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@ericthelemming.bsky.social
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he/him, 44. BLM. Japanese-speaker. Computer scientist. Environmentalist. Nerdfighter. Reducetarian. @ericthelemming@dftba.club

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eric 🇵🇸 @ericthelemming.bsky.social · 11h
i wake up and it's october 🎵
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 30/09/2026
A couple weeks ago someone said if he hacked into a government system, he'd be put in prison. But when OpenAI does it, they send an "apology letter" & there are no consequences. Our 2-tier justice systems are trash. They enable the development of psychopaths who learn the laws don't apply to them.
OpenAI apologises for hacking Australia's healthcare system and reveals extent of attack.
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ANT @allelitegraps.bsky.social · 18h
The legendary Vincent D'Onofrio, author of the most beautiful tweet of all time:
A tweet from the actor Vincent D'Onofrio that reads:
Pigs can't look up.
But I could pick a pig up one night and raise it into the sky and tilt this pig ever so gentle. I can make sure this pigs eyes line up with the stars. Imagine seeing the stars 4the first time.I want 2b treated that kindly and see the stars for the first time.
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Salty @dfedmpls.bsky.social · 14h
FUCK OFF
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 13h
Good morning to everyone who wants to protect the planet from the greed of billionaires and trillionaires
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Makuhari Messy @alamort.bsky.social · 13h
If you like BL you should fill out this survey and tell Chill Chill's team that AI is not welcome in BL spaces (or anywhere, really).
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DFTBA @dftbarecords.bsky.social · 15h
Artist Spotlight: We couldn't resist a Hollywood, Ending shirt this year. When we saw some of @dftbarachel.dftba.social's posts here on Bluesky, we had to ask if she'd work with us! Get your Pizzamas/Hollywood, Ending mash-up shirt today! pizzamas.com/products/hol...
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Becca Harrison @beccaeharrison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If I were running a university where staff spent weeks and weeks of time putting grant proposals together only for UKRI to feed them into LLMs without informed consent—effectively theft of the time and work—I’d be taking serious action to defend those staff. But I’m not running a university, so
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 30/09/2026
shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That's a $96,318 fine for being raped.
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eric 🇵🇸 @ericthelemming.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
here's a video recommendation and maybe there is also a comment from me recommending a long list of small artists too (though i did try to keep it short hahaha) youtu.be/hGmvI1UnbGg
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The Ed Sheeran Problem goes deeper than you think (let’s fix it)
YouTube video by leena norms
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brosaleigh @brosaleigh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nashville so soon!!! Where is your favorite coffee and/or sandwich in Nashville
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You could literally replace ‘Palantir’ with ‘Acme Child-Liquidising Ltd.’ without distorting Watson’s argument that the nature of the work doesn’t matter when calculating the benefit. There wouldn’t be an NHS without the NI contributions of those junior kiddie-macerators you know!
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/09/2026
Just remember Denmark did this without having to prop up an oversized and unprofitable fossil fuel industry like Norway has done (Denmark also has strong social welfare and education without selling a deadly fuel to pay for it)
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Pizza Rachel 🍕👨🏻 @dftbarachel.dftba.social · 28/09/2026
for new nerdfighters: a thorough explanation of Pizza John
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David the Ñoldo @davidthengoldo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The JRR Tolkien of Japanese manga! It’s crazy how underdiscussed Mizuki is in the West esp in manga/anime communities
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Pizza Rachel 🍕👨🏻 @dftbarachel.dftba.social · 28/09/2026
i’ve been keeping a secret 👀 i designed the Hollywood, Ending John shirt! 🤩 after John’s june video about Andy Warhols sunset series i made a sunset John image, he liked it, we made some tweaks and here we are! it is such an honor to be included in pizzamas for a second time. 🌅 go buy my shirt! 🏃‍♀️💨
a 3x3 grid, nine different colored pizza john faces are in the nine frames, the background is the sunset gradient from Hollywood, Ending’s coverscreenshot of the pizzamas website, a lovely dftba staff member is wearing a pink tshirt with the Hollywood, Ending design on it- while riding a horse
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Natursidan.se @natursidan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
De vilda honungsbina i Europa förväntas mer än halveras i antal de kommande tio åren. www.natursidan.se/nyheter/vild...
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Vilda honungsbi klassas nu som hotade
Nyheter, artiklar och guider om djur, natur och naturturism.
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Carolyn Page @jacuzzitubbs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
shoutout to artists on bsky yall really are so talented and inspiring. I simply love looking at the work. It makes me feel things.
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miriam nielsen @zentouro.info · 28/09/2026
from the demons that brought you "stranger listening to short form video at full volume on the subway" now proudly presents "stranger listening to AI slop at full volume on the subway"
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Dagens ETC @etc.se · 28/09/2026
Näringslivets toppar, deras betalda lobbyister och utredare, borgerliga politiker och lydiga ledarsidor har en sak gemensamt, skriver Johan Jenny Ehrenberg.
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De ljuger allihopa
Näringslivets toppar, deras betalda lobbyister och utredare, borgerliga politiker och lydiga ledarsidor har en sak gemensamt.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/09/2026
