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Rebecca

@altair77.bsky.social
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Seeker of curiosities, lover of “nerdy” stuff, mother of dragon, she/her.

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Rebecca @altair77.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Glad you all are ok and house and cars not damaged, but so sad about the trees! They always take so long to come back 😢
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Best part of this muddled article by one of Bloomberg's money guys is that two of the charts make a compelling case that knee-jerk opposition to AI is wholly justified because technological progress doesn't increase productivity, it just enables greater income extraction by capital. Oops!
Productivity Growth Has Been Stuck Below Its Postwar Pace for 50 YearsWorkers’ Slice Shrinks, Profits’ Slice Grows
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Middlerage @middlerage.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This should have gotten a hell of a lot more news! The United States was the only NO vote at the Commission on the Status of Women, at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Monday. America voted AGAINST women’s rights! healthpolicy-watch.news/us-isolated-...
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Only US Votes Against Women’s Rights Document At UN Commission - Health Policy Watch
President of the UN General Assembly Annalena Baerbock told the opening of CSW that the backlash against women's rights "feels as though we are forced to
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AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hm. As @timnitgebru.blacksky.app + @emilymbender.bsky.social have already laid out: These #OpenAI *systems* aren’t “going rouge.” The Truth is that these LLMs are built by Nefarious people who are so Rapacious and Irresponsible that they (the Humans) are biggest Risks www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t...
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OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites
The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education and Commerce Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'd get it one piece at a time And it wouldn't cost me a dime You'd know it's me when I come through your town I'm gonna be flyin' around in style I'm gonna drive everybody wild 'Cause I'll have the only one there is around
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026
"When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who built this bridge to be so flimsy? There are permits you have to acquire [& supposed] tests. When you ask about the bridge collapsing itself, you’ve lost the thread"
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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 10/09/2026
REACHER: I need help with my iPhone SUPPORT: regular iPhone or duo? REACHER: how can I tell SUPPORT: if it folds it’s the duo *extremely loud crunching noise* REACHER: it’s the duo
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Josh Moretto @joshmoretto.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Art by @reforest-kelley.bsky.social. A reminder for Labor Day.
Fan art of Chief Miles O'Brien, Leeta, and Rom from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The three are seated in Quark's bar. Miles is explaining something to the other two. The upper caption reads, "The boss needs you, you don't need the boss"; the lower caption reads, "Labor is entitled to all it creates".
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Rebecca @altair77.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Seriously, I don’t really remember if rabies was a fear before that, but it SURE was after!
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Rebecca @altair77.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
These people did not read Their Eyes Were Watching God at an impressionable age and it shows.
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Rebecca @altair77.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
😟 Oh no! I hope it won’t be too burdensome…That seems like poor planning…I guess it’s good she mentioned it to you, otherwise they wouldn’t have even been fed!
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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Analisa Swan (she/her) @analisaswan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
You may not follow politics, but politics follows you! Trump/GOP’s Big Ugly Bill ripped away Americans’ healthcare subsidies, skyrocketing Americans’ healthcare costs to give billionaires tax cuts! With Trump/GOP everything is expensive, billionaires get richer, & you get less! #RestoreACATaxCredits
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Christina S. Ho @christinasho.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
In the early aughts, this type of violence in hospitals was an index of social unrest that the Chinese government watched closely, and it ultimately prompted major nationwide health care and social security reform.
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Rebecca @altair77.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
That’s true! I think he’s also just so visually memorable! I can actually bring his face clearly to mind easily which I can’t do with a lot of characters who appeared so infrequently!
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Rebecca @altair77.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
That’s true! I feel like even just from TNG he felt like he must’ve been in more…they definitely chose well with his casting! I’m sure he was mentioned in additional episodes there as well.
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Rebecca @altair77.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Gowron being in only 12 total episodes of any Star Trek franchise blows my mind (and in only FOUR TNG?!) He seems so such a larger presence than only 12 episodes. Maybe it’s the 👀
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Rebecca @altair77.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
That’s so fun a Costco just opened! That’s nice they want to share with you! If you end up getting your own & going sort of regularly we’ve found the executive membership totally worth it. You get to go in an hour before normal opening & we got more than enough cash back to pay for the diff in cost.
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Rebecca @altair77.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Oh that’s too bad! If it’s Publix I think I know that mix you’re talking about! They’re good!
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Rebecca @altair77.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
A frozen berry shortage?! I’m glad i forgot I’d already bought a giant Costco bag of strawberries and month ago and bought a second one. We’ll be set for a little while!
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Rebecca @altair77.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I hope everything is ok and the vet is able to help!
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Rebecca @altair77.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Do you like it? Have you noticed if you can turn off the heart rate monitoring? It’s weird, but that causes tingling and weakness in my hand and arm. I have gotten really used to wearing a watch & would miss not having that, but also don’t need anything particularly fancy otherwise.
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Rebecca @altair77.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I’ve used FitBits for about 15 years but my Charge 6 just broke & I’m thinking maybe I should try something different…anyone have a fitness tracker+watch they love that either does not track heart rate or heart rate tracker can be turned off?
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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
These bits stood out to me… www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
“We may need to make room for AI-generated novels, and for AI/human co-written novels, but that doesn’t mean that there’s no longer space for us to appreciate the process of human creativity,” she said.However, Luke Kennard, a professor of film and creative writing at the University of Birmingham, who was not involved in the work, emphasised that AI was highly contentious.

