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Inklings of Late @inklingoflate.bsky.social · 14h

That intrusive thought is back? Not on my watch! #intrusivethoughts #art #illustration #crow #rat #mouse #depression #friend

An illustration of a rat in ragged cloth saying “You are worthless” extending the hand to reach a smaller rat cowering in fear. Between them a crow extends the wings to protect the smaller rat saying “Stop lying about my friend!”. The characters are drawn in full black pencil strokes, with a watercolor background of dark trees looming over the smaller rat.

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Erin Casali @folletto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Can shitposting be enshittified?

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Jennifer O'Toole @cellsdividing.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

They're trying to move into nearby counties where I live despite protests from locals.

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Erin Casali @folletto.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hold on. How comes MacOS didn’t block this on the first place? This is not to say Meta isn’t to blame just… that the OS should also be another sandboxing layer?

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Heritage Foundation laid out how they were going to rescind Title IX, the law that prohibits sex discrimination in education, by first targeting trans people's participation in sport. Capitulating on the human rights of transgender people is catastrophically falling at the first hurdle.

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Erin Casali @folletto.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Deeply normalized negative behaviors can be very effectively unlearned with something short and silly. Nice one.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/09/2026

my boy @mrchrisadams.net did the calcs on this - a $1m fine, for a facility that gets paid $290m a month. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Chris Adams 1stChris Adams • 1st

Researcher and community organiser, working on a fossil free internet, and greener digital services

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I did some quick napkin maths calculation on this. If the guardian article mentions 300MW replacing these engines, I think that 1 million dollar fee represents about 3-5 days of fuels costs for the 45 Bergen generators.

Microsoft has a 17bn dollar, 5 year deal with Nebius for the compute.

Nebius is paying DataOne to build the actual datacentres, and provide the generators to power them.

Moreover, a 17bn dollar deal, if you divide it by 60 months, is what? 290 million dollars per month?

What good is a 1million dollar fine if you're being paid 290 milion dollars by Microsoft, per month for it, who presumably are selling the compute for *more than* 290 million dollars per month?

No wonder they were happy to be allowed to keep running it - the cost of switching off the servers for a month would have been hundreds of times the cost of the fine.

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Erin Casali @folletto.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

…what if we bring ice coffee to a death cult orgy?

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Erin Casali @folletto.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Now that everyone can code, it’s become clearer why many shouldn’t” — Paul Ford Honestly, hilarious — and true.

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 24/09/2026

Aaron Swartz is no longer here to tell us what he saw like twenty years ago. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Swartz had been batchmates with Altman in the inaugural class of 2005 at the Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator, and warned his friends about Altman shortly before his passing.

“You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted,” he told one confidante. “He is a sociopath. He would do anything.”

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Erin Casali @folletto.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If the morality scale has on one dish the total of every future human till the heat death of the universe there’s nothing you can put on the other dish to balance it: you can easily justify killing all humans except two, and think you are a savior.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/09/2026

Please read this article on the massive weirdos who are largely running the massively powerful and big-money AI industry in the U.S. today.

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Erin Casali @folletto.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The state of engineering these days.

WanderWatterson:
you're now just a condom between claude and your production server getting fucked
Screenshot is taken from Reddit.

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Erin Casali @folletto.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

2027: "Yes China might have overtaken us in AI, but we're still the first at SI! This year we are going to build even more: the SSI, and next year we'll drop the I".

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Erin Casali @folletto.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I *wish* they will realize it. I suspect they won’t. Still, good writing, I def recognize a bunch of people in there.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 17/09/2026

hey so what’s your group chat called

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Erin Casali @folletto.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

An AI botnet? Running on TV, fridges, and unsecured smart appliances? Dario I’m pretty sure that if you manage to have LLMs run on hardware that cheap you are the first one having a problem… I doubt you can fit ~1.4TB of Fable in their RAM right now…

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Erin Casali @folletto.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“What no force feeding people isn’t unhealthy, people fed for the entire human existence. Are you telling me feeding is unhealthy? No. Saying force feeding is bad is unscientific. These companies are tying people down and shoving a funnel in people throat for free! How can that be a problem?” /s

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Erin Casali @folletto.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

How have I been in tech for this long and had no idea about the whole Aella’s Sankey and AI sex death cult? Clearly “location, location, location” is true also for polycules and cults 😆

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Erin Casali @folletto.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

AI image generation in enterprise seems to have reached the same functional positioning as WordArt.

