Kristine A
@kristinea.bsky.social
Doubt-filled Believer. Mormon feminist. Raising heck in Rexburg. Living w lupus. Hopeful historian. Idahome-grown. sahm to 4 (3 IVF) babies. Typos galore.
Good, bc 10 hrs of ldsconf was overkill
November 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Good, bc 10 hrs of ldsconf was overkill
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Great thread. Arriving at genuine knowledge always involves the friction of encountering complicating evidence and countervailing interpretations held by different humans you can’t control or ignore. LLMs eliminate that friction, and thus become slippery slopes into delusional rabbit holes.
LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
November 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Great thread. Arriving at genuine knowledge always involves the friction of encountering complicating evidence and countervailing interpretations held by different humans you can’t control or ignore. LLMs eliminate that friction, and thus become slippery slopes into delusional rabbit holes.
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Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch
The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
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Trump would only do this if:
a. He thinks he has it blocked in the Senate
b. He thinks he can withhold everything as part of an "ongoing investigation"
c. They're already altered / redacted the contents of the evidence enough to hide anything REALLY incriminating
a. He thinks he has it blocked in the Senate
b. He thinks he can withhold everything as part of an "ongoing investigation"
c. They're already altered / redacted the contents of the evidence enough to hide anything REALLY incriminating
@apnews.com:
In Reversal, Trump Says House Republicans Should Vote to Release Epstein Files
The president’s shift is an implicit acknowledgement that supporters of the measure have enough votes to pass it the House...It is a rare example of Trump backtracking because of opposition within the GOP.
In Reversal, Trump Says House Republicans Should Vote to Release Epstein Files
The president’s shift is an implicit acknowledgement that supporters of the measure have enough votes to pass it the House...It is a rare example of Trump backtracking because of opposition within the GOP.
In reversal, Trump says House Republicans should vote to release Epstein files
President Donald Trump said House Republicans should vote to release the files in the Jeffrey Epstein case, a startling reversal after previously fighting the proposal as a growing number of those in ...
apnews.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Trump would only do this if:
a. He thinks he has it blocked in the Senate
b. He thinks he can withhold everything as part of an "ongoing investigation"
c. They're already altered / redacted the contents of the evidence enough to hide anything REALLY incriminating
a. He thinks he has it blocked in the Senate
b. He thinks he can withhold everything as part of an "ongoing investigation"
c. They're already altered / redacted the contents of the evidence enough to hide anything REALLY incriminating
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Imagine how that cop operates when he’s not on national TV.
November 16, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Imagine how that cop operates when he’s not on national TV.
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What a terrible day to know how to read
November 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
What a terrible day to know how to read
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Everything so stupid but I have faith it can get stupider
November 14, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Everything so stupid but I have faith it can get stupider
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Trump's approval rating has fallen the most among the voters who are newest to his coalition: people of color and young people. Good article from Mary Radcliffe (who is a must-read): marywitha4.substack.com/p/trumps-app...
November 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Trump's approval rating has fallen the most among the voters who are newest to his coalition: people of color and young people. Good article from Mary Radcliffe (who is a must-read): marywitha4.substack.com/p/trumps-app...
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v pleased Sotomayor just said this same damn thing at oral argument in the tariffs case like UM didn't we say in the student loans case??
DOJ said this is different bc there's a foreign emergency; Sotomayor said ok bet, so we say global warming is an emergency and then we can have loan forgiveness?
DOJ said this is different bc there's a foreign emergency; Sotomayor said ok bet, so we say global warming is an emergency and then we can have loan forgiveness?
Every time I see Trump claim vast powers over economic policy that the Constitution does not give him, often only for the Supreme Court to step in and go 'seems legit,' I can't help but think about the Court carrying on as if canceling some student loan debt was shocking executive overreach
In a trio of cases, two currently pending before the Supreme Court and one that is likely to land on the justices’ doorstep as soon as Tuesday, President Donald Trump claims new powers that, if he prevails, would give him near-total control over all US fiscal and monetary policy.
November 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
v pleased Sotomayor just said this same damn thing at oral argument in the tariffs case like UM didn't we say in the student loans case??
DOJ said this is different bc there's a foreign emergency; Sotomayor said ok bet, so we say global warming is an emergency and then we can have loan forgiveness?
DOJ said this is different bc there's a foreign emergency; Sotomayor said ok bet, so we say global warming is an emergency and then we can have loan forgiveness?
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Libbing out so hard I might listen to the entire Hamilton soundtrack
November 5, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Libbing out so hard I might listen to the entire Hamilton soundtrack
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I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC
November 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
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The country has spoken. Get ready to drink some soy milk and hire minorities.
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 AM
The country has spoken. Get ready to drink some soy milk and hire minorities.
Lifted shoulders today. My kids had hugest meltdowns before church. Sweet old guy in my congregation bore his testimony abt heavenly mother today. Then I had tacos w lots of pickled red onions.
Also: handed wedding planning lead to husband who is in event mgt. things are looking up.
Also: handed wedding planning lead to husband who is in event mgt. things are looking up.
November 3, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Lifted shoulders today. My kids had hugest meltdowns before church. Sweet old guy in my congregation bore his testimony abt heavenly mother today. Then I had tacos w lots of pickled red onions.
Also: handed wedding planning lead to husband who is in event mgt. things are looking up.
Also: handed wedding planning lead to husband who is in event mgt. things are looking up.
