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Ian Palmer @ianjpalmer.bsky.social · 13h

Lego and Alien! Well, and photography too. #ToyPhotography

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Alex White @alexwhite.bsky.social · 18h

Is this true? Does anyone know anything about it?

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Alex White @alexwhite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Am I weird? I don't trust free to play games at all. I won't even install one.

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Alex White @alexwhite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is exactly the situation employers and insurance companies want. You can't quit. You'll either have to move or you'll die.

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Alex White @alexwhite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Because it can. Because they figured out it's a cost we will "tolerate." Bad teeth will stop your heart. Tooth health is heart health. Some people only find out they have life-threatening cancers at the optometrist. Eye health is life.

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Alex White @alexwhite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Our local hospital system, @wellstarhealth.bsky.social, has decided to discontinue dental services within its hospital system. As a result, one of the only special needs dentists in the greater Atlanta metro area had to cancel all appointments. It took us a year to get that appointment.

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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.”

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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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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 21/09/2026

“Everything is 40% more expensive because of AI” is a great line for an opposition party trying to unseat the AI-supported incumbents, if any Democratic consultants wanted to take a short break from dehumanizing trans kids to actually try winning a contested election.

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center

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Alex White @alexwhite.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

EVERY MAKER LEAVES THEIR MARK. No tool created by humans, trained on our data, can escape its inevitable human corruption. They want you to think it's logical like a pair of calipers or something so you fail to designate responsibility. It was created to deny, and thus, kill.

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Alex White @alexwhite.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hi! Suggestion. Ask the President why people think "Supreme Intelligence" is smarter than he is. He'll start trying to outlaw it within a month.

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The little frame holds before cuts are perfect

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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

These are an excellent read!

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Alex White @alexwhite.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Overheard: "Daggerheart is an indie, and it's half the price of other books." No shade to Daggerheart, but they're able to get printing wholesale on a scale other publishers can never match. Its first month sales beat many games' lifetime records. Maybe it's not an indie?

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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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Mister Frumble @misterfrumble.blog · 16/09/2026

These tech bros still aren't over learning that Work From Home is great for workers because it allows for flexibility AND the ability to find jobs nearly anywhere that pay more and treat them better. I'm convinced the power gained by workers during COVID played a part in radicalizing tech bros.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14/09/2026

Free newsletter: The idea that we're nearing the creation of AI systems that we can't control and that pose an existential threat to humanity is a lie and a distraction from the tangible harms and problems caused by LLMs and AI labs' near-unlimited resources. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-alread...

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Delilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

People of Portland, we hope to see you tonight at @powells.bsky.social in Cedar Hills! I am just enjoying the heck out of your fine city, from a great Weezer concert to a great @rosecitycc.bsky.social to this morning's zoo adventure. Let's keep it going!

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Alex White @alexwhite.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

TELL YOUR DOCTOR TO TURN OFF AI RECORDINGS. If you have not spoken to your doctor, they may be doing this without your consent. All of my doctors have been feeding my information into these systems, and I can't find ones who aren't. Blame insurance.

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hahahaha. 💅💅💅

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Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I haven’t read Ardent Violet yet, but August Kitko was a delightful book I can definitely recommend!

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Alex White @alexwhite.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Please sign my petition to outlaw movie trailers with minor key epic versions of songs older than a decade

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 11/09/2026

So the thing about how some folks who work on AI think it's going to attain sentience and kill us all: That's not a marketing stunt. They do sincerely believe that. That doesn't make them*correct* though. They're very much not

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

It's always a good time to share this.

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nico @nicodelort.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

she did not fight big rat pharma only to be slandered like this

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Alex White @alexwhite.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I was not ready for LaKeith Stanfield in this. Like I thought I knew what would happen, but I was so wrong.

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

okay i'm back but i think this is still live until 11:59pm EST if you want 20% off

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Alex White @alexwhite.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The awkward wish that you could invite your therapist to your Starfinder game.

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Alex White @alexwhite.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Oh, and the next person to say, "You can't put the genie back in the bottle" is getting vomited on. I warned you.

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Alex White @alexwhite.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm going to say something that sounds like a booster (forgive me @edzitron.com). Any cybersecurity expert could tell you what modern AI does: it's a system that relentlessly, adaptively tests backdoors for human mistakes. From a DoD perspective, that's god tech.

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Alex White @alexwhite.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I think the wisest move is to assume that skeets, like emails, will always get a bad faith reading from many people. (QP because even out of context, I want writers to heed this advice.)

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Alex White @alexwhite.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Honestly, y'all need to buy more of David's books. Just buy all of them. God, what a perfect truth.

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Alex White @alexwhite.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

One more quick point regarding AI: Either you stand with labor, or you ain't shit to me. Before we take anything else into consideration about the ethics nightmare, is the construct anti-labor? Yes? Then it's not for you, Regular Person. What are you doing?

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Alex White @alexwhite.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As usual, if you want a reasonable take, go to Ed Zitron. He never misses on AI.

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Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 10/09/2026

The other small press advice I have is: look at what they publish. If you wouldn't buy one of their books, don't give them yours.

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Alex White @alexwhite.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hey. If a small press wants to give you a digital-only, royalty-based multibook deal for books that haven't yet been written, run. Lots of small presses use this royalty structure because they have no assets, and this allows them to offload nearly all risk to you.

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Alex White @alexwhite.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Also, also, I have never met a regular author who hired a ghost writer. Every single one was either a celebrity or a person with more wealth than creativity. Fully support ghost writers in their quest to remove the cash from those pockets, but the idea that someone thinks they're standard is WILD.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

3.) It's NOT bullshit, and it IS that dangerous, but it's less because "oh my god it gained intelligence" and more because "it's actually a dangerous chaotic dipshit that has by design a lot of intrinsic chaos built into it, and we let it loose into vital systems, so now it's breaking everything."

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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

GenAI spam has slowly morphed into an incredible form of comedy.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

BTW this is after the iconic image by Ricardo Levins Morales www.rlmartstudio.com/product/eigh...

black and white woodcut that says 8 hours for work / 8 for rest / 8 for what we will and there's someone working at (??) , someone sleeping and two people in a boat

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Jacky Alciné @jacky.wtf · 06/09/2026

The white people clamoring about this, acting like this is a novel form of racism, are showing that they ain't do the reading they claimed to have done, lol. This is called Blackface. Digital blackface at that. And it's not new. Y'all ain't give a shit when it dropped

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Analysis: What’s ‘digital blackface?’ And why is it wrong when White people use it? | CNN

If you’re White and you’ve posted a GIF or meme of a Black person to express a strong emotion, you may be guilty of wearing ‘digital blackface’ – a modern-day term for an insidious form of racism.

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Alex White @alexwhite.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Pitch: So there's a rat that controls a guy by moving his hair like marionette strings. Editor: Okay, yeah, but we need the backstory on how he got that way. Are you expecting people to believe the only talking rat found the only marionette guy? Is there like maybe a society of marionette guys?

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Alex White @alexwhite.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Got a game coming up this weekend? I wrote a fan theme for @paizo.com's Starfinder that should be in your playlist. Come take a listen, then download a copy for yourself! on.soundcloud.com/ypCWFTcP8U5A...

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Take off, with this new fan theme for Starfinder! Whether you use it to kick off a campaign or just mix it into your gaming playlist, it's a surefire hit at your table. Alex White is a regular contrib

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“There’s a new Mr. Beast book.” You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn.

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