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Nicolele @nic0lele.bsky.social · 17h

I wish I had time to paint more often. Working on this was such a joy.

A zombie in armor, painted on canvas and printed as a MtG token

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Mere Smith @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

FATALITY

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merritt @merrittk.com · 30/09/2026

we fucked up bigtime when the internet slipped from the utopian promise of being able to connect with ANYone into the hellscape of being connected to EVERYone

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Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It was great speaking to Sam on this, and really demonstrates in practice how the doomerism narrative really does distract from concrete and current-day AI risks. I suppose faulty and unreliable models (the reality) just isn't as alluring as an AGI god (the fiction).

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WanderingDM @wanderingdm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Good on them! But their last paragraph also highlights a problem we have arrived at: people (some) can't differentiate between LLMs/GenAI and npc AI or procgen in a game. I'm seeing it more and more online. Words matter and this is just another thing these mfers have tainted with their grift.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New word: CLICKWALL. (n) The opposite of clickbait. A headline so unappealing, promising so little reward even by the standards of these things, that it is physically impossible to tap the link to the article.

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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This article is a really powerful insight into the changing definition / decline / corruption / corporate capture of AI research. This line particularly: "Modern AI products are not scientific achievements, they are, at best, engineering ones if not purely infrastructural ones."

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If the AI era has taught us anything, it’s this: it’s fine to judge people based on their aesthetic preferences

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social

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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day

Take five minutes to not destroy civilization

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

*Trying out the currently popular big tech advertising model* subscribe to my Patreon before my drawings come to life and eat you all patreon.com/gorangligovic

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Get more from Goran Gligović on Patreon

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/09/2026

DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Let’s gooooooo.

The mechanical Turk illustration, a man operates an automaton playing chess

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nico @nicodelort.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

since i am working on my first new alt movie posters in *quite* a while, thought i'd share a selection of my favs from over the years ! title and description in alt text all of them are ink on claybord/scratchboard

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

been thinkin about how robots are gonna kill us

Scratchy drawing of a two panel comic.
Panel 1:
Titled:“How we thought robots would kill us”
A robot shoots a human to death with a gun. It screams “Die flesh sack”

Panel 2:
Titled “How robots will actually kill us”
A MediBot is injecting something into a humans arm. The bot says “Whooops. I injected you with cancer instead of insulin. That’s on me”

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Zach Hazard Vaupen @emo-sludge.com · 20/09/2026

the difference between fine art and illustration is nothing more than the economic class of the artist making it and that of their patrons.

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Scott M | Haunted Edition 🎃 @voxparlour.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If you're curious as to what The Terror Beneath is all about, this page should be useful

The Terror Beneath Reading List If you’re less familiar with Machen’s tales of horror it’s recommended you read the following (most, if not all, are available to read free online):
• The White People • The Great God Pan • The Novel of the Black Seal • The Novel of the White Powder • Ornaments in Jade • The Inmost Light • Out of the Earth • The Lost Club • The Terror • The Shining Pyramid • The Hill of Dreams • The Red Hand • A Fragment of Life • The Green Round • N WHAT IS WEIRD FOLK HORROR?
The taxonomy of horror subgenres is admittedly a bit of a mire. Machen’s stories are especially difficult to categorise, with hallmarks of cosmic horror intertwined with the rustic chills of folk horror and the science fiction trappings of weird fiction.
The Terror Beneath uses the term ‘weird folk horror’ to describe this particular ‘Machenesque’ genre, encompassing strange Otherworldliness, pagan terror and science gone awry. Because this game expands on Machen’s mythos, for want of a better word, having a term such as weird folk horror makes it easier to understand what sort of stories and monsters fit into this world. A ghost haunting a mansion isn’t weird folk horror, but a scientist building a machine to communicate with an ancient horned god is. A weird folk horror mystery will likely have a mix of the following:
• Contacting an ancient pagan deity in one of its forms (The Great God Pan).
• The slow realisation that the world isn’t as it seems, with the mundane giving way to the fantastic (A Fragment of Life).
• Discovering murderous hidden beings of folklore lurking in the countryside (The Shining Pyramid).
• Traversing the Veil between Earth and the Otherworld (The White People).
• Scientists mixing technology and occult rites with disastrous consequences (The Inmost Light).
• Discovering strange places that exist outside of space and time (N).
• Secret societies with bizarre and frightening rituals (The Lost Club).
• Ancient beings arriving in industrialised London (T…

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 20/09/2026

no game dev skill is more important than making up your fuckin mind

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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

tilly norwood vs fred flintstone made up: ✅ / ✅ has a job: ❌ / ✅ catchphrase: ❌ / ✅ pet dinosaur: ❌ / ✅ is a virgin: ✅ / ❌

