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Rory Solomon
@rorshock.bsky.social
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Mesh networks, media infrastructure, software engineering, ham/CB radio (KD2QGX); Asst Prof The New School, Director of Code as a Liberal Art; “very clear & cool, simple but intricate”; he/him
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Wanted to hear this original conversation so I looked it up. I didn't realize it's from 2023. Also I think the above transcription is a little off. Here's the NPR transcript – sounds more correct to my ear & less combative. Apologies for reposting without first checking.

www.npr.org/transcripts/...
October 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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I’ve had similar conversations with people about writing my book.

… They went in similar directions.
October 10, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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"We've already outsourced parts of our digital learning environments. But this is different. The university is supposed to be a public good. And these companies are trying to privatise that. They're trying to make themselves indispensable, to get their hooks into the intellectual commons of the university and profit off it. That's terrifying.” For Hinds, ChatGPT doesn't just present a logistical or pedagogical problem, but a symptom of something deeper. "It exemplifies a much more manifest wrongness in the system," he says. "It's born of a model of education that's transactional, instrumentalised, and competitive to the point of cruelty. It's a monster, but it's a monster born of a system that already wanted to destroy education as we understand it."
September 10, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Using the word “redlining” in an article about a tennis match featuring a Black player, 𝑖𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡, sure is a choice
www.nytimes.com/athletic/658...
September 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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ayooo. Shots fired. LFG NY. Delgado for gov

Quick, check out this op-ed before NYT turns on him when he starts winning
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...
July 31, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif.
Image of a news anchor on a small monitor, on a wall of five additional monitors. He appears to be delivering the nightly news. In the blurred foreground, we see the back of two heads in chiaroscuro, one wearing headphones with a slim mic pointed to his mouth. He turns to the right and in profile leans over and whispers something to the other.
July 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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AI has thoroughly destroyed search. I'm trying to find a short story with some keywords & Google AI responded to my query by just making up a story that fits.

Of course, the most disgusting thing is the LLM probably pilfered this from the actual story but I still can't find the one I'm looking for
July 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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June 25, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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They are doing their jobs, but they are not just

(h/t @joelhs.bsky.social)
June 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Black & white newspaper print image of the cover of an issue of “Prod Dispatch”. Title section states “25¢ per copy”, “No. 33, Sept. 1977, Box 69 Washington DC 20044”, and includes an image of a semi truck. Primary image is a collage of a racially diverse group of 4 working class individuals with a fifth man in the center who appears to be a politician at a dais labeled “Crystal City Marriott”. Headline reads “Labor Day Conference Aids Local Organizing”.
May 18, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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wow you’re right. Never knew these existed. Another angle shows that it’s behind a fence. Thanks for pointing that out!!
Another angle on the same photograph earlier in this thread shows the burning object behind a large fence and looks like a blackened ‘dummy plane’ for fire drills.
April 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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We’d just touched tarmac at #ORD so I opened the window & saw this across the runway. What the heck

Stay safe out there #SCMS2025!!

#ChicagoOHare
Photograph out the window on left side of an airplane shows the wing, and beyond it across a parallel runway, a medium-sized fire with plumes of black smoke and a crane spraying water.
April 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Hello friends, Please welcome @maketheroadny.bsky.social to Bluesky. They've decided to leave the old site.
Digital collage marketing image from Make the Road depicting a blue sky with fluffy clouds behind two hands (one apparently white, the other apparently of a POC) with one hand passing a smartphone to the other. On the screen of the phone is a social media profile page for Make the Road. Text states "Follow us on Bluesky. @maketheroadny.bsky.social. Join the migration to a platform that uplifts our voices!" Make the Road logo is in the bottom-right corner.
March 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Visual representation of your entire pathetic life
image widely circulated online of bright yellow exploded SpaceX rocket bits streaking across a dark blue sky, illuminated a pale orange by the burning debris. Tweet from Elon Musk of a wooden utility pole appearing to be held up by a lot of duct tape with a caption that reads “Visual representation of the Social Security database.”
March 11, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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How could you work at The Economist and write these two sentences in the same paragraph?

“As a family man and part-time pastor at a local church, he was not the type to do anything reckless … In fact, he had made a lot of money trading cryptocurrencies.”
February 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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It's in the constitution bro.

Why does the press so willingly participate in ceding the narrative?
Screenshot of Washington Post news item. Headline: "Trump eyes privatizing US Postal Service, citing financial losses." Subheading: "Trump feuded with the mail agency in his first term. Privatizing it could shake up consumer shipping and business supply chains." Main image is the arm of a man holding a few envelopes, reaching to a blue mailbox with a yellow taxi behind it on an urban street, presumably New York City.
December 14, 2024 at 5:04 PM
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Is your neoliberal trash magazine useless?
Screenshot of an article from The Economic. Headline and lede read “Is your master's degree useless? New data show a shockingly high proportion of courses are a waste of money.” Includes image showing a dark backlit silhouette of 5 students graduating in gowns and mortarboard hats.
November 24, 2024 at 5:32 AM
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"Some don't want our country run by a fascist, authoritarian regime with no checks & balances, so to be a legitimate news source, we must also include opinions from folks who DO want a fascist, authoritarian regime with no checks & balances" says very media literate person who owns a major newspaper
Black on white text reads: "If we were honest with ourselves, our current board of opinion writers veered very left, which is fine, but I think in order to have balance, you also need to have somebody who would trend right, and more importantly, somebody that would trend in the middle," Soon-Shiong said, adding that he's already spoken to candidates he hopes to add to the Times' editorial roster.
November 13, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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So telling about what he thinks civilization is that he feels posting rapey memes and weed jokes will counteract its corrosion
June 10, 2024 at 1:54 PM
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The Downloads folder of someone trying to stay up-to-date on university holidays in the year 2024
February 16, 2024 at 3:53 PM
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Anyone who complains about the reinvention of wheels only pedals around with two of these on their velocipede right?
January 13, 2024 at 12:24 AM
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… who are actually in fact our previous overlords.
August 16, 2023 at 4:04 PM