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Mike Malecki
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recovering academic (political science/ statistics), tech adjacent (yougov/ crunch), «“‘ai’”» cassandra
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cgsunit.bsky.social
I love learning better and more precise wording. This afternoon's discovery is from Anna Mills and Nate Angell, and their paper I missed from February.

"Using mirage instead of hallucination enables us to stop anthropomorphizing AI and see the incongruities it generates for what they really are."
Are We Tripping? The Mirage of AI Hallucinations
There is a deep disorder in the discourse of generative artificial intelligence (AI). When AI seems to make things up or distort reality — adding extra fingers
papers.ssrn.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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cheryllynneaton.bsky.social
Look, I'm just gonna tell cishet white people right now--Newsom ain't the one. You got Walz and Pritzker out here. You do not need a Bill Clinton clone wearing Mitt Romney's skin.
jacob-redman.bsky.social Jacob Redman @jacob-redman.bsky.social · 4d
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be “more culturally normal” and “less judgmental.”
December 7, 2025 at 2:08 AM
malecki.bsky.social
Harlow’s Still Here share.inquirer.com/3e7SAL
Harlow's still here
Fifty years ago, Harlow was the queen of Philadelphia nightlife, Jack Kelly’s girlfriend, and the city's most famous transgender woman. Today, she’s ready to tell her story.
share.inquirer.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
Yet again, a district court showed its work

Yet again, the Supreme Court showed its ass

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/texas...
The Supreme Court Wants Republicans to Keep the House In 2026
A federal district court found that Texas Republicans’ redistricting proposal is an illegal racial gerrymander. The conservative justices couldn't care less.
ballsandstrikes.org
December 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social
joining the war on AI on the side of bong joon ho
robdelaney.bsky.social Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 9d
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
Bong Joon Ho took a characteristically radical approach when questioned on his thoughts around the rise of Al technology at the jury press conference of the Marrakech Film Festival on Saturday. The Korean director, who is president of the jury, gave two responses, one measured, the other deeply personal. "My official answer is, Al is good because it's the very beginning of the human race finally seriously thinking about what only humans can do. But my personal answer is, I'm going to organize a military squad, and their mission is to destroy AI," he said.
November 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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kattenbarge.bsky.social
It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality
November 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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rcolesworthy.bsky.social
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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abeba.bsky.social
and all of the arguments we made 5 yrs ago in this paper about why the idea of robot rights relies on faulty assumptions about the nature of human cognition and intelligence still hold

Robot Rights?: Let's Talk about Human Welfare Instead dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
November 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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abeba.bsky.social
we've written about this in the past

firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...
November 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
malecki.bsky.social
Preferably a fountain pen or a Pigma felt tip
timnitgebru.bsky.social Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 14d
Pen and paper?
techcrunch.com TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 14d
Altman and Ive tease a simple AI device aimed at calm, distraction-free computing, launching within two years.
November 25, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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katrafiy.bsky.social
One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Look what @dandrezner.bsky.social started over at the hellsite?
A thread from Xitter. It starts with a Dan Drezner RT of Pete Hegseth tweeting: OPERATION ROUGH RIDER = Freedom of Navigation for U.S. ships OPERATION MIDNIGHT HAMMER = Obliteration of Iranian nuclear sites OPERATION SOUTHERN SPEAR = Destroy Narco-Terrorists killing Americans Drezner tweets: Coming soon: OPERATION HUSKY FARMBOY OPERATION THROBBING MEMBER OPERATION STRAPPING MANSERVANT OPERATION MORNING WOOD Someone responds: OPERATION DEEP PENETRATION = Destruction of Venezuelan assets located in-country. OPERATION KNEELING GRASP = Protection of paralyzed asset in territory under threat of invasion. OPERATION ONE PUMP = Surprise aerial release of payload while diplomatic negotiations ensue. Another person responds: Operation Bareback Mountain Operation Folsom Street Fair Operation Palm Springs Operation White Party Operation Fire Island Nights Still another: OPERATION MORNING MOUTHFUL OPERATION GREASED VIBRATION OPERATION BEGUILING FLAIR PECTORAL HAIR OPERATION MEAT PACK
November 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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A Farmer, a Designer and a Dating App Unite to Save Some ‘Gay Sheep’ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/s...
A Farmer, a Designer and a Dating App Unite to Save Some ‘Gay Sheep’
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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carolecadwalla.bsky.social
NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.

It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.

open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
The Great AI Bubble
Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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mcsweeneys.net
"America, are you seriously not picking up what I’m putting down? I’m old enough to remember when everyone was like 'believe Black women.'"
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wit...
With America on My Last Fucking Nerve, I, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Dissent
You know me as the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court. Over the past three years, I’ve tried changing the system from within. I’ve wri...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
I just want one— ONE— decently-run short-form social media framework in this heaven-forsaken benighted hellscape of an internet age; why is that so much to ask??? bsky.app/profile/mommunism.bsky.social/post/3m5hmytc2xs2f
mommunism.bsky.social Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 26d
Well I can see Bluesky is handling a PR crisis in their normal competent manner
I was suspended from BlueSky for defending the honor of Johnny Cash. I wish I were joking. In early October, I referenced the "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die" lyric of "Folsom Prison Blues" in response to a terrible Wall Street Journal article saying that Johnny Cash was uncool. I quote-tweeted the article and everyone understood the reference. There was no outcry. I stand by my assessment that Johnny Cash is cool. I do not like being the subject of so much attention, especially when I cannot see the discussion. But the BlueSky admins are now claiming that I wrote a post saying, out of nowhere, "I want to shoot the author of this article just to watch him die". They are not posting a screenshot of the actual tweet, which shows that I am quote-tweeting an article about Johnny Cash, and that my post is obviously not a threat but a play on "Folsom Prison Blues." BlueSky is lying and saying I posted this line on November 10. I did not. I posted it in early October, when the WS) article came out. You can see that they are lying about the date from this page showing my last BlueSky tweets: I was not given any explanation for my suspension the first two times l inquired. Later I was told it was for the "Folsom Prison Blues" reference, and I asked for clarification but did not receive it. I thought it might be a prank until a reporter reached out this morning and confirmed it. BlueSky's behavior is bizarre and unwarranted. I have lost access to friends and all my posts and photos. I am incredibly grateful for the outpouring of support here on Substack and also on BlueSky - though I cannot see it, because I am suspended. To quote another Johnny Cash song: "I ain't never done nothin' to nobody/ I ain't never got nothin from nobody, no time/ And until I get somethin' from somebody, sometime, I don't intend to do nothin' for nobody, no time." As for BlueSky...
November 13, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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pookleblinky.bsky.social
One of the striking things in Epstein's emails is how fucking inarticulate he is, and how *every other billionaire is just as bad at communicating*.

They're the exact textual equivalents of any interview with Altman or Musk or Thiel etc just fucking babbling incoherent word salad.
November 13, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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cethanleahy.com
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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are0h.blacksky.app
It cannot be denied that ChatGPT is a eugenics project.
couts.bsky.social Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · Oct 27
NEW: "The company’s estimates therefore suggest that every seven days, around 560,000 people may be exchanging messages with ChatGPT that indicate they are experiencing mania or psychosis." @lmatsakis.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/chatgp...
OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week
OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week
www.wired.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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philnobilejr.bsky.social
Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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iandunt.bsky.social
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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abeba.bsky.social
me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you?

students: no AI

I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion
November 6, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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eryk.bsky.social
I get why it’s confusing, but “everything an LLM says is a lie, including the truth” is, I think, a good frame for dealing with them.
November 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM