CJ
@curroceleriter.bsky.social
Demiromantic GNC ace, submasters racewalker/runner, librarian, bibliophile, LARPer, TTRPGamer, and survivor
Feeling nostalgic for when my personal life was generally uninteresting and when politics weren't the current wild in a not fun way kind of roller coaster ride
September 10, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Feeling nostalgic for when my personal life was generally uninteresting and when politics weren't the current wild in a not fun way kind of roller coaster ride
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Extrapolate the logic with me.
1) Public facing AI models have grown by leaps and bounds in terms of capabilities on an exponential curve.
2) This progress looks to continue into the foreseeable future because of investment.
3) We are already seeing problems publicly.
4) What don't we see?
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1) Public facing AI models have grown by leaps and bounds in terms of capabilities on an exponential curve.
2) This progress looks to continue into the foreseeable future because of investment.
3) We are already seeing problems publicly.
4) What don't we see?
🤔
September 10, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Extrapolate the logic with me.
1) Public facing AI models have grown by leaps and bounds in terms of capabilities on an exponential curve.
2) This progress looks to continue into the foreseeable future because of investment.
3) We are already seeing problems publicly.
4) What don't we see?
🤔
1) Public facing AI models have grown by leaps and bounds in terms of capabilities on an exponential curve.
2) This progress looks to continue into the foreseeable future because of investment.
3) We are already seeing problems publicly.
4) What don't we see?
🤔
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Recent polling shows Lake Ontario is far more popular and recognized than Lake America, another L for US exceptionalism.
August 30, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Recent polling shows Lake Ontario is far more popular and recognized than Lake America, another L for US exceptionalism.
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In the past, the rich used to pay higher taxes.
Now, the government pays the rich interest on a swelling debt, caused largely by lower taxes on the rich.
It's a big switcheroo that we need to talk about if we're going to talk about the national debt.
Now, the government pays the rich interest on a swelling debt, caused largely by lower taxes on the rich.
It's a big switcheroo that we need to talk about if we're going to talk about the national debt.
The Secret Way the Rich are Getting Richer
The biggest untold story about how we pay for government involves a big switcheroo by America’s wealthy. Watch.
youtu.be
August 30, 2026 at 10:01 PM
In the past, the rich used to pay higher taxes.
Now, the government pays the rich interest on a swelling debt, caused largely by lower taxes on the rich.
It's a big switcheroo that we need to talk about if we're going to talk about the national debt.
Now, the government pays the rich interest on a swelling debt, caused largely by lower taxes on the rich.
It's a big switcheroo that we need to talk about if we're going to talk about the national debt.
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ATTENTION: All US VOTERS.
IF you plan on voting in the UNITED STATES of AMERICA during the upcoming elections please check if you are still Registered. The MAGA movement is messing with the voting system and we need to make sure we have not been thrown off the Voter Rolls.
IF you plan on voting in the UNITED STATES of AMERICA during the upcoming elections please check if you are still Registered. The MAGA movement is messing with the voting system and we need to make sure we have not been thrown off the Voter Rolls.
TEXANS PLEASE CHECK YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION
August 30, 2026 at 10:18 PM
ATTENTION: All US VOTERS.
IF you plan on voting in the UNITED STATES of AMERICA during the upcoming elections please check if you are still Registered. The MAGA movement is messing with the voting system and we need to make sure we have not been thrown off the Voter Rolls.
IF you plan on voting in the UNITED STATES of AMERICA during the upcoming elections please check if you are still Registered. The MAGA movement is messing with the voting system and we need to make sure we have not been thrown off the Voter Rolls.
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IN THE MIDDLE OF LOSING A WAR, Whiskey Pete appears to have fired General Randy George bc George refused to drop a probe into Kid Rock.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
August 26, 2026 at 11:53 AM
IN THE MIDDLE OF LOSING A WAR, Whiskey Pete appears to have fired General Randy George bc George refused to drop a probe into Kid Rock.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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This is some North Korea level shit put out by Homeland Security…
August 26, 2026 at 12:01 PM
This is some North Korea level shit put out by Homeland Security…
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For some people, libraries are the only access they have to the internet. Whether going into the building to use public computer workstations or sitting in the parking lot using the library’s wi-fi, it’s their only way to connect. 🖥️🔊🎧📱
Please tell the FCC support this program.
