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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2h

This is a country of delusional people who believe they may one day be rich. The California Wealth Tax has less than 50% support right now. We have to tell the truth about the propagandized voting public. It's incredible.

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 3h

A CT scan of Trump's brain probably looks like a QR code by now.

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yorick @helloyorick.bsky.social · 4h

People just need to remember to exercise critical thinking and verify the information somehow, using all the systems that will no longer exist, and the cognitive skill we're actively eroding and blocking the development of, when they use the magic answer machine that doesn't give real answers.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 13h

I really just want like… 3/4th of the economy prosecuted for fraud. Is that really so much to ask?

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Benjamin Harnett @benjaminharnett.com · 5h

It isn’t even good at software engineering is the thing!

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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

WARNING: Moose will try to diagnose what is wrong with your broken vehicle.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 18h

[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with a bestselling author who is insane [JACK SMITH]: No [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Naomi Wolf! [SMITH]: That is Naomi Klein sir

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 21h

Texas, the voter registration deadline is coming up next week. If you live in Texas and want to vote, be sure to check that you are registered properly — even if you you think you did what you had to. A statewide database to check: goelect.txelections.civixapps.com/ivis-mvp-ui/...

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Kevin Sexton @kevinsexton.bsky.social · 19h

Interesting episode about who has money and power in the US. They break down who the 1% actually is (car dealers, dentists) and then show not just how they can use money to lobby for their interests, but how a disproportionate number of them become members of congress www.npr.org/2026/09/25/n...

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Middlegarchs are the new Oligarchs : Planet Money

Wanna know who is really in the top 1%? And how they use their influence? It may not be who you think.Look beyond Silicon Valley. Look beyond Wall Street. Look beyond the “oligarchs”. There's a much l...

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 19h

Today is Nonidi the 9th of Vendémiaire in the year 235. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate parsnips. #JacobinDay See today's page

An old time-y illustration of a Parsnips.

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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 23h

Incredible, Democrats have officially hit a 10 point lead on the generic ballot

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here to tell you that the chemistry and tension in this scene still hits for 2026 teenagers, as evidenced by the very vocal reactions of my students today

Dorothy Malone and Humphrey Bogart in the bookstore scene in 1946’s The Big Sleep

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/09/2026

Honestly a lot of the “look at what AI can do for you!” things can be replaced with a basic shell script.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also, all this “frontier AI” nomenclature is so laughably colonialist that it has to be on purpose. 🙄

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

People have gotten mad at me for saying that many tech "journalists" sees their role as being a booster (and essentially free PR agent) for the industry... but... I mean www.washingtonsun.com/national/ai-...

. Jasmine Sun, a contributor to The Atlantic, also made a toast in support of building more data centers, chalking the backlash up to misinformation.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As someone with no expertise in this I am delighted to see many of my priors confirmed, including "private school vouches are expensive dogshit" and "banning cellphones is not a panacea." 🙏

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That’s because the decision has already been made. The issue being debated is merely the post-hoc justification. Where decisions happen and where debate happens are different places. The idea that debate leads to policy outcomes is a fiction designed to create an impression of democratic consent.

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Benjamin Harnett @benjaminharnett.com · 28/09/2026

“I fucked up because you told me not to fuck up and I fucked up anyway” — the LLM is just extruding a response from whatever of your previous prompts still exist in its context. It doesn’t “remember” you told it not to fuck up or “understand” what that even means.

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Benjamin Harnett @benjaminharnett.com · 28/09/2026

I love all the LLM “I fucked up statements” because you do understand their explanations are also total bullshit, generated like everything else to make you feel as though they are legitimately answering your challenge.

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Benjamin Harnett @benjaminharnett.com · 27/09/2026

Look, it is pretty clear—if you don't want your work stolen out from underneath you, you cannot trust Anthropic or OpenAI.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Anthropic's denials mean *nothing*, just like how OpenAI's denials over Navier–Stokes mean *nothing*. These companies have shown time and again they have no idea what their AI is doing. The LLM agents—given "/goal" persistence and few if any limits—surely reviewed all they could, including chats.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

People don’t understand how fragile our water infrastructure is. I’ve had contaminated water in the last six years. I’ve had my water co. hijacked for digital ransom. We are in perpetual near drought conditions... in NC, not AZ. AI boosters use pedantry about water use as an accountability shield.

