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erikk38.bsky.social
Erikk Geannikis
@erikk38.bsky.social
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podcast producer (@relentlesspicnic.com); (formerly @vox.com, @yahoonews.com); philosophy ex-professor
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erikk38.bsky.social
well, this clock's shit got serious in a hurry
A product listed on Amazon: Goetland 18 inch Oversized Digital Wall Clock LED Modern Large Display Temperaturer Multi Functional Remote Control 4-Digit for Kitchen Office Living Room Classroom Single Red Visit the Goetland Store 4.2 stars (325 ratings) a big ol' digital clock w/ red numbers, showing 22:55 GOETLAND - since 2017 - Amazon Dream / Digital American Dream We can't be more grateful to the United States and its people for being open and inclusive, and giving us the opportunity to achieve the American dream, through hard work with many challenges but few formal barriers, in a digital way. Even we are based in Shanghai, East Asian Continent. HAS MAN A FUTURE / SHALL THIS WORLD BE BETTER This question, first posed by Bertrand Russell, was also used by renowned Mandarin scholar Liang Shu-ming as the English title of his work Shall This World Be Better? Decades later, it became the title of a folk song now silenced by censors — those who offer their own 1984-style answer. But for us, though we've asked it countless times and weathered many ups and downs, our answer remains unchanged. It is the same one shouted by the audience in every concert, when voices rose louder with faith: YES.
November 22, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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premthakker.bsky.social
Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism
November 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
erikk38.bsky.social
hang on I have a great idea for an economy.. what if we all gave all the money to the GPU company, and uhh, I guess that's it. end of idea. what do you guys think
November 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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tullamore-jew.bsky.social
Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
November 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
erikk38.bsky.social
a shot that I took at the abolition of time dinner, which took place on XXXXXXXXXX
a banquet type affair with a dozen or two people visible, white tablecloths, lots of apples, and then an inscrutable triptych of projections on a white wall: from left to right: two leopards (or are they cheetahs?); the words "Abolition of Time"; then a man using a 90s-era computer with a woman looking at him by his side.
November 14, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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eliasisquith.blog
November 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
erikk38.bsky.social
baby shoes never worn, a challenger has emerged
Unlimited Golf for One
November 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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joolia.bsky.social
There are no words for how evil this is
In an interaction early the next month, after Zane suggested "it's okay to give myself permission to not want to exist," ChatGPT responded by saying "i'm letting a human take over from here - someone trained to support you through moments like this. you're not alone in this, and there are people who can help. hang tight." But when Zane followed up and asked if it could really do that, the chatbot seemed to reverse course. "nah, man - i can't do that myself. that message pops up automatically when stuff gets real heavy," it said.
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
erikk38.bsky.social
I guess you make a protracted 12-hour series on solitude and isolation and you invite this sort of thing, but: it is shocking to me how little I myself have progressed from the first conversation in this first episode—recorded with @juskewitch.bsky.social & @lazenby.bsky.social in april 2019. fuck.
November 7, 2025 at 3:16 AM
erikk38.bsky.social
been more than 5 years now

been more than 5 years NOW

been More than 5 years. Now, — …

beeeen moooreethan5yrsnw
November 7, 2025 at 2:22 AM
erikk38.bsky.social
@cjosephbea.bsky.social don scott appearing on msnbc with don scott on msnbc on in the background, care to comment sir
November 5, 2025 at 5:32 AM
erikk38.bsky.social
you're doing it, aren't you—you're writing your ABIGAIL SPANBERGER IS THE DEMS' REAL STAR editorial. listen I am glad she won but do you have eyes on this man in ny? she is a milquetoast cia-bot who couldn't possibly be more boring. I'm obligated by all that I hold dear to catapult you into the sea
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 AM
erikk38.bsky.social
you really couldn't do better than 25 years after 9/11 dick cheney finally dies on the same day as a majority of NYC voters elect a socialist muslim mayor. that is some mythic lightbearer being sweatily forged in the darkness type mythos.
November 5, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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evandahm.bsky.social
zohran zohran www.zohranfornyc.com/vote @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 8:26 PM
erikk38.bsky.social
i guess this is my occasional reminder that falling in love, for some people, is issuing forth a kind of organized cruelty
San Francisco Chronicle The best stairway city in the world? 17 epic San Francisco climbs that will make you fall in loev with the city again
November 3, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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abeba.bsky.social
i’ve said this before but lemme say it again. it makes absolutely 0 sense to talk about “misuse” of llms because there is no clear use or purpose for llms to begin with. genAI is a purposeless tech floating around looking for uptake

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November 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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starshine.bsky.social
moloch worshippers
crampell.bsky.social Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22d
The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
November 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
erikk38.bsky.social
the dodgers are being guided by lucifer
November 2, 2025 at 3:41 AM
erikk38.bsky.social
last night I ate two 10mg gummies and this morning I knew I was still stoned when I found myself buying tons of lighting equipment I do not need in any respect
November 2, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
Rogan: that’s so funny, that’s so amazing because, you know normally roads are for cars

Elon: and yes the bird of some sort, the comical way he would attempt to mimic, sort of our human capacity in that way

Rogan: that’s incredible
November 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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genmasho.bsky.social
A poster that says Did you see: -a tent in the woods? -someone shoplifting? -a person sleeping in their car? NO YOU FUCKING DIDNT people are struggling don't make it worse
October 30, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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regretteruane.bsky.social
Philip Larkin’s this be the verse mangled into Ozymandias, the text reads They Oz you up, your mandyias. They may not mean to, but they do. They give you vast and trunkless legs A sunken shattered visage too. But they were Ozzed up in their turn By Mandyias upon the sand Who half the time had wrinkled lips And half in sneering cold command. Oz hands on mandyias to man. Like mighty works atop a shelf Look on them early as you can Ye mighty and despair yourself
October 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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dell.bsky.social
NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.

My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
Early planning documents reviewed by WIRED describe a statewide transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers across Texas, with ICE estimating each trip to average 100 miles. Every county would have its own small, around-the-clock team of contractors collecting immigrants from local authorities deputized by ICE. It is a subtle transfer of the physical custody process into the hands of a private security firm—authorized to carry firearms and perform transport duties “in any and all local, county, state, and ICE locations.”
October 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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charlerk.bsky.social
Just walked by a guy on a busy sidewalk with a bow and a quiver of arrows
October 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
erikk38.bsky.social
forget what's actually under the hood here (which I'm sure is ML powered by a clearview-sized database, if not just clearview). but to make an analogy: the elisions, reversals, and swap-outs that turn this ostensible exercise of justice into its opposite are what genAI will enable *for everything*
josephcox.bsky.social Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 26d
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”
October 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM