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Juris Doctor Dredd Esq. @optimusviktor.bsky.social · 20h

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Michelle Miller @michelleimiller.bsky.social · 22h

First unionized REI store. In the historic Puck building. God help us all.

Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 22h

The fact that this is turning into OpenAI office space is such a depressing sign of the times.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22h

Oh no, my second-favorite store is closing :((( gothamist.com/news/rei-shu...

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Michelle Miller @michelleimiller.bsky.social · 2d

This is how I feel on every call I do lately. theonion.com/somebody-sho...

Somebody Should Do Something About All The Problems

Why isn’t anyone doing anything about all the problems? We’re living in a time with super computers and underwater sea stations and million-dollar laboratories. And still, everyday when I watch the TV...

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 7d

That place “wonder” is trying to do to actual restaurants what Uber did to cabs. It is the work of satan and you are his minion if you order from there

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 8d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Michelle Miller @michelleimiller.bsky.social · 9d

Started reading this and was like “I’ll bet it’s - yep, yep, Argyle.” Nastiest bastards in the business.

404 Media @404media.co · 10d

New: landlords are demanding potential tenants hand over employer login credentials so a tool can verify their income. We were sent screenshot of the tool, Argyle, downloading much more data than necessary to approve the renter. "Opt-out means no housing" www.404media.co/landlords-de...

Landlords Demand Tenants’ Workplace Logins to Scrape Their Paystubs

Screenshots shared with 404 Media show tenant screening services ApproveShield and Argyle taking much more data than they need. “Opt-out means no housing.”

www.404media.co

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Michelle Miller @michelleimiller.bsky.social · 9d

Bc Coworker supported many worker-led campaigns to repeal beard bans at places like Publix, I can tell you that 1) yes, this targets Black people and people who have beards for religious reasons and 2) this shit is always unevenly enforced and used as a proxy to punish and discipline.

Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 9d

reminder that this directive functionally massively discriminates against Black men and should be understood as part of an ongoing campaign to resegregate the military www.military.com/daily-news/2...

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 11d

Losing does not mean the struggle shouldn’t be waged, and losing doesn’t mean sacrificing the humanity of the marginalized. This isn’t difficult, and yet.

whet moser @whetmoser.com · 11d

of all the things about ta-nehisi coates’s philosophy i wish people would internalize the main one is: sometimes you lose

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Michelle Miller @michelleimiller.bsky.social · 11d

Also here’s a great poem on the theme “sometimes you lose”

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58738/...

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Michelle Miller @michelleimiller.bsky.social · 11d

Klein’s inability to accept “sometimes you lose” as mere fact, alongside his unwillingness to stretch beyond a couple decades back is illuminating of what happens when your politics is detached from any commitment to a movement or rooted in a community.

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 11d

This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

Opinion | Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines

www.nytimes.com

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Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 27d

the thing to understand is that for many people the violence of order maintenance is simply not seen as violence in the first place

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Michelle Miller @michelleimiller.bsky.social · Sep 8

I'm working on a project that gives me an up close look at an attempted AI integration and even I, a skeptic if there ever was one, am surprised at the complexity and difficulty of making AI a productive part of the workflow. Which is to say, no surprises here: www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?

The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing.

www.theatlantic.com

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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · Sep 5

What keeps haunting me about this idiotic "let's fix The Magnificent Ambersons with AI!" proposal is that the whole reason the footage vanished is because the studio didn't value & protect Welles' edit. The part that's missing & will always be missing is what _he_ would have done. You can't AI that.

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Michelle Miller @michelleimiller.bsky.social · Sep 5

The good news here is that this could potentially unleash the angry ghost of Orson Welles on all these goofballs, finally putting an end to the madness of the past fews years.

Michelle Miller @michelleimiller.bsky.social · Sep 5

Orson Welles would hate this more than he hated what the studios did in the first place. He would hate AI. He'd say rude things about Sam Altman and Edward Saatchi over lunch with Henry Jaglom. Cannot emphasize enough how much Welles would hate all of this. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Orson Welles’ Lost Movie Will Use AI to Reconstruct Missing 43 Minutes

Amazon-backed firm Showrunner, led by Edward Saatchi, is using the film as a test case for how Hollywood can overhaul production. The results won't be commercialized — the tech giant hasn't obtained r...

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Center for Labor and a Just Economy | HLS @cljeharvard.bsky.social · Sep 3

🌆 Join CLJE, the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University, and the Harvard Center for African Studies, Africa Office on Sept. 16 to learn how Ahmedabad, Boston, and Cape Town have developed and implemented Heat Action Plans. Register ⬇️
harvard.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Protecting Workers in Heat Action Plans Poster

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Michelle Miller @michelleimiller.bsky.social · Aug 30

Important and true.

ceej @ceej.online · Aug 30

my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy

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Michelle Miller @michelleimiller.bsky.social · Aug 29

Wow this is really good.

Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · Aug 29

"Reparative citation matters because neoliberal politics rehearses competitive jockeying that narrows who can be seen."

Coalition as Credit

Reading the Mamdani-Lander-Warren Coalition as a Credit Event by Will Beaman How do you keep governing when opponents try to stage a fiscal loss? In New York, that will be the fight: not just what …

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · Aug 29

Just to point out that they grounded the entire fleet of 737Max aircraft as a precautionary measure

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · Aug 29

WSJ: ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.... On Aug. 5, Greenwich police discovered that Soelberg killed his mother and himself in the $2.7 million Dutch colonial-style home where they lived together.

A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich

“Erik, you’re not crazy.” ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.

www.wsj.com

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Michelle Miller @michelleimiller.bsky.social · Aug 28

they drove me so nuts my therapist knows about them.

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Mikey Sandmel @mikeysandmel.bsky.social · Aug 28

Also if you own a rent stabilized building in NYC (by definition minimum 6 units) you're not "mom and pop." That's a term clearly intended to connote homeowners renting out a second unit in their home, which is never a stabilized unit!

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Michelle Miller @michelleimiller.bsky.social · Aug 28

thank you for affirming my experience it was a nightmare.

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Michelle Miller @michelleimiller.bsky.social · Aug 28

My mom-and-pop landlord lied about planning to move in to my apartment so she could push me out then jacked the rent up by $1500 for the next renter. She also installed giant nutcrackers outside that played xmas music from nov - feb which isn't material to this but really got on my nerves.

Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · Aug 28

I could not fucking care less if my actual life depended on it

WSJ: Mamdani's Pledged Rent Freeze Is Rattling Mom-and-Pop Landlords

The Democratic mayoral candidate's plans involving NYC's rent-stabilized units will lead owners to sell, some small landlords say

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Michelle Miller @michelleimiller.bsky.social · Aug 28

The surveillance, theft and death machine recommends more surveillance to balance out the death.

jon mothman @jonchristian.net · Aug 27

NEW: After numerous tragedies, OpenAI says it's scanning users' conversations, escalating to human readers, and contacting law enforcement where necessary

futurism.com/openai-scann...

OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police

OpenAI has authorized itself to call law enforcement if users say threatening enough things when talking to ChatGPT.

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kim @kimmymonte.bsky.social · Aug 27

*opens up your fridge and sees you have 2% milk* hey bro you need to charge your milk

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