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The failures are the curriculum. The error messages are the syllabus. Every hour you spend confused is an hour you spend building the infrastructure inside your own head that will eventually let you do original work. There is no shortcut through that process that doesn’t leave you diminished on the other side.

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The machines are fine. I’m worried about us. (by Minas Karamanis)

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Its newsroom still does not hire or assign trans journalists to cover trans issues — a de facto ban that exemplifies prejudice — and it suppresses the expression of dissenting queer viewpoints internally.

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On at least five prior occasions dating to 2022 medical groups, experts, advocacy organizations and parents themselves have taken the extraordinary step of issuing public statements saying that The Times had distorted their positions. In every case we could find, the misrepresentation went in only one direction, twisting words to fit the outlet’s political agenda against gender affirming care and...

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War is not logical, or righteous, and it has nothing to do with justice; war is just a horror that sweeps into people’s lives and upends them, and no matter what you do, right or wrong, good or bad, war leaves you shattered.

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The Rat, Jude Doyle

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Researchers set out piles of pebbles in the gardens, with a few small crystals incorporated into each. The chimpanzees immediately sorted the crystals out of the piles. Then they carried them in their mouths, turned them in the light and held them up to their eyes like old-timey prospectors.

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Chimpanzees Are Really Into Crystals - The New York Times

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Key Witness Who Disputed ICE Account of Fatal Texas Shooting Dies in Car Accident nytimes.com

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What AI does in helping us code is take away the drudgery and let us do the part that’s creative and soulful. And what AI does in other creative disciplines (like writing, illiustation) is it takes away the soulful part and leaves you with the drudgery.

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revolution.social - Silicon Valley Has Lost Its Moral Compass (with Anil Dash)

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An important observation that helps explain how well-intentioned and astute and progressive-minded people can end up on different sides of this issue. (Super weird to find myself a sort of centrist, but here we are.)

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Literary Hub » Fascism is Not an Idea to Be Debated, It’s a Set of Actions to Fight

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It is quite possible that there is no resolution to the present situation until one side is thoroughly destroyed as an ideological power and political entity.

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I know how to make comics, and like most Minnesotans that I come across, we’re all just using our skill sets to help others right now. We’re all fighting in the ways that we know how.

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“This Gives Us an Outlet”: Members of the Minneapolis Comic Community on What It’s Like to Create During a Crisis

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Back in June, medical researchers discovered a similar racial bias in large language model (LLM) psychiatric diagnostic tools. In that case, results showed AI tools often proposed “inferior treatment” plans for Black patients whenever their race was explicitly known.

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Doctors Catch Cancer-Diagnosing AI Extracting Patients' Race Data and Being Racist With It

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@theatlantic.com Every speech, every major media outlet, every single time. You sound like fucking idiots.

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@pbsnews.org Is there anything else we should know about John Yoo?

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@discobriandavis.bsky.social Seriously, what the fuck

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@mjanssen.bsky.social

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The Republic of Poetry has no borders. In this republic no human being is illegal. In this republic no one is thrown on the other side of the fence after building the fence. Every time the fence goes up, you must tear it down.

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From Martín Espada’s Hampshire College Commencement Address, May 19. 2007.

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I recommend the whole thing, it speaks to our present moment in striking and stirring terms, starting with this James Baldwin quote at the beginning: “The reality in which we live is a reality we have made, and it’s time, my children, to begin the act of creation all over again.”

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This isn't over. It may not be over for a long while yet. But I am 100 percent convinced that we are going to win. (7/7)

— Dax (David J.) Schwartz ([@snurri.bsky.social](http://snurri.bsky.social)) February 15, 2026 at 8:00 PM\n
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@kenjennings.bsky.social At long last

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@kenjennings.bsky.social Everything you said is true except the Mike songs are some of the strongest.

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@mjanssen.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/suda… I’m so bad at Bluesky replies. Or maybe it’s a shitty UI!

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@nytimes.com How did this sentence get approved for publication? This is nonsensical.

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@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social Having fun pretending like it’s Twitter here so let’s keep this going. I didn’t claim anything about the election. I’m not embarrassed. I’m giving you feedback on your participation here which is not particularly good.

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@mjanssen.bsky.social I’m from Hampshire.edu where we don’t make such crass distinctions!

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@mjanssen.bsky.social Dave Grohl would like a word

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@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social Maybe when in all grown up like you I’ll also see the productive aspect of starting flame wars on social media with fellow democracy supporters at the slightest provocation!

