Ally Stewart
@allystewart.bsky.social
Book nerd. Oxford comma enthusiast. I know my way around a cheese plate. Currently blogging about trying to teach high school English Literature in a world where LLMs are a thing https://schrodingerschatgpt.blogspot.com/
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Ally Stewart
@allystewart.bsky.social
· Feb 12
Ally Stewart is never wrong...
Also smut is good and very fun and people should not be snobs about it
uncontroversial take
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Prosecutors in California used A.I. to argue that a 57-year-old man should be held without bail, his lawyers say, filing a brief that included wholesale misinterpretations of the law, as well as quotations that do not actually appear in the cited texts. nyti.ms/3M1bVye
Prosecutor Used Flawed A.I. to Keep a Man in Jail, His Lawyers Say
The case is among the first in which a prosecutor is accused of filing court papers marred by A.I.-generated mistakes.
nyti.ms
November 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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I just listend to @pablo.show's podcast about Riley Gaines, and this strikes me as similar:
Repeating a story publicly over and over, refining it, adding to it, leaving details out until your narrative is low on accuracy but guaranteed to get you niche group membership and their claps and hugs
Repeating a story publicly over and over, refining it, adding to it, leaving details out until your narrative is low on accuracy but guaranteed to get you niche group membership and their claps and hugs
The decline of religion as a source of meaning in people's lives remains underrated as a factor shaping society. The need doesn't go away - they just seek it out elsewhere in (often false) health/wellness beliefs, (often highly polarized/conflictual) politics, etc. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I just listend to @pablo.show's podcast about Riley Gaines, and this strikes me as similar:
Repeating a story publicly over and over, refining it, adding to it, leaving details out until your narrative is low on accuracy but guaranteed to get you niche group membership and their claps and hugs
Repeating a story publicly over and over, refining it, adding to it, leaving details out until your narrative is low on accuracy but guaranteed to get you niche group membership and their claps and hugs
Grok, show me the saddest man alive
If people don't hate you as much as you deserve, Grok can help you get hated the exact right amount in a much shorter time #efficiency
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Grok, show me the saddest man alive
If people don't hate you as much as you deserve, Grok can help you get hated the exact right amount in a much shorter time #efficiency
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
If people don't hate you as much as you deserve, Grok can help you get hated the exact right amount in a much shorter time #efficiency
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Americans need to eat fewer ultra-processed foods and more dubious powders
And yes, the swag bags. Attendees received MAHA-branded tote bags with:
- Packets of creatine
- Beef tallow potato chips ($79 for a 6-pack!!)
- Mouth tape
- RFK Jr's biography
- Beef protein bars
- Packets of creatine
- Beef tallow potato chips ($79 for a 6-pack!!)
- Mouth tape
- RFK Jr's biography
- Beef protein bars
November 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Americans need to eat fewer ultra-processed foods and more dubious powders
This is why I have hope for the future
ChatGPT would never have thought this up
ChatGPT would never have thought this up
November 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This is why I have hope for the future
ChatGPT would never have thought this up
ChatGPT would never have thought this up
The Beaverton has been killing it all week
November 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The Beaverton has been killing it all week
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Today is Holodomor remembrance day, one of the worst human rights atrocities of the 20th century.
If you are wanting to know more, this episode of @originstorypodcast.bsky.social is excellent, featuring justifiable moral outrage from @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social
If you are wanting to know more, this episode of @originstorypodcast.bsky.social is excellent, featuring justifiable moral outrage from @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Welcome back to Origin Story: The Story of Socialism as we resume the story of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin in part three @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social discuss Terror 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp...
#originstory #lenin #trotsky #stalin
#originstory #lenin #trotsky #stalin
November 22, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Today is Holodomor remembrance day, one of the worst human rights atrocities of the 20th century.
If you are wanting to know more, this episode of @originstorypodcast.bsky.social is excellent, featuring justifiable moral outrage from @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social
If you are wanting to know more, this episode of @originstorypodcast.bsky.social is excellent, featuring justifiable moral outrage from @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social
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Hey y’all this is a make or break weekend for a lot of artists and makers.
