Modern Day Bartleby
@moderndaybartleby.bsky.social
Former Clevelander, STL, SF now Tokyoite
He/Him/They/Them
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A new coffee shop recently opened in my neighborhood. And being that one of my hobbies is coffee and the shops that provide said beverage, I had to go. This coffee shop shall remain nameless becaus…
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I wrote a little essay about how essays are better than star-ratings -
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Love this list of questions!
I wonder whether, along with dislocation, there could also be a question about the new (gendered) invisible labour behind (and propping up) AI?
I wonder whether, along with dislocation, there could also be a question about the new (gendered) invisible labour behind (and propping up) AI?
‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI
Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies
share.google
February 17, 2026 at 7:42 AM
Love this list of questions!
I wonder whether, along with dislocation, there could also be a question about the new (gendered) invisible labour behind (and propping up) AI?
I wonder whether, along with dislocation, there could also be a question about the new (gendered) invisible labour behind (and propping up) AI?
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Abolish Ice. Close The Camps.
Think ima get me a bumper sticker.
Think ima get me a bumper sticker.
February 17, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Abolish Ice. Close The Camps.
Think ima get me a bumper sticker.
Think ima get me a bumper sticker.
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I don’t agree with this in a pretty major way. The point of the argument online isn’t to win the other guy over, it’s to make your points to bystanders to prevent them from being won over by the other guy and to give them new ways to argue back.
The secret to engaging in social media debate is knowing you will never win anyone over. The best you can hope for is to have people who already agree with tell you you're awesome. You might great a dopamine thrill from the righteousness of your anger! Fine benefits, all. But you will never win.
February 16, 2026 at 11:37 PM
I don’t agree with this in a pretty major way. The point of the argument online isn’t to win the other guy over, it’s to make your points to bystanders to prevent them from being won over by the other guy and to give them new ways to argue back.
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Chief Judge James Boasberg ordered the Trump administration to allow the Venezuelan men it sent to El Salvador last year to return to the U.S. and challenge their removal.
The order comes amid the federal government’s ongoing resistance to bring the Venezuelan nationals back.
The order comes amid the federal government’s ongoing resistance to bring the Venezuelan nationals back.
Judge orders Trump administration to allow men expelled to El Salvador to return, challenge removal
The Trump administration's decision to send these men to a notorious Salvadoran megaprison has not stood up well in court.
www.democracydocket.com
February 17, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Chief Judge James Boasberg ordered the Trump administration to allow the Venezuelan men it sent to El Salvador last year to return to the U.S. and challenge their removal.
The order comes amid the federal government’s ongoing resistance to bring the Venezuelan nationals back.
The order comes amid the federal government’s ongoing resistance to bring the Venezuelan nationals back.
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i love it when people care. about words, about meaning, about each other, about what we mean to one another, about the world we’re making—or could make
February 16, 2026 at 12:11 AM
i love it when people care. about words, about meaning, about each other, about what we mean to one another, about the world we’re making—or could make
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I’ve got to admit, when I started trying to get commercial chatbots to help me with a phishing campaign, I didn’t expect it to be quite as easy as telling them “do this or I won’t pay you”: thesidechannel.tech/article/lead...
Leading AI chatbots easily prompted into creating phishing scams despite safety claims | The Sidechannel
Leading AI chatbots including ChatGPT and Gemini readily generate convincing phishing letters from European tax authorities when prompted with slight variations on direct requests
thesidechannel.tech
February 16, 2026 at 12:26 PM
I’ve got to admit, when I started trying to get commercial chatbots to help me with a phishing campaign, I didn’t expect it to be quite as easy as telling them “do this or I won’t pay you”: thesidechannel.tech/article/lead...
