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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 2h

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 3h

yesterday I told this cat he was a good boy for "hunting" a sock and bringing it to me in the bedroom and this morning every one of my socks is missing

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Stephanie Farr @farfarraway.bsky.social · 2h

I promise Philly is a real place and I am a journalist and this is all true. When you put unwanted dystopian robots on our sidewalks, you never know what Philly may do in response. Meet Orifice the Awebot, who's spreading joy, surprise & mild terror - for free. www.inquirer.com/life/orifice...

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Orifice the Awebot is Philly’s ‘magical’ response to Uber Eats robots

"She’s part of our bringing delight and surprise and letting it ripple through the city."

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 1h

How Hollywood Aging Works Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes were cast as lovers in the 1930s By the 1950s, he was playing Grace Kelly’s husband and she was playing Ingrid Bergman’s grandmother

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 3h

Not to worry, folks, nothing bad ever happened to a technology company who went big on a bubble then bought Warner.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 4h

Here is the thing, right, here is the thing (this is me getting a run up): the concept of the modern nation state and citizenship thereof is a relatively recent cultural phenomenon and we actually don't have great terms to conceptualise it as distinct from what we used to mean by "nationality".

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 5h

I Pushed My Luck, Reheated My Burrito An Extra 30 Seconds, and It Exploded All Over The Microwave. Here's Why That's A Lesson for Democrats

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 5h

Palantir shifting from hiring only "Ivy or Ivy-equivalent" degrees to hiring only out of high school is an admission that "training" and "talent" were never factors at all. They were looking for packaging & prestige, and now they're looking for ignorance & impressionability.

Tech companies launching their own programs to train grads because they ‘can’t rely’ on Ivy Leagues
By Lydia Moynihan
Published Oct. 1, 2026, 6:00 a.m. ET

As the university system increasingly becomes a wildly expensive bastion of anti-Western sentiment, key figures in Silicon Valley are betting on alternatives to higher education. They argue that even the Ivy League is no longer producing the best candidates — nor are they even accepting some of the most qualified students.

“It used to be the case that you could rely on somebody who went to an Ivy or Ivy-equivalent to be top notch,” said Jordan Hirsch, who runs Palantir’s semester-long intensive Meritocracy Fellowship, which accepts high school graduates.“But that’s not the case anymore… we suspected that there was a lot of talent being missed.”

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 6h

UAE officials have warned the UK that a severe punishment for Man City could hurt future Emirati investment in Britain, Bloomberg reports. This is the perfect argument for keeping foreign money out of football.

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 7h

Not a novel observation by any means but the irony here, of course, is that it is precisely the UK’s successful approach to multiculturalism that has allowed us to generate a brown white nationalist.

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tpwrtrdmn @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 7h

my stance on fantasy vs sci-fi is that i think these are aesthetic labels that have gotten so broad that they're barely informative at all. the real slop genre is orc fiction. if there's an archetypal "orc species," a nuance-free inherently evil group of morally uncomplicated enemies, it's slop.

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tpwrtrdmn @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 5h

I am not going to continue arguing against the position "Nazis simply can't help being Nazis because they've been inescapably programmed for evil," because it abdicates them of responsibility for their actions.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 6h

If you look at the four other top five competitors, they're like dedicated watch engineering and adjustment people Katie please stop this, you're making *checks notes* all other humans look bad

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 6h

no I'm sorry who told Le Monde we were calling it "Breturn", own up

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Barry Hunt @barryhunt008.bsky.social · 6h

"Prolonged Infectivity of Murine Norovirus in Aerosols Suggests Potential for Airborne Transmission" TL;dr Norovirus is viable in air even longer than Flu Huh 🤔

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 10h

The Cambridge student newspaper Varsity is reporting that James Orr (or, as they call him, "Disgraced theology professor James Orr") hasn't been turning up to his own lectures.

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Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 12h

Pew tested AI synthetic surveys against actual survey data. Conclusion: “This experiment taught us that, at this time, AI models are not an adequate replacement for traditional polling on topics of broad public importance.” This is an all time bad idea. No need to hedge with “at this time.”

pewresearch.org

Can AI Stand In for Human Survey-Takers? Not Really

Synthetic surveys using digital twins do a poor job estimating the public mood and are especially error-prone for some subgroups, including Republicans and Black adults.

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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 11h

Given that Irish government TDs have cited Sweden's decision to introduce a language test for citizenship as justification for Ireland introducing one, it seems relevant that Sweden is finding it difficult to actually do it

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 7h

100% chance I'm gonna cry and dissociate at the funeral so I'm currently trying to gauge whether "trans woman who is so insane she gets dysphoric bc she didnt get hit on at a funeral" is going to be a good bit by this afternoon to calm myself down

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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Poor Sir Simon. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 'remarkable national recovery' he refers to is a myth. The 1980s was when our national decline started. I wonder where he gets his information? 99-percent.org/back-to-the-...

A post suggesting that the 1980s saw a national recovery from the previous period -- entirely inconsistent with the facts.

