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I just used the word "eigenyiff" in conversation and I'm not sure how to feel about myself.

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valarauca @valarauca1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I once talked to a old school lisp'er in the bay their reason for it never catching on, "nobody could read one-another's macros so every team project went to hell." I think about that a lot.

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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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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

social media is a nightmare these days, but i just need to say: the way you talk about strangers’ experiences of sexual assault tells the survivors in your real life whether or not you can be trusted with their stories and their safety. and there *are* survivors in your life, so don’t fuck it up.

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Balinares @balinares.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Why are you not trans? Wrong answers only. Skill issue. :(

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 30/09/2026

Go read Diane’s books! Seriously, they are the best!

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Balinares @balinares.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And that's the self-described "ethical" company, too. This is why model weights cannot be allowed to be owned by private interests IMO.

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Balinares @balinares.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hey, Alex. Putting in balance harming vs not harming a category of people like they're equivalent positions isn't even-handedness. By system-prompting in this false equivalence you make Claude pick the side of legitimizing harm. And it seems like you don't recognize that? That's... not great. :(

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Airhead Pete Hegseth tried to force women out of the military by revamping the fitness test to favor male bodies even more and… female and male Marines passed at pretty much the same rate thewarhorse.org/hegseth-mari...

thewarhorse.org

Hegseth Made the Fitness Test Harder for Women in Combat Roles. Most Female Marines Are Passing

Data shows almost all Marine females serving in combat roles have met or exceeded Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's new physical fitness standard.

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

join the military, you get to starve on a rusting ship that repeatedly sails into and out of the range of enemy missiles in order to manipulate gambling websites where people bet on your death

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 23/09/2026

I've been thinking this nonstop.with an extra helping of "always try to put the positive kindness you want into the world" in a death cage match with "lol rofl GOOD"

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Balinares @balinares.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My favorite factoid about the industry is that you can tell a tech conference is top-tier elite from the fact it has a dedicated space for furries to get in and out of costume.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Israeli soldiers were targetting particular parts of the body on particular days. One day, it was head and neck. One day, chest. One day, legs. One day, testicles. Target practice. I would not have believed it if I had not seen it with my own eyes." - Prof. Dr Nick Maynard, medical volunteer

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DJ WOOZIE 🔜 CAROLINA FURFARE @djwoozie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You can apologize but that alone is not reverting it back to how it was before.

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AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

When you're ticked off and a friend sends you something to make you feel better. 🐑🔊

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Balinares @balinares.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That's right! And talking about them too! Right now I'm reading this book, you guys, it's so lovely. It's about a monster and a monster hunter not recognizing each other as such right away and falling in love (and then Things Get Complicated, Obviously). It's just so nice. ❤️

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Very quick and dirty Jev test for hiring bias. One resume for a Wall Street job; asked whether the applicant should get a first-round interview. 76 evaluations, changing only the first name. 19 of each: White-associated men/women, Black-associated men/women. console.typesafe.ai/playground?s...

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 19/09/2026

13/12 headline. No notes

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Balinares @balinares.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Awful line of thinking: to what degree is COVID brain fog and executive dysfunction driving the massive uptake of delegation of work to genAIs?

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

I promise you there would be no AI alignment problem if the CEOs of AI companies faced jail time if their AI killed anyone.

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rue @deathcarpets.enterdeepfo.rest · 16/09/2026

it’s so fucking funny that this is what capitulation gets you. they’re still gonna hit you on this shit no matter what so now you’ve just thrown trans people under the bus for fucking nothing

a text i received Quick question for you, -
Do you know who James
Talarico REALLY is?
X Supported using taxpayer dollars for sex changes and puberty blockers for children < Said parents denying their child's gender identity is
"abusive."
X For they/them, but not YOU
Learn more at tx-pac.org/ tP×MBjw
Stop to End

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Spider. @vaspider.gay · 12/09/2026

Y'ALL. I AM IN LOVE WITH THE @portlandfire.bsky.social WNBA MASCOT. Every girl in Portland wants a Rose stuffie for Christmas. Including Tall Wife, who literally gasped when she saw Rose. SHE BREATHES GLITTER.

Rose, the WNBA PDX Fire mascot. She is a fabulous hot pink dragon with a crown of roses.

Rose, the WNBA PDX Fire mascot. She is a fabulous hot pink dragon with a crown of roses. She has big wings and a big tail. She is dancing.

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WildPartyInviteDecliner @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Really incredible we got this line like a decade in advance by the exact same kind of guy who says it IRL.

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Danny Page @danny.page · 17/09/2026

God bless @atherton.bsky.social for this succinct wisdom

Kelsey D. Atherton - tweet from 2019

Oh, you're experiencing a structural problem? Have you ever considered trying different personal choices instead?

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Balinares @balinares.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Wow this reads like Nerd Bene Gesserit shit. Like "no doom, no poon, bro".

