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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 3h

My new theory: anyone who actually has feelings of empathy knows that machines simply... don't. However, sociopaths' sense of empathy is muted at best; often, they believe the rest of us are making it up, and they learn to approximate sympathy, concern, etc. based on mimicking outward […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 5h

Anthropic is bragging about rolling their own from-scratch in-house version control system because git couldn't keep up with their 30,000 commits per day, and it doesn't seem to occur to them for a nanosecond that they are not fixing the actual problem in their engineering practices but making […]

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CM Harrington @octothorpe.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

“Fridges in France hit by cyber attack” Again, I ask: WHY THE FUCK IS YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET??

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Freedom of choice

4 frame comic. an off frame street journalist asks a bearded man wearing a green cap and khaki clothes:

sir! do you think people
who don't have the guts to
watch a public execution
should do something else
instead of complaining, while
real men enjoy the show?

the man replies:
I don't know. do
you think people who don't
want to watch drag storytime
should just do something else
instead of demonstrating?
do you think people who
don't want to transition
should get a hobby instead
of restricting trans care
for people who need it?
how come you people
only care about freedom of
choice when it's about
being cruel to people?

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I am way too online for my own good, and I had an unreasonably large twitter following, and I really *enjoyed* twitter for a lot of years, and yet leaving there and never looking back was maybe the easiest what-felt-like-a-big-ethical decision I've ever made.

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Weltzeitgeist @wackjackle.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Soulless techbros. Insufferable pieces of shit.

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I am not joking when | say this.

Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.

Al music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because

all Al music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago.

Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

A one-time 5% wealth tax would bring Silicon Valley's billionaires' wealth back to where it was just 31 days ago (when it was "just" 178% higher than on January 1, 2023). They'd rather let 3 million people lose their health insurance than let that happen.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My man ended USAID, condemning millions to death

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

this is the funniest thing i've seen in a looooong time. city passes new rule allowing prayer before city council meetings. satanist prays. city council then debates proper time to "undo the curse that was just put on our city" www.404media.co/it-is-done-h...

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP 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.”

APStylebook @APStylebook
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

For anyone that was paying attention, or knows the beginnings, this started a decade ago. time.com/article/2026/10/01/donald-…

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more

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Erik Uden 🚩 @erikuden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Open AI stole this guy's research solving one of the millennium problems and just pretended it was theirs. Plagiarism machine did plagiarism. Good explanation here: youtu.be/vPG6a2gAFeo

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

i've always wanted to visit iceland sure wish i hadn't been holding that monkey's paw when i said it

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

I've had people ask before why I post art that's been drawn on lined or grid notebook paper and not blank drawing paper. It's honestly a big psychological hack: blank drawing paper is for "real" art and I'm afraid to mess it up, but art on lined paper is legally "a doodle" and the art cops have […]

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Title: Gentlemen! Are you in want of a wife? Allow our algorithm to assist!

Image: a series of yes/no questions for that lead to different outcomes.

Questions include “are you rich?”, “are you dashing?”, “are you a rake” and “are you a vicar?”

Outcomes include “You win the most beautiful daughter of the richest man in the county!”, “You remain a bachelor”, “You marry a dowdy cousin” and “You rescue a 23-year-old from Spinsterhood”.

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Mike Olson @mikeolson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Should clarify: I absolutely support legal liability. I just think it has to be broader than Palantir’s CEO proposes. I also believe that regulation is a powerful and essential tool. We should use both.

