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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 3h

“This is for my boy Paul mthrfkr!”

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🆂🆃🅴🆅🅴🅽 🌈☕🐸 @zencoffeebreak.com · 30/09/2026

saw someone call it Slop Intelligence

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pointing out selective outrage or cognitive dissonance is a way to be the victim of wild accusations made without thinking Try to think people. Its unfashionable in an identity driven cult, but give it a shot anywah. bsky.app/profile/dart...

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Alexandra Urisman Otto @alexandrauo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🧵I snart tre år har vi bevittnat Israels folkmord på den palestinska civilbefolkningen. Redan i november 2023 varnade FN:s särskilda rapportörer för att övergreppen ”tyder på att ett folkmord håller på att äga rum.” De uppmanade det internationella samfundet att agera.

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"so my job is to create that fairness. In our immigration system" lmao we dealt with *ten* home secretaries and never once saw any of this "fairness". and some of the worst nonsense we experienced was under mahmood. this is what i like to call a massive lie

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

They should give the award to the MIT leadership that lacked even the slightest bit of courage. Their job was to investigate Neri Oxman‘s academic misconduct and then to rescind her PhD degree for the plagiarism she so obviously committed in her dissertation.

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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

it never fails

meme of guy looking at girl walking past while his actual gf looks at him angrily. the guy is "The West", his gf is "China Does Something Right," and the other girl is "But at what cost?"

beneath the meme are various screenshots of headlines that basically say "chinda did something good, but at what cost?"

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Oksii ✚ 🇺🇦 @oksii33.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Wake up before it’s too late

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Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Since we’re doing another round of “AI will destroy humanity” doom-hype, it’s a good time to announce a new paper myself and my postdoc advisor just had accepted by BioSocieties on just this. TL;DR: almost all the “AI can make bioweapons” literature comes ultimately from the Effective Altruists.

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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 26/09/2026

a document circulating online shows Harbin Engineering University issued disciplinary warning to 20 students for using VPN to visit foreign websites sad to think of the first email sent from China in 1987 that read “across the great wall we can reach every corner in the world”

a Harbin Engineering University notice on giving disciplinary warning to 20 students for using VPN

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Bernd Porr @berndporr.me.uk · 26/09/2026

Gemini points to this "seminal EEG paper" which uses multiple derivatives of the EEG to feed them into machine learning -- only that all the plots show (drumroll) ECG! pubpeer.com/publications...

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 25/09/2026

Anthropic's new biology lab released a technical report on using AI to discover new enzymes. Experts I talked to say "discover" is doing a lot of work here. Story: nyti.ms/4xOGWI7

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Anthropic’s A.I. Is Teaching Itself Biology. Now It’s Made Its First Discovery. (Gift Article)

Scientists at the company announced their first finding: a group of enzymes whose function is unknown.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026

Xi Jinping Impressed With How Much Trump’s English Has Improved Since Last Visit theonion.com/xi-jinping-impressed-w…

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oh my God, I agree with WSJ opinion Oh my God, shoot me in the face

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
OPINION COMMENTARY (U.S.)
The Hidden Agenda Behind the Al Panic
A mathematical model doesn't rebel.
Anthropomorphizing it helps obscure human errors and accountability.
By Gabriele Mazzini
September 21, 2026, 5:43 pm EDT

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Fabian Wittmers @academic-integrity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

(1/x) I was intrigued by what Thomas observed when comparing retraction rate by publisher, so I looked at the 3300 reports I filed over the last 2 years. Here is what I found. More thoughts on this below. (caveat: uneven sample-size with many more report to Springer/Elsevier than other publishers)

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Y'all are so lost

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

literally thousands of jobs in higher education were cut *last year alone* and there's been almost no media coverage and no government action

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026

Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/

Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.

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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

there is no sensible reason why a 5 year spouse visa cost us a little over fourteen grand. none whatsoever. and that's before you break it down to the addition of renewals every 30 months, the health surcharge, the endless price hikes, the final kick in the teeth for ILR (three grand! to settle!)

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I have been turning this quote over and over in my head and still can't quite wrap my head around the idea

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Johanna Siebert @johannasiebert.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Fetter Mittelfinger…

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Bernd Porr @berndporr.me.uk · 20/09/2026

Woha! CDU is out! www.ndr.de/nachrichten/...

