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Erin KB

@erinkernohan.ca
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From a remote forest outpost somewhere in Canada.

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Andrew Young 🇨🇦 @young.me · 25/09/2026
#Ontario: flu and COVID-19 vaccines available Sept 28 for high-risk groups, and Oct 26 for general public news.ontario.ca/en/release/1...
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Jared Mabry @jaredmabry.com · 22/09/2026
Every 'rogue AI' headline is a human decision disappearing from the story. Name who built the test, who removed the restraints, and who left the door open.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The phrasing of that question *almost* sounds like an invitation. But it's an invitation to a trap. Claims of superintelligence (incipient or longer term) are bullshit. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and "debate me bro" is not extraordinary evidence. >>
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
All of this coverage of AI Doomerism making you anxious? It's nonsense and you can go back to your more pressing concerns. If you want to learn more: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
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What To Read To Stay Grounded Amidst AI Doomerism
Our recommendations for the anxious and perplexed By: Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna and Decca Muldowney There’s a subculture within the “AI” industry that...
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404 Media @404media.co · 15/09/2026
Want to know what AI is up to? @jasonkoebler.bsky.social is here to tell you that recent advances in artificial intelligence and the ability for AI to act on the internet has a 100% chance of being annoying as hell, and is already ruining the internet.
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There’s a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Already Ruining the Internet
“AI agents” now have enough power and permission to be extremely annoying online.
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Cam T. Mann @camc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Not satisfied with simply mastering the Single Panel Comic, pants has now chosen to elevate alt text to its own art form
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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Pisces: Today you will feel charismatic, confident, funny, intelligent, sexually attractive, and then you’ll wake up.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas.
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 10/09/2026
this is, I think, one of the inherent problems with LLMs using natural language interfaces: they are a statistical tool *that looks like* a logical tool statistical approaches can be a useful way to find related information! BUT for it to be useful you have to *know that's what it's doing*
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 10/09/2026
the media’s reaction to this anthropic guy’s tweets are a great demonstration of how they don’t want to inform the public, they’re just happy to go along with a sensationalist narrative handed to them by deluded and self-interested tech people
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026
Guys but it's the fictional machine god that needs to be regulated and that we should worry about. prospect.org/2026/09/09/a...
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Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect
New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.
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Steven Schapansky 🇨🇦 @legopolis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
What do you get when you merge an iPhone that’s too wide to use with an iPad that’s too small to do anything with?
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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.
chair with a "face"
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nash flynn @itsnashflynn.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
i guess my question is have we ever really given strange women in ponds distributing swords as a system of government a chance
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Erin KB @erinkernohan.ca · 07/09/2026
Arthropods from this weekend.
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Erin KB @erinkernohan.ca · 06/09/2026
I thought this was going to be a Wile E. Coyote situation, but these caterpillars later moved along to more stable terrain to continue their meal.
Two milkweed tussock caterpillars on either side of a milkweed leaf rib, the rest of the leaf is long gone. The rib hangs precariously as if it were about to fall and the caterpillars with it. But upon checking later, both caterpillars had moved along to more stable and (I’m sure to them) delicious terrain.
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Michael Geist @mgeist.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Digital sovereignty means Canadian rules apply in Canada. On Lake Ontario, Google and Apple Maps did exactly that: Canadians see Canada's official name. Demanding it defy the U.S. invites platforms to pick whose rules to follow, and the next pick may not be ours. www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/09/be-c...
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Be Careful What You Wish For: Why Asking Google Maps to Defy the U.S. on Lake Ontario Would Undermine Canadian Digital Sovereignty - Michael Geist
I woke up early on Monday morning for 14 interviews focused on digital sovereignty on CBC Radio stations across the country (here’s the Manitoba version). Most opened the discussion by asking what dig...
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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Pisces: Someone else is living in your house, but they don't know about you either. Each day you dance unwittingly together, too perfectly in sync to ever meet. There's something very hauntingly beautiful about it. Still, your landlord has some explaining to do.
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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Pisces: Follow your heart today. It’s terrible at making decisions, but at least the train wreck will be spectacular.
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404 Media @404media.co · 22/08/2026
AI companies see words as interchangeable and have zero clue how to judge the “quality” of writing. www.404media.co/anthropics-t...
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Anthropic’s Text Watermarking Proves AI Companies Do Not Care at All About Writing
AI companies see words as interchangeable and have zero clue how to judge the “quality” of writing.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A point I frequently make when talking about chatbots is that their output only seems to make sense because we are making sense of it. And worse, we can only do that sense-making by projecting a mind behind the text, something we do reflexively. >>
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Gander Social @gandersocial.ca · 10/08/2026
Thanks for having us, Michael. Appreciate you reading the privacy policy too. We got into the fine details and all the nuance that goes into infrastructure, moderation, verification, privacy, and everything else that comes with the territory.
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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
“God has a plan for you” No, thanks. I’m familiar with his work
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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Erin KB @erinkernohan.ca · 31/07/2026
Hello friend.
A third (?) instar monarch caterpillar on a milkweed leaf next to a flower.
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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Pisces: The future is bright (you lost your sunglasses).
