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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 20h

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

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Simon Little 🍁 @simonplittle.ca · 05/10/2026

DON'T 👏USE👏AI👏TO👏PLAN👏YOUR👏HIKE

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Libraries and parks are great because everywhere else costs $120 I swear to god

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AL F 🌱 (she|her) @al-fox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Start at the beginning of this - it’s worth it. (But this is a good spot to grab your attention)

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Just having a quiet laugh to myself that the guy who wrote the "I'm a professor and writing doesn't matter" bullshit op-ed at the Times then had to immediately respond to his own article with more writing addressing the things he didn't get to include in the article. It's the little joys, really.

Joe Cruz, Opinion Guest Essayist: One thread I didn’t have room to pursue in the essay is that writing is itself a technology for cognitive offloading. It lets us put memory and attention and concentration into the world rather than carrying everything in our heads. That is enormously useful, but it might also mean that we exercise some capacities less.

The humanities and social sciences are so lopsided in privileging writing — and I suspect ease of assessment is a major driver — that we have obscured the costs to these other capacities for thought and have become lazy about imagining alternative ways of cultivating them. AI dramatically highlights the same question.

What kinds of thinking should we be willing to offload, and what kinds do we want students to keep practicing for themselves?

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 03/10/2026

Meta has enabled Muse to build extensive and ever-growing profiles on the orbit of people in a user’s life. Based on user input but also “publicly available information.” Whether that means a web search, Facebook’s own extensive data, or buying data broker info…we don’t know? And we can’t opt out.

wired.com

Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family

Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“This is for my boy Paul mthrfkr!”

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Heart of the Forest Emily Carr 1935

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We are the Wildflowers Emily Kewageshig ~ Anishinaabe 2024

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🏳️‍🌈🎃Brendan Agnew🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @blcagnew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Dude, that's fucked up" and "Hey man, what the hell?" are a good start - works equally well with friends / acquaintances or complete strangers. Don't let your mates get away with bullshit, and don't leave it lying if some rando starts it hear you. Chuds thrive on social permission - deny them it.

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I would like to see more men talking about how to and peer pressuring each other into calling out misogyny and rape culture. Going against social norms is hard, and it helps to share tips and support.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I managed to mostly not know any of this until today. This detail is new to me. The horror coursing through my body feels like poison. My God, men. Decide RIGHT FUCKING NOW what you'll do if a woman is sexually harassed or assaulted in your vicinity. Ask another man to do the same. TALK ABOUT IT.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“It’s not ALL men.” None of the 50+ men the Cornell rapists invited to come join them in raping a woman they’d drugged went to the authorities or tried to stop it. Not all men would rape an unconscious woman, but where are the men who’d try to stop it, or EVEN FUCKING OBJECT?

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 20/09/2026

I would also like for my siblings that live differently, more loudly, more radically than I do to have the same freedoms and rights as I should have. I am not an exception or a model tranny for cohering in the ways I do. There is and should be no “correct” way to “deserve” rights as a trans person

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Alec @alecjira.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I find that, among the people it's easy for me to dislike are those who are like versions of myself I try not to be

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c3rmen @c3rmen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Losing my mind while doing some research for my creature design lecture that the closest relative to the maned wolf is the bush dog. Like there has gotta be a fable where the maned wolf took all the leggie from its cousin

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Like, this should be the thumbnail image for any story about Musk going forward. It should be his primary image on Wikipedia. Children should have nightmares of him when they hear his name, even if they're too young to understand why he sucks.

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Granny Keeping Her Eye Out Kareem-Anthony Ferreira 2021

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

Nichole Hiltz
The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

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maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 17/09/2026

Ms. Rachel announces she will match Macklemore and donate $1 million to organizations supporting Palestine: “I will match Macklemore’s donation and I invite every wealthy white celebrity to match it and speak out against the genocide in Gaza.”

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Kid was asking some pointed questions about how babies are born which led to me drawing the best picture I’ve drawn in my life

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secondlina // Lord of Crows @secondlina.com · 17/09/2026

Context is everything 1/2

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

he did many of cher’s and dolly’s most glamorous gowns but what i will always remember most about bob mackie was this iconic look. and i think he’d be fine with that.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/09/2026

Nashville International Airport is set to be renamed to honor Dolly Parton after a unanimous vote by the local airport authority. Once the effort clears all the hurdles, it will make Nashville one of the few major cities in the U.S. with an airport named after a woman. trib.al/feFqYJV

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Hummingbird IV April White ~ Sgaana Jaad ~ Haida 2006

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 04/09/2026

This Finnish guy has been teaching himself Sumerian, and sent a cuneiform tablet to the British Museum to check his progress. They just emailed him that they've sent him something in the post. I'm now thrilled and excited for a total stranger! Clay tablet mail! www.reddit.com/r/Cuneiform/...

a photo of a hand holding a cuneiform tablet

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Australian pioneering modernist photographer Olive Cotton, Tea Cup Ballet, c.1935 #WomensArt

Monochrome photograph featuring a group of six angular cups and saucers with long shadows

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The Apple Gatherer Helen McNicoll c. 1911

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

theverge.com

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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Jack-o-lantEryn @eryn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

You are NOT gonna believe this amazing vintage phone I found today #ErynThrifts

A vintage 1990s novelty landline phone that looks just like a russet potato. The cords are a glimmery brown

The inside part of the phone & the bottom. Idaho DNBC 1992-1994 is written in sharpie on the bottom

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

That's not how executive orders work and that's not how naming things work and this isn't how political reporting should work either. This event should be covered, yes, but as another sign of the president's steady descent into complete ineffectiveness and utter insanity.

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James Wright @jameswrights.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

RIP Tim Curry, never was a man so distinctly iconic and yet such a chameleon in a role🧡😢

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“How will we ever replace them?” FUND. THE. ARTS.

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Thomas Seal @twseal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Maybe an overused meme but:

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

One of my personal favorite performances of Tim Curry:

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Liz Climo @lizclimo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

don’t dream it, be it

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

(1/3) With Dolly Parton's passing, I want to put good words on the wind for her. Feel free to quote reply with your own. Dolly became the single largest donor for the Moderna COVID vaccine because of a chance encounter and friendship with a Vanderbilt researcher Dr. Naji Abumrad years earlier. She

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

like the reason Dolly feels like an exceptional human being is because all the things we're talking about today in her lifetime of philanthropy trace back to just .... having empathy and we live in the era of "I Don't Know How to Explain to You That You Should Care About Other People"

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One more great thing about Dolly. She was a paid-up union member — American Federation of Musicians, Local 257, Nashville. And she had been for 58 years. www.afm.org/2026/08/afm-...

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AFM Statement on the Passing of Dolly Parton

Today, the entire community of professional musicians mourns the loss of an irreplaceable icon and a generous heart: Dolly Parton. While the world knows her as a global superstar and philanthropist…

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 26/08/2026

Dolly Parton died "after a brief battle with cancer," the singer's rep confirmed. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

rollingstone.com

Dolly Parton, Hardscrabble Storyteller Turned Global Entertainer, Dead at 80

Dolly Parton, country music legend, dead at 80.

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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This quote will last a century.

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 23/08/2026

I need to mute the phrase "the juice" As in, discussions of whether blueski has "the juice." It sounds thirsty af. I hope with all my heart I never join a social media site that has juice. I just want to talk to people who don't suck. People who need juice can have a juicebox like toddlers.

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