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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 13m

I benefited a lot from this one!

Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 43m

Which is to say that the extent that this tech can do anything it can do it just as well as people who don’t read or write think reading or writing was ever done, not understanding anything, and everyone meaningfully literate is on the other side

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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 46m

I always think about some cs majors I knew in college who never read a single book. It’s hard not to feel that the main thing happening here is that ppl convinced the things they don’t like must be dumb and pointless have made a tech to do them to the extent they thought they were ever done

MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 4d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 2d

More messaging like this please

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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 2h

Lee Greenwood is an empty name, the only person they can think of, someone who has one song, a thousand years ago, the only point of him existing now is to make you mad

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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 2h

I think obviously the only thing anyone is doing when they are reposting prominent conservatives criticizing Bad Bunny is helping those prominent conservatives get their message out. They want to make it a culture war thing because they like culture war. Nobody thinks Lee Greenwood is more famous

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 5h

If there is one thing the American mainstream media simply cannot resist, it’s a “Relax, the Libs are overreacting again!” take that presents a wildly disingenuous version of what is actually going on in MAGA land to launder the Right and chide “the Left” for being hysterical.

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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 5h

But the second argument is missing a lot. How do you fight a government that does a ton of illegal stuff by trying to legally win elections? How do you get the political will and capital to fight authoritarianism if you don’t make it unpopular?

Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 5h

It’s good to point out the contrast here! Maybe you don’t feel like this IS the contrast but there is one to describe in some way. At the very least, you would say the other one is that if the Dems just focus on making Trumpism unpopular, they’ll win elections, THEN fight authoritarianism

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 5h

“voters will side with the rule of law over authoritarian dictatorship—IF they are presented with this as a clear choice.” Too bad Democrats in leadership positions don’t want to fight authoritarianism

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 6h

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 16h

To find the hand of franklin - reaching for the beaufort sea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 16h

Update: boat still stuck www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

Salvage operation begins for ship grounded in Northwest Passage

Salvage operation begins to free cargo ship Thamesborg grounded in Northwest Passage, roughly 300 km north of Gjoa Haven

www.aptnnews.ca

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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 16h

Shearith!

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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 16h

we got around, you know

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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 16h

And yes! Downtown, commerce and field I think. My great-grandfather went to the Orthodox temple but my grandfather started going there, probably after the move to Hillcrest

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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 16h

Daily Herald! And totally www.newspapers.com/image/783535...

May 29, 1876, page 3 - The Dallas Daily Herald at Newspapers.com

View the digital scanned newspaper from The Dallas Daily Herald dated May 29, 1876, page 3.

www.newspapers.com

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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 16h

Just came across the newspaper article commemorating the founding of the Dallas temple I grew up in and hoo boy

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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 16h

Just had a snack of grapes, pretzels, and m and ms, elite

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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 17h

Yes! I was living in Texas at the time. And now...

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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 17h

people are always crucifying carpenters

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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 17h

an armed invasion led by an unconstrained president most of all is now completely in on that being great, zero fears about it

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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 17h

We talk about it constantly and we never believed them in the first place but it's still under discussed that the people who spent our entire childhood talking about how the government was always on the verge of subjugating us all if you didn't take its power away and claimed to fear

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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 17h

I will be going to the session on Conservative Antiquity, where I will learn the things I already knew, confirming for me that I was right all along

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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 17h

You can have your guns, they will be blunderbusses

Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 17h

If ANY of these ghouls actually want to go back to the kind of guns our founders had, I'll take it.

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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 18h

Me, at prom, at that high school with Carrie

Meira Kensky @meirazk.bsky.social · 18h

Oh no Carrriiieeeeeee

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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 18h

Putting on some DOG PANTS baby this evening. Putting on some DOG PANTS baby tonight

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