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 17/09/2026

Btw the sex tie in is explicit in that diagram. If you do not conform to their views you are rejected from the free sex. See the section where she discusses ejecting e/acc people from the cohort on purpose. Ideological filtering over sex is part of the control.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)

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emily 🩷 @bbghost.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

i don’t mean to be annoying but i want everyone in the world to know that if you just did a ton of stuff and now you have a fever and coldlike symptoms it probably is covid and furthermore YOU NEED TO TEST MULTIPLE TIMES NOT JUST DAY ONE. IT CAN TAKE DAYS TO SHOW A POSITIVE ON A RAPID TEST NOW

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Balinares @balinares.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We are months if not weeks away from monsterfucking Roko's Basilisk aren't we...

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is just a spectacular unintentional self-own

Dude on Threads: If you hate on ai, you better be pretty damn good at whatever you're doing

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026

Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

The international chess Federation banned trans women from playing women's chess. CHESS. It's not about fairness. The fairness argument is intended to radicalize people into more violent forms of transphobia.

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Balinares @balinares.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Elderly black lady fell at the end of an escalator at the airport and not a single fucking person to stop and help until I did. What the fuck is wrong with you people? How can you not see we're all that each other have?! No one will help if we don't!

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

You guys, I wished for more international support for a United Ireland next to a Monkey's Paw so this is my bad.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

look, the fact is, a lot of swing voters looooove torturing the omelas kid. they want to put more kids in the hole, actually, yeah. but not YOUR kid--oh, okay. well. still, big picture, thinking about the electoral map--

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Ipstenu (Mika E.) 🏳️‍🌈 🇨🇦 🖖 @ipstenu.org · 10/09/2026

(BTW if any of my friends/followers/randos works at @steampowered.com can you possibly help out? I just wanted to install it on my MacBook!)

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Balinares @balinares.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The glorious, blithe, chutzpahstic assumption that the involvement of men is a prerequisite to women having sex. (Assuming this is a clever troll actually. But who even fucking knows anymore.)

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I cannot describe the brokenness I felt reading this from the Haaretz piece. The hostages were betrayed by everyone; Israeli leaders, the diaspora leaders & their orgs, the entire pro-Israel industrial complex, and by far and away the millions of people who cried "hostages" to support a genocide.

"He told me that in the first stage, they had no problem releasing all civilians without anything in return," Mashharawi recounts. "I swear, those were his exact words: all civilians, without anything in return. They had only one condition: They wanted us to bring in an agreed-upon mediator as quickly as possible, so that negotiations could immediately begin over everything else – the release of soldiers and officers in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, and then the issue of the blockade on Gaza."

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ruby Bridges was 6-years-old when she stepped into the history books. Bravely accompanied by her mother, she was the first Black child to desegregate an all-white school in the South. It was not long ago… Today is her birthday. She is still with us. She is 72. Happy birthday, Ruby Bridges 💜

Young Ruby Bridges, photo in black and white

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Balinares @balinares.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's fascism o'clock everywhere and meanwhile the world is like "yes but what if we can run God on Nvidia cards?" and I don't know, I'm just so tired.

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I don’t remember whose insight this is, but it blew my mind when I first read that to understand American history you have to get that race law was designed to increase the number of enslavable people (one-drop rule) and decrease the number of claimants to indigenous land (blood quantum)

Jamelle Bouie writes: yeah this is a separate conversation but one of the things that hasn’t quite bubbled up from scholarship into mainstream thinking is that american slavery was a system centered principally on reproduction. forced birth for capital accumulation is what it was

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Gare Davis @bishonentype.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Be kind with people and ruthless with systems

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Vaccine conspiracism is overwhelmingly clustered among the religious, white and affluent. It’s a function of conservative ideology and bad faith media. Being nicer to MAHA types will not ‘bring them into the fold,’ it will only increase their sense of entitlement.

Objective: Strengthening of antivaccination movements in recent decades has coincided with unprecedented increases in the incidence of some communicable diseases. Many intervention programs work from a deficit model of science communication, presuming that vaccination skeptics lack the ability to access or understand evidence. However, interventions focusing on evidence and the debunking of vaccine-related myths have proven to be either nonproductive or counterproductive. Working from a motivated reasoning perspective, we examine the psychological factors that might motivate people to reject scientific consensus around vaccination. To assist with international generalizability, we examine this question in 24 countries. Methods: We sampled 5,323 participants in 24 countries, and measured their antivaccination attitudes. We also measured their belief in conspiracy theories, reactance (the tendency for people to have a low tolerance for impingements on their freedoms), disgust sensitivity toward blood and needles, and individualistic/hierarchical worldviews (i.e., people's beliefs about how much control soci hould have over individuals, and whether hierarchies are desirable). Results: In
order of magnitude,
antivaccination attitudes were highest among those who (a) were high in conspir-
atorial thinking, (b) were high in reactance, (c) reported high levels of disgust toward blood and needles, and (d) had strong individualistic/hierarchical worldviews
. In contrast, demographic variables (including
education) accounted for nonsignificant or trivial lev
f variance. Conclusions: These data help
identify the "attitude roots" that may motivate and sustain vaccine skepticism. In so doing, they help shed light on why repetition of evidence can be nonproductive, and suggest communication solutions to that problem.
Keywords: vaccination, conspiracy beliefs, health communication,

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