Tilly Norwood, an inhuman gollum shaped like a perky brunette

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vrunt @vrunt.social · 19/09/2026

sure yeah, can't even make a stick figure without fucking up and no one at the company gives enough of a shit to even give it another pass but go ahead and take my money so i can use this lazy shit technology every day too

ad for some AI company called evenfall
copy says "meet derek. ai every day. always hitting a wall. then he found evenfall"
the only graphic is a stick figure holding... a tablet maybe? he's missing an arm

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MAARTEN BOOT @maartnboot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

SPÖNGE BORG! The new Pirate Borg supplement, available now! @ejvanmelle.bsky.social joked about this so naturally I had to mock up a lil book cover :p

Fake book cover for the non existing Spönge Borg RPG, in the style of Mörk Borg book covers. The picture itself is from the Search for Squarepants movie. The title "Spönge Borg" is in some very over the top font, with the tag line "are you ready kids". On the bottom left it says: Writing S. B. Squarepants, Graphic design P. Star

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The very first line is a lie, and we all know it. *None* of this was ever designed to help us, which is why it hurts us and we hate it. It really is that simple, but the media simply cannot bring themselves to say it.

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The humans are rejecting the machines that were supposed to help them | CNN Business

Touchscreens and self-checkout machines were designed to help customers. But restaurants and retailers are ditching them to humanize stores and attract workers.

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway

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🏳️‍⚧️ Kiara Pendragon ∍⧽⧼∊ Godslayer 🏳️‍🌈 @aapur.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

They fired so many artists over this too. People who helped make the game iconic were tossed out on the street because the Slop Faucet could do it "decent enough". If you still play Fortnite, you're funding the hyper-acceleration of AI replacing Artists in Gaming

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Leaded Petrol Sommelier @trainshagger.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Look say whatever you want about Ed Sheeran (because he's a cunt), but this video is very funny

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I really need journalists to learn that every time OpenAI or Anthropic or xAI says that their model has broken containment and could destroy humanity that it’s a marketing pitch by companies running out of cash with high overheads and no profitable business model wanting more investment.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

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Ken Lowery @kenlowery.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

watching THEY LIVE, a 30-year-old movie that frames a homeless camp sweep as an obvious evil conducted by violence-addicted cops

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/09/2026

When you want to boycott Ed Sheeran and Pink but you already don't listen to shitty music

Depressed kermit the frog costume guy sitting hunched over on a park bench

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I cannot tell you what absolute fiction this is. AI is heading for a crash and this cackhanded Terminator narrative is being engineered to save them. The fact that the unsubstantiated testimony of a former employee has been the top story on BBC News all day is absurd and irresponsible.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14/09/2026

Free newsletter: The idea that we're nearing the creation of AI systems that we can't control and that pose an existential threat to humanity is a lie and a distraction from the tangible harms and problems caused by LLMs and AI labs' near-unlimited resources. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-alread...

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Sooo it is bad coding and lazy work And they are hoping social embarrassment will stop people from going “ no “

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Kat Lyons @katlyyons.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

btw they do this so they don’t have to hire back the same crew on a raise 🤙 (speaking from experience)

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Jordan Sorcery @jordansorcery.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The grotesque irony of Amazon Prime using a generative AI thumbnail to gaslight people into watching Gaslight

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

no see it's different than AI slop because it maps onto the game geometry, jensen huang told me this in an email at 4 AM

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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Serial Experiments Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

talking about how excited you are that nobody can stop you from making racist garbage really kind of gives away the game

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Benjamin Dewey @benjamindewey.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I finished my poster for the Granada Sherlock Holmes episode "The Abbey Grange." It's going to be part of the 40th Anniversary screening that the upcoming Brettcon 2 in Manchester. I love the series and the Brett-Holmes podcast is a wonderful companion to it all www.tickettailor.com/events/theje...

Two figures look at each other longingly framed by a circle of rope with two figure eight knots in it. Below them in the composition are Dr. Watson as played by Edward Hardwikce and Jeremey Brett as Sherlock Holmes. To the left of them is Lord Brackenstall Laying prone with blood leaking from a brutal wound. The title "The Abbey Grange" is framed by three wine glasses and a multiplex knife.

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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Fire every CEO who went deep into LLM bullshit. Every. Single. One. They can work overnights at the meat-packing plants.

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Happy birthday (Všechno nejlepší k narozeninám!) to Czech Surrealist and stop motion animation wizard Jan Švankmajer! 92 and still going strong - back in July he attended the opening of his latest gallery show 'Reliquaries and Fetishes' in the Czech Republic...

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