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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 02/10/2026

Customer: I asked ChatGPT what I should read and -- Me: Well I'm sure its advice is *great* because LLMs are all just massive databases of books stolen from me and my fellow writers. Customer: Wow I did not know that. Keep telling people. Also if you want to know what to read, ask a bookseller.

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Cameron Smith @handle.invalid · 25/09/2026

Yeah. I got hold of a second-hand copy of Struwelpeter a few years ago. This a book I was somewhat in awe of as a child. I asked my kids to read it and they found the horrible ends of basically all the main characters to be miserable. A cross between Saw and GoT.

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Cameron Smith @handle.invalid · 25/09/2026

Totally. Zuckerberg is completely amoral and only cares about privacy, user mental health or generally anything ethical when it becomes a big scandal that blows up in his face.

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Roel Maalderink @roelmaalderink.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hoe vinden Meta-medewerkers hun eigen Meta-bril? (Samen met @bitsoffreedom.eurosky.social)

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Cameron Smith @handle.invalid · 20/09/2026

Thanks, had never heard of them!

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Private equity turns to financial engineering to lure insurance billions. Using collateralised fund obligations (CFOs), slicing and dicing debts, loans, to create dodgy instruments. Back to the practices that brought the 2008 crash. Who will bail them out this time? archive.ph/vrBQn

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Private equity turns to financial engineering to lure insurance billions

Structured financing helps fuel growth of secondaries funds by making investments more attractive to risk-averse investors

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Cameron Smith @handle.invalid · 19/09/2026

Hmmm. These clever instruments worked so well last time.

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Dragon Warriors RPG @dragonwarriorsrpg.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Something from Legend for #freerpgday Something is rotten in the village of Jib’s Hollow and it isn't just the local weaver’s aversion to bathing. When a despairing ghost calls for justice, can the heroes find the murderer before more die? www.drivethrurpg.com/browse.php?d... #dragonwarriors

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Cameron Smith @handle.invalid · 19/09/2026

My tipple of choice living in Ed in the early 2000s

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Apparently more than one outlet has been doing the bizarre "interview AI generated actor Tilly Norwood" thing and on Piers Morgan it glitches out and starts speaking Chinese. I promise its much, much funnier than it sounds.

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Cameron Smith @handle.invalid · 19/09/2026

And the video quality screams "AI vid from early 2025. In my own work, with reasonably careful prompting, I have found it easy to get LLMs to write prose in a specific tone and form. I don't use LLMs for video generation but I have seen much better stuff in the last six months than Tilly.

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Cameron Smith @handle.invalid · 19/09/2026

I had intentionally avoided watching anything involving Tilly Norwood up to now because the whole concept is so abysmal. But I watched this clip and was surprised by how blatantly "AI 101" she is. Her speech is fully of cheesy AI tells, such as summarizing what you asked before replying.

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Cameron Smith @handle.invalid · 19/09/2026

Due to colleagues and business partners jumping on the "write everything with AI" bandwagon over the last 6 months, I find that my mind instinctively picks up on AI-generated prose. To the extent that it puts me off reading sources I used to love such as @electrek.co .

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Cameron Smith @handle.invalid · 19/09/2026

Easy-to-consume genre fiction binge for 4 squid. V. jealous as I live in a country where there are much less books around, 2nd hand or 1st hand. And none by Dorothy Gilman to the best of my knowledge.

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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Cartoon by Nick Anderson

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The funniest joke ever. 😂

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Cameron Smith @handle.invalid · 19/09/2026

Ooh "faketriot", that's an excellent word. Farage, Yaxley-Lennon, etc. Performative culture war patriotism wedded to self-interested tax and residence domicile in the very countries one professes to disdain. Did you coin it?

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Cameron Smith @handle.invalid · 19/09/2026

AFAIK, N. America is the one continent where no major powers have had a war with each other since the start of the 20th century. (Obvs, leaving aside the many US interferences with C. America). As someone who doesn't live there, seems great. What an own goal by the orange buffoon.

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Cameron Smith @handle.invalid · 19/09/2026

Repa enables fair transactions between buyers and collectors of plastic waste in Africa. It uses community agents + drivers + simple digital tools. A crowdfund incentivises collection of harder-to-recycle plastics by paying an above market rate. Find out more: repa.eco #plasticsky

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Witkoff has his good friend Vladimir. Junior and Bettina have their good friend Umar. Jared has his good friend MBS. So many beautiful friendships.

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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 14/09/2026

Why do the AI scam emails summarize my book for me? Imagine they were targeting restaurants instead. "Your pizza contains sauce and cheese, and sometimes, but not always pepperoni. I specialize in connecting eaters with unique and interesting food, like pizza with cheese."

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thatgirlinsb @34thparallel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Protesters at the Irish Open. shitler’s international golf links and hotel Doonbeg, Ireland. Thank you, Doonbeg!

