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Lyse @lyse.myatproto.social · 13h

I love Kevin

Image of a cafes window. There is a sign printed on a sheet of paper taped to the window next to a chonky orange cat.

Sign:

A QUICK NOTE
ABOUT THE ORANGE CAT
His name is Kevin.
Kevin does not belong to this café.
Kevin has a home.
Kevin is fed at home.
Kevin has convinced at least 14 customers that he has not eaten in several days.
This is a lie.
Kevin has already had breakfast.
Twice.
Please stop buying him sausage.
Kevin weighs 8.4 kg.
Kevin is currently on a diet.
Kevin strongly disagrees with this decision.

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 8h

As an SoA member for about 20-odd years, I just want to say that I am absolutely disgusted by your Quisling attitude to copyright-wrecking corporate grifters and your gullible belief in the bullshit they're peddling. (And as a Computer Science graduate, that's what "AI" is: the promise is a lie.)

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EssayWells @essaywells.bsky.social · 7h

Nobody is going to give a shit about your blog, but have fun with that.

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EssayWells @essaywells.bsky.social · 7h

Do you have either an MD or a PhD, incidentally? If no, hush while the grownups are talking.

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m a x @maxgrobinson.bsky.social · 8h

Getting fired from the no-show ambassadorship you got as a “buy my silence” payoff is so funny man

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 8h

Musk says he didn’t cut services to thwart Ukrainian self-defense, the US govt did. A senior US official says the Trump White House had nothing to do with that, implying Musk did it. A problem is they’re both serial liars, Putin sympathizers, and anti-democracy, so who knows.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 9h

terrible move. history tells us the correct play is to abandon the city and defeat your adversaries at sea

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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 13h

Aerosol science. You all need a massive literacy jump in aerosol science. Like, my kids grasped the basics by age 8. UK COVID Inquiry Module 3 report & testimony + SARS1 Commission (& 7 Oaks addendum) should be mandatory in every MD and MPH program.

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EssayWells @essaywells.bsky.social · 13h

If the Never Ending Story only takes 90 minutes, do things really need to be longer? :)

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EssayWells @essaywells.bsky.social · 13h

There is not enough Hobbit for three movies, and I say this as someone who reads it about once a year on average :)

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His Bark Materials🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌌 @oneiriccanid.bsky.social · 14h

I can’t decide if they don’t know how health insurance works or (more likely) they think everyone else is too stupid to know how it works

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Vincent Carchidi @vcarchidi.bsky.social · 14h

This whole deal about how everyone who hasn't adopted some hivemind ass view of LLMs is in the denial or pre-acceptance stage of the stages of grief is ridiculous and Reddit-like.

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 17h

BREAKING: Guinea-Bissau did not approve the controversial hepatitis B vaccine trial to move forward, the country's health minister says: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

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Guinea-Bissau denies it has approved controversial vaccine trial in newborns

Health minister says government ‘did not authorize’ Danish-led hepatitis B trial in babies backed by RFK Jr

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 19h

It's almost a joke at this point, but the entire story of Mamdani's mayorship really has been "it turns out we can just turn off the orphan grinding machine, the switch was right there the whole time."

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 16h

I’m a little surprised that an organization filled with authors who presumably produce and ply words for a living believed this aerated, nonspecific, pusillanimous corporate nonsense about AI would ever go over well

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Serenity "Scary Underseasoned Food" Dee 🍜 @sapphixy.bsky.social · 17h

whenever I see someone using slop machine images what I'm really seeing is "I love the art this is regurgitating enough to make use of it but I don't value the artist enough to actually reward them for creating the original"

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EssayWells @essaywells.bsky.social · 15h

Brcause it was just about worth lightly mocking you, so that's dealt with.

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The University of Bath @uniofbath.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Dr Asel Sartbaeva, CEO and Co-Founder of the University of Bath biotech spinout, EnsiliTech, spoke today on BBC Radio4 The Life Scientific about her ground-breaking technology, ensilication®, which removes the need for vaccine refrigeration: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0032s99

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BBC Radio 4 - The Life Scientific, Asel Sartbaeva on protecting vaccines with a pinch of sand

Asel Sartbaeva on protecting vaccines with a bespoke coat of silica, found in beach sand.

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EssayWells @essaywells.bsky.social · 15h

If you think these people are "building minds" then there's very little worth saying to you.

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17h

Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.

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EssayWells @essaywells.bsky.social · 15h

Do you frequently find that you're annoyed by people making better choices?

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 15h

Fascinating. Some of the Danish ethics committee pointed to approval from Guinea-Bissau to explain their own approval, so this really makes one wonder.

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Guinea-Bissau denies it has approved controversial vaccine trial in newborns

Health minister says government ‘did not authorize’ Danish-led hepatitis B trial in babies backed by RFK Jr

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 17h

“Public intellectual” but make it mean people who are funded by the public to do intellection.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16h

“Public intellectual” where the concept is used not with a focus on who the intellectual speaks to but rather how the intellection is materially supported and institutionally situated. A mathematician working on the Riemann Hypothesis with an NSF at a land-grant is a “public intellectual.”

