Hmm. Is there a ride share scam making the rounds? At the airport, booked a car (white Corolla), it's only 3 minutes away! I walk to the designated meeting spot. As I get there a white Prius pulls up and asks if I'm waiting for my car. I say "yes, but it's not you." ...
Free ska! RE:
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Mel Buer (@melbuer.bsky.social)
In MacArthur Park in Los Angeles for a free ska show, and I gotta tell you, it’s really healing to see this pavilion full of dancing, smiling peo...
Why is her signature the same as Donald's? RE:
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Eric Columbus (@ericcolumbus.bsky.social)
This is a real letter from Melania Trump to Putin and it’s one of the most vapid things I’ve ever read.
Content warning: discussion of LLM tool usage. If that upsets you just block me. I don't need to be scolded. This is just for people who are interested: I've been testing out GPT-5 in my edit flow, and it's fascinating to compare it to Claude 4 sonnet (which I use more regularly).
Seeing a lot of this sorta thing. When I pointed out the noticeable decline in violent crime in Baltimore, someone yelled at me that I was an idiot to say that Baltimore had no crime, which was not something I had said. RE:
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jamelle (@jamellebouie.net)
it is incredible to see the extent to which the Sensible Centrists are simply incapable of grasping the very simple and obvious fact that the presi...
Just casually reading some documents that [@eff.org](
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Electronic Frontier Foundation (@eff.org)
We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media acc...
 ) freed about the DOJ trying to destroy the internet and see that they emailed around some of my blog posts criticizing their policies. Thanks for the clicks, I guess. https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreie374nh3c4p3rs2csn7cnh6o63n7fvftraonb7mg3ar7gylfs7imq
One of the things holding me back from ever writing a book is the dread of having Dave Karpf read it while ripping it to shreds in public. RE:
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Dave Karpf (@davekarpf.bsky.social)
Next book on my reading pile: β€œBoom: bubbles and the end of stagnation.” Pretty sure this is gonna turn into another hate-read performance. πŸ...
Not sure how I feel about the framing of "model welfare" but I do find this idea of Claude telling a user "I already told you I won't do that and you didn't stop, so I'm cutting you off" kind of interesting. Some might immediately jump to the "I can't do that Dave" HAL comparison, but .... RE:
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Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social)
"...we’re working to identify and implement low-cost interventions to mitigate risks to model welfare, in case such welfare is possible." https:/...
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Congrats to our President for winning a lifetime achievement award in the "fell for it again" category. [www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/16/putin-trump-russia-summit-ukraine-war/ ) [Russia sees victory in summit ...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/16/putin-trump-russia-summit-ukraine-war/ )
Once again, clean on opsec... RE:
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NPR (@npr.org)
Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer. ...