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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 12h
Advocating for more power and influence in decision-making about the use of computers in our lives is empowering. Trying to be an external product manager to a multi-billion dollar computer undertaking is less so. lesscomputer.ca/advocate-for...
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 13h
The real concern I have is that people will decide that the magic box can give the right answer without needing the hard-won data (from expensive experiments) and just stop funding us because why bother when the magic box can tell you what dark matter is.
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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A masterpiece of nuclear anxiety and post-war angst, the original 1954 Godzilla uses the monster as a symbol of mankind's relentless atomic hubris. Feeling almost documentary-like in some scenes, its hellfire atmosphere stuns even today. It remains singular in the wider franchise.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
Launched in May, “the page uses data from customers’ activity to generate details about them in categories like Product Preferences, Interests & Hobbies, and Home & Family, which Amazon then uses to personalize users’ product experiences.”
fastcompany.com
'Has flat buttocks,' 'cusses when scared': Amazon keeps shockingly specific customer profiles. Here's how to find yours
Amazon's new 'About you' page lists many assumptions about shoppers—like their favorite brands, their hobbies, and the shape of their bodies.
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 05/10/2026
[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!
forbes.com
Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many
Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.
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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 05/10/2026
"Framing any disagreement as a difference of opinion between two sides, and then asking everyone to pick a camp, is intellectually convenient. It also happens to be a really bad way of actually wrapping your head around the possibilities present in the world." - @spavel.bsky.social
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
“The new pilot is part of a significant expansion of a closely watched ‘AI sandbox’ program that allows Utah’s Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy, or OAIP, to waive regulations for companies that want to test AI products under state supervision.”
statnews.com
Utah plows ahead with more health AI pilots for prescriptions, women’s health
Utah plans to allow an AI product to evaluate patients and write new drug prescriptions without prior human review.
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Lauren Schneider @laur-insider.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Florida Keys scientists are relieved that coral fared better than expected this summer. Still, researchers can't ignore the big-picture trends of rising temperatures and are piloting more active interventions to protect reefs. My latest for the Miami New Times: www.miaminewtimes.com/news/can-sha...
miaminewtimes.com
Can shade save Florida’s coral reefs?
Researchers in the Florida Keys are testing shade structures and other interventions to help coral survive increasingly hot ocean temperatures.
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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
...that realm, but I think a lot of people who have seen how revolutionary AI is in coding don't really understand how little the idea of "custom computer programs" appeals to the majority of people who don't already make computer programs. I use computers as a tool; I don't customize them.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
OH MY GOD CLERGY PLEASE STOP WITH THE AI SLOP IT IS SUCH AN UGLY LOOK
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Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 02/10/2026
you know what Muse is super good for? exfiltrating bulk data from Meta platforms without research API access eg every Instagram account of every Congressional candidate in Texas
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Mike Schuster @mcs212.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
There is a fifth wave of ska, beyond that which is known to rude boys
Rod Serling
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 02/10/2026
Concerned about mass surveillance, from Flock ALPRs to face recognition to creepy ads that seem to know everything we’re thinking and planning? Meet those who’ve been warning about and fighting this dystopia for decades on the “Privacy’s Defenders” podcast.
eff.org
Privacy’s Defenders Podcast: Cowboys, Cypherpunks and Visionaries
People are increasingly concerned about the ways in which mass surveillance is tracking our every move: from Flock license plate readers to face recognition to creepy ads that – based on what we see a...
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@JFriedhoff

me at 13: wow i can't wait til we have immersive computers everywhere like star trek
me at 30: wow i can't wait until we destroy all computers like in dune
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✨ Hamish Steele ✨ Go-Man Vs. the Star Dragon OUT NOW! @hamishsteele.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I genuinely think Digger would look more interesting if Tom Cruise was doing the same performance but with no prosthetics at all. He's already a 64 year old multi-millionare. He's what they look like.
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Bliterally @bliterally.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Contact your school board ppl
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 02/10/2026
Whether you're new to WhatsApp or a longtime user, there are a bunch of settings buried away that can help improve your security. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...
ssd.eff.org
How to: Use WhatsApp
Some of WhatsApp's most useful security features are not enabled by default. You'll need to actively go in and set them up yourself (and ask your contacts to do the same!). Download location: Google Play Store or Apple App Store System requirements: Android 5 or later, iOS 15.1 or later...
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Dustin Jay Bell @sanctumperilous.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m a snob, I think any reading is better than no reading, i think ’high art‘ is better than ‘low art‘. But I also think that someone who read a dozen werewolf eroticas last year is far more likely to read a Jane Austin (or other classic) this year than someone who didn’t read any books.
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What I mean is there are some books that are trying to give you a transcendent moving experience, and make you feel like you lived a different life, and some books are giving you fantastic weekend entertainment. And that's fine!
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 03/10/2026
Meta has enabled Muse to build extensive and ever-growing profiles on the orbit of people in a user’s life. Based on user input but also “publicly available information.” Whether that means a web search, Facebook’s own extensive data, or buying data broker info…we don’t know? And we can’t opt out.
wired.com
Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.
