Annie LaCourt
@annielaco.bsky.social
Municipal government and finance geek, treasurer for non-profits, reader of Talmud, Gardener, Mom, spousal unit of an AI genius. Pulls no punches and tells no lies. Everything I need to know in life I learned at the Yale School of Drama. Data is love.
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Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
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Breaking: Mike Johnson just announced that he'll swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva on Wednesday at 4pm ET.
November 11, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Breaking: Mike Johnson just announced that he'll swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva on Wednesday at 4pm ET.
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I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHY CONTENT LIKE THIS HAS RECEIVED A WARNING AND IS HIDDEN. THIS IS BLUESKY, NOT X.
November 12, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHY CONTENT LIKE THIS HAS RECEIVED A WARNING AND IS HIDDEN. THIS IS BLUESKY, NOT X.
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Surprising and disturbing! WTF @jay.bsky.team ??
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November 11, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Surprising and disturbing! WTF @jay.bsky.team ??
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A Single Tweet Made Elon Musk Cry (Tee-Hee!)
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A Single Tweet Made Elon Musk Cry (Tee-Hee!)
The right remains joyless and miserable.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
A Single Tweet Made Elon Musk Cry (Tee-Hee!)
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Climate ready housing is healthy housing!
Fairweather #SalemMA secures a $1M Climate Ready Housing grant to complete decarbonization of 127 affordable homes. Meeting our climate goals thru emission reductions and a healthier, cleaner building for those who live there.
www.mass.gov/news/healey-...
Fairweather #SalemMA secures a $1M Climate Ready Housing grant to complete decarbonization of 127 affordable homes. Meeting our climate goals thru emission reductions and a healthier, cleaner building for those who live there.
www.mass.gov/news/healey-...
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Climate ready housing is healthy housing!
Fairweather #SalemMA secures a $1M Climate Ready Housing grant to complete decarbonization of 127 affordable homes. Meeting our climate goals thru emission reductions and a healthier, cleaner building for those who live there.
www.mass.gov/news/healey-...
Fairweather #SalemMA secures a $1M Climate Ready Housing grant to complete decarbonization of 127 affordable homes. Meeting our climate goals thru emission reductions and a healthier, cleaner building for those who live there.
www.mass.gov/news/healey-...
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I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
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The “canonical” story how Rosalind Franklin got wronged by Watson and Crick inadvertently makes her look far less scientifically competent than she was (“She did not realize the significance of her own data!”). This article offers a much more nuanced account of what happened.
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The “canonical” story how Rosalind Franklin got wronged by Watson and Crick inadvertently makes her look far less scientifically competent than she was (“She did not realize the significance of her own data!”). This article offers a much more nuanced account of what happened.
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Can LLMs accurately aggregate information over long, information-dense texts? Not yet…
We introduce Oolong, a dataset of simple-to-verify information aggregation questions over long inputs. No model achieves >50% accuracy at 128K on Oolong!
We introduce Oolong, a dataset of simple-to-verify information aggregation questions over long inputs. No model achieves >50% accuracy at 128K on Oolong!
November 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Can LLMs accurately aggregate information over long, information-dense texts? Not yet…
We introduce Oolong, a dataset of simple-to-verify information aggregation questions over long inputs. No model achieves >50% accuracy at 128K on Oolong!
We introduce Oolong, a dataset of simple-to-verify information aggregation questions over long inputs. No model achieves >50% accuracy at 128K on Oolong!
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Calm down hardware store I don’t need to walk through an Enchanted Christmas Wonderland to get to the socket wrenches
November 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Calm down hardware store I don’t need to walk through an Enchanted Christmas Wonderland to get to the socket wrenches
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Parks and Rec isn't a hill to die on, but one thing it gets right is this whole government thing rests on the shoulders of people you will never know, caring a lot about jobs you've never heard of, fighting challenges thrown at them from every angle just to make life a little better for everyone.