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I really am just working from the basic premise of political science that public opinion isn’t just measurable — you can and should CREATE it.
This never stops being true, but I’m not sure Ds have ever, at least in my lifetime, learned to apply it for good. *Creating* public opinion either never occurs to them, or if it does, offends their sensibilities? It’s exasperating
November 3, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I really am just working from the basic premise of political science that public opinion isn’t just measurable — you can and should CREATE it.
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listen we may have lost our family business, made our kids miserable, had to live in a barn with goats and lost $50,000 to a local Russian slumlord, but at least we dont have to see gay people in public
November 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
listen we may have lost our family business, made our kids miserable, had to live in a barn with goats and lost $50,000 to a local Russian slumlord, but at least we dont have to see gay people in public
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More than half of all millennials & gen Z believe the American dream doesn't exist.
Only 36% of those over the age of 65 agree.
That's the generational divide in a nutshell.
Only 36% of those over the age of 65 agree.
That's the generational divide in a nutshell.
November 2, 2025 at 7:06 PM
More than half of all millennials & gen Z believe the American dream doesn't exist.
Only 36% of those over the age of 65 agree.
That's the generational divide in a nutshell.
Only 36% of those over the age of 65 agree.
That's the generational divide in a nutshell.
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Okay everyone it’s Thanksgiving week which means we are cruising into the holiday season.
Here’s a handy list of discourses we absolutely do not need to have this year! 🧵
Please repost to spread the word!
Here’s a handy list of discourses we absolutely do not need to have this year! 🧵
Please repost to spread the word!
November 26, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Okay everyone it’s Thanksgiving week which means we are cruising into the holiday season.
Here’s a handy list of discourses we absolutely do not need to have this year! 🧵
Please repost to spread the word!
Here’s a handy list of discourses we absolutely do not need to have this year! 🧵
Please repost to spread the word!
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has long emphasized the importance of having children. Now the church says it's worried about the declining birth rate. n.pr/4qAyN7D
Latter-day Saints are having fewer children. Church officials are taking note
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has long emphasized the importance of having children. Now the church says it's worried about the declining birth rate.
n.pr
October 31, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has long emphasized the importance of having children. Now the church says it's worried about the declining birth rate. n.pr/4qAyN7D
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If you were a foreign adversary trying to get the US to cripple itself economically, academically, politically, or public health-wise, is there is a single thing you’d want the GOP to do differently?
Genuinely can’t see it.
Not even suggesting DeSantis is a foreign asset. But he might as well be.
Genuinely can’t see it.
Not even suggesting DeSantis is a foreign asset. But he might as well be.
FL is moving forward w/ plan to end all childhood vaccine mandates. Starting with hepatitis B, chickenpox, and the bacteria causing meningitis and pneumonia. Then next year GOP FL legislature is expected to revisit 1977 law re: whooping cough, measles, polio, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and tetanus.
October 31, 2025 at 2:48 PM
If you were a foreign adversary trying to get the US to cripple itself economically, academically, politically, or public health-wise, is there is a single thing you’d want the GOP to do differently?
Genuinely can’t see it.
Not even suggesting DeSantis is a foreign asset. But he might as well be.
Genuinely can’t see it.
Not even suggesting DeSantis is a foreign asset. But he might as well be.
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[Cynicism is] “not generative. It judges things as they are, but does not lift a finger to try to shift them.” Krista Tippett
October 30, 2025 at 1:06 AM
[Cynicism is] “not generative. It judges things as they are, but does not lift a finger to try to shift them.” Krista Tippett
I used to be really into podcasts but what do you mean faith matters now has eight different podcasts and twelve different ways to follow them. It would take the amount of time to sort through a big pile of mostly filler for me to find one I’m excited abt. Wut.
October 29, 2025 at 4:54 AM
I used to be really into podcasts but what do you mean faith matters now has eight different podcasts and twelve different ways to follow them. It would take the amount of time to sort through a big pile of mostly filler for me to find one I’m excited abt. Wut.
I told my coworker that my oldest is engaged / getting sealed but that it’s extremely stressful / hard
Him: well the only thing matters is they got the most important thing right!
Me: … .. ?? …. ?? …
Oh yeah! Sealed!!! … You’re absolutely right! (Smiley face!)
Him: well the only thing matters is they got the most important thing right!
Me: … .. ?? …. ?? …
Oh yeah! Sealed!!! … You’re absolutely right! (Smiley face!)
October 24, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I told my coworker that my oldest is engaged / getting sealed but that it’s extremely stressful / hard
Him: well the only thing matters is they got the most important thing right!
Me: … .. ?? …. ?? …
Oh yeah! Sealed!!! … You’re absolutely right! (Smiley face!)
Him: well the only thing matters is they got the most important thing right!
Me: … .. ?? …. ?? …
Oh yeah! Sealed!!! … You’re absolutely right! (Smiley face!)
Wait until you get to episode 6! Elite TV 📺
I’m 15 minutes into the new season of The Diplomat, and this is just incredible.
October 24, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Wait until you get to episode 6! Elite TV 📺
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They are obsessed with identity politics and yet screaming that everyone else is and it's extremely funny.
October 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
They are obsessed with identity politics and yet screaming that everyone else is and it's extremely funny.
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Any serious future for democracy in America requires us to get rid of single-member districts. It is the only long-term solution to this nonsense.
October 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Any serious future for democracy in America requires us to get rid of single-member districts. It is the only long-term solution to this nonsense.