barefootwriter
@bfwriter.bsky.social
PhD candidate, Educational Studies. MA, Human Development, Learning, and Culture. gamer (not the bad kind), budoka, NOLA girl. I blog about POTS at barefootwriterhaspots.com
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helps to think about the details like any regular crime you'd see on one of the 800 cop shows that run on TV constantly: these guys committed one set of murders, thought it over, and then decided to kill the witnesses as part of the coverup. mention of drugs is just jingling keys at this point
December 5, 2025 at 3:14 AM
helps to think about the details like any regular crime you'd see on one of the 800 cop shows that run on TV constantly: these guys committed one set of murders, thought it over, and then decided to kill the witnesses as part of the coverup. mention of drugs is just jingling keys at this point
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We keep hearing how many GOP electeds don’t approve of a lot of what felon is doing but that they’re too scared to say anything. Voters have got to start electing people with a proven record of having a spine. Across the board. No spine, no vote.
December 4, 2025 at 6:25 AM
We keep hearing how many GOP electeds don’t approve of a lot of what felon is doing but that they’re too scared to say anything. Voters have got to start electing people with a proven record of having a spine. Across the board. No spine, no vote.
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I honestly don't understand why more community colleges aren't marketing themselves this way. The best community colleges are the ones that put a lot of emphasis on providing excellent teaching to anyone, and this seems like an obvious angle to use.
The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 5, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I honestly don't understand why more community colleges aren't marketing themselves this way. The best community colleges are the ones that put a lot of emphasis on providing excellent teaching to anyone, and this seems like an obvious angle to use.
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The float/sink test for narcoterrorists is identical to the test for witches.
Yeah. Drowning and not fighting to survive proves you are a non-combatant. Struggling to save your life shows you might be a threat at some point in the future. Possibly. Either way you die!
December 5, 2025 at 3:59 AM
The float/sink test for narcoterrorists is identical to the test for witches.
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Oh Lordy they’re stealing white women now. That’s uhhhh a bold strategy 👀
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Oh Lordy they’re stealing white women now. That’s uhhhh a bold strategy 👀
wait, wait, are we going back to a definition of whiteness that excludes Italians?
losing my mind at the 25% of GOP voters who think most Italian Americans are "more loyal to a foreign country than to the United States."
December 5, 2025 at 12:56 AM
wait, wait, are we going back to a definition of whiteness that excludes Italians?
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BREAKING: Grand jury rejects new indictment for Letitia James.
Any and all lawyers involved in this gross abuse of process and degradation of the legal system should be disbarred.
politi.co/3YdQmgA
Any and all lawyers involved in this gross abuse of process and degradation of the legal system should be disbarred.
politi.co/3YdQmgA
Grand jury rejects new indictment for Letitia James
The Justice Department can try a third time.
politi.co
December 5, 2025 at 12:20 AM
BREAKING: Grand jury rejects new indictment for Letitia James.
Any and all lawyers involved in this gross abuse of process and degradation of the legal system should be disbarred.
politi.co/3YdQmgA
Any and all lawyers involved in this gross abuse of process and degradation of the legal system should be disbarred.
politi.co/3YdQmgA
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this is the funniest way to respond to someone saying you are acting like a child. lmao.
Born in 2002, thank you very much.
December 5, 2025 at 12:11 AM
this is the funniest way to respond to someone saying you are acting like a child. lmao.
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Thinking about how starkly LLMs expose the contradictory narratives of capitalism. Specifically, "success = hard work = genius" and "technology will give us all a life of leisure."
December 4, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Thinking about how starkly LLMs expose the contradictory narratives of capitalism. Specifically, "success = hard work = genius" and "technology will give us all a life of leisure."
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On the other hand, using LLMs is an arcane and complex skillset that requires college-level classes and entire degree programs, and companies need to hire expert professionals for six-figure salaries specifically to do this one thing.
December 4, 2025 at 11:21 PM
On the other hand, using LLMs is an arcane and complex skillset that requires college-level classes and entire degree programs, and companies need to hire expert professionals for six-figure salaries specifically to do this one thing.
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So on the one hand, LLMs are so effortless to use that they can do all your daily tasks for you and save you so much time. Sending emails, online shopping, etc are already easy. But LLMs are even easier!
December 4, 2025 at 11:15 PM
So on the one hand, LLMs are so effortless to use that they can do all your daily tasks for you and save you so much time. Sending emails, online shopping, etc are already easy. But LLMs are even easier!
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lol you'll be in a conversation about trees and somehow AI will enter the conversation. I don't understand lol
December 4, 2025 at 9:51 PM
lol you'll be in a conversation about trees and somehow AI will enter the conversation. I don't understand lol
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I went to New Orleans to see what it looks like when a great American city comes under siege from the government, as masked goons of 'Catahoula Crunch' lie about nabbing bad guys before swarming Home Depot, roofing jobs for folks with brown skin
My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/new-...
My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/new-...
Life during wartime in New Orleans as feds terrorize Latinos who saved a city | Will Bunch
The first day of long-feared federal immigration raids across Greater New Orleans exposes the Big Lie of mass deportation.
www.inquirer.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I went to New Orleans to see what it looks like when a great American city comes under siege from the government, as masked goons of 'Catahoula Crunch' lie about nabbing bad guys before swarming Home Depot, roofing jobs for folks with brown skin
My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/new-...
My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/new-...
do companies understand how survey fatigued everyone is? our credit card company just called to check in. what? we use it a handful of times a month. who cares? it's a credit card.
the answer to your survey is stop fucking asking us to fill out surveys.
the answer to your survey is stop fucking asking us to fill out surveys.
