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shoshana wodinsky (she/her)
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shoshana wodinsky (she/her) @swodinsky.bsky.social · Apr 8
the worst part of being DOGE’d is needing to explain the entire meme history to your parents when they ask why the hell you were laid off
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freya.bsky.social
me (trying to sound normal): ah, i just help look for lost cats sometimes 🥰

also me (holding a $1000 thermal hunting scope irresponsibly bought specifically to find cats):
August 6, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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nsqe.bsky.social
I mean privacy aside (and this is /me/ saying "privacy aside" y'all), this sounds like literally the worst coffee meeting in the history of coffee meetings. I don't know any of these people and I know everything I need to know about them from this paragraph and I am already miserable by proxy.
During a coffee meeting, a Limitless pendant hung from Wilson’s chest; his Meta Ray-Bans were in their case. Beside him, Pat Santiago, founder of Accelr8, a coliving startup, had a Buddi pinned to his collar that he uses to gather intel at networking parties and pitch nights. No Cap processes the data he captures with his collar recorder to surface early-stage investments, Santiago explained. “The AI can see patterns that we can’t.”
August 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
I feel like every single day I need to post a reminder: if you ask an LLM about itself it DOES NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ITS INNER WORKINGS and WILL NOT TELL YOU ANYTHING ACTUALLY ABOUT ITSELF. It just (as it always does) will make up some plausible sounding answer.
August 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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jwherrman.bsky.social
I don't think there's much use in asking users of a social network to behave differently — platforms are too big for norms like that, people mostly aren't posting to debate — but similar charges of meanness/insularity accompanied Twitter's rise, and arguably described a reason people *liked* it!
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Jun 11
Before going for the reflexive dunk, I think its worth asking if we really want to chase away influential people who have been posting here in reasonably good faith. (Ducks).
mcuban.bsky.social Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Jun 8
The replies on here may not be as racist as Twitter, but they damn sure are hateful.
Talk AI: FU, AI sucks go away
Talk Business: Go away
Talk Healthcare: Crickets.

Engagement went from great convos on many topics, to agree with me or you are a nazi fascist

We are forcing posts to X
June 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
Not true.

I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
Corey Wiley on Twitter writes: "You don’t get it. Foundational immigration law is morally just and has been established over millennia. Disrespecting these rules and ideals is very offensive to folks who highly value civilized society"
June 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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jwherrman.bsky.social
great point from @maxread.info regarding "regarding white genocide," and one that relates to the weird ChatGPT sycophancy thing from the other week: crude interventions like this break the AI illusion maxread.substack.com/p/regarding-...
Which means that Musk's attempts to control and manipulate his A.I. may ultimately work against his interests: They open up a political, rather than a mystical, understanding of artificial intelligence. An A.I. that works like magic can have a spooky persuasive power, but an A.I. we know how to control should be subject to the same suspicion (not to mention political contestation) as any newspaper or cable channel. A.I. deployed as a propaganda machine is a much more familiar technology than A.I. deployed as an oracle. For those of us less attracted to (or convinced by) an anti-political mystic machine god, answering questions like "why did computer do that?" and "how to make computer do exactly what I want?" are of paramount importance, even if they also open up the possibility of more subtle manipulations.
May 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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merriam-webster.com
*crab-walked
A CNN news notification : The convicted killer crab walked between two walls and pushed through the newly installed razor wire to break out of prison, authorities say
May 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
The Problem With Young Men is that they don't have 24/7 wake island bf1942 64 player servers where they can healthily engage with peers and mentors
May 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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laurie-merrell.bsky.social
thebeemagazine.com/terminus/
May 5, 2025 at 1:07 PM
swodinsky.bsky.social
who told him about k-dramas
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · May 4
Trump says movies produced outside the U.S. are a national security threat. So he’s imposing a 100% tariff on all movies that are “produced in foreign lands.”
The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death. Other Countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States. Hollywood, and many other areas within the U.S.A., are being devastated. This is a concerted effort by other Nations and, therefore, a National Security threat. It is, in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda! Therefore, I am authorizing the Department of Commerce, and the United States Trade Representative, to immediately begin the process of instituting a 100% Tariff on any and all Movies coming into our Country that are produced in Foreign Lands. WE WANT MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA, AGAIN! O ReTruths 5 Likes 5/4/25, 4:18 https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/114452117143235155
May 5, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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normative.bsky.social
When you buy groceries, who benefits more, you or the supermarket? It's... sort of a weird question, isn't it?
johngramlich.bsky.social John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · Apr 10
Which country benefits more from trade between the US and China?

