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Blake C. Stacey @blakestacey.myatproto.social · 3h

Hey everybody, Washington state might vote in favor of mandatory genital inspections www.kuow.org/elections/20...

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Henry Gilbert (Beloved Podcast Personality) @talkinghenry.bsky.social · 5h

Skydance now owns Nick, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Comedy Central, and MTV, effectively ending US TV animation as we know it. Countless jobs will be lost, and fewer new shows will be created. An apocalyptic scenario for cartoons, yet it's maybe the 5th-worst thing about the Paramount-WB merger!

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Blake C. Stacey @blakestacey.myatproto.social · 9h

My hot take is that I should be granted a cult and the status of Grand High AI Safety Panjandrum because in *my* fanfiction, there's a Mad Max desert chase and we get to see Dr. T'ana provide gender-affirming therapy archiveofourown.org/works/883857...

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Bread, Circuses and Green Blood - Chapter 1 - Blake C Stacey (BlakeStacey) - Star Trek: Lower Decks (Cartoon) [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 22h

Another campaign finance report from the Yes on 3 (top-two primary) campaign, and again, it's almost all from private equity and the investor class. $1.3M in new money, and 80+% of it coming from just 8 donors--7 private equity executives and investment firm managers plus 1 investment firm itself

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Blake C. Stacey @blakestacey.myatproto.social · 19h

Today I have seen people use Claude to remove duplicate items in a list and to make a pie chart. No. These are people with a cognitive surrender fetish. I will not engage.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 20h

"Lula’s 47%-45% loss disappointed some, but fell within the margin of error...Here’s how he plans to win the runoff election on October 25." bmier.substack.com/p/glimmers-o... "The only response to the defeatism and nihilism engulfing social media over Lula today:" x.com/marcusbarnet...

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Blake C. Stacey @blakestacey.myatproto.social · 05/10/2026

"It's all right, the liminal space influencer can't hurt you"

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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Probably burned my remaining bridges in the business, but I recently put out a statement regarding the increasing use of “generative AI” in British indie wrestling.

I’ve seen more and more promotions and wrestlers using generative AI, some of whom I work with, and I want to make something VERY clear:

I do not give anybody permission to use my likeness in any AI-generated posters, promos, clips, etcetera, and I consider any such use to be a personal and professional violation.

Do not feed me to a tech company’s algorithm. They’ve stolen enough of my writing and video material for their “AI training” already. That’s how Alleged Intelligence works, by the way - it’s a plagiarism tool, regurgitating every shred of “content” fed to it.

Leaving aside the horrific impact AI data centers have on the environment, you’re not creating anything by typing prompts into a box. Why should anyone be impressed with some cool photoshoot, promo, or move when you didn’t really do it? At best, Alleged Intelligence is self-insert reality fanfic and it makes wrestling truly live up to its reputation as fake.

I won’t try to sway you away from it, but I hope you reconsider and really look into AI. Whatever you do, leave me out of it.

Commander Sterling.

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Blake C. Stacey @blakestacey.myatproto.social · 05/10/2026

¿Cómo se dice "the stove touching will continue until morale improves"?

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Blake C. Stacey @blakestacey.myatproto.social · 05/10/2026

I want to believe in people, but people aren't making that easy

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Blake C. Stacey @blakestacey.myatproto.social · 05/10/2026

I want to believe in people, but people aren't making that easy

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Blake C. Stacey @blakestacey.myatproto.social · 05/10/2026

The environmental costs of this election for the whole damn planet... I have no idea how bad they will be except "probably worse than I am imagining right now"

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Anonymous Bureaucrat @bureaucratanon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There’s a decent chance, standing where we are right now in 2026, that January 2029 we have a Democratic president. And that person is going to have to navigate a world where nearly every other major power and ally has a far-right govt in charge. Whole new world they’re walking into

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Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Since I wrote this comic, the Senate introduced their own version of HR 7661, also called the “Stop the Sexualization of Children Act” with nearly identical text. Please add NO ON S 4925 to your calls to reps about these federal book ban bills www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c... #bannedbooksweek

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Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's a great day to donate to @authorsabb.bsky.social! I marked the start of Banned Books Week 2026 with a donation :D

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Blake C. Stacey @blakestacey.myatproto.social · 04/10/2026

Alas sweet mother I cannot wire, for Ea-nāṣir has swindled me with substandard copper

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Blake C. Stacey @blakestacey.myatproto.social · 04/10/2026

A bar walks into a physicist. Oops, wrong reference frame.

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Blake C. Stacey @blakestacey.myatproto.social · 04/10/2026

My hot take is that I should be allocated a cult and the position of AI Safety Thought Leader because in *my* fanfiction, Daria and Jane are vampires who exsanguinate a cop and steal his wife archiveofourown.org/series/6245201

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Blake C. Stacey @blakestacey.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026

"reassess your priors" lol you sound like you want to fuck Aella

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Blake C. Stacey @blakestacey.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026

I learned from a lamp pole today that there is a #Somerville Zine Fest on Saturday the 3rd at BFAC (285 Washington St, Union Square), but their only web presence is a goddamn Instagram post of course.

