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Dawson Vosburg @dawsonvosburg.bsky.social · 1d

there are dozens of us

Dawson Vosburg @dawsonvosburg.bsky.social · 1d

in contrast, being able to wholesale generate writing from very brief prompts is absolutely deleterious to human thought and ruinous to education and web content, having “ai” features shoved in your face at every turn is obnoxious, and “ai” images are as useful to society as vanity license plates

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Dawson Vosburg @dawsonvosburg.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t agree with people that “ai” is useless. it’s very helpful if you want to transcribe things, if you want to modify punctuation/capitalization without tedium, cutting out subjects from the background in photos and videos, stuff like that. but those are not exactly economy-transforming gains

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 1d

I believe some AI bets will pay off, I do not think the payoff will be a net gain across the aggregate of firms. The amount of productivity gain would have to be unimaginable.

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

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Dawson Vosburg @dawsonvosburg.bsky.social · 4d

similar with like, sweaters made in Scotland and Ireland—some well-made garments that could either be a really great price or absurdly expensive depending on if I were to roll the wrong tariff dice

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Dawson Vosburg @dawsonvosburg.bsky.social · 4d

got recommended a t-shirt that looks really quality and exactly what I've been looking for, made in Canada. they say on their website that their stuff is under USMCA but it feels hard to trust that this will not happen to me if I try to buy from them!

lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 4d

this is like half of r/ups now

Hi Andrew,

You have a new invoice for $63,755.71

Tariff Fee on T Shirt

Total Due: $83.27

Government Charges: $59.27
Brokerage Charges: $24.00

How to go about disputing an incorrect tariff charge?

Total Due: $82.92

Government Charges: $68.92
UPS Brokerage fees: $14.00

I’ve received 15 different duties and tariff charges for items I didn’t order.
Customer Seeking Help
The title is the crux of the issue. Over the past 3 weeks I’ve received numerous brown envelopes all charging me for duty and tariff fees associated with items that I never ordered.

The seller is somebody I’ve bought from before, but the last time I purchased from them was several months ago and my name is on the sold to slot. The “shipped to” person is someone I don’t know and the address and tracking address are both unrelated to me.

I’ve sent emails to an address given to my by the one time I was able to get through the phone number listed on the paper bill. They said the invoices will be removed in 4-6 weeks but now I’ve started receiving late fee bills on top. I’ve tried to call in again once a day, but I either get hung up on or my call drops once the wait lasts over an hour.

Any advice? I just don’t want this to go to collections or affect my credit for something I didn’t order or have any relation to besides my name being on something it shouldn’t have.

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Dawson Vosburg @dawsonvosburg.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t know. I didn’t expect that if a clearly fascist regime took power *so much* of the country would not react as such?

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Dawson Vosburg @dawsonvosburg.bsky.social · 4d

It’s very hard to metabolize the anger generated in me over the last 9 months. I feel so ill watching this. I feel furious that people call this a Christian politics. Difficult to just keep on with daily life when I know this is the state of things and it’s not really registering.

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 4d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Dawson Vosburg @dawsonvosburg.bsky.social · 5d

websites too. but yeah zero academic publications should be printed in 12pt single spaced times new roman. it’s criminal. I also think back to Du Bois’s data visualizations and think “man academic work could look good if we tried”

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Dawson Vosburg @dawsonvosburg.bsky.social · 6d

I feel like the Prayer C polarization distracts us all from what unites us: that Prayer D is excellent

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Dawson Vosburg @dawsonvosburg.bsky.social · 6d

"I don't have to attend every fight I'm invited to" is important (and difficult) for me to internalize—I often feel guilty withholding a strongly held belief, but I think it's often because I've correctly judged that voicing it will have high cost and little value

opera trinitatis ad extra indivisa sunt @mtrkdjoyce.bsky.social · 6d

but it isn’t so.

I won’t say I believe something that I don’t. but I don’t have to attend every fight I’m invited to, and the truth is neither changed nor harmed by our choosing gentleness, kindness, and prudence

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Dawson Vosburg @dawsonvosburg.bsky.social · 15d

that application is obviously very circumscribed by a preexisting theological narrative and a sort of therapeutic individualism, thus ruling out “applying” passages like James 5 in the most obvious way. but it’s that drive that I wish more non-evangelicals understood to be central.