So your assignment this weekend is: like , repost, comment on artist posts that you see.
And maybe even buy some great presents from the independent artists of Bluesky!
So your assignment this weekend is: like , repost, comment on artist posts that you see.
And maybe even buy some great presents from the independent artists of Bluesky!
November 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Hey y’all this is a make or break weekend for a lot of artists and makers.
So your assignment this weekend is: like , repost, comment on artist posts that you see.
And maybe even buy some great presents from the independent artists of Bluesky!
So your assignment this weekend is: like , repost, comment on artist posts that you see.
And maybe even buy some great presents from the independent artists of Bluesky!
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this is what will show up if you invite me to your ai & copyright law conference
November 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
this is what will show up if you invite me to your ai & copyright law conference
gross
wait
is MTG trying to have a demented "your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married" moment
wait
is MTG trying to have a demented "your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married" moment
"Mom and Dad are separated" doesn't strike me as a particularly healthy lens for engaging with politics.
Trump-Marjorie Taylor Greene breakup shakes MAGA: ‘Mom and Dad are separated’
In Greene’s Georgia congressional district, much of the MAGA base has her back against Trump, who has called her a “traitor.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
gross
wait
is MTG trying to have a demented "your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married" moment
wait
is MTG trying to have a demented "your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married" moment
I think this book might have been written specifically for me
I'm giving away two signed copies of my (recently republished) book 21st-Century Yokel, with two postcards of this fab otters linocut by my mum, Jo.
Just repost this & pop a comment below to enter.
You might like it if you like:
Walking
Wildlife
Folklore
Bees
Ghosts
The Sea
Social history
Badgers
Just repost this & pop a comment below to enter.
You might like it if you like:
Walking
Wildlife
Folklore
Bees
Ghosts
The Sea
Social history
Badgers
November 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I think this book might have been written specifically for me
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Appreciate @nationalobserver.com underlining the threat these lawsuits pose to our democracy:
“One way to help preserve an independent media is to protect them from vindictive US-style lawsuits… we must be free to report fairly without the threat of expensive lawsuits designed solely to shut us up”
“One way to help preserve an independent media is to protect them from vindictive US-style lawsuits… we must be free to report fairly without the threat of expensive lawsuits designed solely to shut us up”
Alberta lawsuit is trying to silence the messenger
Former UCP candidate Caylan Ford's scattergun defamation lawsuit against the media and others sends a free press chill through Alberta
www.nationalobserver.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Appreciate @nationalobserver.com underlining the threat these lawsuits pose to our democracy:
“One way to help preserve an independent media is to protect them from vindictive US-style lawsuits… we must be free to report fairly without the threat of expensive lawsuits designed solely to shut us up”
“One way to help preserve an independent media is to protect them from vindictive US-style lawsuits… we must be free to report fairly without the threat of expensive lawsuits designed solely to shut us up”
this alone should get him removed from office
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
this alone should get him removed from office
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steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
Insulting to the players, insulting to the IP, insulting to the medium, the developers. And the craft itself. Fuck you executives who pushed this garbage.
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI art slop, because your $70 means nothing anymore
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI generated artwork which makes the $70 feel like a complete rip-off.
frvr.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
I am a high school English teacher and I'm thrilled that someone is going to adopt this handsome guy
but if there had been no takers I would have driven a truck to DC to get him and then hung him in my tiny classroom and changed my curricula to include only hammerhead-shark related literature
but if there had been no takers I would have driven a truck to DC to get him and then hung him in my tiny classroom and changed my curricula to include only hammerhead-shark related literature
Are you located in the DC-Baltimore-Philadelphia-New York corridor?
Have you always wanted to have your very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammerhead shark?
Now available for free!
Perfect for museums, community centers, or your living room!
Save this lovely creature from imminent destruction!
Have you always wanted to have your very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammerhead shark?
Now available for free!
Perfect for museums, community centers, or your living room!
Save this lovely creature from imminent destruction!
