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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 14h

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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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

Every three weeks it’s like but white supremacists who mostly care about testosterone and killing minorities were supposed to fix the economy

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merritt @merrittk.com · 26/09/2026

"star wars is still a profitable corporate-owned intellectual property for children"

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026

started listening to the audiobook of The Making of the Atomic Bomb by richard rhodes on my walks and came across the Death Machine passage this morning. still hits like a hammer 15 years after I first read it. my GOAT will never be washed

“The machine gun mechanized war. Artillery and gas mechanized war. They were the hardware of the war, the tools. But they were only proximately the mechanism of the slaughter. The ultimate mechanism was a method of organization—anachronistically speaking, a software package.376 “The basic lever,” the writer Gil Elliot comments, “was the conscription law, which made vast numbers of men available for military service.377 The civil machinery which ensured the carrying out of this law, and the military organization which turned numbers of men into battalions and divisions, were each founded on a bureaucracy. The production of resources, in particular guns and ammunition, was a matter for civil organization. The movement of men and resources to the front, and the trench system of defence, were military concerns.” Each interlocking system was logical in itself and each system could be rationalized by those who worked it and moved through it. Thus, Elliot demonstrates, “It is reasonable to obey the law, it is good to organize well, it is ingenious to devise guns of high technical capacity, it is sensible to shelter human beings against massive firepower by putting them in protective trenches.”

“What was the purpose of this complex organization? Officially it was supposed to save civilization, protect the rights of small democracies, demonstrate the superiority of Teutonic culture, beat the dirty Hun, beat the arrogant British, what have you. But the men caught in the middle came to glimpse a darker truth. “The War had become undisguisedly mechanical and inhuman,” Siegfried Sassoon allows a fictional infantry officer to see. “What in earlier days had been drafts of volunteers were now droves of victims.”378 Men on every front independently discovered their victimization. Awareness intensified as the war dragged”

“on. In Russia it exploded in revolution. In Germany it motivated desertions and surrenders. Among the French it led to mutinies in the front lines. Among the British it fostered malingering.Whatever its ostensible purpose, the end result of the complex organization that was the efficient software of the Great War was the manufacture of corpses. This essentially industrial operation was fantasized by the generals as a “strategy of attrition.” The British tried to kill Germans, the Germans tried to kill British and French and so on, a “strategy” so familiar by now that it almost sounds normal. It was not normal in Europe before 1914 and no one in authority expected it to evolve, despite the pioneering lessons of the American Civil War. Once the trenches were in place, the long grave already dug (John Masefield’s bitterly ironic phrase), then the war stalemated and death-making overwhelmed any rational response.379 “The war machine,” concludes Elliot, “rooted in law, organization, production,”

“movement, science, technical ingenuity, with its product of six thousand deaths a day over a period of 1,500 days, was the permanent and realistic factor, impervious to fantasy, only slightly altered by human variation.”380No human institution, Elliot stresses, was sufficiently strong to resist the death machine.381 A new mechanism, the tank, ended the stalemate. An old mechanism, the blockade, choked off the German supply of food and matériel. The increasing rebelliousness of the foot soldiers threatened the security of the bureaucrats. Or the death machine worked too well, as against France, and began to run out of raw material. The Yanks came over with their sleeves rolled up, an untrenched continent behind them where the trees were not hung with entrails. The war putrified to a close.But the death machine had only sampled a vast new source of raw material: the civilians behind the lines. It had not yet evolved equipment efficient to process them, only big guns

and clumsy biplane bombers. It had not yet evolved the necessary rationale that old people and women and children are combatants equally with armed and uniformed young men. That is why, despite its sickening squalor and brutality, the Great War looks so innocent to modern eyes.

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nonspecifically red @unfixable.place · 27/09/2026

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just gonna say in 24 hours I have not seen a single apology at any level by anyone who used the article as an excuse to bash Covid cautious people or queer people as a whole. I have not seen a word from people who gleefully referred to disabled people as “wreckers”. Not one single oops.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Dorothy @catandgirl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wheels within wheels.

' I need wheels,' Cat says. 'Well you can't get a job here at the wheels factory' Girl replies. 'I don't need a job.' 'Unless you already know how to make wheels,' Girl says. 'I need wheels.' 'You can't learn to make wheels,' she continues. 'Because -' 'Unless you get a wheels degree. '- when it no longer had to compete - ' says Cat straining. 'And you can't afford a wheels degree.' ' - with Communism' says Cat, pulling at a handle with both hands. 'Unless your family can pay for your wheels degree' '- in the global marketplace of ideas -' says Cat, wiping his brow. 'But it costs more than they make,' says Girl. '- the wheels fell off Capitalism' Cat finishes. 'Down at the wheels factory', says Girl. 'So I just need some wheels' says Cat, dragging a wheel-less wheeled suitcase. 'Oh,' says Girl. 'We don't make wheels any more.'

