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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 16h

Art, music, movies, books, tv shows, plays, games, these are a huge part of how we form bonds, know we can vibe with another human being. AI “art” seeks to replace it with algorithmically personalized content no other person experiences. It sticks a stake in the heart of human connection.

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Duncan Eagleson @duncaneagleson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Back in 2019, I set up an October art challenge for myself: A B&W portrait every week of a famous horror movie star. Among the first was Karloff in The Black Cat. This year's first is a companion piece of Lugosi from the same film. #0ctoberart #ScreamStars #Lugosi #digital art

Lugosi - The Black Cat: A black &white rendering of Bela Lugosi as Vitus Werdegast in The Black Cat (1934). Digital painting by Duncan Eagleson © 2026

Karloff - The Black Cat: A black &white rendering of Boris Karloff as Vladimir Poelzig in The Black Cat (1934). Digital painting by Duncan Eagleson © 2019

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's Bandcamp Friday, which means that 100% of the money from every song and album you purchase goes straight to the musicians. I might even have a couple of ambient albums there. sevenblood-stainedorchids.bandcamp.com

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......

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The Abominable Jonathan L. Howard @jonathanlhoward.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I wouldn't trust David Ellison to captain a pedalo on Battersea Park boating lake.

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Duncan Eagleson @duncaneagleson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Of course they want to rehabilitate this criminal scumbag who once said "It isn't illegal if the president does it." That's basically the whole philosophy of the GOPedos.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

Here's a funny thing about the right to vote: it wasn't won by voting.

Two suffragists in period dress, ceremonially putting ballots into a ballot box. The background has been replaced with an elaborate collage of 19th C printing-press parts. The ballots are glowing with radiant spikes. The face of the ballot box has been replaced with an Nvidia Vera Lynn GPU.

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Duncan Eagleson @duncaneagleson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Unlike many bookstores, Carpe Librum regularly supports and features small and indie presses. We should support them in return! (Also, Elementari Rising is a banger. Full disclosure, I art directed this book. Cover illustration by Siolo Thompson)

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On the same day Trump announces that top tech firms have signed an accord to "self-police" their own AI development, we learned that OpenAI employees and security researchers were reportedly ignored when they brought safety concerns to the company's top executives. See the problem here?

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OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models

Employees and security researchers said that they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but that OpenAI did not listen.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you’d like a signed copy of the final Sandman Slim novel, IN THE DEVIL WIND, you can order it from the link below. And if you’d like signed copies of my other books, scroll down the page or email samantha@riverstonebooks.com shop.riverstonebookstore.com/book/9780063...

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/09/2026

GOAT OR BIRD????

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Zoje Stage @zojestage.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hahahahaha!!!

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Guido Eekhaut @eekhaut.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Don't ignore a cat's warning...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Warrior Princess ⬇️

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This 👇 👇 👇

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PSL_4Loko @psl4loko.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The whole speech is good, but this part in particular is particularly relevant now. www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/publ...

A screenshot of a section of the linked speech by former President Harry Truman:

I've seen it happen time after time. When the Democratic candidate allows himself to be put on the defensive and starts apologizing for the New Deal and the fair Deal, and says he really doesn't believe in them, he is sure to lose. The people don't want a phony Democrat. If it's a choice between a genuine Republican, and a Republican in Democratic clothing, the people will choose the genuine article, every time; that is, they will take a Republican before they will a phony Democrat, and I don't want any phony Democratic candidates in this campaign.

But when a Democratic candidate goes out and explains what the New Deal and fair Deal really are--when he stands up like a man and puts the issues before the people--then Democrats can win, even in places where they have never won before. It has been proven time and again.
We are getting a lot of suggestions to the effect that we ought to water down our platform and abandon parts of our program. These, my friends, are Trojan horse suggestions. I have been in politics for over 30 years, and I know what I am talking about, and I believe I know something about the business. One thing I am sure of: never, never throw away a winning program.
This is so elementary that I suspect the people handing out this advice are not really well-wishers of the Democratic Party.

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Duncan Eagleson @duncaneagleson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Awesome painting by Minette Dreier. Translating the text: "Oil/canvas After her trip through Namibia, a friend asked me for this lion portrait because she was so enchanted by the large, free animals in their natural habitat."

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The great BILLY WILDER talking about how he wasn’t interested in “fancy-schmancy” when it came to filmmaking, it was always about telling the STORY.

