larr...
What a strange framing and characterization. How does one describe his blatantly dishonest, racist question about taxes as “press[ing] the Mayor-elect on his policy proposals”? In what way does this lying troll emerge as a “winner“?
November 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Everything wrong with political journalism in one graf. This is not a policy proposal that exists but that doesn’t matter, what matters is that someone “won” by asking it bsky.app/profile/larr...
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Remember last year when we said we would drop The Tribune's paywall if we raised enough money to support the transition to free? About that… 😁
The Salt Lake Tribune will drop its paywall next year, CEO tells donors at NewsMakers gala
After years of requiring people to pay for online news content, The Tribune announced an upcoming change during its 2025 annual NewsMakers Gala.
www.sltrib.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Remember last year when we said we would drop The Tribune's paywall if we raised enough money to support the transition to free? About that… 😁
I'll have you know I have the exact correct amount of books and all of my plants are dead.
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 24, 2025 at 6:47 AM
I'll have you know I have the exact correct amount of books and all of my plants are dead.
Extremely naive of me, but I've been surprised by the targeted attacks on Black women of the last few years. In addition to increased visibility of professional Black women that @chadstanton.blacksky.app references, I suspect the role of Black women as a powerful Dem constituency made us a target
Yep, one of the biggest drivers of the elite panic around “wokeness” was the increasing prominence of Black people and particularly Black women in their fields and we’re seeing that coalition rewarded with the targeting of Black workers.
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
November 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Extremely naive of me, but I've been surprised by the targeted attacks on Black women of the last few years. In addition to increased visibility of professional Black women that @chadstanton.blacksky.app references, I suspect the role of Black women as a powerful Dem constituency made us a target
This makes me think Cassidy has never been titillated and honestly makes me a bit sad.
CASSIDY: I know it's titillating, but I think we need to move beyond the titillation
TAPPER: This isn't about titillation. This is about the fact that you are the chairman of the health committee and you voted to confirm somebody that by all accounts is actually making America less healthy
TAPPER: This isn't about titillation. This is about the fact that you are the chairman of the health committee and you voted to confirm somebody that by all accounts is actually making America less healthy
November 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
This makes me think Cassidy has never been titillated and honestly makes me a bit sad.
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this just shows how the Western family unit has completely broken down because in Asia we all have uncles to fulfill this function in our lives
November 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM
this just shows how the Western family unit has completely broken down because in Asia we all have uncles to fulfill this function in our lives
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So what is to be done? I dunno. At scale, probably nothing. I’ve been a journalist 33 years, & in this regard same as it ever was. For individuals looking to get free? Read weird, be skeptical, don’t take cues from social media (so ignore this!), grow yr attention span, ask structural questions.
November 23, 2025 at 11:23 AM
So what is to be done? I dunno. At scale, probably nothing. I’ve been a journalist 33 years, & in this regard same as it ever was. For individuals looking to get free? Read weird, be skeptical, don’t take cues from social media (so ignore this!), grow yr attention span, ask structural questions.
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The argument in favour of AI is that it cuts employee costs for businesses that simply can’t afford those staffing levels.
But a successful businesses not having enough money to pay the required number of staff is a *decision*. And a side effect of endlessly moving money up, away from most workers.
But a successful businesses not having enough money to pay the required number of staff is a *decision*. And a side effect of endlessly moving money up, away from most workers.
November 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The argument in favour of AI is that it cuts employee costs for businesses that simply can’t afford those staffing levels.
But a successful businesses not having enough money to pay the required number of staff is a *decision*. And a side effect of endlessly moving money up, away from most workers.
But a successful businesses not having enough money to pay the required number of staff is a *decision*. And a side effect of endlessly moving money up, away from most workers.
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impressive to watch a huge industry go very swiftly from “widely popular and largely trusted” to “widely considered to be as or even more evil than the oil companies that occasionally spill tons of toxic cute-animal-killing goo into crucial waterways” though
November 23, 2025 at 8:33 AM
impressive to watch a huge industry go very swiftly from “widely popular and largely trusted” to “widely considered to be as or even more evil than the oil companies that occasionally spill tons of toxic cute-animal-killing goo into crucial waterways” though