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He/Him, 19, Aspiring Environmentalist
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planetoffinks.bsky.social
Resisting him almost always works, trying to bargain with him never ever works
December 31, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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colinelves.bsky.social
I can’t help thinking the world would be a better place if some men would just grow up.
December 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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paulstamets.bsky.social
👋 Hi #Myconauts

We did a lot of 🍄 foraging this year, from edible and choice species, to poisonous, and more! Thanks to all of you for coming along for the ride.

Can’t wait to see what fungi we find in 2026 !

#Mycelium #FungiSky #FungiFriends #MushroomSky
December 31, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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elyon113.bsky.social
I'm running as a Democrat for MI-07 to heavily restrict/outright ban almost all AI and data centers.

If Billionaires can afford their nightmare generators, they can afford to give us shelter, food and medicine.
jakecole.bsky.social Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 2d
There’s a funny Politico story showing that the latest polling on AI shows 80-20 in favor of heavy regulations, an absolute slam dunk platform, but Dems are worried about not winning back mask-off tech CEO donors
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
December 29, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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futurism.com
2025 will be remembered as the year of anti-AI discontent.
AI Backlash Grew Massively in 2025
2025 will be remembered as the year AI's novelty faded and public skepticism became one of the dominant attitudes.
trib.al
December 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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maxberger.bsky.social
Donald Trump spent Christmas:

- Referring to millions of Americans as “scum”
- Bombing another country without congressional authorization
- Defending Jeffrey Epstein
- Threatening it “may be our last Christmas ever”

Just an absolutely deranged person with advancing dementia!
December 26, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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andraste.fuckbgp.com
its that time again!

…and a merry christmas to all
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December 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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joshsternberg.com
As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.
markjacob.bsky.social Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 6d
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
Homeland Security tweet: Merry Christmas, America. We are blessed to share a nation and a Savior.
December 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
U.S. Takes a Step Toward Approving Seabed Mining in International Waters
U.S. Takes a Step Toward Approving Seabed Mining in International Waters
The federal government said it would hold hearings next month on controversial applications to mine the ocean floor.
www.nytimes.com
December 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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00-ffff.bsky.social
December 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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marzgurl.com
Hey, there's that thing we all knew was coming.

If you were playing Fortnite, it's time to stop. These companies gotta get the message that there are just some things we won't tolerate just for the sake of entertainment.
baskingamer.bsky.social Baskin Gamer @baskingamer.bsky.social · 16d
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Patch 39.11 December 18

#Fortnite #HarryPotter #FortniteSkin #WinterfestEvent
#FortniteCrossover #GamingTrends #HarryPotterFortnite #Baskingamer
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December 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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87sukiyaki.bsky.social
December 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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ela-bambust.bsky.social
“How can you suddenly dislike art when you find out it’s made by AI?”

For the same reason I can dislike art when I find out the employees were overworked and underpaid.

Because I care about people.

You dipshit.
December 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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nightsignalentertainment.com
False Carolers are flocks of feathered humanoid creatures draped in many layers of clothing that are known for their pleasant “singing” vocalizations and for approaching the entrances of homes after dark.

Answering the door is not advisable.

🎨: @slimyswampghost.bsky.social
December 21, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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djolder.bsky.social
genAI is STOLEN WORK. Using genAI in *any* capacity is trafficking in stolen work, supporting the plunder. Period. These facts aren't even denied by the AI companies, they just find ways to make that plunder seem benevolent. Using their product enables that lie. Stop enabling the theft of our work.
keezyyoung.bsky.social Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 15d
"we only use AI for coming up with ideas" no you don't. you use AI to come up with the a bland version of other people's ideas. there is currently NOBODY more replaceable than you
December 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
How it started vs. How it’s going NOW 👀

LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽‍♂️
December 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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kenschneck.bsky.social
INCREDIBLE STORY: Rural Ohio trans candidate nearly drops out of race after being targeted online, wins seat in Republican stronghold.

thebuckeyeflame.com/2025/12/15/a...
Rural Ohio trans candidate nearly drops out of race after being targeted online, wins seat in Republican stronghold
Amy Heutmaker pledges to heal political divide in her rural Ohio township
thebuckeyeflame.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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December 10, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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diplomatofnight.com
Put aside that it isn't actually all that horrible to say such a thing, he actually didn't say that. Why are people incapable of taking on someone's words as they actually exist?

