Lynn
@gondolynn.bsky.social
He/him. Book nerd.
I'm here for the memes and Tolkien-discourse.
I'm here for the memes and Tolkien-discourse.
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We all bemoan the death of places we can go without spending money. Knowledge cartels already exist (see academic publishing) but this is an enclosure of the *process* of thinking. As such, it's actually a logical extension of Enlightenment thinking re the individual as enclosed body
November 30, 2025 at 8:03 PM
We all bemoan the death of places we can go without spending money. Knowledge cartels already exist (see academic publishing) but this is an enclosure of the *process* of thinking. As such, it's actually a logical extension of Enlightenment thinking re the individual as enclosed body
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There's another weird wrinkle here: if the federal government can sue states for legislating AI, then I imagine it becomes possible for the government (or another federal actor) to sue states for regulating other kinds of technologies.
This could possibly lead somewhere very bad.
This could possibly lead somewhere very bad.
1) There is no legal basis on which such an executive order against state-level "AI" regulation could possibly be enforced. No state or institution should comply w/ this in advance. Many will, obviously, because every EO this man puts out is a set of marching orders for his cronies; but none should.
NEW: Trump Takes Aim at State AI Laws in Draft Executive Order
All the deets + more w/ @mzeff.bsky.social (it's his first WIRED byline yay!!!!)
www.wired.com/story/trump-...
All the deets + more w/ @mzeff.bsky.social (it's his first WIRED byline yay!!!!)
www.wired.com/story/trump-...
November 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
There's another weird wrinkle here: if the federal government can sue states for legislating AI, then I imagine it becomes possible for the government (or another federal actor) to sue states for regulating other kinds of technologies.
This could possibly lead somewhere very bad.
This could possibly lead somewhere very bad.
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Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!
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Charlotte Area: This is the link for the Carolina Migrant Network
carolinamigrantnetwork.org
Now is a good time to keep their information handy. Donating to them, if you can, is another good thing you could do.
carolinamigrantnetwork.org
Now is a good time to keep their information handy. Donating to them, if you can, is another good thing you could do.
Carolina Migrant Network – Representing Immigrants in Removal Proceedings
carolinamigrantnetwork.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Charlotte Area: This is the link for the Carolina Migrant Network
carolinamigrantnetwork.org
Now is a good time to keep their information handy. Donating to them, if you can, is another good thing you could do.
carolinamigrantnetwork.org
Now is a good time to keep their information handy. Donating to them, if you can, is another good thing you could do.
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I'm not trying to be mean, but racists who believe Trump betrayed them by being a child molester are not going to embrace the Democratic Party without forcing that party to embrace racism. And the people gained would in no way make up for those lost.
November 16, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I'm not trying to be mean, but racists who believe Trump betrayed them by being a child molester are not going to embrace the Democratic Party without forcing that party to embrace racism. And the people gained would in no way make up for those lost.
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Supreme Court suggests that Kim Davis go fuck herself and/or one of her 37 ex-husbands.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Supreme Court suggests that Kim Davis go fuck herself and/or one of her 37 ex-husbands.
This to me was the leverage that got Schumer's henchmen to cave.
American Airlines PAC has them bought and paid for and they refuse to let a little thing like the ACA get in the way of the money made during the Holiday Season.
American Airlines PAC has them bought and paid for and they refuse to let a little thing like the ACA get in the way of the money made during the Holiday Season.
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This to me was the leverage that got Schumer's henchmen to cave.
American Airlines PAC has them bought and paid for and they refuse to let a little thing like the ACA get in the way of the money made during the Holiday Season.
American Airlines PAC has them bought and paid for and they refuse to let a little thing like the ACA get in the way of the money made during the Holiday Season.
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I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
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Did women ruin the workplace?
November 7, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Did women ruin the workplace?
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lol
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
lol
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If you are a Democratic senator watching these results and the lesson you take is "I should cave and help Republicans reopen the government for nothing more than a promise written on toilet paper" then you shouldn't be in the Senate anymore
These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
November 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM
If you are a Democratic senator watching these results and the lesson you take is "I should cave and help Republicans reopen the government for nothing more than a promise written on toilet paper" then you shouldn't be in the Senate anymore
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I don't know why people aren't having more kids. We've tried everything from soaring inflation, suppressing wages, stripping rights, destroying public services, making literally everything more expensive, making literally everything more expensive in a different way, and sending in the marines
October 31, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I don't know why people aren't having more kids. We've tried everything from soaring inflation, suppressing wages, stripping rights, destroying public services, making literally everything more expensive, making literally everything more expensive in a different way, and sending in the marines
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Seeing people praise Nancy Pelosi while she’s profited every day in office from literal insider trading….
