Flax Blue
@flaxblue.bsky.social
Worker by day & night. Also fish mom, musician, writer, and love water colors. Housing & environment both need collective solutions
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when God sings with his creations, will AI not be part of the choir?
Pope: lol no
Pope: lol no
November 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
when God sings with his creations, will AI not be part of the choir?
Pope: lol no
Pope: lol no
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Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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a cancer nurse in a state I've never been to told messaged me and said that reading out Rice Truck aloud as it happened was the only day in her entire 14 year career on chemo ward that nobody cried and it's probably the best compliment I will ever get in my life
What is the best compliment you ever received? Putting aside whether or not you believed it.
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
a cancer nurse in a state I've never been to told messaged me and said that reading out Rice Truck aloud as it happened was the only day in her entire 14 year career on chemo ward that nobody cried and it's probably the best compliment I will ever get in my life
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“For a 1971 issue of Ladies’ Home Journal, my family was asked to pose for a Thanksgiving photo shoot re-creating my grandfather’s painting Freedom From Want. We had to sit for hours at a dining table at the local inn, staring at food we weren’t supposed to eat.
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
“For a 1971 issue of Ladies’ Home Journal, my family was asked to pose for a Thanksgiving photo shoot re-creating my grandfather’s painting Freedom From Want. We had to sit for hours at a dining table at the local inn, staring at food we weren’t supposed to eat.
So what AI can really do is give users implausible deniability. Is that enough for the rich+ to use and maintain legal distance from their own choices? That’s one of the next cultural questions. (“It was on advice that I did the thing that killed, maimed, abused, was prejudicial, …i didn’t know…”)
November 27, 2025 at 12:14 PM
So what AI can really do is give users implausible deniability. Is that enough for the rich+ to use and maintain legal distance from their own choices? That’s one of the next cultural questions. (“It was on advice that I did the thing that killed, maimed, abused, was prejudicial, …i didn’t know…”)
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The thing about Star Trek is that the majority of it has the crew spending most of the episode trying to figure out, through arguing and investigating, what's the right thing to do in a complicated situation and I don't think any shows do that now? Like in a Very Special Episode but not all the time
November 22, 2025 at 2:23 AM
The thing about Star Trek is that the majority of it has the crew spending most of the episode trying to figure out, through arguing and investigating, what's the right thing to do in a complicated situation and I don't think any shows do that now? Like in a Very Special Episode but not all the time
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star trek is about a utopian vision of the future bordering on fantasy where people someday will be able to make good choices about complicated problems by talking to each other and involving people who know about things
The thing about Star Trek is that the majority of it has the crew spending most of the episode trying to figure out, through arguing and investigating, what's the right thing to do in a complicated situation and I don't think any shows do that now? Like in a Very Special Episode but not all the time
November 27, 2025 at 3:46 AM
star trek is about a utopian vision of the future bordering on fantasy where people someday will be able to make good choices about complicated problems by talking to each other and involving people who know about things
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As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
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November 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I don’t understand HP’s printer business model. If the equation is “who breaks first, user or printer?” then we’re just broken and only chuthulu can print
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I don’t understand HP’s printer business model. If the equation is “who breaks first, user or printer?” then we’re just broken and only chuthulu can print
I’ve gone to this eyeglass place since childhood. The business name was the family’s name. The business changed owners in the 90’s. I went elsewhere in recent years. Out of the blue I just got a bot call to schedule an appt. It mispronounced the family’s name. It feels weird. My memories don’t fit
November 24, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I’ve gone to this eyeglass place since childhood. The business name was the family’s name. The business changed owners in the 90’s. I went elsewhere in recent years. Out of the blue I just got a bot call to schedule an appt. It mispronounced the family’s name. It feels weird. My memories don’t fit
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When Frustration Threatens Desire, by Kerry James Marshall, 1990, 📸 by @drewhallowell
November 23, 2025 at 11:55 PM
When Frustration Threatens Desire, by Kerry James Marshall, 1990, 📸 by @drewhallowell
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This dynamic kills Agile in practice - teams are supposed to be able to pivot based on customer signals but if those signals take months to arrive, they end up pivoting based on changing stakeholder whims instead.
