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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 9h

Hey, I have a disgusting question for people who record a lot of VO… what do you do if you’re having a chronic salivation problem all of a sudden?

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 18h

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 20h

Touching grass is not enough I need to break my arm

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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 16h

lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.

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Disco Gnostic @mazov.bsky.social · 14h

I'm not one to believe in the AI apocalypse, but I do believe the hold it has on boomers could lead to an apocalypse

Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at Al's capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk's Al chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 16h

A perfect trifecta of morons welcomes David Ellison to X as Ellison announces that he will honor both Paramount and Warner Bros. by renaming the new company Skydance.

Moron #1: Spencer Pratt. Moron #2: Some blowhard named "CyberPunkFightClub" saying he hopes Skydance movies won't have "woke BS." Moron #3: A guy named "Kirk Reagan, Starship Captain"--JESUS H. CHRIST!--asking for Star Trek to rebooted without "social justice agendas...Get back to thought provoking space adventure."

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo put her vision for the city like this: "A city where you can get let go of your child's hand"

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 18h

Good employers think in terms of "If I worked here, what would I want?" Forcing employees to stand rather than sit in chairs is basically the polar opposite of this approach and indicative of an employer who should be treated with contempt.

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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 22h

Listen: I don’t want to minimize the danger of high e-bike speeds. But if the problem here is that stores sell e-bikes that can drive faster than legal limits, then where’s the story about how literally *every car dealership has been doing the same thing for decades*?!?

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Hidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC News

A new hidden camera investigation by Marketplace shows how some stores are selling e-scooters and e-bikes with top speeds much higher than provincial speed limits and with recommended rider ages young...

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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 17h

Sticking to bluesky people: Roy by @embinder.bsky.social, Metzinger’s Proxy by @indigojackal.bsky.social, We Are Sorry for Your Suffering by @joybaglio.bsky.social, Navigators by @mikemeginnis.bsky.social, Five of Us by @chrisfogle.bsky.social, The Squid Who Fell in Love… by @benloory.bsky.social

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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Aubrey Plaza is Wow Platinum

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Jame! @jamesdomizio.com · 02/10/2026

Howdy! I urgently need a job in order to pay rent! I’m a recently graduated writer/content creator with a dual bachelor’s in film and communications; I won awards as a student journalist and filmmaker; and I’m looking for remote work that doesn’t involve AI. (Signal boosting greatly appreciated!)

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some good news for a change: Overcoming a massive and aggressive tech lobby and a squeamish, Silicon Valley-friendly governor, the labor movement has managed to pass a raft of first-of-their-kind AI laws aimed at protecting workers in California.

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California just passed the strongest AI labor laws in the US

Finally, some good news

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is the 59th death in ICE detention since Trump took office.

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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

While the money glut highs of pre-streaming premium cable are probably behind us, I’m not giving up on theatrical film just yet. It’s a good business model and it’s a Thing To Go Out In The World And Do, in way that paying $150 for a monthly cable package just wasn’t

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

god was anyone ever sharper than shirley jackson

I am actually going to talk about what I call images, or symbols. It seems to me that in our present great drive-fiction-wise-toward the spare, clean, direct kind of story, we are somehow leaving behind the most useful tools of the writer, the small devices that separate fiction from reporting, the work of the imagination from the everyday account. Of these the far most important, and the most neglected, is the use of symbols; I am using the word loosely, because it has altogether different meanings elsewhere, and yet I hardly know what other word to use. The thing I am talking about is best identified by reference to a theory of acting that has always seemed to me very profound, and certainly useful to the writer:
Before entering upon a role, the actor, having of course familiarized himself with the character he is to portray, constructs for himself a set of images, or mental pictures, of small, unimportant things he feels belong around the character.

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

shirley jackson you tell em www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

ar and away the greatest menace to the writer—any writer, beginning or otherwise
—is the reader. The reader is, after all, a kind of silent partner in this whole business of writing, and a work of fiction is surely incomplete if it is never read. The reader is, in fact, the writer's only unrelenting, genuine enemy. He has everything on his side; all he has to do, after all, is shut his eyes, and any work of fiction becomes meaningless. Moreover, a reader has an advantage over a beginning writer in not being a beginning reader; before he takes up a story to read it, he can be presumed to have read everything from Shakespeare to Jack Kerouac. No matter whether he reads a story in manuscript as a great personal favor, or opens a magazine, or—kindest of all—goes into a bookstore and pays good money for a book, he is still an enemy to be defeated with any kind of dirty fighting that comes to the writer's mind.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's a Digger sequel.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing

Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

While the Trump administration claims to be fighting antisemitism when it allows them to deport Muslim students, the German far-right is now banning new Holocaust memorials. And they're getting their funding from Elon Musk, the same guy funding American Republicans. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/w...

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German Town Votes to Stop Adding Memorials Outside Homes of Slain Jews

Councilors in an eastern German town voted to stop installing memorial plaques outside homes of Holocaust victims, saying they would instead build a memorial at a cemetery.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Even hotter take: the fact that ebikes let teens in the suburbs suddenly have freedom to move around the public realm unsupervised is precisely why many older people are trying to ban them (using safety as a pretext)

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Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Healthy Brunch Spouse Michigan, County Marriages, 1820-1941

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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Bunnicula sighting at my grocery store

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

At its core, chess is all about taking turns

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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

🎶 Dune, Dune, Dune, Dune Arrakis has two moons The worms can feel vibrations From all but Fremen nations 🎶

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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just encountered this for the first time and wow

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

look, if you're worried about being remembered, don't try to pursue immortality or whatever, the smart move is to start selling substandard copper and then make sure anyone who complains deposits a physical copy of that complaint in a site that will later be archaeologically significant

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

of course it is little buddy, you're twelve

A headline reading "Trump orders US government to call AI 'Super Intelligence'", dek: "The word super is the best word of all," Trump says.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I was just typing something about the new Japanese movie All of a Sudden, and a little bubble popped up next to it saying "Concision: 'Suddenly' would be a better way to say this." If I could make the program that did this scream and beg for mercy, I would do it and sleep just fine tonight.

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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 30/09/2026

the funniest part about this is that claude doesn’t have a separate feature called “vinyl mode” this guy is just giving premade prompts to feed to the normal chatbot

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 30/09/2026

Alt text: Cartoon cat outsmarted by bird and accidentally trying to swallow wire coat hanger

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Heat (1995) @heatfilm1995.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I had coffee with McCauley half an hour ago!

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