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Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On Monday, the Cambridge city council will consider following Somerville's lead (from 2020) by decriminalizing consensual, adult sex work. I encourage everybody to read the letter linked below and consider adding your name in support. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...

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Petition to the Cambridge City Council for the Decriminalization of People Engaged in Consensual Adult Sex Work

Cambridge is a city that is home to many, and some of our neighbors and loved ones are sex workers. However, because sex work is criminalized in Massachusetts, sex workers in Cambridge live in fear th...

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Blake C. Stacey @blakestacey.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026

we regret to inform you that another Yudkowsky fiction project has hit the towers awful.systems/post/9864365... github.com/esyudkowsky/...

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Blake C. Stacey @blakestacey.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026

My hot take is that I deserve to lead the AI safety movement because in *my* fanfiction, Daria is a sex-repulsed ace trans girl in a fully prosthetic cyborg body, as she admits to Major Kusanagi archiveofourown.org/works/880225...

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Blake C. Stacey @blakestacey.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026

My hot take is that I deserve my own cult and to become the leading intellectual light of AI safety because *my* fanfiction ships Mariner and T'Lyn archiveofourown.org/works/883216...

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Blake C. Stacey @blakestacey.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026

ah yes, the "genuine revolution in coding" and the "new capabilities that AI haters just refuse to acknowledge"

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Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org · 02/10/2026

“Groups such as the Center for Democracy and Technology and Electronic Frontier Foundation argue the Senate’s KOSA would incentivize age verification systems and say Congress should instead pursue legislation more focused on things like data privacy and consumer protection.”

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After settlement, CT mom pushes Congress to take up online safety

CT will get money from a landmark settlement with Meta, but advocates still want to see swift passage of Blumenthal’s Kids Online Safety Act.

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michael veale @michae.lv · 01/10/2026

The proposed social media ban, the EU KIDS Act, is perhaps the most chaotic law I have ever read! New paper: Are EU Kidding Me? Notes from a Poorly Drafted Social Media Ban. files.michae.lv/papers/veale_areEUkiddingme.pdf In the spirit of the proposal I have stayed offline and read no takes.

In September 2026, the European Commission published a proposed EU KIDS Act, responding to the demand for restrictions and further design obligations applying to digital services accessible to children, including social media. This Article argues that regardless of what one believes about the merits of this policy direction, the EU KIDS Act is not the legislative text we need. The scope and drafting are little short of chaotic, full of holes, enormous ambiguities, and unintended consequences. Recitals contradict articles. The use of scope borrowed from other pieces of legislation not designed for this purpose brings services into scope that should not be subject to the relevant provisions, like book-recommendation websites, music services, or exercise trackers. The infrastructural requirement for assurance of age and parental responsibility attestation simply omits enormous issues of complex families and childhoods. Complex design obligations are written in ways that can be plausibly interpreted as implicitly prohibiting entire swathes of products, such as voice assistants. This Article outlines these issues, and many more. The Commission should withdraw this proposal and reissue a workable and realistic text.

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Blake C. Stacey @blakestacey.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026

Their proposed rules really don't like "likes", deeming them horrible and no good and very bad for essentially no reason. Mastodon has like counts; Mastodon's user base has been falling off for years. How "addictive" can they be?

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Blake C. Stacey @blakestacey.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026

Hot take: I should be the one in charge of AI safety policy, because *my* fanfic has Jane Lane becoming Hell Priest of the Cenobites archiveofourown.org/works/60977959

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Blake C. Stacey @blakestacey.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026

Rand Paul is the Heartbreaking.jpg of Internet policy

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Blake C. Stacey @blakestacey.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026

The disjoint failure modes of Mastodon and bsky have been convincing me over the years that "social media" just can't be made to work, ultimately.

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

dreamt I started a trend among gen-z of referring to each other casually as "girlyopteryx." like archaeopteryx, but also, girl.

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Ben Allen @evodynamics.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NEW PUBLICATION: “Adaptive Dynamics of Discriminate and Indiscriminate Mating”, with Sam Rothberg & Brian Lerch. We model and analyze the evolution of indiscriminate mating—where organisms mate with others regardless of their sex. academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

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Adaptive dynamics of discriminate and indiscriminate mating

Abstract. Same-sex sexual behavior (SSB) occurs across many animal taxa. Some instances of SSB likely arise from animals’ mating indiscriminately and/or wi

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Biggest topics at Christian wife schools: 1) How to force yourself to spend time with your husband 2) Suck it up and endure sex 3) Try not to hate how unfairly he treats you The real answer? Divorce. Read for more. www.salon.com/2026/09/28/w...

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There is no safe way for researchers to use the systems provided by OpenAI, Anthropic, or any of these other companies. They have all admitted that plagiarism is an integral component of what they do. If you put your work in – even if it's just to touch up a manuscript – they will take it.

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Blake C. Stacey @blakestacey.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026

But since she pricked thee out for women's sucking, Mine be thy love and thy love’s use their fucking.

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 26/09/2026

I would love it if Science Magazine would hire an actual science journalist specializing in a related area to cover this kind of thing, instead of an AI shill PAID BY THE AI INDUSTRY

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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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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Massive fail, @science.org. Massive fail.

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