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Ben Green @benzevgreen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The first copies of Algorithmic Realism: Data Science Practices to Promote Social Justice have arrived! It's pretty surreal to hold a physical copy after years of staring at Word docs and PDFs. The book comes out next week, so get your preorders in now! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205570...

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lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

15 years ago when Apocalypse World was new and people were beginning to understand and work with it, it was seductive to look at "acting under fire" and see, not one basic move of several, but the template underlying all the game's moves. Like @kierongillen.bsky.social 's classic gag:

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am not joking when I say this. Most of the things genAI purports to “solve” are not in fact “problems.” Some are in fact crucial social and personal goods. Does a life sentence in prison “solve” the problem of “permanent constraint on your personal mobility”? I guess? If you run a prison?

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There's a long discussion going on in my mentions about whether or not "LLMs" (quotes explained in a sec) apparently getting mostly* correct answers to arithmetic questions is "inconsistent" with the stochastic parrots metaphor. >>

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Data by Design @dataxdesign.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Join us on Thursday, October 29 for our New York book launch event at P&T Knitwear Bookstore from 6:30pm - 8:00pm. Get tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/lauren-kle...

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Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 20/09/2026

meta Muse perfec t size for put private d\ata in! inside very Secure and Private data very safe put data in Muse. No problems ever in Muse because very trustworthy and Mark super protective. AMeta muse yes a place for data put data in muse trust meta for givening good safety to data. Friend meta.

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Nina, Our Sister Killjoy @gotmyniinaa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If I can add to the mix: Art+Feminism Workers United created a task list for this editing campaign. Everyone is welcome to edit along with us :) meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Art%2BF...

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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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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

'You'll choke too' - I wanted to reshare my wildfire aerial embroidery now summer is finally over as it really meant a lot to me. Autumn is here but as the fruit ripened much earlier than normal, I worry the little birds and animals won't have enough for the winter...

An embroidery hoop containing an embroidered aerial view landscape. The landscape depicts a burning wildfire, with dry forest on the right and smoke on the left, with a line of bright flames down the centre.

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Syed AbuMusab @smusab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is a hot topic currently. I've written about anthropomorphism in social relationships with AI and how we should think about the "anthro-problem." Read the preprint here. Always happy to get any feedback. #philtech #moralphil #STS philsci-archive.pitt.edu/30970/

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Stanford University...is facing criticism for using generative AI to change the photo of a Hispanic male student into a non-existent Black woman for a campus banner." feels like a South Park episode. what are we doing here yall www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

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Stanford violated its AI policy by turning a Hispanic student into a fake Black woman in ad

Stanford University is facing criticism for using generative AI to change the photo of a Hispanic male student into a non-existent Black woman for a dining hall advertisement.

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Bull’s-eye example of what @doctorow.pluralistic.net calls a Reverse Centaur situation, with humans supporting technology instead of technology supporting humans.

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Bibi Bakare-Yusuf @bibibakareyusuf.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026

Black Feminist Theories: Transnational Approaches is out today. We made this book in the plural, across geographies, languages, traditions and forms of Black feminist thought. I hope the readers this book was made for find it, because it belongs to them. #BlackFeministTheories #BlackFeminism

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Trystan Goetze (they/them/theirs) @errantcanadian.com · 18/09/2026

We didn’t defeat Mammon just to invite Shoggoth in. Get it together.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Here's what I like about this: Instead of answering the question, what should we do about AI, these outcomes answer the question, what do we want our students to be able to do? Yes, implementation has new challenges now because of AI. And in some fields, what we want our students to be able to do/1

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 16/09/2026

GIFs became a defining part of the early web, including the ubiquitous “under construction” signs that marked unfinished pages. 🖥️ JD Shadel looks at what these fleeting images can teach us about preserving digital culture. 📚 Read for free or purchase in print: archive.org/details/vani... 🧵

Book cover titled “Vanishing Culture” on a teal background. Pixel-art style graphics show a VHS tape, open book, film reel, chain link, and vinyl record dissolving into digital fragments. At the bottom, a cursor icon points to the word “SAVE,” alongside an archive-style building icon, evoking digital preservation.

