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Amy Alex Parent @amyinorbit.bsky.social · 21h

Good lord I find his brand of smug "I'm better than you" attitude so incredibly grating

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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

One or more human beings are responsible for the code they wrote, and those are the people who should be held accountable. These programs are not acting “on their own”

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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Donald Trump posted on Truth Social calling Dr Annie Andrews a transphobic slur this week, and her response is to ensure everyone knows she hates trans people too. Christ, the Democrats are fucking pathetic.

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Amy Alex Parent @amyinorbit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Happy International Lesbian Day from I, an International Lesbian!

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cara giaimo @cjgiaimo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

i was fortunate enough to profile Margaret Hamilton in 2019. A really kind and curious person. This was my favorite story she told me:

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My friend Nova has been on a surgical wait list for 11 years and might finally be getting healthcare in Spring. She wrote this little piece about persistence and how much worse the NHS has gotten since she was first referred

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Jim Trinca @jimtrinca.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

These guys should be forced to wear the hot dog costume when they "warn" us of this stuff

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/10/2026

I implore all cis people to read this.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When you have no concept of how people engage with music

nicksaraev ~
@nicksaraev
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I am not joking when I 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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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just talk to another human already jesus fucking christ

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Dee Evelyn @deeboom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Talyn is a wonderful woman, and an incredible friend. She started the fundraiser for me that led to me being able to get my VFS, something I may never have done alone Please donate if you can, or share if you can't and let's try and get her the help she needs, because she deserves it so much ❤️🙏🏻

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Help Talyn Fund Her Gender Affirming Treatments

Hey there! So Talyn has been transition for a few years now and needs a bit of help for the next stage of treatment and surgery.

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Amy Alex Parent @amyinorbit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Last weekend I was a referee at the tryouts for Team Scotland Roller Derby. It was very fun! A lot of quite tricky reffing, and I got to help the national team! Mark Harris took some great photos (hard to do in a sports hall) Also: it's hard to be neutral when some of your best pals are trying out!

Amy, a tall woman, is roller skating indoors and wearing a striped referee top. She’s pointing to a skater on her right, who’s slight shorter, wearing a black top, and a helmet cover with a star. Both are smiling and having a great time!

Amy, a tall woman, is roller skating indoors wearing a striped referee top in the foreground. She’s pointing to another skater in the background, who’s wearing a black top and a helmet cover.

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

there is no skill these people don't consider a means to an end they want the experience machine they're begging for their AI models to create it, to hook them up to the machine

excerpt from Wikipedia's "Experience Machine":
The thought experiment: Nozick describes a machine that could provide whatever desirable or pleasurable experiences a subject could want. In this thought experiment, psychologists have figured out a way to stimulate a person's brain to induce pleasurable experiences that the subject could not distinguish from those they would have apart from the machine. He then asks, if given the choice, would the subject prefer the machine to real life?

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Amy Alex Parent @amyinorbit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I don't really have a point, except that it sucks because I doubt I'll find any work in programming at this point that doesn't require that I use AI, so it looks like it's going to be it for me pretty quick

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Amy Alex Parent @amyinorbit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And I won't use it because I have so many objections to the thing, and also because I happen to actually really enjoy programming and I didn't get into this career to talk to sycophantic plagiarism software. It feels like I'm weeks to being told I have to use it or quit, and it's looking like quit

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Amy Alex Parent @amyinorbit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm reaching some kind of breaking point re: AI. At this point there are maybe a couple of us still not using it at one of my clients, but it feels like everyone is just "hey Claude said this! Gemini recommends you do this! What? You're not using AI? That's a waste of time" all the fucking time.

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Laura Webster @lauraewebster.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

NEW: Scotland's train drivers are threatening a boycott over a firm shortlisted to build new vehicles having links to illegal Israeli settlements 5 firms are shortlisted to build the new fleet for Scotland's publicly owned rail company, including Spain's CAF

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Amy Alex Parent @amyinorbit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I guess by going into flight simulation programming, I did the most trans woman thing I could do about it 😅

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emma (toys) @freeuse.toys · 16/09/2026

this shit is awesome and i don't wanna risk some sort of bullshit international terrorism charges so i won't do anything this info and i am absolutely not encouraging anyone to do anything with this information but i think it is very important information to have

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Amy Alex Parent @amyinorbit.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"You have ten seconds to find Richard, your time starts now"

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 15/09/2026

The TUC, congress of all the UK's trade unions, have voted to condemn the EHRC guidance and backed self-ID. Good luck finding reporting on it, you'll struggle to find it, even as the papers report on plenty of other things the TUC has voted on, and speeches. leftfootforward.org/2026/09/tuc-...

