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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 11/10/2026
In our course and book _Calling Bullshit_, we posit that If something seems too good, or too bad, to be true, it probably is. Now as a college professor I'm pretty confident that overreliance can AI can harm our thinking ability, but just ten minutes of use? Let's dig into this this study a bit.
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026
a car, acting on its own, broke the speed limit a washing machine, acting on its own, shrank a wool jumper a laptop, acting on its own, failed to save a spreadsheet
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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
GET YOUR BESPOKE CROSSWORDS HERE. Do you know someone who'd love a themed crossword puzzle as a birthday or anniversary present? You almost certainly do (in this country you're never more than 10 feet away from a #crossword geek). People seem to like 'em. richarddsmyth.com/custom-cross...
A gorgeous array of marvellous themed crossword puzzles at an irresistible price.
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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière
Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin
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Yours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith @mewefree.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Geese are insane: Example #2,987,304
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Six months ago:
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DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment
WASHINGTON—In an effort to provide some joy to the nation and boost overall well-being, Justice Department officials announced plans Monday to bring back firing squads as a means of entertainment. “Fo...
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FOHF @fohf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Gluten free bread, so you lightly butter both sides before throwing it in the bin and finding something edible instead.
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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Is this an admission that the last few public spending slash and burn programmes didn’t actually work? Or that they didn’t actually find the public slacktor bogeyman they were looking for? Is it too much to hope for that they’ll admit that bad policies cause more waste than scapegoats?
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David @crookedknight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Rarely has this XKCD been more on point
Stick-figure comic of a man in a lab coat standing on a chair, pointing a pistol at a desk that has a tray and a microscope on it.

"When you see a claim that a common drug or vitamin 'kills cancer cells in a petri dish,' keep in mind: So does a handgun."
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 13/02/2026
Yes, the female robot being made to suffer is sadly a repeating pattern, see doi.org/10.31235/osf...
"This figure depicts, in the style of a printed circuit board, a timeline of events (many with related images) that involve Pygmalion displacement in one form or another. On the left [are] fictional instances of women’s and automata’s intertwined identities; from 1901 at the top to today’s film and television series at the bottom. On the right [are] historical individuals or artefacts." (Guest et al., 2023, figure 2)
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 26/09/2026
My top 4 Crow Full Moon shots tonight. P L E N T Y of video to edit someday! 🪶 🐦‍⬛
a crow flies in front of the moon, greyish sky, the crow is flapping their wings downtwo crows fly in front and near the moon, in the middle and the bottom left, a snowy egret is out of focus below the moon, greyish skya crow flies in front of the moon, dark sky, the crow is flapping their wings up but not fully extendeda crow flies in front of the moon, dark purple sky, the crow is in full cruise mode
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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My Glock system went rogue and issued 9mm agents which accessed the internal organs of several victims. Please give me billions of dollars to help me regulate the behavior of the gun whose trigger I keep pulling.
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Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 22/09/2026
He also says blaming landlords for high rents makes no sense because “the market determines the price”. My brother in Christ, YOU ARE THE MARKET. The rent isn't delivered to your house each morning by the Bank of England's weather balloon.
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
19rs ago when Dolly sent me a personal video message just cos a friend sent her a letter telling her about our annual HIV/AIDS fundraiser, The Alternative Miss Ireland, and how much I loved her And far away in Tennessee she sat down and shot an adorable engaged video for this nobody just to be nice
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Panti and Dolly Parton, AMI XIII, March 11, 2007
YouTube video by AlternativeMissIRL
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I don't know who needs a real pickmeup today, but in recent court filings about the wealth owned by Andrew Tate, they indicate the Bugattis and Aston Martin he always bragged about owning... were rented. All of them.
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The Economist @economist.com · 21/08/2026
Yields on long-dated bonds are unlikely to fall much soon. Unlike equity investors, bond traders appear to be reading the news
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Why bond markets are unnerving rich-world politicians
As stocks rise ever higher, yields have been climbing ominously
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 14/10/2023
🌓🌎🌞 <-- lunar eclipse 
🌎🌓🌞 <-- solar eclipse 
🌎🌞🌗 <-- apocalypse
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Sarah Brand @drsarahbrand.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 01/08/2026
www.uefa.com/news-media/n...
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Scientists had warned us. Climate change doesn't just hurt nature, it also hurts capital. You can continue to deny it or ignore acting on it, only if you can afford to pay for the growing damages. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Heat Pushes Rhine Toward 36-Year Low in Risk to Energy Supplies
The Rhine River’s water levels risk dropping to an unprecedented low as heat waves grip Europe, creating a bottleneck for the delivery of coal and fuels inland while raising shipping costs.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/07/2026
Why would any business in their right mind be paying a big four consultant for anything right now? You can save hundreds of thousands of $$ and just prompt Claude yourself. www.ft.com/content/7e14...
PwC published ‘thought leadership’ reports marred by AI hallucinations
Big Four consultant is latest firm found to have produced slapdash work while marketing expertise on the technology
The PwC logo in black letters with a colorful geometric design is displayed at a
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Aine @awnya.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The consumer protection angle is a new nuance in the argument. thecurrency.news/articles/234...
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Unbroken bond? Reckoning time for Ireland’s role in Israeli war economy - The Currency
On a rolling basis over the past year, a replica of the famous Crann an Óir bronze sculpture fronting the former Central Bank headquarters on Dame Street has graced protests against the regulator.  On...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
It’s hard to tell art from reality these days.
A group of people enjoys a sunny, vintage-style family picnic on a grassy lakeshore, complete with red-and-white checkered blankets, a basket, children playing, and a woman serving a cake decorated with an atomic symbol, largely unbothered as a massive, fiery mushroom cloud rises menacingly over the water in the background.Beachgoers relax casually on a sandy shore, with a shirtless man sitting in the foreground and a group of women lounging on towels, appearing unfazed while an enormous, dramatic wildfire billows thick smoke and orange flames high into the sky across the water in the background.
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Colm Meaney Colm Friendly
Colm Meaney in The Damned United doing some shouting and finger-waving Colm Meaney wearing glasses and in a suit and tie, probably at a film premiere of some kind, grinning and waving
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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Why Aren’t There More Imax 70mm Screens for ‘The Odyssey’? variety.com/2026/film/ne...
Sources at Imax confirmed to Varietythat many of the parts needed to build these specialized film projectors "simply no longer exist." The original design files were created roughly half a century ago, but as Gelfond alludes to, they were never properly maintained. As a result, Imax no longer has a complete manufacturing blueprint — and much like the lost tribal knowledge of the Apollo-era spacecraft, very few engineers working today fully understand the systems.
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Imbibe Coffee Roasters @imbibecoffee.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
If you don't drink coffee, it'd be great if you could tell people about how we're run. If a large business ran this way, they could make a real difference. Everyone does well under this model. It works and it's sustainable. If you need coffee, we're very good at what we do imbibe.ie/pages/shop
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We are an Irish Coffee Roasting Business. We give away 4% of all we earn before we make a cent. We roast coffee very well.
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Jamie Rohu @jamierohu.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Absolutely shocking story here 👇 House martins, an amber-listed migratory species, are routinely targeted and vilified for doing what comes naturally to them - making a home to rear their young. What the estate agent done is illegal. Well done NPWS 👏 www.leinsterexpress.ie/news/crime-c...
leinsterexpress.ie
Man and woman in court after 57 nests ‘blasted’ off Laois house
The woman who works for an estate agent directed the man to clean the house
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Cute and silly flag trivia by @civixplorer. Country flags with the highest percentage of each color.
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Tim Mak @timkmak.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Here’s what The Counteroffensive is reading today: Polish fighter jets, aided by Swedish jets, intercepted 2 Russian aircraft over the Baltic Sea. This week, Lithuania’s president warned that Russia plans to attack infrastructure in Poland and the Baltics.
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Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz (@KosiniakKamysz) on X
Rosjanie znowu testują możliwości naszych systemów OP. Para dyżurna polskich myśliwców z Malborka dokonała przechwycenia dwóch rosyjskich Su-30 nad Bałtykiem. Po zakończeniu tej operacji nasze załogi ...
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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 14/07/2026
I must not close my tabs. Closing tabs is the mind-killer. Closing tabs is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my open tabs. I will permit them to pass over me and through me. And when they have gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see their path.
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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Well, apparently hare coursing.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Although this one is hilarious for the ending alone
4x s/s of Twitter exchange 

"Internet Expert": 
Another question is why is it that "the most deadly nerve agent ever known" not kill an overweight man in his 60s, indeed it didn't even make him ill for hours after coming into contact.
I don't know what happened in Salisbury, but what we were told was grade A bullshit
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Dan Kaszeta (Chemical, Biological, Radiological + Nuclear expert):
Nerve agents absorbed through the skin take many hours to reach lethal effect.
The Skripals got medical treatment in time to save them. Nerve agent poisoning is a medically treatable condition. A drug called atropine saved them.Internet Expert: 
Complete and utter tripe, do some research.
You believe what you want to believeDan Kaszeta: Do some research, you say? I did. Lots of it. For this book. On nerve agents. Note the author.
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TOXIC - A HISTORY OF NERVE AGENTS, FROM NAZI GERMANY TO PUTIN'S RUSSIA
DAN KASZETA]Internet Expert:
You didn't answer my question
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Dan Kaszeta:
You didn't read my book. Go do that first
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Internet Expert: No interest at all and I am going to end this conversation right now, I didn't realize who I was talking to
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Well they are experts in it
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Dublin Fire Brigade @dubfirebrigade.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Have you tested your smoke alarm lately? We recommend testing them once a week and you should have one installed per floor of your home.
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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 06/07/2026
Every lifelong football fan I've ever met is like "I think players are supposed to serve their suspension" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states handballs are mandatory."
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𝙱𝚊𝚋𝚎 𝚁𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜 @unfitz.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The Reflecting Pool fiasco was foretold by the Greek myth of Narcissus, which features vanity, self-deception, a reflecting pool and probably some algae.
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Ben McKenzie @benmckenzie.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
PRE-ORDER to STREAM my movie about how crypto is dumb and bad NOW @: everyoneislying.com
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
WELCOME TO SCHISM WATCH 2026 WITH CLAIRE
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.
A chart showing an immediate spike after the headline hit the front page of Wall Street Bets.
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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Come with me and you'll be / in a world of abject exploitation
Netflix Recreates Gene Wilder’s Voice Using AI As Streamer Sets Premiere Date For Willy Wonka Reality Series ‘The Golden Ticket’
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Asking this guy for Club Soda and Cranberry 😂
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Martha Fanning @marthafanning.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The jack-up barge; it’s the talk of the town
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Count Melancholia @lillyh.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I just discovered there are BLUE BEES 😮
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Dermot Lynott @dermotlynott.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
“And the Lord looked down on the people of earth and did proclaim “Stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself”. But the people of earth, they did not listen, and they did not stop hitting themselves.“
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Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 22/06/2026
"If we don't adopt AI, we'll get left behind! China is adopting AI on a wide scale, we can't afford to lose out." New research done on Chinese students using AI found that in the short term, scores go up, then long term, students do on average 20% worse on exams.
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.
SO FOR THE FUTURE (LITERALLY) WE'RE NOT ACCEPTING AI POSTERS OR FLYERS FOR THE PUB.

We're right next to Ireland's biggest Art College, lads. It's not a good look.

WE UNDERSTAND BANDS CAN BE SKINT BUT RELYING ON SOME EARTH KILLING APP FROM SOME PAEDO ISLAND BILLIONAIRE IS NOT THE WAY. WE GOT BY WITHOUT IT AND WE'LL GET BY AGAIN.

IF YOU'RE STUCK WE'LL HELP. (YES IT HAS BEEN USED HERE BEFORE BUT CONSIDER THIS THE START OF THE END OF IT.)

THANKS, HUMANS.
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