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Rascal News @rascal.news · 15/09/2026

The Rascal: Year Two anthology is out! Here's a thread breaking down what's in the in book: 🧵 ⬇️ heartofthedeernicorn.com/product/rasc...

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Rascal News Year 2

A collection of some of the best independent journalism about tabletop roleplaying games and the people who make them, from Rascal News.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

So many are feeling this way, and of course being sad that something you value and think is important is being devalued does not mean that you are "pretending AI doesn't exist" it means you are, in fact, grappling with it. I think many students are sad too because meaningful work is...meaningful.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/09/2026

I think we should have one day a week when no-one is allowed to talk about AI, so we can have a rest

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

paper jam. No firm evidence but it looks to me like rogue AI

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 14/09/2026

We're The Flytrap, a worker-owned, intersectional, and expansive feminist media group. We publish cultural criticism of the feminist variety. We believe a better internet is possible, and our guiding principle is: fuck the algorithm. Now, it's time for our annual subscription drive!

A bright pink graphic that says FUND FEMINIST MEDIA, with a drawing of a venus flytrap in the middle, wearing sunglasses and roaring in the middle of a yellow heart.

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Trystan Goetze (they/them/theirs) @errantcanadian.com · 10/09/2026

Anyway, definitely looking forward to reading Lantz's book. Games are a generative microcosm that open all the classic questions of philosophy and the major social problems of the day, it turns out.

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The Beauty of Games

How games create beauty and meaning, and how we can use them to explore the aesthetics of thought.Are games art? This question is a dominant mode of thinking about games and play in the twenty-first c...

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Trystan Goetze (they/them/theirs) @errantcanadian.com · 10/09/2026

But the mania for unreliable AI and the indifference of tech leaders to democratic backsliding shows that the real danger is evaluating everything in terms of how much money it will make. When scientific truth and moral principles are expendable for that goal, the aesthetic doesn't stand a chance.

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Trystan Goetze (they/them/theirs) @errantcanadian.com · 10/09/2026

But it's also true of so much else in society today. Perhaps scientism prepared us for utility-Philistinism by thoroughly disenchanting the world. Certainly there is a formal similarity between breaking everything down into technical categories and models and judging value on economic criteria alone

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Trystan Goetze (they/them/theirs) @errantcanadian.com · 10/09/2026

That's, again, especially true of games. The layoffs at Microsoft this year are a case in point: whether those developers made good games, from a technical or aesthetic standpoint, seems irrelevant. What seems to matter is maximizing the wealth of the shareholders. Games are just a means to that end

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Trystan Goetze (they/them/theirs) @errantcanadian.com · 10/09/2026

That third lens for thinking about games or anything in human experience is that of economic utility. I worry that its extreme form, the utility-Philistinism that now dominates a lot of major decisions, poses a greater threat to the good, the true, and the beautiful than scientism.

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Trystan Goetze (they/them/theirs) @errantcanadian.com · 10/09/2026

Fascinating to use games as something obviously both technical/scientific and aesthetic to highlight that duality in other areas of experience. There's a third lens for looking at games or anything else, though, and one I think is where the danger lies. 🧵 #philtech #sts #gameStudies

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Trystan Goetze (they/them/theirs) @errantcanadian.com · 09/09/2026

Whenever someone says something like "We must use AI or we'll be left behind," I think: "But where are those people going?" Sometimes it makes sense to race to get to that destination first. Sometimes the destination is a good one, but there's no need to rush. Sometimes the destination is hell.

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SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Anyone who doesn't find this funny is in the lower right. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/philos... PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

SMBC 1-panel comic update. A four-quadrant chart is shown with the title "know your branches of philosophy." On the left of the horizontal x axis, there is "careful reasoning." on the right of the x axis, "confusing bullshit." At the top of the y vertical axis there is "stuff that matters," and at the bottom of the y axis can be found "stuff that doesn't matter." A dot is located at the far bottom left, identified as "analytic." Another dot is located at the far top right, identified as "continental."

