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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...

One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”

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Robin Z @firepile.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Update: kid emerged shouting for reparations after being forced to take a cold shower today and he isn't wrong

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Robin Z @firepile.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Remember this @404media.co report about the Vegas Amazon facility destroying rare books? Today in my AI class, one of my students realized we were talking about the facility where he had worked. He had no idea what the purpose of the book scanning was - they were told they couldn't know.

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Robin Z @firepile.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ofc, why *wouldn't* our hot water heater break?

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Robin Z @firepile.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm so annoyed at all of the Discourses about College and AI that now I'm thinking I'll teach a class next year just called WAT: Writing-As-Thinking where we'll look at the theory and cognitive science behind the claim that writing is a distinct form of thought and GenAI should fuck off into the sun

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How do we incentivize people to paint wizards on their vans again I haven’t seen a wizard van in a decade and it feels like we lost something precious Can we offer up a tax credit? Little bags of shrooms? Start a wizard van painting program at vocational schools?

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Me: (driving car into wall) My car has gone rogue! Me: (dropping phone into tub) My god, my phone has gone rogue! Me: (tripping over table) The table! It's gone rogue!

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hear me out

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Advice for my younger friends: if you want to encourage yourself to stay healthy and functional, to exercise and eat well... ...pick a couple of motherfuckers you really want to outlive.

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Robin Z @firepile.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I complain endlessly about my job because I shouldn't have to work 100-hour weeks for no money, but tomorrow includes teaching Weizenbaum's original ELIZA paper and @nkjemisin.bsky.social's The Ones Who Stay and Fight, and another chapter of @tonychemero.bsky.social's Intertwined Creatures. So, A+.

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Robin Z @firepile.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I need all of bluesky to let Will Stancil spew nonsense in his own corner of the internet and stop letting it seep into the nice normal areas where we know what words mean and where I can see his ignorance in my feed again and again and again and

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Robin Z @firepile.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Teaching my capstone students today

A subtitle in a book reads "the brain-in-the-ass hypothesis"

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Robin Z @firepile.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

@xtop.bsky.social and @brandtandstein.com's Crowded remains unmatched in its use of this bit

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Reader, I was in fact not prepared

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John Br👻OoOOOoOoo👻ks @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Two brains in a trench coat

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

imagine if the WH press corp had banded together 18 fucking months ago

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 20/09/2026

Academia: a system that requires years of training to be eligible for basic, entry-level positions yet lacks the capacity to provide those positions to over 90% of the people whom it trains.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

"AI responses are for educational purposes only and may not always be accurate"... surely it doesn't matter if it is misleading/inaccurate if the purpose is education @wileyonlinelibrary.bsky.social, do you see the absurdity of your logic

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Robin Z @firepile.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Vaccine update: my kid and I were both able to get covid shots easily and my pharmacy *has* the new mRNA flu shot but apparently it's still so new my insurance doesn't have it on their approved list yet, *and* it isn't approved for 12 year olds at all, so only like half successful trip.

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Robin Z @firepile.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

How did the new Kristin Hersh album release yesterday and I have THREE COPIES on order and none have arrived (and 2 haven't even shipped yet?) It's hard out here for a vinyl junkie.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is a really important story. You know how over reliance on AI makes you lazy and stupid? This shows how that’s happening within the military — a military, it cannot be pointed out often enough, that’s growing ever more reliant on AI. The children of Shajarah Tayyebah Elementary paid the price

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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026

Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef…

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Robin Z @firepile.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I backed this on kickstarter. What a project!

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The very first line is a lie, and we all know it. *None* of this was ever designed to help us, which is why it hurts us and we hate it. It really is that simple, but the media simply cannot bring themselves to say it.

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The humans are rejecting the machines that were supposed to help them | CNN Business

Touchscreens and self-checkout machines were designed to help customers. But restaurants and retailers are ditching them to humanize stores and attract workers.

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Robin Z @firepile.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Now I see this is what @tonychemero.bsky.social and I are going to have to rumble over

"You can see this in the (admit it: terrible) Matrix films and in The World's End, the much better film that frames this discussion

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Robin Z @firepile.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Mrs Hawk has returned and is chowing down, let's all pray she is very hungry and doesn't leave a lot of carnage for my dog to eat when I'm not looking

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Robin Z @firepile.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My arrival at my desk scared off the hawk who was a few feet from the window and had freshly killed a squirrel, which is now abandoned, so henceforth I am working from the couch and never looking out the saddest window again

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Robin Z @firepile.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

At an Ida show in Madison in a small vintage shop with like 20 other people total and it's going to be amazing 😍

A tiny makeshift stage of 2 chairs and a small amp in front of a projected image and a bunch of mid-century fireplaces pushed together to make space

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Robin Z @firepile.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I simply refuse to ever be baited into engaging with stancil's nonsense.

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Robin Z @firepile.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Wait now you're telling me this *isn't* how beds work?

Dog eating the stuffing out of her bed and looking shocked, shocked I say, that she is being scolded

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 15/09/2026

"cut jobs to manage debt from AI investments" will be put on 2026 headstone.

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Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

ok so just so we’re clear on the concerns that are taken seriously ❌ it’s terrible for the climate ❌ it’s fuelled by stolen data ❌ it threatens jobs/entire occupations ❌ it’s often just wrong ❌ it’s literally caused actual suicides ✅ one day it might extinct everyone by bioengineering a plague

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Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Since we’re doing another round of “AI will destroy humanity” doom-hype, it’s a good time to announce a new paper myself and my postdoc advisor just had accepted by BioSocieties on just this. TL;DR: almost all the “AI can make bioweapons” literature comes ultimately from the Effective Altruists.

ironholds.org

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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 12/09/2026

Happy #caturday from Ludo, who has no idea he has a wish list but would absolutely approve. Things have been hard, and anything from this list helps keep him fed and cared for while I get back on my feet. <3 www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

Ludo, a white cat with gray splotches around his eyes and paws. He is on his back, ample white furry tummy in the air as he maniacally chews on a favorite mousie toy.

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Kathleen Weldon @kathleenweldon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Jesus fucking christ.

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Robin Z @firepile.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Resisting the urge, every single day, to put this screengrab on every assignment I hand out to my Intro to Philosophy via The Good Place students 😅

Michael from The Good Place saying "and let's be honest, you never even read it."

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 12/09/2026

What the fuck

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

OpenAI did not "lose control", the agents did not go "rogue" and there is no "swarm" that "escaped". all control and responsibility remains firmly in the hands of these "frontier" labs. most importantly this "rogue" narrative is an intentional and strategic marketing PR

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Robin Z @firepile.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My kid's orthodontist's office is showing Ponyo in the waiting room so I'll just be here all day doing that instead of working. Fingers crossed his teeth need a lot of work 🤞

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