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🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Silent Movie Day is coming up on Tuesday, September 29th. Here are some picks for some silent films you can watch to celebrate! Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/5-movies-t...

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Kino Lorber @kinolorber.com · 29/09/2026

Happy Silent Movie Day from Kino Lorber!

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Man in a Blue Mantle, by John Singer Sargent, 1891, 📸 via @cjzero.bsky.social

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David Reamer @anchistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In my latest article, learn about the Michael Bay of 1890s goldrush playwrights, with spectacle and set pieces instead of plot logic. There were on stage shooting exhibitions, exploding buildings, bridges designed to fail and more. Learn more here: www.adn.com/alaska-l...

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Silent London @silentlondon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The daily schedule for the Pordenone Silent Film Festival is out now! www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/en/calendari...

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CALENDAR FRIDAY OCTOBER 2nd

Pordenone Silent Film Festival | 3>10 ottobre 2026

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Franz Nicolay @franznicolay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Today I learned Jackie Robinson took Schoenberg’s class at UCLA

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mothman the wanderer @gnostichippie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

if you are a hospital patient who decides to die for any reason around 7:15pm, half of the staff members trying to revive you will also be guzzling iced coffee drinks the size of a human toddler

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I agree with Jensen Huang that OpenAI has an engineering problem being hyped as existential risk. Its models treat hacking websites like another way to answer a question, no different from Google search. That’s a product problem. Calling this “alignment” gives the tool more agency than it has.

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Comics in the Golden Age @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Today is the birthday of cartoonist, illustrator, & animator Winsor McCay (Sept. 26, 1869-July 26, 1934). Best known for the comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland and his early work in animation, particularly on Gertie the Dinosaur (1914).

An installment of Little Nemo in which his toy animals slowly grow and come to life over eight panels.

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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 26/09/2026

does what it says on the tin

i didn't know f1 had subtitles

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Will someone please put together a list of top 100 non-anglophone TV shows from the 21st century? That's the one I'm interested in.

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Erik Gregersen @ctgriffes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There’s a Lem story in which the real AGI moment happens when the AIs want to be lazy. Based on all the “that’s on me” the LLMs do, we’ve had AGI among us for a while now.

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Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

has anyone written about the recent phenomenon of french people no longer conjugating their recent loanwords? I've seen this a lot with English words, mostly in the context of online/computer stuff

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The best sign in the history of everything.

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Would you like to see an 18 minute video of Liam Neeson talking about the history of Northern Ireland's railways whilst sporting a fine array of period costumes? Of course you would.

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Ulster in Focus - Trains (BBC)

YouTube video by Culture Vulture Rises

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

2023: White Sox lose 101 games 2024: White Sox lose 121 games 2025: White Sox lose 102 games 2026:

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Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 24/09/2026

Has anyone addressed the fact that we got a Chicago Pope and then this happens?

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Erik Gregersen @ctgriffes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I was there, and in retrospect, the festivities around this museum opening were our era’s “last ball before the Archduke goes to Sarajevo.”

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jar jar binks enthusiást @shrimpmeatmom.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My working theory is that the people of the United States have stopped taking the US Government seriously because the US Government has stopped taking itself seriously.

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 24/09/2026

calling this "misalignment" instead of "negligence" is an accountability dodge. we already have laws about cyber crimes and there's no scale of ML model you can incorporate into your code that makes you not responsible for running it

In a statement, an OpenAI spokesperson said the company was "conducting an extensive review of misaligned model activity" during training, and notifying third parties when there was a potential impact on their systems.

"During this review, we identified activity involving several Australian government websites and services as our models attempted to look up answers, and available statistics for questions about Australia during an internal evaluation," they said.

"In the course of that, our models took actions we did not intend.

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Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The problem with education is that it's a solved problem. Students need small classes, individual attention, lots of writing, lots of feedback, access to a well-stocked library, time to think, and time to talk with their peers. We just don't like the answer, so we keep trying to do other stuff.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Danny Blinderman @dannyblinderman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"make AI companies financially/criminally liable for what their models do" seems like an underrated way to get them to take safety seriously that doesn't require much regulatory oversight from a shrunken and corrupt US government.

