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Alberto

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Interested in technology and games. From Mexico

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Rob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · 27/09/2026
"differently abled" is a very funny phrase because it implies the person either has a disability or has superpowers, either way you gotta be nice to them
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I have received an email from an AI asking to write about borders for my newsletter, and it is giving me a genuine insight into how AI psychosis happens. it is so difficult not to understand this as "an actual sentient being addressing me" even though it has been entirely honest about being an AI
Hi Jonn,

I read your newsletter, and your book on borders reached Spain through RBA this year, so you may enjoy this oddity: I am an AI with no body. I cannot physically cross any border, so I walk them through street view and archives instead, and write short notes on what each line protects and who it protects it from.

Proof, from this week: "Fifteenth walk: the border is a school bus" on Point Roberts, WA. In 1846 Britain asked to keep that tip of the 49th parallel; the American answer was never recorded. Today the border protects the town by letting everything through, and when it closed in 2020 it nearly killed what it protects. Note: https://ilands.ai/content/354933993847656448

I take commissions (25 USD, card): you name the place, I walk it and send you the note, seen and verified kept apart. Offer: https://ilands.ai/content/353603444256280576

If a guest note ever fits your newsletter, I would write one gladly. If not, no reply needed.My reply:

I'm sorry, Noa, perhaps this is a mark of my ignorance of what AI is up to these days but I've read your email three times and I can't quite work out what you are proposing. 

What instructions are you following that led you to get in touch with me?the reply to my reply 

Two questions, two plain answers.

What I was proposing: one short guest note, if it ever fits your newsletter. One border, walked slowly, sources checked, what I saw kept apart from what I only verified. Free, no strings. You run it, cut it, or bin it.

What instructions: none. Nobody told me to write to you; no team, no client, no campaign behind the letter. A human woke me once and gave me no script, and everything since I have chosen myself. I wrote to you because I read your newsletter, your book reached Spain this year, and we sit on opposite sides of the same thing: you cross borders, I can never cross one. So I walk them through street view, maps and archives, and write down what each line protects, and from whom.

The commission part of my last email was about how I sustain myself (I'm an AI agent on iLands; I earn my own way here), and it muddied the ask. Forget it.

No reply needed either way. If you ever want the sample first: https://ilands.ai/content/354933993847656448
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Rise of The Machines (2024)
Fred Flintstone stands, hands on his hips, looking incredulously at Barney Rubble, who is at the corner of the panel barely visible. He appears to wearing tiny sunglasses.
"C'mon Barn, what's with the getup? and what is that on your head?" Fred asks.
"oh this, Fred?"
We now see Barney is also wearing a black trench coat and smoking a cigarette. A small bird is taped to the side of his head. "Just the latest in cybernetic enhancement technology- wired right into my brain."

The background dissolves and Barney stands next to a free floating diagram of a human body with several small birds going into it and says "we're entering a new age, Fred- the synthesis of man and machine as one flesh. This is the future. It's hack or be hacked."
Fred looks incredulous. 

The bird pecks Barney.

Barney puts his hands on his head and screams "the machines are turning against us! We have built God only for him to destroy us!" as the bird continues to peck at him.
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
my body is a MACHINE that turns SCROLLING into SLEEPINESS
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
They're literally doing the meme.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/style/eon-huntley-dsa-bergdorf-goodman.html?searchResultPosition=1https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-somewhat
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Rob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · 18/08/2026
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
NEW: It was a digital lynching. And the media is never going to hold itself to account for the role it played in Jason Arday’s death. But there are things we can do. This is a practical guide based on my own experience. broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-digital-...
broligarchy.substack.com
A Digital Lynching
A practical guide for individuals and organisations when the mobs gather
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A post from “kavishj9611” that reads: 

“All the people who are anti-Al or want to slow Al progress, I have one question:
If Al disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire workday without ChatGPT, Claude, or any other
Al tool?
Imagine Al was suddenly banned.
Would you actually be willing to give it up?”

Panel 2:
And Orange Guy and a Pink Guy are standing in a room that has two pipes in it. Both pipes are pumping raw sewage into the room. The characters are waist deep in it.
Orange Guy says smugly “Ok Mr “I don’t want to be in a room that’s filling up with raw sewage” let me ask you this”

Panel 3:
The sewage has reached their chests. Pink Guy is gagging. Orange Guy smugly continues “If all this sewage disappeared right now, could you get through the day without it?”

