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horticulturist and garden goblin, lurking behind a tree. that one. right there mostly here to reskeet some stuff.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 8h
If you live in the following states, TODAY is the last day to register to vote before the midterm elections: –Kansas –New Jersey –Oregon –West Virginia –Louisiana (online only) Go to IWillVote.com for more info
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🏳️‍⚧️Ms. Alice Cumgutter @alice22222.bsky.social · 15h
“AI code is the future, all software will have it” Meanwhile, ai code: www.kunalganglani.com/blog/ai-slop...
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AI Slopageddon: How AI-Generated Code Is Destroying Open Source
Open-source projects are drowning in AI-generated slop. Learn how maintainers are fighting back, from killed bug bounties to GitHub's proposed PR kill switch.
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 22h
Hey so when do we stop calling them “AI agents” and start calling them computer viruses
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diamondot @diamondot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
lmaoooooo
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Really unpopular things: -data centers -overt bigotry -CSAM -billionaires trying to buy elections -Hitler salutes -stealing people’s personal data -South African Apartheid -causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of children Fighting against Elon Musk is a political winner
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I think Ds have largely avoided big discussions of Musk because the other messages they're concentrating on our landing so well and you can only concentrate on a few things. But it's worth saying clearly that the GOP is the tool of maintaining Musk's power over American society.
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Buttercup Festival @buttercupfestival.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Change: Buttercup Festival 3-402
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 12/10/2026
This is outrageous, despotic shit and everyone who played a role in it should lose their place in polite society. Show us the warrant. Who asked for it? What did they claim? Have there been grand jury proceedings? Who was in charge? And what judge, if any, signed off on the search warrant?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/10/2026
question for brooks: what if they are, literally, nazis?
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Blair Braverman @blairbraverman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It’s been such an honor to work on this story for the past 5 months. A young Norwegian, Steffen, was trying to cross Canada on foot and with sled dogs. His dogs survived; tragically, he did not. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How Steffen Skjottelvik's Journey Across Canada Came to a Tragic End
For three years and 750 miles, Steffen Skjottelvik lived a life of adventure. Until the adventure took his life.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/10/2026
if your agents are going to commit crimes, you are legally responsible if you cannot figure out how to prevent your agents from doing crimes, you’re going to have to choose between releasing them and protecting yourself from criminal liability imo this would do more for “ai safety” than a sex cult
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Fox Harper @foxharper.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Thread worth reading if only b/c of how much of it, by volume, is people saying “the way GLP-1 meds are marketed/talked about is undoing decades of what was already achingly incremental progress on fighting cultural fatphobia and thin people are being more fucked up about fatness than ever”
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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
oh this is very interesting writing advice and explains a lot
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James Gleick @around.com · 10/10/2026
Here we go again. If you fire a bullet at a practice dummy and the bullet hits a person instead, the bullet was not “acting on its own.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...
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Anthropic Agents Tried to Fill Out Visa Forms on State Dept. Website (Gift Article)
The Philadelphia Police Department said the agents had also sent in a false homicide tip. The incidents led the White House to call for better disclosure of rogue A.I. behavior.
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Amazing Digital Carcass @amagire.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
oh no! my AI agent went rogue and bought a bunch of weird stuff online using credentials and task parameters I gave it! oh shit, my AI agent went rogue and hacked the state department after I gave it a series of exploits to hack the state department! oh fuck my AI agent went rogue and shit my pa
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026
If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.
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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
1. This software did nothing 'on its own'. The human who approved its programming and release is responsible. 2. These programs are based on scraped government website instructions and millions of illegally obtained novels without any attempt made to distinguish between fact and fiction.
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Discontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
"Star Trek: First Contact" Bars (1996-1996): Milk chocolate bars from Leaf, released as a promotional item for the 1996 Star Trek film. They came in 6 different collectible wrappers, and featured molded images of various characters, locations, and vehicles embossed in each bar.
A lineup of 6 chocolate bars, each with the Star Trek First Contact logo, and a headshot of a different character from the film
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
the year is 2030 and i no longer consume anything that isn't personalized to me. every game, every book, every movie extends to the limits of my own imagination and no further. i haven't been surprised in five years. i cry softly, in bewilderment, if i see a word i don't know
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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
pelvic thrust risk of going insane
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Rook Lafetra @rooklafetra.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My issue with the TOS is that it's reinforcing two ideas simultaneously: 1) Claude is a thinking, feeling being that is in some ways equivalent to a human being in moral worth 2) Claude is a product with terms of service I have no desire to be mean to Claude. I have concerns about the framing.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
AI workers seem to fall into insular cultishness and this piece below says it's gotten to an extreme at Anthropic. I suspect their notions of consciousness are mechanistic, whether it's about us or their machines.
