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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A nude statue of Trump, entitled "The Orange Plague", has been installed in the European Parliament.

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LucasArts Memory @lucasartsmemory.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Fracture (Day 1 Studios/LucasArts) was released 18 years ago today! Also, Lucidity (LucasArts) was released 17 years ago today. These were Lucasarts' last two original (non-IP) games. 🫡

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The Verge @theverge.com · 06/10/2026

The AI creep is seemingly ubiquitous in customer service jobs now. In reporting this story, @gabydvj.bsky.social heard from movie theater workers, baristas, and Apple Store employees, all of whom have had customers ask for products or features that don’t exist. Read more: buff.ly/4togSFP

Verge headline: AI hallucinations are making entitled customers even worse
by Gaby Del Valle

Image of a phone with a pinnochio nose sprouting out of it

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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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Four-panel comic of a fluffy black cat wearing grey armour and holding a sword and shield, against a pastel sky and green grass. The cat says: “It’s time for you to remember who the fluff you are.” Then: “A brave little warrior making a hard world softer.” Its eyes grow wide and sparkling as it adds: “I’d follow you into battle!” In the final panel, it says: “Or the kitchen.”

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Polly Schattel @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When I briefly met Harlan Ellison a million years ago, he was signing books in a university bookstore. I asked him what he was going to do that night. “Sit in my hotel room and stare at the wall,” he said.

"Wasting time" might be one of the strangest accusations we've ever invented. Apparently you can waste 2:00 p.m. by sitting under a tree doing nothing. The afternoon was going to pass either way. The Earth was going to rotate either way. But because you didn't convert those hours into money, errands or improvement, we decided the time itself was wasted. As if simply being alive isn't enough to justify an afternoon.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

NEW from me: Over the last 4 years, America has lost more than 200k jobs in creative fields like publishing, film, TV, or graphic design. It's the worst stretch for arts jobs outside of recessions. How much is AI to blame? And can the arts' business model survive?🧵 www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the...

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AI and the Fall? of the Creative Class

America is Losing Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs in Media, Film & the Arts. How Much is AI to Blame?

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/09/2026

Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1

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Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees

Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.

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Star Trek Online @playstartrekonline.com · 25/09/2026

“Fascinating.” “Fascinating.” “Fascinating.” “Fascinating.” “Fascinating.” “Fascinating.”

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TekknoNerd - Commissions open @tekknonerd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Voyager, walking on those tiny legs.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026

I'm just going to keep yelling this louder and louder until it clicks: weird overpaid AI nerds hand-wringing about human extinction are trying to distract you from the extremely deadly and serious harms they are causing yesterday, today and tomorrow www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Headline: "US Data Centers Set to Burn More Natural Gas Than Most Nations" above a photo of natural gas compressor towers, power lines and a crane at an industrial site, illustrating rising gas use tied to data centers.

News excerpt reporting that U.S. data centers’ natural gas use is expected to grow by 15 billion cubic feet per day by 2035—amounting to more gas than every country except China, Russia, Iran and the U.S., citing the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

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Dr. Duncan Idaho 11 @duncanidaho11.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

EU taking on global leadership and responsibility while the US grapples with whether or not it cna depose a fuckwhit by the rule of law. If you can't handle the basics of maintaining a country then your status as "#1" is forfeit.

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The Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

But you know the Dems need to do more to improve people's faith in the integrity of our elections.

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Alex Ries @alexries.com · 11/09/2026

Alien of the Day A lovely Selection from Masters of Orion 3! These have inspired some of my own designs as far back as high school. Particularly love the gas-bag Ethearian...

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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Russian salient north of Lyman, Donetsk region, Ukraine has collapsed. Ukrainian forces are moving into this area, conducting mopping up operations.

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Dr. Duncan Idaho 11 @duncanidaho11.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My question is whether grampa war crimes is being briefed that we have a death star because the courtiers around him have reached an untenable point of sychophantic escalation. "My lord Canada will cave once they see another test firing. See this real photo, it's you and The Doom Legion last week!"

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Anna Megill @annamegill.com · 06/09/2026

Sights on a Sunday walk

A sticker on a lamp post reads SCARE THE RULING CLASS

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EldoniousRex @eldoniousrex.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Oh snap! The whole Junk World movie is on Youtube. I didn't know. youtu.be/I0ZdLjhSXTo?...

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Junk World | 2025

YouTube video by DeadBored

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Star Trek Online @playstartrekonline.com · 06/09/2026

This Tuesday at 11am PT! For the second panel of the day, we're talking Trek design with artists like @daveblass.bsky.social, and representatives of STO, OTOY, Outposts Unknown, Warp, and @daedalic.bsky.social! www.twitch.tv/crypticstudios www.youtube.com/@StarTrekOnlineGame

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"For the time being, there are no legal mechanisms forcing AI companies to disclose autonomous hacks—or, even if they do, to make sure the public has the full, unvarnished picture."

gizmodo.com

Another Rogue OpenAI Agent Swarm Went Undisclosed. We Have No Idea How Many More Are Out There

AI companies are as much of a black box as the models themselves.

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VGC @videogameschronicle.com · 01/09/2026

Around 80% of staff at Star Wars Zero Company studio Bit Reactor were reportedly furloughed just weeks before the game's release. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/around-...

