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Elon Musk is back in government, baby! This time he’s doing, uh, some supervillain shit with Soulpatch Killer Robot Guy and everyone’s least favorite “what if Lee WON at Gettysburg” novelist.

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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 2h

this is good analysis-- but I wonder, the more something acts as an agent I think the more interest we have in it having personality-like characteristics. if the character the administrative AI "plays" is more proworker or just prosocial you get different outcomes, presumably

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Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 3h

A big downside of the top AI guys being deeply influenced by sci-fi is that they don't realize that giving non-organic characters personalities is a narrative requirement and not much more. If Marvin was just an android and not the paranoid android, he would be boring.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026

in reality Democrats are the only US party interested in child benefits. conservatives and centrists hate the welfare state, they think the working class must be forced to work by the threat of destitution. so every policy must have a work requirement, which is impossible for stay at home parents

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Ed @ed3d.net · 29/09/2026

yeah. more to the point, if you start using stuff like facebook's agent or this thing, you deserve it when you cook yourself.

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The Mall Krampus @themallkrampus.bsky.social · 6h

It's very funny that the website of eyecontactless shut-ins that romanticizes third spaces and civic participation cannot conceive of a society that wakes up in the morning, takes a piss, and forms three clubs before the coffee's done, because that was 19th century America

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 3h

broke: killing baby hitler woke: going back in time to teach hitler how to draw NSFW doujinshi

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 4h

I feel dumb even just having to say this but the reason passports are mailed out in plain regular envelopes is that so that people do not attempt to steal easily recognizable passports in the mail. bsky.app/profile/carn...

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internet bird @shoebill.moe · 3h

Not much, but it's just because what I'm working on is mostly comissions I can't show yet. Last thing that's public is the cover for @giantrobotfm.bsky.social's Gunbuster zine. And in a bit I'll have a whole RPG I illustrated! Looking forward to getting back to personal doodles some day.

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 6h

I mean, when I teach World Civ 2, I personally spend entirely too much time with Meiji through Militarist Japan. Part of this is because I have an unfortunate tendency to stan the genro in spite of all the culture and political time bombs they unwittingly planted.

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Kate Sills @katelynsills.com · 3h

my mom just texted me that a stray kitten showed up and is terrorizing their adult cat

a fluffy little grey and white kitten hunches over a food bowl

The fearsome kitten intimidates my parent's cat

The kitten gets all up in my parent's cat's space

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 3h

I see you're wondering why we've asked you to come into the office. Why don't you... take a seat. Don't worry, it's fine

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the double life of véronique emma houxbois @emmahouxbois.bsky.social · 4h

casual reminder that derek jarman made a horny queer caravaggio movie starring sean bean and tilda swinton in the 80s

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 4h

jeffries and schumer have been roundly criticized for their monomania about affordability but as of late sept 2026 its hard to see much decisive evidence they were wrong

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 4h

It is absolutely insane and a sign that Anthropic is not taking the things they say seriously that they have not actively and urgently reached out to maintainers of every even somewhat-critical open source project.

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 4h

anyway. I just think it’s weird to try to tell a story in a very specific social context that relies on a lot of signifiers of class and status, and then just strip those out willy-nilly because…why? you don’t think the audience can relate to anything but a mirror?

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 4h

i think they want the pinterest board and a movie that is just a pinterest board instead of austen would be interesting in its own right

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Feileacan McCormick @feileacan.net · 11h

exactly this. anything like these models, especially if presenting as friendly, need to be treated as a skinwalking shoggoth by default. this is the unfortunate downstream disservice wrought by the skeumorphism and anthropomorphism tag team of digital interfaces.

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 20h

“not all AI models [are shoggoths]” fucking listen to yourselves. the state of some of you

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 4h

""Reality" appears as a principle, one that defines the painting, sculpture and architecture of the period, but a principle nonetheless - that is, a simulacrum which the experimental hypersimulation of the trompe l'oeil) undermines." - Seduction

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 5h

Teaching Swift today, and will always share this on “Modest Proposal” day.

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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 9h

Men’s designers proposed extremely layered looks — shirts on top of shirts, socks on top of socks — on the fall runways.

