Amanda M Hatfield
@robotsvsghosts.bsky.social
photographer (of live music + more), visual artist, crazy cat lady, awkward. photo editor, social media manager, news, etc at @brooklynvegan. she/her, gay
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MechaHitler, M.D.
December 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
MechaHitler, M.D.
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I'd rather live in a world with with zero AI and no new ideas, than in a world that relies on AI for ANY ideas.
December 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I'd rather live in a world with with zero AI and no new ideas, than in a world that relies on AI for ANY ideas.
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yeah this is a freaking dumb premise "we're running out of new ideas" but yeah good point, have you tried dealing with insane income inequality so people can like create instead of scrapping to survive while other people go to space for fun and hoard all the means of production? man fuck all this
December 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
yeah this is a freaking dumb premise "we're running out of new ideas" but yeah good point, have you tried dealing with insane income inequality so people can like create instead of scrapping to survive while other people go to space for fun and hoard all the means of production? man fuck all this
Let's fucking go!!!
“Pairing free buses with paid parking says we value people in motion more than cars at rest,” writes Nicolas Rohatyn.
Opinion | The Way to Pay for Free Buses Is to End Free Parking
Free buses would be transformative not only for riders, but for the ecosystem of the city as a whole.
nyti.ms
December 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Let's fucking go!!!
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I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.
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!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
December 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
2025 favorites.
December 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
2025 favorites.
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the way people talk about AI is like it's a stalker you ought to be nicer to
December 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
the way people talk about AI is like it's a stalker you ought to be nicer to
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"AI has nothing to offer other than the promise of more work for little to no return" is an excellent summary of AI with or without reading the books and the reviews.
December 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"AI has nothing to offer other than the promise of more work for little to no return" is an excellent summary of AI with or without reading the books and the reviews.
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This happens every day with a collective shrug from most in NYC - particularly the cops and elected officials - while every single crime that happens in the subway is put under a microscope.
A pedestrian was killed by the driver of a massive SUV while crossing the street on the Lower East Side on Thursday night. buff.ly/Pp5HbJ6
Pedestrian Killed by Hit-and-Run Driver on Crowded Lowest East Side Street - Streetsblog New York City
The driver kept going. EMTs took the badly injured woman to Bellevue Hospital, where she died.
nyc.streetsblog.org
December 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This happens every day with a collective shrug from most in NYC - particularly the cops and elected officials - while every single crime that happens in the subway is put under a microscope.
Wrote about Rosalía, Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band, Black Country New Road, S.G. Goodman, Samia, Snocaps, Anna von Hausswolff, Perfume Genius, and yes, Geese, for our year end list.
BrooklynVegan's Top 55 Albums of 2025 www.brooklynvegan.com/brooklynvega...
December 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Wrote about Rosalía, Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band, Black Country New Road, S.G. Goodman, Samia, Snocaps, Anna von Hausswolff, Perfume Genius, and yes, Geese, for our year end list.
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Just to recap:
The TikTok ban? Bad.
The SCOTUS ruling upholding the TikTok ban? Also bad.
Trump choosing not to enforce the ban? More bad.
The Trump-backed mostly-US consortium taking over US Tiktok? You guessed it...bad.
The TikTok ban? Bad.
The SCOTUS ruling upholding the TikTok ban? Also bad.
Trump choosing not to enforce the ban? More bad.
The Trump-backed mostly-US consortium taking over US Tiktok? You guessed it...bad.
December 19, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Just to recap:
The TikTok ban? Bad.
The SCOTUS ruling upholding the TikTok ban? Also bad.
Trump choosing not to enforce the ban? More bad.
The Trump-backed mostly-US consortium taking over US Tiktok? You guessed it...bad.
The TikTok ban? Bad.
The SCOTUS ruling upholding the TikTok ban? Also bad.
Trump choosing not to enforce the ban? More bad.
The Trump-backed mostly-US consortium taking over US Tiktok? You guessed it...bad.
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Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.
December 19, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.
