Anne Ashton
@anneashton.bsky.social
Reader. Processing Archivist.
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No one before Sam successfully raised a child, which is why the human species went extinct in Mesopotamia. Seriously, the best way to read this is that countless billions of humans did just fine but Sam is not as competent and self-reliant as them, and that's what AI wants us to be: dependent.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
No one before Sam successfully raised a child, which is why the human species went extinct in Mesopotamia. Seriously, the best way to read this is that countless billions of humans did just fine but Sam is not as competent and self-reliant as them, and that's what AI wants us to be: dependent.
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The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
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Ken’s work is never perfect but I appreciate that this is not hours of founding father glazing. He keeps coming back to the rhetoric of white colonists invoking the language of unjust devotion to the crown well being committed to chattel slavery.
November 27, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Ken’s work is never perfect but I appreciate that this is not hours of founding father glazing. He keeps coming back to the rhetoric of white colonists invoking the language of unjust devotion to the crown well being committed to chattel slavery.
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I’m listening
Me about to piss off a bunch of capitalists: If Bezos doesn’t want to pay his fair share in corporate taxes, I don’t see why we shouldn’t nationalise Amazon and make it a subsidiary of the post office.
November 26, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I’m listening
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Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
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Watched a couple fun romcoms last night on Prime, went to buy DVDs, and of course because both were Amazon Studios, Bezos won't let me own a physical copy.
November 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Watched a couple fun romcoms last night on Prime, went to buy DVDs, and of course because both were Amazon Studios, Bezos won't let me own a physical copy.
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WHY
Bob Iger says Disney+ will soon have AI-generated short form content from users
(via THR)
(via THR)
November 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
WHY
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My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
PSA to @libbyapp.com users: you can and should back up your data. Otherwise your app might crash out of nowhere, delete all of your data, and you’ll lose the TBR list you’ve accumulated over years.
Advice (and/or book recommendations) welcome 😭 😭 😭
Advice (and/or book recommendations) welcome 😭 😭 😭
June 10, 2025 at 3:42 AM
PSA to @libbyapp.com users: you can and should back up your data. Otherwise your app might crash out of nowhere, delete all of your data, and you’ll lose the TBR list you’ve accumulated over years.
Advice (and/or book recommendations) welcome 😭 😭 😭
Advice (and/or book recommendations) welcome 😭 😭 😭
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Wikipedia: "Remigration is a far-right European concept of ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation...of non-white immigrants, usually including their descendants who were born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry, often with no regard for their citizenship or legal status."
SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda."
My report:
My report:
State Department set to launch ‘Office of Remigration’
The concept of remigration has explicitly neo-Nazi roots and has been popularized in Europe.
www.thehandbasket.co
May 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Wikipedia: "Remigration is a far-right European concept of ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation...of non-white immigrants, usually including their descendants who were born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry, often with no regard for their citizenship or legal status."
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Boss: so we are getting this AI
Me: no thank you.
Me: no thank you.
May 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Boss: so we are getting this AI
Me: no thank you.
Me: no thank you.
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i keep seeing people say that LLMs are good at search.
NO. WRONG.
You have just forgotten how good search used to be.
Google broke it's own flagship product, and so you are accepting a demented chatbot's half baked gishgallop because we no longer have functional web search.
NO. WRONG.
You have just forgotten how good search used to be.
Google broke it's own flagship product, and so you are accepting a demented chatbot's half baked gishgallop because we no longer have functional web search.
May 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
i keep seeing people say that LLMs are good at search.
NO. WRONG.
You have just forgotten how good search used to be.
Google broke it's own flagship product, and so you are accepting a demented chatbot's half baked gishgallop because we no longer have functional web search.
NO. WRONG.
You have just forgotten how good search used to be.
Google broke it's own flagship product, and so you are accepting a demented chatbot's half baked gishgallop because we no longer have functional web search.
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A timely quote from Dr. Carla Hayden: “Libraries are a cornerstone of democracy—where information is free and equally available to everyone. People tend to take that for granted, and they don’t realize what is at stake when that is put at risk.”
May 9, 2025 at 2:37 AM
A timely quote from Dr. Carla Hayden: “Libraries are a cornerstone of democracy—where information is free and equally available to everyone. People tend to take that for granted, and they don’t realize what is at stake when that is put at risk.”
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Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.
April 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.
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1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
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Thinking about how I grew up watching Mary Poppins not having a clue what the song Fidelity Fiduciary Bank was about but just kinda accepting that as part of the experience. There were so many moments in kids media like this and in retrospect, I think this is good for kids.
April 13, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Thinking about how I grew up watching Mary Poppins not having a clue what the song Fidelity Fiduciary Bank was about but just kinda accepting that as part of the experience. There were so many moments in kids media like this and in retrospect, I think this is good for kids.
I love the developing tradition on @tgspod.bsky.social of something relevant to current events being mentioned and @ceaubin.bsky.social breaks in with a “for context we are recording on [this date] and this episode is releasing on [that date] and things may be worse by then”
April 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I love the developing tradition on @tgspod.bsky.social of something relevant to current events being mentioned and @ceaubin.bsky.social breaks in with a “for context we are recording on [this date] and this episode is releasing on [that date] and things may be worse by then”
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I’ve been sort of idly keeping track of all the points in the Declaration of Independence’s bill of particulars that arguably apply to the Trump Admin. This is the first four-in-a-row I’ve hit. www.archives.gov/founding-doc...
March 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I’ve been sort of idly keeping track of all the points in the Declaration of Independence’s bill of particulars that arguably apply to the Trump Admin. This is the first four-in-a-row I’ve hit. www.archives.gov/founding-doc...
For lack of a better avenue… how’s tonight look? And where do we want to chat moving forward? @barelytolerable.bsky.social @annastonebrook.bsky.social
March 20, 2025 at 11:22 PM
For lack of a better avenue… how’s tonight look? And where do we want to chat moving forward? @barelytolerable.bsky.social @annastonebrook.bsky.social
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Abolish ICE. The system has been operating like this for25 years, flourishing under democratic presidents too. There is no end to the inhumanity. There is no reform. The image of a woman’s daughter protesting outside a facility for her release breaks my heart.
Why would anyone who can avoid it come to the US now? Heartbreaking. Pointless. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Abolish ICE. The system has been operating like this for25 years, flourishing under democratic presidents too. There is no end to the inhumanity. There is no reform. The image of a woman’s daughter protesting outside a facility for her release breaks my heart.
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Seems to me what we’re seeing across the federal government are the dividends being paid from years of adopting market language to talk about public goods. Run government like a business? Businesses exist to make profit. Government exists to serve the people. We’re about to see the difference now.
March 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Seems to me what we’re seeing across the federal government are the dividends being paid from years of adopting market language to talk about public goods. Run government like a business? Businesses exist to make profit. Government exists to serve the people. We’re about to see the difference now.
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Historian here:
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
March 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Historian here:
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
― Theodore Roosevelt