"we need to run a straight, white, Christian dude or Republicans will get weird" Meanwhile Republicans in texas: "James Transerico is a vegan soy-boy secret Muslim who believes in 6 genders"

lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 7h ago

"no one will be normal about AOC if she runs for president" is both true and a bad reason for her not to run. you could run the most milquetoast middle of the road clean cut straight white man alive and the right is still going to act like the deranged freaks they are

Next Senator from Minnesota btw

As I wrote in my final paper for the summer semester: If I want to read something, I need to read it. If I want to write something, I need to write it. If I want to learn something, I need to learn it. And if I take my jacket to the dry cleaner, I don't claim that I got the stain out myself.

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 15h ago

Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

We actually call it urban planning here.

The Economist@economist.com · yesterday

Superstitious Chinese mayors are running their cities on feng shui—and hampering economic growth

is this moss

MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 3d ago

Marlow Moss, Composition in Black and White Number 4, 1949 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135948

You could not in your wildest dreams come up with a better metaphor than Harry Potter fans forcing the desecration of real remains to spare fictional ones

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d ago

Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’

not to be confused with quesadilla

What's wrong babe you've barely driven your Subaru Troutback

okay total eclipse of the par'mach slaps

oh? so it could have been good

First Flight Podcast@firstflightpod.bsky.social · 4d ago

During the Picard panel, Jonathan Del Arco shared the initial genesis of the series—that it didn’t involve Picard at all. #STLV

Chick-Fil-A Raptured https://theonion.com/chick-fil-a-raptured/

so many people think Portland Oregon is a burned-down radical antifa wasteland when it’s mostly just stuff like this

doc shartman@docshartman.bsky.social · 6d ago

[under breath] holy fuckin shit

in 2371 anglo-irish have repaired sufficiently since the 2024 unification that the exceptionally Irish Miles O'Brien gets Julian Bashir liquored up and willingly sings "Jerusalem" with him i can only suspend my disbelief so far

This has always been the way ....

CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@rami.spaceaustralia.com · 10mo ago

The whole "you built an echo chamber' BS... Yeah, I built an echo chamber! Why wouldn't I? Because for the small fraction of my day that I am online, I want it to be pleasant and to learn and to shit post with my friends. I want to be able to enjoy this time here, and will do with it as I see fit!

This is pretty much my BlueSky vibe 👇👇👇 If your only source of politics, or any global issue, is a social media platform, then that's your problem. If you think that people should be subjected to "other side" views to broaden their horizons, then I'm going to deem you an extremely online person.

Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨@ciaraioch.bsky.social · last wk.

"Bluesky is a political echo chamber" okay but I'm mostly here to chat with fun internet people and post art and make jokes, I cannot stress how much I don't care

The “err umm she wasn’t talking about America” idea is funny as if the right-wing crank grifter industry stops at the border or the water’s edge

Hello I have made this due to a mutual having issues with some folks on here forgetting this fact and shouting at him for it. Feel free to use it as a handy PSA x

would like to make it through one (1) academic deadline during my PhD without an emergency vet visit

Ancient Bluesky proverb

an ocean of emotion@betarayben.bsky.social · last wk.

Oh, this is just an episode of Deep Space Nine

AI IS BASICALLY A SEX WORKER might be the hook for my new class…

Love this. And as the person tasked with proofreading AI meeting notes, if it's not done same day by a human, incorrect and sometimes opposite decisions will be recorded quite often. Apps can't make sense of how humans use double negatives, repeat words midthought, or say things like "yeah, no"

Anyway, your problem isn‘t finding the time to take notes. The problem is that taking notes is thinking and thinking has to be done by someone. women have been doing a lot of metacognition that looks like a task when it’s really thinking.

Then they have all the transcripts (and the ai token bill) but no sensemaking. so they make another app — a layer that will make sense of all the useless transcripts. But of course sensemaking isnt just pattern spotting. It’s interpretation. AI cannot do either because AI cannot be curious

So a masculinist understanding of notetaking would think a transcription app is the same as taking notes. That’s why they think an AI transcript is a time-saver. They think the notes are the thinking because when a human takes the notes, it is.

I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them

Jennifer Romig @jennifermromig.bsky.social · 2w ago

Notetaking in meetings is tiny case in point - used to be some predictable social assumptions who would do it; now anyone can offer to do ”notetaking” by turning on the AI listener. Further interesting scenario is human recollection / notes (taken by habit by a person) conflict with AI summary

Threads finally got its first good post