They act faster than they learn, which simply increases the amount of waste.
They act faster than they learn, which simply increases the amount of waste.
May 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This dynamic kills Agile in practice - teams are supposed to be able to pivot based on customer signals but if those signals take months to arrive, they end up pivoting based on changing stakeholder whims instead.
They act faster than they learn, which simply increases the amount of waste.
They act faster than they learn, which simply increases the amount of waste.
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AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
We need language to express what it is to talk with cliche machines.
(We’ve become the tree in the woods and no one hears us falling)
Fraudversation? Chatlusion? Conversaicon?
(We’ve become the tree in the woods and no one hears us falling)
Fraudversation? Chatlusion? Conversaicon?
November 19, 2025 at 8:18 AM
We need language to express what it is to talk with cliche machines.
(We’ve become the tree in the woods and no one hears us falling)
Fraudversation? Chatlusion? Conversaicon?
(We’ve become the tree in the woods and no one hears us falling)
Fraudversation? Chatlusion? Conversaicon?
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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'Falaises de Normandie.' (1907)
Gustave Loiseau’s paintings of the Normandy coast are as enjoyable as those by Monet. Like Monet, he painted like a man who can hear remote frequencies of perception, and clearly see faint colours, contrasts, and radiances that most people can’t.
Gustave Loiseau’s paintings of the Normandy coast are as enjoyable as those by Monet. Like Monet, he painted like a man who can hear remote frequencies of perception, and clearly see faint colours, contrasts, and radiances that most people can’t.
November 16, 2025 at 12:13 PM
'Falaises de Normandie.' (1907)
Gustave Loiseau’s paintings of the Normandy coast are as enjoyable as those by Monet. Like Monet, he painted like a man who can hear remote frequencies of perception, and clearly see faint colours, contrasts, and radiances that most people can’t.
Gustave Loiseau’s paintings of the Normandy coast are as enjoyable as those by Monet. Like Monet, he painted like a man who can hear remote frequencies of perception, and clearly see faint colours, contrasts, and radiances that most people can’t.
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Welcome to McTherapy®️. May I take your disorder?
July 12, 2023 at 3:50 PM
Welcome to McTherapy®️. May I take your disorder?
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Pope Leo XIV called for “deep reflection” in the United States about the treatment of migrants held in detention, saying that “many people who have lived for years and years and years, never causing problems, have been deeply affected by what is going on right now.” https://to.pbs.org/3Ln2cSB
Pope Leo calls for 'deep reflection' about treatment of detained migrants in the United States
Speaking outside the papal retreat at Castel Gandolfo, he addressed various geopolitical issues, including U.S. military actions off Venezuela and the fragile truce in the Middle East. He noted that m...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Pope Leo XIV called for “deep reflection” in the United States about the treatment of migrants held in detention, saying that “many people who have lived for years and years and years, never causing problems, have been deeply affected by what is going on right now.” https://to.pbs.org/3Ln2cSB
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The legendary Joyce Carol Oates writes
on how utterly impoverished & depraved the richest man in the world truly is...
on how utterly impoverished & depraved the richest man in the world truly is...
November 11, 2025 at 6:21 AM
The legendary Joyce Carol Oates writes
on how utterly impoverished & depraved the richest man in the world truly is...
on how utterly impoverished & depraved the richest man in the world truly is...
How many ears must one man have?
November 11, 2025 at 5:08 AM
How many ears must one man have?
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The U.S. military is being used inside the United States. There's a lot we don't know about how, why, and under what authorities.
Today, Lawfare is launching a new project–which includes a tracker and a map–to follow where and how the military is being domestically deployed.
Today, Lawfare is launching a new project–which includes a tracker and a map–to follow where and how the military is being domestically deployed.
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
The U.S. military is being used inside the United States. There's a lot we don't know about how, why, and under what authorities.
Today, Lawfare is launching a new project–which includes a tracker and a map–to follow where and how the military is being domestically deployed.
Today, Lawfare is launching a new project–which includes a tracker and a map–to follow where and how the military is being domestically deployed.
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Drawn 133 years ago, and the con hasn't changed one bit.
November 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Drawn 133 years ago, and the con hasn't changed one bit.