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TUC votes to condemn EHRC code of practice and back self-ID for trans people

Delegates backed a motion branding the EHRC guidance 'discriminatory and unworkable'

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...

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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats

Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...

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Aleen @aleen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

J wrote a great post about Apple Watch's upcoming Live Rewind and Siri Recap capabilities. "The existence of these features helps normalize persistent surveillance at exactly the point in our history when we should be doing the exact opposite."

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👂 Features that Shouldn't Exist: Live Rewind and Siri Recap • VioletPixel

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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"

Screencap from the interview linked in the quoted post

Marlow Stern (the interviewer): You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.

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nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

there are no words I'm allowed to say on this website that adequately describe what I think should happen to the "whistleblowers" who got people fired (and in some cases deported) for exercising their legal right to unionise :)

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.

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Amy Alex Parent @amyinorbit.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Category Is Books is an incredible queer bookshop in Glasgow. They've created such a safe space for queer folks, and now they've been targeted because their front window says "trans liberation". They're running a fundraiser to be able to install roller shutters so this doesn't happen again

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Donate to Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!, organized by Category Is Books

For the past eight years, Category Is Books has been able to comfortably oper… Category Is Books needs your support for Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!

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Alex Booer @alexbooer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Oh no! I love Category Is. Got some great books and stickers from there - would also love to see them meet their goal

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.

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Amy Alex Parent @amyinorbit.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

And listening to the @theincomparable.com Rocky Horror episode the day after made me smile a whole bunch, what a great episode! Like a lot of the episodes, it made me love and appreciate the movie even more 🥰 www.theincomparable.com/thein...

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

No, babe, I NEED the $200 Le Creuset Star Trek shuttlecraft casserole dish for my banana bread.

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Amy Alex Parent @amyinorbit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

(Yes I hadn't seen RHPS until last Friday, I know. Better late than never! It was exceedingly fun being introduced to it by friends who love it so deeply, in a cinema full of queer folks, and now I'm desperately hoping for a shadow cast/singalong showing in Scotland pretty plz with a cherry on top)

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Amy Alex Parent @amyinorbit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Day number 5 of having just about the entire Rocky Horror soundtrack stuck in my head. Isn't ADHD neat? (I'm not complaining cause it's a bunch of bops, but I would also appreciate even a minute of not having my brain scream the two same lines of a song at me)

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie

Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.

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Chuck Jordan @sasquatchers.wtf · 06/09/2026

Bad Vibes Coding Taking a short break from being spitting mad about AI, to just being sad about how it never needed to be like this

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Bad Vibes Coding

Taking a short break from being spitting mad about AI, to just being sad about how it never needed to be like this

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026

"So in summary: using AI for coding led to depression, apathy, existential dread, and worse software. Not good. Add on top of that the negative environmental, community, and economic impacts of AI, and it became extremely apparent to me that something's gotta change." brettcodes.com/im-done-usin...

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I'm done using AI

Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.

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Jordan Hoffman @jhoffman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Logging on

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Amy Alex Parent @amyinorbit.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

There's a trans woman I follow that's been doing skits as Petra Parker on instagram and it's been ✨ delightful ✨

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Amy Alex Parent @amyinorbit.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Congratulations!!! Very very very deserved, what a great book!

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Amy Alex Parent @amyinorbit.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This also goes for referencing HP in pop culture works. I really wish people would stop using the characters as shortcuts in scripts to describe something, or writing jokes about HP that don't acknowledge the massive harm JKR is doing (looking at you, Ted Lasso)

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JP Jordan @jpjordan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

In addition to the calls to not watch the new Potter show, I wanna also add that I know a lot of folks will think that pirating it is fine as it's not financially supporting it, but I wouldn't even do that. Make the show and JKR culturally irrelevant There are so many other things to watch instead

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Amy Alex Parent @amyinorbit.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Find yourself the fanfic authors that write 25k+ word chapters full of beautiful prose once every other month for your fandom. You get great stories, and it's always delightful getting an email along the lines of "here are a lot of gay words for you to enjoy" out of nowhere

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Journalists need to stop describing these incidents in terms implying software has agency and intent. It does not. The people who created a faulty and dangerous product are the ones responsible for whatever happens, and must be held to account, with punitive financial penalties for damage done.

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Robin June @celestialrobin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

If they're a Tory ask them how this fits with the fucking freedom of the individual. There's not even anything in this about age of consent, it's adult provision

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