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The Daily Tech Feed @thedailytechfeed.com · 22/09/2026

Meta’s Muse AI on Mac exposed by zero-day—urgent patch released. #Security #MetaMuse #MacOS #AI #Vulnerability #Privacy thedailytechfeed.com/major-vulnerab…

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...

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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street

YouTube video by Musk

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 26/09/2026

#OtD 26 Sep 1950 a US naval ship sprayed Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii bacteria into the air two miles off the coast of San Francisco for six days as part of a secret experiment in biological warfare. Officials believe they exposed 800,000 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9872...

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: A Roman glass model of a #boat, dating 2nd c. AD. It was found in St. Aldegund in a 4th-century woman's grave. Six of such boats are known. We don't know their function: Were they used as women's urinals, as components of water clocks and sundials, as...🧵1/2 🏺

A translucent blue glass vessel shaped like a boat, with a curved hull, upturned ends, and small protruding feet for support. The surface has visible cracks. A soft shadow is cast beneath the object on a neutral background.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 24/09/2026

See Amy Goodman at an upcoming screening of "Steal This Story, Please!" in London, U.K. More details: www.democracynow.org/events

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?

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Cliff PervoSCARY @pervocracy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is a canary resuscitator, which miners would use to revive canaries that had passed out from toxic gas, because ideally not only do you care, you don't even leave the bird behind. just a little mining history and not at all a furious scream

A canary in a sealed box attached to an oxygen tank

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Today it landed on my doorstep! What a lovely book 💙

The newly released hardback edition of The Hobbit, with illustrations by Tove Jansson

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Euronews @euronews.com · 14/09/2026

China will lead the creation of an "open-source zone for artificial intelligence" for BRICS countries, President Xi Jinping said on Sunday at a summit of the 11-nation group in New Delhi.

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China's Xi Jinping proposes BRICS 'open-source AI zone'

China will lead the creation of an "open-source zone for artificial intelligence" for BRICS countries, President Xi Jinping said on Sunday at a summit of the 11-nation group in New Delhi.

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Prince Charles Cinema @princecharlescinema.com · 13/09/2026

Andrei Tarkovsky on the set of his final film THE SACRIFICE returns to the PCC in a beautiful new 4K restoration from our friends at @curzon, screening Sun 27th Sep at 11:30am and Thu 22nd Oct. 🎟️: buff.ly/9IH5IeJ

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

RIP OPT? What an unmitigated disaster for everyone.

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

NEW: Meta is facing a proposed class action alleging it used Facebook and Insta photos to build its NameTag face-recognition system and train AI models without consent. WIRED found code for NameTag hidden inside Meta’s AI app downloaded by tens of millions. Meta said the feature “doesn’t exist.”

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Meta Sued Over Training Data for Its AI and Face-Recognition Systems

The proposed class action alleges Meta illegally harvested people’s Facebook and Instagram photos to train its AI image-generation models and to build its unreleased “NameTag” face recognition feature...

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Rosa🌸Louette🔻 @rosalouette.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

🗓️L’année 2026 en France, c’est l’année ou l’Action française a des minutes de silence à l’Assemblée et où France Télévision censure des émissions de La Grande Librairie.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 11/09/2026

“I was on top of the North Tower during the attacks, and after I rescued a couple hundred people, I had to jump because there were too many flames for even me to deal with.” — President Donald Trump

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Trump Claims He Was Falling Man

WASHINGTON—Saying America could frankly be more grateful for the enduring image he provided, President Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that he was the previously unidentified Falling Man captured midai...

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Heidi Faith @heidifaith.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The origin of "#mansplaining".... "Most women fight wars on two fronts, one for whatever the putative topic is and one simply for the right to speak, to have ideas, to be acknowledged to be in possession of facts and truths, to have value, to be a human being.." ~ @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

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Men Explain Things to Me

<p>Before there was <em>mansplaining</em>, there was Rebecca Solnit's 2008 critique of male arrogance. Reprinted here with a new introduction.</p>

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Large language models represent a shift from rigid statistical frequency tables to neural networks that learn the probability distributions of… Large Language Models by Melanie Mitchell doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.2bb20e3c #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Large Language Models" by Melanie Mitchell. A large language model (LLM) is a computational system, typically a deep neural network with a large number of tunable parameters (i.e., weights), that implements a mathematical function called a lang

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The ultimate tldr on the OpenAI "rogue model" hacking incident 😅 (h/t @linege1 on X) But it would be useful to know the prompts OpenAI gave to the model....

