Jason Raitz
@jasonraitz.bsky.social
Programmer, librarian, gamer, reader, and friendly person.
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Jason Raitz
@jasonraitz.bsky.social
· Jun 3
I shared this with my SO, saying: This is one of the biggest problems with generative AI. It lies constantly and confidently.
SO: like men?? That could be a problem. 🤔
Me: 💀💀💀
SO: like men?? That could be a problem. 🤔
Me: 💀💀💀
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Today is the four year anniversary of Starbucks Workers United unionizing its first store.
Since then, they've won over 650 union elections but Starbucks still hasn't negotiated a fair union contract.
Until then, don't cross the picket line. Show solidarity like Bernie and Zohran.
Since then, they've won over 650 union elections but Starbucks still hasn't negotiated a fair union contract.
Until then, don't cross the picket line. Show solidarity like Bernie and Zohran.
December 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Today is the four year anniversary of Starbucks Workers United unionizing its first store.
Since then, they've won over 650 union elections but Starbucks still hasn't negotiated a fair union contract.
Until then, don't cross the picket line. Show solidarity like Bernie and Zohran.
Since then, they've won over 650 union elections but Starbucks still hasn't negotiated a fair union contract.
Until then, don't cross the picket line. Show solidarity like Bernie and Zohran.
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Congrats to @ninabegus.bsky.social on publishing "Artificial Humanities: A Fictional Perspective on Language in AI." It’s open access on @uofmpress.bsky.social; OA publication made possible in part from UCB Library’s Berkeley Research Impact Initiative. www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
Artificial Humanities: A Fictional Perspective on Language in AI
<I>Artificial Humanities</I> explores how literature, history, and art can deepen our understanding of artificial intelligence and its development. By examining fictional representations of AI in para...
www.fulcrum.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Congrats to @ninabegus.bsky.social on publishing "Artificial Humanities: A Fictional Perspective on Language in AI." It’s open access on @uofmpress.bsky.social; OA publication made possible in part from UCB Library’s Berkeley Research Impact Initiative. www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
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There’s no better way to stuff a stocking this year than with a pack of Pants Playing Cards. The ultimate holiday gift.
Are you ready to stuff?
theartofpants.com
Are you ready to stuff?
theartofpants.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
There’s no better way to stuff a stocking this year than with a pack of Pants Playing Cards. The ultimate holiday gift.
Are you ready to stuff?
theartofpants.com
Are you ready to stuff?
theartofpants.com
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California’s Law Enforcement Mutual Aid fund has been used to fight fires, floods, earthquakes — and Gaza demonstrations.
How California Spent Natural Disaster Funds to Quell Student Protests for Palestine
California’s Law Enforcement Mutual Aid fund has been used to fight fires, floods, earthquakes — and student protests at public universities.
interc.pt
November 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
California’s Law Enforcement Mutual Aid fund has been used to fight fires, floods, earthquakes — and Gaza demonstrations.
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we chase these rats back their holes, no disrespect to actual IRL rats
November 18, 2025 at 11:09 PM
we chase these rats back their holes, no disrespect to actual IRL rats
This is devastating. The world loses another bright light.
From her account on FB (text in alt tag).
November 16, 2025 at 12:05 PM
This is devastating. The world loses another bright light.
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Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
October 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
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AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”
Doctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
September 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”
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"Here I am, this middle-aged black man, I'm in my best suit. I actually argued the case at the Supreme Court that we were trying to implement. I've got all these degrees and awards. And I'm still required to laugh at my own humiliation."
Bryan Stevenson with @katiecouric.bsky.social
Bryan Stevenson with @katiecouric.bsky.social
The Exhausting Reality of Being a Black Lawyer - Bryan Stevenson's Truth
YouTube video by Katie Couric
www.youtube.com
September 29, 2025 at 4:06 AM
"Here I am, this middle-aged black man, I'm in my best suit. I actually argued the case at the Supreme Court that we were trying to implement. I've got all these degrees and awards. And I'm still required to laugh at my own humiliation."
Bryan Stevenson with @katiecouric.bsky.social
Bryan Stevenson with @katiecouric.bsky.social
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I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.
ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
September 29, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.
This captures a lot of what I've been feeling as well. I've read some history and various opinion pieces, but I know I probably don't have the full picture. However, nothing I've seen explains what's going on other than genocide.
"It’s hard to believe my words matter when I don’t know how many more civilians will have died by the time this column is published. So I’ll just ask one more question: Where is the end?"
On Being Wrong
You’ve Always Been This Way is a column written by Taylor Harris, a late-diagnosed neurodivergent woman and 1980s preschool dropout, who identifies...
buff.ly
September 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This captures a lot of what I've been feeling as well. I've read some history and various opinion pieces, but I know I probably don't have the full picture. However, nothing I've seen explains what's going on other than genocide.
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Amazing
September 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Amazing
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We’re protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility and an agent came out to tell us to go away.
We said we’re exercising our First Amendment rights so he shot the ground with pepper balls and said, “Your First Amendment rights are on the sidewalk.”
We said we’re exercising our First Amendment rights so he shot the ground with pepper balls and said, “Your First Amendment rights are on the sidewalk.”
September 19, 2025 at 10:57 AM
We’re protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility and an agent came out to tell us to go away.
We said we’re exercising our First Amendment rights so he shot the ground with pepper balls and said, “Your First Amendment rights are on the sidewalk.”
We said we’re exercising our First Amendment rights so he shot the ground with pepper balls and said, “Your First Amendment rights are on the sidewalk.”
