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Johannes Franzen @johannesfranzen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Incredible stuff.

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AI and the crisis of the author

By Anchit Sathi

September 4, 2026
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Editor’s note (September 21, 2026): We have removed this essay. AI was used in its preparation. The TLS editorial guidelines prohibit the use of AI in the writing and editing process. The author states that he was unaware of the policy.

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Grace Paterson @gdpaters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think it's pretty impressive how well Meta has optimized the product launch to scandal pipeline.

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The problem isn't rogue #AI models, it's *negligent companies*. If a biomedical firm put their product in public water supply because they wanted to test it 'in the real world', they'd be treated as criminal at corporate & individual level. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue

Decision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

The Dickin Medal is the highest award that can be issued to animals in British military service. Bearing the words "We Also Serve" it has been awarded 75 times since its creation in 1943. Only one cat has ever received the award. This is the story of Able Seacat Simon, of HMS Amethyst. 🧵 1/25

a slightly grumpy looking tuxedo kitty, lounging in a wood tray filled with straw, with a medal round his neck.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 16/09/2026

Alternatively, The New Stanford Prison Experiment is a dystopian horror where you’re assigned to a seeming paradise that on the surface looks like an upscale outdoor mall for the fabulously wealthy but then you have to live in a box 45 miles away or in a Pearce Mitchell condo made of cardboard.

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Grace Paterson @gdpaters.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Please let this happen. This would immediately make my life so much easier.

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Grace Paterson @gdpaters.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Silicon Valley types have been promising that a humanity ending AI superintelligence is just a few years away for...decades. It used to be called The Singularity, now it has rebranded as AGI. As with Rapture, it keeps not happening on schedule...but just you wait, this time it's definitely for real!

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Grace Paterson @gdpaters.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We truly live in the golden age of spam.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If Hugo continues to grow at this rate, by 2030 he will no longer fit in the barn. By 2050 he will have grown to the size of Godzilla and could crush humanity. But if we let the Chinese grow their own Hugo first that would be bad. This is why we must invest 100 trillion dollars in Hugo immediately.

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Grace Paterson @gdpaters.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Setting aside all the obvious stuff about this being an AI generated ad, what is being decided is called "cramming for the exam" and is a famously bad way to actually learn anything.

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Grace Paterson @gdpaters.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Excellent summary of JKR's transphobic activities, for those who might not have been paying attention.

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I wrote an essay about why I'm done using AI for coding, even if it costs me my job and career: brettcodes.com/im-done-usin... The basic gist is: AI made me a worse, apathetic programmer. I think it's bad for humanity, the planet, and the craft of software engineering. And I'm done using it.

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I'm done using AI

Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A tetanus-diphtheria vaccine that doesn’t need a fridge has passed its first human trial. UK scientists reformulated a licensed shot using trehalose, the sugar that lets desert plants survive without water, keeping it stable for up to two years at 30°C. Gavi buff.ly/1kNIUHB #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Fridge-free vaccine passes first human trial, raising hopes for the hardest-to-reach

Unreliable electricity makes it hard to keep vaccines at the right temperature – this development could change that.

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Grace Paterson @gdpaters.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

And now Tim Curry, too. Another great loss.

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 25/08/2026

I just got off the phone with my dad, who said that what folks were told for a while now is that Dolly was making sure that trusts & such are set up to care for all the good she put into motion.

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Grace Paterson @gdpaters.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Damn. Not Dolly. She has been such a force for good 😔

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/08/2026

Sometimes society at large rejects certain ideas because they’ve been thoroughly shown to be wrong and also because they suck and the people who espouse them suck and when someone comes around arguing those ideas should be part of some edgy modern debate we can and should shun them and move on.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/08/2026

HAPPY ANTHROPIC SETTLEMENT EFFECTIVE DAY FOR ALL WHO CELEBRATE!!!!!

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Going to weigh in here with some personal stuff. My son is diagnosed autistic. It made a world of difference because his school had to make accommodations that allowed him to actually cope and learn there, rather than be categorised as "naughty" in an escalating round of attempted control that

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Hi! I’m the rabbi that organized 2500 other rabbis around this principle before, during and after the fall of Dobbs. A thread!! 🧵 First of all, there’s a lot of clarity in the tradition about this. From the Mishnah on down:

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The Torah of Reproductive Freedom

The Jewish Case for Abortion Justice

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Grace Paterson @gdpaters.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This pigeon has *incredible* leg warmers.

Just a normal pigeon but they have white feathers all down their legs.

Same pigeon with feathers on its legs just strutting around.

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Grace Paterson @gdpaters.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Feeling pretty good that I have somehow managed to remain blissfully unaware of this Liddle guy everyone is talking about. Based on the chatter, I gather that's something of a win.

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Grace Paterson @gdpaters.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

This is pretty much exactly how I feel, but articulated much better than I have been able to do this far. There are lots of pernicious systems that are already so deeply entrenched that non-participation seems largely symbolic. But in this case we can still resist the entrenchment. And should.

