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generally disappointed @onlyalishak.bsky.social · Sep 6

Peanuts considering what has been built on the back of these works. Good… but peanuts all the same.

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · Sep 5

I’m seeing reports that they have settled at $3,000 per work, and if so, I need to see the settlement amount

Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · Sep 5

Filing: Anthropic will pay $1.5B to resolve an authors' copyright lawsuit over the company's downloading of millions of pirated books (Bloomberg)

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generally disappointed @onlyalishak.bsky.social · Sep 3

This is the nerdiest thing to happen to me ever, but in the best way.

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Mike Baker @mikebaker.bsky.social · Sep 2

Teens calling Idaho's suicide hotline are being told they can't proceed with the conversation without parental consent. Many of the callers are then hanging up.

Idaho approved a strict parental consent law last year.

idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/29/i...

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generally disappointed @onlyalishak.bsky.social · Aug 28

Don't follow me. I'd rather not be perceived.

generally disappointed @onlyalishak.bsky.social · Aug 28

This man wakes up every day asking "what ignorant bullshit can I say today to make everyone hate me, a thing that is clearly my fetish?"

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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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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · Aug 28

PUT AWAY YOUR THROWING DARTS, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE HUNGER. AND YOU WILL WIN.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Aug 28

Border Patrol literally intervened in a fight against an *active wildfire* to arrest and interrogate... THE PEOPLE FIGHTING THE FUCKING FIRE.

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Two people fighting the Bear Gulch fire on the Olympic Peninsula were arrested by federal law enforcement Wednesday, in a confrontation described by firefighters and depicted in photos and video.

Why the two firefighters were arrested is unclear. But a spokesperson for the Incident Management Team leading the firefighting response said the team was “aware of a Border Patrol operation on the fire,” that it was not interfering with the firefighting response and referred reporters to the Border Patrol station in Port Angeles.

Over three hours, federal agents demanded identification from the members of two private contractor crews. The crews were among the 400 people including firefighters deployed to fight the wildfire, the largest active blaze in Washington state.

Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security did not respond to requests for comment Wednesday about the confrontation.

It is unusual for federal border agents to make arrests during the fighting of an active fire, especially in a remote area.

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generally disappointed @onlyalishak.bsky.social · Aug 28

this post

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Jacob S @peopletrees.bsky.social · Aug 28

This is so important. We can't just allow frankly evil technologies to dominate us unchecked. The party should be over for Silicon Valley but which countries have the guts to actually pull the plug or regulate them into the insignificance they should be?

Paris Marx @parismarx.com · Aug 28

Western leaders have appeased Donald Trump since he returned to power, only to be hit with new demands after every concession.

On Tuesday, Trump declared economic war on countries that regulate its tech companies. It’s time for the world to break from the US and aggressively target Silicon Valley.

World leaders must stop appeasing Donald Trump

Conceding to Trump’s demands only guarantees new threats. It’s time to reject the US and its tech companies.

www.disconnect.blog

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · Aug 28

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Washington, DC under military occupation in last August 2025, with banners proclaiming the absolute power of the primus inter pares

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generally disappointed @onlyalishak.bsky.social · Aug 28

Look, there's no one solution we can impose to most of this. Students who think the work doesn't matter will find ways around it. Students who are busy and overwhelmed will seek solutions. As with everything else we don't solve, we need to think about what drives it.

generally disappointed @onlyalishak.bsky.social · Aug 28

Saw some stuff this morning about how the "online discussion board has been killed by AI." I mean... good? I can count the number of times an online discussion board hasn't been bullshit busy work on my hands. Not to say they can't be good - I've seen them! done them! - but mostly? Nah.

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generally disappointed @onlyalishak.bsky.social · Aug 28

It really feels to me that a strong approach to the AI panic in education really is just... smaller classes, not treating education like an assembly line, and making lessons matter.

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generally disappointed @onlyalishak.bsky.social · Aug 28

Not sure, but I know there's supposed to be a list coming: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...

Anthropic AI Class Action: Important Information for Authors - The Authors Guild

Earlier this summer, a federal court in California issued a major ruling in Bartz v. Anthropic, one of the copyright class action lawsuits involving AI. The court held that a trial should occur over w...

authorsguild.org

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generally disappointed @onlyalishak.bsky.social · Aug 25

I despair.

I started to write specific things I was despairing about but you know what? I just despair.

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · Aug 25

It isn’t just AI code. I’m responsible for strategy at my company and just last week the CTO booked a 1:1 with me to ensure I know how to use and am using the deep research capabilities in our partners firm’s latest LLM. It is a full-on professional expectation.

Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · Aug 25

I get the impression AI code is going to be to programming what concrete is to industry. Absolutely indispensable, dependent on trained specialist workers unless you enjoy risking your future, & only the beginning of the story except in certain applications/styles, which can be very divisive

tante @tante.cc · Aug 25

Btw. about 6 months ago the Anthropic CEO said that by now 50% of all code would be written by LLMs.

How does that prediction relate to the reality we all live in and what does that say about his ability to make predictions about the future?

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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · Feb 21

“Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage. So gather your justice and humanity, and do not let despair overcome us when our country needs us the most.”
Gov JB Pritzker

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Feb 20

Pritzker: If we don’t want to repeat history, then for god’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · Aug 25

Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago:

"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Aug 24

I'm not reflexively anti-technology. I was always that guy at my uni who was eager to try out some new thing that might be a cool new way for students to learn. But those new things were just tools we could choose to use, they weren't the entire ocean in which we had no choice but to swim.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Aug 24

It's my experience (from 25 yrs of teaching) that "learning management" tools like Canvas do nothing to facilitate student learning & make my job MORE, not less, time consuming. That additional time I put in contributes zero to improving the student experience. But Canvas gets our money regardless.

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generally disappointed @onlyalishak.bsky.social · Aug 24

day 2* of continuing to not give a single shit about polling for a 2028 election that may not happen if can't stop performing the dumbassery that got us here!

*it's really day infinity

generally disappointed @onlyalishak.bsky.social · Aug 23

I can't really think of much I care about less than another article about who should run for president in 2028, if I'm honest.

If I made a list of 50 critical issues for right now, I still wouldn't get to "presidential race 2028."

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Aug 22

Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year.

Y'all this isn't sustainable.

La. regulators approve Entergy power plants for Meta’s AI data center

Louisiana Public Service Commissioners voted four to one to approve Entergy’s three new gas plants to power Meta’s largest-ever data center.

www.kplctv.com

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People For the American Way @peoplefor.bsky.social · Aug 18

Texas Republicans have locked Democratic Rep. Nicole Collier inside the state house chamber and refuse to allow her to leave.

They are requiring Democrats to sign “permission slips” and have a police escort in order to leave the chamber, and she refuses to sign it.

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