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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 13h

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

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Anna E. Cook @annaecook.com · 13h

The final stage of UI design is a single icon that is a shape you cannot recognize and no label. When you select it you get 8000 characters of text. This is when we know we will have achieved AGI

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 22h

Someone told me that we're in the "anything's possible" era of electoral politics right now. If someone wants to shoot their shot, they should. 👀

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Greg Etling @getling.bsky.social · 13h

The underlying Republican ethos: I can be as shitty as I want to be, and you have to praise me for it.

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Greg Etling @getling.bsky.social · 13h

The degree to which I don't want to build my own EVERYTHING...and I spent YEARS running and administering Linux... This future sounds like my nightmare, the one that has me walking into the woods and never returning to society.

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 14h

You only get to see this for the first time once.

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David Nir @davidnir.com · 14h

This description of Hirono is very troubling

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 19h

Still struggling with wrapping my mind around woke Bill Kristol.

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Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 20h

If Budweiser was trying to identify individual alcoholics and send them personalized "Chuck, you haven't had a drink in a while, here's a free case on us" ads we would rightfully call for them to be drawn and quartered

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Ben Whitelaw @benwhitelaw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I used to think some platform oversight mechanisms were worth their salt and GIFCT was one of them. Most are window dressing, as @katieharbath.bsky.social explains

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Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The web and mobile apps of major conversational AI engines transmit prompts, titles and conversation permalinks to advertising data firms, alongside device IDs, hashed email and other persistent identifiers. Comprehensive analysis, like always from this team: jorgegarciaherrero.com/wp-content/i...

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 23h

‘Prompt like a Butterfly, Sting like a Tracker’ is also an excellent title for a paper

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Simply put, across the US and UK, university administrators, their management consultants and their funders no longer consider the arts and humanities worthy of being studied, taught and transmitted. Their vision of human society is anti-humanist. No wonder the kids are at the barricades.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

... even in those areas, and others where the reality is bad, showing the wins is also reality. It also propels the story forward and shows — or reminds us — that a better way is possible. Insisting on doom is denying hope or the possibility of change. And I just fundamentally don't accept that.

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is being passed around as a total misrepresentation of what he said. Trump was saying - as he often does - that costs for Americans are a small price to pay for preventing Iran from getting nuclear missiles. He was saying ‘let them take out LA or SD’ as an example of what could happen then…

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Kristen Seversky @kr1573n.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You're calling out the facts. My demographic is extremely frustrating on this front. '16 and FiveThirtyEight forever trashed my trust, too

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Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Musician Charles Manson, who led a religious revival in Los Angeles during the counterculture era of the 1960s and later became embroiled in controversy, has died.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Ciara RayneCloud 🏳️‍⚧️ @ciararaynecloud.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hi everyone, as you saw already, I departed the Pride Caucus. (After only six to seven days in it sadly.) My friend Arienne Childrey, now follows me in departing. She has officially resigned and left the cacus as well. If anyone wants to poke the bigger accounts, please do.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Very saddened to say I won’t be able to headline Tim Pool’s student event in Chicago this week. I unfortunately have other plans.

Hi Katherine,
Timcast Media is partnering with the Chicago Thinker to host a student event in Chicago on October 9 at 4:00 PM.
The event will feature a one-on-one conversation with Tim Pool followed by a live student Q&A. To create a dynamic and balanced dialogue, we are specifically seeking a featured guest to represent a left-leaning perspective.
Timcast Media will fully cover and arrange all travel and accommodations.
Thank you in advance for your consideration.
Sincerely,
[REDACTED]

Hi Lisa,
Sorry, I'll be too busy slamming my hand in a car door that day to talk with Tim. Hope you understand.
Kat

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RFK Brain Worm Jr. @planetofdinosaurs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hear me out. All police misconduct cases paid out of police pension funds. Because as a citizen I'm really sick of public funds being used to pay these AND having to worry about a cop doing something shitty to me because they have no accountability.

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A benevolent and highly competent dictatorship is absolutely the best possible form of governance in terms of "what can do the most good for the governed" It's also impossible to ensure either benevolence or competence so it'd be an incredibly stupid choice to adopt

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DaveDisaster @davedisasterman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I can't emphasise enough that we were already fucking up ML before LLMs came along, with dodgy datasets entrenching pre-existing biases...

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Alito is a second-rate mind doing first-rate misogyny.

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 04/10/2026

People hate incumbents, especially when there is inflation

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demon core vidal @regretagarbo.rip · 03/10/2026

i am literally so professional/appropriately media trained that this didn’t occur to me that that was what he was fucking saying.

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demon core vidal @regretagarbo.rip · 03/10/2026

OH WAIT. what he’s saying is that comms doesn’t want him to say the shit he says at all and he says it the fuck anyway. lol. lmao.

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

looks like a still shot from a movie about world war II ending ... differently.

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Chris Rufo is your own personal wallet inspector, you fcking rubes

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Greg Etling @getling.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

God, imagine getting schooled by Rees-Mogg.

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 03/10/2026

Watch Tucker Carlson get a quick economics lesson after claiming Russia’s economy is bigger than Britain’s.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sir Jacob William Rees-Mogging.

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✨John Carpenter’s BOObies✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Convo with my ex sister in law, a trad wife twit: Her: I’d choose the man Me: me too Her: Well even a feminist agrees then! My ex-husband: she’s not choosing the man for safety reasons

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TheSpookioPhi 🎃 @thesociophi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sometimes I wish my brain would shut off, and I could be normal. I don’t want to be me all the time. It’s exhausting.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 03/10/2026

Let’s be very clear: there is value in automating tedious and repetitive and dangerous tasks; there is value in delegating certain work to our machines that can do the work tirelessly and much faster.

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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

what do you mean alleged? is the wrong leg there or not

ohio woman sues after alleged wrong-leg amputation

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think it is evidence of how so much we have been made to think that gaining an audience is the goal of life in this attention-seeking economy that saying "a rapist shouldn't seek a public persona that is available for consumption" is taken as equivalent to saying they "can never rejoin society."

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

(3) no one deserves "how to we solve these people" discourse

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 01/10/2026

I will happily take the over.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Renee Good's family filed two lawsuits today. The first, against, USG, is a standard wrongful death. The second is a Klan Act lawsuit against Jonathan Ross, AND STEPHEN MILLER and Greg Bovino. It names Nick Shirley and Christopher Rufo as non-party co-conspirators for their racist propaganda.

44. At all relevant times, Defendants Ross, Miller, Noem, Lyons, Homan,
Bovino, and the John Doe Federal Agents acted under color of federal law and within the
scope of a joint enterprise with the private actors described below. Defendant
Lewandowski acted in part under color of federal law and in part, as alleged below, as a
private person, his federal status having been limited to a temporary part-time designation
that his conduct exceeded. Shirley, Rufo, and Ben Bergquam, and the other non-party
private actors described below, agreed to and in fact participated in the conspiracy alleged
here: each acted in concert with, and with the knowledge and encouragement of, federal
officials.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 01/10/2026

did even a single "AI safety expert" come within a country mile of this threat model?

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 01/10/2026

Imagining people who do evil things to be devoid of empathy is a way of comforting oneself, because we all know that we feel empathy and therefore are not the kind of person who could do *that.* It’s much scarier to know that a conglomeration of circumstances can turn basically anybody bad.

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