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Benjamin Harnett @benjaminharnett.com · 27/09/2026

Look, if you want me to be hip to new pop music, you are going to have to bring back the Muppet Show.

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Gregory Hays @aristofontes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

ohhhhhh my god someone wrote a song about texas? should we tell everyone? should we throw a party?should we invite greg abbott

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I wrote a long post on "profiteering" or "greedflation" a couple of years ago, trying to think through what the economic logic is that justifies price regulation in situations like natural disasters, and how that logic might apply more broadly. jwmason.org/slackwire/in...

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Benjamin Harnett @benjaminharnett.com · 27/09/2026

One of the best tv shows of the 21st century. If David Lynch did Office Space. And absolutely true to the soul of American life.

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Benjamin Harnett @benjaminharnett.com · 27/09/2026

“we can’t uninvent this” — an invention that doesn’t do what we claim it does

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Benjamin Harnett @benjaminharnett.com · 27/09/2026

What I actually heard from “very serious people” with a straight face is that people were overindexing on the crypto failure and being too skeptical of GenAI!

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Even more recently it still blows my mind that anyone is falling for it after they just did this with crypto. It’s like they ran a show for a season, cancelled it because nobody watched, and then just released it again with a different title. It’s the same cast! The same tactics!

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 26/01/2026

"ai" is not a genie that can't be put back in a bottle, it's a pillar of smoke that dissipates unless you keep burning money

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Automatization eats things, clothes, furniture, your wife, and the fear of war. This thing we call art exists in order to restore the sensation of life, in order to make us feel things, to make a stone stony. The goal of art is to create the sensation of seeing, not merely recognizing, things.

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Vought, Miller and Kennedy are cartoonish villains but Democrats in Congress are doing very little to turn them into household names.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

People sleep on CUNY but it is one of the absolute JEWELS of U.S. Higher Ed and has been for decades. And what's the thanks the system gets??? It has to fight for its life every single year because it has been systematically defunded.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 26/09/2026

this kind of outcome was predictable the moment so-called "agents" became productized. the Spam Economy azhdarchid.com/imagining-th...

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Imagining the Car but not the Traffic Jam

Your typical example of how AI can make life better is analogous to saying

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The bus/train crash in THE FUGITIVE (1993). When Harrison Ford appeared on The Tonight Show to promote the film, Leno asked him, "How did you guys do that effect?" Slightly bemused, Ford replied, "Well, we took a bus, and we hit it with a train."

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Roger Watt @rjwatt42.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The fascinating bit is that the brain has to work out where each optic nerve fibre ended up on the retina as they all wandered out. Essentially at birth it gets a scrambled image and uses experience to find out what the specific layout is.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Benjamin Harnett @benjaminharnett.com · 26/09/2026

Mark Zuckerberg is undeniably the least interesting person who has ever lived. It’s kind of incredible really.

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Benjamin Harnett @benjaminharnett.com · 26/09/2026

Careless People? More like I couldn’t care less about these people.

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Benjamin Harnett @benjaminharnett.com · 26/09/2026

Mark Zuckerberg is undeniably the least interesting person who has ever lived. It’s kind of incredible really.

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Eike Exner @eikeexner.com · 25/09/2026

I thought Publishers Weekly was the company that pays freelancers 10 dollars for book reviews, not the one that does PR for the plagiarism software

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 25/09/2026

I guess that the best argument, for me, against AI is that everyone advocating it seems to be a psychopath.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

We had to wait for the....NEW YORK POST to write about this. Y'all know there is so much more where this came from but journalists don't want to dig and people are terrified to speak to any journalist seeing the type of reporting they've been doing

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Benjamin Harnett @benjaminharnett.com · 25/09/2026

I proceeded upon being hired to show up late to the morning meeting every day with a giant iced coffee, and continued doing so until the day I went remote ten years later.

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