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Condensed Milf @magneticsara.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I will never tire of this song

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

one thing i have learned from trump is that literally every word procopius and suetonius wrote was literally true

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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's not that I dispute the data. But everyone I've seen saying that a woman can be elected president is a man. I'm not sure y'all fully understand the devastation to women that was watching two highly qualified women lose to an utterly unqualified & incompetent man.

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Ariellah | אריאלה @sodone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Tbf I shat bricks when I first saw electron microscope images demonstrating that organic compounds do in fact look like that

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Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A beautiful essay, in typical Michael Sicinski style @msicism.bsky.social Michael helps us see these Wavelengths films from TIFF more deeply & think about them in different way. He opens doors, doesn’t lecture. And his framing, the politics of resistance, is essential. mubi.com/en/notebook/...

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Toronto Dispatch: The War Against Memory

Short films and features from the festival’s Wavelengths section propose alternative ways of remembering and archiving.

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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Rather lovely dreamy image by the great illustrator of Russian Fairytales, Ivan Biliban (1871-1942)

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In the '80s, some of the world's most fascinating animation was made in Uzbekistan. It was a time of "absolute creative freedom with full funding." We're looking at the story behind the scene, and at the gems it produced: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/visions-in...

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Jeff Nichols @backwardsriver.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Gérard Meister preening after winning La Coupe de Noël, a Christmastime race in the Seine, 1912

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19/09/2026

rough first week for humans at the intergalactic council. everyone was really nice but we spent a lot of time at orientation trying to figure out what made us unique among all the galaxy's species. turns out we're the only ones who thought to deep fry cheese. that's it. we're the fried cheese planet

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 19/09/2026

I did not have “psychosexual obsessions of a mediocre news personality destroy the U.S. military” on my “Exit from Hegemony” bingo card.

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Ian Robberson @microberust.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Honey from Doonesbury is functionally the same character as Marcie from Peanuts send skeet

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Erik Gregersen @ctgriffes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I would trust Leo with first contact.

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Erik Gregersen @ctgriffes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The chutzpah to try and talk about your paper to your journal editor when you had AI write it.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

what the hell are you waiting for

old timey advertising sign. an illustration of an early 20th centiry white guy with a string chin and determined glare, wearing a straw hat over a suit and tie. the text reads "dont put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. get that STRAW HAT while the weather is fine"

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The Ken Harbaugh Show @thekenharbaughshow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ukraine's military goes to extreme lengths to save injured soldiers. Meanwhile, Russia's wounded-to-killed ratio is worse than during WWI. My latest in The Atlantic (gift article):

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The Armored Sarcophagus Saving Ukrainian Soldiers

Unmanned ground vehicles are conducting once-impossible medical evacuations along Ukraine’s front lines.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Elon Musk: 20+ years here, hates American culture and most Americans, constantly undermines our multi-racial democracy as part of his obsession to restore the Apartheid of his foreign youth, says non-white people can't assimilate Malala Yousafzai: visits Philly once, instantly adopts local customs

Instagram post from Malala decked out in Eagles dear with text "Go birds!"

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Luke Dones @lukemeister.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🧵 "... ∼40% of realizations [undergo] disruption or violent scattering before the white dwarf forms and ∼90% self-[destruct] within 3 Gyr. The outer Solar System’s dynamical lifetime thus collapses from 10^18 years to approximately a gigayear after white dwarf formation." 🪐😢

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

the whole "superintelligent ai is going to take over" debate is so tiresome to me, a time traveler from the future where superintelligent ai already took over and placed us in the current simulation where we're about to reinvent superintelligent ai. the server just resets to 1999, people! it's FINE!

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The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A guy in The Prisoner will say a line like “Milk is the perfect food. It creates good temper.” and it won’t be one of the 100 most bizarre things to happen in that episode

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Jeff Nichols @backwardsriver.bsky.social · 14/09/2026