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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When AI guys claim that LLMs are conscious because the way they work is very complicated

XKCD where one person says "I've found a way to turn a 52-card deck into 53 cards by shuffling and rearranging them."
Second person says "No, you haven't."
First person says "How do you know?! I challenge you to find an error in my math!"

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 21h

Death from above. Photo from my collection, 1959.

Black and white photo of a longhaired tabby cat looking down at the photographer from the roof of a wooden structure in the woods.

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is huge! Another cancer responds well to immunotherapy. A child had metastatic liver cancer. The patient had chemotherapy & a liver resection. No avail. Then: Two infusions, eight weeks apart. Doctors saw complete regression. No systemic toxicity. 🧪 www.bcm.edu/news/care-st...

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CARE study reports complete regression of liver cancer in a child treated with novel immunotherapy

A new report in the New England Journal of Medicine by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital and Seattle Children’s...

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My BEARD (Botched Executions Above Replacement Device) model ranks lethal injection slightly below the electric chair. And I tell you the best place in Bonne Terre to get a chicken-fried steak. All that and more in the next Silver Bulletin.

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nick @caveatruptur.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i believe dogfooding has been replaced with koolaiding

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 02/10/2026

TODAY: New SNAP cuts are kicking in because of Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill." 5 million people have already lost food assistance, including 1.5 million+ kids since the bill was enacted. No kid deserves to go hungry so Trump can give his billionaire buddies another tax handout.

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller September 19,1960

P1 - ONE OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD KIDS WANTS NANCY TO SEE HIS BABY COUSIN
KID: MY BABY COUSIN JUST SAID HIS FIRST WORD
P2- NANCY IS FOLLOWING HIM TO SEE HIS BABY COUSIN
NANCY: WAS IT "PAPA" OR "MAMA" ?
KID : NEITHER
P3- KID: THIS IS A MODERN BABY
P4- THEY ARE LOOKING IN THE WINDOW AT THE BABY BEING HELD BY HIS FATHER
KID: HIS FATHER IS A BEATNIK
BABY: DADDY-O

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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We went to the Hagerman Wildlife Refuge on the OK/TX border this evening and saw....just a few pelicans. 😍

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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Wendy @thistleandmoss.com · 01/10/2026

"I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay." — Jason Collins, first openly gay active player in the four major U.S. men's leagues, Sports Illustrated, 2013 #LGBTQ #Pride #QueerJoy #TransRights #Community #LoveWins #News #Photography #Resist thistleandmoss.com/p...

Two smiling men stand close together outdoors at sunset, one in a black jacket over a striped shirt and the other in a blue floral shirt. A beach or ocean setting is blurred in the background.

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Remember: Darwin's note of "I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything" was written on Oct 1 (1861). Thus we are free to celebrate Very Poorly And Very Stupid Hatred Day today.

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Spooky Femme Peter Lorre 🙀 @sarahkite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Meme from Mike D Fellows @/memingintothevoid on Instagram

bearded guy with an updo, sunglasses, wearing a flannel shirt, accompanied by the text:

Local Hipster only wants to listen to Joe Rogan say the N-word on vinyl

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San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance @sandiegozoo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

✨Meet River✨ River is a vocal guy and loves to make his opinions known. Whether he's excited, ready for a meal, or on a stroll, he WILL be sharing his thoughts. Beneath all that personality is an incredibly sweet nature, and River has plenty of charm to share.

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San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance @sandiegozoo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just a lil guy and his mulberry branch 🪾

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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is literally what happens when you fire all the brilliant trans women who were in charge of our entire cybersecurity infrastructure.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

By late November 2020, Trump was joking to others about how crazy Sidney Powell was. That didn't stop him from cashing a $300 donation with the memo line, "Release the Kracken." [sic]

A heavily redacted check dated 11-20-20 for $300.00 with an address of Greenville, NC.

The memo line reads, "Release the Kracken."

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am writing this weeks newsletter on the feeling that Jonathan McKinsey, an SF trans man murdered by his in-laws in broad daylight, is being treated as a suspect, not a victim in the wake of his own death. Subscribe to support trans journalism. assignedmedia.org/support/

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Support Our Journalism - Assigned Media

Support OurJournalism Our journalism is only possible through the support of our members! As a supporting member, you’ll receive a special edition of our newsletter, featuring bonus essays and insight...

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with an Attorney General nominee? [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Matt Gaetz! [SMITH]: That is Media Matters senior fellow Matt Gertz

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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mussolini and his regime went about not only controlling the government but every aspect of Italian society. He also plastered his image on everything and cultivated a macho, aggressive strongman image. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/me-me-me

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh, Murderbot, what did you do?