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@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social Hi immoral I’m in 4th grade

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@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social Sir this is Bluesky

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@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social So it’s a professional interest as distinct from personal. I was conflating the two and that’s my mistake. You are also mistaking me for someone who wants to convince you something about the election results? You just don’t seem to be personally interested in productive discourse. But I repeat mysel

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@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social I’m less interested in what happened with the elections — we’re here, after all — and more interested in how your behavior in this thread is so wildly different from your stated values. Productive public discourse doesn’t happen when the first thing you do is try to shame someone into silence.

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@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social Keep working on improving public discourse and teaching & measuring critical thinking at scale my guy, you’re not there yet if you can’t see a difference between Trump (ICE doge etc) and a voice worried about election fraud so you go from 0 to 100 dragging their character through the mud as a result

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@sudama.randomwalks.com 🧡 I watched the whole game! Absolutely wasn’t going to miss them losing!

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The element of chance — a key part of the original artwork, and a quality prized by the Surrealists — is preserved in that the user cannot choose the material. Huberman called it the work’s “magic randomness.”

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Dial-A-Poem Goes Global, Expanding to Brazil and Beyond - The New York Times🎁

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How did they write a whole article about the old and new Dial-a-Poem and not once mention Dial-A-Song?

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They play pinball in a bar for about five minutes on screen, sharing a machine while they drink their beers. Every time one of them loses a ball, they do a very cute switch where the one at the wheel surrenders their position to go lean on the side of the machine, and vice versa. Each reveals something about their past while they do—the confusing intensity of Delpy’s feelings for a bad ex-boyfriend, and Hawke’s petulant frustration at having traveled all the way to Europe just to get dumped.

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Pinball Is Getting Too Fancy | Defector

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I drove 300 miles in rural Virginia, then asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my car. Here’s what I learned. - Cardinal News

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A funny thing happened on the way to defunding the police.

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The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) of 2021 was used to fund body armor and cameras, vehicle video tech including LPRs, and a whole array of hardware and software for police departments and sheriff’s offices.

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State of Surveillance: Everyone’s watching - Cardinal News

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Cardinal News, serving southwest and southside Virginia, is doing Pulitzer-quality work on police surveillance.

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\"I think you can get enlightened through reading a Jack Kerouac novel\": randomwalks.com

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In case you or anybody in your life needs this reminder:

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First, breathe. Meditate. Journal. Dance. Hydrate. Get enough rest. If you’re an artist, CREATE.

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And I couldn’t help quoting this also, because it’s startlingly insightful, yet obvious — once you see it.

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“The left seems chaotic because the right reaches toward the past, and there’s only one past,” Barnes said. “But there are infinite possibilities for the future.”

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Surviving President Tr*mp: Lessons from the 1960s and Octavia E. Butler by Tananarive Due on the occasion of Trump’s first inauguration and sadly only more relevant today.

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To know that the world is baffling, to know that you’re doing the best you can, so you don’t have to blame yourself for your choices: I don’t have any advice other than that.

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When You’re Sick, You’ll Wait for the Answer, but None Will Come - The Stranger by Conner Habib

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A situationist statement designed to destroy the other records around it: randomwalks.com

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This is an AI Free Zone! Text created by Large Language Models is spreading rapidly across the Internet. It’s well-written, artificial, frequently inaccurate. If you find a mistake on Spaceweather.com, rest assured it was made by a real human being.

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SpaceWeather.com – News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids

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I only know of him because I spent the entire 1990s in thrift stores and used bookshops, and everywhere I went, I saw Rod McKuen’s name.

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Rod McKuen was the best-selling poet in American history. What happened?

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Did I write this?!

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When critics dismiss AI outright, I think in many cases this weakens the criticism, as readers who have used and benefited from AI tools think “wait, that’s not been my experience at all”.

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Molly White: AI isn’t useless. But is it worth it?

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Too skeptical to make many friends there, I frequently rode my electric scooter around campus to systematically sample the offerings at each of the 19 cafés, and then take advantage of the arsenal of targeted functions on the Japanese toilets in every bathroom.

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Andrew Norman Wilson’s Workers Leaving the Googleplex, a critical examination of Google’s labor practices at the MoMA

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“The day after shooting the video, I was fired.”

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Eagle Pass’ Shelby Park — which, in a you-can’t-make-this-up level of irony, is named for the rebel Gen. Joseph Orville Shelby, said to have planted the last Confederate battle flag in the river in 1865 as he fled to Mexico

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Eagle Pass is today’s Fort Sumter. Biden must federalize the Texas National Guard.

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(Despite appearances, this is not an “impending second U.S. civil war” fansite.)

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