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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 05/10/2026

There is a bleak sort of pleasure in telling people who bring up AI in casual conversation, “Actually, I’m one of the authors AI stole from. Not an exaggeration. The judge ordered them to send me a check.” It hits them different when it’s a real person saying it.

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Antigone @antigoneinthebes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

People don’t realize how serious the situation is.

A graph showing number of Germanies over time. Losing one on October 3rd 1990 means by projection we are only decades before reaching -1 Germany in 2072

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Listening to the racist podcast about the “Indian Question” and wow mediocre 2026 white guys jealous of an Indian with a tech job is very much the new mediocre Central Valley white guys in 1941 jealous of Japanese with a thriving farm.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So many people already dealing with parents/grandparents with the toxic combination of diminishing mental faculties, online radicalisation via social media and AI slop, and chatbot seduction. Unfortunately we are now all getting to see what happens when one of those cases is the president of the USA

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/10/2026

"how many local models do you run" this is my favorite internet argument that's ever happened

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 03/10/2026

You'd think that the Democratic party would be making hay over their opposition's biggest donor fighting to let his bot keep making revenge porn.

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Friend Of DeSoto @friendofdesoto.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Dear VCs: My team has been iterating on our models so rapidly we are about to release version 12.2 (codename "Massive Grift"). Just look at this graph -- obviously it will utterly demolish the competition, and thus very possibly humanity. $$ please!

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 02/10/2026

Their mission is the pursuit of human rights for their technology designed to deprive you of human rights.

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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 02/10/2026

Listen: I don’t want to minimize the danger of high e-bike speeds. But if the problem here is that stores sell e-bikes that can drive faster than legal limits, then where’s the story about how literally *every car dealership has been doing the same thing for decades*?!?

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Hidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC News

A new hidden camera investigation by Marketplace shows how some stores are selling e-scooters and e-bikes with top speeds much higher than provincial speed limits and with recommended rider ages young...

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌒 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 01/10/2026

Another week, another “we’re vaguely familiar with the basic premise of the story while at the same time wilfully missing the entire point” moment

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80% of the children who accepted Wonka's Golden Ticket died

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Rejecting Al is like refusing Wonka's golden ticket.
Anything you want to, do it Wanna change the world?
There's nothing to it

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N.S. Dolkart sans nap @nsdolkart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yeah I don’t think American Psycho has any hope of becoming president, and he just keeps digging

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 02/10/2026

This would actually be my favorite way for It to Happen.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As you organize around these issues, there is a role for the deeply informed question asker, for sure. The person who read the research and looked up the campaign donations. But there are many more accessible roles for the people can just show up and keep asking, “how” without losing their shit.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You are going to install a computer chip in my brain? Okay, how? You’re going to annex Greenland? Cool, cool, how?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One of the best questions we can all ask these days is, “How?” It’s simple and smart and a non-answer tells you as much as an answer. Skynet is going to kill is? How? We are moving to the moon? How? Build a big net around earth? How??

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Silicon Valley repeatedly turning into sex cults is the carcinisation of social evolution send tweet 🦀

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The fact that so many billionaires are crashing out about a 5% one time tax is more than enough incentive to get me to vote yes on prop 40.

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Friend Of DeSoto @friendofdesoto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

His deteriorating brain is never going to stop confusing the two completely different meanings of "asylum", is it?

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jon rosenberg @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you're trying to "solve art" you're either incredibly stupid or incredibly evil. Art isn't a problem, it's a solution

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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 29/09/2026

New way for trillionaires to debase themselves in breathless servitude to another man just dropped

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We believe superintelligence will create significant new opportunities for all people and businesses. Meta already serves billions of people at scale and helps hundreds of millions of businesses reach customers. Today we are starting the next major pillar of our business, Meta Enterprise Platform, to help businesses use Al to grow and transform in new ways as well.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 30/09/2026

And media making it official policy to treat those attacks as fair game that they would not take seriously, report on, or treat as harmful — even when leveled at their own reporters. Now the White House points GamerGate at its targets daily, through the owners of the social platforms themselves.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 30/09/2026

No bear has ever doxxed a rape victim

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Matt Kavanagh @mattkavanagh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My neighbor told me his AI company keep eating all his investors’ capital so I asked how much capital he has and he said he just goes to the market and gets more capital so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding institutional investors to AI then his CFO started crying.

