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Christopher Little

@cshl.bsky.social
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Avid learner. Dad. Love tech, space, SF, metacognition, writing, guitars, Reedie. RS≠+1.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 21h
Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/10/2026
Financially, I 100% get why the airline would choose to fleece their own elite status customers, but in every other way it’s infuriating
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Every day, hundreds, and now sometimes thousands of Russian soldiers die at the contact line, for a pointless war driven by Putin’s ego & desperation to be remembered as a “strongman.” Frustrated that he can’t win, he bombs Ukrainian citizens. This is a war crime. But Ukraine will outlive him.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/10/2026
Then I flipped back to Chromium, where I was still logged into my Air Canada Aeroplan account, located the reservation, and added my frequent flier number to it. I guess this is how I'm buying my plane tickets from now on. eof/
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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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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
will you people shut the fuck up
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“every time someone is sleeping on a subway bench in a city, the rest of america can sort of say ‘ugh, look at these cities.’ but we are holding a lot of your people who you failed to love and take care of.” 👏 👏 👏
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
There are GOP politicians who are not pedophiles or personally massively corrupt, but all of them are in submissive thrall to a president who *is* a corrupt pedophile, and who has, by virtue of his position, made the party into his own image. It now protects and valorizes immorality and corruption.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
Counter-proposal to Sam Altman: Go fuck yourself www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman
Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver
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Brett Shaw @brettshaw.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What if I was to call it ‘The Big Shed Economy: the history of hyperscale finance’ eh? On account of the fact that the long history of insurance financing retail market encounters is (probably) germane to what’s happening now in AI financification.
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh my: LibreOffice just made "no AI" one of their official features: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...
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Yes, no AI is now a feature - TDF Community Blog
One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite us...
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Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“One of the largest Dutch eyewear retail chains said on Friday it had suspended sales of Meta's (META.O), opens new tab Ray-Ban smart glasses in the Netherlands ​and Belgium amid growing privacy concerns, in one of the first such ‌moves by a retailer.” www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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Dutch eyewear chain Hans Anders halts sale of Meta glasses, citing privacy concerns
One of the largest Dutch eyewear retail chains said on Friday it had suspended sales of Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses in the Netherlands ​and Belgium amid growing privacy concerns, in one of the first ...
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Another name for a "synthetic AI focus group" is "not a focus group"
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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 03/10/2026
Because of course it does.
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James Gleick (@gleick@mas.to)
One identifier of a failed state: other nations conduct diplomacy through bribes to the ruling family. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/us/politics/kushner-witkoff-russia-oil-deal.html?unlocked_article_code=1.F1E.euaM.QA5U2o-XEbAM&smid=url-share
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......
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bluestatedon.bsky.social @bluestatedon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One of the dumbest political decisions Obama made. That army of volunteers could have been a weapon to fight lunatic Tea Partiers in the disastrous 2010 midterms.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Your children are much safer in the company of drag queens than: 1. Pastors or priests; 2. Republican men; 3. Billionares; and 3. Frat boys.
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Christopher Little @cshl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fact is, the shock and inability to integrate into anything resembling your normal can take years. Plus, the behavior of trying to bury the very creepy feelings
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LadyBusiness @ladybusiness.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On my way to a job interview, smartly leaving the iced coffee at home
Tom Ford spring 2027 runway look
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Dylan Schwilk @schwilk.org · 30/09/2026
My car went rogue when i forgot to set the parking brake, left in drive, and exited it.
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Christopher Little @cshl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It makes complete sense to expel rapists, unless the place has no functioning code of conduct or code of ethics...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2026
Speaker Mike Johnson is warning of a “nightmare scenario” if Republicans lose the House: Democrats could investigate Trump, his family, his Cabinet, GOP donors and powerful business figures.
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MAGA Speaker Johnson Calls Trump Family Investigations a ‘Nightmare’ Ahead of Midterms
