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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
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Elon Musk
XAI

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 9h

Window through water and time-sculpted limestone caves to an Irish rainforest beyond.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026

What is happening is not that AI-generated cultural goods are replacing human-made cultural goods; what is happening is that capital is flowing out of the production of cultural goods *entirely,* making us all poorer for it.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I remind you that half of your political/media class frantically urged you to vote for this pig-ignorant, disastrously incompetent crook, and the other half frantically urged you not to vote for the only viable opposition, and then put two and two together about why they did that.

Boris Johnson Y
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It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate from the people. He has no real ideas, and no plan.

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

i used to like apocalyptic books and movies, but i don't now, and i think it's cause i realized five years ago that if the apocalypse happens i'll still have to work

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"The disappeared*" was a term for those the military dictatorship in Argentina imprisoned/tortured/murdered during the dirty war. *"detenidos-desaparecidos" (detained-disappeared)

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21/09/2026

Well well well, someone said the quiet part out loud

60 Minutes (@60Minutes) on X:

“This is the first time in my adult life where there's been an issue that's come up that I feel like is going to directly impact me,” says Dave Lowe, a lifelong conservative Republican who lives near a proposed data center in Texas.

A middle-aged white man with a white beard, a cowboy hat, and a shirt stares at the camera

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Greedling @greedling1729.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Virgin AGI risk vs Chad Global Warming

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

Nichole Hiltz
The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

@treewarrior.bsky....
maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists

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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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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In light of everything that’s going on

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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

the best thing about being in my 40s by far has been the freedom to refer to anonymous guys in their late teens/early 20s as “kid” like Han Solo calls Luke in Star Wars. been waiting my whole life for this. worth every second. indescribable feeling of power.

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Helen Garner on the cons and pros of being a writer. (From ‘On Turning Fifty’, from True Stories: Collected Short Non-Fiction)

and grim stubbornness required in order to keep going; the episodes of elation, the occasional sense of hitting your stride, or of being in tune with the force that creates the feeling that now you've got it, now you can't put a foot wrong then the guilt you feel, when your work's going well, that you are allowed to spend your days having this much fun and ultimately being paid for it, while others have jobs in offices or schools, and bosses, and laid-down work hours they have to stick to—then the arrival next morning at your desk, the dropping away of the floor from under your feet as you see the thinness of what yesterday seemed so rich and right; the picking up of the pen, the dogged keeping going-the sickly envy of people with jobs, because they have got bosses to tell them what to do next, and work hours that finish at a certain regular time so they can go home, and holidays, and secretaries, and superannuation-and they're allowed to ask for help; the pathetic pleas for encouragement you make, invariably to the wrong person—a child, a husband, a parent— someone who can't possibly know the right thing to say, or who is in the grip of some barely conscious hostility towards you that they can't help expressing at the most destructive possible moment; the hatred of your own name, because of its connection with this slogging labour and with the expectations which you have caused the outside world to have of you, and that you're afraid you'll never live up to; the despair of feeling trapped inside your own style.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Elon Musk: 20+ years here, hates American culture and most Americans, constantly undermines our multi-racial democracy as part of his obsession to restore the Apartheid of his foreign youth, says non-white people can't assimilate Malala Yousafzai: visits Philly once, instantly adopts local customs

Instagram post from Malala decked out in Eagles dear with text "Go birds!"

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You can't blame Ed Sheeran for caving in to American stadium owners I suppose. I mean, take these guys in the 60s, they refused to play to racially-segregated audiences in stadiums in the southern states of the USA and who remembers them now?

bbc.co.uk

The Beatles banned segregated audiences, contract shows

The Beatles refused to play to segregated audiences in the US, a contract for one of the group's concerts shows.

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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Exclusive: Russian intelligence agents are “hijacking” online networks of violence-obsessed children and offering them money, guns and coaching on making explosives and poisons, new research suggests At least two incidents have been claimed by the networks in the UK inews.co.uk/news/russian...

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Russian spies 'recruiting UK teenagers' to carry out acts of violence and sabotage

Russian intelligence agents are “hijacking” online networks of violence-obsessed children and offering them money, guns and coaching on making explosives and poisons, new research suggests. Law enforc...

