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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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David Moles @chronodm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s better than it should be. (Having Emily Blunt helps)
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David Moles @chronodm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If it’s like the one my dad handed down to me, it’s a dark brown waxed-cotton field coat that makes me look like I stepped through a gate from Downton Abbey times and forgot my fowling-piece and my springer spaniel
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline
The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off
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David Moles @chronodm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.
A black and white official photo of Henry Kissinger, taken in 1973 when he was Secretary of State of the United States. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_A_Kissinger.jpg
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David Moles @chronodm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
also, footnote 8 so hard
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David Moles @chronodm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"fundamentally solipsistic" is a great insight and I think speaks to both the culture that produced this stuff and the attraction for a lot of its consumers
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David Moles @chronodm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Is this my job now? BRB, going to go live in a hollow log with no connectivity somewhere in the redwoods, forever
Screenshot of an email message:

Subject: OpenAI Outreach Regarding [redacted] digital collections]
From: support@openai.com
To: [me], [redacted], [redacted]

Case number: [redacted]

Hello,

I wanted to reach out because we recently became aware of potential public reporting that may reference your site in connection with potential OpenAI model activity.

While that review continues, we are reaching out on a precautionary basis to make sure you are aware and have a point of contact. We haven’t identified anything you need to do at this time, but please let us know if you have any questions or observations of unusual activity that may be relevant.

If our review identifies relevant information regarding your site or any recommended action, we will follow up.

Best,
[redacted]
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Lot going on here www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
Kyrsten Sinema's ex-boyfriend and former bodyguard said he threw her paintings into her swimming pool in part because he felt disillusioned by her relationship with a major
U.S. Artificial Intelligence software developer as the war in Gaza drags on.
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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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David Moles @chronodm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
started a new hobby project and before I'd written a line of code (generated scaffolding excepted) spent a good hour on an anxiety-driven tangent about FOSS+LLMs. nothing to show but a license (AGPL3.0+) and a REUSE.toml file. for a private repo. with, as yet, no code. This is not a good timeline.
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John Holbo @jholbo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“The first Sauron administration got a lot done & - Isildur’s Bane. That was what they called it remember. It wasn’t so much that Sauron was the Lord of the Ring. Men were weak, as even establishment liberals like Elrod admitted So you couldn’t blame Sauron who was very much an outsider politician …
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Lucretiel @lucretiel.me · 25/09/2026
Ironically one thing that helps you understand rationalism is ignoring that word rational in the title. I don’t mean that as like a cute little dig, I mean it in the same way you have to ignore the “science” in “scientology” to actually get a complete understanding.
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David Moles @chronodm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
upper part of a page of William Gibson's THE PERIPHERAL. text reads:

“Uh-huh. Ash says there’s two different anomalous proliferations of subsecond extreme events in the market, right now. Us and them. You understand subsecond financial shit?”

“No.”

“Markets are full of predatory trading algorithms. They’ve evolved to hunt in packs. Ash has people with the tools to turn those packs to Coldiron’s advantage, nobody the wiser. But whoever else is up there, with their own backdoor to now, they’ve got the same tools, or near enough.”

“So what’s it mean?”

