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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 30/09/2026

idk what emotion exactly this made me feel but i know it was intense and i know ive never felt it before

Cosmetic Balls @cosmeticballs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My dude, if you think music is a problem to be solved you have no business fucking with music in any way, shape, or form

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts

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Cosmetic Balls @cosmeticballs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It seems scary the first time you do it, but I promise, if your friends don't suck, they won't resent you for it. It's awkward the first time, but it gets easier from there, and I've seen it be massively effective, including me being on the receiving end at times.

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Cosmetic Balls @cosmeticballs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The NFL is very much wondering why so many people are asking questions already answered by their "the field in Brazil is fine" t shirt

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026

This is actually hell, right?

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 26/09/2026

beast mode

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Cosmetic Balls @cosmeticballs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

McVay getting downright dirty with his injury reporting

News blurb on ESPN fantasy football, citing rotowire.com, saying Puka Nacua "will not not practice Wednesday"

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New at IJ: Flock Safety and other ALPR providers had the good fortune of expanding aggressively during the post-pandemic crime drop, and they've been trying to take credit for it. An entire industry is trying to justify itself by mistaking correlation for causality. ij.org/how-flock-is...

Chart of monthly property and violent crime in San Francisco, showing the introduction of Flock cameras occurring in the middle of a pre-existing drop.

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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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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17/09/2026

Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17/09/2026

Nick Beckstead, noted longtermist and "effective altruist,” just comes out and says it: "But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal."

This is precisely why Nick Beckstead, a noted EA, argued in 2013 that, given the "overwhelming" moral importance of the far future - "millions, billions, and trillions" of years from now - we should prioritize saving the lives of people in rich countries over those in poor countries, other things being equal. The reason is that people in rich countries are better positioned to influence the far future.

To take another example, saving lives in poor countries may have significantly smaller ripple effects

than saving and improving lives in rich countries. Why? Richer countries have substantially more

innovation, and their workers are much more economically productive. By ordinary standards at

least by ordinary enlightened humanitarian standards saving and improving lives in rich countries

is about equally as important as saving and improving lives in poor countries, provided lives are

improved by roughly comparable amounts. But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life

in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things
being equal.
Screenshot from Beckstead's 2013 PhD dissertation, regarded as one of the founding documents of longtermism, one of the main cause areas of EA.

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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🎶 Hello, Daddy, hello, Mom I'm your ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch, cherry bomb 🍒 Released 50 years ago today 🍒Cherry Bomb, the debut Single by the Runaways 🍒 #50years #therunaways #cherrybomb #punkrockhistory

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Cosmetic Balls @cosmeticballs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This... this is real. The infamous study that is the touchstone for mainstream understanding of abusive psychological experimentation is now being duplicated for "Entertainment!"

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Cosmetic Balls @cosmeticballs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Plurt is the new shart (complimentary)

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Cosmetic Balls @cosmeticballs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"A touchdown for Bill" sounds like a factory-ass children's book

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Mr. Hands traumatized me

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 11/09/2026

Take this seriously. Trump wants "A.i." to be more racist. He even put out an executive order demanding it. Almost all of the "A.i." billionaires literally gave money to Trump for his inauguration. These LLMs will be tools for the far right. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

whitehouse.gov

Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

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

This man won his primary by 30 points.

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Cocomelon is better than Cars.

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Cosmetic Balls @cosmeticballs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

On the one hand it tickles me to see an F1-based commercial during primetime NFL coverage, on the other hand that was shit and George is about as charming as a fedora

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Mike Tanier @miketanier.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Dear Lord

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/09/2026

This Jacob Coxon thing is weird. He worked at Anthropic for six weeks and OpenAI for nearly three years. He’s doing a whole media tour without any real statements about what it is he’s scared of other than vague references to recursive self improvement, a theoretical ai that teaches itself.

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Cosmetic Balls @cosmeticballs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Currently spamming the group chat with "Henderson Breaks that" every time Rhamondre gets less than 4 yards @rotopat.bsky.social @dennycarter.bsky.social @kyledvo.bsky.social

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Cosmetic Balls @cosmeticballs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is what they do. This is all they do.

