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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 13/10/2026

Ah yes, perhaps the most beloved literary trope of all: the classic McMuffin

A screenshot that reads: Moore throws in a Hitchcock-style McMuffin in the shape of a secret tape recording which will reveal just who has been betraying the gangsters.
The problem is that no-one has a machine on which to play it.

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cooperativescience.bsky.social @cooperativescience.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The EA movement *thinks* it's being rational about charitable funds, but what's really happening is that it's paring down charity to the simplest and most legible metrics in very poorly controlled ways, resulting in inefficient allocation, because they aren't charity professionals.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

If you want to ban frats, you have to ban frats. The problem is the culture of these sex-segregated organizations. One way it manifests is in sexual violence, but that’s only the tip of the iceberg.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

We’ve seen schools do this before. If this one-year party suspension doesn’t turn into a permanent ban, then it’s just a message to fraternities that they have true impunity. That even the worst, most violent behavior will result in a temporary slap on the wrist.

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Cornell suspends fraternity parties for rest of academic year amid sexual assault controversy

Cornell University is suspending parties and other social events at fraternity houses for the rest of the academic year.

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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

People are finally discovering what effective altruists and practical philosophers sound like on a daily basis. Yes, the utility idea sounds like "the right thing" and yet hard to impossible to define practically and not end up sounding like a sociopath.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 13/10/2026

I do not want tech dweebs to be making these kind of existential humanitarian determinations in their free time, actually

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 14/10/2026

If AI is being described as a virus, then shut down all AI companies before it spreads. Stop granting their reframing of every failure, their misinformation and fear mongering as great PR.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is nothing short of spitting in the faces of all the professions that make book publishing what it is. And I think they’ll find that most authors and illustrators will be digusted by it.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026

Here is my pitch for anyone who has worries about rail: I think that building out rail is a necessary (but not sufficient) step in transforming American cities from totally car dependent to slightly walkable, in a way that no other form of transit is.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

You know what I'm going to say: do not watch video of someone being killed for any reason if you don't absolutely have to, and if you do *genuinely* have to, ie for reporting, use every psychological mitigation technique possible: synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/803314.html

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Very much enjoying the story of AI bros going to religious leaders and asking them to say that machines have souls, only to be told: a) no they obviously don’t and b) if they did then what the AI guys are doing is literally slavery and that would be BAD.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

FUCK YES. This is the energy, morality, and courage that I expect from leaders. Unbelievably brave.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

you don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

everyone do this, Tal has read every book and he’s never recommended a flop I have probably read 70 books this year on his endorsement

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 04/10/2026

we are going to have to find an alternative to meta products for local communities and advertising, right now, it’s almost impossible to do any kind of local business or art project without it, but both their rules and support are so arbitrary and capricious that you can’t rely on them

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work.

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Holly Brockwell @hollyqueenofspayeds.com · 04/10/2026

I'm tired.

Screenshot of my Instagram story because it won't fit in the text. In short, we've built social media apps that promote content about male violence only to the victims - - women - - and the men get to read about anything else. And then people wonder why we're angry and triggered while they haven't seen a word about Cornell.

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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Kemi Badenoch saying people earning a million pounds a year shouldn't be punished for working hard, and in all my years on this earth I don't think I've ever been so naïve as to think people getting that much money are working hard.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 04/10/2026

I really think the experience of being aggressively misgendered is going to radicalise a lot of cis women in the opposite direction to what terfs expect.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Facebook literally made a chatbot months ago that sexted with children while pretending to be John Cena, and *then* made a chatbot with actually-written out specific policies on how to sext with children. Meanwhile, the US and UK are going wild destroying the internet in terror of trans people.

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Caleb Dume @thacalebdume.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

MAKE ART! MAKE BAD ART! BAD ART IS BETTER THAN AI ART! YOUR WORST IS STILL BETTER THAN THE SLOP!

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’ll add to this that a big part of why Biden’s approach failed is because he tapped Title IX administrators to lead the effort, instead of survivors and their advocates. He picked the betrayers instead of the betrayed.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

at a certain point, there's nothing to gain by boosting the words of random rape apologists. you're just exposing more people—including survivors—to that harmful rhetoric

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

so a total of 500-600 parents were cut off? And that is an "epidemic?" Prove to me that this is in fact an epidemic, and not abusive selfish parents being very loud and angry about boundaries. Prove to me why parents who...consume their children deserve to continue to have access to their children.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I really wish that Covid hadn’t happened, but it did, and either we adapt to the reality that it makes some people permanently sick and at risk, and they still deserve humanity, or we keep scapegoating and ostracizing anyone who points that fact out, anyone who has to survive it, anyone broken by it

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don’t even know what to say anymore. The only thing Covid conscious people are trying to do, truly, is not get sick. That we’ve become the country’s newest freak show is predictable given the pandemic, but truly despicable on a base human level.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's been a decade of this guy's incoherent ramblings and we still haven't gotten like, an anthology of professional translators talking about their struggles trying to translate his deranged dogshit into another language

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stuart @stuartp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

this is real dunning-kruger stuff he's doing, and I'm not a computational linguist myself, but an answer to why LLMs don't think is that they don't understand the *meaning* of words because to understand meaning you would have to also exist outside of a language model, which an LLM does not

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Oh, that’s just Stephen Speilberg in a respirator at the Lucas Museum opening during a Covid surge, like a BOSS.

