Scoiattolo
@offline.mountainherder.xyz
Sr. Tech PM building tools and distributed research networks; Occasional Data Witch; 🚴🏻🏃🏻⛷️ Former goatherd & Data Ethics @HHI_Signal.
Sin-eater for @skywatch.blue
Sin-eater for @skywatch.blue
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Scoiattolo
@offline.mountainherder.xyz
· May 13
GitHub - skywatch-bsky/skywatch-automod: This is the public release of some of our internal tooling.
This is the public release of some of our internal tooling. - skywatch-bsky/skywatch-automod
github.com
It's not the world's most elegant code (I taught myself TS this winter to do it), but as a general reminder: I have open sourced the code that we use for Skywatch automation, for anyone interested in monitoring the firehose and labeling based on rulesets.
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cantor thought dominating bluesky every day
Catholic countries scoring insanely well across the board. Although scandis do as well for the most part. Some weird trans issues there.
The real problem seems to be english and hungarian
The real problem seems to be english and hungarian
November 26, 2025 at 1:57 AM
cantor thought dominating bluesky every day
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You have to update your priors on italians views on LGBTQ+ issues. its pretty wild out there
When you're a net negative on an issue that Italy (!!!) is +34 on (!!!!!!!)
November 26, 2025 at 1:33 AM
You have to update your priors on italians views on LGBTQ+ issues. its pretty wild out there
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He’s running
My daughter and I visited the house we lived in when she was a baby, and she was shocked a 29-year-old Navy guy could afford a nice house in a safe neighborhood.
That wasn’t crazy in 1996 — but today, a nice house is out of reach for so many young people. That has to change.
That wasn’t crazy in 1996 — but today, a nice house is out of reach for so many young people. That has to change.
November 26, 2025 at 2:33 AM
He’s running
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what.... is up with Italy (laudatory?)
the Ipsos Pride survey is genuinely an awesome product, but jesus the difference in the UK/US on trans issues is nuts
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 AM
what.... is up with Italy (laudatory?)
This is the way
November 26, 2025 at 2:19 AM
This is the way
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We're announcing a new partnership with StopNCII.org to prevent non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII) from spreading on Bluesky. While NCII hasn't been frequent on our platform, these incidents are devastating for victims and preventing them is a top safety priority. 1/4
Stop Non-Consensual Intimate Image Abuse | StopNCII.org
StopNCII.org is operated by the Revenge Porn Helpline which is part of SWGfL, a charity that believes that all should benefit from technology, free from harm.
StopNCII.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
We're announcing a new partnership with StopNCII.org to prevent non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII) from spreading on Bluesky. While NCII hasn't been frequent on our platform, these incidents are devastating for victims and preventing them is a top safety priority. 1/4
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This should be a major scandal. The Blaze falsely reported that a former U.S. Capitol Police officer was the Jan. 6th pipe bomber. But it wasn’t just another miss by conservative media promoting conspiracies.
Someone in US intel - at ODNI - was promoting it:
www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-p...
Someone in US intel - at ODNI - was promoting it:
www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-p...
November 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM
This should be a major scandal. The Blaze falsely reported that a former U.S. Capitol Police officer was the Jan. 6th pipe bomber. But it wasn’t just another miss by conservative media promoting conspiracies.
Someone in US intel - at ODNI - was promoting it:
www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-p...
Someone in US intel - at ODNI - was promoting it:
www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-p...
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Ah, my most stolen tweet!
October 11, 2024 at 12:32 PM
Ah, my most stolen tweet!
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This is both bad and also basically guaranteed to backfire
MS NOW confirms: The FBI is working with Capitol Police to schedule interviews with the six Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to refuse to comply with illegal orders.
November 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
This is both bad and also basically guaranteed to backfire
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What time do you get in?
Officially moving to Chicago tomorrow. I assume JB Pritzker will be waiting for me at the airport
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
What time do you get in?
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Every American should have this in their wallet:
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Every American should have this in their wallet:
Claude is Bouba.
November 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Claude is Bouba.
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edition.cnn.com/2025/11/25/s... A story that I’ve been working on for the past few months, about why women’s football is so important to queer people, is published! I really loved writing this and it’s a story that’s very close to my heart. I would love it if you kind folks would give it a read 🤍
Why women’s soccer is so important to queer people | CNN
Someone dressed as Marge Simpson, complete with a gigantic blue wig and a lime green dress, belts out Hot to Go by lesbian pop icon Chappell Roan to a rapt audience gathered inside a marquee in the mi...
edition.cnn.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/25/s... A story that I’ve been working on for the past few months, about why women’s football is so important to queer people, is published! I really loved writing this and it’s a story that’s very close to my heart. I would love it if you kind folks would give it a read 🤍
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if the glorified graphics card company DOES end up tanking the entire economy I'm blaming gamergate
Time for my usual morning routine, pouring myself a cup of coffee and checking the stock price of the company "Nvidia" to find out if the entire economy has crashed
November 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
if the glorified graphics card company DOES end up tanking the entire economy I'm blaming gamergate
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It's pretty notable to hear Brendan Crighton mention congestion pricing, as he represents Lynn, Lynnfield, Marblehead, Nahant, Saugus, and Swampscott. Lynn and Swampscott have commuter rail stops, but those are all significant car commuter towns.
Mass. lawmaker says ‘congestion pricing’ should be considered to address the T’s fiscal woes - The Boston Globe
State senator Brendan Crighton, who co-chairs the Legislature’s transportation committee, spoke at the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
It's pretty notable to hear Brendan Crighton mention congestion pricing, as he represents Lynn, Lynnfield, Marblehead, Nahant, Saugus, and Swampscott. Lynn and Swampscott have commuter rail stops, but those are all significant car commuter towns.