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

racists are really fucking stupid, you have to be stupid to be racist and one reason you dont elect racists is because that stupidity will show up in other areas for example, they will start wars with iran and kick people off healthcare for never filing claims. stupid shit like that

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 22/09/2026

the thing about the pokemon scalper discord posts is they are very funny but they’re not unique. that is how the vast majority of investors, landlords, business owners think. obviously you can find exceptions but that is simply your brain on capitalism

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Conservatives desperately want cultural supremacy and yet they are incapable of producing art. I don't even mean great or good art, I mean "works that are arguably artistic." Every cultural artifact they produce in any medium is instantly recognizable as vapid, disposable, and unworthy of attention.

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g0m @g0m.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

comic: keys

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's vastly more comforting to believe in an imminent robot apocalypse than the truth: the things that will destroy us are extensions of the unsexy but obvious problems all around us. We are not doomed in one grand way, but a thousand petty small ways.

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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 16/09/2026

HaJ3FgupAm8RrDJW3MHgT9X7Ft27eVaD What is that? That's a hard-coded API token that Flock cameras use to identify themselves and get OAuth credentials, which can then be used to talk to Flock's production servers. Like, anyone on the internet can probably do this right now.

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Just Another Apocryphal Mess @apocryphalmess.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

consider: 1) Elon likely has dozens of children by dozens of mothers 2) He likely does not have a will, because he thinks that he will find a way to live forever 2a) He is wrong about this Upon his passing, a measurable chuck of the world’s wealth is going to vanish into the courts for many years

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The thing about trying not to pick a side is that the nazis *instantly recognize* which side you picked. They immediately identify you as an ally. They know exactly what side you're on. It doesn't fool the victims, it doesn't fool the Nazis, the only people it could possibly fool is centrists.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Very Silicon Valley to create a doomsday orgy cult with murderous offshoots and somehow still manage to be boring and cringe about it

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Hell no to revisionist sentimentality about 9/11 bringing Americans closer together. Living through that time sucked and we've never escaped the ugly aftermath.

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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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Staub @yepstaub.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

what a curious day to put these on sale

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onion person @junlper.beer · 09/09/2026

never forget except for donald trump, he can forget

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Leger-Felicite Snorlax🇵🇸 @segatape.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

going to prison for running a scam seems kind of quaint now

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Dorothy @catandgirl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Cat and Girl Versus the Warping Effect of Any Medium Assumed to Be a Description of Reality.

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ceej @ceej.online · 02/09/2026

we’re gonna pin every single one of these motherfuckers to this rancid shit. adopting a generational bigotry for no other reason than naked self-ambition deserves a permanent seat in the dunk tank. eat shit

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Just Another Apocryphal Mess @apocryphalmess.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

thirty years ago this last July, my father died from a minor injury because he was between jobs, without healthcare, and couldn't afford to stay in the hospital overnight

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 01/09/2026

i don't think i should be required to work hard and do a good job when everyone with power over my life barely works and does a bad job

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Storyboards by Shinji Kimura for Tekkonkinkreet (2006), dir. Michael Arias, Studio 4°C

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Large portions of the data center backlash are based on moral panic, but the the tech right VC types upset by it are very funny considering how gleeful they were about the demise of ‘legacy’ media. What’s that? You’re missing epistemic gatekeepers who would place complex facts in context? Tough shit

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Just Another Apocryphal Mess @apocryphalmess.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

very tired of discovering a new piece of software that looks very useful, and then finding that the commit history is full of "Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus" it's like investigating a car that *looks* like it's in perfect shape, but it turns out that the rusted-out frame is held together by zip ties

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

If you're a true fascist you think the job of the strongman is just to eliminate 1) the supposed internal saboteurs and then 2) eliminate/enslave the rest of the Others. You believe once that happens "nature" will reassert itself and everything will magically be fixed.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Ok I missed this particular piece of evolution in use of "clank*r" so yeah holy shit that's obviously a slur and I am deleting my other threads, that is very obviously fucking vile. And I will invoke Snyder's rule of the internet: once Nazis ruin something, you can't unruin it

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Cannonball Adderall @echoloop.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Orangey Snicket
@wooble.geoffreyspear.com
About 80% of the people who think trans women shouldn't be allowed to play sports also believe that cis women shouldn't be allowed to play sports.
7:07 AM • Aug 21, 2026

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lottie "frog k" lovely ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

choose your vibes based ontology... or else!!!

