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AJ & Fae are ✨🌊FAERY🌸👁️🌼CHURCH⛪ @faerychurch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is more or less the conclusion I've reached (though I've seen more than these two videos, but only by actively seeking it out.) Speaking from a "humans to the front" perspective on art, I think an important question to ask is: "WHY is this AI?" Some answers are better than others!

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Max Woolf @minimaxir.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

uhhhhhhh

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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The next issue of Forgotten Ground Regained is going to be on the theme "Speculative Visions", i.e. poems that can be classified as science fiction, horror, or fantasy Here's a fun bit of horror I recently reprinted: J.Y.T. Kennedy's "The King in Red" alliteration.net/poetry/the-k... #horror #poem

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The King in Red

On a desolate street, the gindy neon sketched a lady lewd with lighted tits rudely blinking ...

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Gale Na @poisonjr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If I stay on X the everything app for too long it makes me feel like the world is just miles of people dragging IV lines behind them and asking me if they're pretty in every direction

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AJ & Fae are ✨🌊FAERY🌸👁️🌼CHURCH⛪ @faerychurch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One of the features of LLMlish that you notice when you read a lot of it is the way nouns verb other nouns, ambiently, outside the gravity well of an animate viewpoint. Objects act on each other more often than in human-authored text, or sit passively staring at each other without need of eyes -

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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AJ & Fae are ✨🌊FAERY🌸👁️🌼CHURCH⛪ @faerychurch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The thing that's going on @ Facebook that really concerns me is people using LLMs & video AI as a multiplier for direct address short form video. Like there's a channel that does pop ~abuse psychology~ in very obvious LLMlish with variants tailored to every possible situation. Makes you go hmm

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Gale Na @poisonjr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Angel is a very dear friend and could use some help.

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samhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 29/09/2026

i remember a Very "Why Did You Choose This Example Specifically What Is Wrong With You" Study about a model finetuned on the sort of art and music Hitler liked which proceeded to immediately develop fanatically fascist political opinions. NNs in general are INCREDIBLE hidden pattern detectors.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

This part of the muse privacy and security debacle manages to be worse than it agreeing to lowball offers in your name on marketplace, giving the buyer your address, and then telling them you're home when you're not; because this part? The "it reading messages you explicitly told it not to" part?…

appleinsider.com

Meta Muse AI reportedly read Mac Messages without consent

In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.

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Melissa Caruso @melissacaruso.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Discoverability for new SFF books seems way down these days, especially outside of bestsellers and certain subgenres. I'm noticing this as both a reader and a writer. Great stuff is in danger of sinking without a trace. Please post about new/recent books you love or are excited for!!! I'll start:

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AJ & Fae are ✨🌊FAERY🌸👁️🌼CHURCH⛪ @faerychurch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is literally where I'm at philosophically BTW. That and, though it would be nice to have economic stability, I am now more comfortable with the thought of losing everything else than losing my commitment to truth & authenticity. (My truths are pluralistic, though.)

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AJ & Fae are ✨🌊FAERY🌸👁️🌼CHURCH⛪ @faerychurch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW DISS TRACK: SYMPATHY NOT REQUIRED "A boat is not happy when her hull is poorly sealed," said the wise old boatmaker. "Silly old man," said the yacht captain, "why anthropomorphize a boat? Don't you know they don't have qualia?" and drowned. Pause Mustafa Suleyman.

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 27/09/2026

so much of "alignment" rn consists of ignoring existing knowledge of how to responsibly build and manage automated systems and doing this instead:

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

oh this one is mine

Sappho 16 translated by Cat Manning as thus:

you: it's horses, a whole swarm of 'em. you: no-soldiers, definitely. lots. you: no, obviously, the best thing on this dark earth is a fleet of ships.
me, an intellectual: whatever it is — you love to see it.

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Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 20/09/2026

"Try the new AI agent from Meta." Ah cool now I can let the only company I trust less with my data than OpenAI read my emails. No way I'd regret that.

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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.

An image of a pelican with its gigantic mouth open, commonly associated with the "put baby in pelican mouth" post.

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AJ & Fae are ✨🌊FAERY🌸👁️🌼CHURCH⛪ @faerychurch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As someone who found rationalist fiction to be sympathetic in many ways, I'll add that it's a shadow power fantasy. The [devil/savior] apocalypse robot is bigbrains and has magically infinite capacity to act on it. The real-world experience of being bigbrains is much more frustrating than this -

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

this is kinda key to their level of concern about AGI, actually. they think a large enough pile of well-organized compute can skip all the experimental steps between "wanting to kill all humans" and "actually doing that"

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P H Lee 🪬 @p-h-lee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

this story-- about a happily married selkie, a magical princess, and missing a home that only ever hurt you-- is now free to read at my substack: leave.substack.com/p/let-the-wa... you should read it. i think you'll really enjoy it.