Here's what he actually said on the right
Joel M. Petlin & @Joelmpetlin X.com Ta-Nehisi Coates wasn't just "critical of Israel." He claimed that if he lived in Gaza he would have joined the Hamas terrorists and participated in the October 7th massacre. But I guess that fact would not align with Glenn's narrative on the Joooos If I were 20 years old, born into Gaza, a giant open-air jail ... if my father is a fisherman and he goes too far out into the sea, he might get shot by somebody inside of Israeli boats ... if my mother picks the olive trees and she gets too close to the wall, she might be shot ... if my little sister has cancer and she needs treatment because there are no facilities to do that in Gaza and I don't get the right permit, she might die ... if I grow up under that oppression, and that poverty ... when the wall comes down lon October 7], am I also strong enough, or even constructed in such a way where I say: "This is too far"? I don't know that I am. I don't know that I am. I don't know that I am. I just wish we had room to work through that, you know what I mean? And to think about that and to talk about that.
December 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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andrew.heiss.phd
Some closing thoughts for my students this semester on LLMs and learning #rstats datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-12...
Will you incorporate LLMs and AI prompting into the course in the future? No. Why won’t you incorporate LLMs and AI prompting into the course? These tools are useful for coding (see this for my personal take on this). However, they’re only useful if you know what you’re doing first. If you skip the learning-the-process-of-writing-code step and just copy/paste output from ChatGPT, you will not learn. You cannot learn. You cannot improve. You will not understand the code. In that post, it warns that you cannot use it as a beginner: …to use Databot effectively and safely, you still need the skills of a data scientist: background and domain knowledge, data analysis expertise, and coding ability. There is no LLM-based shortcut to those skills. You cannot LLM your way into domain knowledge, data analysis expertise, or coding ability. The only way to gain domain knowledge, data analysis expertise, and coding ability is to struggle. To get errors. To google those errors. To look over the documentation. To copy/paste your own code and adapt it for different purposes. To explore messy datasets. To struggle to clean those datasets. To spend an hour looking for a missing comma. This isn’t a form of programming hazing, like “I had to walk to school uphill both ways in the snow and now you must too.” It’s the actual process of learning and growing and developing and improving. You’ve gotta struggle. This Tumblr post puts it well (it’s about art specifically, but it applies to coding and data analysis too): Contrary to popular belief the biggest beginner’s roadblock to art isn’t even technical skill it’s frustration tolerance, especially in the age of social media. It hurts and the frustration is endless but you must build the frustration tolerance equivalent to a roach’s capacity to survive a nuclear explosion. That’s how you build on the technical skill. Throw that “won’t even start because I’m afraid it won’t be perfect” shit out the window. Just do it. Just start. Good luck. (The original post has disappeared, but here’s a reblog.) It’s hard, but struggling is the only way to learn anything. You might not enjoy code as much as Williams does (or I do), but there’s still value in maintaining codings skills as you improve and learn more. You don’t want your skills to atrophy. As I discuss here, when I do use LLMs for coding-related tasks, I purposely throw as much friction into the process as possible: To avoid falling into over-reliance on LLM-assisted code help, I add as much friction into my workflow as possible. I only use GitHub Copilot and Claude in the browser, not through the chat sidebar in Positron or Visual Studio Code. I treat the code it generates like random answers from StackOverflow or blog posts and generally rewrite it completely. I disable the inline LLM-based auto complete in text editors. For routine tasks like generating {roxygen2} documentation scaffolding for functions, I use the {chores} package, which requires a bunch of pointing and clicking to use. Even though I use Positron, I purposely do not use either Positron Assistant or Databot. I have them disabled. So in the end, for pedagogical reasons, I don’t foresee me incorporating LLMs into this class. I’m pedagogically opposed to it. I’m facing all sorts of external pressure to do it, but I’m resisting. You’ve got to learn first.