“Because we’re human, we tend to personify AI and imagine it as some kind of glowing robot with a benign and neutral face, when it’s really just predictive code based on a massive stolen database of actual writing, physically based in vast, expensive and destructive datacentres with catastrophic repercussions for the surrounding communities,” he said.However, Luke Kennard, a professor of film and creative writing at the University of Birmingham, who was not involved in the work, emphasised that AI was highly contentious.

“Because we’re human, we tend to personify AI and imagine it as some kind of glowing robot with a benign and neutral face, when it’s really just predictive code based on a massive stolen database of actual writing, physically based in vast, expensive and destructive datacentres with catastrophic repercussions for the surrounding communities,” he said.
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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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Rebecca @altair77.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I guess that should be 🚫🍋👎
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Rebecca @altair77.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
🍋👎
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Rebecca @altair77.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Fair. I don’t think I would’ve stopped either! But they should definitely advertise in their sign if it is! Then I’d at least consider it in some circumstances!
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Rebecca @altair77.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
That is STEEP! Was it at least fresh squeezed?!?
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Rebecca @altair77.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
May the odds be ever in your favor…
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 10/08/2025
"The future offers us little hope for those who expect that our new mechanical slaves will offer us a world in which we may rest from thinking. Help us they may, but at the cost of supreme demands upon our honesty and our intelligence.” ~Norbert Wiener, God and Golem (1964)
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Ben Plume @pittbaster.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Just a tremendous takedown of the stupid idea that LLMs can become sapient. Thread worth your time. 🧵
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lapsu.bsky.social @lapsu.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Weird how 8 billion definitely conscious humans don't seem to merit the same ethical concerns as a few hypothetically conscious computers.
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Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
My kiddo Faith was a straight A student until her granddad (the only father she knew) died after a long battle with dementia. Now, the legal system is punishing her for having a mental break in the worst time of her life. Please donate or share: tinyurl.com/246c9bbm
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Donate to Help Me Get the Legal Support I Deserve, organized by Faith White
My name is Faith, and I'm asking for help because one of the hardest periods of m… Faith White needs your support for Help Me Get the Legal Support I Deserve
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St. Louis Public Library @stlpubliclibrary.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
SLPL has free gun locks available at all locations. Stop by and pick one up!
A promotional graphic of 'Free Gun Locks."
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Rebecca @altair77.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Thanks for your defense! I didn’t even see if before they deleted it!
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Rebecca @altair77.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
True!
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Rebecca @altair77.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Are you purposefully spreading false info or just trusting AI to give you correct info? Either way you should delete this. The images are clearly wrong and at least 4 of the names match services members killed in 2021. www.npr.org/2021/08/29/1...
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13 service members killed in Kabul attack honored with the Congressional Gold Medal
The August attack was one of the deadliest days for American forces in the past decade of the 20-year war in Afghanistan.
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Rebecca @altair77.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I guess my question is, is this someone blindly trusting AI to give them accurate information or someone purposefully spreading false info.
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Rebecca @altair77.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Yes! And I found this article from 2021 about service members killed in Kabul, 4 of the names match those in the image (though not the pictures). www.npr.org/2021/08/29/1...
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13 service members killed in Kabul attack honored with the Congressional Gold Medal
The August attack was one of the deadliest days for American forces in the past decade of the 20-year war in Afghanistan.
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Rebecca @altair77.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
They do…and the flags in several show signs of being AI generated.
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Rebecca @altair77.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Oh they DO look like fireworks!! Beautiful!
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 18/07/2026
This is 💯 entryism. He wrote a piece seemingly critical of AI, got caught & admitted to chatGPT use, but also gaslights us it's a search engine & it's useful for checking links — why not just click them? We can't be anti AI if we don't agree we see it. They did it with climate change, tobacco etc.
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 17/07/2026
A reminder that a University of California study found that 80% of mass shootings/spree killings perpetrated by men were preceded by violence against women. Either their mothers, wives, girlfriends, or another female relative
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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 17/07/2026
My 🧵 from yesterday made me do the thing today: wrote a blog post (no paywall, ever): jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl.... A New York high school is piloting a social female-gendered humanoid robot in a classroom this fall, touted as learning support for teenagers.
Text: "A Companion Robot Company Just Landed a Classroom:
Sally arrives in a Salamanca classroom this fall, billed as learning support." Image is a close up of a Realbotix M-series robot that will be used in the Salamanca classroom as Sally. It is a female-coded and gendered humanoid robot with a traditionally female name (Sally), long brown hair, appears to wear cosmetics, wearing an open-collar white shirt. Plain gray background.
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Rebecca @altair77.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It does make sense that the same thing might be happening in other cities…
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Rebecca @altair77.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
That is so cool! Thank you! I have been so curious about this!
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Rebecca @altair77.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Every game, every player, looks like they got their haircut THAT MORNING. Is every team traveling with a barber? Is FIFA providing a barber in every stadium? How does this work?
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