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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 14h

I really don't think folks who weren't there grasp just how much these generations really were shamed or even prosecuted for stuff that giant companies do all the time now like ffs, websites used to shame people for 𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 images without paying the site that hosted it for their bandwidth!

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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 16h

Re the Sally Rooney news, I was looking up data on arrests under terrorism legislation the other day, and hadn't quite realised how utterly bonkers the effect of the Palestine Action prohibition had been. That big purple spike is basically all PA-related arrests.

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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I will not only be relieved but truly *ecstatic* to be wrong, if more and better studies soon start showing that AI actually improves learning and cognitive motivation. But so far they all show the opposite, and that is consistent with the evidence that I and other educators are seeing on the ground

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Mike (They/Them) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mxmike.co.uk · 11/10/2026

Bethany wore a “Protect The Dolls” t-shirt during rehearsals. The BBC posted it on their socials then quietly deleted and reposted it without showing her from the front. On TV last night they actually blurred the message #Strictly

Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt

Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt that’s been edited to look like a plain white t shirt

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

‘For years the Observer tried to get to the truth of Russian interference until we sacked the reporter involved for participating in union activities’

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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In other words, a 10 percent contraction in one of Britain’s most successful exports. If it were steel or fish or other infinitely less profitable sectors, people would be having a meltdown.

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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WIRED @wired.com · 09/10/2026

More than two dozen workers at three major publishing houses—HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette—tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech. Read the full story: buff.ly/p0ymGmN

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The maddening thing is that the BBC can, uniquely, offer the opposite of AI algorithmic recommendation. We can get that anywhere. It’s not what people want. What’s missing is expert, human, curation. Knowledgable people you trust *telling you* that something’s worth watching. That’s what the BBC has

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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A fascinating editorial decision from the BBC, to make the headline a scaremongering “AUTISM AND ADHD ARE BEING OVERDIAGNOSED”, and then, four bullet points later, have the author of the report quoted as essentially saying “nah, that’s bullshit, actually”.

ADHD and autism at risk of over-diagnosis, says report, as author warns of rise in mental ill health
Summary
• An official review in England finds there is a risk of people being over-diagnosed with
ADHD and autism - three key findings from the report
• As well as neurodevelopmental conditions, the review looks at mental ill health, particularly in younger people. Our health correspondent explains the difference
• It was commissioned earlier this year after Wes Streeting, then the health secretary, said there was an "over-diagnosis" of mental health conditions
• Speaking to Radio 4's Today programme earlier, review chair Prof Peter Fonagy said Streeting was "with respect, completely wrong"

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 08/10/2026

Not sure why anyone bothers with anti-AI activism when the most effective strategy would be to just point as many microphones as possible to its most vocal champions.

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

an XKCD comic showing a precariously assembled tower of blocks. much is labelled "all modern digital infrastructure." a thin leg down at the bottom is labelled "A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003."

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The American white collar workforce started working from home three days a week for like six months a year into COVID and executives so thoroughly lost their minds over this that they installed Trump II. If anything, AI will create the 7-day workweek.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

they did the thing

an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 07/10/2026

So in GitHub we have a workflow where Copilot does PR reviews. I took a peek into Copilot session, and apparently this mf searches the Web, and consults Stack Overflow.

Q Web search 3 times
Web search: "codestar-notifications.amazonaws.com" "alias/aws/sns" >
Web search: Does AWS CodeStar Notifications successfully publish to SNS topics
Web search: "AWS CodeStar Notifications" "encrypted" "SNS" "AWS managed key"
Web search: Stack Overflow 76561284 CodeStar Notifications SNS Topic encrypted default AWS
Q Web search 4 times

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Gyms for our brains," you say?

Don Draper meme showing him presenting with the words "Hear me out...We call it 'The University'."

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Munah @heathenqueen.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

They want slaves.

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Hack the planet."

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dapulli @basetoo.co.uk · 30/09/2026

"That poster needs more exclamation marks."

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 29/09/2026

The death of web development education. “The income from my book sales went from being enough for me to live off (2024) to zero (2026).” [molily.de]

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The death of web development education – Rescuing a field from disappearing

Rescuing a field from disappearing

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just finished re-reading The Player of Games. Such a brilliant book. Surely one of the best genre novels of all time.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The most important thing I learned in my 20s is that being smart doesn't make you special. Eventually you need to learn to try hard and to enjoy learning to do things you're not immediately good at. It turns out that the people who didn't learn this lesson were reading Harry Potter fanfic.

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Susan of Hell @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They want conversation dominated by this bullshit, not the nuts and bolts of its affect on us, the economy, and the environment.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If I found login credentials for a US government website and accessed it, I would go to jail. Just saying

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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David Cooper @davidbcooper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Starting my day making some art.

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 24/09/2026

*extremely tired voice*AI agents don't "go rogue". They are not sentient; they don't have agency. They work within guardrails set by humans. If the humans are so shit at building secure sandboxes for the agents to work within, that's on the humans. Stop using this framing.

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Higher education is good, actually.

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I really hate the framing of these stories as "an AI agent broke out and hacked something." No, an inadequate sandbox meant that a powerful and unpredictable computer program was set loose on the open internet by the company that designed it. The agency isn't with the "AI agent", it's with the firm

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dapulli @basetoo.co.uk · 18/09/2026

AI isn't going to kill us all, humans using AI are going to start the things that other humans will use as an excuse to do so.

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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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dapulli @basetoo.co.uk · 15/09/2026

Isn't there a sci-fi story where a character says something like "they're (billionaires/oligarchs) like a different species, not human anymore" It might be Neuromancer.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/09/2026

There's a short line from this solipsism to billionaires' enthusiasm for AI. When you don't think other people are really *real*, it's easy to believe that they can be swapped out for chatbots.

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 15/09/2026

Tell me again that climate change is a hoax.

Chart showing global annual temperature abnormalities between 1880 and 2024

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This was predictable on their part and I didn’t need an AI to figure it out.

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Marianne O'Doherty @marianneodoherty.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This piece is wrong in so many ways. Only National museums in the UK are subsidised to allow free entry. Most others already have to charge everyone, including small, volunteer run places. This means foreign tourists already pay to go to, say, Salisbury or Devizes museum if they want to see...

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dapulli @basetoo.co.uk · 12/09/2026

264,754 * £3 if every member donates is £794,262 ~1.1% of £72M

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Who Targets Me @whotargets.me · 11/09/2026

This chart does a decent job of showing how Reform has dominated online political advertising in the UK in recent weeks. 75% of all spending, 5x anyone else. One way or another, the story is all about their money.

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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...

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Lilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’

‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.

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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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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 11/09/2026

How it started / How it's going

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Dividing up AI users in 3 categories: Wizard: approaches AI academically & with appropriate guards & wards. Treats it like a tool. Warlock: Makes a pact for power with an alien entity without considering the costs. Is corrupted by the whispers. Cleric: worships their new machine god. Is insane.

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