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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 15h
A thing I learned about Meta when I was trying to understand how their statements relate to their actions a few years ago is that *they just tell absolutely indefensible lies* and journalists almost always let them. They believed no one would ever punish them for it in any way that matters.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026
I have previously written about one reason that billionaires find the AI story so compelling: at root, many billionaires just don't believe most other people are actually, fully real. How could they? Achieving billionairehood requires that you inflict pain on vast numbers of people. 13/
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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
bad news babe a rogue openai agent must have hacked our refrigerator last night and drank 15 beers
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There is IMO something absolutely spot on about the British ruling class not at all recognising that smashing up the state to sell it for scrap and cocaine might be a problem, until it started to somewhat impede their ability to wage a really serious war.
I've spent a few weeks asking people if Britain is prepared for war, among other doom scenarios. The short answer is no and the condensed reason for why that happened is that we spent the last forty years stripping off and selling the most resilient systems in the country for parts.
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Lyric Rain @rainsong.cloud · 26/09/2026
Severely underestimating how trivially easy it will be to add "pervagotchi" to our vocabs right next to "perv glasses"
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
4/ But over the next 10 weeks, I’d mimic the patterns of a problem gambler with the help of a panel of gambling experts and learn just how much DraftKings would encourage my recklessness — and just how little pushback I’d get as I spiraled downward.
propublica.org
I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro...
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Jim Unwin @jimunwin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Sceye HAPS looks like something from Dune.
A huge airship, close to the ground, reflecting the scenery around it
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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You joined "grand vizier chat (secret)" You: dark rumors from aboard You: abroad* fuck Sssnakecharmer: mf said aboard WhispersintheChapel: ahoy matey lol PonderMyOrb changed the group name to "rumors from aboard"
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@alydixonisOK

doctor at my check up asked me if i had “any feelings of depression or anxiety” and i said “don’t we all” and she said “no” lol
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
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allison steele, organic human person @trulyaliem.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
timeline cleanser
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(poster name not shown): knock knock
dismembered-jackalope: who's there
justsomeguycore: deez 
dismembered-jackalope: sigh. deez who?
justsomeguycore: deez are the voyages of the starship enterprise
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Oh my God, I agree with WSJ opinion Oh my God, shoot me in the face
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
OPINION COMMENTARY (U.S.)
The Hidden Agenda Behind the Al Panic
A mathematical model doesn't rebel.
Anthropomorphizing it helps obscure human errors and accountability.
By Gabriele Mazzini
September 21, 2026, 5:43 pm EDT
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: Genghis khan is sitting in a throne room. His advisor enters with a fruity drink in hand. The advisor proclaims, “Genghis Khan! I bring a gift from a faraway land!” Panel 2: he continues, “a ‘strawberry margarita.’” Genghis takes a delicate yet generous sip. Panel 3: Genghis and his advisor exchange smiles. Genghis says, “yeeooo that’s fire”
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 19/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Slow Internet
Alt: I Cast Extremely Slow Internet
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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.”
orlandosentinel.com
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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sephirAmy @sephiramy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
how about some good news: new cat just dropped!!!!
a photo of a small, spotted wild cat, with orange fur and brown circular markings, staring up with big golden eyes.Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years

A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.

