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Caræsten 🇵🇸

@cara.city
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I spend a lot of time thinking about all the ghosts that live in old electronics. Preservation, art, old tech. 18+ only Something beautiful is going to happen. (she / they) Writing: antientro.pics Patreon: www.patreon.com/caraesten

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 13/09/2026
for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com
image of a residential intersection with one red car driving across it and a baseball field in the backgroundblack and white dithered image of two red squares around the flock cameras in the previous image, on either side of the intersection
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mb ◡̈ @mbbischoff.com · 1h
it’s @rosemary.world’s birthday so you’re required to listen to some Fennel Flowers today and buy it if you like it. i do make the rules. fennelflowers.bandcamp.com
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Two from December, by Fennel Flowers
2 track album
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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 2h
remember to block @m-tracey.bsky.social and move on. there is nothing you can say to him that will be crueler than his lonely little life
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A-100 gecs @pinstripebungle.bsky.social · 13h
if only the green new deal (islamic revolutionary guard corps) could apply a carbon tax (fiberglass one-way attack drone) to big oil (yanbu refinery)
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 13h
Incredible work, no notes
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 16h
calling up this guy for one last job
james caan in thief, opening a large safe, looking away from the camera
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 23/03/2026
Pulse (2001) - dir Kiyoshi Kurosawa
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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Look, the solution is obvious. Hold the execs accountable for the crime that the committed by their greedy negligence. Who cares about "superintelligence", what's rogue here is a number of companies with unsafe business practices which knowingly endanger the public
nytimes.com
OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models
Employees and security researchers said they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but OpenAI did not listen.
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 18h
If you're interested in I, Claudius, I reviewed every episode for @popheist.com! One of the best television shows ever made.
popheist.com
'I, Claudius' Series Premiere Recap: The Empire Writes Back - Pop Heist
Sexy, sudsy, sinister, 'I, Claudius' is aimed at the gut and the groin as much as it's aimed at the noggin.
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 21h
what the fuck is happening
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 21h
NOOOOO those were my emotional support shipwrecks :(((
The Oakland Police Department announced on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, plans to remove 16 sunken vessels over two weeks from the Oakland Estuary in Alameda County, Calif. As part of a multiagency effort, more than 50 abandoned, derelict or surrendered vessels from the estuary were removed to improve navigation, increase public access, and reduce pollution risks. (Oakland Police Department via Bay City News)
The Oakland Police Department’s Marine Unit will remove 16 sunken vessels from the Oakland Estuary over the next two weeks as part of an ongoing effort to clear abandoned and derelict boats from the city’s waterways.

