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Lauren Beldi

@laurenbeldi.bsky.social

TV news producer by night, sleepy by day. Journalist, knitter, painter, member of several shadowy cabals.

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Techdirt@techdirt.com · 12h ago

Hey Platforms: Your Violent Content Policies Are About To Meet The Pentagon’s Firing Squad There is plenty of coverage everywhere you look about how Pete Hegseth and... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/09/hey-platforms-your-violent-content-policies-are-about-to-meet-the-pentagons-firing-squad/

Hey Platforms: Your Violent Content Policies Are About To Meet The Pentagon’s Firing Squad

There is plenty of coverage everywhere you look about how Pete Hegseth and the Pentagon have announced plans to livestream the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan, the Army officer who shot up Fort Hood, killing 13 people and wounding dozens more. There is plenty of debate about the moral atrocity that is a firing...

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Emmanuelle Chaze@emmanuellechaze.com · 2d ago

🔴 Filashkin: the death toll in Kramatorsk has risen to 30. 18 people were injured. The head of Donetsk region military administration has ordered the suspension of public transportation in Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, "a necessary step dictated by the behavior of the enemy".

Emmanuelle Chaze@emmanuellechaze.com · 2d ago

🔴 This morning, Russia has killed 12 people who were travelling by bus in Kramatorsk. Another 14 were injured. Vadim Filashkin, head of Donetsk military administration: "Russia comes to Ukrainian land bringing death. It strikes our cities, kills our people, and multiplies its crimes every day."

Charred bus still in flames, debris all around
Lauren Beldi@laurenbeldi.bsky.social · 3d ago

I saw some people on the train with some serious nods and was reminded I did not have any narcan with me. In Australia you can get it for free at any participating chemist (there are many). You don’t need to give a reason. Narcan is inert unless reversing an overdose, when it can be life saving.

A box of nasal spray Naloxone which reverses opioid overdoses
mcc@dryad.technology · 5d ago

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 6d ago

AI is now the biggest investment in all of US history as a percentage of GDP. Datacenter construction is up, all other construction is down. "AI Is Squeezing Out the Rest of the Stock Market," reported WSJ 2 days ago. We basically bet the whole economy on the most optimistic visions panning out.

Lauren Beldi@laurenbeldi.bsky.social · 7d ago

Submitting myself to the ~quarterly utter humiliation ritual of signing back up to a month of photoshop in order to push through a bunch of stationery work and remembering the days when my dad would bring home a burned CD of CS4 from his work and I felt like it was Christmas.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social · last wk.

with all respect: i'm losing touch with what AI does because i have no interest in it and it's not my business. nobody worries about me losing touch with developments in particle physics or artificial bull insemination. it's not my fault the richest guys on earth want me to make their toy my life

Will Oremus@willoremus.com · last wk.

feels like there is a group of smart and well-intentioned people who long ago made up their minds that AI Is Bad, swore off using it, and now get all their info about AI from each other. not saying they're wrong that ai is bad! but i think they're gradually losing touch with what it is and does

Human Rights Watch@hrw.org · last wk.

The Trump administration’s decision not to invite the leading international election observation body to monitor US midterms fuels fears of serious election-related human rights concerns. This is the first time the US has declined to invite in OSCE monitors since they began observing US elections.

US: Trump Administration Rejects External Election Observers

The Trump administration’s decision not to invite the leading international election observation body to monitor crucial US midterm polls fuels fears of serious human rights concerns around the upcomi...

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Lauren Beldi@laurenbeldi.bsky.social · 2w ago

We’re going to forget our addresses, phone numbers and basic math but don’t worry! Instead we’re all going to be able to *checks interview* think above the level of a transistor?

Matt Ford@mford.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading. What do you think when you hear that? The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter? That’s my question for you. Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does. But there must be some set of skills that matter. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those. There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.
James Fallows@jfallows.bsky.social · 2w ago

I still pay for online sub to WaPo, out of support for handful of dogged reporters still there, and despite cravenness of owner, evisceration of whole sections, cheesy ed page, and all the rest. (Please, God, lead Bezos to sell the paper to someone who cares.) But stories like this ...

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2w ago

Column by Ashley Fetters Maloy: The state dinner outfits of first ladies Melania Trump and Peng Liyuan split in two divergent directions: One side emphasized modernity and experimentation, while the other hung on to the world we already know. https://wapo.st/4hMFQYk

jodyvanb@jodyvanb.bsky.social · 3w ago

Watched a large raccoon cross the street ahead of us,tonight.Thought he was going to the community garden to pilfer some veg, but he squeezed into a storm drain, instead. When we got closer, we could see his little footprints. Wondering what’s going on down there. Raccoon FOMO.

A cast iron storm drain cover with the image of a fish on it. Below, on the street are wet footprints left by a raccoon, leading across the street to the other side where there is another storm drain.