panoptigoth
@panoptigoth.bsky.social
Great Lakes nomad and occasional metalsmithing. Aura farming @ your library
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Going to need ALOOF WIFE on a nice sweater.
I would totally bring snacks to the socially-distanced bonfire.
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I would totally bring snacks to the socially-distanced bonfire.
ahahaha is he really trying to sue the BBC? God I hate this stupid timeline so much.
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
ahahaha is he really trying to sue the BBC? God I hate this stupid timeline so much.
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a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
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How do journalists get records from government agencies through @freedom.press public records requests? Is that something anyone can access?
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November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
How do journalists get records from government agencies through @freedom.press public records requests? Is that something anyone can access?
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Just a note here that the Secretary of Transportation oversees the FAA, an org that has been actively on fire for decades at this point.
The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
November 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Just a note here that the Secretary of Transportation oversees the FAA, an org that has been actively on fire for decades at this point.
Journalists and op-ed writers are almost universally shit. People outside these professions tend to produce more compelling, interesting writers for many reasons.
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Journalists and op-ed writers are almost universally shit. People outside these professions tend to produce more compelling, interesting writers for many reasons.
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when this hell in himself yawned beneath him, a wild cry would be heard through the ship
November 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
when this hell in himself yawned beneath him, a wild cry would be heard through the ship
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“This weight presses on me every day. I am flooded with stories. There are so many I cannot remember them all; cannot keep straight who was gassed, beaten, abducted, or shot. I write to leave a record, to stare at the track of the tornado. I write to leave a warning. I write to call for help.”
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
“This weight presses on me every day. I am flooded with stories. There are so many I cannot remember them all; cannot keep straight who was gassed, beaten, abducted, or shot. I write to leave a record, to stare at the track of the tornado. I write to leave a warning. I write to call for help.”
Remembering a line from ALAB here at Don’t Document University that went “you can be substantively crazy or procedurally crazy, but you shouldn’t do both.”
November 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Remembering a line from ALAB here at Don’t Document University that went “you can be substantively crazy or procedurally crazy, but you shouldn’t do both.”
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Start following you congress people with shame bells
Go full THEATRE KID
they want to act a monkey give them a CIRCUS
Go full THEATRE KID
they want to act a monkey give them a CIRCUS
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Start following you congress people with shame bells
Go full THEATRE KID
they want to act a monkey give them a CIRCUS
Go full THEATRE KID
they want to act a monkey give them a CIRCUS
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Apropos of theonion.com/democrats-si...
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
WASHINGTON—Having thus far caved on eliminating the filibuster, advancing an adequate climate change agenda, and protecting voting rights, congressional Democrats told reporters Wednesday they were si...
theonion.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Apropos of theonion.com/democrats-si...
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I need a professional way to say “these meetings are a waste of my meds because any time issues or concerns are raised, they vanish into a black hole.”
November 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I need a professional way to say “these meetings are a waste of my meds because any time issues or concerns are raised, they vanish into a black hole.”
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AI produces the version of Aloy that misogynist gamers say they want BY DEFAULT. It will always be lipgloss and smooth skin. It will always work in service of the desires of the assumed-to-be straight white male viewer.
AI women exist to comfort men who hate real women.
AI women exist to comfort men who hate real women.
November 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
AI produces the version of Aloy that misogynist gamers say they want BY DEFAULT. It will always be lipgloss and smooth skin. It will always work in service of the desires of the assumed-to-be straight white male viewer.
AI women exist to comfort men who hate real women.
AI women exist to comfort men who hate real women.
These people are all Homelander without the charisma.
I know people think Musk only bought Twitter to help the rise of fascism.
While that’s important, I still think it’s secondary to his primary goal, which was to own the place where his fans praise him.
With AI, Musk’s use of the platform for love and validation is only getting more transparent.
While that’s important, I still think it’s secondary to his primary goal, which was to own the place where his fans praise him.
With AI, Musk’s use of the platform for love and validation is only getting more transparent.
November 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
These people are all Homelander without the charisma.
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Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
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It’s very much a prototype but I have to share a preview of the interface @djevans.bsky.social is working on for our Viral Texts data—it maps reprinting data back onto the newspaper page, allowing users to browse what reprints appeared together on each page—with links back to full reprint clusters
November 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
It’s very much a prototype but I have to share a preview of the interface @djevans.bsky.social is working on for our Viral Texts data—it maps reprinting data back onto the newspaper page, allowing users to browse what reprints appeared together on each page—with links back to full reprint clusters
At a distance so much of it seemed to be “I love my city and like you, I take the subway. Things could be better,” and I’m not even sure Cuomo knows how the subway works.
It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points
November 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
At a distance so much of it seemed to be “I love my city and like you, I take the subway. Things could be better,” and I’m not even sure Cuomo knows how the subway works.
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Jason Stanley's publicist is as good as or even better than the natalist glasses couple's publicist
Jason Stanley isn’t afraid to use the F-word when talking about President Donald Trump.
The author of How Fascism Works and Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future is clear: He believes the US is currently under an authoritarian regime led by a fascist leader.
The author of How Fascism Works and Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future is clear: He believes the US is currently under an authoritarian regime led by a fascist leader.
I study fascism. I’ve already fled America.
On this week’s “More To The Story,” former Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley explains his recent move to Canada and calls the Trump administration’s takeover of the US government a “coup.”
www.motherjones.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Jason Stanley's publicist is as good as or even better than the natalist glasses couple's publicist
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We had fucking congressional hearings over Mortal Kombat.
There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
We had fucking congressional hearings over Mortal Kombat.
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There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
There are no words for how evil this is
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“And then you have librarians who are experiencing a real existential crisis because they are getting asked by their jobs to promote [AI] tools that produce more misinformation. It's the most, like, emperor-has-no-clothes-type situation that I have ever witnessed.” - Alison Macrina
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
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November 7, 2025 at 7:15 AM
“And then you have librarians who are experiencing a real existential crisis because they are getting asked by their jobs to promote [AI] tools that produce more misinformation. It's the most, like, emperor-has-no-clothes-type situation that I have ever witnessed.” - Alison Macrina
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The GOP wants your employer to be able to do this, too, and they always have.
"At this point, women have been cleared out of all of the military’s top jobs."
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
The Administration Wants Military Women to Know Their Place
Pete Hegseth seems to be on a mission to erase women from the top ranks of the U.S. armed forces.
www.theatlantic.com
July 23, 2025 at 11:09 AM
The GOP wants your employer to be able to do this, too, and they always have.
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You may think this is an easy one, but what if you're a billionaire already planning to have retreated to an underground bunker in ten years, and need a technology which can persuade everyone else that everything is fine, really?
A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?
China has made cheap, clean energy available in huge quantities. The world should take the win econ.st/4oqFszB
Photo: Eyevine
Photo: Eyevine
November 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM
You may think this is an easy one, but what if you're a billionaire already planning to have retreated to an underground bunker in ten years, and need a technology which can persuade everyone else that everything is fine, really?