This 10-year-old male tiger cat is the first of his species (named Leopardus tilcayo) known to science. He is approximately 18 inches from head to end of body and weighs only 3 pounds, making him smaller than the average domestic cat. This video was captured at the Senda Verde Animal Refuge in Bolivia’s Yungas region, where he currently resides.
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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
hey why is no one talking about the licensing situation with this A24/SCP thing? are they releasing it under the same cc-by-sa license every SCP project is required to have? are they betting creative commons won't hold up in court? seems like the kind of question a journalist should look into idk
deadline.com
SCP Foundation Movie Coming To Theaters In 2027 With A24 Distributing
An SCP Foundation movie is coming to theaters in 2027 via A24. Spooky Pictures and Image Nation Studios announced the project earlier this year.
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Mikel Reparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,
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Cube @prototypecube.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
"all empires fall but it's rare you see one jump"
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Alon Pinkas @alonpinkas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
So almost seven months into the gloriously victorious war that toppled the regime and annihilated Iran, the Iranians effectively control both the Strait of Hormuz and the Strait of Bab-el-Mandab. That’s phenomenal strategic thinking from the Trump-Netanyahu duo
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.
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💀Legendary Imposter Elianora ★★★★ @elianora.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
As the unofficial "Queen of Clutter" for Skyrim, I approve of this Creation. youtu.be/lwdeKwvsTJQ
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KALLAX STORAGEBORN, a free creation for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim™ from IKEA.
YouTube video by IKEA UK
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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 06/09/2026
Harry Potter and the Refusal to Meaningfully Grow
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MattTS @mattts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Some of those that work forces, are the same that block portses
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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
m@thew
@tweetpotato314.bsky.social
my neighbor states that he is not a genie yet every time i rub his house he comes outside
7:23 AM • Aug 14, 2026
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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Two Saturdays, one week apart, same police force. 857 arrested for sitting in a square holding cardboard. 25 arrested at a 150,000-strong far-right march where 26 coppers were hurt. I'm trans. I can see where this goes. So I timelined Labour's journey to fascism 🧵 howyougetfascists.uk
howyougetfascists.uk
A Labour government is walking toward fascism. This is the route.
55 dated entries on policing, protest and the far right in Britain, July 2024 to September 2026. Every one sourced. A warning, not a verdict.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In the first panel we see a dragon sitting on a pile of treasure. A speech bubble pointing off panel reads, “Dragon, why do you have all this treasure?”
In the second panel we zoom in on the dragons face. He simply says “shiny”.
In the third panel we pan to the left and see that there is a crow standing next to the dragon on the treasure.
In the fourth panel we zoom in on the crows face. He says “hell yeah”.
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Noel Is A Man's Name @nobadnoel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A proud father supporting his trans daughter
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Now in Gunmetal Grey!
A person in the background carrying a bag over their shoulder. In the foreground, a large gray cat sits beside a cardboard box labeled "CATS FOR MEN." The text above reads "Introducing CATS FOR MEN™," and below the box, it says "The first feline designed for real, masculine men."
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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The internet was absolutely a mistake but this is one of like five admissible pieces of evidence that it’s good actually
What I'm doing with my life
sometimes sheets can be propped up to be a cave but other times they lie flat like a ground. why is that
I'm looking for
• poposable thumbs
• Tall as counter
• Understanding of locks
• Warms
The first things people usually notice about me i am small enough to use pieces of furniture in different ways that are surprising to humans eg edge of the bed is actually a tiny step for me to use like a borrower
The six things I could never do without cold chickens, heated chickens, small dry pellet chickkens, chickens from a can with picture of cat on it, chickens from the sea (also in can but missing cat picutre on can), chicken from larger animals like beef
The most private thing I'm willing to admit iwill climb on top of you in the night and settle like a tiny rain cloud
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J. Michael Mull @jmichaelmull.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
even now, she's still teaching us
screen on car radio reading:
Dolly Parton
Love is Like A Butt
(it should be Butterfly but the last part couldn't fit on the screen)
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 31/08/2026
"The America, The America, The America, The America, The America, The America, The America, The America"
[An edited The Far Side comic of a man holding a paintbrush, having painted everything around him. watermark: Larson]
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SPLATTER @splatter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
there are so many good ones!
Crop art by Marta Shore
A duck and a block of ice with the text "C'mon, autocorrect" rendered in seeds and grains
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
But nothing beats the obstetrics textbook wherein one of the authors made his wife do the index, so she slips this one in:
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marina grlica 🌱 @dovesplants.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
see you space cowboy tim curry
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
this is my economy ???
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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing
Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.
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November Kelly @postoctobrist.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Argonian cop named Turns-Off-Bodycam
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Bishop Steiner @bishopsteiner.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
still one of the greatest conversations ever put on TV.
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Listen, if you’re not happy single, you won’t be happy in a relationship either, happiness comes from picking a new hobby and then buying all the things to start that hobby then finding the perfect little storage container for those things and then putting that storage container in the spare room
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
1, 2, 3 and 5 I can get anywhere. 4 is why I come here
trending:
1. Natalie Harp's letters to Trump
2. Reports of ICE detaining people
3. Gary, Indiana, lacks power after a storm
4)Debate over "spreadsheet people"
5. Harry and Meghan move back to UK
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Iceland Cricket @icelandcricket.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
We need more talented cricketers in Iceland. If you can play a bit and have an Icelandic grandparent or fifth cousin, get in touch. If you have even watched some films by Baltasar Kormákur, we will think about it.
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Cathy Kwan 🍅 @completelycathy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
One of my all time favourite vinyls I’ve had the pleasure of working on! The brief was ‘Chrono Trigger with a traditional Japanese art and Ukiyo-e twist’, which I absolutely fell in love with 🌊❤️‍🔥
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Pile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 17/08/2026
How to win at most all things:
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
this story is batshit Here is the full article, which includes all prompts, trial transcripts, the report itself. The firm hired charged more than $80,000 for the report. Also shows that AI transcripts can be discoverable and can be very revealing: www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...
404media.co
‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit
ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
lol come the fuck on
Cutting Your Parents Off Isn’t the Answer
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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
life coach 
@dkulchar
Trying to explain to my parents (very gently) that basically nobody under 40 right now expects good things to happen ever again
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