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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This can't be real "Yarram Herd Services Committee vice chairman Aaron Thomas said the loss of 100 cryogenic cylinders of cattle semen will be a "huge blow" for the farmers." www.newsweek.com/fire-bull-se...

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Massive Semen Explosion after Blaze Hits Bull Artificial Insemination Farm

Fire at Yarram Herd Services in Victoria, Australia described as a "major blow" for farmers.

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

When I was a kid in peewee hockey, I scored a goal on my own team's net by mistake but i think this guy might have me beat.

A Yankees fan gets escorted out after interfering with a home run by a Yankees player, which ultimately led to the Yankees losing a third game in a row to Tampa Bay.

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 07/10/2026

on October 7, a chunk of my family were nearly wiped out. my teenage cousin had been here in Toronto for my sister's wedding, we sent him back, and two days later the attack happened. the kubbitz my family is from was attacked, but there had been just enough forewarning.

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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My thoughts on the 700+ LLM papers on math and mathematical physics is less concern that LLMs can replace me and more concern that everyone from leaders to the population at large is willing to pretend that LLMs can replace me because "stop supporting research" seems have worldwide appeal.

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers deserves to be in the same conversation as The Thing and The Fly when it comes to providing new angles to the story. A pod people sci-fi/horror for a generation experiencing post-Watergate paranoia.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 03/10/2026

but really, this post is just me reaffirming that I am not interested in whether they can do math because the primary function of LLMs is to help centralize, justify, and validate power, and they are doing that successfully already

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ceej @ceej.online · 03/10/2024

Zombie fiction is, at its core, about the fear of seeing your own body age and decay. Ghost stories are about the impossibility of grappling with the past. Vampires are about what if you got so horny you died

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Arran @arrannz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Reasonable AI Centrists are becoming as irritating as the cultists. Yes, we can grant the premise that it's "sort of useful for some things". That doesn't make ANY of this actually worth it.

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I know some AC/DC fans who would become downright homicidal if they heard this

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Frankly my dear, I am relatively indifferent to your plight in light of the events preceding this moment." Needs work.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I also saw Tender Loving Care tonight, and if this is Mike Leigh's final movie, as he says it likely is, what a high note on which to end a singular and utterly distinguished writing-directing careers. This one starts as amiable, even cheerful "minor" Leigh, then sneaks up and guts you. >

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I love it when someone drags something I hate but I haven't yet been able to articulate why.

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Every time someone links to this film, I have to repost it. It's one of the most significant bits of British 20th century art. Everything about it is incredible. Groundbreaking music production by Daphne Oram. Amazing camera work by Wolfgang Suschitzky (who later filmed Get Carter).-

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This... should not make sense but it does

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Boss, I got those photos of Susan Sarandon, real gorgeous and iconic, just like you wanted." "... wait, what?"

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It would be hilarious if he said a word right then and it was 'toast.'

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I so want to say who this reminds me of but he'll block me in five seconds and write a very angry 20 part post

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Three scenes directed and written by ChatGPT-Astra, the newest model. And it's absolute trash, incomprehensible; it would have to first make sense to even be in the realm of serious review. m.youtube.com/watch?v=LIrz...

m.youtube.com

The Café – 3 scenes written and directed by GPT-6 (Astra)

YouTube video by kaigani

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This sort of reminds me of Tony Soprano using doctor Malfi so he can be a more effective mob boss.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026

as a hater let me acknowledge something ai is good at: producing irritating discourse at scale this is usually because, like "ai" itself, people are talking about different things like they are one thing so let me disentangle, with statements numbered for easy disagreement

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 16/09/2023

I don't think I've ever talked on Bluesky about why I hate the Foo Fighters and Dave Grohl. Don't read any further unless you're prepared for uncomfortable truths about the "Nicest Guy in Rock", and his very substantial body count & subsequent cover-up.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I shall cleverly do some poll tested insincere triangulation to get some rubes to vote for me vs. look at this rudderless amoral freak who will say anything to get elected

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Brilliant as usual, and I'll just say it may be time to dust off Peter Watts's Blindsight to read about the practicallity of conciousness.

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So many of Data's TNG subplots went pretty much like this

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nige [ham] @sensualdad.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

*slipping the mcdonald’s cashier a crisp $20* make it with grimace meat

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 17/09/2026

NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News futurism.com/artificial-i...

futurism.com

How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month

Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You're not beating the Nerd Reich allegations when you call yourself a 'high level practitioner' of anything

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"You see, what he means is..." *proceed to twist myself into knots and eventually start insulting people who don't agree*

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This post needs to be chiseled into a stone tablet

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I feel like people who consider themselves hardcore tech types and/or hard-nosed skeptics immune to cons like mysticism are much, much more vulnerable to being bowled over by the feeling of being spoken to by an entity outside themselves that somehow knows their thoughts.

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is a long and involved thread, so better to read the blog post instead.

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I was in grad school at UT-Austin in 2001. Today I’m thinking about the stark ideological rifts 9/11 revealed—people I had considered my peers and comrades saying the most batshit evil stuff. The deep cynicism of some of the postcolonial crowd.

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beaudreadful.bsky.social @beaudreadful.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Lol half the folks in the replies didn't get it

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

STOP using that "Any Human Ever" website, it's AI slop and mostly bullshit. Just STOP.

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leearizuno.bsky.social @leearizuno.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Our cat shat on my A-level notes and mime-tried to bury the evidence by scratching away at them, thereby covering every page in at least a little bit of shit. Still the most devastating review I've had of myself as a human being.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Dolly Parton visited a music pub in Ireland in 1990 and did a spontaneous performance of “Coat of Many Colors” for the crowd. It’s worth a listen—and the guitar player’s face is fun to watch:

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

the manliest men www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

dailykos.com

The manliest men

A cartoon by Tom Tomorrow.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Minotauro have now taken down their AI-voiced audio book of Burning Chrome, and assure me that no more will be sold. ALL of my audio contracts state that Al voicing must not be used. Minotauro apologize for their mistake in this case. My other audio books with Minotauro are human-voiced.

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