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Ryan Pitts

@ryanpitts.bsky.social

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Journalist, coder, community developer. Managing director, Big Local News at Stanford. “I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart, … who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward, who do what has to be done, again and again.”

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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 16h

Prisonculture post that says “Knowing who to be mad at truly is praxis.”

Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 17h

I also keep thinking about the way he distinguishes science fiction from “mimetic fiction”

Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 1d

"The impulse to view everything in terms of efficiency, of reducing costs and maximizing output, is radically overapplied in the modern world."

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Life Is More Than an Engineering Problem | Los Angeles Review of Books

Julien Crockett speaks with Ted Chiang about the search for a perfect language, the state of AI, and the future direction of technology.

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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 2d

I got to see him speak last night, and it was every bit as great as I hoped. Just one of the tabs open on my phone now from his namechecks: poets.org/poem/you-are...

You Are Who I Love

You, selling roses out of a silver grocery cart You, in the park, feeding the pigeons You cheering for the bees You with cats in your voice in the morning, feeding cats You protecting the river You ar...

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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 6d

Chicago ❤️💪

A receipt showing a $25 donation to Injustice Watch

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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 7d

Read this thread from a great Portland reporter! The New York Times running this story today is absolutely calculated. It has been positioning Portland for years as a progressive villain. Also: why send a reporter from the Bay when the NYT has at least two reporters who actually live in Portland.

Taylor Griggs @taylorgriggs.bsky.social · 7d

This article has a lot more important problems so I feel stupid saying this…but umm…the Mercury wrote and published the first major article about the DSA councilors back in June. Of course it isn’t the local reporting linked or mentioned here.

What Happens When Socialists Are in Charge? Portland Offers a Glimpse.

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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 10d

I dream of that migas

Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 14d

Such a terrible place I just hated going there all the time

Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 17d

Made me think of this study I read about today. Maybe a little bit heartening, from that perspective at least. www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...

AI ‘Workslop’ Is Killing Productivity and Making Workers Miserable

AI slop is taking over workplaces. Workers said that they thought of their colleagues who filed low-quality AI work as "less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before receiving the output."

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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · 20d

They didn’t prepare me for the principalities to win or for so many of them to be this dumb

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Joe Germuska @joe.germuska.com · 26d

Today is International Democracy Day. City Bureau’s Documenters program puts regular folks right into local public meetings where it happens. We have a generous match going on this week so if you’ve got the means, consider a donation and see it doubled!

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Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 28d

FYI for @censusreporter.org users, we're planning on skipping the data load for ACS 1-year because there's some changes that would make it confusing to have the newer 1-year and older 5-year in the same display. Stay tuned for the 5-year release in December!

Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · Sep 8

I can’t figure out exactly how I’d describe her music, but I love it. Fell for her previous album ¡Ay! which also got nice words in p4k

Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · Sep 8

my prescription is the new Lucrecia Dalt

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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · Sep 4

Andrew!! This is so awesome, I love it!

Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · Sep 4

congrats Robert! proud to know you

Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · Sep 3

mm yep I could see that. Erik Westra nudged me to listen with "ecdysis." I really have very little context other than some really broad assumptions about the Deftones sound. Is this one a departure?

Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · Sep 3

I have never been a Toner but I am a Big Shoegaze Ballader for sure

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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · Sep 3

@tylerjfisher.com waiting for your review of the new deftones

Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · Aug 29

I was looking for a replacement for Sticker Mule a while back, and while I can’t find the post that helped me, I did find this one that’s more recent and more comprehensive nldcreative.com/2024/08/19/c...

(I’ve used Sticker App and agree about thinner but still good. Sticker Junkie sounds great!)

Comparing Alternatives to Sticker Mule

Along with many artists in the summer of 2024, I have found myself in a place to shop around for sticker production companies. Full transparency: I hand draw/digitally design each of my stickers my…

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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · Aug 24

When I divested myself of a beer cellar, I donated cases of bottles to a couple different people I knew who do fund-raising auctions for good causes. Maybe there’s a pop-up fund-raising cocktail party in your future.

Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · Aug 24

I have been super impressed with Fieldworks’ NA stuff too

Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · Aug 16

My new reading glasses make everything look so clear and sharp, like I remember my regular glasses used to do, and then I have to cycle back to my progressives for normal life stuff and it’s just so sad, like slightly foggy glass but for sharpness

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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · Aug 16

two men are standing in a room with purple lights

Alt: Severance clip where two men are dancing in a room with multicolored lights

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Ryan Pitts @ryanpitts.bsky.social · Aug 15

I really can’t tell you how meaningful this is to me. I’ll love it forever.