sogwet they/them
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@notbeck.bsky.social
i'll be twenty-something until i aint
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Kinda Fucked Up that in our lifetimes we've gone from "never share personal info on the internet" to "hand over your identity to the most incompetent corporations imaginable".
February 9, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured”

www.reuters.com/investigatio...
As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts
Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...
www.reuters.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:42 PM
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Writer's parents own 200 units in the city and have racked up many, many violations.
In a city packed with mighty real estate titans, they are the small ones.

New York landlords say they are at their breaking point as Mayor Zohran Mamdani begins to implement even more aggressive tenant-friendly policies.
NYC’s small landlords say they won’t survive Mamdani plan to freeze rent
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has criticized landlords and vowed to freeze what tenants in rent-stabilized apartments pay monthly.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 7, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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It's pretty amazing to me the amount of shit that apparently you can Just Do as an NYC mayor. It makes basically every other American politician look like an incompetent loser.

What do you mean there was just a button that reversed wage theft? Why wasn't and isn't everyone hitting it all the time??
February 2, 2026 at 10:58 AM
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ME: yeah could i get the impossible burger with cheese.
THE VIZIER WHO'S BEEN ADVISING ME: ahh, an excellent choice sire. an imitation of the genuine article. there are some "friends" of yours to whom it bears a passing similarity
ME: you want anything
VIZIER: [chuckles] what i want is of no import
June 2, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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It always feels like all the wrong people die, but I think it’s because there are far more beloved people than there are bastards.
January 31, 2026 at 12:28 AM
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"as it stands" are weasel words here. the moderate democrat position is that ICE needs to be abolished, when the democrat establishment leaders say "ICE as it stands needs to go" they mean they want some meaningless ICE reforms in exchange for sending them billions in funding
Everyone from Gallego to Pritzker is screaming that ICE as it stands needs to go, then Bluesky got mad that they weren’t at protests, then Klobuchar got attacked *for attending a protest* instead of Doing Something, the Senate Dems Did Something and a major tactical win and it gets branded a cave.
January 30, 2026 at 12:08 PM
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ICE has a budget of $85 billion. Every single ounce of messaging right now should be “we’re going to dismantle the organization entirely and use that $85 billion to do ____.” Anything less than that is complicit, and yet these dumb fucks think we should make the violent racists read Foucault
Opinion | To Avoid More Tragic Deaths, ICE Needs Higher Education and Training Standards

Higher ed can play an important role in making federal immigration enforcement safer. https://bit.ly/4bRR5fx

#EDUSKy #HigherEd #AcademicSky
January 28, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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hey so if you find yourself in the year 2026 and you're still experiencing imposter syndrome? please. stop and take one look at the people running the world. because no matter who you are or how unaccomplished, there is simply no way on earth that you're not better than them.
January 24, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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Fucking with Midwestern plows is definitely going to turn public opinion around in your favor. 100%. Works every time.
Local news Fox9 reports:

ICE detains Minnesota city worker, a snow plow driver, and transfers him to detention facility in Texas. Where he remains.

"He had every federal authorization to be here," public works director in interview.

hat tip: @longtimehistory.bsky.social
January 21, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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i’m fascinated by this new strategy wjere multiple ai company CEOs have been going on tears tours this year so far complaining about how anti ai sentiment has hurt their businesses
Jensen Huang of Nvidia, $NVDA, has said relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has done a lot of damage, per Techspot.
January 21, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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We're still years out and the prevailing narrative is already "it's the left's fault he's going to lose".

Which then makes you wonder why the hell he even has any supporters, if even those supporters seem to have zero confidence in his chances.
January 18, 2026 at 2:02 AM
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If I saw so many people promising no vote for Newsom that I believed it would cost him the election, "thinking strategically" would mean making sure Dems don't even consider letting him be the nominee. It seems like bad strategy to scold voters on behalf of a right wing creep everyone hates.
January 18, 2026 at 12:20 AM
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did u know when u say its okay to use genai at any part of a games development this is what ur saying ur okay with
Grok is so much worse than you think.
January 17, 2026 at 10:28 AM
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It exposes directional alignment; you still seek to limit, not expand, who is allowed to be human. Yes, you have set your limitation more inclusively than our fascist gang of white supremacists; it doesn't mean you're not also setting limitations & they'll use your limit as long as it serves them.
I can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.
January 17, 2026 at 12:57 PM
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Makes me feel insane to live in a world that's persecuting trans folk while simultaneously doing big billboards advertising gender affirming care to cis people???
January 17, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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Spread this like wildfire now. General strikes work.
every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO

this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
January 17, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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scott adams said one of my youtube videos was bad one time. now he's dead. i think there's a lesson there
January 13, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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January 5, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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April 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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December 28, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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they didn't need AI to make Silksong, it just needed some deeply insane guys to have a blank check for living expenses until their next thing was done, I think we should try doing more of that instead
December 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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the faux-AI evangelists see the artistic process as a race to get to a finished product, instead of something valuable in itself. the process is where you develop those skills you don't have yet, it cannot be skipped, it is where the art happens
I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
December 15, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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i have new ideas every day someone should give me a bunch of money instead of openai i have so many ideas
Lmfao every AI defense piece is like "AYY I FUCKIN SUCK BRO HOPEFULLY THIS FUCKIN STEAL YOUR SHIT MACHINE WILL MAKE ME SUCK SLIGHTLY LESS OK"
December 14, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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One of the best-sketched characters in an incredibly character-rich show: a fascist whose (potentially real!) redeeming qualities are continually undercut by his monumental pride, bigotry, entitlement and pettiness
The most realistic scene in DS9 is when Gul Dukat whined about how the Bajorans never erected a statue in his honor. A prophetic text.
December 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM