Peter Swimm

Peter Swimm

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Founder @toilville https://www.toilville.com/

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dan sinker
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"amplify your people" is 100% the best strategy

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Peter Swimm
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If you have to quote tweet a guy from twitter because they didn’t post it here it’s because it’s rage bait.

Peter Swimm
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Hey guys, dumb people think it’s elitist to make a living off your smarts.

Techmeme@techmeme.com

Modern AI panic reflects "cognitive mercantilism", a zero-sum worldview where intelligence is hoarded as a scarce supply-side commodity managed by elites (Venkatesh Rao/Contraptions) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Peter Swimm
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Workplace automation, in a nutshell

Catherine Clarke@cathamclarke.bsky.social

I could spend the rest of my life analysing this feedback sign in the local Home Bargains. Did 'not happy' break from overuse? Was it taped over to ensure 100% positive feedback? Is the green 'b' in 'feedback' some kind of subliminal nudge? Is the duck tape indent because people still keep pressing?

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Peter Swimm
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Superior Court and District Court Liu, York, Scheinman, Trasen, O'Toole, Peck, Klinge, Gagner, Peaquin: Incomplete All I found was that the King County Democrats endorsed them.

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Peter Swimm
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Birk (Pos. 4): B+ - Pros: He volunteered as a tenants' rights attorney and has backing from labor and Planned Parenthood. - Cons: He has joined some appeals decisions that delayed housing growth.

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Angelis (Pos. 5): C+ He spent 26 years as a corporate lawyer at K&L Gates. He has also suggested legislators should have discretion to impose mandatory life sentences on young people. Stephens (Pos. 7): B- (limited research) - Pros: She's endorsed by labor and is a mainstream liberal on the court.

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State Supreme Court Melody (Pos. 1): A- - Pros: She ran the civil rights division in the Attorney General's office, where she sued over Trump policies, including his attempt to end birthright citizenship.

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Hawk (Pos. 3): A - Pros: She was a public defender and an ACLU attorney, and she has focused on tenants' access to legal help in eviction cases.

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King County Balducci (Council D6, unopposed): B- - Pros: She pushes housing-first homelessness policy and shelter expansion, and she led the move to even-year county elections, which raise turnout. She's a strong transit advocate. - Cons: She's a long-time insider.

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Salahuddin (House Pos. 1): B - Pros: He's young and Democratic-endorsed, and he's facing a Republican. :¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Forsythe (House Pos. 2): C - Pros: She has labor and Working Families Party backing. - Cons: She called the millionaires tax a non-issue for the district, and I couldn't find a stated position from her on ICE or trans rights.

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Peter Swimm
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Federal DelBene (CD1): D+ - Pros: She reliably votes against Trump. She co-sponsored the American High-Speed Rail Act, which would fund $41 billion for passenger rail. - Cons: She's a former chair of the New Democrat Coalition, which has pushed the party to the right.

Peter Swimm
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Legislature Slatter (Senate, unopposed): B - Pros: She's aligned with the progressive wing. She beat Walen in 2025 despite Walen's heavy business backing.

Peter Swimm
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Ballot measures No on I-645, IL26-001, and IL26-638: Voting no keeps the state's first real tax on the rich, worth over $3 billion a year. It also blocks a measure that could out LGBTQ kids through school counseling records, and a sports ban built on sex verification exams for girls.

Peter Swimm
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Last night the unoccupied inventory of Airbnb would’ve consumed the entire unhoused population with about 100k beds left over.

Peter Swimm
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See what you got to know about guys in their forties who want to date a college kid is they also want the one who knows who Doug Martsch is.

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Mallory Moore
@sexabolition.blog

My current I guess coldest AI take is that LLMs, agents, etc biggest trick is persuading people that it does something they couldn't do themselves while in practical terms being limited to being precisely as reliable as they are competent to assess and ensure.

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Michael Zimmer
@michaelzimmer.bsky.social

THIS.

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social

"I understand that there have been some experiments showing that LLM review may have similar outcomes to human peer review, but who cares? Either scholarship, research and publishing are human enterprises or they aren’t." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu... >>

insidehighered.comGenerative AI Is Not Our PeerAutomation can make many good things possible, but let’s not pretend it’s something it isn’t.
Peter Swimm
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“Do you expect me to talk?” Me halfway out the door as i’m turning off the lights “Couldn’t care less!”

pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky”@pixelatedboat.bsky.social

BREAKING: Sources at Amazon MGM have told Deadline that the next James Bond will be “whoever shows up to the audition first” because “who gives a shit.”

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The Information@theinformation.com

AI can generate ads and emails. But running an entire marketing operation is a different challenge. Different Co-Founder and CEO Ajeet Singh explains why the next step for AI marketing is automating the entire workflow, from content creation to campaign optimization.

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Rory Blank
@roryblank.bsky.social

Look, keep in mind that I am a person who derives most of their income from creative work through the internet, I think content monetization on social media platforms has been one of the most destructive forces of the last few decades.

Peter Swimm
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That’s specious reasoning.

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More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social

A document unveiled in a court case appears to show Amazon using AI to track workers and rank how likely they are to form unions. The document has been released as part of court proceedings between Amazon and Canadian union Unifor. /1 novaramedia.com/2026/10/19/a...

novaramedia.comAmazon ‘Uses AI in Warehouses to Predict Whether Workers Will Join Unions’Amazon has been accused of using AI to track employees and rank how likely they are to form unions.