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If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula. RIP Sam.

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 6h

It’s been said a million times but saying Suno solved music is like saying you’ve solved soccer by installing a conveyor belt that delivers the ball directly to the net and expecting people to buy tickets

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 6h

For all the hand-wringing about the effects of technology on kids, the impacts may be just as corrosive on their grandparents Most reading has been done by older Americans. In 2003, older Americans read 58 minutes/day. By last year, that had fallen to 32 minutes/day www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/o...

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Opinion | Is This What a Post-Literate Era Looks Like?

It’s not the children who stopped reading. It’s their grandparents.

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Shawn Adamsson @adamsson.ca · 23h

Two.weeks to go. That’s a lot of eye drops.

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Kevin Wardrop @kevinwardrop.nitemayr.com · 28/09/2026

H/T Nate Ryan on FB Does anyone know this guy. My friend works at Westminster Trails Golf Course and was assaulted by this person and he and police are trying to identify him. The golf member who brought him with his group won't give a name and is being difficult. Any help would be useful. #ldnont

Does anyone know this guy. My friend works at Westminster Trails Golf Course and was assaulted by this person and he and police are trying to identify him. The golf member who brought him with his group won't give a name and is being difficult. Any help would be useful. Thank you!

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Ted Meissner @tedmeissner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Don't fall for the one-sided story in the Atlantic -- research shows mindfulness is *protective against* worsening symptoms compared to no intervention, treatment as usual, or medications. youtu.be/IbMlxnapzhU #mindfulness #mentalhealth #mbct #adverseeffects

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Depressive Symptom Worsening in MBCT

YouTube video by Mindfulness Voyage

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 28/09/2026

A Canadian scientist says Mark Carney's government is subsidizing the destruction of nature, contravening Canada's global biodiversity commitments. @sarahkcox.bsky.social reports. thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...

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Carney’s Push to Fund Industry Imperils Canada’s Nature Promises | The Tyee

Canada participated in a ‘historic’ global moment for biodiversity. Experts say we’re not following through.

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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The very real challenge (and the place where a bubble may pop) continues to be how do you make money off frontier models which cost an arm and a leg to train while older models get eaten from behind by open weight stuff. It’s a very big problem!

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Darren M. A. Calvert @dmacalvert.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Some days I am grateful Carney is in charge, other days he does shit like this.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 26/01/2026

"ai" is not a genie that can't be put back in a bottle, it's a pillar of smoke that dissipates unless you keep burning money

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Shawn Adamsson @adamsson.ca · 26/09/2026

When will kindness be cool again?

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Shawn Adamsson @adamsson.ca · 26/09/2026

It’s the part where you have to take a breathe to start this process that’s the challenge. A couple thousand hours on the cushion has helped, but I still fail at this all the time.

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Shawn Adamsson @adamsson.ca · 26/09/2026

There’s a very real chance that’s going to get spilled and destroy your opportunity. It doesn’t say anything good about your ability to plan (drink it before the interview), risk tolerance, or respect for a stranger’s space.

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Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Jimmy Kimmel is back baby, and by that I really mean Molly McNearney, executive producer and co-head writer on Jimmy Kimmel Live! (and also wife;-) 11/10 performance:

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m glad I know such a wide range of fucking weirdos

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Ladies and gentlemen, the weekend!

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Canada continues to be shameful on this issue.

Screenshot shows the man in Canada's seat looking around at the other countries leaving the room all while staying seated. The country names are a bit hard to make out, but I cross-referenced this against the seating chart that's been published.

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Tuta @tuta.com · 24/09/2026

🚨Canada is about to destroy #privacy with Bill C-22 — one of the worst surveillance laws. Because there's no such thing as "lawful access" for the good guys only. We've signed an open letter against Bill C-22, please join the fight! 👉 theccf.ca/stop-governm... 👉 Open Letter: fixc22.ca

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Ivy @becauseivy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's Thinking Thursday, delete your robots

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Always a treat to be reminded of an old friend

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Shawn Adamsson @adamsson.ca · 23/09/2026

I can't freakin' wait for this.

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Brian Platt @brianplatt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I....don't know what prompted this from the president today, but StatCan reported JUST this morning that in the past year, Canada experienced its slowest population growth since 1916. The country's population is essentially stalled right now.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 22/09/2026

Oh my god it’s funny because it’s true — take a gander at the video and then read up: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunnes_...

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Dunnes Stores strike - Wikipedia

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm not asking you to change the world. Just make a grapefruit's worth of change.

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Ethan Nichtern @ethannichtern.com · 22/09/2026

A society that allows billionaires and justifies it by saying "they must be hard-working geniuses" is a society that confuses the disorder of obsessive greed for some sort of holy wisdom, and from a Buddhist standpoint, that confusion is one of the worst mistakes we could possibly make.

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Shawn Adamsson @adamsson.ca · 21/09/2026

It’s completely ridiculous. But it’s a lot of fun too.

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Shawn Adamsson @adamsson.ca · 21/09/2026

So, the strategy is to eliminate product and service differentiation?

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 20/09/2026

virulently anti-Catholic lapsed Catholic here: It's of actual geopolitical significance that the Catholic Church is talking like this this time around with these pigs. It wasn't like that 90 years ago.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I don’t understand the hand-wringing reaction to claims that nueral networks have a 10% chance of destroying civilisation. Fossil fuel companies have a 100% chance of initiating a mass extinction event. Maybe we could address that?

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Shawn Adamsson @adamsson.ca · 19/09/2026

I have many teachers, but bell hooks is my favourite. #booksky 📚

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Shawn Adamsson @adamsson.ca · 19/09/2026

Should I choose the moment of my passing, this would be on the shortlist of the last pieces that I’d want to hear. youtu.be/JBePBer2-iQ

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On the Nature of Daylight

YouTube video by Tenebrae - Topic

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/09/2026

I love this slide. I really don't think the geopolitical implications of the clean energy transition have sunk in for most people.

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Shawn Adamsson @adamsson.ca · 18/09/2026

Life does not get better than this. Carpe Diem.

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Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 17/09/2026

People love to post the Shigeru Mizuki "Get some sleep!" comic, but he considered these far more important. Shigeru Mizuki's Seven Rules of Happiness

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

OpenAI and Microsoft admitted LLMs are predatory tech built on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said AI has created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...

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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft

"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

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