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Bearded Pip @beardedpip.myatproto.social · 9h

Which Spice Girl would pilot which of Voltron's Lion's?

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

lmao sometimes feels like tech people are in kindergarten tier English class!!!! We are currently paying *crazy money* for these people to realise something humanities grads understand and can wield expertly for less than the price of this bad software

resonated with me. As someone still experimenting and learning with Al filmmaking, I'm finding that generating something visually impressive is becoming easier, but creating something that actually makes people feel something is the real challenge.

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Bearded Pip @beardedpip.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026

To Emma Frost: Damn girl…you know. And you haven’t killed me yet so…

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The reason they want more people to adopt chatbots is because that could theoretically create a new revenue stream by eliminating the need for marketing or advertising and just taking cash from brands/parties/etc to change what the chatbot tells the user.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/10/2026

most vindicated little kid opinion is that construction vehicles rule just drove past a backhoe and went hell yeah

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Bearded Pip @beardedpip.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026

It’s my birthday a d I only want 1 thing.

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Bearded Pip @beardedpip.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026

I’d take Window’s 8 remastered at this point. Anything but 11.

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Snitty 🎃 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Gonna be really, really honest here tonight: the men should take a beat and sit out the Cornell conversation for a couple of days. Yes, even the good guys. Because I'm seeing well-meaning but terrible takes about it.

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 30/09/2026

I think this is where the "internet" gets it wrong... It's not enough to talk about what you don't like find what you love and LOVE IT!

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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why pay a teacher 60K a year when you can pay an AI company 100b and get worse results?

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Bearded Pip @beardedpip.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026

We woke up this morning without power. That is not why we had to call the electrician this morning.

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also reminder the best help for food pantries, or people struggling or any 'need' is cold hard cash. Always. Always always always. Food pantries can make that money stretch MUCH BETTER THAN YOU CAN, and it'll go to their most urgent needs. I mean, the other stuff is great too but cash is king

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Bearded Pip @beardedpip.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026

Waiting for Weird Al’s Choosing Taxes.

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Bearded Pip @beardedpip.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026

Today’s datacenters are tomorrow’s homeless shelters.

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”

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Bearded Pip @beardedpip.myatproto.social · 26/09/2026

The RPG game was fun. We should play it again.

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.

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Bearded Pip @beardedpip.myatproto.social · 25/09/2026

I love how Minoque's entire campaign tactic is to target people that don't want to have Trump stuff in their yard, but love Trump. While Deaton's entire campaign is to force his yard signs onto anyone who wanted a Minogue sign. #Mapoli

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Bearded Pip @beardedpip.myatproto.social · 25/09/2026

Making Money was a lot of fun. Libertarians would hate this book. Moist von Lipwig is a great character. I’m definitely staring down the end if the series and that makes me sad. This is such an inspirational world Pratchett built. Unseen Academicals is next. #Discworld

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Bearded Pip @beardedpip.myatproto.social · 24/09/2026

Wow. The Habs-Bruins Rivalry is not what it once was. This makes me sad. Why are B’a fans even thinking about the Leafs?

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 20/09/2026

Real baddies don’t use AI

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Bearded Pip @beardedpip.myatproto.social · 23/09/2026

Neagly was really good. If you haven’t given it a shot, you should.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026

i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There is something so unbelievably bleak about an article that calmly walks readers through how to navigate being laid off after 50, losing your health insurance, and somehow surviving the years until Medicare. What a broken country.

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Laid Off After 50, and No Health Insurance? Here’s What to Consider. (Gift Article)

At best, older workers will struggle to find health insurance that bridges the years before they qualify for Medicare at age 65.

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Dina Strasser @dinaeliz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If McSweeney's says it's time, it is time. I am now allowed to drink pumpkin spice lattes.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

BIG FAVOR. I’m working on a new project and, to test it, I need photos of political mailers your receive in your mailbox. Physical mail from the USPS. If you have any, please take a photo of the front and back and send the photos to mail@popular.info. (We will not publish any personal info!)