December 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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awmercer.bsky.social
This is great and not just relevant to teaching.
andrew.heiss.phd Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 22d
Some closing thoughts for my students this semester on LLMs and learning #rstats datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-12...
Will you incorporate LLMs and AI prompting into the course in the future? No. Why won’t you incorporate LLMs and AI prompting into the course? These tools are useful for coding (see this for my personal take on this). However, they’re only useful if you know what you’re doing first. If you skip the learning-the-process-of-writing-code step and just copy/paste output from ChatGPT, you will not learn. You cannot learn. You cannot improve. You will not understand the code. In that post, it warns that you cannot use it as a beginner: …to use Databot effectively and safely, you still need the skills of a data scientist: background and domain knowledge, data analysis expertise, and coding ability. There is no LLM-based shortcut to those skills. You cannot LLM your way into domain knowledge, data analysis expertise, or coding ability. The only way to gain domain knowledge, data analysis expertise, and coding ability is to struggle. To get errors. To google those errors. To look over the documentation. To copy/paste your own code and adapt it for different purposes. To explore messy datasets. To struggle to clean those datasets. To spend an hour looking for a missing comma. This isn’t a form of programming hazing, like “I had to walk to school uphill both ways in the snow and now you must too.” It’s the actual process of learning and growing and developing and improving. You’ve gotta struggle. This Tumblr post puts it well (it’s about art specifically, but it applies to coding and data analysis too): Contrary to popular belief the biggest beginner’s roadblock to art isn’t even technical skill it’s frustration tolerance, especially in the age of social media. It hurts and the frustration is endless but you must build the frustration tolerance equivalent to a roach’s capacity to survive a nuclear explosion. That’s how you build on the technical skill. Throw that “won’t even start because I’m afraid it won’t be perfect” shit out the window. Just do it. Just start. Good luck. (The original post has disappeared, but here’s a reblog.) It’s hard, but struggling is the only way to learn anything. You might not enjoy code as much as Williams does (or I do), but there’s still value in maintaining codings skills as you improve and learn more. You don’t want your skills to atrophy. As I discuss here, when I do use LLMs for coding-related tasks, I purposely throw as much friction into the process as possible: To avoid falling into over-reliance on LLM-assisted code help, I add as much friction into my workflow as possible. I only use GitHub Copilot and Claude in the browser, not through the chat sidebar in Positron or Visual Studio Code. I treat the code it generates like random answers from StackOverflow or blog posts and generally rewrite it completely. I disable the inline LLM-based auto complete in text editors. For routine tasks like generating {roxygen2} documentation scaffolding for functions, I use the {chores} package, which requires a bunch of pointing and clicking to use. Even though I use Positron, I purposely do not use either Positron Assistant or Databot. I have them disabled. So in the end, for pedagogical reasons, I don’t foresee me incorporating LLMs into this class. I’m pedagogically opposed to it. I’m facing all sorts of external pressure to do it, but I’m resisting. You’ve got to learn first.
December 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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us.theconversation.com
A court ruled in October that abortion medication mifepristone is so safe the FDA must reconsider whether it needs any restrictions at all. Meanwhile, Republican senators and attorneys general are pushing the FDA to tighten restrictions to effectively block mail-order prescriptions. buff.ly/cKIT2Qi
2026’s abortion battles will be fought more in courthouses and FDA offices than at the voting booth
Judges and federal regulators will make significant decisions over Americans’ reproductive rights.
theconversation.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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angrystaffer.bsky.social
This is probably the clearest indication yet that the administration understands what they’re doing in the Caribbean is illegal.

They’re now threatening the ICC with sanctions if they investigate Trump and his team.
December 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM