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Adam Roy @adnroy.bsky.social · 12h

I should not have to dress like a construction worker just to avoid being killed by a driver.

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Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · 13h

Do I know any (pref. Canada-based) researchers working on cognitive atrophy, AI, and (higher) education? Asking for a journalists.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 01/10/2026

#Recall: Gazelle USA Recalls Urban Arrow Cargo Electric Bikes; The front bolt in the seat post clamping mechanism can break, causing the seat to become loose, posing a fall hazard. Get repair. www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2027...

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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Uh, so this is probably why I couldn't find them in the store recently. I made Mississippi roast on Monday and ended up using pre-sliced peppers.

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you work at Cal State + are an AI refuser/angry re the renewal of the OpenAI contract, take the CSU AI Survey! I suspect last yr's data skewed towards enthusiasts/early adopters (certainly on my campus). It's important that the data reflect the full range of attitudes aisurvey.sdsu.edu/live/

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 30/09/2026

These men want you ignorant and powerless so that you can’t stop them from eliminating most of us when they really get things going.

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Senator Schmitt: So, you’re telling me you’ve never posed for pictures with a naval officer? Jack Smith: No, I don’t think so. Schmitt: Then explain this photo! Jack Smith: That’s a paparazzi pic, not one I posed for. Also, it’s not a naval officer, it’s a box of Cap’n Crunch. Schmitt: GOTCHA!

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N Sims @copyrightlibn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Turnitin is a scourge at every level of higher education and research, and even before LLM/AIs, it was making most people more ignorant about copying and plagiarism.

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Lady Froldmagen (she/her) @zinelib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

www.libraryfutures.net/apply-to-be-... Do I know any lawyers who luv libraries and want to earn $100k a year fighting for ebookery? 📚 ⚖️

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Apply to Be the Library Futures Staff Attorney

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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

First crisp morning commute in a few months and it was delightful. It was also an excellent doggo watching morning. I even got to say hello to (and get many kisses from) two black velvet hippos. Riding a bike is awesome!

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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Neighborhood coyotes are playing around on the berm behind my place this morning. It’s cool this morning and dewy. Poor little Gracie is growling gently from my bed.

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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s a good night for a broken heart. I’m watching the Jeff Buckley documentary on HBO tonight. What a talent! What a loss.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New from 404 Media: when you upload images to Copilot, they're not private. Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users' prompts/images, according to internal docs we got And they're horrified at what they're seeing. Bombarded with requests to make sexual AI images www.404media.co/humans-readi...

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Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified

Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I love that we can run a whole economy on this

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 28/09/2026

Maybe, just maybe, if you don’t want your work stolen by tech-bros, published in a pre-print before you’ve submitted it for peer-review, & used as marketing material to further enrich dreadful people, don‘t feed your work into the machine with theft at its core?

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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hey, San Diego...Go look at the sunset! It's a stunner tonight.

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

no no no you misunderstood. I said “fuck YOUR copyright”. MY copyright is very important and must be handled gently, like a tiny baby hummingbird

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Asked if China's DeepSeek stole American IP, AI Czar David Sacks says it looks like a technique called distillation was used where a student model can "suck the knowledge" out of the parent model and there is evidence that DeepSeek distilled knowledge from OpenAI's models, which is leading to efforts to develop techniques to prevent future copycats

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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Good morning from Gracie and her current favorite wubbie.

A black and tan scruffy dog snuggled in her bed. She is using a blue unicorn llama stuffy as a pillow.

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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Huh. Just spotted a student using a Sony "Sport Walkman" here in the library. Yep, an actual tape-playing, yellow-and-black Sport Walkman. Is it a time traveler from 1986?

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California Faculty Association @cfaunited.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Get used to us shutting down your meetings like we did today, Chancellor García. Five Unions, One Fight #FundTheClassroomNotTheBoardroom

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valerie @vfo.northsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is just to say i have broken the website i was trying to fix and which you were probably using for research forgive me 'twas bootstrap templates: so custom and so toast

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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Reluctant props to the woman blasting her romantasy/erotica from a bluetooth speaker whilst walking her dog this morning. I suppose 7:30 am is the perfect time for a heated orgy with leather-clad friends. Thanks for sharing that with all of Village Park.

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Mako @mako69.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You do not hate Gavin Newsom enough. You just simply don't. If you have any hate for this Patrick Bateman boss boot licker in your heart, triple it. That's a start. Media consolidation at this scale is venom straight into the veins of the public. Insane how fast they caved before the midterms.

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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Two years from now when motherfuckers are like "sure, Newsom is terrible but the alternative is a Republican," remember all of us from all political inclinations who shouted at the top of our lungs about what a duplicitous, opportunistic shitbag he is so we can avoid being in that scenario.

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Colin Parent @colinparent.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Thanks to NBC 7 for inviting me to talk about how infrastructure improvements can make our streets safer for everyone.

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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Leftover loaded mashed potatoes (with some gravy) from Seaside Market makes a fantastic breakfast.

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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Nothing makes me feel all of my 52 years more than putting on my planter fasciitis night splint! Blergh. At least riding my bike doesn’t aggravate it.

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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Tonight's #SmallGoodThing: Happy home with a delicious dinner. Tonight is blue cheese turkey burgers with extra garlicy pickle chips, some spiced crinkle-cut fries, and a delicious tabbouleh salad. SO good and exactly what I wanted after a fun ride today.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 20/09/2026

Amtrak didn’t tell us about this exposure, so heads up: if you took an Amtrak train last week through Chicago or anywhere on the Southwest Chief, Coast Starlight, or California Zephyr routes like we did, you may have been exposed to measles! Please let the train people in your life know about this

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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Made it out and what a beautiful day for a ride! Village Park > Shadowridge > Calavera Hills > Faraday and then back to Village Park. Overcast skies and very little wind made 32 miles go by quickly.

A chalk mural of blue flowers on a dark brown wooden fence.

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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’m up early and caffeinated and want to go on a bike ride…but my dog is deep asleep on me. 🥹

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 19/09/2026

Because it's not that these systems aren't harming people absolutely constantly and as a core reason for their functioning...

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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Jose Gonzalez played an excellent show at UCSD tonight! It was the perfect weather for an outdoor show.

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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ah yes, hiccups. Exactly what I needed tonight. (Said no one ever. )

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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

School only started three weeks ago and there have already been three rape warnings/announcements to to campus community. This is waaaay more than I have seen in all my 15 years on campus. WTF are we doing here? What the hell is going on?

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Between the PRs of (largely likely stolen) math breakthroughs, claims of "rogue AI" (actually cybercrimes by companies, but whatevs), and doomerist "whistleblowers", it feels like we've been subjected to a gish gallop of hype recently. >>

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The AI panic looks like an orchestrated con: The bosses of these rapacious, sleazy, and infinitely sloppy companies are angling for government permission to be a cartel. This would be followed, as certain as day follows night, by the bailout they all know they'll need when their bubble deflates.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

starting the week with an AI annihilation sex cult harry potter fanfic sankey diagram is probably not something that should be a regular occurrence it is just my opinion

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026

More than any higher ed development in recent memory, institutional subsidies for AI at R1 universities prove that austerity is a choice. It is not “too expensive” to invest in a humanities research infrastructure; rather, it is a choice that R1 universities make not to & subsidize AI instead.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

trot with me if you want to pound

scene from TERMINATOR 2. top panel is giant truck chasing a young buckaroo through the la river. truck is labeled 'AI GENERATED BIZARRO EROTICA SLOP.' middle panel is chuck tingle showing up on his motorcycle. bottom panel is chuck aiming shotgun with label 'SINCERE, HUMAN-CRAFTED STORIES ABOUT BISEXUAL MOTHMAN THREESOMES'

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 16/09/2026

Ed Sheeran could have easily looked like a hero in this story and built his following and earned worldwide respect by showing just a bit of solidarity. He didn't have to say "Free Palestine" to stand with the artist he calls a friend. Bob Kraft ends up the bad guy, Sheeran stands for free speech

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Alex @alexh666.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Cyclists sharing the road: holy shit holy shit please don’t kill me holy shit is it safe to go holy shit please don’t kill me im just trying to get home Drivers sharing the road: GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY WAY RIGHT NOW I WILL FUCKING KILL YOU I WILL BREAK EVERY TRAFFIC SAFETY RULE TO SAVE 5 SECONDS

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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Endlessly amusing: how tough my 8 year old 42 lb rescue dog tries to sound whenever a coyote walks behind our house. So scary! So tough!

A scruffy little dog sleeping on her favorite stuffed dino, hot sauce, and several blankets.

A black and tan scruffy dog sleeping in a plush dog bed. She is surrounded by blankets and stuffed animals.

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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I am in a senate committee meeting where two members disagree on a very minor edit to a policy and they each asked their preferred AI tool and got different responses. JFC. "Do we capitalize this word or not?" I am in hell.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Put another way, that's almost 3 times what a person would make--gross, not net--per year at a job paying the current minimum wage of 7.25/hr--you know, the wage Mitch voted against raising his entire career.

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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

House next door has been posted for rent and they turned on the light at their front door. It’s like a blazing eye of Sauron ! I really hope they’re reasonable when I call them tomorrow to ask them to swap that bulb out for something less intense.

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carmendarlene @carmendarlene.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Last weekend @fraction.bsky.social shared a picture of a new bike with me, noting that it looked like something that I would like. Well…looks like I have a new bike! Still need to add my stone pedals and my seat. It will be my first time with SRAM double tap components so it will take some practice.

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Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you."

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