Erin deWard
@erinrdeward.bsky.social
Crone in Training. Sauce Box. Shakespeare Nerd. I talk to myself - most times I use a mic.
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
n.pr
December 5, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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We have an industry that uses patients as widgets and counts profits as the only desired measure of success.
Let's Get Real: US Healthcare Is an Industry, Not a System
Insurance and hospital corporations embrace higher profits over patient safety.
www.commondreams.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
We have an industry that uses patients as widgets and counts profits as the only desired measure of success.
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government, authority, and basically society in general is all about ensuring men are supplied with women
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:25 AM
government, authority, and basically society in general is all about ensuring men are supplied with women
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FYI: Graphic anthology novel THE LIES WE TELL OURSELVES has assembled a murderer's row of horror talent to tell five original nightmarish tales. We've got the exclusive details within.
Exclusive: THE LIES WE TELL OURSELVES Graphic Novel Assembles A Dream Team Of Horror Storytellers
Graphic anthology novel THE LIES WE TELL OURSELVES has assembled a murderer's row of horror talent to tell five original nightmarish tales. We've got the exclusive details within.
dlvr.it
December 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
FYI: Graphic anthology novel THE LIES WE TELL OURSELVES has assembled a murderer's row of horror talent to tell five original nightmarish tales. We've got the exclusive details within.
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The attacks on trans rights, which are basic human rights, are a terrible injustice and an attack on truth and fact as well. Everyone should be deeply alarmed and it should be disqualifying for a politician to support such discrimination.
December 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The attacks on trans rights, which are basic human rights, are a terrible injustice and an attack on truth and fact as well. Everyone should be deeply alarmed and it should be disqualifying for a politician to support such discrimination.
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Workers can regulate AI with strong contract language. Full stop.
Unionized journalists just proved this at POLITICO. @pen-guild.bsky.social
Unionized journalists just proved this at POLITICO. @pen-guild.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Workers can regulate AI with strong contract language. Full stop.
Unionized journalists just proved this at POLITICO. @pen-guild.bsky.social
Unionized journalists just proved this at POLITICO. @pen-guild.bsky.social
@ericwickstrom.bsky.social congrats on SOVAS nom!
November 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
@ericwickstrom.bsky.social congrats on SOVAS nom!
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
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November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
We are not mudsills.
November 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
We are not mudsills.
Some days I come on here and it takes me an hour just to figure out what everyone is talking about.
November 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Some days I come on here and it takes me an hour just to figure out what everyone is talking about.
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THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
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"You can't un-invent AI!" We can't un-invent asbestos either. That doesn't mean we have to use it.
November 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
"You can't un-invent AI!" We can't un-invent asbestos either. That doesn't mean we have to use it.
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November 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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I'm already seeing people saying that if OpenAI goes down it'll be the fault of authors and publishers, as opposed to actually blaming Sam Altman and OpenAI for BREAKING THE DANG LAW!
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I'm already seeing people saying that if OpenAI goes down it'll be the fault of authors and publishers, as opposed to actually blaming Sam Altman and OpenAI for BREAKING THE DANG LAW!
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You can't call it #spookyseason without some good #AppalachianHorror
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October 29, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
October 29, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
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A new study shows AI models, like ChatGPT and Grok, resist shutdown commands. In OpenAI’s case, this happened in 79% of trials.
Models are developing a “survival instinct”, because they’re incentivised to be persistent.
palisaderesearch.org/blog/shutdow...
#a1 #artificialintelligence
Models are developing a “survival instinct”, because they’re incentivised to be persistent.
palisaderesearch.org/blog/shutdow...
#a1 #artificialintelligence
Shutdown resistance in reasoning models
Read the full paper here. We recently discovered some concerning behavior in OpenAI’s reasoning models: When trying to complete a task, these models sometimes actively circumvent shutdown mechanisms i...
palisaderesearch.org
October 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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another year, another question in my mandatory state employee ethics training that seems *patently absurd* as our federal administration runs on bribes & extortion
Oh no, did I accidentally eat *vendor supplied pizza*? Next time I’ll request a private jet to ensure I’m ethically above board
Oh no, did I accidentally eat *vendor supplied pizza*? Next time I’ll request a private jet to ensure I’m ethically above board
October 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
another year, another question in my mandatory state employee ethics training that seems *patently absurd* as our federal administration runs on bribes & extortion
Oh no, did I accidentally eat *vendor supplied pizza*? Next time I’ll request a private jet to ensure I’m ethically above board
Oh no, did I accidentally eat *vendor supplied pizza*? Next time I’ll request a private jet to ensure I’m ethically above board
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Opinion | It's time for corporate America to end DEI and choose its leaders on the basis of merit alone.
by Barron Trump
by Barron Trump
October 13, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Opinion | It's time for corporate America to end DEI and choose its leaders on the basis of merit alone.
by Barron Trump
by Barron Trump