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Unusually for bsky, this has attracted a lot of folks who want to argue (via QTs here and downthread) that the anthropomorphizing language is just fine, actually. Helps people understand clearly. Doesn't obfuscate responsibility. And/or is a more accurate portrayal of what the models are doing. >>
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PBF Comics @pbfcomics.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
“What a beautiful universe, hon" says a telescope as gazes upon an aurora borealis. “It really is”, responds the telescope's partner, who it turns out is not a telescope, but a microscope. Hands full of algae, she wades waist deep in a disgusting swamp, amazed by the heavenly microscopic life all around them.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 20/07/2026
Latitude and Longitude xkcd.com/3273/
Comic. [Latitude and longitude lines squeezing Earth.] [caption: Bad news: NASA accidentally shrank Earth’s latitude and longitude lines in the wash.]
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404 Media @404media.co · 20/07/2026
Humans used blog to get their links to the top of Search. Now, AI spamming the internet, @jasonkoebler.bsky.social explains. We teamed up with the Los Angeles Public Library to talk about it on a panel with @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social and @dexdigi.bsky.social. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wLU...
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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 20/07/2026
Humans can form relationships with AI systems, true, but this is not at all the same thing.
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Michael Geist @mgeist.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Banning social media for millions raises obvious constitutional risks, but the safeguards meant to save it, including age verification standards and exemptions, won't be operational when the ban takes effect. My post on why safeguards come too late to save it. www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/07/why-...
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Why the Government’s Plan for a Social Media Ban in Bill C-34 Is Unconstitutional - Michael Geist
he debate over the government's proposed social media ban for under 16s has raised several difficult questions, including doubts about whether it will work, which services it will cover, and what…
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Erin KB @erinkernohan.ca · 13/07/2026
Hello friend.
Monarch on pink milkweed flowers with its wings outstretched.
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Erin KB @erinkernohan.ca · 11/07/2026
Fantastic video on the Dark Fishing Spider aka the Dock Spider in my neck of the woods. If you’re at all intimidated by these, give this video a chance to make you fascinated instead.
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Erin KB @erinkernohan.ca · 10/07/2026
Good butterfly day.
Monarch on milkweed. Northern crescent on thyme. Northern azure on bladder campion.
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Erin KB @erinkernohan.ca · 06/07/2026
The ducklings came to visit! Mama/auntie merganser keeps bringing different numbers of babies - sometimes more, then less, then more again. So I think there’s a crèche nearby. Later they completely passed out in this spot, snoozing in the sun.
A female common merganser with 4 ducklings standing on a river well. Large, sleek diving duck. Female is gray overall with red-brown, crested head and neck, white chin, dull white upper breast and belly, and orange bill. Ducklings have same colour palette as the female but fuzzier and with white spots on the upper parts.
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Erin KB @erinkernohan.ca · 29/06/2026
Robins are almost ready to fledge. I thought this one was going to go for sure, but it changed its mind. Sometimes we need a few tries before we take big steps.
Robin nestlings in a nest looking out at the world. One is perched on the edge nearly ready for its first flight.
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Erin KB @erinkernohan.ca · 26/06/2026
Had a painted turtle lay her eggs in our driveway! Our local turtle conservation folks came and excavated the nest. 3 eggs have gone to their facility for safe hatching.
A painted turtle laying her eggs in a gravel driveway near some interlocking brick.
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Check out this sword stuck in a stone!!
ⓘ Removed by Arthur
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Daniel Lenski @moxfyre.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
💯 💯 “the government should be willing to call the bluff of any company bragging about the destructive potential of its products, ending the era in which these A.I. labs can simultaneously terrify the public about their technology while continuing to develop and market it without constraint.”
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Gander Social @gandersocial.ca · 19/06/2026
Defaults are decisions. Algorithms are decisions. Feeds are decisions. Friction, labels, visibility, appeals, and safeguards are all decisions too. Online safety is defined by product choices long before a parent, teacher, or moderator ever gets involved.
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Erin KB @erinkernohan.ca · 19/06/2026
This was a such a charming read. I wanted to read the book before watching the movie. Sweet, funny, and smart.
Jacket cover for Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann featuring stylized black and white sheep, a magpie, and a red spade. Graphic also includes the words “My listening supports Master’s Book Store” and the logo for Libro.fm
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Erin KB @erinkernohan.ca · 18/06/2026
Zoom!
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
And it's why the biggest internet safety advice I give parents of teenagers is to make crystal clear that they will never blame their kid for being the victim, because that is the ONLY way they will ever know there's a problem. bsky.app/profile/raha...
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Erin KB @erinkernohan.ca · 17/06/2026
Today’s visitor.
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Erin KB @erinkernohan.ca · 16/06/2026
The hatchening has begun. Mama robin feeds the wee hatchling in the nest while papa looks on.
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Erin KB @erinkernohan.ca · 15/06/2026
With AI “search” shifting attention away from websites and ads, it seems it was only a matter of time before brands started trying to manipulate LLM outputs to make up for that loss in ad views. Looks like AEO replaces SEO as the dark arts of the internet.
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Erin KB @erinkernohan.ca · 11/06/2026
There comes a point during nesting where papa robin starts to bring food items to the nest and mama robin will take them in lieu of the not-yet-hatchedlings feeding. It’s a bit of a practice/bonding thing. The first few times he doesn’t quite know what to do. He’ll get the hang of it though.
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Erin KB @erinkernohan.ca · 11/06/2026
Hello neighbour!
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