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Grace Paterson @gdpaters.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It's true that all the countries are mislabeled, and that the ivory coast is apparently landlocked now, BUT ALSO the country colors don't match their labels, one country has a label pointing to nothing, and Cameroon is, apparently, nowhere.

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Grace Paterson @gdpaters.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

So the daily nous is hosting a follow-up discussion of how to "ethically" flirt at professional conferences discourse but nothing on recent American visa changes that will make it very difficult for international PhDs and very little about all the attacks on higher Ed in the UK 🤔🤔🤔

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Grace Paterson @gdpaters.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Don't worry, folks! Someone in the original Reddit thread has "solved" this "problem". You just tell chatGPT to not plagiarize, you see, and then everything is fine.

"I've run into this problem. The trick is to say "in the style of" - and then parentheses I always put, (but don't plagiarize)"

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 29/07/2026

This notion that the purpose of writing essays is to have an essay-shaped object to hold at the end of it is just... wild, and incredibly widely held apparently? Have these people never... written an essay?

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 29/07/2026

Surely it's obvious even to your averagely-able secondary school student that the purpose of writing an essay is the process of writing it, first, and the feedback on any gaps in their understanding that it reveals, secondarily. The artefact of the essay itself is... not the point?

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Enough with this fucking ignorance. 'Experts' do not believe this. Shills do. There's a difference.

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Grace Paterson @gdpaters.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I actually would be interested to hear what other phil language and linguistics folks think of the phrase "greater modicum" as used in the Trumpian propaganda under discussion here. It feels obviously marked to me but I'm not exactly sure how to characterize what's off.

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Jean Fisch @jeanfisch.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Destatis released almost final death data up to 5/7 for Germany (there will be some minor correction upwards from reporting delays for the last days) The heat wave generated ~12,000 excess deaths vs. the ~2,500 daily expected before the heat wave I added some perspective on this below 1/

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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The "McConnell is dead" thing is starting to cross the line from wild mass speculation to actual conspiracy theory. As a noted conspiracy theory hater and killjoy: It's time to stop now.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026

Here's the list of anti rights groups in the UK as documented by Amnesty International.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Anyone who wants to understand what it was like to be a 2e Paladin who broke their oath…this is kinda it.

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Grace Paterson @gdpaters.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

We're in Eurovision. We have a land border with Denmark. Can we please join Schengen zone already? (The ERC would also be a good add)

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Grace Paterson @gdpaters.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

"schism" and "schismatics" are both fantastically fun words to say. We really don't get nearly enough opportunities to use them these days.

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 30/06/2026

Literally tapping the sign.

sign that says "i'm not interested in competing with anyone. i hope we all make it."

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Grace Paterson @gdpaters.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I'm looking forward to goading my German colleagues about how Canada has gone further than them in the world cup 😏

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 27/06/2026

I visited Meta's metaverse on the day it was supposed to shut down. I ended up in a virtual reality off-brand McDonald's car park – "a horribly designed, ultra-capitalistic space—a car park with no cars, for a restaurant that can sell no food, an earthly purgatory we have built for ourselves".

prospectmagazine.co.uk

Life at the end of the metaverse

Mark Zuckerberg built a future that nobody wanted. Tech bosses are repeating his mistake

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Me: Okay, there's been a thunderstorm, the heatwave should be over now. (New health bar appears) (The sun is now named 'Sol, Starflame of Regret') (Objectively the greatest piece of classical music ever recorded starts playing).

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Grace Paterson @gdpaters.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Oh man, this is the first kind of social media I've been excited for in *years*. Satisfies me as both a bird appreciator and communication history nerd. Get a free a bird (or snail??) Sign up with my code 2GZRGA. roostsocial.app/invite/2GZRGA

roostsocial.app

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Grace Paterson @gdpaters.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

It's actually a perfect day to lie on a log in a grove of trees.

Selfie of Grace lying on a log in the shade of large trees.

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Grace Paterson @gdpaters.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Whenever I visit a predominately anglophone country these days I find it sooo hard not to eavesdrop on basically everyone.

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Grace Paterson @gdpaters.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

This here is the difference between flying in the EU where there are robust passenger protections, and flying in North America where there are basically none.

Message from KLM notifying me that my flight is delayed and that if it looks like my connection won't be made they will automatically book me on a new flight to my destination and then send me a message with the details.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I finally figured out why AI causes such a visceral reaction in thinking humans: I am writing my book chapter on PLAY, and AI is the opposite of play. We play for the joy of the process, not for the outcome. Yes it is nice to win, to have the art/ poem, but the point of life is to play.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I have been working on societal impacts of language technology since late 2016, and my nightmare example since pretty early on has been using automatic transcription in emergency services systems. And today I learn it's happening *in my own city* www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... Short 🧵>>

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Seattle uses AI to help triage, divert 911 medical calls

The Seattle Fire Department started using AI technology during live 911 calls in 2023. There hasn't been any public review process.

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Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Yes. The key issue is that social media should be regulated as essential public infrastructure rather than driven solely by shareholder value maximisation (which underpins a lot of the damaging algorithmic structuring) or by the whims of mad, racist oligarchs. All this is lost in the ban discourse.

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