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BREAKING: Meta’s Muse discovered leaving sculptures of human body parts in public locations in order to taunt Daredevil.

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 8h

A sweet little story about a man and his two sisters who are just trying to make it in the big city

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Meghan O'Keefe @megsokay.bsky.social · 8h

Oh, hey, Decider's hiring a new part-time weekend writer! (NB: The hours listed are flexible, but it has to be, ladies and gentlemen, the WEEKEND!) dowjones.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/New_Yo...

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Part-Time Weekend Writer, Decider.com

Job Description: The New York Post delivers the best in News, Sports, Entertainment and Pop Culture with wit, irreverence and authority. Over the past 225 years, The Post has evolved into a multi-plat...

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 8h

Popular? deadline.com/2026/09/spid...

EXCLUSIVE: Will the real Ben Reilly please stand up? Prime Video is closing in on an order for a new series set in Sony Pictures’ Universe of Marvel Characters based on the popular Clone Saga storyline from the Marvel Comics, more specifically the second Clone Saga story arc that focuses on two Spider-Man clones, Ben Reilly and Kaine Parker, sources tell Deadline.

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 9h

I hope it's based on The Mandalorian and grogu

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Comic Book Club @comicbookclub.bsky.social · 9h

Tonight we're live with guests Man of Action talking all things Ben 10! 7pm ET on YouTube: youtube.com/live/LFZLf_o...

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Comic Book Club: Man Of Action

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Gil Hova @gil.hova.net · 10h

Also, "containment" here means a sign saying ALL OGRES MUST STAY RIGHT HERE, partially obscured by a tree

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 15h

There was a whole episode in the last season of Doctor Who about how badly AI sucks and is a tool toxic males use to control women?

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 17h

Have yet to read an article from someone positive about Meta AI that doesn't make them come off like a complete sociopath.

For one final task, I asked Wren for a good way to spend that $44.99 it had saved me. At this point, it knew my life pretty well. I thought it might suggest something altruistic, like donating the money to charity or buying flowers for my girlfriend, who was recovering from surgery.

Instead, it suggested something even better — buying bowls from Heath Ceramics, a local ceramics maker with a dedicated following, on Facebook Marketplace, one of my favorite pastimes.

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 17h

There are a lot of reasons to dislike "video podcasts" but one big one is getting to see the amount everyone is manhandling their microphones in the middle of an audio recording.

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 20h

My company, OgreAI, harvests the teeth of children in order to plant them and grow our army of ogres. Unfortunately, we are increasingly concerned that the ogres may break containment. The only solution is we need more children’s teeth to grow more ogres to prevent that from happening.

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Excited to really delve into the Nightcrawler-Black Widow relationship in Avengers: Doomsday variety.com/2026/film/ne...

“And I saw Florence Pugh yesterday at the Emmys,” he added. “And I said, ‘Gosh, it’s so funny. I’ve never met you, but you lay on top of me, or your body double did.’ And she goes, ‘Yeah I lay on top of you as well, but it was your body double.'”

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Jill Pantozzi @jillpantozzi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Last month, a Google alert directed me to an interview I did with cartoonist Matt Furie—creator of Pepe the Frog…only I haven’t done any interview and I’d never even met Furie. So I clicked. "None of this is true": AI, content farms, and one completely made-up article. bsky.app/profile/then...

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ᴡᴇ ʙᴜɪʟᴛ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴄɪᴛʏ @webuiltthiscity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thank you @garbageday.email for *actually* explaining why nobody you know has heard “Choosin’ Texas,” yet it is paradoxically topping the charts www.garbageday.email/p/why-choosi...

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Why "Choosin' Texas" doesn't feel like a hit

Read to the end for FlubberLover01

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just got a press release about this frankly embarrassing, sub-Angel Studios AI-generated trailer which was given $2.5 million by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Rod Roddenberry, Neal Stephenson, and Mira Lane to become a feature film. This sucks? What is everyone doing? www.youtube.com/watch?v=yivX...

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The Gifted. #FutureVisionXPRIZE

YouTube video by Jeff Synthesized

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Gonna be back on ScreenCrush at 2pm ET chatting about this week's Lanterns! Yeah! Okay! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvsW...

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LANTERNS Episode 7 REACTION and REVIEW

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Lanterns is extremely well acted, excellently directed, and I really wish it spend exponentially less time with characters on screen catching other characters up with the events that we, the viewers, have already seen on screen.

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just watched Backrooms and the most unbelievable part is Mark Duplass waiting until the very end of Neverending Story to make his family popcorn.

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Do not bring “Choosin’ Texas” to a job interview.

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smols/rachel @smolsdarklighter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

highly recommend this list for mass muting bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I simply think that once one outlet has reported on a computer program that can't actually act, it's no longer newsworthy?

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Laura Williams @laurawilliams.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I missed this, so thanks to these folks for spreading the word about the CDC’s updated COVID vaccine guidance. It’s on my weekend to-do list to schedule my vaccinations for COVID and flu. Get your vaccines! October arrives next week! (Yes, I am shocked about this, too.)

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Alicia @heyalicia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I did this a while back but of course they’ve added new ways to use your data without asking so I had to go back in a disable those too If you have more than one account you have to do it on both, even if they’re linked

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you haven’t already turned off Meta’s terrible “use my stuff for whatever!” AI: - Go to your Insta profile - Click the hamburger stack (3 lines) for settings - Scroll to “sharing and reuse” - Toggle Meta AI settings off (I only have Reels, you may also have Posts)

Screenshot of Instagram setting for Reels that is toggled off and says “allow people to create with and reuse your original audio on meta AI

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The New York Times ranks "bringing iced coffee to a job interview" as the number one TV show of the 21st century.

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 25/09/2026

Wait you guys are getting job interviews?

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Turns out the expression “soup to nuts” comes from the real practice started in the Middle Ages that formal dinners need to start with soup and end with nuts?

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Chris Arrant @chrisarrant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today is the last day of Popverse as you and we know it. You can find us here: - @graemem.bsky.social - @ashleyvrobinson.bsky.social - @grantdearmitt.bsky.social - @juleschingreene.bsky.social - @trentlcannon.bsky.social and our always: - @explodingarrow.bsky.social 4 years, 4 months.

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Important to note that the New York Times already put out their list of the Top 100 TV shows of the 21st Century. It's been settled, and if you have different choices, they're obviously wrong and you need to concede defeat.

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The one thing that has really stuck with me, and ironically I don't remember who said it so I can't credit them (please link, this is not my idea): If AI is so great at making art, why are there exactly zero pieces of lasting or even impactful art made by AI since it debuted?

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Odd choice for number one on the NY Times list of Top 100 TV Shows of the 21st Century, particularly since The Single Guy came out in 1995.

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

After swearing off podcasts years earlier, a vapid host is forced to journey across the post-apocalyptic America he’s responsible for destroying, constantly challenged to pop out his microphone one last time in: OLD MAN ROGAN.

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New comics app! I've had a chance to play around with it a bit pre-launch, and really dug it. Slickly produced, easy to use, good selection.

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Google headline and the on-site headline for this same article seem to be ever so slightly at odds with each other? For context, the article is pretty negative about Muse, not at all what the Google hed [generated by AI, possibly?] states, at all.

slate magazine headline mark zuckerberg might have finally made something that's actually useful

headline to the slate article reading I tried to outsource my chores to a robot. it was a total fiasco.

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

[to the tune of “do the bartman”] yes the fart walk

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Odd choice for number one on the NY Times list of Top 100 TV Shows of the 21st Century, particularly since The Single Guy came out in 1995.

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