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LostArcNZ @lostarcnz.bsky.social · 13h

The solutions proposed for New Zealand's (and virtually every other country's) problems are always like:
"We need to make people work for more years"
"We have to cut back on services, I'm sorry, there is just no other way"
"We have to cut benefits for young people"

never:
"We need to tax the rich"

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Petrus Crinitus @petruscrinitus.bsky.social · 12h

Here's the AI version:

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Synnøve 🌻 @syndestad.bsky.social · 8h

The freezer is unplugged

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Martha Scargill @marthaskargill.bsky.social · 11h

I forgot about GDPR

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dave howl-croft 👻🦔 in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @davehowcroft.com · 6h

"We used an LLM"

"We report BLEU score"

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 13h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 14h

"The chancellor approved it"

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not a name but a diagnosis @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 7h

paul stops supporting praat

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 13h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 14h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 7h

Can we trick them somehow into thinking it’s started, so they go into their bunkers and leave us alone

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7h

Which they are doing their best to accelerate.

Numerous Billionaires Preparing for End of Society

Billionaires are (still) doomsday prepping. AI — the tech many of them are building — has them more paranoid than ever.

futurism.com

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 7h

Social media post, saying dianesanfilippo. “I know white men understand what being equitable is because golf handicaps exist.
I think about this A LOT.”
Follow up: dianesanfilippo “Oh wow, posted this early today then forgot about it and came back to 16k likes and 450 comments?! Whoa.”
Reply: quadriviumsupplies. “They also suddenly understand consent if you bring up pegging. Just saying.”

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 19h

“The Heritage Foundation [which spearheaded Project 2025] says it will ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors over alleged bias.“ 9/18/25 … 1/ www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025...

The right wing is coming for Wikipedia

The Heritage Foundation says it will "identify and target" Wikipedia editors over alleged bias. What does that mean for Wikipedia’s future?

www.wbur.org

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dave howl-croft 👻🦔 in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @davehowcroft.com · 7h

Enjoying the @questlgbti.bsky.social Glasgow online gathering today :)

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dave howl-croft 👻🦔 in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @davehowcroft.com · 8h

Oh wow, when I was browsing the other week and saw this book on the shelf, I had assumed it was an accident, since the LessWrong/Rationalist/SamAltman types don't seem to fit in with the rest of the content Lighthouse hosts and they seem to be heavily invested in TESCREAL nonsense

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 22h

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21h

get in losers we're repenting

Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 21h

Liberation theology in the USA. More please.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 21h

I saw myself as maybe all in for J.B. Pritzker

But I am losing faith, rapidly.

Police state fascism in America is bigger than Trump. It's backed by Democrats just like Republicans. And it's not going anywhere

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 21h

Note: it's not even curfew yet.

State police just started pushing people off the business park corner. Here in the road, a brave group of demonstrators are attempting to hold their line.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20h

I prefer “anti-fascist“ for a host of reasons and this is a nice practical one.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 21h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 20h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 19h

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 23h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Dr. Helena Hartmann (she/her) @helenahartmann.com · 1d

So very happy to be a part of the group of trainers giving #scicomm workshops for the @nawik.de 💚

I never imagined that I would enjoy presenting and teaching... 🤔

Since then I've discovered that helping others discover the joys of science communication is truly rewarding 😍

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 1d

I have actually never seen a politician say anything even remotely like this. Whatever the follow-through, or not, even the fact he said this is really, really something

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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dave howl-croft 👻🦔 in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @davehowcroft.com · 1d

They were trying to figure out how best to do it, and trying to lay the ground work so that when Trump inevitably started his authoritarian vengeance bullshit they could say, "nah, see, the Dems *started it*"

CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 1d

The first thing Republicans did after getting sworn in as the majority in the House under Biden was form a committee on the weaponization of government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 1d

will the text extruder machine also need access to all my ethnographic field notes and interviews as it checks that i have critically interpreted and thematically analyzed those in the right way

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 1d

the idea of AI being able to assess the "correctness" of a research paper, the intent of which is *producing new knowledge previously unknown to humans*, is so fucking wrongheaded i want to scream

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 1d

In other words, CS has culture problems. (What else is new?) I don't have quick fixes to those problems, but those are the problems that I think shoud be being addressed.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 1d

My guess is that it is a combination of pressures to publish in quantity (bean-counting much?) combine with field-level norms that set the MPU (minimum publishable unit) too small.

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