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 8h

I use this example to talk about how science works (and how it doesn’t) in my book “Fakten sind auch nur Meinungen” from 2024, but unfortunately it’s not out in English so far. You can find it in German or Korean, though, anywhere you get your books (plus there’s an audiobook version in German)

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 18h

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 10h

What in the fuck??? I don't think I've ever even interacted with our esteemed head of Trust & Safety, but he has me blocked now?!?!? What is going on????

screenshot of @aaron.bsky.team blocking josie

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Pete Miles @petermiles.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

There's a credible proposal for the design of a national commission on electoral reform already waiting on the shelf...

What would a national commission look like that met these design requirements? In fact, a cross-party group of MPs - the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Fair Elections - published a very credible proposal last year. This involved a tripartite structure: an independent commission of seven members who would steer the overall process; an expert panel who would provide "politically impartial advice and evidence"; and a voters' forum -a citizens' assembly of around 100 members, who would hear the options, deliberate in depth, and make recommendations.

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logan, hater club CEO @logan.hater.club · 10h

It's incredible that none of the Bluesky team can follow the first rule of comms when working for a social media company: Shut The Fuck Up

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 10h

Thanks, Bluesky, I feel very Trusted and Safe now that your head of Trust & Safety has blocked me out of nowhere

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 18h

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.

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psudonym @psudonym.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

First, she thought she was seeing things. Then she was frightened. But by the end, she just was, "the hell, dude?" (02/31)

A girl is brushing her teeth at the mirror when ghostly writing on the condensation says "uoy dluohs ezirutsiom"

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/10/2026

I went to Geneva a few weeks ago and spoke on a panel about the nature of time for a Geneva Watch Days event. While I was there, on a lark, I entered a competition to most precisely calibrate a Swiss watch. And today I found out that I won! 😃 www.instagram.com/reel/Dd6hUTB...

Me peering through a little magnifier at a tiny watch mechanism connected to some monitoring equipment, while making adjustments with a small screwdriver

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

fundamentally, the question comes down "is war about spirit or is it about logistics?" (if you think it's entirely about the former, you're going to get your shit rocked)

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 21h

If the argument for women should know better than to go into a rape den like a frat house, explain to me why a rape house like a fraternity is allowed to exist at all.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21h

this is one of the reasons THE SOPRANOS worked so well and feels different than other prestige tv shows by the way. The showrunners NEVER cared about the mechanics of the mafia or any of the crimes/rackets. Not what the show is actually about and so it never wasted time on it.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Every time a discourse kicks off over whether AI music, literature or art will be "as good as" the real thing, I'm always amazed more people don't cite that **there already are** creative pursuits where human-free spectacles have been available for decades, and nobody has ever wanted to watch them.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22h

Calling Vance "the most ordinary man imaginable" is so softly savage, you have to admire it.

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 22h

I don’t go high when they go low. I get LOUD. Because the soul and humanity of this country are at stake. /end

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h

Someone should tell President Trump that the best way to turn the Iran War around and stick it to the Democrats this fall is to have Pete Hegseth lead an infantry charge that they'll air on live TV.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 22h

Richard Milhouse Nixon not only wasn't convicted of his blatant crimes, he recieved a full presidential pardon, events which set the tone/laid the groundwork for the increasingly naked corruption of American politics in general & the Republican party in particular through the 20th & 21st centuries…

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/09/2026

you'd think that if Eliezer Yudkowsky really was the greatest genius of our era, he could have seen this coming

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 23h

I mean yeah, a decade of no one holding Trump accountable for his much more obvious crimes, combined with both Nazi and Confederate rehabilitation projects on the right, was always going to lead to “actually we’ve never done ANYTHING wrong and you guys owe us apologies for every check on our power”

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, which leads … you get the idea. H/t UKHE

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US Out Of Chicago @raucousdukakis.bsky.social · 23h

I think a lot of born in the wrong generation teens are just not temperamentally suited to adolescence and assume that would be different earlier in history. At least I think that was my deal. No, you wouldn't have been better off 30 or 50 years ago, you just have old man temperament

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That's true in a hypothetical pure epistemic vacuum. We are not operating in one. In reality, extraordinary claims require strong evidence. Yud has no such evidence, only a mountain of special pleading and a complete failure to understand that intelligence is not magic.

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Stanimir Dobrev @delfoo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Mongolian authorities seem realistic in their estimates how long fuel deliveries from Russia will be disrupted by Ukrainian drone strikes by saying it could be 2-3 years.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

4-5 years ago there were MDs like Lucy McBride crowing about the urgency of normal, getting kids back to school. There were PR hacks like David Zweig supporting them. Now kids are being sent to immigration detention, getting measles & these folks are nowhere to be found. It was never about the kids.

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 01/10/2026

ngl this looks soooo fun

hoplites riding dolphins on a terracotta psykter

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/10/2026

Look, I'm not trying to dunk on this guy, but I think more people need to understand that AI is functioning as a religion right now. "There would be actual counterarguments against Jesus" is a thing you see logicians arguing in medieval times.

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Andrew Robbins @robbinsa.me · 01/10/2026

the important thing to remember is that yud is not a programmer, was entirely wrong about the potential of LLMs, and is literally talking out of his ass

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Tooth Fairy is an amazing invention bc it’s legitimately terrifying shedding tiny sharp bones out of your face and yet kids are so excited to do it

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