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Cameron Smith @handle.invalid · 13/09/2026

Alsira M works as a waste picker w/ repa.eco in Mozambique. In 21 months she collected 1,211 kg of plastic: 809 kg PET, 323 kg HDPE/PP, 41 kg LDPE, 38 kg bulk bags & bottle caps. Her avg monthly income grew 90% fr 1,069 MZN at start to 2,034 MZN. Repa's top-up fund paid her 747 MZN ($11) #plasticsky

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Cameron Smith @handle.invalid · 12/09/2026

I particularly find this with hand tools for DIY - why is this angle grinder 3 times the price of that one? Nowadays in most stores I just get a blank look or a made-up explanation.

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Cameron Smith @handle.invalid · 12/09/2026

Sth that has been damaged, and often lost, is the 'semi-technical sales assistant'. I.e. you want to buy Thing X, you go to a shop w/ an owner-operator or 'old hand' employee. They help you choose from a bewildering array of products . Not based on corporate talking points but lived experience.

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 10/09/2026

According to Forbes, the Tesla Cyber Truck has surpassed the Edsel as the worst selling vehicle in history.

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Cameron Smith @handle.invalid · 09/09/2026

Yet another posh boy faking it with 'the masses'. Along with Yaxley-Lennon

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Finally they came for the Daily Mail and my irony meter just packed up and left and I never heard from it again.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 08/09/2026

I currently have a smart-but-not-very-smart ultra-cheap 'floor model' TV I bought in 2008 when I moved back to Edmonton and it sometimes has trouble communicating with *checks notes* the power outlet

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Watching BBC News and it's striking to hear the presenters repeatedly referring to the AfD as "far-right" whilst refusing to ever say the same about the hundreds of actual masked blackshirts currently swarming British ports

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Cameron Smith @handle.invalid · 07/09/2026

So hard to believe this is really a real post by a real senior official. But since he has previously played Jesus H, why not green lantern? Though does beg the question, why not a really super powerful guy like Superman himself?

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The Elder Memes @theeldermemes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

ok so i can rent a movie on amazon for twenty bucks or i can snap up a dozen movies from a thrift shop for the same price, deny a greedy corporation its profit and own the movies forever hmm this is tough

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Cameron Smith @handle.invalid · 06/09/2026

Sorry, not from the US. Is this a real food product? And is it a bun with bacon or jerky with a bun? The package has a lot to say...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Oh, honey . . . You place your children in the custody of priests, pastors, and youth pastors, a demographic proven most likely to molest children. You are *not* protecting and nurturing your children—you're endangering them. And shamelessly lying about Islam and feminism isn't going to change that.

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Cameron Smith @handle.invalid · 06/09/2026

A fair deal for waste pickers in the Global South.
Repa connects individuals and businesses with people who collect and sort plastic waste for a living. Working with local entrepreneurs, mobile technology, community agents and trusted transporters, we support fair, sustainable and circular markets for waste plastic in countries where plastic pollution is overwhelming communities.

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Dylan Roth @dylanroth.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

TIRED: Being pissed at yourself for not saving your work before an application crashes WIRED: Being pissed at the developers for cramming in more and more shit you don’t need into their enterprise software so it’s no longer stable and apparently even the autosave feature can’t be trusted

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Gary Chalk @garychalk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Over on the dark side, someone has suggested that I use Artificial Intelligence to create my illustrations. This is completely untrue, I use Natural Stupidity and here's me doing it.

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Sheady Omahrt @sheadyomahrt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I didn’t think cyber trucks could get an uglier til I saw the cyber shaggin wagon.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

There was a time when a person could employ a service or engage in a transaction and would not be asked once—much less hounded—for a rating and feedback thereafter. This I would like The Children to know.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Tech oligarchs could really set the example for the common folk by simply building their mansions right next to their data centers and then live in them with their families.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I’m reading Cannery Row. Jesus Christ is it amazing. So great to live in a world where I can be almost 50, have been an avid reader my whole life & have barely scratched the surface of the surface of spectacular books out there.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

SHOUT-OUT to Political Cartoonist extraordinaire & Member of the Order of Canada Michael de Adder, who routinely does a far better job of holding this administration accountable than the corporate media. Thank you for your attention to his brilliant satirical wit! 🙏 (also: 🤣)

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Break Free From Plastic @breakfreefromplastic.org · 28/08/2026

A leaked diplomatic memo reveals the U.S. is pushing to weaken global plastics treaty limits, the latest sign that US negotiators are siding with polluting industries over public health and a liveable future. Read: wapo.st/4ggCbS1

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Leaked memo shows how U.S. aims to weaken global limits on plastic production

A memo reviewed by The Washington Post, circulated by U.S. diplomats, comes as negotiations over a plastics treaty reach a critical point.

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