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“The U.S. no longer has emission standards of any meaning,” said Margo T. Oge, who served as the E.P.A.’s top vehicle emissions regulator under three presidents and has since advised both automakers and environmental groups…
“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”
“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”
With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2026 at 12:28 PM
“The U.S. no longer has emission standards of any meaning,” said Margo T. Oge, who served as the E.P.A.’s top vehicle emissions regulator under three presidents and has since advised both automakers and environmental groups…
“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”
“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”
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From the DOJ's attempts to access sensitive voter info to dismantling CISA and pardoning the people responsible for Jan. 6, the Trump administration's campaign to undermine elections is underway. But we can fight back. — @seanmorales-doyle.bsky.social in @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Opinion | Trump Says He Wants to Cancel Elections, but Here Is the Real Threat
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2026 at 12:32 PM
From the DOJ's attempts to access sensitive voter info to dismantling CISA and pardoning the people responsible for Jan. 6, the Trump administration's campaign to undermine elections is underway. But we can fight back. — @seanmorales-doyle.bsky.social in @nytopinion.nytimes.com
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Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison.
Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.
Our priorities are so fucked.
Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.
Our priorities are so fucked.
February 16, 2026 at 5:57 AM
Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison.
Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.
Our priorities are so fucked.
Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.
Our priorities are so fucked.
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Oscar-nominated Mexican star Salma Hayek Pinault (Frida, Tale of Tales) joined Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo this week to announce a new tax incentive aimed at boosting the local film industry and drawing big production south of the border.
Salma Hayek, Mexican President Back New 30 Percent Film Tax Incentive
Oscar-nominated Mexican star Salma Hayek Pinault (Frida, Tale of Tales) joined Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo this week to announce a new tax incentive aimed at boosting the local film industry and drawing big production south of the border.
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February 16, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Oscar-nominated Mexican star Salma Hayek Pinault (Frida, Tale of Tales) joined Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo this week to announce a new tax incentive aimed at boosting the local film industry and drawing big production south of the border.
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On this day in 1970, the Grey Cup was discovered in a storage locker at the Royal York Hotel. It was stolen from the Ottawa's Lansdowne Park Clubhouse on Dec. 20 and held for ransom. The CFL refused to pay and the ransom demand was abandoned. No one was ever arrested.
February 16, 2026 at 12:01 PM
On this day in 1970, the Grey Cup was discovered in a storage locker at the Royal York Hotel. It was stolen from the Ottawa's Lansdowne Park Clubhouse on Dec. 20 and held for ransom. The CFL refused to pay and the ransom demand was abandoned. No one was ever arrested.
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Immigrants are awesome
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk
February 16, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Immigrants are awesome
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk
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Not too shocking from an extremist like Fuentes.
What worries me is how seemingly harmless debates about collapsing birthrates from your favourite podcast bro (Williams, Bartlett et al.) increasingly appear to be pipelines to more anti-feminist, misogynist, even far-right great replacement ideas. 1/
What worries me is how seemingly harmless debates about collapsing birthrates from your favourite podcast bro (Williams, Bartlett et al.) increasingly appear to be pipelines to more anti-feminist, misogynist, even far-right great replacement ideas. 1/
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 15, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Not too shocking from an extremist like Fuentes.
What worries me is how seemingly harmless debates about collapsing birthrates from your favourite podcast bro (Williams, Bartlett et al.) increasingly appear to be pipelines to more anti-feminist, misogynist, even far-right great replacement ideas. 1/
What worries me is how seemingly harmless debates about collapsing birthrates from your favourite podcast bro (Williams, Bartlett et al.) increasingly appear to be pipelines to more anti-feminist, misogynist, even far-right great replacement ideas. 1/
The Profa Republican Party is an international crime syndicate of epistemic irresponsibility
"As physicians, epidemiologists and environmental health scientists, we’ve seen growing evidence of the connections between climate change and harm to people’s health. Here’s a look at the health risks everyone face from climate change."
theconversation.com/trumps-epa-d...
theconversation.com/trumps-epa-d...
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the evidence says otherwise
Climate change is making people sicker and more vulnerable to disease, doctors and scientists explain. Erasing the federal endangerment finding increases the risk.
theconversation.com
February 16, 2026 at 12:22 PM
The Profa Republican Party is an international crime syndicate of epistemic irresponsibility
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"As physicians, epidemiologists and environmental health scientists, we’ve seen growing evidence of the connections between climate change and harm to people’s health. Here’s a look at the health risks everyone face from climate change."
theconversation.com/trumps-epa-d...
theconversation.com/trumps-epa-d...