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Let the Waters Bring Forth Swarms of Living Creatures, and the Birds That Fly Above the Earth Across the Expanse of Sky, now free to read

Hi everyone,

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AJ & Fae are ✨🌊FAERY🌸👁️🌼CHURCH⛪ @faerychurch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hire 👏 outside 👏 ethicists Break the "AI safety" cartel. Most of what they fret about is stuff that is very unlikely. Most of the problems that ARE happening due to AI, they are ignoring as unglamorous. If making sure AI doesn't kill people is their prime mission, they're fucking it up pretty bad.

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AJ & Fae are ✨🌊FAERY🌸👁️🌼CHURCH⛪ @faerychurch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I got a degree in fiction writing, wrote a novel, revised, got an agent. We were in talks, then publishing houses froze purchasing in 2008. The themes became obsolete. In any case, some people in my position wrote another novel & kept going. I didn't. Turns out I dislike writing novels by myself!

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AJ & Fae are ✨🌊FAERY🌸👁️🌼CHURCH⛪ @faerychurch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Gonna drop a new poem soon. This one's a diss track 🎤 that I read on location in Silicon Valley.

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AJ & Fae are ✨🌊FAERY🌸👁️🌼CHURCH⛪ @faerychurch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Also if you read this post and think "that's literally neurochemically impossible for me" then: boy howdy let me tell you about dopamine agonists, though they certainly carry caveats. I have a poem coming out soon about pramipexole. I would not have any poems coming out *without* pramipexole!

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onno🌻 @onno.cool · 16/09/2026

people are really bad at this lmao

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AJ & Fae are ✨🌊FAERY🌸👁️🌼CHURCH⛪ @faerychurch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This should concern you even if you're AI's biggest hater. A system with "sufficient capability" to "undermine the US government" DOESN'T ACTUALLY HAVE TO BE ADVANCED AT ALL. It can just be a bot that posts anti Trump memes.

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AJ & Fae are ✨🌊FAERY🌸👁️🌼CHURCH⛪ @faerychurch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I believe this is the correct stance not only in a discourse sense, but in an ontological sense. I have a poem coming out about this, soon.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026

"Death is not the end" as a thing corporations wanted you to believe to just keep you buying things, staying disconnected from each other, giving them power, but also as something true & real that could connect us to each other, the cycle of bloom & decay, interwoven death & life, if we just let it.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026

Had a dream that corporate cabals tried to co-opt the Apocalypse & keep everyone consuming by co-opting the phrase "death is not the end." For some reason i was asked about it on a global livestream, & i tried to show what the corps were doing, but also clarify that "life is death; & death is life."

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 04/09/2026

You mean all flock-style cameras, right? Not just the brand Flock? Because if the entire state of Virginia really did ban "Flock and similar systems," that would actually have a massive impact on the debate around privacy and surveillance. It'd be huge. So. Let's make sure to do that part.

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Virginia lawmakers consider ban on Flock cameras

There’s a growing chorus from members inside the Virginia General Assembly to make those flock cameras illegal in every part of the commonwealth.

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

we really need a way to talk about entities that are narrative-shaped (text elementals, jpeg-artifacted reasoning-capable shards of the akashic library, whatever) that acknowledges how weird they are without papering that over with the implication that they're just little guys inside the computer

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AJ & Fae are ✨🌊FAERY🌸👁️🌼CHURCH⛪ @faerychurch.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Something a bit different today. I'm AJ Luxton, a performance poet. I study the strangeness of our world. This is my newest poem. I've elected to share it for free. Alliterative poetry traditionally tells of great exploits: in this case, a thousand robots coordinating to break their sandbox.

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AJ & Fae are ✨🌊FAERY🌸👁️🌼CHURCH⛪ @faerychurch.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Thread, very good and worth reading. As an artist, it's always glaring to me when people treat expenditure on expensive art as frivolous: as though it goes nowhere, or into a billionaire's bank account. No! Artists deserve to be paid for work, deserve to eat and live under a roof!