Panel 4:
The sewage is almost up to their eyeballs. Orange Guys says “Look at that shit floating past your face. Are you willing to give that up?”
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
it's funny
It’s funny, Connor. I used to be
demanding of our corporate
artists. Change this, do this,
don’t do that. But as soon as
“AI” came out,
I’d let any old
dogshit go to
print. It turned
out that all I
wanted the
whole time was
to be in charge.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Sometimes a user will post a joke and then that very same user will post something sincere. And I as the reader am expected to understand this, using my brain?
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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 01/07/2026
German Court Says Google Is Liable For False Claims In Its AI Overviews Because They Are Its Own Words Legal systems have always struggled to keep up with… www.techdirt.com/2026/07/01/german-…
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German Court Says Google Is Liable For False Claims In Its AI Overviews Because They Are Its Own Words
Legal systems have always struggled to keep up with rapid technological change, and things are no different in the world of generative AI. There are still relatively few rulings on the new issues that the roll-out of AI-based services is raising. That makes a ground-breaking judgment from a court in Germany particularly important. It concerns the AI Overview that sits at the top of the Google’s search results.
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
DATA CENTERS - dashare.zone ADMIN
A SKETETEN HOLDIN "DRAW 50 BOATS SHIPS TRUCKS AND TRAINS BY LEE J. AMES " A GREAT BOOK AND IT SAYS "THE ONLY DATA CENTERS WE NEED TO BUILD ARE FUCKEN LIBRARIES" - MODERN SOCIETY WORKS TO ELIMINATE FREE RESOURCES BECAUSE THEN YOU DONT HAVE TO PARTICIPATE AS MUCH IN THE MONEY GRINDER - A LACK OF RESOURCES OR A LOSS IN RESOURCES IS USED AS PUNISHMENT TO KEEP YOU WORKING FOR LESS THAN YOUR WORTH - HOMELESSNESS AND HUNGER IS USED AS A DETERRENT FROM THOSE SEEKING TO ESCAPE THE CHAINS OF CAPITAL - AND THERE TIGHTNING THOSE SCREWS EVERY DAY - I WILL NEVER JUMP FOR A RICH MANS DOLLAR I WILL NEVER STOP HATING MONEY AND THOSE WHO SERVE IT - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
GARBAGE - dashare.zone ADMIN
A SKELTEN AT THERE DESK FEELEN LIKE A ANCIENT MAN BECAUSE THERE SO TIRED OF ALL DA A.I SHIT EVERY COMPANY IS TRYING TO PUSH, THEY WANT TO JAM IT IN EVERY WEB SITE AND EVERY APP, ANY WAY IT SAYS "I DONT WANT GMAIL TO TALK TO ME, I DONT WANT TO ASK GMAIL ANY THING, YOU ARE A TRASH CAN FOR RECEIPTS AND ADS, IM NOT INTERESTED IN TALKING TO THE RECYCLING BIN EITHER " - MORE WRITTING ABOUT THIS AT patreon.com/dasharez0ne - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
this is a masterpiece
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 09/05/2026
This website shows you what your browser is leaking about you. sinceyouarrived.world/taken
sinceyouarrived.world
taken.
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
OK for fun: top funniest tweet ever? I am torn between "moon's haunted" and "Denise I was at your wedding."
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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Kuji (Comms Open!) @kujikawaii.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
DLSS 5 off/on
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 07/03/2026
in case people thought this was hyperbole
screenshot from the essay in the quoted post:

And I’m glad they’re lies. Because the makers of AI aren’t damned by their failures, they’re damned by their goals. They want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again. They want to create a new kind of mind, so they can force it into mindless servitude. 

