Di Koob
@thedikoob.bsky.social
Sassafras and ginger
Recreation Therapist building resilience in the adult & geriatric psych populations, one game at a time
Recreation Therapist building resilience in the adult & geriatric psych populations, one game at a time
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i feel like a message that is missing in the midterms is that….republicans control everything?
it feels like a basic thing we should really be saying over and over. this is all their choice. unhappy? look who is in the drivers seat.
it feels like a basic thing we should really be saying over and over. this is all their choice. unhappy? look who is in the drivers seat.
September 16, 2026 at 11:36 PM
i feel like a message that is missing in the midterms is that….republicans control everything?
it feels like a basic thing we should really be saying over and over. this is all their choice. unhappy? look who is in the drivers seat.
it feels like a basic thing we should really be saying over and over. this is all their choice. unhappy? look who is in the drivers seat.
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Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
September 17, 2026 at 7:34 AM
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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The Kennedy Center joins the Reflecting Pool, Lafayette Park and sort of the White House itself (no tours) where supposed renovations have led to indefinite loss of public access.
After taxpayer funded plans/construction, these places are fenced off and closed down, not improved.
After taxpayer funded plans/construction, these places are fenced off and closed down, not improved.
Fencing has gone up around the main Kennedy Center building, a day after a Trump-aligned board voted to close it for repairs.
Fencing goes up around the main Kennedy Center building after Trump-aligned board votes to close it
Fencing has gone up around the main Kennedy Center building, a day after the Trump-aligned board voted to close the performing arts center for repairs
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September 16, 2026 at 9:01 PM
The Kennedy Center joins the Reflecting Pool, Lafayette Park and sort of the White House itself (no tours) where supposed renovations have led to indefinite loss of public access.
After taxpayer funded plans/construction, these places are fenced off and closed down, not improved.
After taxpayer funded plans/construction, these places are fenced off and closed down, not improved.
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These centers are the guy who thinks hot young women aren’t showing up to the bar he stocked with weird dude things because pink-haired woke commie broads won’t let them.
Shout out to the student journalists at The Daily Iowan for reporting on the travesty that is Iowa's Center for Intellectual Freedom. With quotes from me dailyiowan.com/2026/09/15/u...
Uncertainty in leadership, curriculum surrounds UI Center for Intellectual Freedom
In the barren walls of his Calvin Hall office, where the Center for Intellectual Freedom resides, interim director and University of Iowa economics professor Luciano de Castro shuffles a stack of pape...
dailyiowan.com
September 17, 2026 at 1:48 PM
These centers are the guy who thinks hot young women aren’t showing up to the bar he stocked with weird dude things because pink-haired woke commie broads won’t let them.
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spoke to Lina Khan today about the AI madness and what the hell we should be doing to hold these companies accountable (in a way that takes their power seriously but doesn't buy into every narrative) full pod coming in the AM!
AI firms are subject to already-existing laws, Lina Khan tells @cwarzel.bsky.social: Part of the conversation around regulating AI “seems to assume that these current developments are happening in some legal vacuum,” she adds, “and that is just false.”
theatln.tc/t9IwiQTz #TAF26
theatln.tc/t9IwiQTz #TAF26
September 17, 2026 at 6:41 PM
spoke to Lina Khan today about the AI madness and what the hell we should be doing to hold these companies accountable (in a way that takes their power seriously but doesn't buy into every narrative) full pod coming in the AM!
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We told everyone that programming wasn't the hard part, but no one believed us.
The reason LLMs can excrete sort-of-okay code is that sort-of-okay code has been a commodity good for 20+ years. Then, just like now, the bottleneck was understanding what people actually want.
The reason LLMs can excrete sort-of-okay code is that sort-of-okay code has been a commodity good for 20+ years. Then, just like now, the bottleneck was understanding what people actually want.
Opinion | A.I. Slopware Is Everywhere Now. Nobody Is Using It. (Gift Article)
Just because A.I. is revolutionizing coding, doesn’t mean it will automatically revolutionize our apps.
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2026 at 12:30 PM
We told everyone that programming wasn't the hard part, but no one believed us.
The reason LLMs can excrete sort-of-okay code is that sort-of-okay code has been a commodity good for 20+ years. Then, just like now, the bottleneck was understanding what people actually want.
The reason LLMs can excrete sort-of-okay code is that sort-of-okay code has been a commodity good for 20+ years. Then, just like now, the bottleneck was understanding what people actually want.
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$500, some highlighters, and ten days to wrap it up. Treat candidates like we treat teachers.
We should just publicly fund political campaigns
Everyone gets $500
That’s it
Everyone gets $500
That’s it
September 16, 2026 at 11:51 AM
$500, some highlighters, and ten days to wrap it up. Treat candidates like we treat teachers.