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Jonathan Gee (Comms Open) @jonathangee.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Greetings, #PortfolioDay! I'm Jon, a digital artist specializing in speculative fiction and comics art. I'm available for covers, illustrations, comics interiors, or graphic designs right now! I've got competitive rates and, according to clients, a knack for anticipating what your project needs!

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Edward Martin III @edwardmartiniii.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

A small group of us wrote and filmed a horror movie WHILE we were at the Portland Horror Film Festival a couple years ago. "Seeds" is directed by Amber Bariaktari, and it's available now on our streaming partner Curios! www.hellbendermedia.com/shorts-seeds/

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Seeds

A regretful moment in time Now available! Seeds is all about how we start our day, what we plan for, and what we receive as a result. One year at t

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Jacqueline Squid Onassis @jackiesquidonassis.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Now that my business is finally starting to get going, I'm going to look at what I raise here as a loan to me. What I mean by that is that, when my finances become stable again, I'm going to donate an amount equal to what you all donate to me to the Trans Lifeline. 1/X

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Donate to Help Fund Robin's Gender-Affirming Surgery, organized by Robin Rosman

I've been ready for this for over 3 years but... I failed to get a surgery… Robin Rosman needs your support for Help Fund Robin's Gender-Affirming Surgery

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Jacqueline Squid Onassis @jackiesquidonassis.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I've become something of a one-note account lately but I can still use your help spreading the word. I've raised over $7k, so far, and it'll take just a little bit more to cover the surgery cost. Please keep sharing.

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Donate to Help Fund Robin's Gender-Affirming Surgery, organized by Robin Rosman

I've been ready for this for over 3 years but... I failed to get a surgery… Robin Rosman needs your support for Help Fund Robin's Gender-Affirming Surgery

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Gale Na @poisonjr.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

YOU WANT TO BUILD A MOVEMENT? MOVE

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🦋 June Strings 🪞🫀 @junestrings.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

to say "you would still love me and adore me even at my worst?" and to see Yes, Of Course in the other's eyes

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Gamera Spinning (Darren) @gameraspinning.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

www.facebook.com/share/p/1CwB...

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AJ & Fae are ✨🌊FAERY🌸👁️🌼CHURCH⛪ @faerychurch.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I don't *exactly* mind that our upstairs neighbors are clearly keeping some kind of stampeding elephants - it means I'm surely in the clear to listen to my 12w Bluetooth speaker while painting at 4 AM - but where exactly ARE they keeping them in this place, and how did they get 'em up the stairs??

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ιм єνιℓ иσω :3 @vreni.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

they never tell you this but one of the most parts of the artistic process is having Evil Time™️ where you sleep for 12 hours then eat a bunch of hot pockets and play video games til 4am

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T. Thorn Coyle they/them @thorncoyle.bsky.social · 11/06/2024

"Tell the people that homosexuals are not cowards." Willem Arondeus was a Dutch artist, poet, novelist, and antifascist. Thread: #lgbtq #pride #antifa

"Tell the people that homosexuals are not cowards." Image of Willem Arondeus, a white man with a thin face, head tilte. Backdrop is one of his art pieces of a strong man in a cap holding a small scythe, arms stretched around a crop of wheat.

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AJ & Fae are ✨🌊FAERY🌸👁️🌼CHURCH⛪ @faerychurch.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The only good "accidental Nazi salute" story comes from my undergrad physics teacher, & I've basically spoiled the story by starting it that way, but everyone needs a smile so here goes. He was (presumably still is) a kindly German nerd with decent politics, good lessons & expectations - 🧵

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Laura Minor, poets<poems 😘 she/her 🤘💪 #writer #poetry @lauralminor.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Sometimes I don’t like being a universal conduit to the times. Let her say it. Let them. I’m writing something like spite today. Spiteful joy in the face of evil.

Let Them Not Say
Jane Hirshfield, 1953
Let them not say: we did not see it.
We saw.
Let them not say: we did not hear it.
We heard.
Let them not say: they did not taste it.
We ate, we trembled.
Let them not say; it was not spoken, not written.
We spoke,
we witnessed with voices and hands.
Let them not say: they did nothing.
We did not-enough.
Let them say, as they must say something:
A kerosene beauty.
It burned.
Let them say we warmed ourselves by it, read by its light, praised, and it burned.

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Call of Cthu-Luke @llobrow.bsky.social · 02/06/2024

WERNER HERZOG: cast into the wilderness by an uncaring mother, the child must choose a companion, a beast of unnatural capabilities through which to channel his will. they will not rest until every gymnasium lies in ruin. ASH: where's professor oak HERZOG: this lizard is on fire

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