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Plastic Duck is your new manager

@billionhighways.bsky.social
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Just a quiet lil duck paddling around over here out of everyone’s way

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 05/10/2026
new newsletter, laying out in probably far, far, far too much detail how yudkowsky and the weird ideological commitments of ai safety eventually led to OpenAI and Anthropic massively overtraining their models on cybersecurity and being shocked at them "going rogue"
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Tracing the rogue ideology of the frontier labs to their product choices
A drawing of Eliezer Yudkowsky as the Paperclip Optimizer that I commissioned back in 2016 and have an alarming number of chances to use since This is a...
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'm again grateful to @theverge.com for publishing my newest long-form essay on the limits of the computational model of the mind, the benefits of understanding both biological and cultural evolution to explain human thinking, and the danger of cognitive hot dogs in education.
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Our minds aren’t equipped to handle AI
AI is junk food for the mind: easy, tempting and ultimately very bad for you.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 05/10/2026
been thinking about this a lot lately -- AI seems like a tech that inherently creates economic "doom loops" that extract value from original creative work while destroying the financial incentives to produce more of it ruining culture while making itself worse futurism.com/artificial-i...
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AI Is Creating "Doom Loops" All Over the Economy
The AI industry is creating "doom loops" across the economy with products that undermine the economic incentive to create cultural content.
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Plastic Duck is your new manager @billionhighways.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There was also a TV version of Friday the 13th that had nothing to do with the movies and was about a kindly old man solving supernatural mysteries with two teenagers (extremely proto X-Files). I was accidentally permitted to watch an episode about an evil doll that killed someone via merry-go-round
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Plastic Duck is your new manager @billionhighways.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Similarly mine is ET but also some random movie I accidentally saw part of on TV where the teenage characters were fully Madonna’d out in big bows and fingerless lace gloves and a bajillion necklaces and they were at the mall and a witch cursed a girl so her necklace got caught in the escalator
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Mad Auntie Kristy @auntiekristy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Semi regular reminder that Jesus didn't tell women what to wear he told men to gouge their eyeballs out.
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Plastic Duck is your new manager @billionhighways.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My father dragged us to it and then got pissed off at me when I said it was fascist lol
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
““Me sometimes think me went in on wrong thing. Instead of cookie, maybe me should have studied business management, like Matt. Me would still have job. But then me would have to fire everyone. And me would never do that. B/c me Cookie Monster, not actual monster.”
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Plastic Duck is your new manager @billionhighways.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Was very confused by all the GBBO posts until I realized I was mixing it up with that kids show with the Seussian DJ guy
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Urban heat island effects are bad enough. Clustering data centers in cities, each of which can produce the heat of 54,000 houses, will make it exponentially worse, especially in already hot places like Phoenix Gift link to this great @bloomberg.com infographic: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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AI Data Centers Release Heat, Posing New Problem for Cities
As facilities to power AI grow larger and are built in clusters, they are spreading hot air beyond their property lines
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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Besides the fact that not enough people realized that he was directly tracing these things with no real creative additions, the case for Lichtenstein depended on him adding a perceived level of contempt for the source material, which was what supposedly made it 'high art'
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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Comic strip showing a stand-up comedian under the title "The Ones Who Bomb In Omegas"

He is saying "Hooboy, I should not have brought up the child. This is a tough room, but not the worst room in the city. Am I right?"
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
rip annie dillard
One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.
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Rep. Greg Stanton @repgregstanton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
25 years ago today, Balbir Singh Sodhi was tragically murdered while planting flowers outside his Mesa gas station — the first victim of a post-9/11 hate crime.
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Plastic Duck is your new manager @billionhighways.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The whole HP thing is wild to me because I loved those dumb books. I used to read them every year at Christmas. And one year I thought “huh this whole slavery plotline is making me uncomfortable and why are the greedy bankers consistently described as hook-nosed” and I gave them all away
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 04/09/2026
In the latest round of pass the harasser, this Professor slept with students and now is moving into a leadership role at Arizona State University 🧪 #metoo madison.com/news/local/e...
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Records: UW-Madison professor engaged in sex with students, exploited 'power imbalance'
The records were released in response to a request from the Wisconsin State Journal.
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Neil Stenhouse @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
More details in this story on ASU professor Dietram Scheufele’s sexual and professional misconduct while at UW-Madison www.statepress.com/article/2026...
Professor Dietram Scheufele
November 10, 2025
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); and/or who were also taking his classes while engaged in the
consensual sexual relationships.