Please tell the FCC support this program.
August 18, 2026 at 2:41 AM
For some people, libraries are the only access they have to the internet. Whether going into the building to use public computer workstations or sitting in the parking lot using the library’s wi-fi, it’s their only way to connect. 🖥️🔊🎧📱
Please tell the FCC support this program.
Please tell the FCC support this program.
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NEW: The FCC has officially published its new proposals for E-Rate, which include possible elimination of this essential program.
We need to take action. You can write a formal comment to the FCC urging them to protect E-Rate, which offers broadband discounts to libraries & schools nationwide. 1/2
We need to take action. You can write a formal comment to the FCC urging them to protect E-Rate, which offers broadband discounts to libraries & schools nationwide. 1/2
August 17, 2026 at 5:15 PM
NEW: The FCC has officially published its new proposals for E-Rate, which include possible elimination of this essential program.
We need to take action. You can write a formal comment to the FCC urging them to protect E-Rate, which offers broadband discounts to libraries & schools nationwide. 1/2
We need to take action. You can write a formal comment to the FCC urging them to protect E-Rate, which offers broadband discounts to libraries & schools nationwide. 1/2
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Use our new template & instructions to draft and submit your comments, along with our other resources - comments to the FCC are due midnight Eastern on October 13, 2026: ala.org/erate
And you still have time to tell Congress to #SaveOurERate! Take action: action.ala.org/campaign/saveourerate/ 2/2
And you still have time to tell Congress to #SaveOurERate! Take action: action.ala.org/campaign/saveourerate/ 2/2
August 17, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Use our new template & instructions to draft and submit your comments, along with our other resources - comments to the FCC are due midnight Eastern on October 13, 2026: ala.org/erate
And you still have time to tell Congress to #SaveOurERate! Take action: action.ala.org/campaign/saveourerate/ 2/2
And you still have time to tell Congress to #SaveOurERate! Take action: action.ala.org/campaign/saveourerate/ 2/2
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Was there ever any doubt 💁♀️
Georgia Hunter Bell 🇬🇧 lets the 1500m field play right into her hands, ripping a 58.3 second final 400m off a slow early pace to win decisively in 4:07.78 as Klaudia Kazimierska 🇵🇱 takes silver in 4:08.80.
Georgia Hunter Bell 🇬🇧 lets the 1500m field play right into her hands, ripping a 58.3 second final 400m off a slow early pace to win decisively in 4:07.78 as Klaudia Kazimierska 🇵🇱 takes silver in 4:08.80.
August 17, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Was there ever any doubt 💁♀️
Georgia Hunter Bell 🇬🇧 lets the 1500m field play right into her hands, ripping a 58.3 second final 400m off a slow early pace to win decisively in 4:07.78 as Klaudia Kazimierska 🇵🇱 takes silver in 4:08.80.
Georgia Hunter Bell 🇬🇧 lets the 1500m field play right into her hands, ripping a 58.3 second final 400m off a slow early pace to win decisively in 4:07.78 as Klaudia Kazimierska 🇵🇱 takes silver in 4:08.80.
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They actually DO teach this in school 👩🎓
Klaudia Kazimierska 🇵🇱 uses her experience navigating many a NCAA final to position herself just right in a tactical European Championships 1500m, closing her final 200m in 29.5 seconds to take silver, her first senior medal for Poland, in 4:08.80.
Klaudia Kazimierska 🇵🇱 uses her experience navigating many a NCAA final to position herself just right in a tactical European Championships 1500m, closing her final 200m in 29.5 seconds to take silver, her first senior medal for Poland, in 4:08.80.
August 17, 2026 at 2:00 AM
They actually DO teach this in school 👩🎓
Klaudia Kazimierska 🇵🇱 uses her experience navigating many a NCAA final to position herself just right in a tactical European Championships 1500m, closing her final 200m in 29.5 seconds to take silver, her first senior medal for Poland, in 4:08.80.
Klaudia Kazimierska 🇵🇱 uses her experience navigating many a NCAA final to position herself just right in a tactical European Championships 1500m, closing her final 200m in 29.5 seconds to take silver, her first senior medal for Poland, in 4:08.80.
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companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know destroying them is an "optics problem."
www.404media.co/ai-companies...
www.404media.co/ai-companies...
AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
www.404media.co
July 21, 2026 at 1:56 PM
companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know destroying them is an "optics problem."
www.404media.co/ai-companies...
www.404media.co/ai-companies...
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Why is Anthropic destroying books? | Kathryn James
Why is Anthropic destroying books? | Kathryn James
The AI company apparently found destructively scanning ‘all the books in the world’ easier than dealing with copyright in its quest for training data
www.theguardian.com
August 5, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Why is Anthropic destroying books? | Kathryn James
Wild how they screwed up the Internet so badly that they're now doing this for the human touch
Also note they're going for books published pre-2022 to guarantee there's no AI slop... The very thing they're trying to forcefeed everyone
Also note they're going for books published pre-2022 to guarantee there's no AI slop... The very thing they're trying to forcefeed everyone
No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions.
Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books
If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.
www.news.com.au
August 10, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Wild how they screwed up the Internet so badly that they're now doing this for the human touch
Also note they're going for books published pre-2022 to guarantee there's no AI slop... The very thing they're trying to forcefeed everyone
Also note they're going for books published pre-2022 to guarantee there's no AI slop... The very thing they're trying to forcefeed everyone
I'd like to unsubscribe from 2026. Far too dramatic and uncomfortably interesting to the point of unrealistic. Makes 2025 look like child's play.
August 1, 2026 at 2:14 AM
I'd like to unsubscribe from 2026. Far too dramatic and uncomfortably interesting to the point of unrealistic. Makes 2025 look like child's play.
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When you live in a country where some are oppressed, you have the functions and ideology of fascism.
It can and will expand. Unless you completely remove it through building a structure of total freedom.
New piece:
It can and will expand. Unless you completely remove it through building a structure of total freedom.
New piece:
You Can't Have a Moderate Democracy
The only way to truly end fascism is to have total freedom
open.substack.com
July 9, 2026 at 8:01 PM
When you live in a country where some are oppressed, you have the functions and ideology of fascism.
It can and will expand. Unless you completely remove it through building a structure of total freedom.
New piece:
It can and will expand. Unless you completely remove it through building a structure of total freedom.
New piece:
Heads up- it's going around that conditions are quite icy in the Bing area
July 7, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Heads up- it's going around that conditions are quite icy in the Bing area
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The Art of the Steal.
https://readsludge.com/2026/07/01/trump-bought-hundreds-of-stocks-the-day-before-he-paused-tariffs-and-sparked-a-historic-rally/
https://readsludge.com/2026/07/01/trump-bought-hundreds-of-stocks-the-day-before-he-paused-tariffs-and-sparked-a-historic-rally/
Trump Bought Hundreds of Stocks the Day Before He Paused Tariffs and Sparked a Historic Rally
The trades weren't made public until yesterday, more than a year later than required by law.
readsludge.com
July 1, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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People who dislike children, hate children, torture children, rape children, and/or kill children are people who stand against humanity, our collective future, and prop up child murderers and rapists like Trump, Putin, and Netanyahu. That's not a political position or ideology.
July 1, 2026 at 9:27 PM
People who dislike children, hate children, torture children, rape children, and/or kill children are people who stand against humanity, our collective future, and prop up child murderers and rapists like Trump, Putin, and Netanyahu. That's not a political position or ideology.
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The way the Trump administration treated Iran's soccer team was shameful. Sports should bring people together, not become another vehicle for cruelty.
June 30, 2026 at 12:00 AM
The way the Trump administration treated Iran's soccer team was shameful. Sports should bring people together, not become another vehicle for cruelty.
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NYC is opening city grocery stores in every borough — and we need the right spaces to make it happen.
If you own or know of a site in Brooklyn, Queens, or Staten Island, submit to the NYC Groceries Sites Portal by June 30: grocery.nyc/portal
If you own or know of a site in Brooklyn, Queens, or Staten Island, submit to the NYC Groceries Sites Portal by June 30: grocery.nyc/portal
June 29, 2026 at 11:08 PM
NYC is opening city grocery stores in every borough — and we need the right spaces to make it happen.
If you own or know of a site in Brooklyn, Queens, or Staten Island, submit to the NYC Groceries Sites Portal by June 30: grocery.nyc/portal
If you own or know of a site in Brooklyn, Queens, or Staten Island, submit to the NYC Groceries Sites Portal by June 30: grocery.nyc/portal