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Dawson Vosburg @dawsonvosburg.bsky.social · 15d

and this isn’t necessarily articulated, but the reason why allegory is so common is because the number one statement about the Bible that most shapes vernacular evangelical interpretation isn’t “the Bible is literally true,” it’s “all the Bible applies to my life”

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Dawson Vosburg @dawsonvosburg.bsky.social · 15d

I keep coming back to this after having done research on really big evangelical churches—I think the best way to describe one of the *most common* approaches to biblical interpretation among evangelicals is allegory. The Bible is a collection of stories you allegorize to one’s personal narrative

Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 15d

Very weird phenomenon I sometimes notice of Christians interpreting the things Jesus said and did personally hyper specifically and narrowly (“The eye of the needle was a literal gate!”)
But waaaay over interpreting other passages from other books like revelation (7 mountains mandate type stuff)

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 15d

@dawsonvosburg.bsky.social it's happening again

Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 15d

Very weird phenomenon I sometimes notice of Christians interpreting the things Jesus said and did personally hyper specifically and narrowly (“The eye of the needle was a literal gate!”)
But waaaay over interpreting other passages from other books like revelation (7 mountains mandate type stuff)

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Dawson Vosburg @dawsonvosburg.bsky.social · 19d

I think maybe people haven’t thought about the difference between moral ideal and achievable optimum? I mean if you’re on the left in the US achievable optimum is often about as fantastical sounding as the moral ideal so in some ways I get it

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Dawson Vosburg @dawsonvosburg.bsky.social · 19d

I think in a more formal argument it would be pretty impossible for anyone serious to deny that, but people are clearly imputing a very different meaning to your words than the one above.

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Dawson Vosburg @dawsonvosburg.bsky.social · 19d

a society can be like, not marked by exploitation as a central feature but still have a nonzero amount of exploitation. a huge chunk of exploitation is possible to eliminate with a better economic structure, leaving a small remainder that’s virtually impossible to eliminate. simple idea!

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 19d

a post from Alex Blechman

God: In my book I invented the GOLDEN CALF as a cautionary tale

Evangelicals: At long last, we have created the GOLDEN CALF from the classic novel THE BIBLE

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Dawson Vosburg @dawsonvosburg.bsky.social · 22d

occasionally I forgot that they hired Jeanine Pirro as a US attorney. I think this means we should expect and demand the next dem administration hire Devin Legal Eagle and Peter Law Boy

ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 22d

anybody know when this grand jury's done? because good lord, Pirro's burnt with them

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 22d

Tonight, DOJ dropped still another assault case.

This time it's a woman who allegedly spit on a deputy U.S. marshal, and, when asked whether she had done that, replied “I sure the [expletive] did. And I’d spit again, you [expletive].”

DOJ has charged her with a misdemeanor in local court instead.

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Dawson Vosburg @dawsonvosburg.bsky.social · 22d

even this many years in, even with a decade of naked deceitfulness and obvious lies, it is still just so shocking to hear people with this much power say things that are 180 degrees backwards and that they absolutely know are the precise opposite of reality

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22d

Vance: “People on the left are much likelier to defend and celebrate political violence. This is not a both sides problem. If both sides have a problem, then one side has a much bigger and malignant problem and that is the truth.”

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Dawson Vosburg @dawsonvosburg.bsky.social · 22d

idk people are already worried about how much their phones take their attention. and you positively choose when you look at your phone! so why would you make that problem worse in exchange for zero clear benefit

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Dawson Vosburg @dawsonvosburg.bsky.social · 22d

even if they had the capabilities of AR/VR headsets, which they never will because of physics, not clear to me exactly what the uniquely good universal use cases for those are especially in comparison to the overall ick people have about separating their eyes from the world with a computer

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Dawson Vosburg @dawsonvosburg.bsky.social · 25d

I am certain there are people who didn’t want to see it who nevertheless saw it on here, but that I have been able to completely avoid it without having to fight to do so is remarkable to me.

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Dawson Vosburg @dawsonvosburg.bsky.social · 25d

One thing I am sincerely, extremely grateful for as a Bluesky user is that I have not seen the video just “come across my feed.” I’ve heard so many Twitter users that it was unavoidable there, and that was my past experience with videos of horrific national-news violence.

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Sermon Munster @baptohammer.bsky.social · 27d

Eternal God,
in your realm no sword is drawn
but the sword of righteousness,
& there's no strength
but the strength of love.
So mightily spread abroad your Spirit,
that all peoples may be gathered
to the banner of the Prince of Peace,
as your children;
to you be dominion & glory,
now & forever.
Amen

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