With control of Congress at stake in November, Johnson warned that Democratic committees would investigate Trump, his family, cabinet officials and major donors—and claimed that accountability would t...
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 30/09/2026
shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Let this sink in. Cornell University refused to refund Jane Doe's tuition the semester she was raped. Without this money, she could not transfer to another school. Essentially, she was forced to stay on campus where she saw those seven rapists frequently. Eventually she dropped out of college.
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
for real though, conversations with coworkers about AI are forcing me to consider that when it comes to the work we do, I might as well be working alongside p-zombies. just a weird and terrifying absence of a consciousness that there is meaning to what we’re doing
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 28/09/2026
The data also strongly suggests that campus rape is perpetrated by a small number of actors. Put differently, most men on campus don't rape, but the ones who do rape a lot of women. Getting rid of those guys would make campus way safer . psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-...
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
*In 1953, author Clifford Simak is convinced that science fiction is here-to-stay because of the tie-in merch. #prophetic sciencefictionruminations.com/2026/08/16/e...
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
the "iced coffee at a job interview" discussion is obviously stupid but also a great representation of the fact that every single HR person/recruiter has their own different made up rules for candidates and all of them think they are absolutely correct
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"A 'Rogue AI' is like a dog that bites somebody, so the dog owner gets properly punished" *Well, no. A proper Rogue AI is like a cyberwar computer-virus, where I round up a thousand stray dogs, give them all rabies, and then parachute them into your neighborhood. #plausiblydeniable #GrayWar
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AG Andrea Joy Campbell @massago.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta have all admitted their AI agents have entered the open web and executed dangerous and unlawful actions. While the federal government steps back, state AGs are stepping up to take on Big Tech. I'm joining a coalition to demand Congress take immediate action regulating AI.
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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Should be reposted every month....
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Absofreakinlutely 💯% True......
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 24/09/2026
At the UN General Assembly, Volodymyr Zelensky defends strikes on Russia as necessary 'not to die'
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At the UN General Assembly, Volodymyr Zelensky defends strikes on Russia as necessary 'not to die'
Speaking at the United Nations on Wednesday, the Ukrainian president ruled out, as did Moscow, any moratorium on attacks targeting energy infrastructure. Aware that 'winter could be very harsh,' he nonetheless called for de-escalation measures.
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
'Bad management just sees "code go brrr" and demands more, creating a "slopacalypse" of tech debt.'
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As @doctorow.pluralistic.net says, "Geometry hates cars." Transportation in cities is a space problem, not a tech problem.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Bull’s-eye example of what @doctorow.pluralistic.net calls a Reverse Centaur situation, with humans supporting technology instead of technology supporting humans.
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Keith Hyland @handle.invalid · 22/09/2026
this whole thread... ⬇️
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Christopher Little @cshl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Sorry, but if I need AI to tell me “who have I been in touch with the most recently?” Or similar, I’m def over medicating.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 22/09/2026
This is going to be a thread of AI greenwashing getting pumped out at New York Climate Week Here's one from today: Siemens, raking in MOUNTAINS of $$ from selling gas turbines to data centres (not mentioned) says: “we are racing to mitigate this as fast as possible" apnews.com/article/clim...
On the other hand, Eva Riesenhuber, the head of sustainability at the German automation company Siemens, and Evelyn Wang, vice president for energy and climate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said AI is too important to humanity and will help tackle climate change.

Data centers adding to climate and water problems “is not forever,” according to Wang, who told The Associated Press that data centers are five years away from being water neutral and about a decade away from no longer adding to planet-warming emissions.

Acknowledging these concerns, Riesenhuber said “we are racing to mitigate this as fast as possible because we are hooked on the intelligence, and we do need the intelligence to design the future that this planet needs.”a chart showing siemens gas turbine sales will add emissions the equivalent to pakistan
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Cedar Riener @criener.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Every innovation and change in business these days is either: We took this product you like and turned it into a subscription We took this subscription you begrudgingly pay and added some ads We took these ads you found annoying and found more ways to find you
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Liz Ard @macrophyllum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I found this framing very interesting. Personally, I'm an existential animist. I think it's possible that the sky enjoys making exuberant sunsets (a la Sagan's "we are the universe perceiving itself") but the only meaning it has *is* the exuberance
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