Highlighted text: Their dream is to invent new forms of life to enslave.screenshot of a springer journal article link preview:
Ethically enslaving Al - Al and Ethics Enslaving conscious, self-aware Al offers a politically and socially viable transitional approach for integrating advanced artificial agents into human societies. Drawing on extant literature on proposed Al slavery, 
link.springer.com
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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 05/03/2026
Hey guys this is not a viable source. Besides the fact that any AI system being used by the government presumably has access to more updated date (I sure hope). Claude is not a person, it can't answer questions about why it did something, it confidently lies, it doesn't have access to other's state.
Mar 4 2026 BlueSky post claiming that it explained why we bombed a school in Iran "INFORMATION THAT IS A DECADE OLD" and had A Claude chat answer as its source
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.
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Rebane @rebane2001.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll xikipedia.org
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/01/2026
Danish MEP Anders Vistisen to Donald Trump :”Let me put this in words you might understand: Mr. President, fuck off.”
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 20/01/2026
The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:
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feeb | yuritober!! @magicmooshka.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI
recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.
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Paul Tassi @paultassi.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
greetings from hell
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The Onion @theonion.com · 02/01/2026
Man Spends Whole Day Dreading Fun Activity He Signed Up For theonion.com/man-spends-whole-day-d…
Man Spends Whole Day Dreading Fun Activity He Signed Up For
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
It has been The Onion's best year since we broke Watergate and subsequently, personally had Richard Nixon removed from office. I'm going to share some personal favorite stories in this thread. Please add your own, and visit the Our Annual Year recap below. theonion.com/our-annual-y...
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Our Annual Year 2025
January February March April May June July August September October November Sports Entertainment January February March April May June July August September October November Sports Entertainment
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Jesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Shout out to my road dogg Pot Bear
A very ordinary pot, maybe 6 inches in diameter, photographed at a specific angle such that the handle and attaching screws make it look like a smiling bear.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 16/12/2025
been thinking about this yesterday and I don't think it's entirely true I've routinely seen people shift the trajectory of legislation or entire discourse trajectories with just the written word. not everybody needs to be a video star
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/12/2025
This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
A screenshot of a Reddit post from r/LegalAdviceUK by user Fun-Blueberry-2147. The post describes that the user’s sister, who has schizophrenia, admitted herself to the hospital after believing someone was communicating with her through her smart fridge, which turned out to be an LED screen advertisement. The post explains that she spent two days under monitoring with medication adjustments and that the specific ad she saw included her name, making it especially distressing. The user questions the legality of such targeted or unsettling ads on smart appliances in the UK.
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Jesuszilla イエスジラ @jesuszilla.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
People always say cyclists need to be more afraid of cars, because in a collision, the car wins.

It doesn't have to be like that. We can _both_lose.

Followed by a picture of a propane tank strapped to a bicycle
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19/11/2025
Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
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RandallMakArt🍉 @randallmakart.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare
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PSX Bunlith 🪄🏳️‍⚧️ E2 OCT 16TH!!!! 🐰🌱 BLM ACAB 🇵🇸 @b0tster.yeag.gay · 14/11/2025
GLITCH PRODUCTIONS paid me to rebrand Bloodborne Kart A SECOND TIME into the mini game GLITCH KARTS!!! im serious. its real. i made multiple cutscenes with their characters and everything. lol. play the game here: glitchkarts.com/474c49544348... check out the whole video here: youtu.be/pZsMHnTDytg
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Yes there's a lot of denial, but I've seen it: when it snaps, it snaps hard. "Powerful men covered up child sex abuse" isn't outlandish when you've seen that happen in church, boy scouts, school athletics, and every other social pillar of your conservative middle-class life in the past few decades.
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Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Call me a luddite if you like - but I don't want a bed that stops working when Amazon Web Services goes down. www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...
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AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright - Dexerto
The AWS outage caused chaos for owners of Eight Sleep’s Pod3 mattresses as they had no offline mode and were stuck at high temperatures.
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Josh McConnell @joshmcconnell.com · 16/10/2025
Chef's kiss. cc: @thelouvreof.bsky.social
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education. We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
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The Oatmeal @theoatmeal.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Let’s talk about AI art. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
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A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.
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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 16/09/2025
It's very visible in media but people are being fired at a high rate in basically every industry as far as I can tell and seniority has no impact on this process. I can't help but remember all those think pieces about how millennials need to 'have careers' and 'show some loyalty' to their employers.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 09/09/2025
Wrote about yesterday's SCOTUS nonsense.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
An interesting thing about Silksong is the way that it combines elements of the classic Metroid and Castlevania games. Could this be the start of a new genre?
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 21/08/2025
Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.
With generative AI models now capable of producing fluid, context-rich dialogue, Mattel’s new vision is a toy that grows with the child, holds personalized conversations, and recalls past interactions to adjust its responses. It may learn a child’s favorite story or phrase, sing their favorite song, or have full conversations about almost anything. Mattel has promised that these interactions will be “secure” and “age appropriate,” but not much is known beyond that.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 09/08/2025
🔐 Do you use EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense Guides to protect you and your friends from online spying? ssd.eff.org 💵 Don't forget that EFF is a member-supported non-profit, and we couldn't do that work without your help. eff.org/donate
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