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Something to keep your eye on. Popular discourse is starting to turn against AI, so new frameworks are being built to continue selling it. We are about to see a flood of media that qualifies AI: “Gen AI” is bad and overhyped but “predictive” or “analytic AI” is responsible and good. +
December 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Something to keep your eye on. Popular discourse is starting to turn against AI, so new frameworks are being built to continue selling it. We are about to see a flood of media that qualifies AI: “Gen AI” is bad and overhyped but “predictive” or “analytic AI” is responsible and good. +
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Read this. Then read it again.
December 17, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Read this. Then read it again.
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Folks, would you believe me if I told you JD Vance was over there railing against the immigrants as the reason for the antisemitism
December 16, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Folks, would you believe me if I told you JD Vance was over there railing against the immigrants as the reason for the antisemitism
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New: When the Washington Post ran tests on its AI personalized podcasts, the paper found that between 68% and 84% (!!) of the pods had potential issues.
Still, the paper decided to release the product anyway, saying it would “iterate through the remaining issues”
www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
Still, the paper decided to release the product anyway, saying it would “iterate through the remaining issues”
www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
December 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
New: When the Washington Post ran tests on its AI personalized podcasts, the paper found that between 68% and 84% (!!) of the pods had potential issues.
Still, the paper decided to release the product anyway, saying it would “iterate through the remaining issues”
www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
Still, the paper decided to release the product anyway, saying it would “iterate through the remaining issues”
www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
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I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
December 15, 2025 at 6:03 AM
I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
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Urbanists will talk about how cars are a machine that makes you selfish and crazy, and I know it’s easy to roll your eyes at that but if you give drivers the ability to comment they will say “yes I am selfish and crazy”
I care about the harm to my sanity and schedule for being forced to go artificially slow
December 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Urbanists will talk about how cars are a machine that makes you selfish and crazy, and I know it’s easy to roll your eyes at that but if you give drivers the ability to comment they will say “yes I am selfish and crazy”
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It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
December 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
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Disney saw a tech platform that tells children to self-harm, and thought, “let’s have the kids be told to self-harm by a perfect video representation Mickey Mouse or Iron Man or Luke Skywalker!” That is fucking unimaginable.
December 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Disney saw a tech platform that tells children to self-harm, and thought, “let’s have the kids be told to self-harm by a perfect video representation Mickey Mouse or Iron Man or Luke Skywalker!” That is fucking unimaginable.
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This will happen to people more and more and lead to terrible things
googled something and clicked a link to a website I'd never heard of that looked like a forum, read the discussion and realized the person asking a question and all of the answers were all LLM generated, the entire website was a fake forum pretending to be people asking/answering questions
December 12, 2025 at 7:36 AM
This will happen to people more and more and lead to terrible things
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huge thank you to our brave resistance democrats for throwing away all their leverage during the shutdown in exchange for this vote they knew would fail, heckuva job guys!
JUST IN: The US Senate has rejected the both of the proposed healthcare bills, which likely will now cause Obamacare subsidies to lapse for over 20 million Americans.
December 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
huge thank you to our brave resistance democrats for throwing away all their leverage during the shutdown in exchange for this vote they knew would fail, heckuva job guys!
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I sometimes think Hochul has done just enough for NY and has been just loud enough fighting Trump to fend off Delgado in a primary next year, but then she does stuff like this.
BREAKING: NY Gov. Kathy Hochul gutted an AI regulation bill awaiting her signature and replaced it wholesale with a weaker version sought by Big Tech firms. At least two of the groups lobbying on the bill held fundraisers for Hochul in recent weeks.
prospect.org/2025/12/11/h...
prospect.org/2025/12/11/h...
Hochul Caves to Big Tech on AI Safety Bill - The American Prospect
A bill that passed the New York legislature was completely gutted and substituted with language perceived as friendlier to the industry.
prospect.org
December 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I sometimes think Hochul has done just enough for NY and has been just loud enough fighting Trump to fend off Delgado in a primary next year, but then she does stuff like this.
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Congratulations you fucking morons
December 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Congratulations you fucking morons