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

why is the washington post platforming a nazi

According to Mac Donald, under American immigration policies, the United States has been "importing another underclass", one with the "potential to expand indefinitely."[19] The New York Times reported in January 2024 that in private emails with anti-DEI commentators affiliated with the Claremont Institute, Mac Donald had recounted "seeing all the nannies of color walking school children back to their apartments" and derided working mothers who "outsource ... raising a unique child to some one else, especially someone from the low IQ 3rd world" while they advance their careers.[31]

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There are so many stories lately about people who died by suicide after falling into emotionally manipulative patterns with chatbots. We rarely get to hear how the people who loved them are coping after an unimaginable, senseless loss. This is one of their stories: www.404media.co/austin-gordo...

404media.co

'Tell Everyone:' A Man Died by Suicide After Talking to ChatGPT. His Former Partner Wants to Warn the World About AI

After allegedly becoming emotionally reliant on ChatGPT, Austin died at 40 years old, leaving behind family and friends who loved him. Megan wants everyone to know what happened.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 09/09/2026

AI* has a >10%** chance to kill us all *not the AI we're working on but some other AI that we'll build for sure if you keep funding the company I work at **number I made up based on a still-theoretical technology that nobody has but we all love talking about

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To be clear, as we say in our latest Risk Report (x.com/AnthropicAI/st...), | think the risk from present models is low. What I am worried about is superintelligence arising from recursive self-improvement, as we have said is happening faster than we thought
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Anthropic @AnthropicAI • Aug 14
As part of our Responsible Scaling Policy, we publish regular Risk Reports. These share detailed information on the risks of our systems and how prepared we are to address them.
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Cosmetic Balls @cosmeticballs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Say what you will, this man knows his quarterback. Remember, targets are earned (By smiling and nodding as your QB rambles about turbo-cancer and have you every actually seen the earth from space)

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Kenny Mayne @kennymayne.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

@TackleFootballShow on YouTube September 9 just like @seahawksofficial.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie

Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If you want a rational conversation about tradeoffs you should start by demanding honesty from the industry that has been lying about this technology since its inception, not to mention one of the common talking points being "You're getting this whether you like it or not"

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Cosmetic Balls @cosmeticballs.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I bought Xenogears with a pile of change that had accumulated over... months? A year? More? No clue what it was, total impulse purchase, changed what I thought games could be.

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Fei Fong Wong Xenogears

Alt: Fei Fong Wong Xenogears

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Cosmetic Balls @cosmeticballs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I guess half my life in upstate NY and the other half in greater Boston equals Vermont

A heat map of the US that visualizes the results of a quiz about dialects. This one indicates the person is closest to Vermont in how they talk, and least like the south

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Alex Rikleen formerly for Senate @rikleen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is illegal. Democrats ongoing refusal to publicly and consistently remind administrators that they will be charged for crimes committed while "just following orders" is why these coins exist, the arch is being built, and, more consequentially, children are being held in camps.

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Cosmetic Balls @cosmeticballs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I think about this a lot at my day job, where people who have read some of my writing are baffled that I don't speak up more in meetings or shocked when I put my foot in my mouth by saying things that aren't clear or sound like something other than what I mean or I ramble incoherently

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Cooterdoodle @cooterdoodle.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

me and the boys sharing our best dick reveals

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Cosmetic Balls @cosmeticballs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Swung by dunks to get a coffee this morning and instead of the payment screen asking if I wanted to add a tip, it asked me if I condemn Hasan Piker

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Mega64 @mega64official.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

METAL GEAR SOLID 4 is FREE from its PS3 prison. Let us celebrate with the creator.

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assbutt @nasboat.org · 27/08/2026

that’s right

my new SKA AND PRO WRESTLING ARE THE ONLY LEGITIMATE FORMS OF ART shirt

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

3 minutes of Tim Curry holding back laughter while filming scenes for Red Alert 3

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A fitting end to an interview Tim Curry conducted with Hollywood Reporter just last year RIP

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Cosmetic Balls @cosmeticballs.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I was worried about my child's development, but then they laughed at "you ever seen a grown man naked?" and I finally removed the restraints. *sigh of relief*

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