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Phil Lewis

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The government shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Travis Peters, an urban farmer in Detroit, is giving out free produce tomorrow

'If it's getting tight, my food is free. Don’t even sweat that'

As SNAP benefits come under threat, a Detroit farmer is stepping up to help fill the void

The federal shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Urban farmers like Travis Peters are stepping up to ensure their communities can eat.

www.whatimreading.net

October 27, 2025 at 11:06 PM

mundek

@mundek.bsky.social

MAGAt depravity:

Texas Man Born to U.S. Soldier on U.S. Army Base Abroad Deported

He has no citizenship to any country, despite SCOTUS case

www.austinchronicle.com

June 29, 2025 at 9:46 PM

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David Dayen

@ddayen.bsky.social

People immediately pivoting to slot Lander into a progressive primary challenge are missing the implicit deal in the cross-endorsement: he's going to be deputy mayor, essentially COO of New York City. He's going to use his experience with the inner workings of government to help Mamdani deliver.

June 25, 2025 at 10:53 AM

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Trump Litigation Bot

@trumplitigation.bots.law

New filing: "Newsom v. Trump (National Guard Deployment)"
Doc #99: RESPONSE re 98 Order, 94 Supplemental Brief by Donald J. Trump, Pete Hegseth, U.S. Department of Defense. (Hartlieb, Garry) (Filed on 6/25/2025) (Entered: 06/25/2025)

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June 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM

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Cooper Lund

@cooperlund.online

There's a lot of things to talk about in this essay, but I think we aren't focusing on how much of an entitled shithead the guy in the beginning is. He's going to get a really rude awakening from life because he doesn't seem to think the rules apply to him.

Chungin “Roy” Lee stepped onto Columbia University’s campus this past fall and, by his own admission, proceeded to use generative artificial intelligence to cheat on nearly every assignment. As a computer-science major, he depended on AI for his introductory programming classes: “I’d just dump the prompt into ChatGPT and hand in whatever it spat out.” By his rough math, AI wrote 80 percent of every essay he turned in. “At the end, I’d put on the finishing touches. I’d just insert 20 percent of my humanity, my voice, into it,” Lee told me recently.

Lee was born in South Korea and grew up outside Atlanta, where his parents run a college-prep consulting business. He said he was admitted to Harvard early in his senior year of high school, but the university rescinded its offer after he was suspended for sneaking out during an overnight field trip before graduation. A year later, he applied to 26 schools; he didn’t get into any of them. So he spent the next year at a community college, before transferring to Columbia. (His personal essay, which turned his winding road to higher education into a parable for his ambition to build companies, was written with help from ChatGPT.) When he started at Columbia as a sophomore this past September, he didn’t worry much about academics or his GPA. “Most assignments in college are not relevant,” he told me. “They’re hackable by AI, and I just had no interest in doing them.” While other new students fretted over the university’s rigorous core curriculum, described by the school as “intellectually expansive” and “personally transformative,” Lee used AI to breeze through with minimal effort. When I asked him why he had gone through so much trouble to get to an Ivy League university only to off-load all of the learning to a robot, he said, “It’s the best place to meet your co-founder and your wife.”

By the end of his first semester, Lee checked off one of those boxes. He met a co-founder, Neel Shanmugam, a junior in the school of engineering, and together they developed a series of potential start-ups: a dating app just for Columbia students, a sales tool for liquor distributors, and a note-taking app. None of them took off. Then Lee had an idea. As a coder, he had spent some 600 miserable hours on LeetCode, a training platform that prepares coders to answer the algorithmic riddles tech companies ask job and internship candidates during interviews. Lee, like many young developers, found the riddles tedious and mostly irrelevant to the work coders might actually do on the job. What was the point? What if they built a program that hid AI from browsers during remote job interviews so that interviewees could cheat their way through instead?

In February, Lee and Shanmugam launched a tool that did just that. Interview Coder’s website featured a banner that read F*CK LEETCODE. Lee posted a video of himself on YouTube using it to cheat his way through an internship interview with Amazon. (He actually got the internship, but turned it down.) A month later, Lee was called into Columbia’s academic-integrity office. The school put him on disciplinary probation after a committee found him guilty of “advertising a link to a cheating tool” and “providing students with the knowledge to access this tool and use it how they see fit,” according to the committee’s report.

