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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026

« AI is bad, but it's ok for coding »... Indeed, it's pretty weird (derogatory) that in Aug. 2026 folks are still believing and pushing this fantasy.

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 06/10/2026

This year's El Niño continues its climb into uncharted waters; Niño3.4 region anomalies are now at a 3.4C above normal (how fitting!), higher than any prior El Niño event on record. September monthly Niño3.4 anomalies also set a record at 2.9C (beating 2015 and 1877's 2.75C).

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 06/10/2026

"Software developers are not okay" www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-soft... The software industry is becoming increasingly hostile to those who work in it. The uncertainty is affecting even those who believe in the promises of tech. Direct link to the essay: www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-soft...

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Software developers are not okay

Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 01/10/2025

CWA just shared their research into the lives of the US-based data workers responsible for training and maintaining modern “AI” platforms. The findings are, in a word, grim: cwa-union.org/ghost-worker...

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Ghost Workers in the AI Machine:

U.S. Data Workers Speak Out About Big Tech’s Exploitation

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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 05/10/2026

This is the Cult of AI - specifically the longtermist variant - at work: “getting to AGI” is deemed so self-evidently important that no sacrifice is too great. The future will be better, so tomorrow doesn’t matter.

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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I was just explaining anti-trans discrimination to my 9YO because of a political ad and 9YO just stops and goes, "If you say you're afraid of people, you're actually afraid of you" and like, holy shit the wisdom of babes, friends.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Art, music, movies, books, tv shows, plays, games, these are a huge part of how we form bonds, know we can vibe with another human being. AI “art” seeks to replace it with algorithmically personalized content no other person experiences. It sticks a stake in the heart of human connection.

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Robin Z @firepile.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So I have my AI students do an assignment where they count surveillance cameras in a location of their choosing so we can talk about the ways data is aquired and used, and one student counted 65 cameras in our tiny SLAC library. THE LIBRARY. I haven't confirmed yet but MY GOD.

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We need to rephrase the whole discussion in terms of hazardous products, instead of "minds". And then we need to make sure that there's liability. A model hacks someone? Put a C-suite guy in jail. A model produces sexual harassment material? Put a C-suite guy in jail. Watch how fast things get safe

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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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Chris Chapman @cchapman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And when you call me, Betty You can call me Al

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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Andy Basheer just said to Jake Tapper the KY had 1 (ONE!!!!) transgirl playing sports. She is in 7th grade and SHE STARTED THE FIELD HOCKEY TEAM TO PLAY WITH HER FRIENDS. Think about her when you are demanding democrats crush these young people for the *potential* political gain

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The problem that we need to solve isn't rogue AI, it's that companies increasingly think they can just price crime into the business model and get away with it

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Rick Ellis @toomuchtvcom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Venn diagram of bosses who insist their employees need to work in the office in order to build "teamwork and collaboration" and those who believe AI can replace most of their white collar workers looks like just one circle

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Stephanie King @stephstephking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Writers, if you are against AI, do not put your writing into ANY tool that is itself AI. Not to check grammar, not to "prove" you wrote it yourself. Everything you give them becomes part of their data, even if it's only to "improve their service" or whatever BS they tell you.

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Chris Chapman @cchapman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Next time, "I need to declare some glass: phone screen, laptop, glasses, toiletry bottles ..." (cf dst.duke.edu/our-work/mat... )

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Chris Chapman @cchapman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I mean one "data type" to embed could even be a spreadsheet ... what could possibly go wrong? (Yes, R/Lisp type langs do this. I'm just imagining the hilarity of that in Excel, in average offices.)

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

an ai system doesn't have a will, intention or feelings. nor the capacity to want or care. a neural network does not go rogue, escape, or rebel. just tech bros' narratives projected onto machines. and pls, don't mansplain my post to me

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Chris Chapman @cchapman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

CEO dreams of a future where no one can pass a mental status exam ... without a subscription to their tech

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Watching the latest John Oliver on health insurance, and it's pretty funny that the same argument of "it's not designed it's evolved/grown" that the AI peddlers love making... ... is also the defense for the nightmares of the healthcare system

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You ever see a post that, for professional reasons, you want to print out and laminate

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

*If you don't like coders for some reason, this is a real schadenfreude feast of coders lamenting and wringing their newly-useless human hands www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/c...

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From the ClaudeAI community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the ClaudeAI community

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Please give what you can to help this incredible author and wonderful human to find a cozy, livable apartment in his new home in Scotland! Bonus: cats will also be happy.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Truly this thread is the best absurdist thriller novel I have read this year

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 22/09/2026

Amazing. Also--you never know what will make an impact, no matter how small it seems.

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Chris Chapman @cchapman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wow, all of these in the 🧵 are amazing

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Pete Dominick @petedominick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Another friend just got the flu and apparently it’s bad. I got my flu and Covid shot shots today. Don’t wait!

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Joyce Park @troutgirl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This would be a dream job for someone!

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Chris Chapman @cchapman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I don't recall exactly why, but — thanks to my excellent doc — I got re-vaccinated with 2 MMR shots at age 50. Highly recommended. If not for you, then do it for everyone else 🙏

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Chris Chapman @cchapman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

As a former Austin resident, I can add that sprawling Texas cities are ... not a good market for this (even if it were real and it worked, which it isn't and it doesn't) OTOH Texas *politicians* are the real targets here

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 20/09/2026

One clear sign of AI psychosis is the deep belief that one has achieved profound discoveries that must be shared with the world. But the non-hallucinating audience does not share the enthusiasm—either because the content is actually quite mediocre (or bc they understand the technology)

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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This. This. This. This.

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I have never in my life been bothered by a trans woman in a bathroom or anywhere else. I've been sexually harassed by straight men in every conceivable situation since I was a teenager.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

But speaking of staying in one's lane, can we PLEASE switch the default position from "It's fine to use 'AI' for this thing I'm not an expert in" to "Yeah, I'd be really skeptical of any use cases and need to see strong evidence that it's okay, but I'm not the one who can produce that evidence"?

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Chris Chapman @cchapman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Ouch. And a quick search shows at least six nonstop flights per day, contrary to the AI claim. Or what AI folks say is "correct!!! ... ± 10"

Search results for flights on United Airlines from Chicago Ohare to Washington Dulles. The screenshot shows 3 nonstop flights out of a total of at least six.

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Lauren Woolsey @cgsunit.com · 20/09/2026

I bought one of these for my office and I enjoy it every time I walk in the room. Get yourself some physical art by a cool human :)

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026

Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is the type of AI disaster scenario that I ACTUALLY worry about. (1) AI industry oversells the capabilities of its products to score fat government contracts. (2) govt puts the AI in charge of critical shit. (3) AI fucks up, because it has a nonzero error rate. (4) shit, now we’re at war.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026

Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef…

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pettter, stuff scientist @pettter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Relevant Calvin and Hobbes comic.

Calvin's dad at the computer: "It used to be that if a client wanted something done in a week, it was considerd a rush job, and he'd be lucky to get it. Now, with modems, faxes, and car phones, everybode wants everything instantly! Improved technology just increases expectations. These machines don't make life easier - they make life more harassed"

Calvin, holding a package: "Six minutes to microwave this?? Who's got that kind of time?!"

Calvin's dad: "If we wanted more leisure, we'd invent machines that do things _less_ efficiently."

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 18/09/2026

"This thing shipped by a bunch of people who repeatedly get caught lying and deceiving and know they have to con me for them to succeed looks surprisingly good!" Yah, no.

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