November 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I am a high school English teacher and I'm thrilled that someone is going to adopt this handsome guy
but if there had been no takers I would have driven a truck to DC to get him and then hung him in my tiny classroom and changed my curricula to include only hammerhead-shark related literature
but if there had been no takers I would have driven a truck to DC to get him and then hung him in my tiny classroom and changed my curricula to include only hammerhead-shark related literature
"The book — most of which she punched into her phone while hiking —"
Yeah, babe, it shows
Yeah, babe, it shows
November 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
"The book — most of which she punched into her phone while hiking —"
Yeah, babe, it shows
Yeah, babe, it shows
It's fascinating to me that all of these headlines are in the present tense except for Douthat's
Just straight up Droopy Dogging that "the workplace" is ruined, gone forever, RIP workplace, damn you, you ruinous women
Just straight up Droopy Dogging that "the workplace" is ruined, gone forever, RIP workplace, damn you, you ruinous women
November 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
It's fascinating to me that all of these headlines are in the present tense except for Douthat's
Just straight up Droopy Dogging that "the workplace" is ruined, gone forever, RIP workplace, damn you, you ruinous women
Just straight up Droopy Dogging that "the workplace" is ruined, gone forever, RIP workplace, damn you, you ruinous women
lol this is hilarious
lmao
EVERYONE LOVED OUR TRUMP INTERVIEW! is a wild chyron.
i try to expose myself only to the fox news i need to know exists so every once in the while their kindergarten level self approbation gets me good.
EVERYONE LOVED OUR TRUMP INTERVIEW! is a wild chyron.
i try to expose myself only to the fox news i need to know exists so every once in the while their kindergarten level self approbation gets me good.
top story at the 7 oclock hour
November 13, 2025 at 12:18 AM
lol this is hilarious
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oh god, of course every academic in this country has to use a VPN for their work because every university department in this country somehow runs itself off a shared drive folder called admin/ADMIN/humanities/CURRENT_humanities/history/HISTORY_ALL/admin
The British government admits it is now monitoring VPNs use by UK residents. Regulator Ofcom has contracted with an AI-powered surveillance service to detect the number of citizens using VPNs to evade the Online Safety Act.
The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.
The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.
Exclusive: Ofcom is monitoring VPNs following Online Safety Act. Here's how
Ignoring VPNs risks creating ineffective laws, but tracking them threatens people's privacy
www.techradar.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
oh god, of course every academic in this country has to use a VPN for their work because every university department in this country somehow runs itself off a shared drive folder called admin/ADMIN/humanities/CURRENT_humanities/history/HISTORY_ALL/admin
lol, take your time, no rush
FOX NEWS: So what would Trumpcare look like?
DR OZ: Well, these are all ideas that we're still working on
DR OZ: Well, these are all ideas that we're still working on
November 11, 2025 at 11:50 PM
lol, take your time, no rush
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“what’s the point of standards?” asks a woman who tripped ass-backward into a huge job for which she is breathtakingly unqualified
“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
“what’s the point of standards?” asks a woman who tripped ass-backward into a huge job for which she is breathtakingly unqualified
She said something great
November 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
She said something great
I honestly didn't know if Starbucks manufactured this drama on the eve of a potential barrista strike in order to get customers to yell at their staff
or if they genuinely just couldn't have predicted that their customer base would be this insane over a cup
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
or if they genuinely just couldn't have predicted that their customer base would be this insane over a cup
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Starbucks apologizes for its bear cup drama. What's behind the 'Bearista' frenzy? | CBC News
Coffee chain Starbucks released a $43.95 "Bearista" glass cold cup Thursday as part of its new holiday collection, and not only did the hat-topped tumbler sell out almost immediately, but videos circu...
www.cbc.ca
November 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I honestly didn't know if Starbucks manufactured this drama on the eve of a potential barrista strike in order to get customers to yell at their staff
or if they genuinely just couldn't have predicted that their customer base would be this insane over a cup
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
or if they genuinely just couldn't have predicted that their customer base would be this insane over a cup
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...