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@beatrix.bsky.social

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she/her. trans and proud of it. software engineer. functional programmer. #jj-vcs, #elixir, #rustlang pragmatist big on civic tech and social democracy has takes about too many subjects product of Somerville and Lexington, MA

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boo-atrix 👻 @beatrix.bsky.social · Jan 29

don't let your sadness become despair and don't let your righteous anger become interpersonal nastiness, I've been seeing both a lot lately and we're going to need to avoid these if we want to have any hope of building a future for America rooted in love and justice instead of cruelty and cynicism.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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boo-atrix 👻 @beatrix.bsky.social · 5h

weirdly I feel like this specific category either only exists online or is far more prevalent online than off.

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boo-atrix 👻 @beatrix.bsky.social · 5h

sighing and notching a few more tallies in my “socialists who are unwilling to accept higher taxes” ledger

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 1d

i just want a governor who’s constituents are californians, not 70 iq swing voters in pennsylvania

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 1d

Every major city in Texas has a higher murder rate than Chicago

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 1d

Incredibly slimy and dishonest, but also... yes?

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

do people really think you can just post any arbitrary image on a large social media website without an entire mountain of automation kicking in to make sure you’re not spamming child pornography or videos of people being stabbed to death because that’s the entire history of social media in sum

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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boo-atrix 👻 @beatrix.bsky.social · 1d

and the road layout is only half the battle with Cambridge/Boston, the other half is that we actually have weather 😛

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

"the AI bubble will collapse because the technology has plateaued and cannot improve"

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"we are on the verge of superintelligence"

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

both the mainstream pro- and anti-AI arguments are entirely various types of cope

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1d

Zohran making a statement that he had to know would enrage the more deranged of his supporters is more evidence of him juice-having I think.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

waymo has a limited rollout because it is a bad business, not a bad technology. just depreciating $60k worth of optics per car is comparably expensive to paying a guy $10/hr to drive it.

Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 1d

It's fascinating to me that there's a whole "AI skeptic" misinformation ecosystem out there that somehow continues to deny that Waymo exists. Like, this is easy to fact check! Waymo runs publicly-available service in 5 cities, you can just go look up how it works and see it's not planned routes!

A bluesky post with the user's handle cropped out: "In 2015, I was told, confidently, that AI would end human drivers in the trucking industry w/in 5 years.

[Begin my highlight]10 years later, and there’s what-some experimental cabs rolling around a few cities in heavily-engineered preset routes?[end my highlight]

Not to mention the fact that the AI industry itself is Enron on heroin."

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