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Doug Warren

@dougwar40k.bsky.social
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In the grim, Doug future of Bluesky, there is only Warren.

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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 17h
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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 28/09/2026
claude just went rogue and liked a bunch of my wife's best friend's vacation selfies from 2018
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Introducing Gurpo
A drawing of a small blobby figure inside of an enclosure with string coming off it, with text saying "introducing Gurpo, the new wearable personal assistant. Gurpo is not a computer program, he's a real tiny guy who is trapped inside your medallion necklace. 
Gurpo hates you, but is incapable of doing anything about it, and he has to answer your questions or he gets electrocuted. It's non-lethal.
If you shake his enclosure hard enough, gurpo will throw up!"
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Television Series
Science Fiction (genre)
ALF
Would The Borg consider ALF or his species worthy of assimilation?
Follow
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Request
Answer
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
god wants you to back my kickstarter 💦 kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun
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Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The human reviewers are in rebellion. If you use AI to write then send it to AI for review. Create your own preprint servers and journals and do the work yourself of setting up the infrastructure to decide what AI works should "count" as scholarship. #AcademicSky
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Doug Warren @dougwar40k.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Hello, is this the phone service where my job pays for me to have one hour of legal services per month? Yes, I've invented a tabletop role-playing game named _Modrons and Murlocs_, is this okay, legally speaking? "Yes, I'll hold."
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dawn of the debb @debbshock.blue · 28/09/2026
Monday is scary here, take this teeny tiny owl
a pygmy owl resting on a branch.
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404 Media @404media.co · 28/09/2026
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, 404 Media has learned. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI images. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Sccop here by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/humans-readi...
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Doug Warren @dougwar40k.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Kitchen drawers need a slide-out countertop surface immediately above each of them that prevents long implements from overtopping the drawer and geting stuck.
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 28/09/2026
Another day, another YouTuber I subscribed to using "AI" thumbnails.
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Ron Swanson Throws Computer in Dumpster
ALT: Ron Swanson Throws Computer in Dumpster
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GONZO the Ca'at @gonzo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Habby Birrtday gramma @celticwarrior46.bsky.social !
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Cat's Hilarious Balloon Birthday
Alt: Cat's Hilarious Balloon Birthday
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Matias @matiashannecke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Unemployment
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joe @shariauncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
increasingly feels like my Perfectly Fine liberal arts education was an artifact grabbed fleeing a burning temple
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lurker.quest @lurker.quest · 28/09/2026
about halfway through my animation course they started using AI in making assignments I think I got out just before the building collapsed
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Doug Warren @dougwar40k.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"I slapped his wrist SO HARD. I mean, I think he liked it, but still."
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Reverend Moonshine @reverend-moonshine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is exactly why I'm no longer welcome at the comic book store.
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himham @himham.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Send us data so we can produce propaganda about what we already want to do
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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
LOL: Flock sent a letter to the mayor of Lowell complaining about comments he made during a city council meeting about how Flock sells data. Flock claimed that it does not sell data, but the mayor responded by pointing out that Flock advertised this feature to Lowell.
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Flock vs. Lowell: Surveillance company defends product
LOWELL — Flock Group, Inc. is not only watching license plates in Lowell, but it is also watching the City Council meetings.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Who could’ve foreseen that after the Supreme Court gave Trump immunity from prosecution for committing crimes while in office he would commit lots of crimes while in office?
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Lucy Knisley @lucyknisley.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I made a little template for use by cool small businesses! Enjoy!
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Upside Downie @adownie.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Flu season is almost upon us. Stay safe, folks
An image depicting handshake alternatives and the resulting germ
Transfer reductions:

High Five: 50% less bacteria transferred

Fist Bump: 78% less transferred

Sweep the Leg (martial arts takedown move): 100% less transferred.
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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is your regular reminder that Politico is owned by the German equivalent of Rupert Murdoch. They are every bit as much the Enemy as Fox News is, they just hide it better.
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Naolin Davis @naolindavis.art · 05/09/2026
I am fucking proud to be a @procreate.com user. Thank you for creating one of the best art programs in the world. procreate.com/ai
AI
is not
our future.