Lee thought it absurd that Columbia, which had a partnership with ChatGPT’s parent company, OpenAI, would punish him for innovating with AI. Although Columbia’s policy on AI is similar to that of many other universities’ — students are prohibited from using it unless their professor explicitly permits them to do so, either on a class-by-class or case-by-case basis — Lee said he doesn’t know a single student at the school who isn’t using AI to cheat. To be clear, Lee doesn’t think this is a bad thing. “I think we are years — or months, probably — away from a world where nobody thinks using AI for homework is considered cheating,” he said.

May 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM

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CanRay

@canray.bsky.social

Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you. - James 5:1-6

At first I thought this was an angry Tumblr post but then it turned out to be the Literal Bible and it got 1000x better

May 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM

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John Scalzi

@scalzi.com

To the people who think racist authoritarians should be posting more on Bluesky: What the actual fuck is wrong with you, fuck off with that mealy-mouth "both sides" bullshit, thank you for your attention, now go fuck yourselves

April 13, 2025 at 11:05 PM

mundek

@mundek.bsky.social

"Our results provide the first clear evidence that cognitive abilities exert a significant, independent, and broad-based effect over people’s ability to use computers."

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Cognitive abilities predict performance in everyday computer tasks

Fluency with computer applications has assumed a crucial role in work-related and other day-to-day activities. While prior experience is known to pred…

www.sciencedirect.com

April 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM

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Kris Inwood

@kris-inwood.bsky.social

Linguistic analysis of 12000 letters 1730-1980 leads Félix Krawatzek & Emma Moreton to conclude America became home for German immigrants much more quickly than the Irish (who maintained a desire to return home to Ireland longer).
New & OA in Social Science Hist
🗃📜🍎🏺 #history #AcademicSky #sociology

Finding home in Irish and German migrant letters: A comparative analysis | Social Science History | Cambridge Core

Finding home in Irish and German migrant letters: A comparative analysis

doi.org

April 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM

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MadeWithSvelte

@madewithsvelte.com

gittok.dev is a TikTok-style app built with Svelte to explore GitHub repos 📱↕️ - madewithsvelte.com/gittokdev

April 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM

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Alomorfe

@alomorfe.bsky.social

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March 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM

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NY Times Pitchbot

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Whether it's liberal students booing Charles Murray or conservative presidents sending innocent fathers to die in El Salvadoran torture prisons, there's been plenty of incivility on both sides of the political spectrum.

April 1, 2025 at 1:41 PM

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holadayb1

@holadayb.bsky.social

Decided to start off today with a positive note 💙😊:
www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/03/by-z...
Plus a little science, a little knowledge, a little hope.

By zapping seawater with electricity, scientists make a solid carbon-negative building material

In a double whammy, the method sucks up carbon dioxide and upcycles it into a material that can be used to make concrete, cement, plaster, and paint.

www.anthropocenemagazine.org

April 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM

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Comendador Perdro Lunis 💦

@pedrones.bsky.social

Ele avisou mesmo.

Imagem da segunda capa da edição de 1887 d'O Capital, do Karl Marx, porém o texto foi alterado. O título diz (em inglês, tradução minha): "Eu te alertei sobre essa porra, cara. Eu te avisei, mano.

Uma Análise Crítica da Produção Capitalista

Por Karl Marx"

April 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM

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Secular Talk

@kylekulinskishow.bsky.social

March 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM

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John Cusack

@johncusack.bsky.social

#teslatakedownn

March 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM

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JayIsPainting 🍁

@jayispainting.earthskyart.ca

When there's a lunar eclipse on the earth, there's a solar eclipse on the moon. (I assume the first ever photo?)

So cool.

Gene J. Mikulka @genejm1017.bsky.social · Mar 14

Via #FireflyAerospace "#BlueGhost got her first diamond ring! Captured at our landing site in the Moon’s Mare Crisium around 3:30 am CDT, the photo shows the sun about to emerge from totality behind Earth. Hope to have more shots to share soon! #BGM1" twitter.com/Firefly_Spac...