10% of Americans say the US
25% say both countries equally
46% say China
2% say neither country
16% aren't sure

(survey fielded March 24-30, before "Liberation Day") www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Bar chart from Pew Research Center showing Americans' views on whether trade between the United States and China benefits one country more than the other, whether both countries benefit equally or whether neither country benefits more. The chart also shows attitudes on this question when it comes to trade between the U.S. and Canada and between the U.S. and Mexico.
April 10, 2025 at 4:00 AM
swodinsky.bsky.social
the worst part of being DOGE’d is needing to explain the entire meme history to your parents when they ask why the hell you were laid off
April 8, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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maxkennerly.bsky.social
There is some good news. Like Mr. Rogers says, look to the helpers, such as @teslatakedown.com.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Tesla’s first-quarter vehicle deliveries were far below even JPMorgan Chase & Co. analyst Ryan Brinkman’s pessimistic estimate, “confirming the unprecedented brand damage we had earlier feared,” he said in a report Friday. The sales report “causes us to think that — if anything — we may have underestimated the degree of consumer reaction,” Brinkman wrote.
April 4, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
The use of Mozilla's "do not track" feature was apparently, instead, *Able To Be Used As A Metric By Which To Track People*.

Y'know, eventually my brain is just going to flash boil and shoot out my ears as steam like I'm a cartoon.
December 12, 2024 at 7:31 PM
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evacide.bsky.social
There is another batch of bad abortion-related opsec advice going around, so I'm just going to link to Digital Defense Fund's guide to abortion privacy, which is realistic, practical, and explicit in its threat models: digitaldefensefund.org/ddf-guides/a...
Guide to Abortion Privacy — Digital Defense Fund
digitaldefensefund.org
December 11, 2024 at 3:49 AM
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ernie.tedium.co
This is some great forensics work
michaelgreshko.bsky.social Michael Greshko @michaelgreshko.bsky.social · Mar 14
Great story. Extra evidence for the casinosivut.net connection: According to their metadata, logo files for Lineup (lineup-publishing.com/wp-content/u... ) and casinosivut.net (casinosivut.net/wp-content/u... ) were both edited with Adobe ImageReady, which last released with Photoshop CS2 in *2005.*
March 14, 2024 at 9:03 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
I think about this a lot www.programmablemutter.com/p/why-jonath...
We live in a climate, where once people are Internet famous, they get rapid and large scale attention. Some of them like it, and/or can make careers from it. They keep on pressing the button for that dopamine hit or increase in engagement, and if they aren’t careful, they end up becoming caricatures of themselves. In short: we live in a media ecology that creates incentives for Internet famous people to become crude approximations of themselves if they want to keep on being Internet famous. Some of them play to their crowd. Some of them embrace the role of Bold Contrarian Truthteller (playing to one crowd, while outraging another). Both tend to play up what gets attention. Both have incentives to double down on error rather than admitting it.
December 26, 2023 at 2:59 PM
swodinsky.bsky.social
reposting from the other site:

am i insane, or did google get a ton of flack for doing p much exactly this in like 2017 www.adexchanger.com/ai/yahoos-ne...
December 7, 2023 at 5:36 PM
swodinsky.bsky.social
reposting from the other site:

am i insane, or did google get a ton of flack for doing p much exactly this in like 2017
December 7, 2023 at 5:36 PM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
The best thing about America is all the freedom. You can also have the opportunity to get health care if you just file a lawsuit and a judge hears your case and decides in your favor.
joshuajfriedman.com Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Dec 7
"After a 45 minute Zoom hearing Thursday, Gamble ruled that Cox should be allowed to terminate the pregnancy, and that Dr. Damla Karsan, a Houston OB/GYN, should be protected from civil and criminal penalties if she performs the procedure."
joshuajfriedman.com Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Dec 7
NEW: A Travis County, Texas, district judge has granted a temporary restraining order allowing Kate Cox, a pregnant Dallas woman whose fetus has a lethal abnormality, to have an abortion.
December 7, 2023 at 4:38 PM
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dell.bsky.social
a loophole is a small hole in a wall you can shoot arrows through. a gaping loophole would be counterproductive for the purposes of having a loophole.
A tv caption reads: "it's very important, um, this is a huge gaping loophole."
December 7, 2023 at 4:28 PM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
Five years ago today, Jews were murdered at a Pittsburgh synagogue just a few days after an avid Trump supporter was caught sending pipe bombs to the array of political figures who topped Trump’s oft repeated list of “enemies of the people.”
Ed O'Keefe O @edokeefe Follow The worst anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history took place today just days after the largest attempted assassination of political leaders in U.S. history. 3:43 PM - 27 Oct 2018
October 27, 2023 at 4:29 PM
swodinsky.bsky.social
[patrick voice] who are you people????????
October 8, 2023 at 12:07 AM
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mariafarrell.bsky.social
Note that it's Franzen, George RR Martin, and <authors> taking legal action against LLMs training on their work.

It's not publishers.

Publishers are staying silent and biding their time.

Authors and publishers' interests are NOT aligned on generative AI, just as actors and studios aren't.
September 22, 2023 at 11:06 AM