Reposted by AaronJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 6hThey quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... 9080032006
Reposted by AaronKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants. 20752301418
Reposted by AaronMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house. 685248895503
Reposted by AaronLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.” 1970102257
Reposted by AaronScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.nytimes.comF.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan CollinsThe inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials. 24982223343
Reposted by AaronBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Zohran post about filling one pothole: We filled our 2,000th pothole! Wow! New York is the greatest city in the world! Zohran post about meeting with the president: Some guy was here and that is now over. 1206585719
Reposted by AaronJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 16/09/2026I do think anyone who wants us to take Elizer Yudkowsky seriously as an authority on AI armageddon should be forced to testify on video that they have read the entirety of his 660,000 word rationalist Harry Potter fan fiction – written aged 30–34 – and still thinks the world needs his take. 32724122
Reposted by AaronAyo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Transgender people deserve to have a nice life. That is the entirety of the argument. If you disagree, you’re saying that you do not believe in liberty or justice for all. 8352241242
Reposted by AaronPaul McAuley @unlikelyworlds.bsky.social · 14/09/2026‘The closer autocrats come to their end, the more frenziedly do they build.’theguardian.comThe desecration of DC: from a giant arch to a nuke-proof bunker, Trump’s legacy-building blingfest is an architectural atrocityA bloated ballroom, a six-storey military HQ, a helipad-cum-cocktail patio, a gilded angel on a giant arch honouring himself … our architecture critic deplores the decorator-in-chief’s mutilation of W... 317050
Reposted by AaronEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 11/09/2026Holy shit. Bloomberg just verified one of my biggest scoops - that Microsoft only has 2gw of operational capacity. I had it at 1.993GW in prep for the story that @aishadown.bsky.social and I did for the guardian. Vindication! www.theguardian.com/technology/2... 251938362
Reposted by AaronBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Actually, idea: @carlquintanilla.bsky.social next time you have one of these guys on CNBC who says stuff like this, can you ask them to... be specific? Like how? How is AI going to "Destroy humanity?" I want to know details. I legit only trust you to do have these guys on your show and ask them. 3087163
Reposted by AaronSam Benc 🐟 @nonvieta.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Oh yeah, right in the vein please 225086
Reposted by AaronMicah @rincewind.run · 09/09/2026a lot of people have trouble believing they are serious, because it is a ludicrous thing to say out loud, but as far as I can tell anthropic at least genuinely believes: 1. someone is going to build a machine god that might kill us all 2. we should build it first so we can minimize the risk 40658106
Reposted by AaronEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 09/09/2026Both Anthropic and OpenAI should face criminal action for felony hacking. We put people in jail for hacking, including people who use scripts. This is not a complex moral, ethical or legal situation, and the only difference is that they're doing it in public and boasting about it 11610107
Reposted by AaronKelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The Malibu city geologist showing up in a thread to explain why a sinkhole just opened up at Nic Cage's house is everything I love about bsky 301429247
Reposted by AaronJesse Raub @jesseraub.online · 08/09/2026PEOPLE WITH LIBERAL ARTS DEGREES: so while i see there is utility to the system, i’m more or less morally opposed to their current constructs and have big concerns over the business structure and environmental impact WEB CODER: so i met God today, 323060623
Reposted by AaronQuinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The Navier-Stokes fight is a perfect encapsulation of where AI development is right now: this should be really cool and exciting, and instead because of Silicon Valley egos it's become a fight over cheating, surveillance, and companies trying to get one up over the other 749682
Reposted by AaronMel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Who knew that all along the secret of how to teach the kids lay in merely teaching the kids 0324
Reposted by AaronTyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 05/09/2026no joke for this one just think of all the people who don't get heard you could reach out to instead. like a lot of people who aren't trying to do bad stuff need to be listened to and understood, this time could have been spent on them. idk. idk know to convince them this shit just doesn't work. 1461473
Reposted by AaronBrian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Across the US, workers are souring on AI. The tech industry has insisted that AI would make workers’ lives easier and more productive, that the more people understood and used AI, the more they would like it. Something closer to the opposite has happened.bloodinthemachine.comWhy office workers are turning against AIWhether or not you like AI at work ultimately boils down to a question of power. 201549454
Reposted by AaronAngry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Happy Labor Day weekend. Nothing we have was not earned by the blood and sweat of those who have gone before. Enjoy a 40 hour work week? Thank a union. Enjoy PTO? Thank a union. Enjoy safety standards? Thank a union. Enjoy weekends off? Thank a union. Organizing wins. Period. 626768
Reposted by AaronJen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...ysph.yale.eduUniversal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study ProjectsA single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it 596165407118
Reposted by AaronRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 02/09/2026these people should be ashamed of themselves for several reasons share.google/IB2NzxpKmZaF... 601772233
Reposted by AaronJess✨ @angryartist.bsky.social · 01/09/2026For the first time in 6 years it’s time once again for: HALLOWEEN CREEP 2026 ICON SALE! Send an email with the subject line “Halloween Icon 2026” to angryartist113@gmail.com and let me know what you’d like for your Halloween icon! This sale will be for the entire month of September 32619