Where we stand
No generative AI
We deeply respect your hard-earned skills.

Your work belongs to you
We do not have access to your art, by design.

We take pride in privacy
Your activity is not tracked in our apps.

Creativity is made, not generated.
Generative AI is ripping the humanity out of things. Built on a foundation of theft, the technology is steering us toward a barren future. We think machine learning is a compelling technology with a lot of merit, but the path generative AI is on is wrong for us.

We're here for the humans. We're not chasing a technology that is a moral threat to our greatest jewel: human creativity. In this technological rush, this might make us an exception or seem at risk of being left behind. But we see this road less travelled as the more exciting and fruitful one for our c
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
welcome to 2020s tech. we got - pervert glasses - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - the button that does nothing - we outta ram - we outta hard drives - we outta graphics cards - ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses - wiretap
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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Kala Paint @kalapaint.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Kala Paint is out! I'm @olawson.bsky.social , professional artist for 15 years, then game dev, now wrote the painting software I wish I'd been using all this time. GPU-run creamy brushes, no subscription, no gen AI crap, hand-coded with ideas from artists in our Discord, and more added weekly!
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el camino acid @sexdracula.rocks · 25/09/2026
the "don't bring iced coffee to an interview" discourse is great bc it's such a succinct and clarifying example of how private businesses aren't efficient & logical enterprises, they're just arbitrary in-groups ruled by sociopaths, power tripping on their ability to enforce pointless bullshit norms
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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.
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typing loudly ⌨️ @typingloudly.zip · 27/09/2026
why are you trying too do work with a horoscope LLMs are literally useless to anyone who already knows how to use a computer
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Stu Duncan @studuncan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Just get a better prompt” is going to lead to so many deaths.
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Doug Warren @dougwar40k.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's too late to put the cone on him: poor thing's already chewed himself to the bone.
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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is like accusing someone of robbing a bank because they deposited money and never withdrew it
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Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Everyone has lost their minds. 'Business people' are falling over themselves with it. WHY DO ANYTHING??? JUST GET THE AI TO DO IT and the AI churns out some soulless abomination, an approximation, an uncanny valley in chatbot form and these 'business people' are freaking THRILLED
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I will say that Tony Khan was born into incredible wealth and rather than selling his sperm decided that pro wrestling was really cool and that makes him better than 99.99999% of people born into extreme wealth
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
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🍟 ~hanni~ 🍟 @saffronscarf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
well well well, if it isn’t ol’
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Most riveting thing I've seen all week
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Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online · 25/09/2026
yes, the sandwich shop does indeed have mayonnaise. however, you’ll have to add it yourself. the kitchen will not add it for you. there is satisfaction in the work
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Chris "🍻🍻" @thecellarmonk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Aww ... not feetloaf for dinner again
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Doug Warren @dougwar40k.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'm a single-issue voter, but that issue is _Transformers_ #8, the one where they introduce the Dinobots.
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Doug Warren @dougwar40k.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Having creamed candy corn, aka Karo syrup from the bottle.
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Doug Warren @dougwar40k.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Operational note: cancer remains uncured by AI. And actually, all the new gas-burning power plants dedicated to AI data centers will definitely increase cancer rates.
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SEGA SATURN, SHIRO! @segasaturnshiro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Is there any harm in using AI to work on — or entirely create — projects for the Sega Saturn and elsewhere in the retro gaming scene? Yes, PandaMonium says in this opinion column, equating such work to digital asbestos: www.segasaturnshiro.com/2026/09/24/c... #sega #saturn #segasaturn #retrogaming
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Column: All A.I. Projects Are Digital Asbestos
The views expressed in this article do not necessarily represent the views of all SHIRO! Media Group contributors. The cost of modern day video game consoles and personal computers have skyrocketed…
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Doug Warren @dougwar40k.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
But absolutely do have them send you some of their very expensive print catalogs.
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Doug Warren @dougwar40k.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The love that dahe not pahk the cah.
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"I don't want to be political so I'm going to be neutral about an issue" is a political opinion unfortunately
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