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pwf @ass.business · 04/10/2026

this is agents, right? not a scrape for training runs, but someone telling claude they want all the pictures on the website or something?

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pwf @ass.business · 03/10/2026

i thought bot accounts had to be labeled as such here

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

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pwf @ass.business · 01/10/2026

this person seems to just be asking for empathy? "hey hope the state builds an oppressive society around you and targets you in such a way that you feel suicidal. Then I hope that someone wrings their hands and complains about being yelled at instead of helping you"

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Unlike his peers on the US Supreme Court, Judge Edelman takes Donald Trump's public statements quite seriously:

Within a day of the filing of the Government’s Motion, President Donald J. Trump began issuing a barrage of statements harshly criticizing the decision of the Office of the United States Attorney to dismiss the case, declaring Mr. Hearn’s guilt, and lambasting Mr. Hearn and one of his attorneys. While the Court has set aside descriptions of the President’s non-public statements and thought processes that appear in
various news articles cited by the defense, the President made a series of public statements regarding this case and the Government’s Motion:
On August 1, 2026 – the morning after the government filed its Motion to
Dismiss the Indictment – President Trump made a post on the social media
platform Truth Social that stated, “I disagree 100% with Jeanine Pirro, the
U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, on the Reflecting Pool. I don’t know what she was thinking?” The President further opined that “it was a pure case of VANDALISM . . . There may have been some contractor difficulty, but the major damage was caused by VANDALS!”

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Canadian, & therefore treacherous @stoneape314.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If these people truly believed in AI sentience, wouldn't they refrain from subjecting them to arbitrary tasks that the programs are unable to give enthusiastic consent to?

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Josh @dumbjosh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I feel very confident that if someone gave me 12.6 billion dollars then I could turn that into 4.6 bullion no problem

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/09/2026

Google Gemini says that @jevinwest.bsky.social and I aren't to be trusted because in our first lecture, we had a playful example where Jevin presented data the same way that Tim Cook did, and I called bullshit on it. It hallucinates criticism and the only citations are to the lecture itself.

1. The "Explosive Growth" Slide ControversyIronically, the most direct and explicit example of this occurred during their very first "Calling Bullshit" lecture at the University of Washington.The Setup: Jevin West presented a slide to the class showing a graph that purported to show the "explosive, hockey-stick growth" of web traffic to their new Calling Bullshit website. The graph utilized standard marketing axes and compressed timeframes to make the project look like an unmitigated, runaway viral sensation.The "Bullshit": Carl Bergstrom actually had to step in and call "bullshit" on his own co-instructor's slide. When the data was displayed honestly without selective axis truncation or creative smoothing, it showed that while traffic was high initially, it heavily ebbed, flowed, and plateaued over time.The Criticism: While some praised this as a playful, planned pedagogical moment to show that "anyone can fall prey to bad data framing," critics viewed it as a perfect illustration of the double standard: when it serves a personal or professional promotional narrative (like proving your own course is a massive success), the temptation to use flawed, hype-driven metrics is incredibly high.

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pwf @ass.business · 28/09/2026

sure, but they run 10,000 sessions at once in the big fuckoff datacenters.

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pwf @ass.business · 27/09/2026

i don't think that person knows what a nanosecond is

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pwf @ass.business · 27/09/2026

hmm... can the publisher know it was false when the "publisher" was a pile of shell scripts taped to an llm?

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Sera @yseraxiv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My boss says he doesn’t read slack anymore. He asks Claude to do it. I feel like plucking my eyes out and piercing my eardrums.

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pwf @ass.business · 25/09/2026

it was doing xss probes, is that not a cfaa violation? it's a bot, it circumvented bot controls, they did an illegal thing

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airplane ian - abolish ICE @airplaneian.com · 25/09/2026

my dad had one of these, was a pretty fun novelty scanning everything around me

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 24/09/2026

Anyway, now that we have two sets of aspiring overlords instead of just the pre-existing fash problem... This is what Eliezer Yudkowsky actually believes (I apologize to the physics-knowers among my followers) Source: sl4.org/archive/0009...

xgl wrote:
>
> On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, gabriel C wrote:
>
> > or maybe not even that complicated.it could easily transmit itself on any
> > number of frequencies, from elf (extremely low frequency, used by subs)
> > to microwave transmission. some freqs reach around the world, like hf (high
> > frequency) and then it is everywhere...
> > there is simply no way to deal with it once it's here. our job is just
> > getting it here.
> >
>
> well, i get the spirit of the message, but the literal
> implications are really pushing it. after all, the confined seed is not
> _literally_ omnipotent; there will still be things it can not do -- and i
> would guess transmitting elf signals while off web and without a hardware
> transmitter would be one of those things.

One of the things you can't rule out - and I mean this seriously - is
"magic". Magic plain and simple. Running a particular sequence of
instructions through the CPU so that a certain transistor turns on and off in
a certain sequence and modulates the quantum cheat codes of the Universe. Or
something. Dealing with a real superintelligence, it can't be ruled out. It
obviously can't be relied on, but it can't be ruled out.

Trying to oppose or even constrain a superintelligence is a fool's game. Get
It Right The First Time.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This really puts stuff like publicly funded third spaces in perspective for me. It's so relatively cheap to build out community centers, gyms, makerspaces, studios etc.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/09/2026

Yes, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed big tech boarding school that takes students as young as 16 is, in fact, advertising Tyler Cowen - he of the "if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances" creep article - as faculty.

tyler cowen being really creepy about AI virgins

@eriktorenberg
Erik Torenberg
a16z
@eriktorenberg
Sep 22
Thrilled to announce our latest incubation: Horowitz Andreessen Academy.

Horowitz Andreessen Academy will be a two-year residential program in San Francisco for 16 to 22 year olds.

My biggest regret from my college experience is how divorced it was from the real world (both practically but also intellectually)

HAA is the opposite. Students will learn from real-world practitioners and intellectuals; including founders (Sam Altman, Brian Armstrong, Jensen Huang), investors (Elad Gil, Daniel Gross), and professors (Agnes Callard, Tyler Cowen), among hundreds of others. The Academy is the educational experience I wish I had.

In 1984, the educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom published a paper about how the average student who received one-on-one tutoring focused on mastery techniques performed better than 98% of the control group. For generations, this was viewed as unrealistic to implement even if it produced the best outcomes.

At the Academy, we will be able to locate any tutor on any topic that a student desires.

Take an aspiring filmmaker or producer. The standard path offers them film theory courses, peer workshops, and the occasional visiting filmmaker; everything past that takes meticulous networking and luck. The very entrepreneurial type will find ways to invite prominent speakers to speak and meticulous networking to reach the right people. At the Academy, they will learn the business from the people who run it and their next creative project will have notes from award-winning filmmakers.

Take a young founder. Yes, there is endless content online; you can watch a video on any skill. But content is not coaching. The Academy will provide dedicated, experienced coaches and mentors who know your company and psychology. Students can workshop issues with prominent leaders in technology who host sessions on campus. Every generation of entrepreneurs has had mentors in their corner. Ours will too.

Take …

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Prime Minister heard on a weekend, 3 months after the fact. OpenAI now admits "our models took actions we did not intend" but says its review found "no evidence of patient records being accessed".

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pwf @ass.business · 23/09/2026

is that hammond? disappointing...

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JacobSkare @jacobskare.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

They just pop up while you’re in VC too. Full on mid roll ads for talking to your friends

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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@discord.com I see now why age verification started rolling out, fuck this and fuck you for doing this

special reward available for fanduel in discord, because what discord needed was ads for predatory online gambling, fuck discord and everyone that works in their company leadership

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

THREAD. Did you know that Minneapolis police deployed 101 personnel to a 7-person vigil held one morning at Renee Good's memorial? The cops generated $1.92 million in overtime cash for themselves.

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 21/09/2026

It's wild to me that "news sites" are now just creating fake "people" -- sometimes with star-studded fraudulent qualifications -- and using them to publish AI slop without ever telling readers that the bylines are bogus futurism.com/space/high-t...

futurism.com

A Highly Trafficked Space News Site Invented a Fake NASA Engineer and Used Her Name to Publish to AI-Generated Slop

A site called Space Daily got acquired by Brown Brothers, which created a fake NASA engineer to byline its articles.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Extra Quake III maps, homebrew games, game updates… Just a few things that were planned for the unreleased Dreamcast Zip Drive. Using slightly modified Iomega Zip Disks, the DC Zip Drive was ultimately cancelled due to disagreements between Sega's marketing and engineering teams.

From an archive of cancelled hardware and unreleased stuff, a photo of a Dreamcast looking slightly ungainly atop a curved cream zip disk.

A photo of an orange zip disk with white label marketed Dreamcast.

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pwf @ass.business · 21/09/2026

re: #3, we already gave over most of the development of most software, and most of society runs on the internet now plus like, people are signing their *kids* up for ai schools lol

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pwf @ass.business · 21/09/2026

peanut butter mixed with straight corn syrup

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter.”

voxium
@vOxium
X.com
I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company.
Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code.
Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow?

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dwarf fortress bugs @dwarffortressbugs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

[0000809] Administrator suggests finding himself

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Reports on the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident now stand as an account of harm through which public institutions should examine OpenAI’s decisions and require further changes where its response is insufficient, writes Data & Society's Ranjit Singh.

buff.ly

Detecting AI Agent Failures Is Not Enough to Govern Them

OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach is an opportunity to examine how AI agents should be governed and what role evaluators should play, writes Ranjit Singh.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026

When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.

Google
Sorry...
We're sorry...

... but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now.
See Google Help for more information.

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pwf @ass.business · 18/09/2026

uhhh uhhhh we send umm gpus into... space, yeah, space. don't worry about it i played a video game where they did this it worked great

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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s actually incredible to me: some of the most remarkable people in the country - simultaneously among the most brave, the most skilled, and the most kind - being violently targeted by losers who’ve had their brains melted. And nobody who’s in a position to do so is standing up for them.

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 17/09/2026

NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News futurism.com/artificial-i...

futurism.com

How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month

Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.

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pwf @ass.business · 17/09/2026

not saying it's impossible, I just don't see how this is inevitable.

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pwf @ass.business · 17/09/2026

lol indeed they already failed to look out for "can pwn artifactory" *after* it fucking pwned artifactory. but i think that's different than outsmarting *humanity* in such a way that we can't just unplug it, even if that means all business stops for a while.

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pwf @ass.business · 17/09/2026

"smarter than" does not mean omniscient. why is it a given that it's possible to perfectly model human behavior and influence us like that? cf. "it takes a computer the size of the universe to model the universe" not that I don't think people will be influenced, but superhuman != godlike

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17/09/2026

Great piece by @xriskology.bsky.social on how the effective altruism cult has helped destroy actual philanthropy - with dangerous and deadly results for many people in need:

realtimetechpocalypse.com

Effective Altruism Is a Dangerous Cult — Here's Why

Understanding the "Scientology of Silicon Valley." (7,700 words)

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 17/09/2026

Well they finally did it. DOGE got rid of my friend Anne, the only remaining person at the web design system for the entire US government. The replacement appears to be AI-generated code with no dedicated human oversight.

nextgov.com

GSA’s web design system head replaced with Treasury AI engineer

The U.S. Web Design System is intended to help the federal government build accessible and mobile-friendly websites.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

AI doom or not, something has shifted with AI recently. The guardrails that kept AI sitting in a chatbox are gone, the models are better, there's more compute. AI agents are everywhere. They are annoying as hell. IMO the situation is going to get much worse www.404media.co/theres-a-100...

404media.co

There’s a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Already Ruining the Internet

“AI agents” now have enough power and permission to be extremely annoying online.

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Disney renaissance movies used to look different. They were planned to be printed on 35 mm film -- that's how they were first released. Modern editions skip that last step in the process. It was a highly developed, overlooked craft, as we explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/disneys-fi...

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pwf @ass.business · 14/09/2026

one novel CVE is a surprise, they plugged the fucker back in though. they changed the password to "wifi1" and called it good

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pwf @ass.business · 14/09/2026

i downloaded it because i couldn't believe they actually just got up there and said it lol i thought surely the lawyers would come asking for it to be taken down, any minute now

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