elliot (they/he)
@shark-dad.bsky.social
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AI is not useful.
I don’t think there’s a single serious critic who says AI’s not useful? The concerns I see are about content rights, worker impacts, environmental effects, epistemological threats, or media manipulation. But that’s all predicated on the idea that it *does* work, often too well for people to manage…
The NYT Magazine asked me and @caseynewton.bsky.social to open their AI issue by talking about how we use AI, why it's not going away, and how you can't be a serious critic if you're in denial about how useful it is. Bluesky's gonna love this one!
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...
June 18, 2025 at 2:38 AM
AI is not useful.
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This broke my heart into a million pieces and set my soul on fire with white hot rage. Holy shit. This shit is pure evil. I’m beside myself.
The heartbreaking statement from Jonathan Joss’s husband about his death.
June 3, 2025 at 12:47 AM
This broke my heart into a million pieces and set my soul on fire with white hot rage. Holy shit. This shit is pure evil. I’m beside myself.
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Idaho and Pennsylvania: vote for pro-public education, pro-literacy, pro-facts candidates in your school board elections tomorrow.
Oregon and California: save your public libraries in your elections tomorrow. That's especially for Salem and Huntington Beach.
Asses to polls. That's how it changes.
Oregon and California: save your public libraries in your elections tomorrow. That's especially for Salem and Huntington Beach.
Asses to polls. That's how it changes.
May 19, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Idaho and Pennsylvania: vote for pro-public education, pro-literacy, pro-facts candidates in your school board elections tomorrow.
Oregon and California: save your public libraries in your elections tomorrow. That's especially for Salem and Huntington Beach.
Asses to polls. That's how it changes.
Oregon and California: save your public libraries in your elections tomorrow. That's especially for Salem and Huntington Beach.
Asses to polls. That's how it changes.
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You guys don’t need to try to convince me that any form of AI has merit. It doesn’t. It is boring and half-assed. I am fine getting by with human brain power. If the world nears its end and AI has one hater left, good news! I am still alive.
April 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
You guys don’t need to try to convince me that any form of AI has merit. It doesn’t. It is boring and half-assed. I am fine getting by with human brain power. If the world nears its end and AI has one hater left, good news! I am still alive.
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I avidly support book burnings
(Of anything JKR has ever put her name on)
(Of anything JKR has ever put her name on)
April 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I avidly support book burnings
(Of anything JKR has ever put her name on)
(Of anything JKR has ever put her name on)
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If you love your library, listen up…
April 15, 2025 at 1:45 AM
If you love your library, listen up…
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A massive thread of resources, history, information, and material to help you not only fight and understand book censorship but protect the incredible democratic institutions of public libraries and public education.
This is updated regularly!
This is updated regularly!
November 10, 2024 at 7:30 PM
A massive thread of resources, history, information, and material to help you not only fight and understand book censorship but protect the incredible democratic institutions of public libraries and public education.
This is updated regularly!
This is updated regularly!
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having ADHD is kinda like being severed. like as soon as you walk through a door you forget literally everything else you were doing and why you were going in there
March 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
having ADHD is kinda like being severed. like as soon as you walk through a door you forget literally everything else you were doing and why you were going in there
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I'm at a meeting at my public library. It is a community garden orientation, and plots are very cheap. Volunteer hours are used for maintenance and growing food for soup kitchens and the community. The org is supported by a local non profit.
This is one of many things public libraries do. Fund them
This is one of many things public libraries do. Fund them
March 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I'm at a meeting at my public library. It is a community garden orientation, and plots are very cheap. Volunteer hours are used for maintenance and growing food for soup kitchens and the community. The org is supported by a local non profit.
This is one of many things public libraries do. Fund them
This is one of many things public libraries do. Fund them
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what doesnt kill you makes you weird about asking for help
March 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
what doesnt kill you makes you weird about asking for help
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I'm just saying, disappearing into the ocean would fix a lot of things for me.
February 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I'm just saying, disappearing into the ocean would fix a lot of things for me.
my cats are so spoiled, I ran out of wet food and only have cereal (dry) and they are protesting, so i'm doordashing treats at 11 pm. love my lil princesses
February 19, 2025 at 7:26 AM
my cats are so spoiled, I ran out of wet food and only have cereal (dry) and they are protesting, so i'm doordashing treats at 11 pm. love my lil princesses
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Americas Next Top Surgery
February 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Americas Next Top Surgery
keep thinking another pair of glasses will fix me and yet
February 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
keep thinking another pair of glasses will fix me and yet
hey I might be 30 and dumb with 3 degrees, but just realized I can log in to tiktok on browser
and see all my favs again
and see all my favs again
February 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
hey I might be 30 and dumb with 3 degrees, but just realized I can log in to tiktok on browser
and see all my favs again
and see all my favs again
y'all making memes about n*zis and el*n literally with words he*l, f*hr, sw*stika etc. is just fucking normalizing it all
February 9, 2025 at 5:53 AM
y'all making memes about n*zis and el*n literally with words he*l, f*hr, sw*stika etc. is just fucking normalizing it all
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coffee ain’t gonna cut it today. i need a week by the sea that ends with me being eaten by a shark.
February 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
coffee ain’t gonna cut it today. i need a week by the sea that ends with me being eaten by a shark.
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Just helping out.
February 9, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Just helping out.
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. @imanibarbarin.bsky.social has made a wonderful resource available FOR FREE (but please pay her if you can afford to) about disrupting the alt right pipeline and 'establishing a progressive media apparatus'on her patreon
There's a video, transcript and PDF with great advice.
There's a video, transcript and PDF with great advice.
Get more from Imani Barbarin on Patreon
Creating Crutchesandspices.com: Media that centers disability
www.patreon.com
February 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
. @imanibarbarin.bsky.social has made a wonderful resource available FOR FREE (but please pay her if you can afford to) about disrupting the alt right pipeline and 'establishing a progressive media apparatus'on her patreon
There's a video, transcript and PDF with great advice.
There's a video, transcript and PDF with great advice.
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Here’s that emotional support kitty you ordered.
Sorry we ran out of the non-judgmental ones 😬😬😬
#cat #catsofbluesky #rbf
Sorry we ran out of the non-judgmental ones 😬😬😬
#cat #catsofbluesky #rbf
February 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Here’s that emotional support kitty you ordered.
Sorry we ran out of the non-judgmental ones 😬😬😬
#cat #catsofbluesky #rbf
Sorry we ran out of the non-judgmental ones 😬😬😬
#cat #catsofbluesky #rbf
took adderall for the first time today & me to myself every 5 minutes:
spongebob and mr. krabs from spongebob squarepants are talking to each other
Alt: scenes from spongebob flash with white text at the bottom that reads "Are you feeling it now Mr. Krabs?"
media.tenor.com
February 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
took adderall for the first time today & me to myself every 5 minutes: