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Weird Fiction Quarterly @weirdfictionquarterly.com · 16/09/2026

Don't let your publisher take your latest issue's manuscript into non-Euclidean reading nooks, no matter how strongly he insists that it won't disappear on its own accord.

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Coming Soon: Liminal Spaces & Beings

We found the "Liminal Spaces & Beings" manuscript and are publishing it before it disappears between dimensions again!

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Chris J. Karr @cjkarr.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

@15outof10.org - Any chance you can sign your accounts for Bridgy Fed so that I can follow you on Mastodon and other Fediverse destinations?

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Bridgy Fed

Bridgy Fed is a bridge between decentralized social networks like the fediverse, Bluesky, and web sites and blogs.

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Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This. You know what I want to read? The METR postmortems on the chat logs of the kids who killed themselves after spending too long being prodded by ChatGPT. Why weren't those released on Twitter?

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Chris J. Karr @cjkarr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

And if you do that, drop a comment here (or send me a DM) so I know I can follow you from the Fediverse.

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Chris J. Karr @cjkarr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

And if you would like YOUR content visible on the Fediverse, please consider bridging your account so I can follow you from there. I promise that it's super easy and only something you have to do once.

fed.brid.gy

Bridgy Fed

Bridgy Fed is a bridge between decentralized social networks like the fediverse, Bluesky, and web sites and blogs.

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Chris J. Karr @cjkarr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I'm not prepared to ditch Discord yet - they haven't bugged me for my ID YET - my mesh networking stuff is all there. That said, I will look for alternatives.

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Chris J. Karr @cjkarr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Or at the very least, I need to quit dicking around and get my own PDS up and running.

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Chris J. Karr @cjkarr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Thanks for sharing. Honestly, I'm lazy in that I don't spend enough time cultivating my presence on the Fediverse (compared to here). Now that bridging is possible, I *should* probably retire this account and have folks follow my OMGWars Mastodon account.

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Chris J. Karr @cjkarr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

That said, there IS a good survival horror game embedded in the ET IP where you play from the perspective of ET.

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Chris J. Karr @cjkarr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Remember it? I still have nightmares of falling into a well and not knowing how the hell to float my way out. (My neck's too short is the best I've come up with.)

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Chris J. Karr @cjkarr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Just wait until the pipe fittings company discovers that they can tell Claude to make them a game for the iOS and Android app stores. Batten down the hatches - this is only going to get worse.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

90 percent of the bad publicity around AI is directly and entirely the fault of AI promoters. It is not great that an extremely important and interesting technology has the worst people on earth shaping its direction.

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Chris J. Karr @cjkarr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I was just thinking of tech-powered marketing stunts. I had no idea that Quaker Oats was so prolific pre-NES!

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Chris J. Karr @cjkarr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

That's a lot of numbers at the end of your name. What do they mean?

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Chris J. Karr @cjkarr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

(Not asking to be challenging - genuinely curious.)

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Chris J. Karr @cjkarr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Seeing you homesteaded in the Fediverse, I respect that. Still, in terms of evilness, Bluesky is at a LinkedIn level at most. @jay.bsky.team didn't set her minions out to buy elections and destroy the post WWII order with DOGE. I'm curious if you feel that way, why bridge your acct?

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Chris J. Karr @cjkarr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The thing about implicit social contracts is that you may think you're being cute and clever violating one right up to the point where others will tolerate, but you actually have NO visibility when you've crossed that threshold, and the other side will decide to reciprocate violently.

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Chris J. Karr @cjkarr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It is to me. I think a lot of their hearts are in the right place, but the blinders some of them put on to justify continuing what they are doing is pretty insane. But to be fair, that's been true of a lot of STEM workers throughout history. They're just continuing a long tradition.

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Chris J. Karr @cjkarr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

My condolences to the pro-data center crowd. Everything Trump touches dies.

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Chris J. Karr @cjkarr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

@socio-steve.bsky.social's SNES9X civilization rivaled that of the Romans'.

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Chris J. Karr @cjkarr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It's the same sunk cost fallacy that gave us Donald Trump and all the downstream consequences of those bad choices. If you're on X, you have the agency to declare that you're going to choose to stop compounding your bad decision to stay.

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Chris J. Karr @cjkarr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

If Elon's blatant attempts to corrupt our elections and all the lives he's responsible for ending with DOGE is NOT a sufficient motivation to take your posting elsewhere, I'm pretty skeptical anything else will be. Complaints about network effects and reach is beside the point.

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Chris J. Karr @cjkarr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This is NOT a dig at @emollick.bsky.social - I enjoy his content - but when I read about someone making an excuse for posting on X, my brain does a silent swap of "Truth Social" for "X", as you're saying the same thing to me. Same criticism applies to @thebulwark.com staff making the same excuses.

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Chris J. Karr @cjkarr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Stuff like this reminds me of this scene from "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier". What do burritos need with a robot?

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What does God need with a starship

YouTube video by vomisacaasi

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Chris J. Karr @cjkarr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I'm assuming that your did NOT spare their city.

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Chris J. Karr @cjkarr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Should I ever get back to the novel I started writing, I'm definitely including this technology in it.

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Phil Weiser @philweiser.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

If Trump’s DOJ will threaten to interfere in the elections of our neighbors in Wyoming, a Republican state, imagine what could happen in Colorado. We won’t allow it. Our mail ballot election system is safe and secure. I’ll continue to defend it. www.denverpost.com/2026/08/28/u...

denverpost.com

Wyoming governor requests investigation into activity of Justice Department monitors during primary

Republican Gov. Mark Gordon says the behavior was “irregular” and “a bit aggressive.”

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Chris J. Karr @cjkarr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Jellyfin. Because this future sucks.

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Chris J. Karr @cjkarr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Who is the Galaxy Brain who decided that INTERRUPTING A SETUP FLOW to do a system update is a good idea? Don't know if It's the Google TV or TiVo Stream team who are the numbnuts. #Morons #GoogleTV #TiVoStream

Google TV setup deciding to automatically do a system update BEFORE I've finished setting the damn device up.

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Chris J. Karr @cjkarr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

When Trump decides to rename North America "Great America" and South America "Shithole America", we know that Google will be willing to fall in line. This is why telling Trump NO on the Gulf of Mexico and now on Lake Ontario is important. Otherwise, they're letting a vandal design their products.

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 31/08/2026

Sorry for the text in images. I won't link. I will atone. Full text in ALT. Christian Catalini's thread on the recent "rogue AI" incident and what we should do about it. This is the most coherent description, and the only of many solution proposed that that makes any sense. (Not too technical.)