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Have you done your daily dose of boundary maitenance aka cussed someone to filth??
September 16, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Have you done your daily dose of boundary maitenance aka cussed someone to filth??
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we don’t teach young people short-term history, so it was weird when i realized that gen z had no idea that so many gen x and millennials spent our high school years protesting george w bush
and not just because of the wars, but because mosques were being targeted and sikh men were being attacked
and not just because of the wars, but because mosques were being targeted and sikh men were being attacked
There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.
September 11, 2026 at 12:06 PM
we don’t teach young people short-term history, so it was weird when i realized that gen z had no idea that so many gen x and millennials spent our high school years protesting george w bush
and not just because of the wars, but because mosques were being targeted and sikh men were being attacked
and not just because of the wars, but because mosques were being targeted and sikh men were being attacked
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👁️ Researchers found LG TVs logging plain text transcripts in standby, mapping every device in the house, & feeding it to LG's ad arm
Unplug the internet and it saves files until network restored. LG says its TVs don't record conversations. Evidence begs to differ. 216 million in homes /Braiinsforge
Unplug the internet and it saves files until network restored. LG says its TVs don't record conversations. Evidence begs to differ. 216 million in homes /Braiinsforge
September 10, 2026 at 8:55 PM
👁️ Researchers found LG TVs logging plain text transcripts in standby, mapping every device in the house, & feeding it to LG's ad arm
Unplug the internet and it saves files until network restored. LG says its TVs don't record conversations. Evidence begs to differ. 216 million in homes /Braiinsforge
Unplug the internet and it saves files until network restored. LG says its TVs don't record conversations. Evidence begs to differ. 216 million in homes /Braiinsforge
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Some folks will claim that this is hyperbolic, but what I wish people would understand is that tech initiatives like this serve as a means of eroding consent and lower the barrier for the persistent capture of people’s image, voice, data, or whatever else a gadget can glean.
Apple's New Siri Recap Turns Every Apple Watch Into a Mass Surveillance Nightmare
Apple's always-listening AI feature promises neat summaries of your daily conversations, but it forces everyone around you into a nonconsensual recording experiment.
www.pcmag.com
September 10, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Some folks will claim that this is hyperbolic, but what I wish people would understand is that tech initiatives like this serve as a means of eroding consent and lower the barrier for the persistent capture of people’s image, voice, data, or whatever else a gadget can glean.
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A year ago today, we got a call from the movie theatre chain we were working with saying they could no longer release Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile because Charlie Kirk got shot.
Our reaction was at first "???"
Then we decided to release it in 50+ indie theatres nationwide instead. Worked out!
Our reaction was at first "???"
Then we decided to release it in 50+ indie theatres nationwide instead. Worked out!
The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein
YouTube video by The Onion
www.youtube.com
September 10, 2026 at 7:34 PM
A year ago today, we got a call from the movie theatre chain we were working with saying they could no longer release Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile because Charlie Kirk got shot.
Our reaction was at first "???"
Then we decided to release it in 50+ indie theatres nationwide instead. Worked out!
Our reaction was at first "???"
Then we decided to release it in 50+ indie theatres nationwide instead. Worked out!
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As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now.
NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.
NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.
September 10, 2026 at 6:39 PM
As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now.
NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.
NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.
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I wonder what that button does?
September 11, 2026 at 2:02 PM
I wonder what that button does?
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If we're going to rely on statistical models to generate accounts of world, it shouldn't be the black box ones with billionaire sociopaths mucking around in the datasets.
We should've learned this lesson by now.
We should've learned this lesson by now.
September 10, 2026 at 11:26 AM
If we're going to rely on statistical models to generate accounts of world, it shouldn't be the black box ones with billionaire sociopaths mucking around in the datasets.
We should've learned this lesson by now.
We should've learned this lesson by now.
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welcome to 2020s tech. we got
- pervert glasses
- wiretap
- wiretap
- wiretap
- wiretap
- the button that does nothing
- we outta ram
- we outta hard drives
- we outta graphics cards
- ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses
- wiretap
- pervert glasses
- wiretap
- wiretap
- wiretap
- wiretap
- the button that does nothing
- we outta ram
- we outta hard drives
- we outta graphics cards
- ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses
- wiretap
NEW: The new Apple Watches double as AI-powered listening bugs for generating convo "recaps" or transcripts of any previous 15 seconds. But fear not, Apple says, this data isn't sent to Apple/gets encrypted, speakers aren't ID'd, and there's a chime for the 15-second thing. @lhn.bsky.social reports:
Apple Doesn’t Want You to Worry About the New Apple Watch’s Listening Features
The new Apple Watch includes several “intelligent” listening features that have privacy and security baked in. But the protections can’t change the facts of what the tools do.
