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Seriously, @people.com has been meeting the moment better than 90% of publications with direct reporting and crystal clear headlines.
This is a good way for the low-information voters who are usually detached from the news cycle to get turned around.
This is a good way for the low-information voters who are usually detached from the news cycle to get turned around.
What America will read this weekend while in line at the grocery checkout:
@peoplemag.bsky.social #ICE
people.com/ice-detains-...
@peoplemag.bsky.social #ICE
people.com/ice-detains-...
January 22, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Seriously, @people.com has been meeting the moment better than 90% of publications with direct reporting and crystal clear headlines.
This is a good way for the low-information voters who are usually detached from the news cycle to get turned around.
This is a good way for the low-information voters who are usually detached from the news cycle to get turned around.
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One of the things I’m really struggling with about what’s going on in Minnesota is that if you describe what’s going on in plain, factual ways to someone who’s not paying close attention you sound completely, bugfuck crazy
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
January 22, 2026 at 1:03 AM
One of the things I’m really struggling with about what’s going on in Minnesota is that if you describe what’s going on in plain, factual ways to someone who’s not paying close attention you sound completely, bugfuck crazy
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Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
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"what are we going to do with 20,000 ICE agents if we abolish ice" well to start with I think we should all literally spit on them in public for the rest of their lives
January 7, 2026 at 10:24 PM
"what are we going to do with 20,000 ICE agents if we abolish ice" well to start with I think we should all literally spit on them in public for the rest of their lives
Buying for an 11 year old girl isn’t always easy but @theonion.com was a hit!
December 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Buying for an 11 year old girl isn’t always easy but @theonion.com was a hit!
This post and the replies to it are such a good example of the different levels and components of social media literacy (and literacy more generally). He is unquestionably correct here and people objected because despite claiming a preference for text-based media they are not social media literate.
i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.
December 16, 2025 at 12:59 PM
This post and the replies to it are such a good example of the different levels and components of social media literacy (and literacy more generally). He is unquestionably correct here and people objected because despite claiming a preference for text-based media they are not social media literate.
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Yes it is curious. It’s because they lie.
Someone on here mocked me a little when I (gently) explained that edtech’s entire use case in higherEd is to build a higher quality training dataset than the ones AI can scrape from the internet. And to labor bust.
I don’t know how else to say it!
Someone on here mocked me a little when I (gently) explained that edtech’s entire use case in higherEd is to build a higher quality training dataset than the ones AI can scrape from the internet. And to labor bust.
I don’t know how else to say it!
kind of curious about the weird convergence/timing of the right wing witch hunt in academia with the attempt to replace academia with AI slop and how these bogus "transparency" measures facilitate both. how "fortuitous" for someone.
December 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Yes it is curious. It’s because they lie.
Someone on here mocked me a little when I (gently) explained that edtech’s entire use case in higherEd is to build a higher quality training dataset than the ones AI can scrape from the internet. And to labor bust.
I don’t know how else to say it!
Someone on here mocked me a little when I (gently) explained that edtech’s entire use case in higherEd is to build a higher quality training dataset than the ones AI can scrape from the internet. And to labor bust.
I don’t know how else to say it!
I would read 5,000 words on this. 50,000!!!!!!
Could probably do 500 words just on comparing emotional stakes-building in Wayne’s fights in Letterkenny season 1 with the sex scenes in the first half of Heated Rivalry, honestly.
December 11, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I would read 5,000 words on this. 50,000!!!!!!
As a certified 50 Cent-level AI hater I have to admit this is a really good point.
So, when a critic says, “Ah hah! That app makes shit up!” A lot of people will nod politely. And then they will think to themselves, “Well, so does the newspaper, and so does Facebook, and so do politicians, and none of those help me do this task or say nice things to me when I ask them questions.”
December 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
As a certified 50 Cent-level AI hater I have to admit this is a really good point.
Absolutely nothing humbles me more consistently than the fact that every time I want to give my smart cat a treat puzzle I have to sit there and try to remember how it works. Again cannot emphasize strongly enough this is a puzzle designed to be solvable by a cat
November 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Absolutely nothing humbles me more consistently than the fact that every time I want to give my smart cat a treat puzzle I have to sit there and try to remember how it works. Again cannot emphasize strongly enough this is a puzzle designed to be solvable by a cat
Every English major you know is holding back a violent physical urge to say “Ozymandias”
A 450-foot Prometheus. A 500-foot George Washington. Tech investors are racing to build colossal monuments celebrating Western power.
America’s Tech Right Is Obsessed With Building Giant Statues
With proposals for a 450-foot statue of Prometheus on Alcatraz and a 650-foot George Washington, MAGA adherents are racing to build America’s largest statue.
bloom.bg
November 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Every English major you know is holding back a violent physical urge to say “Ozymandias”
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Zohran is stone cold man. Putting out an ad in Arabic after all the Islamophobic shit that’s been thrown his way? Pure swag.
Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.
Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.
أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك
November 3, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Zohran is stone cold man. Putting out an ad in Arabic after all the Islamophobic shit that’s been thrown his way? Pure swag.
Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.
Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.
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“The Purdue student newspaper owns its own presses” is the sound of engines revving
Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
October 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
“The Purdue student newspaper owns its own presses” is the sound of engines revving
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being a cat person is so crazy bc you live with someone who is undeniably annoying and you're always thinking "maybe i should get another cat"
October 1, 2025 at 5:22 AM
being a cat person is so crazy bc you live with someone who is undeniably annoying and you're always thinking "maybe i should get another cat"
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Ok here’s the real problem with AI
When you start parsing what work is unimportant enough for the AI to do and what only you can do, you are making the assumption that you know what parts are “important.” This is unknowable opportunity cost. What discoveries would you have made writing the outline?