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Mike Olson @mikeolson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

I mostly agree with Alex, here. I go a little further, though. The companies that train and release these models are certainly responsible for the results of their use. So too, though, are the companies and individuals who deploy them — say, government contractors using them in intelligence or […]

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Mike Olson @mikeolson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

I'm on kind of a Berkeley roll here (see what I did there?): www.dailycal.org/news/campus/berkel…

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

hugging face is the most terrifying indicator of where the ai race is, in the sense that the industry is facing completely solvable collective action problems while guided by entrenched, unoustable leaders with the foresight and moral fortitude of above-average pigeons

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Grassroots Joe @joeinwynnewood.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

One other thing. I know some folks are panicking over Judge Luttig's warning that Rs could stop Dems from being seated in the House in Jan. Our best defense is to make damn sure we build not just a blue wave, but a blue tsunami in Nov. A tsunami whose size becomes apparent long before Nov. 3rd […]

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

And the constitutional settlement of it is absolutely part of the inherited structure of the U.S. constitution, which whatever else it was, was *not* an attempt to turn back the constitutional clock to the Stuart side in the English Civil War. It's one unified federal purse. 5/

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The king says "ah, but I'm creative and can extract revenue that isn't called a tax. And, neat trick, now I can spend it on creating my own personal army that Parliament didn't authorize." This was fought out, 350 years ago. 4/

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Money that comes into the United States government is government revenue. It is part of the public fisc. There's not "taxpayer money" and then "extra bonus money outside the rules." It's all taxpayer money. And spending *any* of it requires Congressional authorization. 2/

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

reading a book from the nineties that's musing on "why are Stone Age cave paintings only ever found in very deep, inaccessible places [that are maximally protected from the weather and later human activity]? there must be some systematic Significance to this" and I want to shove the red dots […]

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

There are graphs

4 frame comic. a street journalist asks someone with a light blue dress and a large purse :
miss! do you think gender
transition should be illegal
for kids, given how patients
are rushed into treatments
and how the vast majority
ends up detransitioning?

she replies, pulling a bunch of papers from her purse that she hands to the journalist:
I'm glad you asked! yet another
new massive study* just found
that out of 445 kids who were
referred to four different gender
clinics for gender dysphoria, only
2.9% didn't identify as trans or
non-binary five years later.
there are graphs!
a note below the frame gives the reference for the study : Metzger & al. stability of transgender identity in
adolescents seen in multidisciplinary specialized gender
centers. journal of adolescent health. august 2026.
she continues :
then out of the 353 who
started hormones (after an
average wait time of 2.4 years),
only 1.1% had stopped the treat-
ment five years later, which is
incredibly few. I hope that
info helps you!
but miss, do you think gender
transition should be illegal
for kids, given how this study
seems to suggest that it is so
addictive that kids who were
transed might feel trapped to
keep identifying as trans?
she replies, looking tired : stop making sh*t up.

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Jens Ohlig @johl.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Meanwhile on Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Lake_Ont…

FAQ on the Talk page of Lake Ontario
Q2: Why hasn't Wikipedia changed the article name from Lake Ontario to Lake America?
A2: Wikipedia uses common names over official names. Per the article title policy, names that are commonly used by independent, reliable sources to refer to the subject of the article should be used when possible, and there is no indication that "Lake Ontario" has ceased or will cease to be the overwhelmingly most common name for the lake.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“My parents died so fuck yours too,” is quite the argument against reasonable healthcare

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

USPS is now claiming that it is “too late” for the plaintiffs to obtain judicial relief. Addressing this, Talwani used the USPS’s own earlier claims as to why the plaintiffs’ previous effort to obtain relief was too early. 6/

Two weeks before the Final Rule issued, Defendants' counsel represented to the court
that:
“when the final rule is implemented, if it affects an individual voter's ability to vote,
then they certainly have standing to challenge that final rule. And courts are able to
work in an expedited basis. It would only take a very short amount of time for a
temporary restraining order or a preliminary injunction to issue.”
And two days ago, when Defendants asked the court to vacate the preliminary injunction entered
in LWVM prior to the Supreme Court's Order, Defendants represented that Plaintiffs were not
without a remedy, for where the Rule had now issued, they could "simply amend their
complaint" and challenge the Final Rule directly.

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Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Man, this is incredible work for East Bay transit riders and advocates. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 20/08/2026

I don't think the Natalie stuff is sex, I think it's just *deeply weird* and that's what has everyone leaking about it--if it were sex, that's something people could understand and even rationalize. Instead, they're in the uncanny valley of relationships and everyone in the WH is squicked out.