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ConcertsHub @concertshub.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Liz Phair x Sleater-Kinney x Elastica Liz Phair & Sleater-Kinney | Connection (Elastica Cover) LIVE | MGM Music Hall at Fenway Boston, MA | September 21, 2026 youtu.be/oAnYhz0N9Y4

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Liz Phair & Sleater Kinney "Connection" (Elastica Cover) LIVE | MGM Music Hall | September 21, 2026

YouTube video by Concerts Hub

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Zalea 💜 @zalea.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

this comparison to alchemy is super interesting. LLMs feel similar to mercury in that they could be a red herring and exposing yourself to them too much messes up your brain

The alchemists also had clues that led them astray. For one thing, the were obsessed with mercury. Mercury is not very interesting chemically, but it is the only metal that is a liquid at room temperature.

This seemed very significant to the alchemists, and caused them to place mercury at the heart of their alchemical system, and their search for the Philosopher's Stone, a way to turn base metals into gold.

It didn't help that mercury was neurotoxic, so if you spent too much time playing with it, you started to think weird thoughts. In that way, it resembles our current thought experiments with superintelligence.

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synapsid (Scary) @synapsid.wtf · 20/09/2026

ok wait this guy rules

1971 he started taking antidepressants and amphetamines, despite the concern of his friends, one of whom (Ron Graham) bet him $500 that he could not stop taking them for a month. Erdős won the bet but complained that it impacted his performance: "You've showed me I'm not an addict. But I didn't get any work done. I'd get up in the morning and stare at a blank piece of paper. I'd have no ideas, just like an ordinary person. You've set mathematics back a month." After he won the bet, he promptly resumed his use of Ritalin and Benzedrine.

He is buried next to his mother and father in the Jewish Kozma Street Cemetery in Budapest. For his epitaph, he suggested "I've finally stopped getting dumber." (Hungarian: "Végre nem butulok tovább").

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Bearded Pip @beardedpip.myatproto.social · 20/09/2026

Post Belichick Patriots doing it again! Getting their games done in under 3 hours. #Pats

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm deleting most fundraising texts these days, but if you sent me one saying you had identified these consultants and promised never to work with them, I would give you the max

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

So this week we've learned: 1) The AI goons CONFESSED they were committing the biggest theft in history. 2) The data centers really are sucking up all the energy during an energy shock. 3) AI almost caused a World War.

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Bearded Pip @beardedpip.myatproto.social · 19/09/2026

Dems are useless. They keep getting drawn into the Piker stuff instead of blaming Trump and his war for gas prices.

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Bearded Pip @beardedpip.myatproto.social · 19/09/2026

To be fair, survivor was trash long before CBS was bought by a nazi.

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Finally read this through and jokes aside the stats are much worse than the headline makes them sound. They’re not talking about the existential fatigue most of us feel. They mean the debilitating, life-ruining condition that accompanies ME, flu and oh yeah, Long Covid which they do not mention.

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

He’re at Bluesky we’re recreating the social credit score system from the hit Black Mirror episode, Don’t Create The Social Credit Score Systrm

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Bearded Pip @beardedpip.myatproto.social · 16/09/2026

Yeah, he'd be impressed. I still owe him some debts though.

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Bearded Pip @beardedpip.myatproto.social · 15/09/2026

There are so many Palestinian flags hanging from houses in Ireland. Not just in the city, but rurally as well. I don’t think moat Americans truly understand the Irish pov of here.

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Bearded Pip @beardedpip.myatproto.social · 14/09/2026

I love when my favorite band breaks out a classic we haven’t heard in a while.

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DEF-G @scriban.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This implies the existence of a sauce policy governance process. Also, sauce policy enforcement, sauce policy compliance monitoring, and sauce policy controls. At least, that's what a reasonably mature sauce management program would look like.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD) in their 2025 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) survey found that, year-on-year, daily users of "generative AI" are doing substantively worse than intermittent or non-users. Other results are more strikingly mixed…

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PISA 2025 Results (Volume I)

The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2025 evaluates what students know and can do in science, reading, mathematics and computational problem-solving, assessing how effectivel...

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 10/09/2026

3 things about Dem politicians who dabble in transphobia: 1. It's wrong, they're wrong, on a moral basis they're being evil 2. It's stupid, they're stupid, they'll never get any credit from the fascists for it 3. It's proof you're not capable of reading or rising to this, and therefore any, moment

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Bearded Pip @beardedpip.myatproto.social · 10/09/2026

When Vrabel said he was worried about depth, we thought he meant Edge, not WR.

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