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politifact rates this TRUE
blocking people insane about Will remains one of the most consistent ways to make this website a more pleasant user experience; he draws the maddest fuckers.
i have agreed with stancil and i have disagreed with stancil. he has sharp elbows. but the accusation that he is a raging transphobe is not connected to reality. and the weaponization of "i'm listening to trans people" to smear someone because you disagree about fucking econ polling is disgusting
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
politifact rates this TRUE
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What’s crazy is people have been waving a red flag about Substack profiting on health disinformation for years. It was actually the original problem before Substack courted and began profiting from Nazism. I don’t get why anyone who does work on the information ecosystem can justify publishing there
Substack has an antiscience health disinformation problem.
MAD recognizes the importance (& influence) of media ownership – which is why we are sounding warnings about Substack.
Our latest w/ @lavidagata.bsky.social
mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com/p/substack-h...
MAD recognizes the importance (& influence) of media ownership – which is why we are sounding warnings about Substack.
Our latest w/ @lavidagata.bsky.social
mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com/p/substack-h...
Substack has a Nazi problem AND a health disinformation problem
Substack creators and Substack audiences are supporting a platform that profits off of promoting dangerous antiscience content – at the expense of public health.
mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
What’s crazy is people have been waving a red flag about Substack profiting on health disinformation for years. It was actually the original problem before Substack courted and began profiting from Nazism. I don’t get why anyone who does work on the information ecosystem can justify publishing there
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“The Kjoller case, though, is one of the first in which prosecutors, whose words carry great sway with judges and juries, have been accused of using A.I. without proper safeguards.”
Prosecutor Used Flawed A.I. to Keep a Man in Jail, His Lawyers Say
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
“The Kjoller case, though, is one of the first in which prosecutors, whose words carry great sway with judges and juries, have been accused of using A.I. without proper safeguards.”
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Hey gang, guess what my next Liberal Currents essay is going to tackle?
Yes, the supposed genius and success of the "they/them" ad has been wildly overstated in one of the most degrading exercises in elite confirmation bias I've seen in a while. And it was worse than I thought. Stay tuned!
Yes, the supposed genius and success of the "they/them" ad has been wildly overstated in one of the most degrading exercises in elite confirmation bias I've seen in a while. And it was worse than I thought. Stay tuned!
Just apropos of some ongoing discourse, I think the political class is describing way more salient to the “Kamala is for they them” ad then is actually warranted
November 25, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Hey gang, guess what my next Liberal Currents essay is going to tackle?
Yes, the supposed genius and success of the "they/them" ad has been wildly overstated in one of the most degrading exercises in elite confirmation bias I've seen in a while. And it was worse than I thought. Stay tuned!
Yes, the supposed genius and success of the "they/them" ad has been wildly overstated in one of the most degrading exercises in elite confirmation bias I've seen in a while. And it was worse than I thought. Stay tuned!
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Seen a lot of people wondering why X, The Everything App would have a feature that gives away how much of the popular right wing accounts are foreign actors and this is why. They thought every left wing account would be that way because every accusation is also a confession.
Planned Parenthood uses a VPN so its twitter location is shown as Germany and now all of MAGA twitter thinks Planned Parenthood is a fake organization based in Europe.
November 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Seen a lot of people wondering why X, The Everything App would have a feature that gives away how much of the popular right wing accounts are foreign actors and this is why. They thought every left wing account would be that way because every accusation is also a confession.
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Hey y'all, we just released a new SDK for working with Lexicons in TypeScript! 🥳
It focuses on improving DX and some of the pain points of the current tooling (see my previous post below).
It's currently in beta and we'd love to get your feedback 🙇♂️
www.npmjs.com/package/@atp...
It focuses on improving DX and some of the pain points of the current tooling (see my previous post below).
It's currently in beta and we'd love to get your feedback 🙇♂️
www.npmjs.com/package/@atp...
November 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Hey y'all, we just released a new SDK for working with Lexicons in TypeScript! 🥳
It focuses on improving DX and some of the pain points of the current tooling (see my previous post below).
It's currently in beta and we'd love to get your feedback 🙇♂️
www.npmjs.com/package/@atp...
It focuses on improving DX and some of the pain points of the current tooling (see my previous post below).
It's currently in beta and we'd love to get your feedback 🙇♂️
www.npmjs.com/package/@atp...
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a) The social harms of AI are vastly under-appreciated and go far beyond displacement of labor
b) The environmental harms of AI, though not trivial, are nevertheless small potatoes compared to many other industries like farming (and AI demand may even help accelerate electrical grid upgrades)
b) The environmental harms of AI, though not trivial, are nevertheless small potatoes compared to many other industries like farming (and AI demand may even help accelerate electrical grid upgrades)
weird header for an article about the very real dangers of modern industrial agriculture
How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 4:36 AM
a) The social harms of AI are vastly under-appreciated and go far beyond displacement of labor
b) The environmental harms of AI, though not trivial, are nevertheless small potatoes compared to many other industries like farming (and AI demand may even help accelerate electrical grid upgrades)
b) The environmental harms of AI, though not trivial, are nevertheless small potatoes compared to many other industries like farming (and AI demand may even help accelerate electrical grid upgrades)
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Unless Amazon is adding nitrates to the water, lol no, lmao
How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Unless Amazon is adding nitrates to the water, lol no, lmao
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