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EssayWells @essaywells.bsky.social · 15h

This guy needs some sort of intervention.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 16h

we're in the year 2026 and people are still asking if Andrew Sullivan is a racist or just keeps saying highly racist shit by accident for the last 45 years

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EssayWells @essaywells.bsky.social · 16h

It's simply *adorable* that you think the "AI" companies are building "minds". They literally just put the label "intelligence" on their thing and you nodded solemnly and said, yes, clearly what they are building is intelligence, because they called it intelligence.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 23h

Based on a browser funded with public money, and made the founders multimillionaires. One went on to cofound the biggest venture firm in the world and hired a man as a partner because he choked my unarmed neighbor to death. The people who *didn't* become millionaires are still making a free browser.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17h

"Today I want to consider how aspirational fascism never goes away in a society. It can only be politically beaten into submission..." no amnesty

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EssayWells @essaywells.bsky.social · 16h

Choosing not to do a bad thing is in fact better than choosing to do it, I'm not sure what part is confusing to you.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 17h

it's darkly hilarious that foreign ministers think impotent rageposting on Elon Musk's social media platform is going to change Elon Musk's behavior

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 18h

My personal position? I don't ever use generative AI. It offers me nothing useful creatively and nothing trustworthy as research. The environmental impact is appalling and the companies who developed it stole copyright intellectual property knowing that is illegal. GenAI is dishonest at every level.

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

They do, however, have an email address you can write to for questions about their content. So I did! Let’s see what they come back with. I’m sure it will only strengthen their claims that they’re a legitimate “editorial recognition platform.”

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EssayWells @essaywells.bsky.social · 17h

It's more as if the stuff being sold by AnthrOpenAI has almost nothing to do with actually useful forms of computing.

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NER430 @ner430.bsky.social · 18h

"One takeaway for Democrats is that they must not fall for the fantasy that there is a constructive relationship to have with either Trump or the Republican Party over the next two years." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/o...

nytimes.com

Opinion | If Democrats Win the Senate, They Cannot Play Games (Gift Article)

The party will need to make the most of whatever majority it has.

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EssayWells @essaywells.bsky.social · 18h

You can't ethically use the technology built on the theft of your members' work, so this statement is way longer than it needed to be.

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 18h

"The grotesque prudishness and archness with which garlic is treated in [England] has led to the superstition that rubbing the bowl with it before putting the salad in gives sufficient flavor. It rather depends whether you are going to eat the bowl or the salad." - the immortal Elizabeth David

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

C’mon, when REAL fans hate a tie-in novel, they go write a 250,000-word fix-it on AO3 for free. Wusses.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 18h

I hate when a company slowly starts making their AI more sassy and conversational during its tasks. that is not what I'm here for. tell me the weather and shut up

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 12/10/2026

The Spectator has deleted all the articles written by Lola Salem, Michael Gove’s ex-girlfriend. Michael Gove is the editor of The Spectator.

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EssayWells @essaywells.bsky.social · 21h

From this seabed, gentlemen, 47 centuries look up at us.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

it’s just great marketing

3 panel comic

Panel 1:
Red Guy in t-shirt is sitting at a desk being interviewed. He says “AI is going to kill us all”

Panel 2:
Interviewer looking directly into camera, says “Well, we’ve heard from the anti-Ai guy. Now let’s hear from the CEO of AI

Panel 3:
Wide shot revealing the second interviewee looking slightly confused. He says “I’m the Anti-AI guy”

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Ol' Chef Dan @olchefdan.bsky.social · 21h

I think learning that the opinion-makers we had come to rely on were of below average intelligence (and largely only concerned about their cocktail party friends) was also pretty significant.

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I contributed to a discussion of the New Atheism on its 20th birthday. I alarmed myself on how hostile I felt to a thing that I was at least peripherally part of. Now I think how facile, glib and macho it all was. Preening men showing off to each other. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

bbc.co.uk

Beyond Belief - New Atheism - BBC Sounds

Giles and the panel explore "New Atheism".

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 14/10/2026

In saner times, we would consider an American who graduated from a US law school and then spent the only practical part of her career practicing for an undisclosed employer in Beijing as "having been developed as a Chinese asset and should in no circumstances be permitted in the White House." But...

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

So as y’all probably already know, Trump has a new blonde, Katie Zacharia. She claims to be an attorney, and apparently has been doing so for some time. But while she has a JD from Pepperdine for sure, nobody can seem to find any jurisdiction in which she has been admitted to the practice of law.

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

to be clear, she does not eat the mushrooms, she posts her mushroom hauls to online foraging groups so they can calculate the estimated body count

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EssayWells @essaywells.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It's kind of both - putting a guardrail in a system prompt is just a suggestion to an LLM because of how LLMs work, and it's profound incompetence from the people doing it :)

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