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The Gneech! Awww Yeah @the-gneech.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

Well ouch.

Screenshot of a post by someone named arahir:

"i just can't convey the frustration and sorrow that it's been to grow up at first without the internet and then watching it bloom into this useful, fun, connecting force you sometimes spent time on, only for it to degrade into this constant oppressive waste of time and energy where people are constantly pumping out algorithmically designed content for max algorithmic appeal and even the most simple search generates either no results or an infinite abyss of ai generated slop none of which is usable or correct. we briefly had a library of
alexandria and then fed it into a paper shredder so advertisers could sell a random mash of pulp back to us at a premium.

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Mike Olson @mikeolson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

Howdy! If I were a better media guy, I would not do a Friday night news drop. But here's some good news I got on Friday! I'm on the board of directors of the Cityside Journalism Initiative: citysidejournalism.org We're a non-profit news outlet with an annual budget of around $5M. We […]

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Mike Olson @mikeolson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

In July, Nieman Lab published a ranking of the top non-profit news outlets in the country. Our Berkeley (berkeleyside.org) and Oakland (oaklanside.org) newsletters were number 18 and 22 nationally […]

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Mike Olson @mikeolson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

On Nov 18 of this year, the Voyager 1 spacecraft will be one light-day from Earth -- more than 16 billion miles. Voyager 2 will be nearly 14 billion miles away. There's a quiet, heroic effort by NASA techs to keep these 49-year-old spacecraft functioning. The technology and parts we knew how to […]

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 06/08/2026

How much of this is a story of accidental cyberattacks and how much of it is learning we don't know how to properly sandbox these tools for cybersecurity testing?

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I know that the norms are to invite Cabinet members to speak. But this is not a normal time, and very few people can counter a Gish Gallop—even experienced journalists. You simply can’t win against bad faith arguments, delivered with confidence, from lying shitbird with unearned authority.

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Justin Sheehy @justinsheehy.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

"Rogue AI" sure does get a lot more headlines and freakouts than "badly written program" despite that being what this is about. Similarly "it escaped containment" sounds like an alien or monster broke down a wall, instead of "the program we wrote was run in an environment that was connected to […]

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Mike Olson @mikeolson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

Congratulations to Walk/Bike Berkeley and my pals in the Radical Bike Lobby for their organization and commitment to this project. 6/6

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Mike Olson @mikeolson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

I am resolutely in favor of Councilmember Kesarwani's plan described in this article: www.berkeleyside.org/2026/07/27/hop… I got hit by a truck while riding my bicycle in West Berkeley on June 10. Fractured rib, facial lacerations, extensive […]

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Mike Olson @mikeolson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

Excellent piece by @pluralistic: pluralistic.net/2026/07/28/hitl-ers… If a human domain expert asks an AI agent a question about that domain, he or she can get a fast response, and then decide whether or not it makes sense. Good deal! Every really interesting use case for LLMs […]

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Bruce Mirken @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

#Trump claims his new #tariffs are against countries that permit "forced labor," but the list "even included countries such as Norway, which have been among the world’s leaders in combating forced labor and slave labor. By Greer’s test, the United States, with its use of prison labor and forced […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

Amsterdam murder rate: extremely low Amsterdam drunk man attempts to relieve himself into canal, falls in, hits his head and drowns rate: extremely high Plan your tourism accordingly. This is not a joke, this is literally true. Amsterdam is probably the only place that has ever built more […]

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Mike Olson @mikeolson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

I generally don't link to paywalled stuff here, but today's subscriber-only article by Paul Krugman is excellent: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/against-…

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Against Oligarchy, Part I: Progressive Taxation

The history and theory of taxes on the elite

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2 Spoopy 4 You @jcrabapple.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

🧪 The placebo-controlled trial wasn't invented by doctors. It was invented by medieval witch hunters. In 1423, Jean Gerson proposed testing religious claims with consecrated vs unconsecrated objects that looked identical - the same logic behind modern placebo controls. His method ended up in […]

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