Ellen LW
@pibbly.bsky.social
Happily living in the second-most-liberal precinct in Minnesota, US. Mutts, veg stirfries, nonfiction, law geekery, & scent make my world.
How exciting!!!
Power surge: law changes could soon bring balcony solar to millions across US
Power surge: law changes could soon bring balcony solar to millions across US
Tweaks to state laws mean many Americans will be able to benefit from small, simple plug-in solar panels
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:33 PM
How exciting!!!
Wow. Sure am glad we have this tech-savvy, undistracted, and professional federal government to regulate AI and keep us safe! /s www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...
A hacker used AI to automate an 'unprecedented' cybercrime spree, Anthropic says
The company behind the Claude chatbot said it caught a hacker using its chatbot to identify, hack and extort at least 17 companies.
www.nbcnews.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Wow. Sure am glad we have this tech-savvy, undistracted, and professional federal government to regulate AI and keep us safe! /s www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...
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Secretary Pete Hegseth, a Princeton graduate, was unable to comprehend that photographs create mirror images of their subjects. Here's why affirmative action has lowered the standards of Ivy League admissions.
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Secretary Pete Hegseth, a Princeton graduate, was unable to comprehend that photographs create mirror images of their subjects. Here's why affirmative action has lowered the standards of Ivy League admissions.
www.startribune.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I had no idea, and I doubt this will get a lot of media coverage.
Statement from President VanDassor on the actions of HSI in St Paul this morning
November 26, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I had no idea, and I doubt this will get a lot of media coverage.
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No I don't want the AI attachment, no I don't want the AI tool, no I will not download it, no don't give me the option, no I don't want you to save me time, no I don't want your fake "thinking," no I don't want your mid technology, yes I reject your downgrading and de-skilling, please fuck off.
October 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
No I don't want the AI attachment, no I don't want the AI tool, no I will not download it, no don't give me the option, no I don't want you to save me time, no I don't want your fake "thinking," no I don't want your mid technology, yes I reject your downgrading and de-skilling, please fuck off.
Alt text: Photo of Musk, Thiel, and Murdoch. Caption: The immigrants ruining your life are [Musk, Thiel, & Murdoch].Not the apple picker who can barely afford to rent a studio apartment. Murdoch and Musk are controlling the narrative on two of the biggest platforms and pushing disturbing propaganda.
November 24, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Alt text: Photo of Musk, Thiel, and Murdoch. Caption: The immigrants ruining your life are [Musk, Thiel, & Murdoch].Not the apple picker who can barely afford to rent a studio apartment. Murdoch and Musk are controlling the narrative on two of the biggest platforms and pushing disturbing propaganda.
@demlabs.bsky.social Is your page all AI? Why do you repeat posts three times?
November 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
@demlabs.bsky.social Is your page all AI? Why do you repeat posts three times?
That’s how it’s done!
November 22, 2025 at 6:29 AM
That’s how it’s done!
Also: by definition, LLMs include the work of many stupid people. I resent the use of AI even more because it contains such bad thinking and writing.
Instead of "AI", say "entitled assholes with computers"
Examples:
Will your job be replaced by entitled assholes with computers?
What's the environmental impact of entitled assholes with computers?
Will entitled assholes with computers cure cancer?
Do entitled assholes with computers lie?
Examples:
Will your job be replaced by entitled assholes with computers?
What's the environmental impact of entitled assholes with computers?
Will entitled assholes with computers cure cancer?
Do entitled assholes with computers lie?
November 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Also: by definition, LLMs include the work of many stupid people. I resent the use of AI even more because it contains such bad thinking and writing.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
How do Dems pick their consultants? How do the norably awful ones keep getting rehired? It makes a huge difference. www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-eps...?
Trump’s Epstein Humiliation Grows
The president saw defeat and ran. But that doesn’t mean the fight over releasing the files is over.
www.thebulwark.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
How do Dems pick their consultants? How do the norably awful ones keep getting rehired? It makes a huge difference. www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-eps...?
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The two marquee winners from Tuesday night were different in many ways, but they had one thing in common: They fought.
And they both were willing to say discrimination is wrong with Mamdani going further to say, by me standing up for EVERYONE is how you know I'll stand up for you.
And they both were willing to say discrimination is wrong with Mamdani going further to say, by me standing up for EVERYONE is how you know I'll stand up for you.
More than anything, people want Dems to fight
Lessons from Mamdani, Spanberger, and the fight over funding the government.
www.thefarce.org
November 15, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The two marquee winners from Tuesday night were different in many ways, but they had one thing in common: They fought.
And they both were willing to say discrimination is wrong with Mamdani going further to say, by me standing up for EVERYONE is how you know I'll stand up for you.
And they both were willing to say discrimination is wrong with Mamdani going further to say, by me standing up for EVERYONE is how you know I'll stand up for you.
I have a background in financial crimes detection. Krugman is absolutely right. There is no reason to want an unregulated financial system other than crime.
If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
November 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I have a background in financial crimes detection. Krugman is absolutely right. There is no reason to want an unregulated financial system other than crime.
Tan dulce.
November 13, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Tan dulce.
Excellent thread about supporting REAL newsgathering, not the house organs if the oligarchs.
What if instead of Cyber Monday (aka Daddy Bezos Day), we did a Support Indie Media Monday?
What are your favorite indie publications? Who are some of your favorite freelance and indie reporters and commentators?
Can we make this a thing?
What are your favorite indie publications? Who are some of your favorite freelance and indie reporters and commentators?
Can we make this a thing?
November 13, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Excellent thread about supporting REAL newsgathering, not the house organs if the oligarchs.
Having one of those “put on new sneakers and immediately step in dogshit” sort of days. You?
November 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Having one of those “put on new sneakers and immediately step in dogshit” sort of days. You?
Swell. Let’em eat televisions.
Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
November 11, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Swell. Let’em eat televisions.
Perhaps he’d been nailed to the Resolute Desk!
According to White House spokesman Taylor Rogers Trump was merely pining for the fjords. www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/p...
November 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Perhaps he’d been nailed to the Resolute Desk!
Hey, WaPo: No one needs you to suck up to Trump. Plenty of other media are already on that beat. I bet this op-ed was written before the speech, with spaces to fill in a few words here and there. Disgusting. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...?
MSN
www.msn.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Hey, WaPo: No one needs you to suck up to Trump. Plenty of other media are already on that beat. I bet this op-ed was written before the speech, with spaces to fill in a few words here and there. Disgusting. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...?
In small-city election news: We had a nice but ineffectual mayor, so we got ourselves a new one. Yay for St. Paul! www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Her makes history as first woman and Hmong American elected St. Paul mayor
DFLer Kaohly Her, who worked for Mayor Melvin Carter’s office in his first term, was a late addition to the St. Paul mayor’s race. She beat Carter Tuesday and made history.
www.mprnews.org
November 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
In small-city election news: We had a nice but ineffectual mayor, so we got ourselves a new one. Yay for St. Paul! www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
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roses are red
big laughs are hearty
big laughs are hearty
November 5, 2025 at 2:58 AM
roses are red
big laughs are hearty
big laughs are hearty
This was fun to read!
The New York Post is so happy they don't have to keep pretending to like Cuomo: nypost.com/2025/11/04/u...
Andrew Cuomo’s embarrassing loss to Zohran Mamdani in NYC mayoral election ends Cuomo family political dynasty
Like father, like son.
nypost.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:05 AM
This was fun to read!
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Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
We all want the exododus, as long as they disperse and don’t form a colony.
November 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
We all want the exododus, as long as they disperse and don’t form a colony.