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Cantras

@cantras.bsky.social
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Cantras many other places. Bookish, anxious, autistic, full of anecdotes. Any pronouns. The squirrel was named BooBoo.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 4h
If you’d do it for their sports team, whether or not you even liked the sport they picked, you can do it for their deepest hearts and souls.
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mcc @dryad.technology · 22h
Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of
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Cantras @cantras.bsky.social · 22h
Had a good walk down to the dog park, where i sat in the shade of the doggy play structure (stairs, ramp, tunnel) and the dogs enjoyed chasing bikes (trail runs right next to the park),
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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 23h
We used to structure society so that we didn't have to give teenagers 6 figure loans to go to school and we could do that again.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending
a graph of roadway and mass transit lights
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 02/10/2026
The chart explains AI hype more than any chart that's ever been charted.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Seriously, unless you're going to call me a "scientist" for helping my son with his class volcano project and call me a "physician" because I applied a band-aid successfully, please please PLEASE stop calling any random crank who shits out a book about the past a "historian"
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
George Saunders on using AI: "Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that?"
Have you spent time trying to write or revise with AI? Is there an experiment that would be interesting enough to try?

I have not. Not for a second. To me, this whole idea of using AI to write is . . . anathema. A thing to be most radically avoided.

Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that? Not even in an email and certainly not in a short story or novel.Who are we ceding our authority to, exactly, when we let AI write for us? And why? Why surrender our agency (that amazing ability we have to reach across time and space, with our strange, idiosyncratic phenomenon, and land within the sensibility of another human being) to something that, by its very design, pushes the individual sensibility aside? And in the name of . . . what, exactly? Ease, I guess? Efficiency? The person who chooses to write with AI has also sacrificed, from the start, the opportunity of experiencing difficulty, of struggling to say what he wants to say, of making himself evident in his prose, of trying to find out what he believes. By this, he sacrifices a chance to know himself and his mind better. To me, that’s a shame. And it’s dangerous, because, as we are now finding out, it affects the brain and lessens our capabilities. Thanks, but no thanks, get thee behind me, etc.
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 01/10/2026
Never in my life have I seen such widespread and uncoordinated defiance of law enforcement in America. That's just stunning. Once regular people decide to start hindering the feds all by their lonesome, you've turned a corner.
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Cantras @cantras.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My brother invited me to his party he warned would probably be "a big gay sausagefest" because the women he invited were busy. It was, i was the only woman-like person there, but it was so nice to not worry about it.
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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is why I call AI a deskilling project.
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Cantras @cantras.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Last night on walkies we encountered this beastie on the sidewalk; i scooped it up (in a dog poo bag so it wouldn't leap from my hands; very agitated bag) and released it to a pond. Our first guess was bullfrog but we doubted it because of color. looked up ID and it is!
Photo of a pale green bullfrog on a background of weeds and old wet leaves.
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Cantras @cantras.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I like my job and the people there. I still take off the first Saturday of every month and i can tell how close we are to the end of the month by how much i am banging on the glass to be let out.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You have to wait until the sixth paragraph of this piece before you learn, in the New York Times reporting on the murder of THEIR OWN EMPLOYEE, that the victim was a trans man who had been abused for being trans by the in-laws who murdered him. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Couple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)
Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.
Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor
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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm going to treat this as a good faith question, even though I'm not sure it is. Many universities require students to take breadth requirements; that means humanities students take math and science courses and STEM students take humanities and social science courses. And that's good! Why? 🧵
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I keep coming back to this clip against the background of AI companies infesting higher education. And I feel like I need to show this in class to students, for them to understand why not to trust these bastards
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 27/09/2026
LOUDER FOR THE BACK ROW
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
It should really bother everyone more that these "AI" companies and the people that run them are always— ALWAYS— looking for ways to trick or coerce us into giving up more and more ourselves to them.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, working at a desk. A brain next to her says, "We need to take breaks!"
The second panel zooms in on Sarah's face. She is annoyed. She says, "What if I don't listen to you?"
The third panel shows the brain smiling.
The fourth panel shows the brain reaching towards a lever. The brain says, "I'LL MAKE YOU."
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Cantras @cantras.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Feeling very 40. Restless and twitchy, so I'm pacing in the dark trying to get tired; but also sore so also cat-cow and child's pose.
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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Using generative AI means that you can't answer the most basic element of research, which is "where did you get this information?"
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.
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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Democrats still think they are living in the 1990s and that what people want is for the partisan bickering to cease. We are actually living in the 2020s and the people want treason to be prosecuted