Photo of a reporter talking to Stephen Speilberg, who is in a dark suit and black respirator mask on

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Think about all the many, many, many extremely obvious issues the Dems could be slam-dunking the GOP on. They're *choosing* to toss trans people to the woodchipper because they want to, not because they feel any kind of pragmatic need. Purely for the love of the game.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

“our ai broke out and hacked some organisations” = "we failed to set up appropriate safeguards, failed to continuously monitor our experiments, and ignored a basic principle of reinforcement learning: if hacking gets rewarded, the system learns to hack"

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Norden Gail @nordengail.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Beaucoup de personnes ont fait des listes des choses qu'elles détestent, je vais faire la liste des choses que j'aime (cf. bsky.app/profile/smoo...)

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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 18/09/2026

Anyway TL;DR a "sex cult" is a cult that weaponizes sex and has sex at the core of its rituals and exploitative dynamics. A cult where people are sexually exploited is just... a cult. Sexual exploitation is everywhere.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

a lot freaks me out about AI but 0% of my anxiety is about AGI. i think this is the part that freaks me out the most right now -- the many many indications that no one is at the wheel and no adults are present

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 17/09/2026

so the official bluesky policy position is that you can't tell someone to kill themselves but you can tell a protected minority category that you hope that state kills them. Am i getting that right.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

Reading proofs from book & remembering what I wrote in 2015: "I am very concerned about the future of AI. Not because of the risk of rogue machines taking over. But because of the homogeneous, one-dimensional group of men who are currently involved in advancing the technology.”

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Ghost of a Werewolf @motstand.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I swear I want to thrash these people. I hate this creation of a new clergy. "Oh woe unto us, who knows what yon divine being will do next!" you *made it* motherfucker, stop acting like it's some inevitability beyond your control. "It hacked a thing" no *you* did! The freak *you made* did it!

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Adam Morgan @adamm0rgan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If you work for a book publisher that has introduced AI at any point in the publishing process, I'm working on a story and would like you speak with you, on-record or off-. Same goes if you're an author and you've witnessed your publisher using AI at any point in the publishing process.

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

And that's not how inspiration works. You can't brute force it. Just because it generates an idea doesn't make it a good idea, and if all you want is something to bounce off of, you're just as well off buying Oblique Strategies or going for a walk. Just allow yourself to be bored for 10 minutes.

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Kivan @kivanbay.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Hi everyone, $104 for my internet is due today, and my phone bill is about to hit too. Please help me continue accessing the internet so that I can continue to look for work, I need to raise $160 total and if my internet gets shut off this will all get so much harder #urgentneed #mutualaid #helpsky

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Even stronger: there is at present no reason to believe "AI" can even functionally approach anything close to human-level cognition before the sun dies out. Can it fool us? Yes! But it isn't anything other than a bunch of scams in a trechcoat

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It may be useful for others to see how this unfolds. Entitlement and weaponized ignorance are designed to waste our time. Don't let it. People can engage in good faith, and ask questions and learn. This is NOT that. It is important to be able to tell the difference.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Simply *not* being a virulent transphobe is now a very very good indicator that you really do disagree with the party full of sexual predators, billionaire freaks, and thieves. You would think an opposition party would *want* such a strong and consistent indicator that they actually do oppose.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You’ve gotta use AI because it’s the future. But also it’ll take your job. But also it’ll create a paradise on earth and solve most of our problems. But also it’ll end humanity soon. But also you’ll get left behind if you don’t use it right now.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026

If you don’t like deeply engaging with people, art, culture, and information that’s your choice, though you and people like you are destroying society while I and people like me are what will ultimately save it when you’ve cooked your brains and broken systems so irreparably that you need a grownup.

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grudgey mcgrudgerson 🧛🏻‍♀️ @honkifyouareantifa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

if you do not understand that the journey to get there* is not part of the path then we do not know how to get through to you. life is the moments of happenstance. you cannot plan for them. they're along the way. there are no shortcuts. *your goal(s)

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

when I see AI generated things, I am seeing a large field of pieces of human-made creative work that has been put through a blender, and while I cannot see/know the originals directly, I am aware they exist, because that is how AI works. I am not seeing a cat, I'm seeing 10,000 photos of real cats

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Blackavar @blackavar-inle.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

❤️‍🩹 Rent due tomorrow and he's scared he's going to get evicted, please help or share

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