It absolutely sucks, but I am going to have to start building clauses into my freelance contracts about not feeding my draft work into these software systems. Aside from my stuff being plagiarised, it's also just exposing work to potentially millions of other people
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
From 2011: "Faced with the combined threats of land subsidence and rising temperatures and sea levels, the World Bank has predicted that Bangkok’s flood risk will increase four-fold from now by 2050." #Bangkok #Thailand 🇹🇭 #ClimateEmergency
newsinfo.inquirer.net
Floods show what lies ahead for sinking Bangkok
The Thai capital, built on swampland, is slowly sinking and the floods currently besieging Bangkok could be merely a foretaste of a grim future as climate change makes its impact felt, experts say.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/07/2026
New preprint! So honoured to have worked with Ishani Ray on providing vital critique on "AI literacy" & correctives for those interested in understanding why "just use the newest version of an LLM" is nonsense Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/
Critical discourse on large language models (LLMs) has bifurcated between epistemic dismissal that invokes some form of the stochastic parrot metaphor to puncture hype, and pragmatic accommodation that treats LLM capability improvements as grounds for updating the critique. We argue that both misdiagnose the problem as the issue is not whether or not LLMs work, but what kind of working is happening and at whose cost. Drawing on meta-theoretical frameworks of cognitive science, feminist labor analysis and critical pedagogy, we propose a conceptual reorientation. We develop this claim through registers of (i) the cognitive, examining what is forfeited when statistical pattern-matching substitutes for the iterative, grounded processes that constitute thinking; (ii) the pedagogical, examining how “AI literacy” as currently deployed is itself a symptom of the confusion it purports to address; and (iii) the political, examining how the infrastructure framing of AI naturalizes asymmetric labor displacement, particularly of feminized cognitive and reproductive work. The stochastic parrot, deployed with mechanistic precision rather than mere rhetorical convenience, specifies what is forfeited when cognitive labor is delegated, who bears the cost, and why a literacy adequate to this moment must begin from the epistemology of those most harmed by the systems it describes. We conclude with underlining that critical AI literacy, which this paper embodies an instance of, is the only sensible way forward.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren calls for the removal of climate denier Matthew Wielicki as head of the US govt's climate research office. Wielicki has no training in climate science, and regularly uses AI to invent non-existent sources to support his claims.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Who, who could have foretold this?
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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin.fedi.circumstances.run · 27/09/2026
…you might think i'm too harsh about kde, but you need to take into account the timeline and the context; the introduction of the very lenient policy, the discussions and their tenor, then locking the discussion, then the very, very disingenuous – to the point of manipulation – nate graham's […]
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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin.fedi.circumstances.run · 27/09/2026
nate graham of the @kde fame thinks that bringing up ethical issues with the confabulation machinery should be generally avoided because it can make the fans of synthetic text extruders sad.: > I have a recommendation for everyone: in the future, either _don’t discuss the ethical dimensions of […]
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Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 27/09/2026
Imagine replacing people with tokens for plagiarism slot machines. This is why I take the extreme position that LLM-fuelled papers are not research, should not be read or cited, and should definitely count in one’s CV, but negatively.
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Tony Roberts @phatcontroller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Literally every story involving a genie and a bottle ends up with the genie back in the bottle. Read more children's fiction people ffs.
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Richard D. Morey @richarddmorey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I find it weird that the reaction to calling LLMs “stochastic parrots” (a statement about *how they work*) is to deny it because of their apparent capabilities. The reaction should be “isn’t is interesting what a stochastic parrot can (apparently) do?” or to query the appearance.
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Elon Musk, FRS. Royal Society justify not booting him out because, after all, Isaac Newton wasn’t a nice person. And yes, he was doing exactly these things in summer of 2024 when @royalsociety.org first reconsidered his fellowship
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nazis don't want you to remember their crimes
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Giles MacDonogh @gilesmacdonogh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
AfD bans Stolpersteine: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
German town bans stumbling stone memorials to Nazi victims
Germany's education minister has branded the ban on the small brass memorial plaques a "scandal".
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Fantom Iris @fantomiris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Happy 40th Anniversary, Castlevania! I’ll play this with all my heart! It all started with this song! Please listen to “VAMPIRE KILLER”
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit
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The Amazing Worlds of Doctor Who @worldsofdrwho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"...the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common..." "Doctor Who: The Face of Evil" part 4 (1977). #DoctorWho
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.
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Dr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
FUCK THIS FASCIST SHIT.
ijv.canada, winchevsky and jewssaynotogenocide

