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So I recently watched Skam S3.

Am I obsessed? Absolutely.

Am I studying how the story accomplished what it did as a writer? Absolutely.

Am I haunted by that rendition of 'O Helga Natt' at inopertune moments? ABSOLUTELY. 🥺😭🎻

On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city.

We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.

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Today, we remember and honor our trans siblings lost to violence.

We lift up their legacies by continuing the work to stem the tides of hatred, and create a world in which all trans people can survive and thrive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automation Paradox of automation edit The paradox of automation says that the more efficient the automated system, the more crucial the human contribution of the operators. Humans are less involved, but their involvement becomes more critical. Lisanne Bainbridge, a cognitive psychologist, identified these issues notably in her widely cited paper "Ironies of Automation."[49] If an automated system has an error, it will multiply that error until it is fixed or shut down. This is where human operators come in.[50] A fatal example of this was Air France Flight 447, where a failure of automation put the pilots into a manual situation they were not prepared for.[51]

Keep this in mind as we start seeing more and more large scale outages from AWS, Cloudflare, Github, etc. These are the companies hoping to increasingly automate their systems with AI

Related to this: one thing I've noticed is (in America) we've ditched talking about ourselves as a melting pot or a beautiful mosaic.

Now Democrats talk only about kitchen table values while the proverbial house is on fire, and my God are we dweebs for that one.

Can I just say, as someone currently writing a gay historical fiction set in 1979 NYC, if I manage to tap into a single 10th of the writing sublimnity shown in @meakoopa.bsky.social's Dayspring, I'll have viewed my entire writing career as a resounding success.

Opinion | Finding Doug Warner: an appreciation My past is now tinged with a bittersweet gratitude: knowing that, by simply being me — proudly gay and loving life — I was fulfilling a promise that Doug Warner made to the world. A column by John…

I wrote this in the local paper last month, about a pioneering civil liberties activist from my hometown, Doug Warner (1952-1990).

riverheadlocal.com/2025/10/10/f...

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Agreed.

No kings? No, wars!

PS @scottheim.bsky.social Just sent along another DM about writerly stuff 🤓

Feel like a C, forced to live as a Q

Exactly: don’t give them the satisfaction of having made you mad.

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I was sad to learn we had five mutual friends on Facebook! I feel like I really missed out. 😔

This is what traumatized Brian Lackey.

Neil saw it too and, lighting a cigarette, said with a shrug, “Okay, work.”

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A terrible outcome here would be lawmakers quickly writing and passing a bill that protects ONLY elected officials. We need to end data broker abuse entirely, and protect people who don’t get private security and make headline news when they are targeted

Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Used Data Broker Sites to Find Targets' Addresses The Minnesota shooter allegedly researched several “people search” sites in an attempt to target his victims, highlighting the potential dangers of widely available personal data.

NEW: The Minnesota shooter allegedly researched several "people search" sites in an attempt to target his victims, highlighting the potential dangers of widely available personal data.

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It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

From the Pope - In our competitive society, where it seems that only the strong and winners deserve to live, sport also teaches us how to lose. It forces us, in learning the art of losing, to confront our fragility, our limitations and our imperfections. It is through the experience of these limits that we open our hearts to hope. Athletes who never make mistakes, who never lose, do not exist.

This applies to all sports but - and I am not joking - it is absolutely something best understood by a baseball man.

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3.5% rule suggests US needs over 11 million people to join a movement for its goals to be highly achievable.

And guess which threshold the No Kings Protests might have just passed?

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My conclusion as well, and that part I didn’t mind at all. The rest of it seemed like it was just so utterly boring and uninspired.

My 82-year-old mom’s choir gave a Pride-themed concert today that said No Kings, only Queens!

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