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Bliterally @bliterally.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Makes sense on both sides. These aren’t teenagers - they’re highly educated and in their late 20s who are seeing their peers put money into retirement accounts and hit other life milestones.
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Bliterally @bliterally.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think getting the PhD “dropouts” makes sense. If the person wants to go on to be faculty someplace, that’s a long hard poorly paid career with a dwindling number of open positions. If they wanted to do 2 years then see where life takes them … they can drop out with a MS degree and pay some bills.
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Dr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My daughter, 24, put ‘educated before AI’ on her CV. The kids already know this.
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
this is really sad but puts words to some things that you may have a hard time articulating so worth a read...
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Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you can’t make one of these “listening sessions,” you can also go through each standard and submit your comments online using the state’s standards review site. www.wusf.org/education/20...
wusf.org
Evolution and climate change are missing from Florida's proposed K-12 science standards
The Florida Department of Education held its first listening session at Armwood High School. Some teachers brought up their concerns about missing topics, such as evolution.
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Not even joking, this is a huge way I expect art to change in the coming years. At least "art" in the broad sense of written, visual, and musical production. Mind you, The Algorithm was already pushing this. Ominously, there's a journalism version. Journalists want news. Public wants conspiracy.
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Jimmy Hendricks @jimismash.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most vocal portion of the big titty fan base doesn't want them attached to characters with agency, though. We've seen the ire that female led sci-fi draws, and if you put big titties on vin diesel, you're catering to a very narrow audience.
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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Let John Stewart Surf
back in the day if u did a tv show called surf dracula you'd see that foold surfing every week in new adventures but in the streaming era the entire 1st season gotta be a long ass flashback to how he got the surfboad until you finally get ti see him surf for 5 min in the finale
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
CBS NEWS PARTNERS WITH KALSHI CBS News is partnering with Kalshi to integrate prediction-market data into its 2026 midterm coverage. CBS joins CNN, Fox News and NBC News in highlighting prediction markets as part of their coverage
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 30/09/2026
FYI if you're interested: the AI Skeptics reading group is starting "The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence" by Matteo Pasquinelli This week we're reading the Intro & chapter 1. next week we're reading Part I. the week after that we're reading Part II, finishing the book
bookshop.org
The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence
A social history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial factories and the surveillance of collective behaviour.What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the qu...
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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
listen i'm not gonna link to it but "stay at home parents would simply have no use for universal daycare" is some of the most "oh you've never actually talked to anyone" shit i've ever heard
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The Verge @theverge.com · 29/09/2026
Every single one of 21 tested vehicles sent data to a third-party domain over Wi-Fi. Over half contacted domains specializing in advertising, tracking, or analytics. These companies gather details about your vehicle or driving behavior to sell to insurance companies or target you with ads.
theverge.com
Your car’s data privacy problems are worse than you think
“There’s a lot to be worried about,” the project lead said.
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Maybe don't feed your unpublished research into the plagiarism nexus?
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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
Part of the problem is the vast difference of experience people have of “AI”. If you use it at work, it’s genuinely very useful and there are known ways of making it work well. Meanwhile consumer applications are mostly stupid, evil, broken, or all three. More here:
findthethread.blog
Absent Intelligence
Maybe I was a little harsh when I said that “AI” models don’t have a moat — and with all the hype around the big AI IPOs, it’s worth revisiting and clarifying that statement. While I stand by my state...
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
appleinsider.com
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Bliterally @bliterally.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So who is Ron Hubbard here
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
So many autistic/neurodivergent women (which I bet describes a LOT of women in the Silicon Valley AI scene) report being *specifically* targeted by sexual predators who take advantage of their issues with reading social situations. Which is why I loathe the “oh, those poor autistic men” excuse.
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Marie Cerda @primalux.thedeadbird.club · 28/09/2026
You can laugh & think people deserve it, just don't do it in my replies. I'm sharing this not bc I think it's a danger for myself or most of my mutuals, but Meta is really pushing Muse when you use any of their apps. Maybe your parent, or kid, or other person close to you might decide to try it.
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rat-bag.bsky.social @rat-bag.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Fuckin not it for explaining miss cleo to zoomers
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
*I don't know what "mathematics" is, but it may be more important to figure out what it once was and what it's rapidly becoming
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Florida officials demand that public schools and character schools throughout the state begin banning books proactively or face punishment. There's no Miller Test here. The state claims they have no list, but they point to several lists for schools to begin with. bookriot.com/florida-educ...
bookriot.com
"Weed On Purpose, Not Only After a Fight": Florida Official Demands More School Book Bans
Florida's Commissioner of Education is demanding all public and charter schools in the state proactively ban books–or face punishment.
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is exactly why Florida's Commissioner of Ed targeted Hillsborough: they knew there'd be immediate compliance. Expect it happen elsewhere in FL and without a paper trail: bookriot.com/florida-educ...
bookriot.com
"Weed On Purpose, Not Only After a Fight": Florida Official Demands More School Book Bans
Florida's Commissioner of Education is demanding all public and charter schools in the state proactively ban books–or face punishment.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Bliterally @bliterally.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sad all around
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
SISYPHUS: they're calling it CrossFit
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