LeDiva, Apprentice Bodega Cat 🐈⬛
@lediva@lediva.masto.host
Professional geek, semi-professional performer, amateur human. Part cat, but allergic to them. NYC adjacent. Married (to @beetiger.bsky.social) poly queer trans lady. 40-something. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🐈⬛she/her
- Gotta love that maybe actually responding to rapidly-unfolding totalitarianism requires a teaser first. (jk I have zero faith in this actually meaning a damn thing)
- Reposted by LeDiva, Apprentice Bodega Cat 🐈⬛Trump's constant degradation of female reporters is unsurprising but the press corps' collective decision to treat it as background noise is actually kind of sickening
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- Reposted by LeDiva, Apprentice Bodega Cat 🐈⬛Is the only thing you know about Tupac that he was murdered and then a hologram version of him performed at Coachella years later? Let Juno show you the wildly tumultuous life and tragic death of one of the greatest rappers ever. And if you truly enjoy this article, tip its amazing writer!
- i am extremely proud to announce my latest journalism this piece is about Tupac Amaru Shakur, the Black Panthers, COINTELPRO, and liberation ALL my work is free, PLEASE SEND TIPS i publish every other Thursday read for free by clicking the link below: junoryleejournalism.com/2026/01/29/t...
- Reposted by LeDiva, Apprentice Bodega Cat 🐈⬛can’t not hear and see:
- “If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- Reposted by LeDiva, Apprentice Bodega Cat 🐈⬛After a lengthy appeals process and productive discussion with the Blue Sky safety team I will no loinger be sending George Thorogood lyrics to beautiful women on here via DM. Thank you all
- Reposted by LeDiva, Apprentice Bodega Cat 🐈⬛The evil is not that he bought it specifically to shut it down. The evil is that he bought it to do *whatever he wanted* with a necessary institution for American journalism. It is malice, the malice of robber barons. They didn’t build mines specifically to kill people either, but guess what.
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- Reposted by LeDiva, Apprentice Bodega Cat 🐈⬛funny how the man who cost the Washington Post hundreds of thousands in subscriptions by canceling the paper's presidential endorsement—almost certainly the most destructive decision in the history of the paper, if not journalism itself—still has his job
- Hey, Bluesky admins? Not for nothing, but I'm pretty sure this doesn't put you on the right side of things.
- Reposted by LeDiva, Apprentice Bodega Cat 🐈⬛ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational
- Reposted by LeDiva, Apprentice Bodega Cat 🐈⬛This is tremendous. Take the time to watch it.
- www.anthropic.com/research/AI-... A research paper, from _Anthropic_ of all sources: "[U]sing AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery. ...participants in the AI group scored 17% lower than those who coded by hand"
- Betteridge's Law strikes again. (I <3 Julia Serano, but the answer here is obviously no)
- Reposted by LeDiva, Apprentice Bodega Cat 🐈⬛Striking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition. TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’ www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
- ‘Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise their own skill acquisition… We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average.’ arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245
- Reposted by LeDiva, Apprentice Bodega Cat 🐈⬛A new systematic review has found that trans women on HRT have the same level of fitness as cis women and don't retain any advantage in sports. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
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- Reposted by LeDiva, Apprentice Bodega Cat 🐈⬛The French are taking none of Musk’s bullshit.
- Reposted by LeDiva, Apprentice Bodega Cat 🐈⬛If Starbucks won’t respect workers at the bargaining table, they don’t deserve our clicks or orders. Our call to action is simple: 📱 Delete the Starbucks app. #DeleteTheApp bit.ly/deletetheapp
- Reposted by LeDiva, Apprentice Bodega Cat 🐈⬛Not in the Epstein files: - trans people - migrants and asylum seekers - people who arrive in small boats - benefits claimants In the Epstein files: - rich white guys who tell you (or pay people to tell you) to hate the people above
- Reposted by LeDiva, Apprentice Bodega Cat 🐈⬛nothing says "AI is the future" like purposefully breaking people's tools in a bid to force them to use it
- Adobe announced it's killing off Animate (formerly Flash), abandoning millions of artists who depend on the software while continuing its push into AI-heavy toolsets. www.cartoonbrew.com/tools/adobe-...
- What if LLMs actually _do_ surpass human intelligence, but by making us all deskilled idiots instead of actually improving?
- thread 👇🏻
- Reposted by LeDiva, Apprentice Bodega Cat 🐈⬛Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc
- Is this... good news? 🫱🏻 🦋
