"avoid antonomasia" is going to be a "load bearing" interjection
Ryan Williams
@activationlayer.org
Democracy, Technology, and Other Stuff. activationlayer.org PhD candidate @ the University of Texas. I am friends with a pug.
what word would be in your J-Space every day but you can't explain why? mine: Gandalf
cool to discover the grandparents of all the obsidian.md influencers of a few years ago
Nick Seaver@nickseaver.website · 4w agoI will make you master of your mind's infinite ramifications!
Enough turning these animated films into live action movies. I want to see live action classics turned into animation. Gordon Gekko’s cigar exploding, turning his face black. Lawrence of Arabia imagining a sand dune as a roasted ham.
You're laughing... I can't withdraw my Bonk from Kraken and you're laughing?
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · last mo.Kraken has temporarily suspended deposits and withdrawals of Bonk due to an ongoing incident affecting the token, according to its website.
This seems worth flying across the country for....
Lucy Li@lucy3.bsky.social · last mo.tada2026.org It's revived!!!!
the stage of dogfooding when the dogfood starts to taste good.
We've seen this over and over again. Why don't women negotiate more? Because they're punished when they do. Why don't they network with more people? Because they're punished for it. Women don't need to change the way they act. They're acting rationally based on the way the world reacts to them. +
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · last mo.Women’s use of AI is perceived as a sign of incompetence, while men’s use of AI is seen as an indication of initiative. 🤦🏻♂️
i have an update on this situation. a pup cup was, in fact, delivered.
Ryan Williams@activationlayer.org · last mo.When you know the pup cup is on its way.
let agents play games in your repos. allow play to become a source of discovery and an engine of mutation.
dems have such an impoverished imagination that the best we can do re: leadership is Schumer? really?
2 more thoughts on birthright: 1. The movement to overturn Roe and Humphrey's Executor was built over decades. It took an enormous amount of effort to manufacture that sense of scholarly viability (see: Teles, Hollis-Brusky). The right got 5-4 on birthright with a sloppy last-minute scramble
useless, totally unable to meet the moment they were one vote from overriding the fourteenth amendment retire and give your job to someone who understands the stakes
Chuck Schumer@schumer.senate.gov · last mo.Despite Trump’s best efforts to bully them, the Supreme Court just reaffirmed that if you are born in America, you belong in America.
So you just need an instragram account in order to get a sense for local tattoo artists? How do we get these folks on ATproto?
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🚨New publication 🚨 Today my group at Cambridge, the AI & Geopolitics Project, launches our first anthology. It’s a bold new collection of essays bringing together 10 thought-leaders to challenge the dominant narrative that AI is an existential, zero-sum battle between the US and China (1/3)
