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zcrumbo.bsky.social @zcrumbo.bsky.social · 1d

Making whistle kits to leave in little free libraries

Kits with whistles and zines in ziplock bags

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Jobo @jtosavetheday.bsky.social · 2d

Hello, I am a meek and largely inconsequential subscriber of The Verge, and I sponsor this message.

nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 2d

You know, in the end what we’re selling with the subscription is our ethics policy www.theverge.com/ethics-state...

Ethics Statement | The Verge

The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in vi...

www.theverge.com

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 19

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

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zcrumbo.bsky.social @zcrumbo.bsky.social · 11d

Currently trying to imagine the response if, in 2024, someone had suggested he’d tear down a third of the White House?

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 14d

When you are pure of heart no amount of earnestness is Cringe. When you are a malevolent little freak no amount of sarcasm is enough to make you cool

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 14d

Vibe shift in the culture towards earnestness

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zcrumbo.bsky.social @zcrumbo.bsky.social · 15d

Seattle No Kings

Seattle Center at the No Kings rally. Many people

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · Sep 12

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Nov 10

The problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · Sep 13

i think that, very broadly speaking, this is a p good lesson about computer

Will James @willjames.bsky.social · Sep 13

If I could make people understand one thing about the computer, it would be that if a piece of information feels too good — if it has that sweet, addictive pull — there's a good chance it's bad for you.

People have come to understand this about food. Maybe they can learn the same for information.

Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · Sep 12

Wrote about the week. How the shooter's ID didn't appear to matter to ppl. How the discourse takes place in very same spaces that incubate/perpetuate hate & violence. How shooters now know that their acts will be flattened, analyzed, argued over & amplified. How all of this feels so dark & poisonous

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Wapshkankwet @wapshkankwet.bsky.social · Sep 7

Hey all! I’m trying to raise

189.00 for insulin
100.00 for daycare registration

Every sale helps! Thank you for sharing my beadwork post!!!!

Wapshkankwet @wapshkankwet.bsky.social · Sep 6

GM!

I have a small Indigenous owned business.

You’ll find all of these beaded items on my site: www.melancholynow.com

Sales keep my single parent household going,

I need to pay for my insulin, $189.00 and register my daughter for daycare, $100.00.

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zcrumbo.bsky.social @zcrumbo.bsky.social · Aug 22

From Kaitlyn Curtice- this hits

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · Aug 18

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event

Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

www.theatlantic.com

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zcrumbo.bsky.social @zcrumbo.bsky.social · Aug 16

This is the most charitable position on lllms that I am willing to entertain. I have yet to see a net benefit compared to other means of learning, however

dan @danabra.mov · Aug 16

learning from a chatbot is definitely possible (i am using it for learning) but it requires approaching it with an adversarial mindset and only works in fields where you can verify the result

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · Aug 16

You don’t “learn” from a chatbot. You consume. There’s a difference.

They’re spewing slop and people are gobbling it up (and eroding their intelligence in the process).

Misinformation is everywhere. Please don’t rely on a chatbot for anything important.

They can’t replace real human connection

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-2147483648 @jcoglan.com · Aug 8

part of my resentment towards LLMs is to do with them crowding out anything else we could be talking about. there are so many things I could be reading to get better at my craft but I'm presented with "you should actually get worse at it on purpose because nothing matters any more"

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · Aug 8

“A legitimate PhD-level expert in anything,” they said.

“Show me a diagram of the US presidents since FDR, with their names and years in office under their photos,” I said.

A GPT-5 generated diagram of US presidents since Franklin D. “Roesevelt” to “Goorge W Bush”, “Baruck Obama” and Donald Trump. No George HW Bush (though Ronald Reagan looks a fair bit like him), LBJ, or Joe Biden.

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zcrumbo.bsky.social @zcrumbo.bsky.social · Aug 5

Bangers so far: gen ai is a “text extrusion machine,” a “racist pile of linear algebra”

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zcrumbo.bsky.social @zcrumbo.bsky.social · Aug 5

My quest to make myself unemployable

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zcrumbo.bsky.social @zcrumbo.bsky.social · Apr 25

I guess technically it’s a pre-post so you weren’t really wrong

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Apr 25

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Apr 8

And even the old and broken oaks were sending forth tender new leaves.

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zcrumbo.bsky.social @zcrumbo.bsky.social · Mar 31

Ah, this makes an interaction my wife and I had with someone at a Tesla protest make more sense! A middle aged white dude flipped us off and said “get a job.” I was so confused, since it was the weekend and we were all at the mall

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · Mar 20

homeland security has elevated the national threat level to: check out the mostly new facelifted tesla model y, now available at 0% interest rates on approved credit, please just buy one bro, elon won't let us see our families if you don't buy this car

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zcrumbo.bsky.social @zcrumbo.bsky.social · Mar 19

Said goodbye to a great grandpa today.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Mar 8

We live in what has been an exceptionally stable country, but it's just been destabilized. In that instability is possibility--not to return to the world of January 19th, 2025, but to something other than this rampage of hate and destruction, this oligarchs against everything coup. If we seize it.

People Get Ready

Even though large tracts of America and many old and famous red States have fallen or may fall into the grip of DOGE-MAGA and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall...

www.meditationsinanemergency.com

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zcrumbo.bsky.social @zcrumbo.bsky.social · Mar 8

I am beyond grateful for the opportunity to participate. To be given the gifts of knowledge and community, to give shape to this missing part of myself, is a gift beyond measure.

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