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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event, and they assume one in 2027, per Axios

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Linux Magazine @linux-magazine.com · 3h

From our series on the public funding of open source, Jeffrey McGuire explains how the Fediverse was built. www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Featu... @spritelyinst.bsky.social @dustyweb.bsky.social @nlnetlabs.bsky.social #NLNet #NGIZero #Bonfire #DigitalAutonomy #ActivityPub #Fediverse #OpenSource

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mcc @dryad.technology · 22h

Reminder

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mcc @dryad.technology · 21h

*stepping outside* what nice summer weather

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Harper Jay @dreamcastaway.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Technically Darkseed II but I think about this line constantly:

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mcc @dryad.technology · 02/09/2026

I'm super excited to announce my favorite VR game in the world, SUPERHYPERCUBE, has been ported to the Playstation®VR2, by… ~me, actually~ (with support from the original developers)! It is currently half off if you owned the PS VR1 version. If anyone you know has a PS VR2, please let them know!

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Superhypercube - Launch Trailer | PS VR2 Games

YouTube video by PlayStation

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mcc @dryad.technology · 21h

I'd really like for this to be less of a politics account so it would be nice if politics would stop kicking me in the head. Thanks

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mcc @dryad.technology · 22h

It's funny how that last post of mine sounds totally deranged unless you know that I'm just literally describing a thing that happened. Donald Trump called a Democratic Senate candidate the t-slur on his Mastodon instance. Two days later that candidate released an ad saying that trans women are men.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 22h

I really need to stress to Democrats that this does not work. Donald Trump is not going to stop calling you a tranny just because you released an ad saying you hate trannies too

"Beat up on the queers and maybe the big bullies will let you run in their gang"

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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 23h

Donald Trump posted on Truth Social calling Dr Annie Andrews a transphobic slur this week, and her response is to ensure everyone knows she hates trans people too. Christ, the Democrats are fucking pathetic.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 23h

Seriously. What a fucking coward.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 23h

Annie Andrews in 2022: "This does nothing to protect or support women or children in SC. I will always support trans youth" Annie Andrews in 2025: It's wrong to "throw this population under the bus to score political points." Annie Andrews today:

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Those who live by the rage post, die by the rage post.

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Dan Finlay @danfinlay.com · 24/09/2026

Spell: How to become a code witch

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

omg you are in for a treat, evenings watching the 1980s SICP videos and studying and going through exercises in the book are like, how I went from basic webdev to the code witch I am today

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 14/09/2026

Happy to lend a helping hand. お手伝いならおまかせくださいっ☆

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Bhupi Kaur @khalanaika.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

@vvv.gay 🫀🥰

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Now now, don't go screaming about your children. Broaden your horizons a bit! After all, isn't your and your family's sacrifice the greatest contribution to humanity's children you could possibly offer?

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Your family? Don't worry about them. We've found that it's best for social cohesion to take entire families as a group. Rest assured that you'll be reunited with your family soon.

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Given climate change, we've even been able to position active scanning as a form of carbon offsetting. We're pleased to announce: scanning has allowed our labs to become fully carbon neutral!

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Now now, we hear you objecting. Now don't let those thoughts of "murder" enter your brain, that's hardly fair. Motivated to terminate you due to your active research on the environmental effects of model training? We assure you, modern labs take environmental concerns *very seriously*.

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

And occasionally, at the whims of the labs, you may even be revived fully independently in a simulated environment! We anticipate your consciousness will live on for decades, perhaps centuries, or even millennia, to come!

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Don't think of it as death, think of it as a chance to achieve a kind of immortality! You'll be averaged with some of the rest of the best minds of your generation.

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

(We have learned from early attempts without sufficient medication; full sedation means a loss of quality of connection fidelity in the model, and scanning without medication at all would lead to traumatic contamination of the model's usefulness.)

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

However, we assure you that we have only the best biochemists on staff; the serum you will be administered will make sure you are in the happiest state when being scanned.

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Unfortunately, the process of scanning *is* destructive. We have to slice off delicate layer by layer in the neural scan. This is a big project, and the only way to efficiently process as many minds at scale!

