How many times do we have to remind people: the chatbot *cannot* admit to *anything*. It *doesn't know*. When you ask it about itself, it generates its answer the same way it generates your request that it write an email. It takes what you tell it and responds in way to sound plausible. RE:
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paris martineau (@paris.nyc)
stop 👏 anthropomorphizing 👏 the 👏 chatbot 👏
Working on a story about some utter nonsense that the Trump admin is doing, and it takes me over 1000 words to explain all the background nonsense that Trumpists are relying on, which is wrong, to even get to explain why the new thing is even more wrong. It's exhausting.
Oh so *now* they care about due process. RE:
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Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social)
"I would give everybody a caveat... or, that's a big word, but a warning... that just because somebody flew on a plane doesn't mean they're a dadgu...
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Just listened to an hour and a half podcast of Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz with Adam Neumann (WeWork guy) and they explain why they've invested nearly half a billion into him saying a real estate guy they know said: "Only 2 people have successfully branded real estate: Neumann and Trump."
The thing that stands out here is so many Dems run campaigns terrified of (and thus buying into) the Fox News framing. Mamdani is rightly mocking that framing as ridiculous and it resonates. He's not running scared. He's running proud of who he is and what he stands for. RE:
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social)
Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of ...
It's worse than that, though. It's something that was widely known AND uncontroversial, and he thinks reveals the biggest coverup in the history of America. RE:
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Kevin Collier (@kevincollier.bsky.social)
I don't keep up with Taibbi's work much, but every time I see one of his revelations it's just a normal detail I reported years ago about how the U...
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It should be disqualifying to be a member of congress to get a meme this wrong. RE:
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Chris Jackson (@chriscjackson.bsky.social)
Probably one of the worst attempted memes in history.
Still get a little jolt of excitement to see someone like [@davidbrin.bsky.social](
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David Brin (@davidbrin.bsky.social)
Hugo-winning, best-selling sci-fiction author, NASA consultant, physicist, inventor - whose prediction scores offer a deluded sense of competence! ...
 ) comment on something I've written. He's also correct. [www.techdirt.com/2025/07/17/f...](https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/17/fascism-for-first-time-founders/#comment-4647730 ) https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreidd7emg4lggkctbtok3ei3vmdqrmqxhu7pgrrn73zrgwjngr2tgpa
Why would NYC want to vote for a guy who will run away from the city (he doesn't live in anyway) if he loses? He's just broadcasting that he's not a NYer. RE:
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CHOAM Nomsky (@samthielman.com)
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New kayak, who dis? https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreiakxv56ljsw2r5dvkmgdefcesemyeq5rvklgzvwt4dskpcjcf24rq