Alyssa Cox
@alyssacox.bsky.social
Professionally Dramatic, Seeker of Glimmers, she/her/Ms./Frau, ♊️♍️♌️
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there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
August 10, 2024 at 3:21 PM
there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
My body‘s ability to defy the laws of thermodynamics is honestly superhuman and maybe I should be proud of that.
November 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
My body‘s ability to defy the laws of thermodynamics is honestly superhuman and maybe I should be proud of that.
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The National Guard shooting in DC is a tragedy, especially when you consider that there’s ZERO reason for them to be there.
November 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
The National Guard shooting in DC is a tragedy, especially when you consider that there’s ZERO reason for them to be there.
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We’re about to invade Venezuela because trump wants their oil. No other reason. The airspace has been cleared. Embassies are being evacuated. Flights are being canceled.
He’s going to kill people for oil.
He’s going to kill people for oil.
November 24, 2025 at 2:58 AM
We’re about to invade Venezuela because trump wants their oil. No other reason. The airspace has been cleared. Embassies are being evacuated. Flights are being canceled.
He’s going to kill people for oil.
He’s going to kill people for oil.
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This is a fascinating thread on how AI can reinforce delusions.
My tldr: It used to be hard for wingnuts to find support and validation for their unhinged conspiracy theories. Now AI gives them both instantly and that’s not great, Bob.
My tldr: It used to be hard for wingnuts to find support and validation for their unhinged conspiracy theories. Now AI gives them both instantly and that’s not great, Bob.
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
This is a fascinating thread on how AI can reinforce delusions.
My tldr: It used to be hard for wingnuts to find support and validation for their unhinged conspiracy theories. Now AI gives them both instantly and that’s not great, Bob.
My tldr: It used to be hard for wingnuts to find support and validation for their unhinged conspiracy theories. Now AI gives them both instantly and that’s not great, Bob.
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We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.
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This is insane. This is *literally* doing the same mechanics of the housing crisis and 2008 recession but to create debt to finance construction of AI data centers
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This is insane. This is *literally* doing the same mechanics of the housing crisis and 2008 recession but to create debt to finance construction of AI data centers
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
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I LOVE living in a place where I am immersed in multiple languages and meet people from many different cultures and backgrounds. It is endlessly fascinating and the stagnation I felt living in a less diverse place was soul deadening.
October 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I LOVE living in a place where I am immersed in multiple languages and meet people from many different cultures and backgrounds. It is endlessly fascinating and the stagnation I felt living in a less diverse place was soul deadening.
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I would rather live next door to someone who speaks another language than live next door to someone who doesn’t want to live near people who speak other languages. I know nothing about Person A but I know person B is a shitbird.
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
October 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I would rather live next door to someone who speaks another language than live next door to someone who doesn’t want to live near people who speak other languages. I know nothing about Person A but I know person B is a shitbird.
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Not that JD Vance cares, but I believe Jesus specifically addressed this issue with a parable.
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
October 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Not that JD Vance cares, but I believe Jesus specifically addressed this issue with a parable.
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Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
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If a temporary resident of the White House can totally demolish the East Wing to build a gaudy ballroom, without any authority, approval, or regulation, he can tear down the rest of the White House to build a Walmart. That this destruction is allowed underscores how off the rails our country is now.
October 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
If a temporary resident of the White House can totally demolish the East Wing to build a gaudy ballroom, without any authority, approval, or regulation, he can tear down the rest of the White House to build a Walmart. That this destruction is allowed underscores how off the rails our country is now.
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@umich.edu faculty call for an honorary degree for Trump
“We have proven that we have no hard moral principles and no hill on which we will die.”
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
“We have proven that we have no hard moral principles and no hill on which we will die.”
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
Why Trump would be perfect for an honorary U-M doctoral degree
Awarding Trump an honorary doctoral degree would be an opportunity to recognize the long way the University has walked in less than two years. U-M juniors may still remember times when the campus code...
www.michigandaily.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
@umich.edu faculty call for an honorary degree for Trump
“We have proven that we have no hard moral principles and no hill on which we will die.”
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
“We have proven that we have no hard moral principles and no hill on which we will die.”
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
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Head to a protest today. I can almost promise you will feel less hopeless. That's exactly what they don't want. There are more of us than there are of them.
October 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Head to a protest today. I can almost promise you will feel less hopeless. That's exactly what they don't want. There are more of us than there are of them.
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This. You are not alone. Go feel it.
Head to a protest today. I can almost promise you will feel less hopeless. That's exactly what they don't want. There are more of us than there are of them.
