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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 18h

ChatGPT prompt: Can I buy this magazine with franking credits?

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

listen I know this isn't gonna make a dent but psychotic doesn't mean evil or cruel or horrible it mostly means scared and confused and stigmatized. just putting that out there for the heck of it

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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière

Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 10/10/2026

the fundamental thing wrong with this ai-driven "hyper personalization" pipe dream is that your preferences are constantly changing, primarily in response to experiencing things that are different from your current preferences and expectations, through this little-known process called Living.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

the endless warm drizzle of spring—the ice of Antarctica, falling softly on the heads of the children of those responsible for melting it.

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"I slammed my bollocks in a sandwich press and my bollocks got really smashed and cooked. It's made me rethink how I use a sandwich press."

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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Australia and New Zealand never beating the America’s chamcha allegations

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's so striking that AI's been out for years and c-suites are still assuming AI is the solution to so many problems, they just need their underlings to find those problems so AI can solve them! It's as if every manager decided everyone had to find a way to incorporate stilts into their workflow.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 07/10/2026

"If you don't build data centres here they'll be built somewhere else" "If you don't adopt AI for your work you'll be left behind" "If you don't let us build oil and gas fields we'll stop harassing you about doing that" Yes please + yes please + YES please

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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Truly can not understand anyone getting excited about a new phone release anymore. Who is paying up to $4,000 for a phone that does the same thing as your current phone? Who’s paying that much for more AI to track you and make everything (including yourself) a bit more useless?

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Post a vampire

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It’s astounding this isn’t the only thing people are talking about. It shows how much power mainstream news, who are blacking out the climate element of this El Niño, still holds. #ClimateCrisis

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oh jeez @nimakokaaz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

i always get annoyed by "what did people USED TO DO before phones did everything" cos your phone doesn't do everything if you don't know how unbelievably limited it is. is this why you think AI is so powerful? cos Internet of Shit infrastructure is all you know?

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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Flaming galah! The Brisbane Olympic logo leaked itself Ailsa!

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Allowing Open AI to call these “rogue agents” lets them dodge responsibility - they made them, directed them and set them free without caring about the consequences. Our laws need to catch up to hold them accountable before worse happens.

Screenshot of newspaper article title Rogue OpenAI agent enters another NSW government website, tech giant says

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"In plain English, we need you, mortgage borrowers, to enjoy a lower standard of living so that the economy has capacity to build lots of data centres and pay for more expensive fuel imports while inflation still comes down." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

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Borrowers again 'hit over the head' to bring inflation down

Why is Australia stuck in an inflation problem that has sent interest rates to 15-year highs?

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Pat Schloss @patschloss.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Let me get this straight. There's a title. There's a commentary article. There's an abstract. There's a set of bullet point highlights. There's a graphical abstract. AND YOU STILL THINK I NEED YOUR AI AGENT TO SUMMARIZE THE ARTICLE FOR ME?

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 26/09/2026

I love this @xkcd.com comic. So accurate.

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Here's how to maximize each hour of the day for your Alpha in training. Anything less is weakness.

A detailed morning schedule titled "The Infowars Alpha Child System," spanning 4:00 to 6:32 AM. The schedule includes tasks like waking up, reviewing allowance revenue, invoice tasks, protein intake, cold exposure, journal writing, skill learning, assessments, networking, exercise, and various other tasks aimed at personal development.

"Infowars Alpha Child System chart titled '02 School." Sections include: Recessmaxxing with time slots for strength training, recess networking, and cardio; Lunch Networking with themed days like Athletics, Academics/STEM, Theater; Daily Recess KPIs focusing on connections; and Pencil Strategy emphasizing learning and resources.

A colorful schedule titled "The Infowars Alpha Child System" for an evening routine from 3:15 PM to 8:00 PM. It includes activities like homework, basketball, reading, LEGO, video games, and music. A recovery and sleep period includes red light mask, hair helmet, and dream journaling. The bottom notes, "4:00 AM—Day 2 lets get after it."