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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Simplify your life by hibernating from now until spring

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Martha, but like, super spooky @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Most of us want a job! We want to accomplish something with a moderate amount of human dignity and use the compensation from our labor to meet all our needs and some of our wants! Employers want to throw us into a giant garbage disposal, and no, you can't have an iced coffee while you wait in line.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Given this appalling response from university administration, I have no choice but to declare a new policy directive…implementing an immediate moratorium on all student event & special event permits, including, but not limited to Greek life.” - Mayor of Ithaca, actually doin’ shit

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Ithaca Mayor responds to reopened sexual assault case

ITHACA, N.Y. (WETM) – Robert G. Cantelmo, Mayor of Ithaca, has issued a statement on suspending Greek life at Cornell University until certain official procedures are put into place. Below is the s…

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It is natural that people would prefer to be around other people of the same race. That is why I avoid my wife as much as possible. by Christopher Rufo and JD Vance

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The raw visceral hatred some men have for women, at least women who step out of line, is shocking. I know it sounds like some sorta "one of the good ones" ploy but I am genuinely taken aback when I see it because I think: I had a fairly normal socialisation as a man in the west, how did I miss this?

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Rare opportunity to invest in no future.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

I will vote to send myself out to sea on a barge before I vote for Rahm Emmanuel. Please be serious.

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Van Wendigo @vanweezer.myatproto.social · 18/05/2026

You're not going to believe what they named this street

A street sign on the corner of an empty intersection. It reads "gaslight circle"

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Friend Of DeSoto @friendofdesoto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New Leopards Eating People's Faces Party meme dropped: "I swear I was promised the leopards were going to be more racist about which faces they eat." www.huffpost.com/entry/right-...

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Far-Right Commentators Rage Over GOP Welfare Fraud Ad Featuring White Male Gamer

A new ad by Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders put white men at the center of her state welfare work requirement policy.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I can almost guarantee you that if a man in a het normative family structure finds meal planning easy enough to turn it into an AI task, it is because a woman has made the task easy enough that he is willing to do it.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think some Dems might sneak by in a wave year election running these anti-trans ads that abandon an entire section of the population, but they won't be able to outrun it with Democratic voters longterm. The more time goes on, the more likely they are to know a trans person. A permanent duncecap.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In practice, AI literacy doesn’t start with building the tool for your personal use. It starts with understanding yourself as a collection of tasks who should subcontract those out to a machine. Almost no regular person’s life currently exists as such.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Technology enthusiasts severely overestimate the average person’s desire or willingness or capacity to build and use AI agents. I understand some work roles that could mandate or encourage it but that is no way a tech revolution. Agents are best for structured, clearly delineated tasks.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i think andy beshear has thrived as a democrat in kentucky not because everyone in kentucky necessarily respects his beliefs but because he says what he actually believes and voters respect a politician who sayswhat they actually believe.

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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today’s Cornell rapist is tomorrow’s Brett Kavanaugh.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We have to say it plainly: a lot of people—a lot of men—just don’t think that rape is very serious.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 27/09/2026

Every time I visit a mall these days, I spend roughly 75% of the time internally wrestling with the question "what even IS a mall anymore?" I've never come up with a good answer. Modern malls defy our puny human categories.

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

One of the things that annoys me the most about being an adult is the lack of intellectual curiosity from other adults.

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 27/09/2026

Fewest women I've ever seen in a single event space, and I cover comic conventions for a living.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

a lot of this is summed up by Giancarlo Esposito’s monologue about what a man does being shared uncritically on social media without the subtext that the character is trying to manipulate the protagonist

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