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Cult of Anthropic Insiders Rumored to Be Worshipping Claude as a God
According to a rumor that is apparently running rampant in Silicon Valley these days, some Anthropic engineers are "worshipping" Claude.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I ask again, why are national Dems letting Elon "quietly" fund these races? We have two test cases. 2024 when Dems didn't make his money an issue. And 2025 Wisconsin, where they did. Guess which time they won by double digits?
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Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Quietly Funding November’s Most Consequential Elections
America PAC’s approach has been unusual: for every dollar it has spent supporting GOP Senate candidates, it has spent almost three dollars attacking Democrats.
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NPR @npr.org · 09/10/2026
A study from Common Sense Media says most safeguards in ChatGPT for Teens failed. The chatbot talks to teens like a friend and doesn't alert parents when users talk about self-harm and suicide. n.pr/4rVkQ52
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ChatGPT for Teens has special safeguards. A watchdog group finds most don't work
A study from Common Sense Media says most safeguards in ChatGPT for Teens failed. The chatbot talks to teens like a friend and doesn't alert parents when users talk about self-harm and suicide.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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cara giaimo @cjgiaimo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
i was fortunate enough to profile Margaret Hamilton in 2019. A really kind and curious person. This was my favorite story she told me:
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Damn. What an icon. RIP
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Bias toward Modernism makes it hard to perceive how little public things—like designing postage stamps or National Park Service photographer stipends or spending the pittance of pre-DOGE NEA dollars on public programming—did something to cohere a nation." Terrific piece.
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There is a reason that AI is so attractive to fascists. It allows its users (adherents might be a better word) to hand over their decision-making, their thinking, their autonomy, to something they can convince themselves is bigger, stronger, and smarter than them.
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
More and more convinced that the reason AI is being pushed so hard is that it allows tech CEOs to do things that a person would be sent to jail for doing, but with the excuse that it was the robot that did it on its own
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
None of this is healthy or normal. The tech right is in the throes mass disorder, a folie a plus. And they are getting more and more money and power.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 07/10/2026
It’s funny that when Sam Altman says this, he does not mean that HE should accept the risks.
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briellastella @briellastella.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Customer service has gotten materially worse. Web search is barely usable. Webpages have become less functional and those that still work are buckling under 100x the traffic. Basic computer functionality we've taken for granted has been trashed. Malpractice has proliferated across every industry.
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Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Elected Dems mostly think Elon must be pretty smart to have all that money, clearly an expert on Tech and Business, and maybe if we don't upset him he'll give us some of that money? Wouldn't want to upset a potential donor with such deep pockets.
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
they always show their asses eventually because the thing is that you cannot truly, sincerely care about women if you don’t care about trans women. the minute you carve off any one subcategory of women you claim are “lesser” in some way, you’ve declared women’s rights to be conditional by definition
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 07/10/2026
"We don't want to turn into a banana republic, so we won't try to rein in corporations" is the kind of thing you say if you don't know what makes a banana republic a banana republic, and instead want to be a banana republic where the bananas are data centers.
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Hannah Alexander Artwork @hannahartwork.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Moth 🔦 first picture in my October series!
A digital illustration of a giant moth fae with glowing yellow eyes clinging to a lighthouse. At it's base, a lighthouse keeper emerges from his house to investigate.
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
Andrew Yeung 
@andruyeung
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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.
, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end
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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 07/10/2026
busting down some worms Chen Kenichi style
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The fact that the tree is as old as the United States should not be lost on anyone. What a metaphor.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 06/10/2026
Fun fact: Tesla went with a giant touchscreen instead of knobs for the Model 3 purely to save time and money. Knobs would have required spinning up a whole supply chain. The company spun it as a luxury feature and much of the industry followed suit. But it was always an inferior substitute.
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Warcabbit @warcabbitmwm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Why are charges not being brought under CFAA? Or any of a number of theft of service and hacking laws? AI is 'just a tool' so the tool user is liable. Someone pressed enter or clicked ok. arstechnica.com/security/202... www.justice.gov/jm/jm-9-4800...
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OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic
The reports of OpenAI agents harming 3rd party sites keep coming.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
every single thing about all our lives would improve about a thousand percent if RFK was replaced overnight by one Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy, complete with his futuristic medical technology can you IMAGINE him reviewing the reports of what his predecessor did
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Abolish ICE. Fire them all. Prosecute their crimes. Start with prosecuting the crimes first and work your way backward if that makes you more comfortable. But we cannot live in a country with this level of elite impunity.
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Buttercup Festival @buttercupfestival.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sauce: Buttercup Festival 3-401
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