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cara ara~ @hyperfekt.net · 1d

they should make paper taste just a tiny bit better, for when you have to eat it

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cara ara~ @hyperfekt.net · 1d

given the amount i do it you'd think i'm addicted to being alienated

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cara ara~ @hyperfekt.net · 1d

if you have a cat: i'm coming over. get ready.

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autogynephagia @cas.bsky.social · 1d

special delivery

A silver cat sitting politely and looking cute

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cara ara~ @hyperfekt.net · 1d

you look like you got plucked out of a painting

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2d

Anarchism: Doesn't Sound So Silly Now, Does It? An introduction

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 2d

Hahahahah they were just playing a trick on us where they’d pretend to fight back until we voted for them, and then immediately cave www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 2d

i am begging every skeptic to find some middle ground, any middle ground at all, between rejecting speculation as sci-fi and refusing to speculate even slightly about what happens next

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d

A relatively small number of people in certain jobs say that ChatGPT and other LLMs have made them more productive at work. But in the overall economy, it does not look like net productivity is up.

Most of the supposed value is in sci-fi speculation. “Imagine a machine that cures cancer.”

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 3d

I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide.

And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.

What does OpenAI offer the world?

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 3d

some day everyone will have understood this all along

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 3d

Part of the reason why I’m so insistent about folks understanding AI capabilities is that they’re here to stay and we need to start thinking about what to do in such a world. Putting the genie back in the bottle is a pleasant fantasy that delays serious reckoning

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cara ara~ @hyperfekt.net · 3d

little known travel hack: the more language learning apps you install the faster you learn the language

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cara ara~ @hyperfekt.net · 4d

learning to make pigeon sounds

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Mutual A @mutual-a.bsky.social · 5d

worth noting that empirical work by economists has resulted in something of positive reconsideration of rent control when combined with policies that make it easier to build housing

www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 4d

the deaths Musk has caused have had no bearing on his personal standing. It is ghastly to contemplate that no one in the press interrupts his latest announcement about some new waifu robot to ask “what about the children you took food and medicine away from?”

Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 5d

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 4d

On Toad’s birthday Frog gave him a hat. Toad was delighted.

“Happy birthday,” said Frog. Toad put on the hat. It fell down over his eyes.

Toad puts on his new birthday hat, and it slides right down over his eyes. Frog looks on, thoughtfully.

From "The Hat"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*

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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 4d

this really captures the specific set of cached/unconfronted assumptions that underlie a lot of discourse, especially here (from @andymasley.bsky.social)

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Orual @nonbinary.computer · 4d

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SHREW @shrewtape.bsky.social · 5d

Not all who are lost wander.

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 5d

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

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Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com · 5d

It’s such a relief to see her happy and comfortable again. Y’all I am so codependent with this stupid cat

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meri 🌸 🍉 @meri.garden · 5d

the long arc of history tends toward distributed systems

jared @awarm.space · 5d

graze.leaflet.pub/3m4yjmbnyec2... it's nuts how much better we're going to be able to make things

knowledge, context, detail will *always* live at edges. An architecture that ignores this, and assumes a singular organization (or "agent" lmao) can "figure it out" is gonna get its ass kicked

About The Other Night... - Graze Newsletter

How Graze is defining the next era of a decentralized, open social attention economy.

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 5d

They're going to invent forms of racism that don't exist yet

The Economist @economist.com · 5d

A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality

Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?

A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality

econ.st

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cara ara~ @hyperfekt.net · 4d

if you try to win the enemies' game you will become like them on the way to succeeding

Rob Pegoraro @robpegoraro.com · 5d

"If we let the bad people get a trillion dollars a year that we're not getting, they're going to kick our ass every single time": @robin.berjon.com's case in a #MozFest talk with @coricrider.com for breaking Google's hold on the digital-advertising market--which EU regulators seem poised to do.

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snub-nosed monk @smelting.bsky.social · 5d

she's in the sleeping bag

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