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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turbo jerry @turbojerry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

maybe the amount of good things in your life depends on your ability to notice them

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/04/2026

Putting aside Sam Altman just continuing to emit huge lies constantly, this is an amazing example of what I mean when I talk about how GenAI is replacing *extremely low energy* digital tasks with *WAY WAY HIGHER ENERGY* replacements that *do not even work* Why TF is anyone using ChatGPT as a timer!

gizmodo.com

Sam Altman Says It'll Take Another Year Before ChatGPT Can Start a Timer

An $852 billion company, ladies and gentlemen.

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 24/09/2026

“You have a new message in your MyGov inbox”

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved

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Zelda Universe @zeldauniverse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nintendo was founded on this day, 137 years ago! (September 23, 1889)

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Chris Mihos @chrismihos.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I get really annoyed seeing so many people say "Since everyone uses AI to write papers..." or "Referee reports now are just written by AI..." Look: Everything I have written has, for better or worse, been my own writing. Don't project your cynical expectations on my work. Seriously, screw gen-AI.

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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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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Can't help but notice the contrast regarding the measures Australian governments are willing to take to stop youth crime against the open arms they present to the copyright thieves and data hackers that are AI companies

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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Stop holding the tiny clip mic, you fucking idiots. You look like you don’t know what you’re doing.

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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Maybe the RBA and the government should be focusing on the ‘company profit-price spiral’ 🤷

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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is a great insight from a young woman in Canberra on housing and time and multiculturalism www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

The woman who feels priced out of spare time

Rosie* is in her 30s and lives in Canberra. She captured the point vividly.

"Housing gets covered as deposits, rates, supply. Living it, the real cost is time. You work the hours the housing demands, in the suburb the housing pushed you to, and what gets sacrificed is the ability to sit down with the people around you.

"Multiculturalism worked in this country when people had time to spend with people unlike themselves. Not policy time — ordinary time. Backyards, front steps, sport, the shops, someone's kitchen. That's how a stranger stops being a category and becomes a neighbour.

"We have spent 30 years pricing that time out of people's lives and now we're surprised that cohesion is fraying and asking what went wrong with our values.

"When people are exhausted and stretched and never in the same room, difference stops being interesting and starts being threatening. That's not a failure of tolerance. It's a failure of time. That's what I'd want people in power to understand."

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯

Charles,

Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development.

Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk.

This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives."

For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control.

Those safety concerns must be taken seriously.

And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm.

But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good.

The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to finance

themselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined.
Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections.
It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies.
That tells us two things:
1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; &
2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk.
That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people.
These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow.
But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash.
In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power.
In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are.

What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion.
When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all.
From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong.
Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from.
It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public.
When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares.
The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out.
But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny.
Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab.
Heads, they win; tails, we lose.

We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.

We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.

And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity.

But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

It's time we hold them accountable.

Thank you for reading.

In solidarity,

Alexandria

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This shit is way cooler than roads

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

They haven't lost control. They keep letting it loose and then saying it went rogue. If you intentionally drop a brick off of a building and it hits someone, it wasn't a rogue brick just because you couldn't predict the exact person it would hit.

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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I’d rather be able to have pride that Australia was doing its utmost to work towards a more equality society, combat climate change and oppose war and genocide, than be proud of an empty symbol like a flag

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TOM @tomwalker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Crab News Update from BigSoftTitty.png with me and @demilardner.bsky.social

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Clem @clemgrakata.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Never underestimate the degree to which having effectively bottomless disposable income can warp a person's brain. Today's billionaires are so indistinguishable from the inbred nobles of the days of yore that I question how much of an impact the vigorous incest of the old nobility really had.

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CMI Communications @cmicomms.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

📣 New #Communicable / #Breakpoints drops Mon 21 Sep! Erin McCreary, PharmD & Josh Davis are joined by Steve Webb & Steven Tong to discuss REMAP-CAP results suggesting that oseltamivir may harm critically ill patients, while also highlighting the importance and impact of RCTs. #IDSky #ViroSky #flu

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Ghouly Hoye 👻🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If we aren’t doing this everywhere, what are we even doing? Annual Toronto dog swim before they close down the outdoor pools for the season:

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