BREAKING
Canada defines anti-Zionism as antisemitic

Government of Canada
Gouvernement
du Canada

Public Safety Canada
National Commitments to Combat Antisemitism - Summer 2026
Progress Report
Intended outcome
Institutions across Canada have increased access to tools, guidance, and training to support the recognition, understanding and response to contemporary manifestations of antisemitism, including anti-Zionism, as outlined in the Canadian Handbook on the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism.

Public Safety Canada is promoting anti-Palestinian racism and distorting Jewish history

ijv.canada For the first time, the Canadian government has explicitly defined anti-Zionism as a form of antisemitism....
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026
"china is charging their cars in less time than it takes you to fill up your F-150" is the kind of banal jingoism i always assumed would get us finally kicking it up a notch on serious infrastructure buildout but we were a lot more directly addicted to gasoline in addition to racism than i thought
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Kronecker Delta @kroneckerdelta.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oh wow, did it turn out that the weirdly conservative and puritanical arguments that invested parts of US culture were in fact just rebranded 'Conservative Accepted Beliefs' this whole time? Again? Man, wonder why that keeps happening.
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Adult content creators are seen as real people by fans, rebutting years of anti-porn claims that sex work strips creators of humanity. In fact, OnlyFans creators were percieved as having more self-control, free will and capacity for independent thinking than other women.
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Sexual objectification does not erase the perceived humanity of OnlyFans creators, study suggests
People who sell explicit digital content online are heavily sexually objectified by observers, yet they are still viewed as capable individuals with free will. These findings challenge traditional psy...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/09/2026
The AI doom / extinction lie is coming from the exact people with an addiction to burning methane and a climate denialist worldview. I am pretty mad about it. New piece here: www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a...
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I'm not saying the term "agent" was chosen as a means to diminish the importance of understanding and protecting our own human agency but I'm also not /not/ saying it.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/09/2026
A massive Microsoft data centre was fined after a drone investigation revealed the use of illegally operating gas turbines -->> www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Ajuna Soerjadi 🌸 @ethicsofai.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My representation of some of the discourse about @irisvanrooij.bsky.social her work 🤣🤣🤣
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eric 🇵🇸 @ericthelemming.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
seeing sammy rae & the friends on april 30th (and maisie peters on may 8th)! something to look forward to! 😊
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eric 🇵🇸 @ericthelemming.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
happy birthday to @tastlesshaze.bsky.social! 🥳 i hope they have a wonderful day! 🎊🎈🎊🎈🎊🎈🎊🎈🎊🎈🎊
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