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I wrote down my thoughts about the last several weeks of AI hell. aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading...

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Misleading Metaphors, Real Risks

What To Fear from AI Agents and How to Reclaim Our Human Agency

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Noppy @handle.invalid · 10/09/2026

Hey do you like Woopers? I drew Woopers #POKEMON #WOOPER

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A colourful line art watercolour drawing depicting regular Wooper and some Paldean Woopers. Blue Wooper sits atop a mellow waterfall. It’s eyes lovingly fixed on a butterfly in the clear blue sky. It seems like the only thing on its mind. The waterfall leads to a shallow pool where three or maybe more paldean woopers bathe joyfully and interact with each other. In the background you see another higher mountain part from which the water falls. Dark leafs cover the foreground. It is as if you see the specticle from behind the bushes. Today is a good warm day.

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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Pennsylvania has recorded its first measles-associated deaths in 35 years as U.S. cases reach their highest level since 1991 and childhood vaccination coverage continues to fall. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/measles-wa...

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apofiss @apofiss.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Purrfect season!🍂 ...who's ready for autumn season? c:

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Dr Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I'm so incredibly proud of what we've built in these past two years! But I also can't wait to see what comes next - we've still got so much more do to! Happy Birthday Pathoplexus! 🎂

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I give you : the Potoo

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Runs with scissors in the dark @tevistickles.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This artwork is an oil painting titled "Level Crossing, San Francisco" (2025) by artist Rob Pointon. From his "Fake Tales of San Francisco" collection.

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The Final Report @firehorse249791.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

'This is now getting absurdly serious with the El Niño. The latest OSTIA SST data now has a peak anomaly of 8.1C above normal, with Peru reporting a peak SSTA of 9.5C. What's more concerning is that these anomalies are only going to increase over the next 10+ days.' David Schlotthauer [x]

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Just like today: A #Roman carpenter's plane (and a replica of it) from Üttfeld,around 300 AD. On display at Landesmuseum Trier 📷️ me 🏺 #archaeology

A museum display featuring the corroded metal remains of a Roman carpenter’s plane, with only the metal parts surviving. Above it hangs a modern wooden and metal replica, showing the tool’s full original form against a purple background.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"My independence, which is my strength, implies loneliness, which is my weakness." (Pier Paolo #Pasolini, from 'The chaos') A deep thought that concerns the fragility and also the strength of the human soul. #BookSky #poetry #quotes

Black and white photograph of Pier Paolo Pasolini, in a suit and tie, turning toward the camera from a desk piled with books, notebooks and papers.

Source: https://www.rai.it/ufficiostampa/assets/template/us-articolo.html?ssiPath=/articoli/2021/01/Su-Radio-Techete-Pier-Paolo-Pasolini-Appunti-musicali-5961e52c-d493-4078-9ec9-70a6652985d5-ssi.html

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Prince Charles Cinema @princecharlescinema.com · 06/09/2026

The London Premiere of the new 4K restoration of the criminally underseen NADJA (1994) hits the PCC on Sun 4th Oct at 8:35pm. 🎟️: buff.ly/hkVQkwn

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Indie animator Deki (16 years old) just released her first short film. Based on the novel "Heaven Official's Blessing", and the Hualian ship. >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfmc...

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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com

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Ian Johnson @mrianjohnson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Happy birthday Freddie Mercury. He would have turned 80 today.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The Cat Righting Reflex is the official name of the process cats use to automatically correct themselves mid-fall and land on their feet. It develops between 3 - 9 weeks of age, and is responsible for the greatest wikipedia gif of all time.

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Agence France-Presse @afp.com · 05/09/2026

🇨🇦 Canada: une tempête “sans précédent” a frappé la ville de Toronto, provoquant des inondations et privant des dizaines de milliers de foyers d’électricité ⬇️

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Brian McNoldy @bmcnoldy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

9 years ago today, on the morning of September 5, #Irma intensified to a Category 5 hurricane for the first time as it approached the Leeward Islands. It maintained that status for an incredible 78 hours of terror. A collection of satellite & radar loops: bmcnoldy.earth.miami.edu/tropics/irma...

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