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the suspected Charlie Kirk shooter has been identified as 22 year old Tyler Robinson from Utah
very little in his family socials other than that Tyler was very online and dressed up on Halloween specifically to emulate this meme
knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultur...
very little in his family socials other than that Tyler was very online and dressed up on Halloween specifically to emulate this meme
knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultur...
September 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
the suspected Charlie Kirk shooter has been identified as 22 year old Tyler Robinson from Utah
very little in his family socials other than that Tyler was very online and dressed up on Halloween specifically to emulate this meme
knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultur...
very little in his family socials other than that Tyler was very online and dressed up on Halloween specifically to emulate this meme
knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultur...
The actual quote is both not as bad as this and worse. He wasn't talking about all black women, but was definitely saying that about 4 of the most successful and intelligent black women in politics (including Obama). And he continues...
xcancel.com/RichardHanan...
xcancel.com/RichardHanan...
September 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The actual quote is both not as bad as this and worse. He wasn't talking about all black women, but was definitely saying that about 4 of the most successful and intelligent black women in politics (including Obama). And he continues...
xcancel.com/RichardHanan...
xcancel.com/RichardHanan...
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Slightly diminish a book
1983
1983
Slightly diminish a book
The Landlord of the Rings
The Landlord of the Rings
Slightly diminish a book
12 Irritable Men
12 Irritable Men
September 8, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Slightly diminish a book
1983
1983
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There’s an enormous amount of stuff in this book I’d like to highlight, but start with:
“What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.”
“What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.”
August 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM
There’s an enormous amount of stuff in this book I’d like to highlight, but start with:
“What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.”
“What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.”
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“At this point it's become impossible for me to maintain a relationship with Reuters given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza. I owe my colleagues in Palestine at least this much, and so much more.” - Valerie Zink
August 26, 2025 at 1:11 AM
“At this point it's become impossible for me to maintain a relationship with Reuters given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza. I owe my colleagues in Palestine at least this much, and so much more.” - Valerie Zink
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First the terrorist tried to enter campus in a car filled with guns. When he wasn’t allowed past the gates, he started firing from a CVS drugstore across the street. From a semi-automatic weapon, 500 shots is a lot. He was at it for a long time.
Here are the weapons & shell casings he left behind.
Here are the weapons & shell casings he left behind.
August 17, 2025 at 1:43 AM
First the terrorist tried to enter campus in a car filled with guns. When he wasn’t allowed past the gates, he started firing from a CVS drugstore across the street. From a semi-automatic weapon, 500 shots is a lot. He was at it for a long time.
Here are the weapons & shell casings he left behind.
Here are the weapons & shell casings he left behind.
This is a wonderful series of threads. The one that led to this is quite clarifying to me. The one that spun off by @clairewillett.bsky.social is insightful and hopeful in all the right ways. And the OP by @rincewind.run is a great warning signal not to get too swept up by the Newsome train.
It is THE test. It should not be that complicated for people to understand that the message is unshakeable civil rights and healthcare justice for all. And you can message around that. Say "while different groups have different concerns, the core message of equality and access for all is the same."
August 16, 2025 at 7:10 AM
This is a wonderful series of threads. The one that led to this is quite clarifying to me. The one that spun off by @clairewillett.bsky.social is insightful and hopeful in all the right ways. And the OP by @rincewind.run is a great warning signal not to get too swept up by the Newsome train.
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Today is the 47th anniversary of this clearly unimprovable photo, from a story so absurd that it shouldn’t be true, but is: the day a team of workers from British Waterways pulled the plug out of the Chesterfield Canal, and all the water emptied out
August 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Today is the 47th anniversary of this clearly unimprovable photo, from a story so absurd that it shouldn’t be true, but is: the day a team of workers from British Waterways pulled the plug out of the Chesterfield Canal, and all the water emptied out
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Reporter Afeef Nessouli spent months in Gaza. He witnessed a famine of Israel's making.
Read the full story: interc.pt/46k3eY5
✍️ Afeef Nessouli @thrasherxy.bsky.social
📹 @chelseybcoombs.bsky.social
Read the full story: interc.pt/46k3eY5
✍️ Afeef Nessouli @thrasherxy.bsky.social
📹 @chelseybcoombs.bsky.social
What Our Reporter Saw In Gaza: A Famine of Israel’s Making
YouTube video by The Intercept
youtube.com
July 30, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Reporter Afeef Nessouli spent months in Gaza. He witnessed a famine of Israel's making.
Read the full story: interc.pt/46k3eY5
✍️ Afeef Nessouli @thrasherxy.bsky.social
📹 @chelseybcoombs.bsky.social
Read the full story: interc.pt/46k3eY5
✍️ Afeef Nessouli @thrasherxy.bsky.social
📹 @chelseybcoombs.bsky.social
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Trump: People were taken out of the spa, hired by Epstein… I told him we don’t want you taking our people, whether it’s spa or not spa. He did it again, I said out of here.
Reporter: Was one of the stolen people Virginia Giuffre?
Trump: I think so. He stole her.
Reporter: Was one of the stolen people Virginia Giuffre?
Trump: I think so. He stole her.
July 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Trump: People were taken out of the spa, hired by Epstein… I told him we don’t want you taking our people, whether it’s spa or not spa. He did it again, I said out of here.
Reporter: Was one of the stolen people Virginia Giuffre?
Trump: I think so. He stole her.
Reporter: Was one of the stolen people Virginia Giuffre?
Trump: I think so. He stole her.