angieleaf.bsky.social
angieleaf.bsky.social
@angieleaf.bsky.social
Who, exactly, thinks it’s a good idea? 10 minutes of emergency vehicles cruising through the neighborhood - sirens blazing - at 7:30 on a Friday night? For a fucking Xmas parade? Gaaah!
December 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Once again, F AI
December 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
This is a brilliant read.
December 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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public libraries can play a role in popular resistance to the reduction of culture to bitstreams, but it’s important to remember that public libraries have a mandate to develop their collections, and that means regular weeding. this is why resource sharing (i.e. ILL) is essential. 📚
Most public libraries are culling their physical media because it doesn’t circulate. If you want libraries to hold something, you need to check it out. Public libraries can’t just be warehouses for physical media you might want someday. Use it or lose it.
When we talk about physical media, we are often only taking about personal collections but a big part of shunning the current digital ecosystem is supporting your local library. Not just for print books and periodicals but for movies, games and other medias too. Get. A. Library. Card.
December 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Just F* all things AI
We didn't plagiarize, you made us plagiarize by asking questions to which we stole the answers.

"Because its output is generated by users of the chatbot via their prompts, OpenAI said, they were the ones who should be held legally liable for it – an argument rejected by the court."
ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics, German court rules
OpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on artists’ work without permission
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Important to remember!!!
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November 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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The people showed up in the streets for "No Kings."

They did their part.

The people showed up at the polls on Tuesday.

They did their part.

8 Democrats in the Senate surrendered last night.

They did not do their part.
November 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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“The Fox News guy texted the Road Rules guy to talk about half-baked solutions for keeping all our planes from crashing” is a cool sentence to have to say in 2025
Sean Duffy: "The secretary of war texted me yesterday and said, 'I might have some air traffic controllers. If you could use them, I'm gonna offer them to you.' I don't know that I can, Jake, because they're not certified in the airspaces that we need them. But if I can, I'm going to use them."
November 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Love this Pelosi anecdote via @semafor.com
www.semafor.com/newsletter/1...
November 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Reup: I've added quotes from the transcript in my summary of yesterday's tariff argument at SCOTUS.

We're on the Unfuck Stage of Trump's Abuse of Power

www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/05/w...
We're on the Unfuck Stage of Trump's Abuse of Power - emptywheel
The Supreme Court hearing on tariffs increases my optimism that at least five Justices will reverse the tariffs. A more interesting moment of the hearing, though, came when Amy Coney Barrett asked how...
www.emptywheel.net
November 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
This is a must-read.
"A tumor won’t up & leave because 2/3s of the Senate says so. A cancer won’t stop metastasizing because it loses Pennsylvania and Michigan and Wisconsin. No: the tumor keeps growing until it is excised. The cancer keeps spreading until it’s stopped with chemotherapy—or until the host body dies."
8647: Donald Digs In
Trump doesn't plan on ever leaving. What are we going to do about it?
gregolear.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Really stunning that the British Royal Family — just about the most insulated institution in the free world! — has managed to enact stronger consequences for an Epstein friend than anything the US has managed at all.
Lot happening in the world but this is truly a remarkable, and damming, development: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/w...
Prince Andrew to Be Stripped of His Royal Title
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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lmao david byrne showed the video of the ice agents tripping over themselves while trying to run after a biker on wacker drive during the “life during wartime” segment of his chicago show tonight
October 30, 2025 at 3:41 AM
This Wired article: 🎯🎯🎯
There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.

Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All
I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.
www.wired.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Food stamps are set to run out of funding in early November & I’m just here to remind you that if you catch someone stealing food at the grocery store then you should immediately call the ghostbusters because you clearly saw a ghost and they clearly vanished into thin air and you didn’t see nothin.
October 25, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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This (moderate) level of racial competency is VERY rare for someone of this demo; white folks should’ve been listening to and learning from people like this for decades.

Sadly, it’s too late to dismantle racism, now. Racism has won.
White America chose it instead of a hyper-qualified Black Woman. 🙁
October 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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WEIL: “.. Circularity can be virtuous on the upside, and vicious on the downside. The deals can work fine, until they don’t.”

@wsj.com $NVDA $ORCL
@justinhendrix.bsky.social
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/is-t...
October 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Q: but what if a full Epstein investigation also takes down Bill Clinton?????

A:
it’s not even a sacrifice, it’s like a Free Gift With Purchase
September 9, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Researchers at Brown University found that AI chatbots routinely violate core mental health ethics standards, underscoring the need for legal standards and oversight as use of these tools increases. www.brown.edu/news/2025-10...
New study: AI chatbots systematically violate mental health ethics standards
Researchers at Brown University found that AI chatbots routinely violate core mental health ethics standards, underscoring the need for legal standards and oversight as use of these tools increases.
www.brown.edu
October 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Got an answer from a lawyer buddy.
October 21, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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"As it turned out, she was texting me about a criminal case she is pursuing against one of the president’s perceived political enemies: New York Attorney General Letitia James."

"Over the next 33 hours, Halligan texted me again.

And again.

And again.

And again."
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 20, 2025 at 10:26 PM