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CK @bluespinner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Use it" meaning "use the library website." It really is incredibly easy to get ebooks from a public library.

CK @bluespinner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And if you have no books to read when the library is closed, you should be able to use it to get an ebook in a few minutes to download to Kindle or Libby, at any hour (and you can return ebooks you've read in just seconds). There's Hoopla, too. And please, please buy books when you can.

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CK @bluespinner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A shelf cloud from a cotton candy storm headed your way.

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CK @bluespinner.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If AI companies were held legally liable for all the mistakes made by their generative AI models and tools, they'd be out of business very soon. Their entire business model rests on conning people into thinking the error/hallucination rate is acceptable, and trying to shift blame to the users.

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CK @bluespinner.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Did a bot do your proofreading? You misspelled Khosla's name on the article at first - had it Kholsa, like your post - minutes ago...though it's corrected now. Sloppy editing. And btw, Emanuel and Khosla are wrong. There's no room for hallucinations in medicine except as something to be treated.

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CK @bluespinner.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I was just going to post about that illustrated children's book.

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CK @bluespinner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"...the module demonstrates how students can ethically leverage AI while maintaining intellectual control of their written work." There's no such thing as ethical use of genAI tools trained on stolen intellectual property. And you don't have or maintain intellectual control of anything AI-generated.

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CK @bluespinner.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The chapter on data centers in South America will infuriate you, too. I'd already read about a lot of what's in the book, but seeing it assembled so well, with all the stupid and unethical decisions being made by particular individuals, makes me hate the genAI industry even more.

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CK @bluespinner.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

How could you resist her face and that expression (no matter how often she's used it)? Do they have such things as regional dog treats? Maybe Carolina BBQ?

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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Lettuce can kill you and the military is doing flyovers to improve pilots’ morale. Are they depressed about not getting enough salad? We are living in the weirdest TL.

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CK @bluespinner.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A timeline most of us wouldn't have even believed possible, more than a decade ago, before we saw how gullible some people could be about both Trump and AI. Escapism is tempting, but we owe it to the future to correct this TL as much as possible, before they make it much worse.

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CK @bluespinner.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Yes. Always so frustrating. And the AI bros are content to divide and conquer, because encouraging AI use in any area helps them.

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CK @bluespinner.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

love hearing about happy marriages, though - marriages that really work - and it's great that you took the time to explain why. 2/2

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CK @bluespinner.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Happy anniversary! Love the wedding photo and the thoughtful essay. And I envy you. A long, close look at my parents' 20-year nightmare of a marriage (should've ended sooner but Mom was Catholic) left me so wary I never married, and my siblings' first marriages all ended quickly in divorce. I do 1/2

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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

AI companies want us to feel helpless in the face of AI’s supposed inevitability. In fact, they completely rely on it, & our passive acceptance of our “fate.” They want us to need AI to think. To write. To analyze. Everyone needs to remember what you were capable of pre-AI. You’re still capable.

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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

A brilliant 🧵. Please do read. I particularly loved “Of course LLM products have an address. It's a corporate address.” A wonderful unmasking of the faux-neutrality underlying tech exceptionalism. Google, channeling Barlow, has long claimed to be “everywhere & nowhere.” But Google has an address!

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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

“The album, it turns out, is one of the few things in music that AI cannot easily replicate, because an album is an argument, a journey, a relationship - a quest. A song can be optimised and productised, sped up and clipped. A body of work cannot.”

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Why I wrote Body of Work

Have you read Body of Work yet? You may not have gotten around to it. You may not be that interested in “the album”.

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CK @bluespinner.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

In any other administration I’d say this looks like a security nightmare, but as enemies of the US already have half of the people in this building on salary, I suppose it’s less of an issue…

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CK @bluespinner.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

And it's still been shown to dumb users down and create dependency.

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CK @bluespinner.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Love your writing, Will, but that's way too good a song for Trump. Not sure I can think of one bad enough for him, since I'm not likely to remember any that bad. Wish that interview had ended with an image of Trump, mid-tantrum, and Welker coolly explaining how often he'd failed to prove his claim.

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CK @bluespinner.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I suspect Bowie would've appreciated that cat.

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CK @bluespinner.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Eight inner cats here, varied preferences. Classic rock. Blues. Baroque. Elizabethan. Good music of any type from any period. Writing about music. Turning off music to focus on writing fiction in silence. The aspiring songwriter cat is waiting for more attention, plucking the guitars. All hate AI.

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CK @bluespinner.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Anyone really impressed by Claude and Anthropic should check out threads like this on Reddit's largest forum for Claude users: www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/c...

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CK @bluespinner.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

The generative AI industry is built on the theft of intellectual property. It dumbs down users and undermines education. It's the best tool ever for scams. It harms the natural environment and our information ecosystem, and worsens inequality. And it hallucinates. Arguably the worst tech ever.