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David Autovino @davidautovino.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Shel Silverstein somehow clocking AI all the way back in 1981

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Duncan Eagleson @duncaneagleson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"Wherever justice is bound, nobody can ever be in accord with the common good, nor pull the cord straight; thus should tyrany prevail... she always protects the abuser, the robber, and those who hate peace, so that her every land is waste." -- Ambrogio Lorenzetti, "Good and Bad Governence," 1339.

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Lace and Roses @roseandlace.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Relax as much as you can going in too- a shot into a tensed muscle is going to hurt more than into relaxed flesh. Flexing AFTERWARDS will help A LOT!!!!

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Duncan Eagleson @duncaneagleson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the one ring.

Portrait of Kyle MacLachlan as Agent Dale Cooper from Twin Peaks. He stands with his hands in the pockets of his black suit. The background is a brown textured fabric with a flat black circle at center, into which the upper part of his suit vanishes. 22x28, acrylic on canvas ©1996 Duncan Eagleson

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Theodora Goss @theodoragoss.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is absolutely hideous. We are talking about a political party that wants women to reproduce and at the same time is raising the maternal mortality rate. The result is dead women.

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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J.T. Greathouse @jeremyteg.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

In Alexandre Dumas' 1846 novel THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO, the titular Count "hacks" the telegraph system, a novel technology at the time, as part of his plan to avenge himself against the Baron Denglars. Thus, THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO is canonically a progenitor of cyberpunk. In this essay I will

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026

All else aside there is nothing I want or need genAI to do for me. I like reading. I like doing research. I like playing around in spreadsheets. I like interviewing people. I like writing. I like doing these things for myself because I take pleasure in the doing and they make me a better thinker.

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A perfect example of what AI is really for: removing consent, removing the social safeguards that used to keep the worst ideas at bay, and doing racism at scale. theplaylist.net/paul-schrade...

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Paul Schrader Says He Turned To AI Because “No Black Actors Wanted To Play In A Movie Where There Are No Good Black People”

Paul Schrader explains why he turned to AI actors for ‘Three Guns At Dawn’ after Black actors rejected the original roles.

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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is pure art.

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Duncan Eagleson @duncaneagleson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

For those who were "WTF?" about it, an explanation of why the nickname "No Tab Pete" is so derisive:

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

So while authors and publishers are arguing about divvying up the settlement money, Anthropic have got away with mass theft. Whatever they pay out is simply a cost of business. The shit machine they built with that theft still exists despite a complete lack of consent and blatant law-breaking.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 2025: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This country was built on the opposition to tyranny...so ICE must be abolished.

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Duncan Eagleson @duncaneagleson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I love this. Back in the early '80s when I was putting up, relations w/ the guards were entirely adversarial. Our crew did respect the car numbers, never left cans behind, but we were the exception. Glad to know things are dramatically changing. 1/5

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Duncan Eagleson @duncaneagleson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Yes, this. What many don't understand is that in the '50s, the 90% rate applied only to income above $400K (circa $5 mil today). Of course, that was on personal income. Anthropic is a corporation. Tax on corporate income was 23% up to $25K (about $356K today), 42% for income above that. But.. 1/2

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Duncan Eagleson @duncaneagleson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Back from a longish social media hiatus, gutted to learn about Dolly Parton and Tim Curry. (Note to this guy: You keep taking the wrong 80 year-olds, dammit!)

COWL: A figure in a hooded robe looks out at the viewer. No face can be seen within the hood, just darkness. Digital painting by Duncan Eagleson ©2019.

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Crisp @crisp91.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The Antikythera Mechanism, recovered from a Greek shipwreck dated to ~60 BCE, is the world’s oldest known analog computer. Built around 100 BCE with 30+ bronze gears, it accurately predicted eclipses and tracked the Sun, Moon, and planets over 2,000 years ago. ⚙️🌍

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The internet always delivers.

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

These kinds of laws have an invisible ripple effect across the country. A good number of corporations will just change their policies instead of making a NYC-specific protocol. A lot of the consumer protections we have started in one state or big city.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Let’s oppress Republicans just one time so that the ceaseless whining of these toxic cowardly conservative crybabies can finally and for the first time in recorded history be in some tiny way be remotely justified, it’ll be doing them a favor I swear

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