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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

fucking hell, I miss the murder hornets

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Ignoring advice to secure and monitor your sandboxes during testing then blaming it on your AI being so smart that it’s a threat to humanity is nasty work

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And until the copyright laws are updated, nothing will change because these laws are only enforceable with a fuck ton of money. You can read AI tell you about fair use all you want, but show me where it's written that anything has to be "fair". Laws should promote parity, but money = laws.

Violation of copyright isn't going to bring authorities to the door. At best, it will bring lawyers for the copyright holders to the courthouse to file complaint(s). Think of the resource disparity between those two parties. Nothing really protects your IP unless you have deep pockets.

Think of the mayor in Small Town, USA, looking at their expanding budget and shrinking pool tax payers and then some slick fucker comes along and says "I'll give you cash for your archives." What're they supposed to do? Slick offers them a 25% discount on the subscription to their own history.

"Sorry for keeping my boot on your neck. The sign says "Don't Walk" right now. What am I to do, really?" They don't have to be doing any of this - but they've already harvested everything digitally accessible, so it's time to go after the archives.

This is part of the trend to delete all physical media. The issue is that "AI" companies are spinning the destruction as something dictated to them by law, when it's not because there's no external mandate for them to be scanning these books in the first place.

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I don't think it's a question of fair use. With all physical media - what you do with it (outside of distribution or in some cases resell) is up to you. You can destroy the DVD if you want. It's taking digital media off the table now for consumers and making everything a lease/subscription. 1/2

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They just chop the spine off, apparently, to speed up the process of scanning in the pages. They've essentially destroyed it already to do what they want - their excuse is that they "have" to - and no they fucking don't have to do anything, actually.

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LLM = MLM! IT WAS RIGHT THERE ALL ALONG!!

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Let's get all public libraries to start mining Bitcoin and then use that money to buy LLM tokens to give free access to human knowledge to the general....oh fuck - it's just an MLM isn't it? Just a multilevel middle man scheme - OH I SUSSED IT!!

Can't find a book? Just ask Claude, I guess. Or your own personal Jarvis, if that gets you hard.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just a reminder that AI companies are using the excuse of a "law" as a reason they "must" destroy the books they scan - but it's actually that they want to destroy the books they scan because it makes the process of copyright infringement faster. Copyright enforcement is almost always civil court.

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Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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

I need a script that will automatically pause a video for half a second where there a cut has been done to remove natural pauses in conversation because holy cripes! Those natural pauses are there for a reason, my guy.

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

we are not even people to them

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hbflyte @hbflyte.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The professors actually teaching students to write are too busy working at three different colleges to pay for health insurance to write an op-ed for the NYTimes. How many classes you teach on the regular? How many first-year classes? What's the names of your students? Fuck off.

Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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I actually can’t get past the first sentence of this opinion piece: “Most college professors I know believe that students learn to think — critically, creatively, reflectively, tenaciously — only by writing.” This simply isn’t true, at least not in my experience, and it sets up quite the straw man.

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Opinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think.

If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.

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taber @kvetch.gay · 28/09/2026

Here's a map of how iron ore mined in Minnesota moves (the red lines). Note the markers for where steel facilities are located, they're where they are because you have to move the stuff on ships. There are no steel mills in Iowa of any size because you can't get the fucking stuff it's made of there

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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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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Elite universities mea culpas about the “loss of trust” in higher education so often fail to consider the force of the longterm propagandistic attack on universities, given extensive play in conservative media, that long preceded Trump, but which he has massively accelerated.

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hbflyte @hbflyte.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Someone was surveiling me when I tried having a Tomodachi.

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hbflyte @hbflyte.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Greek Life is a Cancer.

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hbflyte @hbflyte.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Holy crap! I've never gotten over 100 likes on a post. When do I get my Netflix special?

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hbflyte @hbflyte.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

*Immediately puts iPhone on Airplane mode.*

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hbflyte @hbflyte.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Everyone must use AI...not like that. "Oh, yes. You're right. Thanks for pointing that out. Would you like me to continue training the model?"

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hbflyte @hbflyte.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

TurnItIn was the gateway drug to AI grading. The goal is to have it teach the whole course.

Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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Side note: the NYT will edit out the filler words of every single male politician in a quote, but here they’ve left in every “like” and “kind of” in her vocabulary. Which is a choice, and not one I like.

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hbflyte @hbflyte.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If I order a coffee with cream, it should be not be as hot as a coffee without cream. I said what I said.

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hbflyte @hbflyte.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The new Maintenance Phase episode has given me flashbacks to every "Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Fwd:" email in my yahoo dot come inbox in the early oughts

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hbflyte @hbflyte.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's not you, it's me (and the horse). You keep going. We'll be down here in the abyss for now.

hbflyte @hbflyte.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Every day I strive to encourage my kinder, better nature. But If you talk as if you're always two words from a giggle, the black horse is gonna win.

The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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From the people who told you that straight white male privilege doesn’t exist…

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Not an actor. Not a woman. Not an interview. Not a journalist. Not a denial. Not an AI 'malfunction', but a persistent nonsense-feature. Other than that, hot story, guys.

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Imagine being an adjunct at LSU, leaving your last class in a hurry so you can pick up some Door Dash deliveries on your way home to make rent that month and you see this shiny motherfucker walking around.

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These democratic consultants need to follow James Carville back into the crypt and let serious people take over.

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I'm starting to understand why the PhD is considered a terminal degree. As an older, disabled woman, it sure will be for me.

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Revisited an article talking about the adjunctification of higher education and now I'm wondering why so many sex pests have tenure. I mean, I know why, but why.

hbflyte @hbflyte.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

When do we find out how big publishers had a helping hand in the IP theft of authors at the outset?

hbflyte @hbflyte.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Deep Thought needed a ball of organic chaos to answer the ultimate questions.

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hbflyte @hbflyte.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The unfeeling automata that will eventually see our doom are not packets of software, but packs of sociopathic chuds laying waste to anything that forces them to feel. Just sayin'.

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hbflyte @hbflyte.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Rationality has always been held up as antithesis and superior to emotionality, which Western modernity has coded feminine. It's a bisection of the human experience to make patriarchal masculinity seem superior and the ultimate goal of human evolution.

hbflyte @hbflyte.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Everyone's crying "Skynet! Skynet!" but this is not the scifi vision of the future we're headed toward. "Resistance is futile."

hbflyte @hbflyte.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If they want me to pay $40 for an article, I want a phone call from the moms of the scholars who wrote it to assure me they didn’t use AI.