do the “deep research”, “agentic” AI tools know how to avoid AI slop?

i prefer not to be anything pilled.

if Cecil Rhodes was “responsible for the deaths of as many as 20,000 Africans” his successor has now very easily outdone him. (despite trying so hard, the author of this terrible piece cannot help but confess little good and enduring came of Rhodes’ “energetic”s. but somehow we should hope for Musk)

credit rating agencies, but for how much we should credit public figures' utterances.

we’re all gonna be rich!

when the world’s biggest nuclear power has its nuclear weapons infrastructure bombed, it’d please me if leading world governments had diplomats trained in diplomacy rather than trolling.

they may come off as innocuous, but poets have very deep connections to organized rhyme.

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“Constitutionally, Congress is a superior branch of government to the presidency, and it is explicitly designed to check the president.” @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/o... // yes.

never kind enough.

they’re talking about you, @poetryforsupper.bsky.social

cc @steveroth.bsky.social

I guess I’d think it almost great, if it were a norm applied consistently. Let’s credit Chuck Schumer’s frump! I have to say “almost” only because with the credit comes a sense of advertisement, of sponsorship, and i increasingly worry about the corrosive effect of that across many domains.

i don’t mean to be insulting anyone. i find it jarring. to me it is an interview with a political figure i admire very much. i’m not opening a magazine. i am clicking a link to a major news publication. perhaps it is old-fashioned of me, second-wave somehow, to worry it is trivializing.

(Vogue is a fashion magazine, though, a bit more understandable there. And Mayor Pete is openly gay, I wonder how often one would find such credits attached to a straight male politician. And why would a publication be providing an interviewee’s clothes?!? That’s perhaps even more bizarre to me.)

this is a good interview of a remarkable leader. i find it jarring that some of the photographs are captioned by credits of what she is wearing. would that ever be done with a male politician? it’s strange to me.

Boo! It is possible to live in a place called Boo?!

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you know how they say every accusation is a confession?