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/09/2026

I don't think we disdain the center-right enough. First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation; Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers; Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault.

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Jarvis Googoo @jarvisgoogoo.com · 19/09/2026

Amazing editorial cartoon by @mackinnonart.bsky.social 😃

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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Thread: Two different versions of this AI-generated image purporting to show President Trump and his assistant Natalie Harp kissing went viral this week, generating millions of views across multiple platforms. Despite being fake, this wasn't a straightforward AI image to debunk. I'll explain why.

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.net · 17/09/2026

The absolute scourge of the ‘informal meeting’ - a technique management now regularly use to avoid accountability. Always ask what ‘informal’ means, always demand the full formal process with union support, and always remember that it is definitely not an ‘informal meeting’ if HR are there.

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 18/09/2026

Worried about AI Robots? All you need is more ram, and a dogged determination to overcome.

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 27/10/2025

Farage: epic grifter

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Bernd Porr @berndporr.me.uk · 18/09/2026

Scottish edition (mostly). "A third generation science fudger, who already raised the fourth generation!"

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Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco @joshpizpom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

EXC: 90 programmes in Edinburgh University's College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences are to be closed. The casualties, which include 48 language and literature programmes, will be 'taught out', w/ no admissions after 2027. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2655839...

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Ninety programmes to close at leading university as savings plan takes shape

According to the document, a total of 90 programmes will be “taught out” over the next several years, including 48 in the School of Language.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

There are real risks and harms from AI usage but the current panic about destroying humanity based on poorly run security testing is theater. LLMs are fundamentally unreliable and shouldn’t be the sole decision maker for consequential decisions. That’s the huge risk. Everything else is noise.

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Johann van de Bron @johann-v-d-bron.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Der "EU Kids Act" zielt auf die Klarnamenpflicht und die völlige Offenlegung aller persönlichen Daten. Ziel ist es, kritische Stimmen im Netz mundtot zu machen und für die Todeslisten der Nazis zugänglich zu machen. Mit Kindern hat das nichts zu tun...

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Cheshire @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Retraction. It took more than 4 years from when I emailed the journal (@journals.sagepub.com) about these serious concerns. Frankly, that's totally ridiculous. h/t anon Hoya and thanks to @elisabethbik.bsky.social for exposing additional problems,🍺♥️, respectively. pubpeer.com/publications...

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Mr too tired for a halloween name @laotianrockrat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ed Sheeran's agent: Ok fuck me that was a wild few days. Still we should be over the worst of it now...

Twitter post by that cunt Stephen Yaxley-Lennon expressing solidarity with Ed Sheeran (not reposting the exact text because fuck whatever he has to say)

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Bernd Porr @berndporr.me.uk · 15/09/2026

"China's supreme court database showed only 89 records mentioning exit bans in 2016, but that figure had risen to 188,760 last year."

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 14/09/2026

I'd misclassified Rupert Lowe as a Twitter thing. But he's now *really* gaming Facebook's new algorithm with a mixture of 'remigration' and 'who remembers' memes. Crazy levels of engagement and he's all over the feed of every boomer I know regardless of their politics. www.facebook.com/rupertlowemep

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Oaf @languidoaf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

CEO of Taco Bell: we’re actually worried that some of our upcoming items could destroy humanity as well

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Pessimists Archive @pessimistsarc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

2019: “GPT2 is groundbreaking in two ways. One is its size, says Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s research director. The models “were 12 times bigger, and the dataset was 15 times bigger and much broader” than the previous state-of-the-art AI model”

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Humans are better at imagining risk than calculating it. We overweight rare, dramatic risks and underweight ordinary ones. That’s why we fear plane crashes more than falls or car accidents. AI is similar, governments and scammers use it to harm people today, but an imagined Skynet is scarier.

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Hard to shake the impression that the overriding sentiment in Tories and Labour to the Reform donations was envy rather than concern about our democratic system….

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

At just about every level of society, on a like for like basis the English (with a relatively low life expectancy for Western Europe) comfortably outlive the Americans. Why? The NHS, yes, but also better food and workplace safety standards, a stronger welfare safety net, less reliance on cars etc.

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