2. Pressuring female
to flirt with him; making inappropriate explicit, sexual,
and intimate comments to the female
and advisees in private social media
platforms such as Signal, an application designed to never collect or store any sensitive information as they are end-to-end encrypted, private, and secure, as well as soliciting and having uncomfortable late night private dinners and/or drinks with a female student that may have constituted an assault.
3. Conditioning the professional and academic benefits that his faculty position provides to female
upon behaving and looking in a certain way for Dr. Scheufele. Conditioned
benefits included, but are not limited to, invitations to research meetings and collaborations, offers of research funding and the selection of teaching assistants, decisions on paper authorship and conference attendance, and the allocation of and network resources.
4. Academically and professionally retaliating against female |
involved in
sexual relations with Dr. Scheufele who wanted to withdraw from his class or end their romantic relationship, or who have rejected his flirtatious advances. This included not receiving research funds, withholding information, leaving them off of emails regarding research, not responding to their multiple requests to meet with them or provide guidance/advice regarding their research.
5. Issuing both promises of benefits to avoid exposure, and threats of retaliation, if the female
| exposed their discomfort. This also included intentionally isolating the
students that Dr. Scheufele was in relationships with from one another and other students and faculty members.
6. Making academic, professional, and compensation promises to employees/former advisees who were engaged in previous sexual relationships with Dr. Scheutele.
7. Treating less favorably students who did not…
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KJZZ Phoenix @kjzz.org · 02/09/2026
An ongoing dispute between Border Patrol and the Tohono O’odham Nation in southern Arizona continues to escalate. KJZZ’s Alisa Reznick has been covering this story and explained more: www.kjzz.org/the-show/202...
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Border Patrol blockade is preventing Tohono O'odham from removing border wall contractors
An ongoing dispute between Border Patrol and the Tohono O’odham Nation in southern Arizona continues to escalate.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
logging on to the earnest high-info neurotics website every day during the everything going wrong decade: 'you know, the vibes here could be better'
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 30/08/2026
Particularly important to note that @karenattiah.bsky.social herself *was* a manager of groundbreaking and fearless opinion writers before being "promoted" to Opinions columnist. She recruited Jamal Khashoggi for WaPo and oversaw him up and until he was kidnapped and assassinated by the Saudis!
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Plastic Duck is your new manager @billionhighways.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It’s weird how my perception of my life has narrowed down to [Before 2016] and even more so [Before 2020] and then (the brackets are no longer recognizable. whatever they contain is broken carapace, these shores expel you; go on and
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Albasoup @albasoup.itch.io · 29/08/2026
Was walking past this building and through the window saw this backrooms-ass room, so I accidentally took the coolest picture ever due to the window's reflection
A backrooms-ass room with a twilight sky and trees seemingly imposed over it in a dream-like fashion (it's the reflection of the window)
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Rachel Leggett @rleggos.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I got the shot. I've been scheming and hoping the conditions would work out for this for two weeks!! 🪶
A broad-tailed hummingbird hovers next to an anise hyssop plant framed by purple blooms and with a rainbow behind it!!! The bird also has a little bead of water on its bill because it is raining.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Reminder: Dolly Parton helped fund the Moderna vaccine for COVID.
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Dolly Parton, who helped fund the Moderna vaccine, gets a ‘dose of her own medicine.’ (Published 2021)
The country music star broke into song before she was inoculated, and urged her fans to “get out there and get your shot.”
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
Steal all the world’s information; compel people to turn their thinking over to our subscription service; raise a bunch of kids we imagine as genetically superior with traditional proven parenting methods; concretize our eugenic vision of the world through this critical inequality
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Melissa @yournerdyfriend.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I just don’t think, in society atm, it’s epistemically responsible take things at face value anymore and that feels like quite a big loss actually, and I think I feel actual grief about it
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Plastic Duck is your new manager @billionhighways.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I would love to read something really incisive about sociopaths/narcissists and sentimentality
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Plastic Duck is your new manager @billionhighways.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Two posts about how people leave unfinished sparkling water cans all over the house
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Plastic Duck is your new manager @billionhighways.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
whereidlive.com/s/wwhzfmg6 Really gotta do a NM road trip
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United States: where I've been
Fill in your own version and see where the two of you disagree.
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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Socialist Sephiroth can still happen if people want it bad enough
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KJZZ Phoenix @kjzz.org · 19/08/2026
The West Valley NAACP says it’s filing a complaint with the Peoria Unified School District after it pulled three books from K-8 curriculum. This comes after three books written by people of color were removed from the K-8 curriculum.
