Sofia Quintero @sofiaquintero.bsky.social

Ivy League homegirl, novelist, hypnotherapist, cultural worker and otherwise maker of dopeness. GenX from the Bx Lurk here, active elsewhere 🇵🇷🇩🇴

[Sofia Quintero @sofiaquintero.bsky.social @sofiaquintero]

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I also have Tumblr, SnapChat and, yes, MySpace. Y’all that I was playing, huh?

[Sofia Quintero @sofiaquintero.bsky.social @sofiaquintero]

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[Paul Kane @pkcapitol]

She's not Rosa Parks, she's not Ruby Bridges.
She's Bernita Bowlding, a mentally challenged woman who went missing for 5 days after infamous Orange Line ride.

Truth is always more complicated than our online images.

This @esilverman11 piece is haunting.
https://t.co/dkoBDOQEGf

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

You just know you're getting old when the radio stations and bars play music you don't like, but the supermarket is throwing out banger after banger.

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

We wanted to know how regular Americans feel about the country’s 250th birthday. So we talked to three South African neo-Nazi billionaires at a ketamine bar on Market Street

[Marcela Landres @marcelalandres]

National Hispanic Media Coalition Series Scriptwriters Program welcomes applications from aspiring Latine writers with a strong desire to write for streaming & television, deadline 7/27 @NHMC https://t.co/VsYt8u3dio

[zellie @zellieimani]

If White America wants less immigration, it should stop supporting policies that destabilize other countries.

[Sofia Quintero @sofiaquintero.bsky.social @sofiaquintero]

@cheo_coker ¡Felicidades!

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Thank you to the thousands of City workers who kept New York running throughout the Knicks’ Finals run as well last night after yesterday’s celebrations.

To the members of the NYPD, FDNY, EMS, DSNY, DOT, and every City worker who showed up, did their job, and helped keep New Yorkers safe: I cannot thank you enough. Whether you were responding to emergencies, staffing events, directing traffic, cleaning our streets, or working behind the scenes in ways most people never see, your dedication made this historic moment possible for millions of New Yorkers.

By the time many of us woke up this morning, the city was ready for another day because of your work. I join millions of your fellow New Yorkers in saying thank you.

[Kayla Epstein 📰 @KaylaEpstein]

NYC, we gotta keep outside summer going. Use all our new Knicks projectors to play World Cup matches on a random Tuesday. Have Spike Lee movie marathons on the side of your building.

$20 cocktails and bar snacks: OUT. Bodega beers and bags of chips: IN

[. @mikelovenyc]

IF YOU LIVE IN NYC, YOU ARE PUERTO RICAN FOR THE NEXT 48 HOURS.
YOU MAY RETURN TO YOUR ETHNICITY AT 9AM ON MONDAY, JUNE 15TH.

[Mika @mikadontlouz]

New york is funny because this is not AI we just outsideeee

[Freyy @Freyy_is]

there was something beautiful about library checkout cards because you could literally see the history of human curiosity attached to a book. like a tiny ghost trail of strangers connected by the same story.

[⚡︎ @_sorrengailll]

"There's no way you can write a ten page paper without chatGPT"
WE COULD LITERALLY DO EVERYTHING THAT EVER HAPPENED IN HUMAN HISTORY WITHOUT CHATGPT WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT.

[The Debt Collective 🟥 @StrikeDebt]

You may be getting an email like this soon.

Here's what you need to know.

[Jack Freeman @jackfreeman]

People that know ball don’t play about the great Rachelle Ferrell. You bow when she comes in the room

[Lincoln Center @LincolnCenter]

🎞️ “San Juan Hill: Manhattan's Lost Neighborhood" is now available to stream for FREE: https://t.co/1hQmwDvDqn

Directed by @StanleyNelson1, and narrated by #ArianaDeBose, the documentary traces the history of San Juan Hill and celebrates the legacy of those who called it home.

[Yasir Ai @AiwithYasir]

🚨BREAKING: Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper that should be uncomfortable reading for every CEO automating their workforce right now.

The argument is straightforward. Every company replacing workers with AI is also eliminating its own future customers. Laid off workers stop spending. Enough of them stop spending and nobody can afford to buy anything. The companies that fired everyone end up selling into an economy with no purchasing power left.

Every executive can see this. The math is not complicated. But here is why nobody stops.

If you do not automate, your competitor does. They cut costs, lower prices, take your market share, and you collapse anyway. So every company automates knowing it is collectively destructive because the alternative is dying alone while everyone else survives. The researchers proved this is a Prisoner's Dilemma playing out in real time.

The numbers are already moving. Block cut nearly half its 10,000 employees this year. Jack Dorsey said AI made those roles unnecessary and that within the next year the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion. Salesforce replaced 4,000 customer support agents with AI. Goldman Sachs deployed a coding tool that lets one engineer do the work of five. Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off in 2025 and AI was cited as the primary driver in more than half those cases. 80% of US workers hold jobs with tasks susceptible to AI automation.

The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income does not change a single company's incentive to automate. Capital income taxes adjust profit levels but not the per-task decision to replace a human. Collective bargaining cannot hold because automating is always the dominant strategy.

They also identified what they call a Red Queen effect. Better AI does not solve the problem, it accelerates it. Every company chases faster automation to gain market share over rivals but at the end everyone has automated equally, the gains cancel out, and the only thing left is more destroyed demand.

The one thing the math says could work is a Pigouvian automation tax. A per-task charge that forces companies to account for the demand they destroy each time they replace a worker.

The conclusion is that this is not a transfer of wealth from workers to owners. Both sides lose. Workers lose income. Companies lose customers. It is a deadweight loss with no market mechanism to stop it on its own.

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[Sheila of the Most High @sheilatebra]

Anonymous

My twin sister and I aged out of foster care on the same day at eighteen which sounds like it should mean we had each other and therefore were fine. What it actually means is that two people with nothing faced a system that considers its job complete the moment the clock runs out and wishes you well with the particular indifference of paperwork.
We had a social worker named Miss Charlene who was not assigned to us anymore the day we turned eighteen.
Her caseload moved on and technically so should she have. She did not move on. Showed up at the group home on our birthday with a cake and two folders. Inside each folder was everything she had spent three months quietly assembling. Apartment listings she had called ahead about. Bus routes to the community college. A list of employers who had hired former foster youth and treated them decently. Phone numbers with names attached and notes about who to ask for.
She sat with us for four hours that afternoon going through every page...
Then she wrote her personal cell number on the inside cover of both folders and said use it.
We used it. Many times. More than we probably should have.
She answered every time.
My sister is a registered nurse now.
I run a mentorship program for youth aging out of foster care.
Miss Charlene came to both of our graduations.
Front row.
Same smile both times.

[Mark Slapinski @mark_slapinski]

If you live in a country that sends poor people to jail for using drugs, but doesn't send rich people to jail for raping kids, you live in a shit hole country.