She’s not a good person just because she isn’t a republican, you guys. Please grow the fuck up :)
She’s not a good person just because she isn’t a republican, you guys. Please grow the fuck up :)
October 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Seeing people praise Nancy Pelosi while she’s profited every day in office from literal insider trading….
She’s not a good person just because she isn’t a republican, you guys. Please grow the fuck up :)
She’s not a good person just because she isn’t a republican, you guys. Please grow the fuck up :)
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They always start with free speech. It sounds reasonable, doesn’t it? Free speech? And they can use it to shut down anyone who criticises them, because it’s all “free speech”
After “free speech” it’s “protecting women and girls”
And then it’s whatever they actually wanted.
After “free speech” it’s “protecting women and girls”
And then it’s whatever they actually wanted.
The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.
Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
October 13, 2025 at 10:07 AM
They always start with free speech. It sounds reasonable, doesn’t it? Free speech? And they can use it to shut down anyone who criticises them, because it’s all “free speech”
After “free speech” it’s “protecting women and girls”
And then it’s whatever they actually wanted.
After “free speech” it’s “protecting women and girls”
And then it’s whatever they actually wanted.
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It’s eugenics. They are not actually fundamentally against modern health practices. They are creating disinformational confusion around them in order to eliminate undesirables in society.
So, people who have at-risk relatives, or kids, or pregnant women struggle to get the Covid booster.
But Trump can just waltz over to Walter Reed to get his... www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
But Trump can just waltz over to Walter Reed to get his... www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
Trump gets Covid vaccine and flu shot during second checkup of the year
The visit, which the White House described Wednesday as a "yearly check-up," was his second examination at Walter Reed in six months.
www.nbcnews.com
October 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
It’s eugenics. They are not actually fundamentally against modern health practices. They are creating disinformational confusion around them in order to eliminate undesirables in society.
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If you are wondering what happened in Indonesia yesterday, this is the whole summary. I don't care if you dislike politics, but it's about humanity. It would be greatly appreciated if my English speaker friends here try to educate themselves and share this as a form of spreading more awareness.
August 29, 2025 at 3:06 AM
If you are wondering what happened in Indonesia yesterday, this is the whole summary. I don't care if you dislike politics, but it's about humanity. It would be greatly appreciated if my English speaker friends here try to educate themselves and share this as a form of spreading more awareness.
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This is the essence of it to me.
If the price of groceries is a kitchen table issue, then being too afraid of masked men -- who demand to see your identification while showing none of their own -- kidnapping you or your neighbors on the grocery store surely is a kitchen table issue too
If the price of groceries is a kitchen table issue, then being too afraid of masked men -- who demand to see your identification while showing none of their own -- kidnapping you or your neighbors on the grocery store surely is a kitchen table issue too
August 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
This is the essence of it to me.
If the price of groceries is a kitchen table issue, then being too afraid of masked men -- who demand to see your identification while showing none of their own -- kidnapping you or your neighbors on the grocery store surely is a kitchen table issue too
If the price of groceries is a kitchen table issue, then being too afraid of masked men -- who demand to see your identification while showing none of their own -- kidnapping you or your neighbors on the grocery store surely is a kitchen table issue too
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I am going to keep screaming this EVERY time:
do you know how fucking many hoops animal behaviorists have to jump through to get research alleging that animals feel happiness or sadness published
and the WALL STREET JOURNAL prints that LINES OF CODE WITH NO BRAIN STEM can SELF REFLECT
do you know how fucking many hoops animal behaviorists have to jump through to get research alleging that animals feel happiness or sadness published
and the WALL STREET JOURNAL prints that LINES OF CODE WITH NO BRAIN STEM can SELF REFLECT
July 21, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I am going to keep screaming this EVERY time:
do you know how fucking many hoops animal behaviorists have to jump through to get research alleging that animals feel happiness or sadness published
and the WALL STREET JOURNAL prints that LINES OF CODE WITH NO BRAIN STEM can SELF REFLECT
do you know how fucking many hoops animal behaviorists have to jump through to get research alleging that animals feel happiness or sadness published
and the WALL STREET JOURNAL prints that LINES OF CODE WITH NO BRAIN STEM can SELF REFLECT
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here's the takeaway on mamdani's videos, from me, your friendly local copywriting and marketing expert:
1. educational content marketing (i call em "ebombs") are the top tier
2. when you help people understand, they feel smart, and that transfers to you
3. and this builds TRUST
1. educational content marketing (i call em "ebombs") are the top tier
2. when you help people understand, they feel smart, and that transfers to you
3. and this builds TRUST
The 14th Street Busway has been a smashing success: faster commutes, fewer crashes, calmer streets.