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Seraphina Garcia Ramirez 🔜 PaxU @seraphina.diceexploder.com · 31/08/2026

Sam has created something magical with Dice Exploder- it was the impetus for my passion for games blossoming. I'm so thankful for all the work he's put in. I'm stoked to carry the show forward! Great season coming up, and I'm thrilled to show you all what I have brewing for the future of the show

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Trystan Goetze (they/them/theirs) @errantcanadian.com · 31/08/2026

Patch notes: Hy-Brasil has been adjusted westward to account for 350 years of inflation

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Judd Karlman (he/him) @juddthelibrarian.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

You might find TTRPG’s at your public library at the Dewey # 793.93 Below I talk about the TTRPG's on the shelves at the library where I work. There is a playlist if you would like to hear me talk about books more.

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You might find TTRPG’s at your public library at the Dewey # 793.93

Below I talk about the TTRPG's on the shelves at the library where I work. There is a playlist if you would like to hear me talk about books more.

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Trystan Goetze (they/them/theirs) @errantcanadian.com · 27/08/2026

The book is challenging in a way that encourages you to look for patterns of deeper meaning. But it is also challenging in that it could be much more straightforward about what's going on at any given point in the narrative. Very worth reading but not an instant classic, for me. [4/4]

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Trystan Goetze (they/them/theirs) @errantcanadian.com · 27/08/2026

It is as much about family—by blood and by shared mentorship—and trauma—domestic and global—as it is about attention and authenticity in the age of ubiquitous computing. [3/4]

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Trystan Goetze (they/them/theirs) @errantcanadian.com · 27/08/2026

It reads not like a novel but like a 2½ act play that tumbles forward like a runaway shopping cart down a steep hill, laden with bric-a-brac being tossed aside by momentum and jerk. [2/4]

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Trystan Goetze (they/them/theirs) @errantcanadian.com · 27/08/2026

I picked up _Transcription_ by Ben Lerner because of the reviews noting how it explores our relationship with technology in a complex way. It does that, to be sure. But I also found it profoundly strange, oddly moving, and a little frustrating. [1/4] #BookSky

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Tim Hutchings @timhutchings.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The Quiet Year is one of the best and most accessible ttrpg-like games I've ever played. If you haven't tried it you should buy a copy now.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 22/08/2026

🤖 Long before PCs were commonplace, software like ELIZA & Little Computer People used clever programming to create the illusion of machines that could think, talk & act on their own. Examples? Explore the new Vintage Artificial Intelligence collection! blog.archive.org/2026/08/16/v... 🧵

Screenshot of a grid of items from the Internet Archive's Vintage Artificial Intelligence collection, showing eighteen software title thumbnails including Eliza C64, Pisko, Hidden Agenda, SimLife, Robotwar, Abuse, Eliza 3.1, A Mind Forever Voyaging, A.I., Alter Ego, Worms, Talking Sam, The Dream Machine, Law of the West, Racter, and 64luff, each with view, favorite, and comment counts.

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

him: license and registration please me: *hands them over* him: *eats license and registration* me: now wait a min- him: *burps* insurance card please

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Viola Smart @smartvpants.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Teacher: By the end of this lesson, students will be able to identify and accurately measure the contents of the cup.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

In possibly the fastest shift in public opinion I've ever seen, local data center approval went from -5 to -65 in less than a year heatmap.news/daily/data-c...

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Andrea Mann @andreamann.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"By writing, you are literally firing up your brain and therefore stirring up your conscious thoughts and something new emerges. You are not, or at least not always, transcribing something already present in your conscious thoughts.“ LOVE this piece. www.historians.org/perspectives...

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How Writing Leads to Thinking (and Not the Other Way Around) – AHA

Writing is stressful. Sitting in my computer chair my neck and shoulder muscles almost immediately tense up as I dig around in my brain for the best phrase or even any coherent string of words.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026

i don’t want “accelerated”, “increased-speed” or “fast-paced” research. in fact, am not interested in any shortcuts to mindful, intentional, and slow science

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