sschenkmanmoore.bsky.social
@sschenkmanmoore.bsky.social
This is a frustration I have with LLM tech, feels like we skipped a bunch of much easier wins.
Sometimes I think about simple things that don’t even require ML but nevertheless don’t get implemented.

Such as, iMessage could weight terms that have appeared recently in a conversation, or in the metadata in link preview cards, and treat them as words that don’t require autocorrection.
November 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
New Spiller Park midtown location pretty busy this morning
November 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Been listening to John Dickerson for years on Slate Gabfest and IMO he is stellar. Brings fair and deep context to every issue he comments on.
dickerson is one of the best broadcast journalists in the game, and someone who would clearly be a real asset to a new leader interested in strengthening the network's journalism. but, of course, we know weiss isn't actually interested in journalism as such.
John Dickerson To Depart CBS News In First Major Talent Exit Under New Paramount Owners
John Dickerson, co-anchor of CBS Evening News who has been with the network since 2009, said that he is exiting at the end of this year.
deadline.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Please take this survey on MARTA disruptions.
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MARTA Disruption Survey
MARTA disruptions
gatech.co1.qualtrics.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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New, by me, on why the City of Atlanta should not extend its TAD (TIF) districts and how it will hurt, not help, low-income Atlantans.

(Bracing for a new round of ad hominem attacks from Mayor Dickens or his staff/lobbyists, but I am traveling so may not see it.)

🧵1/N
Extending gentrifying Atlanta’s tax districts for 25 years makes little sense
Atlanta's Tax Allocation Districts (TADs) have run their course and we should find more novel ways to spur prosperity, build housing and assist low-income residents.
www.ajc.com
October 18, 2025 at 11:27 AM
This absolutely resonates with my experience, the ghost bus phenomenon is infuriating www.letspropelatl.org/voicesfromth...
Propel ATL releases “Voices from the Bus: MARTA Riders Speak Out.”
Transforming Atlanta’s streets into safe, inclusive, and thriving spaces for people to ride, walk, and roll.
www.letspropelatl.org
October 7, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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In case you missed it Friday, a very good @cwarzel.bsky.social piece about the very bad social web
Something Is Very Wrong Online
The cycle of violence will continue as long as the medium doesn’t change.
www.theatlantic.com
September 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years:
1. Make them fire you
2. Don’t go along to get along
3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role
4. Always escalate the conflict
August 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I enjoyed “a very special hospital”, is at 7 stages next weekend www.essentialtheatre.com/play/a-very-...
A Very Special Hospital
www.essentialtheatre.com
August 27, 2025 at 2:21 AM
When someone says they are going to be "heads down" on a project, that sounds to me like a nap
August 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Co-signed times a thousand. “Other people have no interiority” is, fundamentally, a deeply evil belief to hold which will lead you exclusively to terrible places
One of my most moral panic style opinions is the use of “NPC” as a slur is a symptom of a societal sociopathy epidemic.
August 25, 2025 at 12:38 PM
This is also a profoundly self-centered thing, “ah yes my group *must have* been the key factor in this other group‘s behavior“.
Basically it's this: any time they discuss a behavior or belief of MAHA types, or vaccine deniers, or the right generally that is crazy, they instinctively, immediately explain it through recourse to something Dems or the administration did.
August 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Perhaps obvioustown but with morality, values, etc, there's a tendency to think you're **good** when in fact you're **average** (which is fine/normal).
August 20, 2025 at 12:56 PM
> murder budget
Oop that's it, that's what I'm calling it from now on
I just really worry about what will happen to these people when this murder budget hits. Basically everyone I saw there was already on SNAP and still going to the food bank. Lots of them had jobs and the ones that didn’t were in such rough shape physically that working is off the table 7/x
August 15, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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the guy running a ponzi scheme is a far bigger threat to society than a guy who robbed a convenience store and latter has a far better shot at being rehabilitated than the former, imo
here's my maybe kinda moderately warm take: most violent crime needs less punitive punishment and more rehabilitative work; most white collar crime is psychopath shit that should get folks punished far more severely.
August 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Insanely cheap considering they’re gonna spend $11 billion to add tolls lanes to SR400 that nobody wants
$3.5B sounds like a lot but we’re getting 22 miles of reliable (revenue producing) transit connecting hundreds of thousands of current and future residents across 45 neighborhoods. Compare than to another megaproject the Stitch which $2B for a 3/4 mile project in one neighborhood.
Last night, Beltline officials unveiled a route for light rail along the northwest quadrant and identified station locations in the south. Plus: A $3.5B price tag. Details here: www.ajc.com/news/2025/08...
August 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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I’ve heard from a lot of people at CDC in the last day and a half. Not one was surprised at the attack.

Gift link to my story in the Atlantic:

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
‘I’m Actually Surprised It Didn’t Happen Sooner’
CDC staffers saw the violence coming.
www.theatlantic.com
August 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Path 2 does not stop at trans people. Banning trans people from this or that won’t help anything and so there will be a new scapegoat and then another and then another
democrats are going to be dealing with anti-trans hate until they either

- nut the fuck up and defend these people from bigoted attacks

- concede to every republican attack on the issue, inevitably leading to the total eradication of trans people from all public life

literally the only 2 options
August 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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@adambonica.bsky.social makes a much more coherent version of my below point in the following post. 💯🎯 data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-most-v...
July 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Well this is some BS

"If a human were behind the wheel, the driver would likely get a citation and potentially a fine or points on their license...However, if the car is driverless, there is likely no punishment."

www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
Different rules for humans and robots? APD says court system cannot process citations for Waymo
According to the Atlanta Police Standard Operating Procedure, they are told not to issue citations to driverless vehicles.
www.wsbtv.com
July 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
IMO a crucial ingredient in the toil of retail/restaurant life is needing the job to get by: a person with money behind them cannot have direct access to that experience
Man hands misery onto man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.

(I do not think that doing this would have any effect on people's empathy and it's a sort of noble savage romantic idea)
July 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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the new york times got rid of its public editor some time ago, so I took the position out for a spin www.theverge.com/culture/7000...
How The New York Times is (still) getting gamed by the right
And blowing its credibility in the process.
www.theverge.com
July 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Saw a driverless Waymo block the box today 🤷‍♂️
June 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Evergreen. Juneteenth was slavers getting caught trying to hold on just a little bit longer.
Juneteenth does not celebrate "When news of the end of slavery finally reached Texas."

Juneteenth celebrates when the racist people in Texas that tried to hold on to slavery for as long as they could even after it was abolished, finally couldn't keep up the lie anymore.
mekka okereke :verified: (@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)
Juneteenth does not celebrate "When news of the end of slavery finally reached Texas." Juneteenth celebrates when the racist people in Texas that tried to hold on to slavery for as long as they could...
hachyderm.io
June 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM