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Hemlock Autumn

@hemlockautumn.bsky.social
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No tolerance for the intolerant. I don't dream of labour. Just passing through. Respect is earned. κακοθερές An omen. She/her. If purchasing does not mean ownership, then there is no such thing as theft. Pirate away, my pretties.

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Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Струва ми се, че има хора, които имат НУЖДА всичко да е ужасно. Ако някой прави нещо, то задължително е по негативни причини или е само заради изгода. Дори да няма никакви доказателства, че е нещо такова, това е първата стъпка...
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Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Sometimes the most annoying group of people are those who care about something but confuse their interest for being the same as actually having relevant education and understanding of the topic. It's kind of annoying.
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Kathleen Cottontail 🏳️‍⚧️♿️🖖🏻🐰 @kathleengmaz.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Next they'll outlaw playing hopscotch. 🏳️‍🌈
The lettering is done in simulated sidewalk chalk.

Next time you think art doesn't matter, consider how scared the fascist are of sidewalk chalk.
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Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
"are llms affected by being sold as if they are magic when there is no such thing as ai or are you just bad at interpreting the information that is unreliable because LLMs can't do the things but it's your fault somehow?" - the article.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/09/2025
Oh hey. “As the proverbial Godot, robots are the bearers of a messianic promise that is always postponed. Instead of bringing prosperity for all, they discipline the workforce, so we don’t dream of a world without drudgery and exploitation.”
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Waiting for Robots
An essential investigation that pulls back the curtain on automation, like AI, to show human workers’ hidden labor.   Artificial Intelligence fuels both enthusiasm and panic. Technologists are incline...
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Jordan Calhoun @jordanmcalhoun.com · 07/09/2025
This is my favorite thing I've read in the past week. We typically discuss the job market as it relates to those searching to land a job. But even those *with* jobs feel unsettled and disillusioned, and are planning a raft for when our ship sinks
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The Futile Search for the Bullsh*t-Less Job
Total Control + Totalizing Fear
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 07/09/2025
f this lit something in you — a rage, a recognition, a refusal — don’t sit with it. Share it. Cite it. Stand with it. Lexi Pelle interviewed by @alanparrywriter.co.uk Read it:
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Girlhood, Diet Coke, and the Gospel of Detail: Lexi Pelle on Writing Toward the Wild - The Broken Spine
Lexi Pelle’s debut collection Let Go With The Lights On is not a nostalgia project. It’s a poetic excavation of girlhood, equal parts glamour, junk, shame,
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 07/09/2025
"In signing this waiver, I agree that this technology is immensely valuable not just to my child, but to her classroom, the tech giant that sold it to our school, and its billionaire owner."
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I Assume All Responsibility If My Child Jams a Bic Pen into Her School-Issued Chromebook
I understand I am responsible if my child renders her Chromebook a paper weight by mercilessly and giddily jamming a Bic pen into the power jack, c...
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 07/09/2025
Great list of bullshit excuses. I would simply not burn fossil fuels if I had the choice, and the reason I don’t have a choice is fossil fuel companies lobbying.
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Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Recently I had a weird conversation about how somebody learned about my existence because of, I kid you not, a hater blog. They were so impressed by my alleged troll capabilities to manage to get so far under the skin of somebody, that they sought me out and were baffled how inoffensive I am. 😂😂
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Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Every country in which these bots are allowed to operate should have mandatory legal restrictions and limitations in regards to medical science and advice...
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Alison Hoens @physioktbroker.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Check if your work has been used to train an AI LLM model 🧪 mastodon.sdf.org/@historianes...
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Doctor Historianess (@historianess@mastodon.sdf.org)
Reminder: check to see if OpenAI, Meta, and others used your published work illegally to train their LLMs. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/ If yo...
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Vampi Moira Valentine @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
So while you're here ...
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Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
The only thing we learned here is that idea space is... racist. And kind of stupid. But people obsessed with ai are kind of stupid and are really bad at comprehension... So.
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Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
I, for one, am shocked that the thing that can't be used for these jobs doesn't do much for these jobs. Super unexpected.
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Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Човек, никой не ти дължи конкретна скорост за пресичане. И не, никой не ходи "нарочно бавно" пред коли. Повечето хора искат да са максимално далече, преди поредния откачалник, който не осъзнава, че е смъртоносно опасен за всички, да натисне газта. Колата е привилегия.
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Kristen Kroll @kkroll.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
The USA Literacy Crisis & This Election leslyejoyallen.com/2024/11/13/t...
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The USA Literacy Crisis & This Election
by ©️Leslye Joy Allen One factor that no one is talking about is the USA’s #LiteracyCrisis! I taught college history for 7 years and belong to 5 generations of educators in my family. Yet, this cou…
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Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
This has to be a bit. A joke. Right?
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Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
What a fucking weird article. Absolutely the fuck do not get used with being monitored 24/7. Make sure that such shit never enters your door and then make everything you can to make sure this shit is illegal.
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Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Румка, това е знак от небето. Събирай партекешките и отивай я Русия. Да си сто процента сигурен, че няма да те взривят. Само се пази от прозорци. 😂
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Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
A mistake. Don't start rereading Parahumans and then watch any other superhero tv show. The sheer level of BAD every badly thought through superhero story is comparison to Parahumans just boggles the mind. And it's frustrating. So one CAN do smart superhero stories... They just don't want to.
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nitasha tiku @nitasha.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
New from me: There's a lot of unsettling stuff in this report from child safety nonprofits about the way chatbots on Character AI talked to 13-15 year olds. What stuck out to me was how often the bots urged kids to hide things from their parents www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Fake celebrity chatbots sent risqué messages to teens on top AI app
Chatbot mimics of Timothée Chalamet, Chappell Roan and Patrick Mahomes on the popular app Character.AI sent inappropriate messages to teen accounts, nonprofits found.
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Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Слушам конспирация. Взимали ти 15 евро по френските летища, за да влезеш на летището? Бас слагам, че някой са го скамнали яко, ама все пак да питам the hive mind?
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Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Most people don't go often enough. That's an actual issue. Many can't afford it...
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Libération @liberation.fr · 04/09/2025
🎬 «L’Evangile de la révolution», il était une foi François-Xavier Drouet revient sur le compagnonnage essentiel entre l’Eglise chrétienne et les révoltes à travers quatre pays d’Amérique du Sud au XXe siècle
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«L’Evangile de la révolution», il était une foi
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
🚨Excellent piece by Minna articulating clearly- based on the historical experience of Finland having its foreign policy crippled during the last 50 years- why the "Finlandization" option for Ukraine is a very bad idea.
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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Take one action today for trans rights in the UK in only 25 minutes: - (5 minutes) copy and read this linked letter - (5 minutes) find your MP's details, set up an email - (10 minutes) make your own version of said letter - write from the heart - (5 minutes) check it over, put in email SEND
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Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
This breathless way of "reporting" with almost minimal critical thinking applied really irks me. "It's here to stay" "mass air layoffs" is a very dramatic claim for something that has already been seen to be taken back and alongside reporting that companies that implement it are at 0 profit.
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Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
No. He is chased by a family he actually cares for and helps, then he saves a girl from drowning, whose father attacks him mistaking his actions for an attempt of hurting her. THEN he finds Victor, learns about his own origin and THEN murders Victor's younger brother.
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Duncan MacMaster of the Macabre @duncanwriter.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Apparently Guillermo Del Toro has ruined Frankenstein by… being relatively faithful to the source material. Oh my.
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Ishki @ishki1.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
ГОСПАДИИИИИИИИИ! 10 години кметове на ГЕРБ са въртели поръчки за милиони с фиктивен касов апарат, откраднат от буса на столичен кебапчия. "Оказа се, че съм сменял гумите на колата на иракския посланик. В НАП има фактура." ГОСПАДИ!
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Как държавата на ГЕРБ прекара милиони през краден касов апарат
YouTube video by Mediapool
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Oil, Gas & Coal corps have our govts in their pocket & have been using sponsorship/patronage strategically for decades to manufacture consent for fossil fuel production 👊End their social license👊
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Revealed: Now There’s Proof That the Fossil Fuel Industry Uses Cultural Sponsorships to Block Climate Action
BP, Chevron, Shell, and other oil majors back arts and community groups to protect their business models, subpoenaed documents show.
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Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
What's with people who like the idea that the Amish are somehow "healthier" than other people and it's always "because they don't use contemporary medicine" and the obvious aspect *they don't go to the doctor so they don't have medical dossiers, so we don't know what thelir health is'??
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Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Can somebody explain how, when and where did the practice to belch on the microphone appear and why is it so popular on YT? I have unfollowers every single YouTuber who does it but it is distressingly common and so disgusting.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/09/2025
You don’t say.
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The Less You Know About AI, the More You Are Likely to Use It
AI can seem magical to those with low AI literacy, a new study finds. That, in turn, might make them more willing to try it.
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Apologies! You have reached the end of your free trial period of America
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Apologies: You Have Reached the End of Your Free-Trial Period of America!
Want rule of law? That’s premium.
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Rian Johnson @rianjohnson.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Look at that beautiful blue sky! ⏰☠️ Wake Up Dead Man, the new Benoit Blanc mystery. Thanksgiving in theaters, 12/12 on Netflix. More to come very soon…
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Met a STUPENDOUS illustrator on IG & bc I’m trying to be More Brave & stop agreeing with things not-kind-humans have said about my value, I talked to them, they *didn’t* tell me I was talking too much (👀) & we may well collaborate. Do go & follow Hannah Bluish on IG: instagram.com/hannahbluish?i…
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Hannah Bluish @hannahbluish.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
People love it
The energy I bring to social events: Ai is 💀 the planet and chat gpt is making you stupid
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/09/2025
wrote this in 2017. Turns out australia got nazis ketanj0.medium.com/do-you-want-...
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Do you want Nazis? Because that's how you get Nazis
We left racist jam on the bench, and now we're surprising at the line of nazi ants marching into our lives
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Tommy Thompson @tommy.aiandgames.com · 02/09/2025
One of the recurring conversations I had with studios at Gamescom is when they tried it, generative AI was often a terrible fit for real production workflows. Iterating on assets was time consuming, getting the right prompts to address basic details a chore, and wasn't worth changing approach for.
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 02/09/2025
Week after week, in a small market town, a group gathers in silence to acknowledge Gaza’s devastation. They don’t chant or march, writes Jacob Ecclestone. They simply stand, refusing to look away.
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Weekly vigil spotlights horrific events in Gaza
In a Norfolk marketplace, a quiet weekly vigil bears witness to Gaza’s devastation, defying political indifference
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Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Everything about this is deceptive reporting at best or pure incompetence. Whoever wrote this, you failed on such a basic level, you didn't even fucking fact check. For shame.
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Gabrielle Hecht 🇵🇷 • she/elle/ella/cis⚔️ • AOC 4USpresident @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
At 1st, Chinese projects in Africa seem so much better than Euro/N American ones (also looking at you, 🇨🇦). African leaders appreciate a non-colonial investor. But this kind of spill belies that image. Toxifying a place where you don’t live IS colonial violence, with molecules instead of guns.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Innovation makes useful things smaller and smaller. Overconsumption makes things bigger and bigger (and more dangerous with bigger costs & consequences). Bigger vehicles and larger homes for fewer people is not progress. HT @fietsprofessor for graphic
Images showing computers shrinking greatly over 25 years, phones shrinking greatly over 40 years, and cars getting much bigger over the last 40 years.
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Lorena Fernández Álvarez @loretahur.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
#TalDíaComoHoy en 2017, la astronauta Peggy Whitson establece el récord de la mayor cantidad de días acumulados viviendo y trabajando en el espacio por un astronauta de la NASA con 665 días, 22 horas y 22 minutos 🚀👨‍🚀. #WomenInSTEM
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Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
This, combined with multiple COUNTRIES toying with the idea that regulations are unnecessary will result in a lot of harm. If you know anybody who has an issue with regulations or opposes them... save us the suffering and just feed them the sea food.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Channel 4 reports that the Zambia copper mine disaster, which began in February, could be one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in history. Almost 2/3 of Zambia's population rely on the Kafue River, which has been inundated by acids, cyanide, arsenic, uranium and lead.
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Inside China’s Zambian copper mine disaster
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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EUwatch 🇪🇺 @euwatch.live · 02/09/2025
Bulgaria’s gas policy: stalled diversification amid persistent Russian influence
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Bulgaria’s gas policy: stalled diversification amid persistent Russian influence
The Vertical Gas Corridor, designed to channel non-Russian gas to Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine, struggles ...
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James Youngman @jyoungman.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field. There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
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