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Around 80% of Star Wars Zero Company studio Bit Reactor was reportedly furloughed weeks before its release | VGC

Staff don’t know if they’ll all get their jobs back again…

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Alex Ries @alexries.com · 30/08/2026

Alien of the Day This GORGEOUS portrait of a bolt-tongue by Wayne Barlowe, from his famous book 'Expedition'. Superior use of textures; something very difficult to master in my experience!

Painting of an alien predator with a bright red arrow shaped tongue

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Michael Edwards @medwardsva.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

One of my favorite things Peter Cullen did was this very specific Toonami bumper So when Cartoon Network acquired Hamtaro, they didn't know what to do with it so they shoved this wholesome show onto Toonami, and Toonami clearly didn't know how to advertise it Peter's voice just makes it funnier

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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Another fucking treasure gone.

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

technology is incredible

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Well that's terrifying: "Today 57 million American adults are functionally illiterate. That number represents 28% of the adult population, a significant surge from 18% just over a decade ago." sciencepolitics.org/2026/08/21/a...

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Adult Literacy Is Mysteriously Declining Across Many High-Income Countries - Science Politics

COVID and smartphones alone cannot explain the decline. One thing we do know: both young and old need to retain the ability to gather and process information.

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Dr. Duncan Idaho 11 @duncanidaho11.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Some cave scenery. (Dixie Caverns in Virginia)

Local cave salamander living it's best extremophile life

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smilky🐻 @smilkyshake.com · 23/08/2026

i keep seeing genshin content since 7.0 dropped so just incase anyone didn't know they are investing so much money into GenAI it's unreal techwiser.com/hoyoverse-ai... not to mention AI being confirmed used in ZZZ and Petit Planet

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HoYoverse $14.6B AI Gamble: Genshin Developer Wants to Personalize Gaming - TechWiser

HoYoverse is investing $14.6 billion in AI over three years. Here's what it means for the future of gaming.

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Dr. Duncan Idaho 11 @duncanidaho11.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Must have been one big witch to have this bridge built. Would not have floated like a duck.

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The Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The funny thing about that chart is that you can clearly tell it's been plummeting for quite sometime. Neither party seems to have the stomach for it.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"The USS Abraham Lincoln wasn’t able to be resupplied because the U.S. Navy’s main resupply base in the Gulf of Oman was destroyed by Iranian strikes—a fact that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth chose not to make public, said David Rhode [natsec reporter for MS NOW]" newrepublic.com/post/214510/...

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Hegseth Covered Up the Real Reason the USS Lincoln Wasn’t Resupplied

According to a report from MS NOW, the USS Abraham Lincoln wasn’t resupplied because Iranian strikes destroyed a key Navy resupply base in the Middle East.

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Star Trek Corrected Captions @startrekcc.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Day 78 of inserting a random Muppet into a random Star Trek screenshot #StarTrek #StarTrekDS9 #TheMuppets

Dr. Julian Bashir is lying on his side in bed asleep. He appears to be naked. Lying on his other side is Beaker of the Muppets. Beaker has his left hand on Julian's shoulder and is giving him bunny ears with the other.

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Russia-Ukraine Daily News @rvps2001.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In other news, 🇺🇸 #Trump has curtailed the annual Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises citing his "good relationship" with Kim Jong Un. 🇰🇵 Meanwhile, the latter's sister: “We think it’s not worth making comments on that and we have no any interest in it.” apnews.com/article/kore... Ouch 😁 #usa

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North Korea shrugs off Trump's scaled-back drills with South Korea, saying it changes nothing

North Korea says the U.S. decision to scale back military exercises with South Korea doesn't change what it views as their provocative nature.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Avoiding AI is about to be a superpower.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

DON'T GET ALL EXCITED AND ASSUME GOOD WILL. This is an effort to rebrand already appropriated dollars and already developed programs before the midterms so they have something they can use against being called anti-science. THIS IS NOT NEW INVESTMENT. THESE ARE NOT NEW DOLLARS FOR SCIENCE.

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

That Saber were willing to conceal this much AI generated content represents such an astonishing breach of trust with the customer, especially after only disclosing it when forced to. How are people to trust them not to act this deceptively with other titles?

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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Because caring deeply can also mean having something worth protecting. 🐾🤍

A tiny black warrior cat with enormous round eyes stands bravely on a grassy hill, wearing a flowing red cape and holding a sword. Above, against a soft blue and pastel sky, text reads, “Having a kind heart doesn’t mean you can’t fight for what matters.”

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13/08/2026

Parnas: I've spoken to numerous military families... Our service members abroad are having moldy showers, are not getting detergent, not getting soap. Some haven't had a fresh meal in months. Prisoners in America get better meal rations than these troops are getting right now in the Middle East.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

These sailors are being put through this for a war that is unauthorized by Congress and for which funds haven’t been appropriated by Congress, a war that is now utterly pointless and which Trump simply doesn’t have the courage to end. Disgraceful. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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USS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid extended deployment – reports

Aircraft carrier’s crew in ninth month at sea and has spent record 250 days consecutively without making land

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 13/08/2026

Saber Interactive's CEO Matt Karch can get in the bin: aftermath.site/saber-interact...

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Science Magazine @science.org · 08/08/2026

Most researchers have nothing on Larry Richardson. Racking up more than 130 citations in 4 years, he seemed like a scientific superstar in the making. Except the studies were gibberish—and Larry is a cat. Learn more on #InternationalCatDay: scim.ag/3SjaUoJ

How easy is it to fudge your scientific rank? Meet Larry, the world’s most cited cat
“Exercise in absurdity” reveals flaws in Google Scholar’s productivity metrics

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