November 5, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Parks and Rec isn't a hill to die on, but one thing it gets right is this whole government thing rests on the shoulders of people you will never know, caring a lot about jobs you've never heard of, fighting challenges thrown at them from every angle just to make life a little better for everyone.
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I believe that Islamophobia is just as odious and deserves just as much attention and condemnation as antisemitism, and people who are hateful to my Muslim cousins are not safe for me as a Jew either.
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I believe that Islamophobia is just as odious and deserves just as much attention and condemnation as antisemitism, and people who are hateful to my Muslim cousins are not safe for me as a Jew either.
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Do you think that Christians who woke up feeling anxious and afraid of how Zohran Mamdani's personal beliefs might influence how he wields the power of office will ever pause and think "Hmmm maybe non-Christians feel this way about Christians in power using their faith to inform their politics"?
November 5, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Do you think that Christians who woke up feeling anxious and afraid of how Zohran Mamdani's personal beliefs might influence how he wields the power of office will ever pause and think "Hmmm maybe non-Christians feel this way about Christians in power using their faith to inform their politics"?
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what is a good collective noun for a group of librarians? if there was ever a question for bluesky, this feels like it
November 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
what is a good collective noun for a group of librarians? if there was ever a question for bluesky, this feels like it
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If we're going to move forward as a nation. We're going to have to learn to have compassion for the farmers.
I can forgive the duped for being duped. I can't forgive the dupers for duping them.
The suicide rate among farmers is 3.5-5 times above the national average.
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I can forgive the duped for being duped. I can't forgive the dupers for duping them.
The suicide rate among farmers is 3.5-5 times above the national average.
youtube.com/shorts/__fZm...
Desperation and Frustration: A Shared Struggle
YouTube video by Machine Pun Kelly
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November 6, 2025 at 2:02 AM
If we're going to move forward as a nation. We're going to have to learn to have compassion for the farmers.
I can forgive the duped for being duped. I can't forgive the dupers for duping them.
The suicide rate among farmers is 3.5-5 times above the national average.
youtube.com/shorts/__fZm...
I can forgive the duped for being duped. I can't forgive the dupers for duping them.
The suicide rate among farmers is 3.5-5 times above the national average.
youtube.com/shorts/__fZm...
Give this person some love! Grant apps are hard.
Grant application SUBMITTED
November 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Give this person some love! Grant apps are hard.
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REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.
November 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.
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“There’s too many Americans on SNAP!”
Yes there are. Too many corporations refuse to pay a living wage.
Huge companyies are encouraging their employees to apply for SNAP because they don’t pay them enough to survive.
The government encourages this & then blames the poor.
Yes there are. Too many corporations refuse to pay a living wage.
Huge companyies are encouraging their employees to apply for SNAP because they don’t pay them enough to survive.
The government encourages this & then blames the poor.
November 3, 2025 at 8:06 AM
“There’s too many Americans on SNAP!”
Yes there are. Too many corporations refuse to pay a living wage.
Huge companyies are encouraging their employees to apply for SNAP because they don’t pay them enough to survive.
The government encourages this & then blames the poor.
Yes there are. Too many corporations refuse to pay a living wage.
Huge companyies are encouraging their employees to apply for SNAP because they don’t pay them enough to survive.
The government encourages this & then blames the poor.
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Fellow NYC residents, if you haven't yet sent a letter to your City Council member demanding that they support @nycplan.org's call to increase and stabilize NYC public library funding, please do. It will take 30 seconds: actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
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November 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Fellow NYC residents, if you haven't yet sent a letter to your City Council member demanding that they support @nycplan.org's call to increase and stabilize NYC public library funding, please do. It will take 30 seconds: actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
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Every Democrat running for office should run this as a commercial.
In the midst of a government shutdown, as masked ICE agents roam America’s cities with impunity, with lines at food banks across the country growing, and farmers at risk as America bails out Argentina instead…
Donald Trump threw a Roaring 20s/Great Gatsby themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago.
Donald Trump threw a Roaring 20s/Great Gatsby themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago.
November 1, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Every Democrat running for office should run this as a commercial.