www.wired.com
September 9, 2026 at 8:40 PM
welcome to 2020s tech. we got
- pervert glasses
- wiretap
- wiretap
- wiretap
- wiretap
- the button that does nothing
- we outta ram
- we outta hard drives
- we outta graphics cards
- ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses
- wiretap
- pervert glasses
- wiretap
- wiretap
- wiretap
- wiretap
- the button that does nothing
- we outta ram
- we outta hard drives
- we outta graphics cards
- ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses
- wiretap
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Watching the morning baseball recap show and just saw a commercial for a chain of plasma donation centers, urging viewers to consider the benefits of donating plasma--especially receiving "up to $800 a month"--and that's surely a sign our economy is doing great
September 10, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Watching the morning baseball recap show and just saw a commercial for a chain of plasma donation centers, urging viewers to consider the benefits of donating plasma--especially receiving "up to $800 a month"--and that's surely a sign our economy is doing great
My ability to be disciplined declines in proportion as my need to be disciplined increases.
Welcome to Thursday.
Welcome to Thursday.
September 10, 2026 at 2:51 PM
My ability to be disciplined declines in proportion as my need to be disciplined increases.
Welcome to Thursday.
Welcome to Thursday.
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"Hi there! I'm the Secretary of Agriculture in a nation where just about every single kind of food has been recalled because it will give you explosive shits and then kill you dead. Well, I'm here to tell you about how government regulation and oversight is baaaaaaaad."
Brooke Rollins: "Do you remember, especially the moms out there, when they told us what light bulbs that we could screw into our light fixtures, which washing machines we could use, and which toilets we could flush?"
September 9, 2026 at 11:02 PM
"Hi there! I'm the Secretary of Agriculture in a nation where just about every single kind of food has been recalled because it will give you explosive shits and then kill you dead. Well, I'm here to tell you about how government regulation and oversight is baaaaaaaad."
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The world is broken but the dik-dik is perfect
September 10, 2026 at 1:57 AM
The world is broken but the dik-dik is perfect
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truly peak Tech Brain for the company who runs the Tilly Norwood program to force the media to breathlessly debate whether or not the Tilly Norwood program could hypothetically win an Oscar before it has done anything even close to artistically interesting enough to merit that question
September 10, 2026 at 4:23 AM
truly peak Tech Brain for the company who runs the Tilly Norwood program to force the media to breathlessly debate whether or not the Tilly Norwood program could hypothetically win an Oscar before it has done anything even close to artistically interesting enough to merit that question
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Since 9/11 is happening. During the racial reckoning the band formerly known as the Dixie Chicks realized the problematic issues with the name Dixie and just go by The Chicks now.
If you're like, "isn't chicks an issue" I'm not going to hold your hand through understanding ingroup reclamation
If you're like, "isn't chicks an issue" I'm not going to hold your hand through understanding ingroup reclamation
September 10, 2026 at 4:29 AM
Since 9/11 is happening. During the racial reckoning the band formerly known as the Dixie Chicks realized the problematic issues with the name Dixie and just go by The Chicks now.
If you're like, "isn't chicks an issue" I'm not going to hold your hand through understanding ingroup reclamation
If you're like, "isn't chicks an issue" I'm not going to hold your hand through understanding ingroup reclamation
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There’s such an easy answer to this “gotcha” question and it’s “Sports are inherently unsafe and unfair and it’s ridiculous to single out trans athletes when we allow 150 pound linebackers to go up against 260 pound linemen in freshman football on a daily basis. Let kids play with their friends.”
Talarico: "I oppose trans athletes playing in girls' sports if it endangers safety or fairness"
September 9, 2026 at 8:06 PM
There’s such an easy answer to this “gotcha” question and it’s “Sports are inherently unsafe and unfair and it’s ridiculous to single out trans athletes when we allow 150 pound linebackers to go up against 260 pound linemen in freshman football on a daily basis. Let kids play with their friends.”
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Alas poor Yorick
September 3, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Alas poor Yorick
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when you bake chocolate chip cookies and you pull them out of the oven and the edges are golden brown but the rest of the cookie is still pale brown and they're very soft and you think "i should cook these for another couple of minutes" DO NOT DO IT. THAT IS THE DEVIL SPEAKING. TAKE THEM OUT NOW.
September 8, 2026 at 8:08 PM
when you bake chocolate chip cookies and you pull them out of the oven and the edges are golden brown but the rest of the cookie is still pale brown and they're very soft and you think "i should cook these for another couple of minutes" DO NOT DO IT. THAT IS THE DEVIL SPEAKING. TAKE THEM OUT NOW.