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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 23/09/2026
"The brief also states that Microsoft knew about OpenAI’s use of LibGen as early as April 2019 and in 2022 through an effort called Project Clear, OpenAI deleted its LibGen files."
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Unsealed Files Show Open AI/Microsoft Knew Copying Was Illegal and Could Hurt Authors
Newly unsealed comments made in briefs filed by Open AI and Microsoft reveal that executives knew they were illegally training their products on copyrighted books and that AI generated books would likely displace human-authored books in the market.
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Cantras @cantras.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The sex shop by my old house is closing :( AND I won't be able to make it there until their last day when probably all the good stuff will be sold out.
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Cantras @cantras.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I asked my boss if I could get off early Thursdays, be early or late on some other day, to take a class. Turned out to be the perfect time to ask/makes his job easier with other changes, so that starts in 2 days! imma learn SWORDS.
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Loose Leaf Queer @genderqueerwolf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
10 spots left. 8 days. Who will be the last to winter's toothsome embrace?
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David Lovejoy @philadlj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ANYone running for office in the US, regardless of party affiliation, should be viciously laughed off the ticket for suggesting some people deserve rights and others don't
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Cantras @cantras.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Dear rabbits, i know our yard is full of tasty not-turf-grass, but the dog can teleport, it is not safe! Three and a half (one rescue) in as many days D:
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
very very basic calculation: do you want to save people or do you want to Always Be Right
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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My favorite is when people who have no experience of a thing think they can talk all day about a thing. If you don't have ADHD, then how do you "know" it's over-diagnosed? If you don't need SSRIs, then how do you "know" others don't need them? This is literally basic empathy.
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Cantras @cantras.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Figured out why LeggyDog stunk yesterday when she tried to bring in a baby rabbit at bed time. Threw that over the fence, swept the back yard this morning to find anyone else. Had to pooper-scooper it into a bag, it was well past being picked up and tossed D:
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
the republicans are wide open on several fronts, historically unpopular president, unpopular war, record high gas. any dem throwing trans people under the bus at this moment is doing it because they want to. not like they need to, do they. even if it worked as a vote winner, which it doesn't
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aran 🏳️‍⚧️ @aranaya.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
there should be a lot less "look how much I agree with Republicans" and a lot more "we're going to rebuild what the Republicans destroyed, and punish them for it"
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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
OKAY FINE YOU CAN HAVE A CHURU
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026
The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 18/09/2026
a pretty good way to gauge the conversation is whether people are talking about harm or risk harm is about what's happening now already risk is about what could maybe happen in the future and basically the whole ai cult scene is in agreement that possible risks are more important than current harm
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Cantras @cantras.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Round one, Morningstar vs Morningstar: Grillers original (wheat and soy) wins over savory garden veggie (veggies and soy), mostly because the latter has texturally-offputting chunks of veg. Any flavor difference is negligible from inside a bun, and neither are impressive.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 17/09/2026
Maybe we need to elect someone smart.
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Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 16/09/2026
"Your brains stop developing at age 25" was a press misrepresentation of a study. They wanted to see if brains continued to develop after adolescence, so the study was capped at age 25. A later study with a wider subject pool showed that brains are ALWAYS developing our whole lives.
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Cantras @cantras.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This week's dinner plans: have purchased 4 different veggie burgers to attempt to find a new favorite, because I'm pretty sure my old favorite (original GardenBurger™) is effectively discontinued. I can Allegedly get a 48ct box on amazon for $130, but even Kellogg's website for it is all janky.
Photo of four packages of veggie burgers.  Red box, "actual veggies"-brand mushroom quinoa, white-orange-green box dr. praeger's balck bean quinoa, green pouch Morningstar farms garden veggie, white-green pouch Morningstar farms "Grillers" original burgers.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
HUGE: Elizabeth Warren, AOC, and other members of Congress have introduced a bill to push private equity out of healthcare. The Stop Corporate Takeovers of Physicians Act would make it illegal for private equity, insurance companies, and for-profit corporations to own or control medical practices.
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👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Macklemore is a real case study in how you can be Kind of a Dumb Guy but still end up broadly on the right side of most things merely by being generally quite good-natured, because questions like "should trans people exist?" and "is it bad to do a genocide?" are actually really uncomplicated.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@MohanadElshieky

Please stop saying the vaccine doesn't have severe side effects. I took my shots and now I'm alive and have to keep working
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15/09/2026
when Republicans are on the wrong side of a 60-40 issue they double down over and over and over, it becomes the center of political debate, and more often than not the numbers move. when Democrats are in that position they immediately give up
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