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Normal Margaret @margaretz.bsky.social · 15h

Fuck you Outlook!!!

I wrote "Thanks!!" with two exclamation marks in an email, and the automatic grammar checker flagged it and said "One punctuation mark is all that's needed"

Normal Margaret @margaretz.bsky.social · 6d

At least the Red Sox game started so late in the evening that I won’t be able to stay up to watch the whole thing

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Red Sox @redsox.com · 8d

GAME OVER.

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Paul @pawlbologna.bsky.social · 8d

I love the Red Sox!

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Normal Margaret @margaretz.bsky.social · 15d

My secret side quest of befriending my professors continues apace. Today I learned that one of them plays MTG 👍

Normal Margaret @margaretz.bsky.social · 21d

um. what is happening

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 25d

Live your life in such a way that, when you die, people directly quoting you does’t sound like a personal attack on your character.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 28d

Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence.

Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.

Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.

It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.

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Normal Margaret @margaretz.bsky.social · Sep 5

Is Duke aware that it doesn't have to do this
www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

Duke to award its ‘highest honor’ to Tallman Trask, Anne Bass

Bass and Trask have left notable marks on campus, including the development of the Bass Connections Program and the growth of the University's endowment. Trask’s tenure, however, was marked by controv...

www.dukechronicle.com

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Pete Sastone, but spooky @kbuts.bsky.social · Sep 2

Bluesky is Dying discourse is so tedious. Let's focus on what really matters: UNC giving up 48 points, the most a Bill Belichick-coached team has allowed, ever, to TCU last night.

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Normal Margaret @margaretz.bsky.social · Aug 23

If you're going to hide content from actual human beings who I know and instead force a bunch of garbage in my face, it could at least be vaguely interesting garbage, but instead it was actively unpleasant. I don't understand how anyone could enjoy the experience of using Facebook anymore

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Normal Margaret @margaretz.bsky.social · Aug 23

And on top of that, the algorithmically provided content was completely off the mark: local news stations from cities and countries I've never been to, sports teams I don't follow, movies and TV shows I haven't watched, content aimed at age demographics I don't belong to.

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Normal Margaret @margaretz.bsky.social · Aug 23

Facebook has gotten so bad, I truly don't know how anyone can still use it. I just scrolled for about three minutes and the ratio of posts from pages I *don't follow* to posts from people I actually know was easily 7 to 1.

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Normal Margaret @margaretz.bsky.social · Aug 18

The @wsj.com is pushing climate denialism in its newsletter today

Q: The Trump administration says CO2 isn’t a threat to public health. What does the science say?
The Trump administration’s stance on CO2 is part of a new effort to undo some of the Environmental Protection Agency’s responsibilities for regulating emissions. Ahead of public hearings on the contested rules this week, Eric Niiler breaks down the debate that is set to unfold.

A: Greenhouse gases including CO2 are considered air pollutants under the Clean Air Act, according to a 2007 Supreme Court ruling that said federal regulators must determine whether these pollutants endanger public health. Most climate and atmospheric scientists say increasing levels of CO2 are raising the planet’s temperature, which in turn is leading to more intense storms, rising sea levels and the risk of more intense drought and wildfires that endanger human health and welfare.

As the scientific consensus on CO2’s role in climate change has solidified, so too has the alternative view that more CO2 is good for the planet, and that it was a mistake to classify it as a pollutant. The Energy Department’s review of the science of climate change—the scientific foundation of the EPA’s effort to roll back existing emissions rules—argues that increasing CO2 levels will boost agricultural production, like a massive jolt of plant food.

Determining how much and how fast CO2 emissions will warm the planet in the future is still uncertain. Large-scale changes in the Earth’s ecosystem as the atmosphere warms are still being studied. Meanwhile, the Trump administration’s move to change EPA rules is set to kick off a lengthy legal battle over whether the government will continue to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions from vehicles, power plants and other industries.

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Normal Margaret @margaretz.bsky.social · Aug 13

The da Vinci Code, no question

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · Aug 11

Quote this with a book you read way too young that explains why you are the way you are.

I'll start: John Gardner's Grendel.

Normal Margaret @margaretz.bsky.social · Jul 25

I wonder if the way that people talk to LLMs is going to bleed over into other forms of professional communication, like emails. The prompt examples I see are increasingly demanding, direct, and brusque, which is really not suitable for human interaction

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · Jul 23

I know it isn't a political stance, but a lot of politicians will tour around restaurants, shake hands, take nibbles of food and leave.

I saw Roy Cooper in a BBQ restaurant once and watched him devour a pulled pork plate like it was his job. That man truly cares about NC...barbecue.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Jul 23

BREAKING via Axios

Former North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper will be announcing a senate bid, a big victory for Senate Democrats.

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Normal Margaret @margaretz.bsky.social · Jul 23

I am *begging* people to take five seconds to google things before sharing them

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Normal Margaret @margaretz.bsky.social · Jul 23

Logged onto facebook, immediately saw a fake girlboss statement from the astronomer ceo's wife being shared by a person I haven't spoken to in six years, commented on it with a link to an article debunking it, logged off

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Normal Margaret @margaretz.bsky.social · Jul 22

Y'all weren't joking about Kpop Demon Hunters! I need to watch it like eight more times immediately

Normal Margaret @margaretz.bsky.social · Jul 22

I'm honestly still confused about why Trump was getting involved in the Coke stuff at all???

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · Jul 22

i believe that at 18 every american should be entered into a draft, not for military service, but for one year of mandatory retail or restaurant work

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Normal Margaret @margaretz.bsky.social · Jul 19

Stephen Colbert coming to dropout dot tv when

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Normal Margaret @margaretz.bsky.social · Jul 18

This story from @emorwee.bsky.social is terrible, yet unsurprising -- Microsoft, like all the other tech/AI companies, has been saying one thing and doing another for YEARS when it comes to climate
heated.world/p/he-helped-...

He helped Microsoft build AI to help the climate. Then Microsoft sold it to Big Oil.

A former Microsoft project manager reveals how the tech giant is using AI to help Big Oil drill—and how he and his partner are now pushing for change.

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