October 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This. You are not alone. Go feel it.
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no kings but drag kings 💝
October 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
no kings but drag kings 💝
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Same mistakes everywhere.
Erkenntnis: man soll Faschos nicht nach dem Maul reden, sondern sie bekämpfen.
"German mainstream parties are allowing the far right to set the agenda. They unwittingly helped the far right by legitimising their ideas & disseminating them more widely."
"German mainstream parties are allowing the far right to set the agenda. They unwittingly helped the far right by legitimising their ideas & disseminating them more widely."
German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds
Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Same mistakes everywhere.
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Proposal: instead of giving ChatGPT tens of billions of dollars to fail to create artificial intelligence, give me, an Actual Intelligence, a mere $10 million and I will gladly do a spreadsheet wrong for you from time to time for a modest fee.
October 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Proposal: instead of giving ChatGPT tens of billions of dollars to fail to create artificial intelligence, give me, an Actual Intelligence, a mere $10 million and I will gladly do a spreadsheet wrong for you from time to time for a modest fee.
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In fact, it "knows" less, because it cannot contextualize anything it consumed as data. It's deconstructed into a hyperdimensional cloud of latent data and then probabilistically called upon depending on its input.
It's the same reason why even fucking Gemini will answer a Google search incorrectly
It's the same reason why even fucking Gemini will answer a Google search incorrectly
October 16, 2025 at 3:22 AM
In fact, it "knows" less, because it cannot contextualize anything it consumed as data. It's deconstructed into a hyperdimensional cloud of latent data and then probabilistically called upon depending on its input.
It's the same reason why even fucking Gemini will answer a Google search incorrectly
It's the same reason why even fucking Gemini will answer a Google search incorrectly
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I mean, "AI" doesn't know anything today a web search didn't know yesterday. The AI will customize & direct the search for you, is all—at the cost of significant error (not to mention missing things that its algorithms incorrectly determine are irrelevant).
October 16, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I mean, "AI" doesn't know anything today a web search didn't know yesterday. The AI will customize & direct the search for you, is all—at the cost of significant error (not to mention missing things that its algorithms incorrectly determine are irrelevant).
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My latest: "Numerous studies show that majors in the humanities—typically, in departments of English, history, philosophy, religious studies, classics and languages—lead students to employment and life satisfaction outcomes as positive as those for majors traditionally championed as 'practical.'”
Counterpoint | Minnesota humanities graduates thrive in meaningful careers
"The stereotype of the underemployed history major is simply not true," professor Andrea Kaston Tange writes.
www.startribune.com
October 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
My latest: "Numerous studies show that majors in the humanities—typically, in departments of English, history, philosophy, religious studies, classics and languages—lead students to employment and life satisfaction outcomes as positive as those for majors traditionally championed as 'practical.'”
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ICYMI, I wrote this about why we need humanities majors now, more than ever, and how they succeed.
Maybe even pass it on to students whose One Relative at the Thanksgiving table condescendingly asks "what are you going to do with THAT degree?" Here are some talking points—and data!—to refute them.
Maybe even pass it on to students whose One Relative at the Thanksgiving table condescendingly asks "what are you going to do with THAT degree?" Here are some talking points—and data!—to refute them.
My latest: "Numerous studies show that majors in the humanities—typically, in departments of English, history, philosophy, religious studies, classics and languages—lead students to employment and life satisfaction outcomes as positive as those for majors traditionally championed as 'practical.'”
Counterpoint | Minnesota humanities graduates thrive in meaningful careers
"The stereotype of the underemployed history major is simply not true," professor Andrea Kaston Tange writes.
www.startribune.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
ICYMI, I wrote this about why we need humanities majors now, more than ever, and how they succeed.
Maybe even pass it on to students whose One Relative at the Thanksgiving table condescendingly asks "what are you going to do with THAT degree?" Here are some talking points—and data!—to refute them.
Maybe even pass it on to students whose One Relative at the Thanksgiving table condescendingly asks "what are you going to do with THAT degree?" Here are some talking points—and data!—to refute them.
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One thing that Trump has done successfully, which has been a source of continual frustration for me since literally Jan. 21, 2017, is somehow get our elites, our media, and our institutions to ignore this astonishing reservoir of sustained resistance and opposition to him.
October 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
One thing that Trump has done successfully, which has been a source of continual frustration for me since literally Jan. 21, 2017, is somehow get our elites, our media, and our institutions to ignore this astonishing reservoir of sustained resistance and opposition to him.