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CK @bluespinner.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I always tell people with story ideas to write the stories and try to sell them. That's what creates professional writers. I wish you'd simply ask for nonfiction speculation about the future of AI, and not ask for possibly marketable story ideas that people might later regret giving away.

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CK @bluespinner.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Have you ever tried black grapes mixed with chunky peanut butter? It's great, especially if you miss PB&J but are avoiding wheat.

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CK @bluespinner.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Exactly. It's important to make it socially unacceptable to use generative AI and try to force others to use it. The polls showing young adults have a low opinion of genAI are encouraging.

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CK @bluespinner.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Love that answer! And I think you'll like what journalist Gil Duran had to say about LinkedIn's AI-addicted zombies: bsky.app/profile/gild...

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CK @bluespinner.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

In a theater, kicking myself as I realized I'd chatted with you twice months earlier - not knowing who you were then, though I should have. Kept wondering why that cute blond actor looked so familiar, till it got to the binary sunset scene. When I swore. youtube.com/watch?v=41ak...

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Binary sunset... from A New Hope, Star Wars: The Digital Movie Collection

YouTube video by Star Wars UK

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CK @bluespinner.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

"....almost anyone has the potential to be susceptible to the effects of a sycophantic AI – and more likely to keep coming back for more bad, self-centered advice." www.theregister.com/2026/03/27/s...

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CK @bluespinner.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I'm sorry she's gone, too young. I fell madly in love with a Moodies fan when I was 22. We broke up several months later, but I still can't hear the Moodies without remembering him, and for a long time afterward hearing their music made me wonder if I'd made a mistake moving away.

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CK @bluespinner.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I got only as far as the second paragraph about someone using Claude to evaluate health insurance plans and locate new doctors - "menial stuff" - so she has more time for playing guitar. Which I also love, but it's foolish to turn health decisions over to a hallucinating chatbot.

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CK @bluespinner.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Not true. Kyiv Post fact-check: www.kyivpost.com/post/68368

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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

“Our findings offer compelling evidence that model weights store copies of © works…undermining a key premise of recent fair use rulings, where courts have conditioned favorable outcomes on the adequacy of measures preventing reproduction of protected expression.” @tuhinchakr.bsky.social & others

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Alignment Whack-a-Mole : Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in Large Language Models

Frontier LLM companies have repeatedly assured courts and regulators that their models do not store copies of training data. They further rely on safety alignme

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CK @bluespinner.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

You're probably familiar with Fox News craziness. Newsmax is worse, and rightwing talk radio is even crazier. People who believe that RW propaganda are effectively in an alternate universe, difficult to reach with logic and facts.

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CK @bluespinner.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I didn't vote for that stupid psychopath. I voted against that monster three times. But I do have some non-thinking relatives who support him, and you've mentioned a Trumper in your family. Millions of Americans are brainwashed by rightwing media set up by billionaires.

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CK @bluespinner.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Thanks! I needed to see that now.

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CK @bluespinner.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

No humanity. GenAI is anti-human and a technology designed for fraud.

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CK @bluespinner.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

They seem amazingly unaware of all the teachers whose lives and careers have been made much more difficult because of generative AI and all the student cheating it's enabled and encouraged. And any teacher using genAI to save time should realize students will see that as an excuse to do the same.

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CK @bluespinner.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

According to Axios, Musk has made it clear his AI is available, but it isn't good enough. Google and OpenAI are in talks with the govermment about allowing their AI to do what Anthropic is refusing to do, so far. Of those two, the Pentagon prefers Google's Gemini. But they really want Claude.

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CK @bluespinner.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

The Trump regime is psychotic.

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CK @bluespinner.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

We had 70s and 80s already in the Midwest last week. Followed by several inches of snow, lol, but we did have 70s and 80s. Supposed to have 60s again by next weekend - bye, snow! Meanwhile, relatives who spent last week in Gulf Shores found it too chilly to enjoy swimming. We do have variety here.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

The *other* modern authoritarianism - unchecked AI - is already taking jobs and undermining the arts in a battle that is rapidly accelerating The new robots might have agency, but so do we. We can fight to save our jobs, our schools, our humanity My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ai-a...

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Is AI’s authoritarianism a bigger threat than Trump’s? | Will Bunch

As predicted, or feared, rapid advances in artificial intelligence are poised to upend U.S. society. We are not ready.

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CK @bluespinner.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

All types of pretense using AI, from students cheating to adults pretending to have knowledge and skills they don't have, should be treated as the fraud that they are - crippling for both individuals and society. AI companies' theft of IP for training AI and all harms from AI should be prosecuted.

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