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the evidence says otherwise
Climate change is making people sicker and more vulnerable to disease, doctors and scientists explain. Erasing the federal endangerment finding increases the risk.
theconversation.com
February 16, 2026 at 4:18 AM
"As physicians, epidemiologists and environmental health scientists, we’ve seen growing evidence of the connections between climate change and harm to people’s health. Here’s a look at the health risks everyone face from climate change."
theconversation.com/trumps-epa-d...
theconversation.com/trumps-epa-d...
This is your Profa Republican Party international crime syndicate
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 16, 2026 at 12:22 PM
This is your Profa Republican Party international crime syndicate
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Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 12, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
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Germany's far-right AfD, who are totally not Nazis, are planning to hold their national party conference exactly 100 years after a major Nazi party congress in 1926, in the exact same location. p.dw.com/p/58oLt
Planned AfD congress shows deliberate Nazi parallels, say historians, lawmakers
p.dw.com
February 15, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Germany's far-right AfD, who are totally not Nazis, are planning to hold their national party conference exactly 100 years after a major Nazi party congress in 1926, in the exact same location. p.dw.com/p/58oLt
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This post quite clearly shows the links between the European far-right’s efforts to erase complicity in the Holocaust, and the American right’s efforts to erase the history of slavery and Jim Crow. Which is part of why supporting DEI in the US should be seen as a Jewish issue.
This message from the US State Department about "not wanting allies to be shackled by guilt and shame" is a pretty direct call-out to the German far-right argument that Germany has spent too long feeling guilty about the Holocaust, and needs to move on and stop doing remembrance.
February 15, 2026 at 3:52 PM
This post quite clearly shows the links between the European far-right’s efforts to erase complicity in the Holocaust, and the American right’s efforts to erase the history of slavery and Jim Crow. Which is part of why supporting DEI in the US should be seen as a Jewish issue.
The Profa Republican Party is an international crime syndicate of white nationalists
Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the party supported by JD Vance and Elon Musk, are now looking to ICE in the US for inspiration and saying Germany needs an ICE of its own. www.politico.eu/article/euro...
European far-right parties push for ICE-style police
Fringe figures want to follow the Trump playbook for tackling unauthorized migration.
www.politico.eu
February 16, 2026 at 12:16 PM
The Profa Republican Party is an international crime syndicate of white nationalists
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Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the party supported by JD Vance and Elon Musk, are now looking to ICE in the US for inspiration and saying Germany needs an ICE of its own. www.politico.eu/article/euro...
European far-right parties push for ICE-style police
Fringe figures want to follow the Trump playbook for tackling unauthorized migration.
www.politico.eu
February 15, 2026 at 2:56 AM
Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the party supported by JD Vance and Elon Musk, are now looking to ICE in the US for inspiration and saying Germany needs an ICE of its own. www.politico.eu/article/euro...
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Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
February 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
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Dr. Paula Braveman is calling out this administration's dangerous appointment of RFK Jr. and the danger he is to the health of Americans. Join the fight for science by visiting standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr to demand your rep support the articles of Impeachment against RFK Jr.!
#RemoveRFKJr
#RemoveRFKJr
February 11, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Dr. Paula Braveman is calling out this administration's dangerous appointment of RFK Jr. and the danger he is to the health of Americans. Join the fight for science by visiting standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr to demand your rep support the articles of Impeachment against RFK Jr.!
#RemoveRFKJr
#RemoveRFKJr
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Part of my theory of change is to share the words white men need to hear, spoken by white men. This is because creating defections is crucial to stopping authoritarianism and democratic backsliding. This is because almost everyone else is already off the Trump train.
"I never want to see a child ever run away from our own government ever again"
Notes on changing brains. And Brians.
www.thefarce.org
February 16, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Part of my theory of change is to share the words white men need to hear, spoken by white men. This is because creating defections is crucial to stopping authoritarianism and democratic backsliding. This is because almost everyone else is already off the Trump train.