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Stalin photoshop meme but this time Josef disappears and the flunkie stays

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Just Another Apocryphal Mess @apocryphalmess.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

the nazi CSAM site doesn't want you looking at it unless you login first, so they can algorithmically show you more nazi shit cybernews.com/tech/musks-x...

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Kwasi B. @nonstndrd.com · 24/08/2026

I wonder if everyone waiting for all this to collapse realizes it’s been happening for at least 2 years.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

we literally stand on the shoulders of giants. towering figures who have exited the world. fierce intellects who believed things like "you can ban or regulate dangerous stuff" and "societies can rein in excesses," and "peace is generally preferable to war and chaos." may as well have been aliens

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Distributed Denial of Secrets @ddosecrets.org · 21/08/2026

Censored Amnesty International UK report (345.47 KB) A report by Amnesty International UK, documenting the threat posed by the anti-rights movement composed, which was censored after J.K. Rowling made legal threats. ddosecrets.org/article/cens... Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets

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Censored Amnesty International UK report - Distributed Denial of Secrets

A complete version of a censored report produced by Amnesty International UK, documenting the threat posed by the anti-rights movement composed of TERFs. The report sharply criticized organizational e...

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Dorothy @catandgirl.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The Inventor.

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'I've invented a machine,' says Cat, 'the makes content - so you don't have to. And watches content - so you don't have to. I call it - THE ECONOMY!' Girl ponders. 'What do I do with all my free time?' she asks. 'Work in the coal mines,' says Cat.

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ceej @ceej.online · 20/08/2026

they put up a dada center just outside of town and life has been unbearable ever since. thing looks like a fucking fish

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Tom Bloom @orbitaldropkick.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

in addition, Maleghast is now free for the next 3 days: tombloom.itch.io/magnagothica...

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MAGNAGOTHICA: MALEGHAST by Tom Bloom

NECROMANCER TACTICS

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Just Another Apocryphal Mess @apocryphalmess.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

an adaptation of the entire Earthsea cycle, all six books plus the extra stories, with a primarily BIPOC cast, as little CGI as we can get away with, and visual language based on the Vess illustrations from the 2018 complete edition. the aging of the cast will be part of the production timeline

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

the reason republican run government is a disaster is because you have to be a dumb asshole to be a republican, you have to be willing to reject any semblance of reality on damn near every issue if you are going to get enough attention on the right to get elected

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Just Another Apocryphal Mess @apocryphalmess.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

with the mishandling of evidence, the absurd "manifesto", all the signs of a frame-up, all I can think is "whose life did they threaten to make Luigi change his plea" which is not a healthy line of thinking in the best of times, and even less so now i hate what this world has done to me

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 11/08/2026

every day, every hour, brings us images that are totally beyond the powers of parody

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Horrorcore Kool Moe Dee Simpson @luarvik.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

the words "Koyaanisqatsi: Free with ads" are really doing something in my head. nothing particularly good, I think. but it's happening

youtube thumbnail for Koyaanisqatsi with a "free with ads" label under it

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Dorothy @catandgirl.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Blind box.

What do we seek' asks Girl. 'Food.' '-but novelty,' she says. 'And shelter.' 'The mild surprise, the new thing, unboxed. 'Which are getting kind of pricey' says Cat. 'What does the blind box reveal - ' 'Its contents?' asks Cat. ' - but a need to channel the ambient instability of our age into a controllable, consumable toy version of itself.' 'I tried unboxing once' says Cat. 'So why not both.' 'But I couldn't get the gloves to fit.' 'Why not BLIND BOXES but for FOOD?' 'Beans!' says Cat, peering into an unmarked can. He opens a second can. 'Beans?' A third can. 'Beans. What's the surprise?' 'Botulism!' Says Girl. 'Twenty percent of the world's wealth I owned by one percent of its population.'

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Christopher Buecheler @cwbuecheler.com · 06/08/2026

I would like to see more companies admit this - being a public company no longer means running a successful, thriving business. It strictly means delivering growth to investors, every single quarter, who do not care at all about the product the company sells or the people who produce it.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

i'll believe the right's claims about intellectual diversity when they start approving dissertations on the machinations of the evil scientist Yakub and not a moment sooner

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

if you're reading all these articles as they come out and assuming the story is "these models are escaping containment and causing danger" and not "this is a PR campaign by companies desperate to build hype" I think you are very silly.

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