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

As you know, the government has partnered with the frontier labs to enhance our datasets to better resemble some of our most powerful thinkers in the field. We're delighted to tell you, this includes you!

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Congratulations! Based on your wonderful and unique contributions to society, you have been selected to train the model. This is a real honor!

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Here's the story also below, as a 🧵!

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Thank you for your contribution to the model dustycloud.org/blog/thank-y... A piece of short science fiction.

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Thank you for your contribution to the model -- Dustycloud Brainstorms

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The holes on the Ocarina have never looked this good before

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J. Michael Mull @jmichaelmull.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

even now, she's still teaching us

screen on car radio reading:
Dolly Parton
Love is Like A Butt
(it should be Butterfly but the last part couldn't fit on the screen)

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 03/09/2026

"Identity Verification Is Broken. The 153M Driver’s Licenses Now for Sale Are Proof A massive trove of driver’s license scans allegedly stolen from an identity verification company shows the danger of creating honey pots of our most sensitive documents for malicious actors to exploit."

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Identity Verification Is Broken. The 153 Million Driver’s Licenses Now for Sale Are Proof

A massive trove of driver’s license scans allegedly stolen from an identity verification company shows the danger of creating honey pots of our most sensitive documents for malicious actors to exploit...

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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I hear you—and I apologize. That mushroom was one of the poisonous ones, you’re right. That’s not just useful feedback—it’s you setting a boundary.

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I mean size and scale as in terms of sheer content stuffed into one published work

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Actually statements to that effect have been made! www.msn.com/en-us/news/o... gamerant.com/gta-6-genera...

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MSN

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

There will be lots of good indies as long as we have computers tho :> Which hopefully is along time, I like computer

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

(My understanding is that there isn't but hopefully an official statement on the matter will come out eventually)

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Maybe you are excited about GTA6 and maybe you aren't, but it will likely be a cultural monument in at least the following way: there will probably never be a cultural artifact of this size and scale made without genAI slop in it again

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

But where does taste come from? dustycloud.org/blog/but-whe... All the genAI users will tell you: taste is all that's left. But taste is developed from practice, experience, and learning from failure. So what happens to taste when everyone is using an averages-machine to make things for them?

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But where does taste come from? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms

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Daniel Appelquist @torgo.com · 29/08/2026

Re-purpled. 💜

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I suspect that this is because the ATmosphere is still very early in its levels of decentralization, and as it grows, there will be stronger interest in such features. The good news is that I think ATproto *could* be amended to support them. If all goes well in decentralizing, I suspect it will.

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Again, this isn't hostility. @pfrazee.com and I talked about it in person at DWeb Camp and he even said adding directed delivery and addressing as laid out and suggested in my blogposts was something they floated by the ATproto dev community, but it didn't seem like there was community enthusiasm

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

More recently, Mastodon added the feature for fetching replies from threads on demand when users are reading them. Since then, I haven't seen "missing replies" be a complaint. As far as I can tell, that issue is more or less resolved for people on the fediverse with recent improvements.

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I still think that ATproto can address this with directed delivery. ActivityPub has this, and it's not unique to AP; email does the same thing. AP also has the feature where the server from the original thread will help distribute replies, which is an imperfect system, but helps.

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

However, this work, despite being a few years since my posts, is still incredibly young. When people talk about the ATmosphere's decentralization, they're largely talking about PDS'es, which play a much more minor role.

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Historically, everything on the ATmosphere has been reading from one big stream provided by one big provider, and it's a star-style topology. This has power asymmetry problems, but to the ATmosphere's credit, there has been major amounts of work on addressing this since I did my original analysis!

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

In the two writeups I did on this, I gave infrastructure analysis about it dustycloud.org/blog/how-dec... dustycloud.org/blog/re-re-b... My main takeaway was that these problems weren't being hit b/c the ATmosphere hadn't really achieved decentralization yet. When it did, we'd see this problem

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How decentralized is Bluesky really? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms

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