“I think it’s like an invisible two-party world war, but economic. So far, anyway.”
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David Moles @chronodm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Does this feel to anyone else like somebody from @greatdismal.bsky.social's jackpot future is fucking with our timeline? "AI is already year over year the biggest infrastructure build in American history… the entire economy is now dominated by AI spending." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-a...
talkingpointsmemo.com
The AI Economy – Not An Exaggeration
There’s an article (gift link) out today in The Wall Street Journal...
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We can’t allow this man to get within striking distance of a viable presidential candidacy.
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David Moles @chronodm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"If you start… from the perspective that AI does not inevitably replace humans in the dissemination and discovery of knowledge… then you begin to start asking questions that are systematically obscured by Machine God Thought." www.programmablemutter.com/p/machine-go...
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David Moles @chronodm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I know about as little about Sheeran as it's possible to know while living in the 21st-century Anglosphere and yet this whole shitshow nonetheless feels on-brand
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 15/09/2026
I was trying to write about this yesterday because I feel like a clear and neutral explanation for normies about why frontier labs are Like This would be really useful but I just couldn’t bring myself to explain it because it’s so fucking TIRESOME.
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David Moles @chronodm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
screencap of a "Please tell us why you're leaving" form, with the text: "Overwhelmed by Democratic fundraising spam, regretting ever having sent money to a candidate, angry that the law allows failed candidates and campaigns to sell my email address to pay off their campaign debts, lacking all confidence that my donations go to help anyone but fundraising consultants, disgusted with Democratic party leadership and the fecklessness of party organizers as far back as the Obama administration if not the Clinton administration, just generally tired of shit being fucked up and bullshit, as the saying goes

"Anyway, thanks for asking"
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
One of the venues that refused to allow Macklemore to perform is Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, which is run by Hillsborough county. They did allow Kanye to perform even after he released a song called "Heil Hitler" and sold swastika merch. In case you thought this was about antisemitism.
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Patrick Samphire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The title of this YouTube video cracks me up. I dunno. Maybe it's because Cory has enough of his own stuff to do? Also, I'm not sure he'd want to.
Title of a YouTube video by Adam Conover: "Why AI Can't Replace You with Cory Doctorow".
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David Moles @chronodm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I remember in the 90s when BP changed its logo to something greener and started saying the initials stood for “beyond petroleum”. IDK what killed that but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the spike in oil prices after 9/11
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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Anthropic's models run on terabytes of VRAM. It's not going to "just copy itself to other computers."

Rohan Paul
@rohanpaul_ai
Jacob Coxon's next interview on CBS News (ex Anthropic+Open AI researcher who resigned)

"We can't just unplug it because it could be copying itself over to other computers. Like it's not that difficult to find yourself because an AI is just code. It could transfer itself over the internet to a different place and then you unplug it here, but it's actually still over there and maybe it makes 10,000 copies of itself and they're all cooperating."

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From "CBS News" YouTube channel, (full video link in comment)
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
but this is the thing; if I showed up saying "I'm interested in writing programs that reproduce executable code, based on more or less stochastic input" I think people would say "could you try doing that on a computer that isn't connected to the internet until you're sure you know what you're doing"
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I've spent my entire career reporting on the War on Terror. Many this week have asked me for my extended thoughts on the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Here they are.
forever-wars.com
Today We Must Finally Remember What The 9/11 Commemorations Ignore
Righteous victimhood fueled the War on Terror. 25 years later, we also have to remember all of those slain under its banner
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Neopet Sematary @telstarman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
As always, The Onion got it right faster and better than anyone in the mainstream media. theonion.com/we-must-reta...
theonion.com
We Must Retaliate With Blind Rage vs. We Must Retaliate With Measured, Focused Rage
On Sept.11, 2001, America was hit by an unprecedented attack on its shores. The devastation and loss of life is incalculable. It is clear to me, as it should be to all Americans, what our nation must ...
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.
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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Because the Chinese researchers are basically normal engineers approaching AI as a difficult technical problem and not members of a psychotic cult that has spent the last 30 years trying to "build God."
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David Moles @chronodm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Not sure the Music Man framing is helpful given Robert Preston was the good guy in that movie and everything he promised came true in the end by deus ex machina
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 09/09/2026
Jaws: You're gonna need a counterfactual shark
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
indeed the last two paragraphs are excellent.
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Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A friend refers to the "a pedestrian was struck by a car" construction as the "exonerative" tense, and that shall be its name henceforth and hereafter.
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scary word: ivy 👻 @proxi.dog · 20/08/2026
*forgetting the word voluptuous* you're looking really velociraptor
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 29/08/2026
If you’re in the US, expect maps on your phone to start showing you “Lake America” soon, now that the US Geological Survey has updated the GNIS. The USGS is a fabulous resource for spatial data in so many ways. And now it has to implement this stupid shit, for the most spiteful of reasons. Gross.
USGS
science for a changing world
USGS Home
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Per Secretarial Order 3453, Lake Ontario has been renamed x
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
At the center of my message to faculty yesterday was: 1.) We may not be adequately prepared for how angry students are about tech. 2.) They are not all angry for the same reasons. 3.) Being angry at it doesn’t mean they aren’t using it. The sense of entrapment fuels the anger.
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David Moles @chronodm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I responded (individually) to this one, pointing out that it also did not need to be Reply All. Would bet a number of dollars in the small double digits that if the sender replies, it's to double down on his self-righteous self-appointed email etiquette cop schtick.
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David Moles @chronodm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The best thing about someone using CC instead of BCC is when other people start using Reply All to berate people for using Reply All.
Screenshot of an email message, addresses and other identifying information redacted, but CC line ending "… & 160 more."

