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mallow @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 4h

great Build-A-Blocklist Workshop in the replies here

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mallow @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 4h

this is just 4chan shit man, what are we doing here

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mallow @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 5h

not great that we're at "Mamdani is a Jew-puppet for doing hatecrime protections" imo

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 3h

The reason Erin Reed sucks isnt because of any potential AI use, its because shes a highly influential in the trans community woman who is also a florid panic merchant who sells doom for clicks and subscriptions.

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Stephen @stephenwaldron.bsky.social · 5h

Once in a while I think about Jory Micah's bizarre journey from normie evangelical feminist twitter poster to rabid antisemite and it's incredibly unnerving.

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Derrick Rowe @derrickrowe.bsky.social · 15h

I think it’s because they are just antisemitic. I will remind people the USSR was also very antisemitic.

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You cannot run a civilisation based on volunteering.

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rimidar @rimidar.au · 6h

Dig up, stupid

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politiburb @politiburb.bsky.social · 6h

Gee I wonder why 2026's version of "Don't Look Up" would have box office trouble

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 6h

This. Doomerism helps your enemies. It just makes people fatigued and demoralized. It creates a "boy who cried wolf" situation that causes problems when an actual fucking wolf shows up.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 7h

"the ivy league faculty will never understand you" the faculty: SEND ME TO FIGHT THE SLAVE POWER

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 7h

many books are terrible and formulaic and could be replicated by AI, but there is no genre that is *inherently* terrible and formulaic and could be replicated by AI. there is terrible and formulaic 'literary' fiction.

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm begging for socialists to add an ounce of electoralism to their politics.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 17h

It is ironic that AI took off at the same time as Trump just because there's no shortage of screenshots like this floating around: USER: Can stupid thing happen? AI: No. Stupid thing cannot happen. That would be stupid. USER: Are you sure? Because it just happened. AI: Fuck.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/09/2026

GOAT OR BIRD????

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Effy, Demon of Corn, Wheat, Spelt, and Rice @mseffy.myatproto.social · 8h

Now when I skinned a dozen people alive to make a 100% authentic Leatherface outfit prior to going on a rampage at a summer camp, that may have been an atrocity. But! Have you considered that I was watching a genocide in progress? So frankly, obvious-final-girl, you should really put that gun down.

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Cersei Trannister 🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️🦋 @qadishtujessica.inanna.app · 11h

When I said that Erin Reed made up political reporting, I meant to say that her claude account made up political reporting.

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Mega 🎮😈 @megamachina.bsky.social · 20h

Really just tired of seeing grifters pretending to be gamers complaining about everything. People who think women in games have no value outside of sex appeal, who constantly complain "woke", racists, etc. And the worst part is, you block them and ignore them, and they still show up everywhere.

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politiburb @politiburb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is what actual "tough on crime" messaging looks like instead of just "tough on minorities" messaging, if you needed an example

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 10h

A couple of things stand out from The Needle's analysis. I have written professionally for about fifteen years, including for some pretty lofty publications, and I have *never* made 60k a year from writing. The money has to be coming from somewhere. Fear sells, apparently.

8.2: Personal Experience

Jane Migliara Brigham, one of the writers on this story, has spoken to Erin Reed about her journalism in the past.

In Jan. 2025, Brigham was interviewed by Erin Reed for a writing position at Erin in the Morning. She was offered $60,000 to write 4 articles a week at 600-800 words each.

For contrast, in that same month, Artemis T. Douglas, the other writer of this story, interviewed at Colorado Public Radio for a role that would involve daily quick-turn stories, roughly one brief a day, about something that happened in Colorado, for $45,000-$50,000.

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 10h

It is maximally profitable right now to either sell panic *about* trans people, or sell panic *to* trans people. Both impulses feed the media consumer's desire to feel mastery over events. One is simple bigoted conspiracism, the other is a defensive crouch that offers a false sense of security.

Emily: I think about this as a journalist and a novelist: I cannot control how the reader takes what I write. Especially when reporting, I try to be as careful as I can, but somebody might read what I write and conclude, Well, we're all going to die. And there's such an incentive structure to walk right up to the edge of catastrophe or even stick a toe over the line, and even publications I think are terrific will get as close to that line as they can because they know that drives subscription dollars and clicks. That's not just true of trans media; it's true of the media writ large. How do you think about that incentive structure, especially as it relates to social media?

Me: There's two ways to generate clicks about trans issues. One is to sell panic about trans people; the other is to sell panic to trans people. The social media incentive structure there, as it is with so many issues, is the septic, perverted version of that old classic about local TV news: If it bleeds, it leads.