When you start parsing what work is unimportant enough for the AI to do and what only you can do, you are making the assumption that you know what parts are “important.” This is unknowable opportunity cost. What discoveries would you have made writing the outline?
June 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Ok here’s the real problem with AI
When you start parsing what work is unimportant enough for the AI to do and what only you can do, you are making the assumption that you know what parts are “important.” This is unknowable opportunity cost. What discoveries would you have made writing the outline?
When you start parsing what work is unimportant enough for the AI to do and what only you can do, you are making the assumption that you know what parts are “important.” This is unknowable opportunity cost. What discoveries would you have made writing the outline?
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I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.
July 26, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.
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HBO should fire Bill Maher and give his time slot to Stephen Colbert.
July 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
HBO should fire Bill Maher and give his time slot to Stephen Colbert.
First thought: we should get back to mailing raccoons to the president
Second thought: I cannot bear to watch an Instagram reel of a MAHA influencers head approvingly nodding over a video of RFK eating a raccoon, hashtag make america raccoon again
Second thought: I cannot bear to watch an Instagram reel of a MAHA influencers head approvingly nodding over a video of RFK eating a raccoon, hashtag make america raccoon again
NEIGHBOR: Hey Vinny, whatever happened to that full-grown male raccoon you were keeping around?
VINNY JOYCE: mailed it
NEIGHBOR: to who
VINNY JOYCE: the President
NEIGHBOR: ...
VJ: of the United States
NEIGHBOR [pause]: so he's going to eat it then
VJ: probably won't actually
NEIGHBOR: oh
VINNY JOYCE: mailed it
NEIGHBOR: to who
VINNY JOYCE: the President
NEIGHBOR: ...
VJ: of the United States
NEIGHBOR [pause]: so he's going to eat it then
VJ: probably won't actually
NEIGHBOR: oh
May 17, 2025 at 12:42 PM
First thought: we should get back to mailing raccoons to the president
Second thought: I cannot bear to watch an Instagram reel of a MAHA influencers head approvingly nodding over a video of RFK eating a raccoon, hashtag make america raccoon again
Second thought: I cannot bear to watch an Instagram reel of a MAHA influencers head approvingly nodding over a video of RFK eating a raccoon, hashtag make america raccoon again
Imagine shitting away your integrity for what is, essentially, Kohl’s cash
Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego defended his fundraiser with crypto investor and Trump ally Marc Andreessen during a town hall in Pennsylvania, arguing that Democrats have gotten too “pure” and need a bigger tent.
Dem Crypto Ally Defends Fundraiser With Trump Crypto Donor
Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego defended his ties to crypto investor and Trump ally Marc Andreessen, arguing Democrats need a big tent.
www.rollingstone.com
May 13, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Imagine shitting away your integrity for what is, essentially, Kohl’s cash
*chuckles darkly* I literally carried a protest sign about the Emoluments clause at my city’s Inauguration Day women’s march in 2017. He was violating it day 1 of his first term. I don’t know, we all knew he was horrible but this one thing just seemed so… straightforward to me, you know?
The Constitution disagrees. The Emoluments Clause, part of Article I, Section 9, Clause 8, bans office holders from taking ANY gifts from foreign countries. There is no mention of quid pro quo. That is because the Founding Fathers knew that even the *appearance* of corruption promotes corruption.
May 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
*chuckles darkly* I literally carried a protest sign about the Emoluments clause at my city’s Inauguration Day women’s march in 2017. He was violating it day 1 of his first term. I don’t know, we all knew he was horrible but this one thing just seemed so… straightforward to me, you know?
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the single most insane person in Congress should threaten to read every ICE agent's home address into the Congressional Record the moment they get their hands on them
May 9, 2025 at 11:27 PM
the single most insane person in Congress should threaten to read every ICE agent's home address into the Congressional Record the moment they get their hands on them
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Hate to be this person (I don’t) but his analysis (to the extent it’s informed) starts CORRECT — we buy a lot of junk we don’t need for cheap. Trump takes a correct analysis & then completely screws the pooch on DIAGNOSIS.
This isn’t to his credit (god forbid) but it reflects how voters reason.
This isn’t to his credit (god forbid) but it reflects how voters reason.
May 1, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Hate to be this person (I don’t) but his analysis (to the extent it’s informed) starts CORRECT — we buy a lot of junk we don’t need for cheap. Trump takes a correct analysis & then completely screws the pooch on DIAGNOSIS.
This isn’t to his credit (god forbid) but it reflects how voters reason.
This isn’t to his credit (god forbid) but it reflects how voters reason.
That clattering crashing cat yowling sound you heard was me scampering and comically tripping over things to go to @2ndflightbooks.bsky.social to preorder this
April 22, 2025 at 2:51 AM
That clattering crashing cat yowling sound you heard was me scampering and comically tripping over things to go to @2ndflightbooks.bsky.social to preorder this
This tortie is really smart. My tortie just screams at birds and tries to eat the cream cheese off my bagel.
There are a lot of bad things happening all at once, and it’s overwhelming to think about how to meet moments like this.
Jean says to focus on 1 or 2 things that you care about, understand fairly well, and are either local or involve a topic where you’re likely to have influence and find community
Jean says to focus on 1 or 2 things that you care about, understand fairly well, and are either local or involve a topic where you’re likely to have influence and find community
April 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
This tortie is really smart. My tortie just screams at birds and tries to eat the cream cheese off my bagel.