Text reads:

"Sweet muppety Odin! I need y’all to learn two things: 1) [redacted]! Congrats on the new position! FIGURE OUT BCC’ING WHEN SENDING EMAILS. 2) Everyone else - YOU DO NOT NEED TO (nor should you!) HIT “REPLY ALL” WHEN RESPONDING."
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David Moles @chronodm.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Getting tired of these @arstechnica.com pieces that just breathlessly repeat claims. Do AI companies see this as a threat? How hard is it to use? To circumvent? What about screen reader users? Basic questions. Times are tough but as a paying subscriber I’d like to see some actual journalism here
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
We were watching that silly new Tom Hiddleston reenactment of the disaster of Pompeii and he was like ‘we have amazing new tech that allows us to track people through this disaster’ and I was oh no he’s going to say it’s an AI brain or something and then he said…. ‘Its a spreadsheet’ and I CHEERED
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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Every graphic/video that the Trump admin/MAGA/GOP release is AI generated these days, and they all look like ass. Is that the association that the ethical AI boosters on my feed want? Because increasingly it feels like this is technology by dumb, evil people, for dumb, evil people.
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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Only a teensy tiny fraction of books are truly rare, unique, or scarce. But the idea that people destroy the 1,921st copy of a book no one is interested in always freaks people out. They are appalled that libraries weed books, too.
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David Moles @chronodm.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
lo que faltaba news.ucsb.edu/2026/022639/...
news.ucsb.edu
As California warms, cases of dengue fever are expected to grow
A warming climate is making California more hospitable to dengue fever and the mosquitoes that carry it.
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David Moles @chronodm.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
likewise!
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David Moles @chronodm.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Reading @greatdismal.bsky.social's Sprawl trilogy back in the day I wouldn't have guessed that the most depressingly prescient bit would turn out to be the sociopathic zillionaires like Josef Virek and the Tessier-Ashpools, but here we are.
A paragraph from a paperback book (William Gibson's COUNT ZERO, 1986): "And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."
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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
is Kpop Demonhunters a Jamesonian allegory for capitalist development and the romance plot a longing for Korean re-unification. I'll take my answer off the air.
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David Moles @chronodm.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I mean, given this timeline? No complaints.
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David Moles @chronodm.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
@knownforms.bsky.social apropos of nothing, at lunch I was having a wide-ranging discussion about higher and professional education that touched on medical residency trauma, and I realized I'd lost track of how you and Other M are doing — how are you doing?
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Emily Higgs Kopin (spooky) @ehkopin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
There are plenty of horrible proprietary legacy formats but FileMaker databases from the first few versions of the software have absolutely no business being so complicated to convert. This is probably why god abandoned us tbh
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 13/07/2026
JKR and her new org apparently helped get the new Amnesty International report on how TERF organizations destroy lives taken down from their site. Well, guess what? The Streisand Effect is real. Here's the entire report in a thread. Read it. Share it.
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