Aaron @aaron.compleatdiscography.page · 31/08/2026“I exclusively ate sandwiches made of butter and supermarket white bread for years; when I ate some vegetables my tummy ache went away” 000
Reposted by AaronEd @notdred.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I guess we have the answer to the “who could possibly say anything bad about Dolly” question and it’s exactly who you’d think 18999245
Reposted by AaronKingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 25/08/2026It’s the power fantasy of being able to help people. 51132188
Reposted by AaronJay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I think of Superman not as a power fantasy, but as a fantasy of the powerful as really good people. I kind of feel that way about Dolly Parton, too. 161118212
Reposted by AaronFT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are. 100268206331
Reposted by Aaronkate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 25/08/2026RIP TO ONE OF THE GREATEST TO EVER DO IT 89204156216
Reposted by AarondiscWorld order @discworldorder.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Great stuff. Of course, my favourite riff on the glass half full/half empty is this bit from Terry Pratchett's The Truth: 042
Reposted by AaronAl Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 20/08/2026youtu.be'Weird Al' Yankovic: Tiny Desk ConcertYouTube video by NPR Music 8151291161
Reposted by AaronMel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I do believe that any scientific publisher residing anywhere may be legally exposed under these amendments unless they can guarantee that their editorial and peer reviewing processes were carried out by humans—not LLMs. www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/eu...jdsupra.comEU AI Act — Transparency Obligations for AI-Generated Content (Article 50) | JD SupraBelow, we map the transparency obligations applicable to AI-generated or manipulated content under Article 50 of the AI Act (Regulation (EU)... 3258
Reposted by AaronDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 18/08/2026"...findings that 3 [insts] violated civil rights law by tolerating antisemitism were predetermined by political priorities that blew past the evidence and cast aside standard investigative procedures..." Reading the whistleblower statement and taking rage breaks www.ms.now/news/frame-u...ms.nowWhistleblower says probes into antisemitism at colleges were ploys to harass and strip millionsA former Justice Department lawyer says the Trump investigations squeezed Ivy League universities for millions before they were even concluded. A top Democrat is demanding answers. 10905375
Reposted by AaronAdam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.data4democracy.substack.comHook and SqueezeHow Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations. 17745331583
Reposted by AaronJuan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 13/08/2026the students from abroad typically pay more in tuition and so subsidize working class US students. This policy is an attack on upward mobility 7537116
Reposted by AaronChase Taylor-Carter @chasecarter.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Spoke to @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social staff who have just unionized with @gameworkers.co.uk. It's a rare instance of workers' having no complaints with management. "Establishing our union was done with the mentality of ‘fix the roof while it’s sunny’", said @elainelithgow.bsky.social. 09126
Aaron @aaron.compleatdiscography.page · 10/08/2026Feeling deeply depressed about LLMs eating my colleagues’ brains today. 010
Reposted by AaronLouis Peitzman @louispeitzman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026We need to be saying this loudly and clearly: These people have lost their fucking minds. 1013308834
Reposted by Aaronlaura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Abdul El-Sayed on capitalism: “I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.” 10869271510
Reposted by AaronOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 04/08/2026Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia It's been a year & people tell me they've changed their mind, feel safer now to sign, etc. So I'm sharing it again for them. We're almost at 2k & anybody from anywhere can add their names. openletter.earth/open-letter-... 6312144
Reposted by AaronAmos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 05/08/2026"That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole of the Torah." -Rabbi Hillel 09416
Reposted by AaronTanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...thenerve.newsCory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lyingIt has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t... 361302416
Reposted by AaronJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/08/2026Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude 955451947
Reposted by AaronSuw @suw.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Crops grown underneath solar panels produce more, require less water and are more resistant to extreme weather, even during a hot, dry summer. We need agrivoltaics to be rolled out asap, for both the electricity and the better growing conditions. microgridmedia.com/solar-panels...microgridmedia.comSolar Panels Are Helping Crops Grow Better, Global Studies Show - Microgrid MediaFor farmers worried about losing land to solar energy, new research brings surprising news: many crops actually produce more food when grown beneath solar 13941411
Reposted by AaronJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 31/07/2026I've written a longer piece on the book that's been pulled due to "AI" use allegations, what that means particularly for newer authors, and what, if anything writers can do in the "AI" era to prove their work is their own: whatever.scalzi.com/2026/07/31/a...whatever.scalzi.comAnother Reason Not to Use “AI” For Your WritingBack in February I did a long post about “AI” and why I wouldn’t use it for my own writing, and one of the reasons I gave was “the fact that ‘AI’-generated text … 17569158
Reposted by AaronRex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 30/07/2026This is a factual sentence: Amid an outbreak of explosive diarrhea and with measles cases at a 35-year high, America’s top health official, who has an affinity for roadkill and guzzling raw milk, will soon start hosting a cooking show. My column, tragically: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...usatoday.comMove over, cyclosporiasis. RFK Jr. is hosting a cooking show. | OpinionAmerica's top health official, who has an affinity for picking up roadkill and guzzling raw milk, will soon start hosting a cooking show. Barf. 871397393