So why is Eric Adams blocking a similar plan for 34th Street?
So why is Eric Adams blocking a similar plan for 34th Street?
July 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
here's the takeaway on mamdani's videos, from me, your friendly local copywriting and marketing expert:
1. educational content marketing (i call em "ebombs") are the top tier
2. when you help people understand, they feel smart, and that transfers to you
3. and this builds TRUST
1. educational content marketing (i call em "ebombs") are the top tier
2. when you help people understand, they feel smart, and that transfers to you
3. and this builds TRUST
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Your Medicaid is cut. Your health insurance is not safe. Your tips are still taxed. You pay the tariffs. There’s no trade deals. No wars have ended. Gas isn’t $2. Eggs aren’t cheaper. There isn’t $10 trillion in investment. The Epstein files are buried.
It’s. All. Lies.
All the time.
It’s. All. Lies.
All the time.
July 8, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Your Medicaid is cut. Your health insurance is not safe. Your tips are still taxed. You pay the tariffs. There’s no trade deals. No wars have ended. Gas isn’t $2. Eggs aren’t cheaper. There isn’t $10 trillion in investment. The Epstein files are buried.
It’s. All. Lies.
All the time.
It’s. All. Lies.
All the time.
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That investment in AI is apathetic to the pedagogical success and social value of education because LLMs do not produce knowledge or critical thought, nor train others in that production. It is not a pedagogical tool, it is a product to address cost of labor under the pretense of productivity.
June 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
That investment in AI is apathetic to the pedagogical success and social value of education because LLMs do not produce knowledge or critical thought, nor train others in that production. It is not a pedagogical tool, it is a product to address cost of labor under the pretense of productivity.
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A reminder that the @nytimes.com told New Yorkers to not rank Mamdani at all, & instead endorsed former hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson.
Tilson sits at a whopping .8%.
Corporate media trust is dead. They killed themselves by failing to fulfill their promise of holding the powerful accountable.
Tilson sits at a whopping .8%.
Corporate media trust is dead. They killed themselves by failing to fulfill their promise of holding the powerful accountable.
June 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
A reminder that the @nytimes.com told New Yorkers to not rank Mamdani at all, & instead endorsed former hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson.
Tilson sits at a whopping .8%.
Corporate media trust is dead. They killed themselves by failing to fulfill their promise of holding the powerful accountable.
Tilson sits at a whopping .8%.
Corporate media trust is dead. They killed themselves by failing to fulfill their promise of holding the powerful accountable.
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the political lesson everyone should take from Iraq is that you will regret being in favor of this sooner or later and the earlier you were against it the better off you’ll be
ignore the media frenzy and stake your position now, it’s the right thing to do and it’s the ambitious thing to do too
ignore the media frenzy and stake your position now, it’s the right thing to do and it’s the ambitious thing to do too
June 22, 2025 at 1:07 AM
the political lesson everyone should take from Iraq is that you will regret being in favor of this sooner or later and the earlier you were against it the better off you’ll be
ignore the media frenzy and stake your position now, it’s the right thing to do and it’s the ambitious thing to do too
ignore the media frenzy and stake your position now, it’s the right thing to do and it’s the ambitious thing to do too
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Hades Game Fan Desperately Tries and Fails to Avoid Incest Ships While Writing Fanfiction
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Hades Game Fan Desperately Tries and Fails to Avoid Incest Ships While Writing Fanfiction
CHICAGO — Despite her best efforts, 15-year-old Katherine Vargas reportedly cannot write any Hades fanfiction without incest cropping up as part of the story. “So…
hard-drive.net
June 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Hades Game Fan Desperately Tries and Fails to Avoid Incest Ships While Writing Fanfiction
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It takes 3.5% leading a mass uprising and shutting down the Capitol for weeks at a time. Waiving a bunch of signs in public parks for a single day isn't going to magically do it.
It takes historically 3.5 % of a population to push a tyrant out of power.
Today the US reached 11 Million protesters for No Kings Day nationwide
That’s 3.23 %
We are almost there, America.
Today the US reached 11 Million protesters for No Kings Day nationwide
That’s 3.23 %
We are almost there, America.
June 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
It takes 3.5% leading a mass uprising and shutting down the Capitol for weeks at a time. Waiving a bunch of signs in public parks for a single day isn't going to magically do it.