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Michele Tepper @michelet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

From John Rogers’s rules of crime: Rule 2: A fine is a price. Rule 3: Nothing ever stops until a Rich White Guy goes to jail buttondown.com/kungfumonkey...

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 29/09/2026

what this means is that we're just getting to the dangerous part of this decade long scam

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This street was open to people, but closed to cars for an art festival over the weekend. However, let's take a look at this street. Is there anything about it that says cars should be allowed here in the first place? I'd say no. This is a space for people.

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There is no safe way for researchers to use the systems provided by OpenAI, Anthropic, or any of these other companies. They have all admitted that plagiarism is an integral component of what they do. If you put your work in – even if it's just to touch up a manuscript – they will take it.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?

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dawn of the debb @debbshock.com · 28/09/2026

Monday is scary here, take this teeny tiny owl

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…

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Lilith Treah 🏳️‍⚧️ @riveroceansea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@400trix.bsky.social friend can please share I is try to get helps with rent bsky.app/profile/rive...

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1. Jay Feely, a former NFL kicker and a GOP candidate for Congress in Arizona, has made “protecting women’s sports” a centerpiece of his election campaign. So I reviewed years of Feely’s podcast appearances to see what he actually thinks about female athletes. 🧵

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Lynnae Terrill @lynnae.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It is genuinely wild to me that so many people assume these are for-real assistants who can exercise judgment. They are purely yes-men! They do not have reasoning on their own! Stop anthropomorphizing them!

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Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Dr Alondra Nelson on how AI companies use agnotology, strategic production of ignorance, to avoid accountability. They legitimize ignorance via design opacity; generation of uncertainty; claims of unknowability of AI. Move fast, break things. Cast themselves as both the problem creators & solvers.

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Algorithmic Agnotology: On AI, Ignorance, and Power – Alondra Nelson | IASEAI '26

YouTube video by International Association for Safe & Ethical AI

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Coup Otter @therealjimsanto.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Doubling down on AI to overcome its increasingly obvious limitations is like doubling down on building post-war suburbs to fix today's housing market."

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JunkboxJim @junkboxjim.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#BirdOfTheDay theme is #Pairs Horned grebe couple out for a late evening paddle in a drainage canal. Very romantic. Pte Pelee, ON April 22, 2018

Pair of horned grebes are floating on the still waters of a drainage canal in the late evening. There are dried marsh grasses in the background and the lighting is giving the water a pinkish-orange color.

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A lot of things are shit right now, but recently a friend lost his guitar on the subway and a music producer found it, posted on Insta, and with the help of the internet tracked him down and RETURNED IT! Sometimes, the world is still a lovely place and people are still kind. 🥰🎸

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026

An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.

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The media has the AI threat all wrong

Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.

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Carol Pope Gordon @carolpopegordon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The male Scarlet Myzomela (AKA Scarlet Honeyeater) is knock-your-socks-off red. They are tiny compared to some of the other honeyeaters but that red really got my attention. #Australia 🪶

Small bird with sharp curved beak, bright red head and body and black wings seen from the front hanging onto twigs

Small bright red bird with sharp curved beak seen from side hanging upside down from some twigs. It has a white belly and a black tail.

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Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“ this time, the roots of his tyranny were to be planted deep: for a major sure deploy a large number of mercenaries, to raise a substantial income for himself…” Herodotus 1:64

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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 25/09/2026

If the ballroom construction is such a sensitive national security matter, why is Trump inviting the Chinese delegation on a tour???

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Elakha Alliance @elakhaalliance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sea otters once thrived along the Oregon coast, but today, there are zero sea otters living in the wild here 🦦💔. Oregon is the only U.S. state within the sea otter’s native range that no longer has a resident population of this important keystone species. (conti..) #seaotters #seaotter #oregon

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I played this on my show, it is deeply affecting modal jazz in the Maqam tradition by the Palestinian musician Firas Zreik, who plays the kanun (a trapezoid zither that dates back to the 14th century), with an astounding band firaszreik.bandcamp.com/album/tarabe...

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Tarabesque, by Firas Zreik

7 track album

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 24/09/2026

not exactly a debate that I want to be having but it seems to be happening by words getting put into my mouth so: - AI companies are not every tech company - defense contractors are not every tech company - it’s worth directing your anger at the people who deserve it, and not a trans woman online

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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 24/09/2026

Just a heads up if this applies to you, Rick Wakeman from Yes is playing piano for 150 rescued Vietnamese moon bears www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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Rick Wakeman performs piano concert to 150 rescued moon bears in Vietnam

Former Yes musician plays at sanctuary to raise awareness of animals that remain stuck in cages at ‘bile farms’

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