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NAACP files complaint over Peoria school district's removal of 3 books from K-8 curriculum
The West Valley NAACP says it’s filing a complaint with the Peoria Unified School District after it pulled three books from K-8 curriculum. This comes after three books written by people of color were...
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/08/2026
When an AI company's security tool "escapes containment" and hacks someone else's servers, we need to ask the company "Why do you suck so bad at building secure sandboxes for your hacking tools?" rather than "Why are your hacking tools so amazingly powerful?" 24/
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Luke Diaz @lukediaz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This isn't really important but a bit sad that Verona didn't get a mention for helping start the anti-Flock bandwagon...I mean, it would have been to see a reference in a website I've been reading for over a decade :-/
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
our entire global financial system is currently leveraged to the hilt on the premise that it was good and right for a small cadre of US companies to steal all of the intellectual work ever produced by humanity and sell its back to us without credit or remuneration to the authors (plagiarism)
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KJZZ Phoenix @kjzz.org · 15/08/2026
A clean-energy slate narrowly won control of SRP’s district board in April. They just lost it.
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Clean-energy slate loses narrow control of SRP board, following new appointment
A clean-energy slate narrowly won control of SRP’s district board in April. They just lost it.
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Stephen Kearse @kearse.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
would love to see music press embrace more profiles like this. hammerandhope.org/article/isai...
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Is This What R&B Sounds Like When You Don’t Respect Women?
The emerging artist Isaia Huron sings to an anti-intellectual misogyny growing common among men.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 17/07/2026
Fan Clearly Drowning In Diamondbacks Pool
Fan Clearly Drowning In Diamondbacks Pool
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/07/2026
> "Left" and "right" have had the same meaning since the French Revolution. If you want to know if someone is on the left or the right, ask them, "What is more important: human rights or property rights?" If they say "Property rights are a human right," then they are on the right. 18/
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Plastic Duck is your new manager @billionhighways.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Got my ass
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
In a hearing where residents grilled officials on data centers, a resident of Tyrone Township, Michigan, asked a simple question: Have you signed an NDA with any party regarding developments that could affect the town? The majority of the township's officials refused to answer.
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The San Diego Union-Tribune @sandiegouniontribune.com · 08/07/2026
‘She was a hero’: Families, advocates of those who died in jail honor journalist Kelly Davis
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‘She was a hero’: Families, advocates of those who died in jail honor journalist Kelly Davis
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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Mary Shelley: sup fuckers King: we're talking about maine politics Shelley: [stabs King] no you ain't King: oooow! Mary!! Shelley: sorry steve, i know it hurts but you have to understand Shelley: i really wanted to do it Shelley: fuckin maine!
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
"Dem HR ladies" is such a misogynist turn of phrase, I'm still kind of speechless about it.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
It's always easy to spot real ass people and pieces of shit. Two thoughts on the same topic
Naomi Klein offering up a serious mea culpa for promoting Platner and to the women who came forward to speak on Platner Some Rando blaming Bluesky hogs for her bad judgment
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Plastic Duck is your new manager @billionhighways.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Things Frankie is deeply troubled by: Other dogs, visible large bodies of water, humans playing guitar, humans leaving the house, being in a car, deliveries Things that do not bother Frankie at all: Fireworks, lightning
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Plastic Duck is your new manager @billionhighways.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The thing about snoring is no matter how much you love someone you end up just wanting to throw stuff at them
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Plastic Duck is your new manager @billionhighways.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Top five Stephen Kings: 5. Firestarter 4. Misery 3. Skeleton Crew 2. It 1. Pet Semetary
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Plastic Duck is your new manager @billionhighways.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
What do we do about sadists/narcissists. Seriously I feel like this is a critical policy/quality of life issue but how do you even address it without getting into Minority Report territory. I’m not being disingenuous this is something I’ve been thinking about a lot based on very painful experience
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Plastic Duck is your new manager @billionhighways.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Her adoption name was Frankie, her official name is Francesca Frampton-Reilly, her other names include Stinky, Musher, Potato, lil Fat Fat, Baby Girl, Muffin, and omg I know I’m forgetting the best ones
Lil pug being all mushers with the bell bell up for rubbing
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Plastic Duck is your new manager @billionhighways.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I’m so obsessed with myself right now. There’s the faintest hint of bittersweet because teenage me to 40ish was wracked with pathological self-hatred but I feel so good I can’t even care about all that water under the bridge, it got me here and goddamn I’m grateful 🏳️‍🌈
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