December 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
do companies understand how survey fatigued everyone is? our credit card company just called to check in. what? we use it a handful of times a month. who cares? it's a credit card.
the answer to your survey is stop fucking asking us to fill out surveys.
the answer to your survey is stop fucking asking us to fill out surveys.
wow, that's a real selling point. everyone would love to be a busy cog in this ridiculous machine instead of being free.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says AI will unleash a wave of new ideas and unfinished projects—leaving people busier, not freer, as “everybody’s jobs will be different.” trib.al/i8LvkCC
Nvidia CEO says AI will actually make everyone a lot busier: 'Everybody's jobs will be different' | Fortune
“I would say that there's every evidence that we will be more productive and yet still be busier because we have so many ideas,” Jensen Huang said.
trib.al
December 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
wow, that's a real selling point. everyone would love to be a busy cog in this ridiculous machine instead of being free.
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is it possible for any of these guys to just stop fucking talking for like literally 20 seconds
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says AI will unleash a wave of new ideas and unfinished projects—leaving people busier, not freer, as “everybody’s jobs will be different.” trib.al/i8LvkCC
Nvidia CEO says AI will actually make everyone a lot busier: 'Everybody's jobs will be different' | Fortune
“I would say that there's every evidence that we will be more productive and yet still be busier because we have so many ideas,” Jensen Huang said.
trib.al
December 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
is it possible for any of these guys to just stop fucking talking for like literally 20 seconds
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All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
December 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
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I kind of would like to stop the genocide, the war crimes, the kidnapping of my neighbors off the street, the shooting of americans by govt agents, and the fascism though. I'm happy to pay a bit more for eggs if you address the above.
Affordability isn't a con job. It's the American people's top priority.
Trump: "I think affordability is the greatest con job."
December 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I kind of would like to stop the genocide, the war crimes, the kidnapping of my neighbors off the street, the shooting of americans by govt agents, and the fascism though. I'm happy to pay a bit more for eggs if you address the above.
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she’s not even hot! she looks like a hapsburg! bsky.app/profile/saga...
okay you know how her reporting is based on fucking all the guys she reports about
i have a theory....
i have a theory....
December 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
she’s not even hot! she looks like a hapsburg! bsky.app/profile/saga...
wait wait, the dead bear in the trunk is actively harming public health?
this shit is so convoluted that I am not sure there is a way to write it that doesn't misplace modifiers.
this shit is so convoluted that I am not sure there is a way to write it that doesn't misplace modifiers.
Anyone who allowed Olivia to write a book didn’t realize everyone involved are some of the worst and most insufferable people on the planet and no one wants to hear about having FaceTime sex with a guy who is dogshit to women and had a dead bear in his trunk who is actively harming public health
December 4, 2025 at 8:21 AM
wait wait, the dead bear in the trunk is actively harming public health?
this shit is so convoluted that I am not sure there is a way to write it that doesn't misplace modifiers.
this shit is so convoluted that I am not sure there is a way to write it that doesn't misplace modifiers.
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Jon Stewart on Trump claiming he didn't know why he had an MRI:
“For God’s sakes, man, were you not curious at all? When they laid you down in a tube, for a half an hour to 45 minutes, you didn’t want to know what they might be doing?
“Or did you just think to yourself, ‘What a loud tanning bed.’”
“For God’s sakes, man, were you not curious at all? When they laid you down in a tube, for a half an hour to 45 minutes, you didn’t want to know what they might be doing?
“Or did you just think to yourself, ‘What a loud tanning bed.’”
December 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Jon Stewart on Trump claiming he didn't know why he had an MRI:
“For God’s sakes, man, were you not curious at all? When they laid you down in a tube, for a half an hour to 45 minutes, you didn’t want to know what they might be doing?
“Or did you just think to yourself, ‘What a loud tanning bed.’”
“For God’s sakes, man, were you not curious at all? When they laid you down in a tube, for a half an hour to 45 minutes, you didn’t want to know what they might be doing?
“Or did you just think to yourself, ‘What a loud tanning bed.’”
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every time i'm tapping the "if you are firmly anti-gambling you will always be on the right side of history" sign
I have come to the conclusion that all gambling should be made illegal again; or at the very least, must all be conducted in person at bookies.
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 4, 2025 at 5:02 AM
every time i'm tapping the "if you are firmly anti-gambling you will always be on the right side of history" sign
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Today it’s transwomen, but tomorrow, it’s butch women. Androgynous gender presentation. And women who remain friends with transwomen. This doesn’t stop.
This is about policing who is performing femininity to an ever shifting standard.
If your org does this? Quit the org and say why.
This is about policing who is performing femininity to an ever shifting standard.
If your org does this? Quit the org and say why.
December 4, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Today it’s transwomen, but tomorrow, it’s butch women. Androgynous gender presentation. And women who remain friends with transwomen. This doesn’t stop.
This is about policing who is performing femininity to an ever shifting standard.
If your org does this? Quit the org and say why.
This is about policing who is performing femininity to an ever shifting standard.
If your org does this? Quit the org and say why.
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Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.
gizmodo.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
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im extremely excited to find out how good mass consumer adoption of AI is going to be once no one can afford a computer to use it
Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead. It’s already getting hard to build an affordable PC, and the exit of the longstanding provider of consumer memory is going to make that even more challenging www.theverge.com/news/837594/...
Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead
Another blow to PC gaming.
www.theverge.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM
im extremely excited to find out how good mass consumer adoption of AI is going to be once no one can afford a computer to use it