The operation follows the removal of more than 50 abandoned, derelict or surrendered
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 22h
HAMMERS
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 22h
the thing I’m realizing is that Anthropic capex is bonkers and also between Gemini Pro and the Chinese open models, we’re on the cusp of a price war. so they’re spending enormous quantities of money they don’t *have* while the thing they’re selling is getting cheaper.
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Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Since we’re doing another round of “AI will destroy humanity” doom-hype, it’s a good time to announce a new paper myself and my postdoc advisor just had accepted by BioSocieties on just this. TL;DR: almost all the “AI can make bioweapons” literature comes ultimately from the Effective Altruists.
ironholds.org
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lottie "frog k" lovely ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
at *barely* enough to make rent, and yesterday slipped in bathroom and seemingly broke leg. if you can help, please do, i have insurance so this isn't instant death, but it's a "slowly reimburse if paid for at all" situation on orthotics and the like & being able to use the toilet by myself is nice
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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We don't talk enough about the soundtrack of Fuck's Quest II, which was clearly made by someone who understands how to compose music and used that knowledge for evil
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026
very weird thing about being "in public online" for like, 15 whole years now is sometimes you'll run into a person who fully has a tulpa of you living in their home. and the problem is that the tulpa is not pulling its weight around the house and that person is now mad at ME for some reason
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
a fictional chart from 1995 to 2025 showing "guys who like sports" becoming more left-wing coded and "guys who says sportsball is the opiate of the masses" becoming more right-wing coded
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 29/09/2026
between three and five cups of coffee
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 29/09/2026
nothing a tech company loves more than finding enormously complicated ways to turn $9 into $1
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Phildini, since young times @phildini.net · 29/09/2026
California has spent over $400 million in settlements for Law Enforcement misconduct since 2010. I know because I built a site to track it: captainacab.com We're updating every week, and slowly expanding across the country. (boosts welcome)
captainacab.com
Captain ACAB -- CA settlements from law enforcement.
Tracking the hidden costs of law enforcement in the United States. $1,563,000.00 in CA settlements and counting.
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 29/09/2026
lmao Anthropic financials looking dire
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 29/09/2026
the thing about Crimes Of The Future (2022) is that it’s *not* about the moral panic surrounding trans kids but the other thing about Crimes Of The Future (2022) is that it’s absolutely and obviously about the moral panic surrounding trans kids
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 29/09/2026
if the no loads refused cum dump were a lesbian event, I think we’d still be discoursing about it today tbh
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 28/09/2026
yeah I feel like the priority of any lawmakers regulating these things should be to clearly delineate any class of e-bike from an e-moto first
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 28/09/2026
yeah in fairness this is the main reason why I don’t think they should make class 3s illegal right now. NJ fucked it up so badly that it’s made it very hard to use *any* e bikes
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 28/09/2026
ok my actual take here is that, while I don’t think they should make them illegal, I do think an e-bike that does >20mph (so, all class 3 bikes) are dangerous
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 28/09/2026
the thing I don’t get here is how this is meaningfully different from writing a python script that exploits some vulnerability on a remote server. this is literally just software.
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 28/09/2026
I think if you meaningfully punish OpenAI & co for all of these cyberattacks then they will stop doing them. Whether or not you want to anthropomorphize the agents, you gotta just land there.
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The New Material In eri @deerea.rs · 28/09/2026
ROADKILL: A film about bodies and violence with @deathcarpets.enterdeepfo.rest and a 1993 Mazda RX-7 Front Bumper. sign up for updates here: bit.ly/roadkill-film
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 28/09/2026
every so often a filmmaker forgets why we all hated midichlorians
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Sara Shearwater Wolfthing @never.horse · 28/09/2026
Diskette is one of the best scrappy little micropresses around doing risograph comics, zines etc. Go check out what they make and donate if you can.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s happening again. LLMs reporting someone’s in progress research as if it’s own discovery.
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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
it should simply not be legal for “ai” to generate photo-realistic images of people. or with people. they could limit the prompts to doing minor edits like fixing hair or or smoothing skin texture. they could do all these things. they actively choose not to.
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 28/09/2026
Meme of the two guys in a bus, one looking at a rock upset, the other looking at a landscape, with the text “mean nonbinary barista”
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 28/09/2026
went to Portola and came out of it realizing that I have an almost visceral dislike of EDM but that I need to be listening to WAY more disco
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Night Fae @femmeandfauna.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Always grateful that Folsom is me and @cara.city’s anniversary. We get to share joy both with each other and community 💜
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 27/09/2026
I’ve known Adriana for 14 years and she is a really wonderful and thoughtful person, and if you live in Oakland, you should vote for her
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mediumsizedsquid.bsky.social @mediumsizedsquid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Guy who interacts exclusively with Robots That Only Say Yes: oh boy I sure can’t wait to ask people about boundaries at the Implied Consent Convention
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 27/09/2026
uncritical adoption of sex positivity, especially in straight-dominated spaces, usually just means women are expected to perform sexual favors for men
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
This behavior in Silicon Valley AI circles very effectively shuts most women (and anyone else who’s not cool with group sex events with your colleagues) out of access to some of the most prestigious and well-paying tech and policy jobs on the planet today.
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 27/09/2026
I’ve known Adriana for 14 years and she is a really wonderful and thoughtful person, and if you live in Oakland, you should vote for her
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George Spies @georgespies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Fix transit in the East Bay, Vote Adriana Valencia for AC Transit” and many variations of the same. Has the benefit of being true! Volunteer! Donate! Vote! www.valenciaforactransit.com
valenciaforactransit.com
Adriana Valencia for AC Transit • Ward 3
Adriana Valencia is a frequent transit rider, community transit advocate and product manager running for AC Transit in Ward 3. Unable to drive because of a vision disability, Adriana relies on public ...
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 27/09/2026
happy 25th anniversary to whatever this was
RogerEbert.com

Zoolander
COMEDY
90 minutes PC-13 - 2001
Roger Ebert
September 28, 2001
4 min read
There have been articles lately asking why the United States is so hated in some parts
of the world. As this week's Exhibit A from
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 27/09/2026
DHH’s brain seems uniquely fried among Tech Guys, what the fuck is going on over there
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 27/09/2026
I can’t believe we used to have airlines specifically for trans and pan americans. this country has really regressed on queer rights.
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richard @halkyardo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Me and my friends would kill the Meta AI homunculus with hammers, I can tell you that much.
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 26/09/2026
we’re gonna beat the cute little animated avatar to death with hammers sorry
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 26/09/2026
I know this is a problematic opinion for a woman to have (I’m sorry!!!) but: Trader Joe’s mineral sunscreen is actually loads better than the original.
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 26/09/2026
I seem to have accidentally ordered two of these so if any Bay Area folks want one,,, let me know
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