Meritocracy. RE:
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Gillian Branstetter (@gbbranstetter.bsky.social)
Reading about the former model with zero experience in historiography or the arts who will now curate, among others, the National Museum of African...
If you didn't see [@lastweektonight.com](
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (@lastweektonight.com)
The official Bluesky account of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. youtube.com/lastweektonight
 )'s bit this week about Schumer's weird obsession with a totally made up family, who Oliver rightly called out as MAGA republicans, it's worth watching as a way to understand how completely out of touch Schumer is. RE:
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Eric Michael Garcia (@ericmgarcia.bsky.social)
Chuck Schumer has taken a HUGE dip in his favorability rating since January via Siena College In January: -45% has a favorable opinion -41% had an...
The ability to exit a service... while still staying in touch with people on that service is super important, and one of the many reasons why things are different here. RE:
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Clinton Bowen (@torrho.blacksky.team)
@tektite.cc Migration I just migrated my main account from @bsky.app to BlackSky using BlackSky's Migration service.
Ah, there we go. This is one of those things I've been meaning to write up for ages and eventually [@thedextriarchy.bsky.social](
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Adi Robertson (@thedextriarchy.bsky.social)
Senior Editor, Tech & Policy, The Verge
 ) was going to beat me to it anyway: [www.theverge.com/x-ai/758595/...](
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Chatbots aren’t telling you their secrets
LLMs make things up — including about themselves.
 ) [Chatbots aren’t telling you th...](
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Chatbots aren’t telling you their secrets
LLMs make things up — including about themselves.
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Notable crime ridden... Georgetown? WTF? RE:
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Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social)
FBI, DEA and other law enforcement recorded in Georgetown walking around “There’s not much going on around here… maybe they’re practicing”
So wait. Part of the Trump admin's efforts to distract from the Epstein situation is to argue we should change laws to treat children as adults? RE:
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Kara Swisher (@karaswisher.bsky.social)
Now the @washingtonpost is a shameless platform for inaccurate press releases by the Trump administration. I have lived in DC with 4 kids for years...
Skylight's getting even better... RE:
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Tori (@buildwithtori.com)
This one’s for the curators ✨ Sneak peek of @skylight.social! #skylightsocial #skylight
Today we have a guest post from [@riana.bsky.social](
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Riana (@riana.bsky.social)
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 ) about just how ridiculous parts of the STOP CSAM Act are, including that it requires platforms to report if images were "created in whole or in part through the use of software" which is... um... basically all of them? Which will be very unhelpful. RE:
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Techdirt (@techdirt.com)
Another Look At The STOP CSAM Act Amidst the current batch of child safety bills in Congress, a familiar name appears: the STOP CSAM Act. It was ...
Been almost 20 years since I wrote an angry [@techdirt.com](
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Techdirt (@techdirt.com)
A good old fashioned blog that has been covering tech, law, policy, and democracy for almost three decades now.
 ) post after people complained that Craig wasn't "capitalist enough" because he didn't want to "maximize revenue" in the short term. [www.techdirt.com/2006/12/18/t...](
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The Time Function Of Profits; Or Why Craigslist Is Doing A Fine Job Maximizing Revenue
A few weeks back there was some ridiculous buzz over the fact that Craigslist’s CEO apparently flummoxed some Wall Street folks by claiming t...
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Craig Newmark (@craignewmark.bsky.social)
1999: VCs and brokers approached me with maybe an $11B deal/ I just remembered my basic values, and I turned them down Not being altruistic, just ...
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The Time Function Of Profits; Or Why Craigslist Is Doing A Fine Job Maximizing Revenue
A few weeks back there was some ridiculous buzz over the fact that Craigslist’s CEO apparently flummoxed some Wall Street folks by claiming t...
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Routing all your emails directly to trash... to save water. RE:
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Matthew Gault (@mjgault.bsky.social)
sorry you're experiencing record breaking temperatures and drought. Have you tried deleted some of photos of your grandmother about it? https://www...