Lisa
@lisa-birder.bsky.social
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Setting a compass to earth: The Ancient of Days, 1794, by William Blake. Today was his day.
November 29, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Setting a compass to earth: The Ancient of Days, 1794, by William Blake. Today was his day.
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Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
November 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
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Goddamn dude, just go ahead knock 25 percent off my 401k and get on with it, I can't take much more of this.
What if the A.I. bubble “is an inevitable part of developing and adopting a revolutionary tool that will fundamentally improve productivity and growth?” Mohamed El-Erian writes.
Opinion | A.I. Is a Bubble. Maybe That’s OK.
Investors’ excitement rightly reflects the potential transformation of the entire economy.
nyti.ms
November 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Goddamn dude, just go ahead knock 25 percent off my 401k and get on with it, I can't take much more of this.
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My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
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I want to be there when he finishes a lecture with "any questions?" and every hand in the room shoots up.
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I want to be there when he finishes a lecture with "any questions?" and every hand in the room shoots up.
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not only does this tell me trump has entered his lame duck era, it tells me vance is not considered the heir apparent
LMAO -- Ted Cruz is on Fox News talking about running for president in 2028
November 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM
not only does this tell me trump has entered his lame duck era, it tells me vance is not considered the heir apparent
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The fact that he was given a state visit, all the most over the top pomp and pizazz possible rolled out as only Britain can do, to placate him, and now he’s doing this.. sickening&goes to show there’s no placating parasites and bullies like him. The beeb needs to tell him and them to go get fucked.
November 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The fact that he was given a state visit, all the most over the top pomp and pizazz possible rolled out as only Britain can do, to placate him, and now he’s doing this.. sickening&goes to show there’s no placating parasites and bullies like him. The beeb needs to tell him and them to go get fucked.
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To make art is to be human
November 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
To make art is to be human
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You know how billionaires end up with severe cognitive deficits as a result of becoming surrounded by yes men who constantly tell them their every idea is genius? What if we made a bot that just does that to everyone. I think that would be a good idea.
October 17, 2025 at 5:00 AM
You know how billionaires end up with severe cognitive deficits as a result of becoming surrounded by yes men who constantly tell them their every idea is genius? What if we made a bot that just does that to everyone. I think that would be a good idea.
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i just know we're all going to have to sit through a three minute clip of joe rogan saying "i can't believe censorship is happening"
September 18, 2025 at 7:18 AM
i just know we're all going to have to sit through a three minute clip of joe rogan saying "i can't believe censorship is happening"
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Nice one @theguardian.com front page & Carol Ann Duffy ❤️. 
September 18, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Nice one @theguardian.com front page & Carol Ann Duffy ❤️. 
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live your life so that when you die everyone talks about how hot you were and not how you were a hateful bigot
September 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM
live your life so that when you die everyone talks about how hot you were and not how you were a hateful bigot
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🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨
We’ve just seen this, by creator “Menapian” - a 4,998-piece set of the Great Exhibition (1851) Crystal Palace - complete with a bonus Megalosaurus and Ichthyosaur…
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
We’ve just seen this, by creator “Menapian” - a 4,998-piece set of the Great Exhibition (1851) Crystal Palace - complete with a bonus Megalosaurus and Ichthyosaur…
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
September 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨
We’ve just seen this, by creator “Menapian” - a 4,998-piece set of the Great Exhibition (1851) Crystal Palace - complete with a bonus Megalosaurus and Ichthyosaur…
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
We’ve just seen this, by creator “Menapian” - a 4,998-piece set of the Great Exhibition (1851) Crystal Palace - complete with a bonus Megalosaurus and Ichthyosaur…
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
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there was never going to be a world in which the right didn’t claim the left was celebrating the death of charlie kirk, no matter how respectable anyone tried to be.
September 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
there was never going to be a world in which the right didn’t claim the left was celebrating the death of charlie kirk, no matter how respectable anyone tried to be.
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NEW — I wrote about attending the US Open with Trump in attendance, and what the tepid reaction to a fascist at a sporting event says about this country.
Why I had to see Trump at the US Open with my own eyes
Staring straight across the court at a fascist is bad for the soul, but certainly instructive.
www.thehandbasket.co
September 8, 2025 at 10:28 PM
NEW — I wrote about attending the US Open with Trump in attendance, and what the tepid reaction to a fascist at a sporting event says about this country.
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Which one of these dogs would you bring home? 🐾
Small, shaggy, elegant, or wild: there’s a dog hiding in so many of our artworks. Which one would you choose as your companion? 🐕
👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/node/hond--a9214ad010573372c97ce03650a318c1
Small, shaggy, elegant, or wild: there’s a dog hiding in so many of our artworks. Which one would you choose as your companion? 🐕
👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/node/hond--a9214ad010573372c97ce03650a318c1
August 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Which one of these dogs would you bring home? 🐾
Small, shaggy, elegant, or wild: there’s a dog hiding in so many of our artworks. Which one would you choose as your companion? 🐕
👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/node/hond--a9214ad010573372c97ce03650a318c1
Small, shaggy, elegant, or wild: there’s a dog hiding in so many of our artworks. Which one would you choose as your companion? 🐕
👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/node/hond--a9214ad010573372c97ce03650a318c1
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Things that famously ship well: fresh produce
August 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Things that famously ship well: fresh produce
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i cant believe a country that has spent decades measuring success purely by the accumulation of material wealth has lost its moral compass
August 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
i cant believe a country that has spent decades measuring success purely by the accumulation of material wealth has lost its moral compass
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Not only is this fucking embarrassing, I can’t imagine how much counterintelligence work is going to be required after this trip.
Having a hostile head of state in the presidential limo is *insane*
Having a hostile head of state in the presidential limo is *insane*
August 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Not only is this fucking embarrassing, I can’t imagine how much counterintelligence work is going to be required after this trip.
Having a hostile head of state in the presidential limo is *insane*
Having a hostile head of state in the presidential limo is *insane*
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Wow, holding a baby while looking at his computer. How does he do it all?
August 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Wow, holding a baby while looking at his computer. How does he do it all?
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Stephen Colbert is going SCORCHED EARTH right now. To RFK Jr: “Fuck you, you roid-addled nepo carnie! Fuck you, you roadkill-munching Luddite human slim jim!”
August 7, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Stephen Colbert is going SCORCHED EARTH right now. To RFK Jr: “Fuck you, you roid-addled nepo carnie! Fuck you, you roadkill-munching Luddite human slim jim!”
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Tech firms torrented millions of pirated books to train their AI models. Now authors are fighting back.
My story on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
My story on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
AI guzzled millions of books without permission. Authors are fighting back.
Authors are appealing for help from Congress and the courts after Meta and Anthropic used millions of books to create AI technology, without seeking consent.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 21, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Tech firms torrented millions of pirated books to train their AI models. Now authors are fighting back.
My story on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
My story on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Hunter Biden has a point. And a quite colorful one.
July 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Hunter Biden has a point. And a quite colorful one.