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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 20h

Yeah, we’ve only been warning about this *forever*. #Cassandra

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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 15h

please help… my son…

photo of a forklift w/ a pallet jack sitting on its forks like it was an adult carrying a child across its arms

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Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And very few make the "young women shouldn't have to have their lives ruined by being raped" argument.

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Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Is your ivy flowering? Please don't cut it back if you can avoid it! At this time of year in the UK, ivy flowers are a brilliant late season pit-stop for hard-pressed pollinators like bees, butterflies, hoverflies and moths 🐝 #gardening #wildlife #nature

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Just 5 Infections Responsible For More Than 2 Million New Cancer Cases Annually" 🦠H. pylori 🦠Human papillomavirus (HPV) 🦠Hepatitis B virus (HBV) 🦠Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) 🦠Hepatitis C virus (HCV)

sciencealert.com

Just 5 Infections Responsible For More Than 2 Million New Cancer Cases Annually

Cancer may seem like an inevitable part of life, but there are so many factors that can help reduce your risk.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The malware is already released. All of it is Malware. LLMs have been malware since the start. Anything that feeds on the collected human knowledge corpus is going to get the worst of us along with the best. The biggest problem is word matching software (e.g. LLM's/"AI") can't tell the difference.

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Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Desired: A more "macho" plane than the B-52. This is about Optics, not about Common Sense. The SR-71A is a cooler looking plane--and how it looks is what they care about. OR they fed "what is the fastest military plane" into an LLM and it suggested the SR-71 without considering, yanno, payload.

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Harry McCracken @harrymccracken.com · 29/09/2026

In case OpenAI wants to make another acquisition.

Cover of Little Dot Dotland comic #46, showing cartoon girl painting polka dots, priced 15 cents, Harvey Comics.

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Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🎶Reach out, touch faith. Your own personal Bots. More things to hear your prayers. More things to "care"... Feeling unknown and you're all alone Flesh elbow by the chat window Type up all those prompts, and soon you will be swamped...🎶

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

So wild to me that the entire economy is propped up by companies who think living your best life is being a middle manager to a collection of bots.

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Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's so funny how they think their word matching programs are "intelligent."

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

I’m not saying you should read this—it’s not very good. However, I just thought this section head in particular deserved widespread ridicule. www.vox.com/politics/504...

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Max Ufberg @maxuf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Over the summer, I visited Ukraine’s hidden offices and testing fields to meet the startups, soldiers, and government engineers making cutting-edge AI weapons at a pace the rest of the world is scrambling to match. Read more @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91611099/ins...

fastcompany.com

Inside Ukraine’s secretive tech world building the future of war

I visited Kyiv’s hidden offices and testing fields to meet the startups, soldiers, and government engineers making cutting-edge weapons at a pace the rest of the world is scrambling to match.

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've talked to a few journal editors who are concerned about similar problems re: anonymous reviewers. If a peer reviewer wants a little help & feeds your unpublished submission into an AI system, they've just shared your proprietary work & broken confidentiality. A nightmare to think about

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 28/09/2026

Why on earth would you give broad executive access to personal, health, and financial accounts to a computer program, much less one that comes from Meta?

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Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This curb paint looked like half of the Rolling Stones logo to me...So I took a picture of it.

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Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Because he hates people and needs more money?

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The idea that people want AI oversight to happen "all of a sudden" ignores years of research, warnings, and policy efforts. The delay hasn’t been a lack of awareness; it’s been because of years of industry lobbying against regulation, political resistance, and inaction.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

An ancient and magical amber bear 🐻 ✨ Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea. National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen 📷 by me #Archaeology

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Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I warned people in May 2026 about Amazon's bigger plans: "Amazon’s CEO, Andy Jassy, said recently that the company intends to continue developing its Prime Air drone delivery program, with the goal of expanding drone delivery to 500 million packages a year worldwide over the next decade."

fastcompany.com

Amazon’s drone ambitions are about to reshape Chicago’s south suburbs

The company aims to normalize airborne package delivery at massive scale. For communities on the ground, there’s still a lack of clear answers about what happens when things go wrong.

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Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🎶 Giant dumps are what they took, Pooping on the Moon. I read it in a Book. Pooping on the moon They could've pooped forever Pooping on the Moon They could have pooped together Pooping on, pooping on the Moon....🎶

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Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

No....they ruled everywhere else. Each generation has war bros. And while the tech may have been more analog, the further back we go, each century still had its "war bros." Maybe we could stop that.

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Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Jeff Bezos' wife Lauren Sanchez wore a $10 million necklace recently. $10 million is approximately 0.0027% of Jeff Bezos's $369.6 billion net worth. Imagine the bargain he thought he got.

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Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🎶 96 bags of poop on the Moon; 96 bags of poop. You bring one back, stuffed in a sack....95 bags of poop on the Moon...🎶 Everybody!!!

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit

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Marian 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @marianl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I bought tomatoes this morning, and got a penny farthing.

Two orange tomatoes joined by a green stem, one tomato large and one small. They look a bit like a penny farthing bike. They sit on a dark wooden board.

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Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It does not shift the agency. The person has still chosen the charm and is wearing it. More likely, it's shifting Zuck's perception of his guilt and civic and ethical and moral responsibility.

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NPR @npr.org · 26/09/2026

Pope Leo XIV has warned that a "paradise of machines" could undermine humanity. He raises concerns about artificial intelligence, nuclear arms, and human rights during his visit to France. n.pr/3ViczvW

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Pope warns a 'paradise of machines' could undermine humanity as he opens France trip

Pope Leo XIV has warned that a "paradise of machines" could undermine humanity. He raises concerns about artificial intelligence, nuclear arms, and human rights during his visit to France.

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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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Screenshot of what appears to be a FB post from a user called freewildstrawberries.

Text reads:

What sucks is that life could be *so* easy, so fucking easy. There is so much stuff rotting in storage units, in garages, nearly half of all food goes to waste, there's enough clothing for the next *6* generations! We don't even need to be working really at all, our ancestors broke down their bodies to build all this shit, the least we could do is slow down to actually utilize and fairly distribute it all. Instead, we all suffer endlessly while 8 men control half the world's wealth. Fuck

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Listen, I just think it's weird that the same people who are saying they're worried that AI is going to wipe out humanity are also eager for military contracts that will give AI control of weapons.

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

SCOOP: Top researchers at Columbia, Stanford, and others thought they were elected to elite scientific societies alongside Nobel laureates. The catch? The organizations are a sham. I spent the last month diving deep into a massive academic scam spanning continents, for @nature.com

nature.com

Exclusive: Sham scientific societies are misleading star researchers

A Nature investigation reveals a network of organizations that have been building their ranks through deceptive practices.

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Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I just watched the launch video. The #Meta Muse handheld digital Labubu thing is going to #Fail META-MUSE-FAIL

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Then, if you’re able, try to get your body moving. You’re going to need your senses and movement is good for your brain. If you have kids in your care, protect their developing brains and their image. That’s all I can say about that.

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Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There is more to Neta's plans than that. You're the testbed. They will sell AI you back to you. And to others.

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