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Wear All Your Clothes at Once

Men’s designers proposed extremely layered looks — shirts on top of shirts, socks on top of socks — on the fall runways.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 14h

I love that the U.S. government now has ideas so dumb that the fact checks are simply “yeah this isn’t a parody, it’s real”

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Kestrel Casey @kestrelcasey.com · 4h

Computers have always been so dumb as to be funny, but I've noticed a definite uptick in "new kinds of stupid" since vibecoding came in.

Security question: What is your pet's name? Answer: Doug. Error: Answer must be at least 5 characters.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 4h

going to find a way to use this for a reaction meme

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Andrew Robbins @robbinsa.me · 4h

he has claimed ownership

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phil @philjamesson.com · 5h

as always when this is posted, i have to fondly remember the time someone stole this tweet word for word, including using my name as the punchline, then claimed it was just independent discovery

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 5h

was ograbme a glonzo-class kaiju

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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 5h

"Middle management" means "anyone who has any institutional knowledge or knows how to do anything around here." They can temporarily save on compensation expense and then wonder why nothing works as well any more.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 5h

elizabeth holmes but actually not a fraud

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Annie Brassey @anniebrassey.bsky.social · 11h

""The Monster of 'Partridge Creek.'" ...the story of an encounter which the author and several friends had with no less a creature than the dinosaurs of the Arctic Circle, which, as recently as January of this year, was reported to be still at large..." Bexhill Observer 4.7.1908. #WyrdWednesday

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 15h

Takako Yamaguchi (Japanese, born 1952) Trap, 2024 Oil paint and metal leaf on canvas 60 x 40 in (152.4 x 101.6 cm) Private collection #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 5h

torena they roasting your ass on carrot twitter

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Dinosaur Bob @dinosaurbob.bsky.social · 7h

Holy shit this skeet has triggered the same subset of users who don’t want you to bring up that they had a Ron Paul phase before voting for Bernie.

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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 5h

You either die a reply guy or live long enough to become a main character

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Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 5h

A lot of people in the replies and quotes are questioning their legal authority to do this. It’s simple: They’re going to get a favor from the Trump administration because the founders of this company are hardcore MAGA

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Noah J. Nelson, Immersonaut Prime @noahjnelson.com · 15h

A lot of Americans right now trying to figure out how to seduce Canadians so they can flee.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 15h

Americans now assume that hockey itself possesses its own potent eroticism?

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 7h

fake news it was more than three

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 8h

Not a great sign when your 12-person private fundraiser includes someone who hates you enough to leak damaging audio

The audio of Mr. Paxton was shared with The Times by an attendee who recorded him speaking at a private fund-raiser in Washington attended by roughly a dozen people. The person, who opposes Mr. Paxton’s campaign and provided the recording to The Times, was granted anonymity because Mr. Paxton’s remarks were private.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 7h

What do authoritarians do when they are about to lose an election? I survey the big picture before the midterms - and investigate the struggle between authoritarian escalation and democratic resilience since the Trumpists took power. My new piece, for @blaetter.bsky.social:

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Autoritäre Eskalation oder demokratische Erneuerung: Die USA vor den Midterms

Die bevorstehenden Zwischenwahlen in den USA am 3. November sind ein wichtiger Stresstest für die US-Demokratie. Vieles hängt davon ab, inwieweit die Amerikaner für ihre Republik und deren Regeln eins...

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 7h

I love Thing Doer settings. Both Ace Combat and Pokémon are Thing Doer settings. Everything revolves around the Thing One Does. I dropped my daughter off at prom in a F/A-18. Dragonite does my taxes. All human activity revolves around Thing. Fuck you.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 7h

short form video stuff on youtube is pitching me cartoon dramas about a football player's forbidden love for a goth chick what is this, 1993? probably a sign that a non-american is generating the AI content

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Margaret Gel @iczer.one · 13h

RE: Claude and Vinyl mode I wish all of you on here had the ability to talk about something without pathologizing it. 'Why use Claude mode to build a record collection? Why not just talk to a person?' And talk to who? You? This place runs on blocking people on sight ON VIBES.

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David Dickson @dickiddaveson.bsky.social · 7h

I remember watching the original Blade and thinking: “My, but they did hurriedly rewrite the script in a cocaine-fueled all-nighter to make it R-rated.” At some point I expected the characters to say something like “I’m making fuckin’ mac and cheese”

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