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Rocket Girl Erin 👩🏼‍🚀🚀🔆🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 HELP! READ PINNED SKEET! @rocketgirlerin.northsky.social · 14/09/2026

the reality is that most of the democrats that betrayed trans people is because they sold themselves out to reopen the pac and campaign money flow from epstien class billionaires and tech bros.

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Erin Casali @folletto.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

AI is going to start fixing climate change any time now! /s

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Erin Casali @folletto.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’m confused by the scraps of narrative I’m reading from the USA… didn’t a bunch of the pro-trans Dems win recently? Why are people still arguing it’s necessary to compromise on human rights?

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Erin Casali @folletto.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

London city state when? I mean if the west is going toward new dark ages we might as well bring back city states.

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wheelyweb 🇨🇦🇮🇹🇦🇺 @wheelyweb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Yep. Another example of wealthy & exploitative businesses changing meaning and language. Luddites were not against tech at all. They were concerned with worker pay, labour savings, child labour, working conditions, and output quality. They were conscientious workers en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddites

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Luddites - Wikipedia

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Erin Casali @folletto.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

They manipulated the data they acquired without consent about 1,000 to forge transphobic “research” outcomes. They were also in charge of treating trans people?!? Yikes.

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Erin Casali @folletto.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“The struggle is real. But the joy is even more real”. I was always the one good at science / bad at literature. Up to a teacher in high school that saw how I was replying in class to a discussion, and told me “here are the sources, write about it”. The day I gave it back he scored it on spot.

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Kat Lyons @katlyyons.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

btw they do this so they don’t have to hire back the same crew on a raise 🤙 (speaking from experience)

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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 09/09/2026

Despite major outrage from users when they initially rolled out age verification systems, Discord plans to make all accounts teen by default GLOBALLY & you have to scan your face or upload an ID to prove you aren't one. www.gadgetreview.com/discord-is-b...

gadgetreview.com

Discord Is Bringing Back Age Verification for Millions of Users

Discord age verification now locks stage channels, DMs, and adult content behind four ID methods — each with different privacy trade-offs worth knowing.

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Erin Casali @folletto.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Me having often problems: uh I can see how that could be useful. Me living in a society: oh fuck, no.

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Erin Casali @folletto.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's not just bad, it's SO BAD. A hidden mic that always records? ✓ check Automatic recognition of what you listen? ✓ check Record when offline, upload after? ✓ check Scan all devices in your network? ✓ check Remote code execution? ✓ check ...and more... decrypt.co/377637/lg-tv...

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Your LG TV Might Still Be Listening to You—Even When It Looks Like It’s Off - Decrypt

A Gamers Nexus investigation found LG sets scanning every device on a home network and capturing microphone audio with the screen off.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The progression of certain thinkers from denying the validity of trans people to denying the validity of disabilities is a nice illustration of the way in which transphobic habits of mind can quickly evolve into a kind of acquired sociopathy.

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Erin Casali @folletto.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“Social contagion” —> instant red flag, the writer shouldn’t be listened further. (unless it’s a meta analysis on social contagion itself).

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Inklings of Late @inklingoflate.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I hope you did everything you wanted. #crows #death #art #illustration

An illustration of the Death of crows, with a scythe, looking at a second crow who says “Out of time eh?”. The characters are drawn in full black pencil strokes, the background a field of shades of gray in watercolors.

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

“The women’s movement has fought for centuries to avoid being defined only by biology…” Dr Anna Cody (Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner) reminds us why many feminists oppose laws that define what it means to be a woman in crude binary or biological terms. Trans rights are feminist too.

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Sex Discrimination Act Commissioner Slams ‘Retrograde’ Push To Redefine Women

Sex Discrimination Commissioner Dr Anna Cody has condemned a bill that would redefine "man" and "woman" in the Sex Discrimination Act

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Increasingly convinced this is the most important post

Twitter post from January 24, 2019, from @Merman_Melville reading

"Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day."

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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

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Erin Casali @folletto.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I’ve a thing for stories where the protagonist is extremely overpowered but can’t be arsed using the powers. Less One Punch Man (can be arsed) and more Alucard in Hellsing. Do you know any other series / story with this kind of setup?

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