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I want to apologize for having called generative AI users sloppers many times this year... It was wrong of me and I feel bad for the misnomer. I meant to call them "fucko demon sloppers." So sorry.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 11/09/2026

Oh ok. It really will be quite straightforward.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11/09/2026

This thread is a fun adventure

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

to be clear i do not think that Captain Hook “had a point.” do not put it in the newspaper that i agree with Captain Hook

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 10/09/2026

A dark blizzard of disinformation is warping the public’s perception of our great city. But we know the truth: our homicide rate is lower than every major US city, neighbourhood crimes are down and we’ve been ranked #1 city in the world 11 years in a row. My piece for The Times.

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We must fight back against troll army’s lies about London

There is a dark blizzard of disinformation online, where our capital is described as a lawless dystopia in decline — this couldn’t be further from the truth

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Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online · 08/09/2026

more than anything, i think we’re all learning that people who spent their professional life learning how to talk to computers were completely unprepared for a situation in which it appears that the computer is talking back

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Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I saw this post and wanted to address it. If you look at social media today, you’ll see good, empathetic people admitting they are losing hope. They look at climate change, rising authoritarianism, and corporate greed and feel entirely powerless. If you feel this way, I want

I hate to broadcast this on social media, but I know l am not alone when I candidly state that l am losing the will to live. In my 53 years, I have never known a time when I could not locate a semblance of hope until now. It's only a feeling, but an
uncomfortable one, one that makes me feel powerless. The future of the planet, genocide, the threat of being ruled and surveilled by tech overlords, the corruption, amorality, the lack of empathy, fascism on the rise globally w/GOP in support.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Historian here. Let me explain how in the past far-right parties in Germany have caused problems not only for their own country, but for other countries as well: (1/?)

Far-right AfD wins historic victory in German state

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 06/09/2026

Everyone saying that AI is good for nothing is wrong. It's absolutely revolutionizing the spam and scam market. Micro-targeted scams individually targeting specific people using their exact relationships and anything they've ever posted online, and harder to detect by software than ever before.

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 03/09/2026

Just got outta the TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY 35th anniversary rerelease and Jesus Christ, man. What a movie. They had to do all that shit for real. They had to fly that helicopter under an overpass. They had to blow up that building. They had to find an actor who could turn into liquid metal.

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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026

I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on

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Iron Pineapple @ironpineapple.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

topic was GTA 6, but this applies to basically all games and the type of discourse/criticism you might see

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I just remembered how when I put this on Twitter back in the day, someone told me you’re not supposed to clean a snake with soap, as if this was meant as a guide to the care and feeding of your serpent

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Can you believe these fucking losers, being mad about more than one thing over the last six years

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Anyone covering politics and culture who doesn’t understand Gamergate and 4Chan is doing it badly.

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Matt Leys @mattleys.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Heard your boyfriend calls it Lake America

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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/08/2026

everything is so stupid and embarrassing all the time

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Andrea Mann @andreamann.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I don't use AI at *any* stage of writing screenplays, and I resent it being pushed onto writers and other creatives. Here's why! Or at least five reasons why. andreamann.com/blog/5-reaso... #writing #screenwriting #scriptsky #ai #aifree

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5 reasons* why I don’t use AI in my writing process (and you shouldn’t either) | Andrea Mann

*Aside from all the ethical/moral reasons.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

JKR had her chance at a future where she would be remembered forever for getting kids to fall in love with reading, and instead she will be remembered as a stochastic terrorist on the wrong side of one of 21st century history’s foremost civil rights battles, and I do think that’s somewhat sinking in

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 25/08/2026

I have really enjoyed the experience of reading story after story about how good and selfless and beloved a recently deceased famous person was

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Diem @diemtf.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is not overly PC or overly generous reporting from 1990, this largely neutral snippet is just how normal tabloids and their audiences were about transgender issues 36 years ago. It shows how artificial and forced the media furore of now is.

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dillo saint dillo @dillo.media · 23/08/2026

dudes will always find a way to rock

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 25/08/2026

And hey. We can deal with the serial killer epidemic when it arrives. And that's probably ten years away at least

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 25/08/2026

The "it's so useful for little bits of code" gang never wants to talk about this stuff

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jesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It's very bad that we've developed a new dominant breed of debate pervert who spends their entire lifecycle insisting nobody will let them say the things they've said a thousand times and insisting everyone has to have the same debate with them every single time

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/08/2026

the post-covid revolt of the bosses is the biggest factor in the absolute collapse of public support for tech we had a brief window of genuine worker power and they hated it and their primary goal with AI has been to break the workforce so they never have to deal with it again

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