Selling people that sense of control is, as I noted, the same thing at the root of a lot of conspiracism: not to trust mainstream sources who tell you things aren't quite so bad or things could get better or don't panic. It's the cinematic logic of a disaster movie where the people who are saying, "Actually, you should panic!" are correct. Think about everything from the narrative structure of Independence Day or Mass Effect. The catastrophizer is actually correct against all the people saying, "I'll calm down. It won't be so bad." That story structure is very, very popular, and it gets you invested in the protagonist with a pleasing sense of dramatic irony for the audience. They know something many of the other characters don't or refuse to accept.

We are all reared on some version of this story, and it seeps into everyday life. There's an excellent piece from CBS News in 1967 by Eric Sevareid reporting on the findings of the Warren Commission [whi

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WUT @wut12345.bsky.social · 10h

It’s sad, too. Because trans people are really being harmed and abused and need support. But her dumb lies aren’t helping and it makes me feel like someone nefarious is paying her (or she’s severely personality disordered)

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jack @vesaldi.bsky.social · 13h

Yikes, you have to decide whether she just did this on purpose, or if she used an LLM that hallucinated it. Not a single good option in the room.

A screenshot of a portion of the article in the quoted post. It reads:

Her litany of errors in 2026 includes deadnaming and misgendering a competing trans journalist who broke a story for one of her competitors! This was seven months ago, and the deadname is still up as of writing.

This wasn’t just any story. It was Nate Zuke’s first article that we can find. Many of you have already read it: ‘She’d Never Changed Her Gender Marker. Kansas Invalidated Her License Anyway.’

It was excellent reporting; arguably one of the most important trans news stories written by a trans journalist this year.

And it was Erin Reed who deadnamed him to her audience of hundreds of thousands.

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 10h

Man these stochastic parrots really are putting a lot of mathematicians to shame. AI solves a ‘holy grail’ problem from probability theory | Scientific American share.google/syGV4qcWcqPd...

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AI has racked up a new math breakthrough, solving a problem of probability theory that one mathematician said would earn a human a Field Medal.

Just days after a Fields Medalist predicted that an AI would solve the puzzle, Anthropic succeeded

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His Bark Materials🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌌 @oneiriccanid.bsky.social · 10h

Wonder if this’ll get anyone to kick her disingenuous ass to the curb like they should have a long time ago or whether the same people who go on about how AI is the devil will give her a pass on this because she reinforces their dooming.

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 10h

Recently, I did a wonderful interview with the indefatigable @emilystjams.bsky.social about trans people's online information environment and why there are very strong incentives to spread panic. It was a wide-ranging discussion that I think is more relevant than ever.

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What's the matter with trans panic media?

Scholar Katherine Alejandra Cross on why it's so profitable to "sell panic to trans people."

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 11h

I'm largely in favor of more data centers, but this is very bad and should be stopped (see also: Elon's data centers using onsite gas turbines)

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HollySci @hollysci.bsky.social · 14h

They reached out to her for comment two weeks ago, right around the time she got very defensive and started lashing out at anyone and everyone who said “hey, that chart doesn’t make sense and seems to be full of errors.”

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Effy, Demon of Corn, Wheat, Spelt, and Rice @mseffy.myatproto.social · 10h

Where's *my* MediaMatters job where I can spend several years pickling my brain in various types of acidified brine, huh?

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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 11h

(i think hybrid/wfh is basically real good but we need better models for how to have a healthy social relationship with Online, a thing that is critically important but seems to not really have a developed theory or praxis)

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Alexander Heistermann @alexheistermann.bsky.social · 10h

Because of a thing called hallucinations and trust.

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 10h

Seems fairly damning.

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politiburb @politiburb.bsky.social · 11h

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politiburb @politiburb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wonder if people who advocate only voting for a candidate who agreed with your stances 100% on every issue know that if everyone voted that way no one would ever vote and no one would get elected to anything

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 12/09/2026

The Becerra misrepresentation wasn’t an anomaly. A check of all 27 Democrats on Erin Reed’s list reveals a pattern: fabricated citations, truncated quotes, erased pro-trans votes, and reckless advice. The guide: www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-guid… 🧵👇

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Alexander Heistermann @alexheistermann.bsky.social · 10h

For real though, that explains so MUCH about the article errors that @mike10010100.com went through and find here.

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Humble Novice @humblenovice.bsky.social · 11h

On another note, did you hear about Erin Reed?

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 11h

Lol, and I say again, LMAO, even.

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not too worried on this. The chip failure rate isn't that different from any other data center chips, and the useful GPU life has already proven longer than most ppl argued bsky.app/profile/drja...

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 11h

I guarantee you if he's ever sued for defamation for something he says at one of these rallies, he'll invoke the Westfall Act claiming speaking is in his job duties

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Your Ad Here [10 chars] @cooluser354.bsky.social · 12h

"running a calculator under the hood" Your anti-llm """"experts"""", sir.

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