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animal crossing pics @goj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Animal Crossing Wild World (2005) #acww

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LibreOffice @libreoffice.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sixteen years of #LibreOffice: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09... #foss #openSource #freesoftware

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 19/09/2026

Everyone trying to sound reasonable like "I'm sure it's useful in *other* people's areas, just not in mine" just say it's not useful in your area and stop

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“An astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions” and the “largest theft of labor in human history” is what a Microsoft executive privately said about GenAi as shown in newly unsealed court filings. And these court filings get worse. These execs knew all along the immense theft they committed.

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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft

"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A good rule of thumb: If the press release (or stenographic news reporting masquerading as journalism) says that an "AI" did something, that's deliberate obfuscation. Software doesn't do anything of its own accord, but folks sure like to talk about it as if it does: >>

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How to talk about "AI" without adding to the anthropomorphization

Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie In our op-ed for Tech Policy Press ("We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'"), we made the case against the...

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Elena Kononenko @kononenko.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Dilijan Mountains 01.09/04.09

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Hooded Horse @hoodedhorse.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Manor Lords has passed 4 million copies sold. 🔥 What better way to celebrate than with a major content update? Slavic Magic just dropped a MASSIVE patch with a new map, new content, new mechanics, & so much more. Details here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/136…

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dustwords.bsky.social @dustwords.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Believing that “You have no right to privacy in public” needs to be an embarrassing opinion in 2026. I feel bad for these workers! We do have the right to do ordinary life things without being turned into prank content.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12/08/2026

“HateAid claims that Meta's smart glasses breach German privacy laws: specifically, the Telecommunications, Digital Services and Data Protection Act. It argues that selling the devices is a criminal offense because of their covert recording capabilities.”

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German nonprofit files criminal complaint over Meta smart glasses privacy - Engadget

Worrying about Google Glassholes almost feels quaint in comparison.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Relatedly, any organization that claims to be taking a "human-centered" approach, but is only asking "How do we use [whatever tech] responsibly?" and not "Should we use [tech] at all" is in fact centering the tech, and not the people. >>

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SherlocksLeftNipple @shleftnip.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I'll be real - given the current state of both BioWare and EA, I'm okay with Dragon Age not getting any half-baked remakes. Let this series stay dormant until someone can give it the Oblivion or BG3 treatment, or let it live on in spiritual sequels. It deserved better, but. Yeah.

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Someone recently made a quip that, “if you’ve seen one rock, you’ve seen them all”. It was a joke, I guess, aimed in my direction and geologists more generally. Although I think the rock-centric way geology sometimes sells itself is foolish…this person couldn’t be more wrong…[1/2]

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America Walks @americawalks.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Once upon a time USDOT agreed that lower speeds, bike lanes, and street safety redesigns made roads safer. It’s unconscionable that USDOT is now ignoring the data and scraping these proven safety countermeasures from its website. Here are the receipts: buff.ly/cxnNvmx

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 08/07/2026

it doesn't become consent just because you walk past me with a red light on

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Vermont has banned AI chatbot therapy, passing a law that requires a mental health professional to conduct therapeutic services.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

A German court has ruled that Google is liable for the false statements generated by its AI Overviews feature. The ruling could have massive impacts on the world's biggest search engine, which recently doubled down on giving users AI-generated results. www.wired.com/story/a-cour...

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A Court Has Ruled That Google Is Liable for False Statements Generated by AI Overviews

The ruling holds that a company that designs, trains, operates, and manages an AI system must assume legal liability for any damages caused by the responses it generates.

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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 03/06/2026

Y'all. Please remember the artists that drew these things when sending around memes. I feel for these artists who NEVER get credited for these (and some, nowadays, are even being accused of being AI!) Here's a few common ones I see (feel free to add others, I want this to be a living thread): 🧵

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:

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Hating AI is good, actually

LinkedIn may be awash with boosters, but shunning AI is the human choice.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

So "don't feed the trolls" usually means "don't feed the trolls content to keep them going" but sometimes I think it maybe also means "don't feed the trolls to one's followers" (by e.g. boosting a particularly bad take for others to see).

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Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Journalists, let’s be careful about the language we use when writing or talking about AI. Here’s a thread — @emilymbender.bsky.social, I know you pay attention to this, too, so feel free to chime in. (1/x)

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A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

When I first started bringing nondrivers to our state legislature transportation committees, I remember, it was a shock for legislators to hear from dozens of people outside the transportation consulting firm lobby

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The Highway Lobby Spends Millions to Make Sure We Pay Billions

Our car-dependent transportation system is no accident.

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Scott @smadin.net · 12/04/2026

even disregarding the energy consumption and ecological harm, and the plagiarism, each distinct bad effect inherent to LLMs is alone enough to outweigh all current and potential future benefits (presuming for the sake of argument such benefits are even real, not illusory).

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 19/02/2026

we should have a third industry besides AI and gambling

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Time to go to work in the shit factory!

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Tuta @tuta.com · 04/04/2026

🚨Chat Control 1.0 is dead. Holding each MP transparently responsible works! Now, let’s end Chat Control 2.0 - say NO to mass surveillance. 💪 ➡️ From today on, Gmail, Microsoft, LinkedIn & Co are no longer allowed to scan your emails & messages: tuta.com/blog/volunta...

Screenshot from HowTheyVote.eu with info on each MP voting decisions on Chat Control 1.0

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Tuta @tuta.com · 26/03/2026

You did it! 🥳 European Parliament just decided that Chat Control 1.0 must stop. This means on April 6, 2026, Gmail, LinkedIn, Microsoft and other Big Techs must stop scanning your private messages in the EU. #PrivacyWins 💪

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Wander @wanderbot.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I'm so sick of seeing AI disclaimers like this. The solution to not having the budget for voice acting isn't to use AI, it's to not have voice acting at all! Games don't need VO to be good! By jamming in slopvoices, you're not making your game better, you're making it worse and reprehensible!

A Steam AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

AI-generated voiceovers for ingame characters. This is a indie no-budget production. Sorry :-'(

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Oscar Westberg @oscarwestberg.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

A fire under the stars

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Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I don't think grammarly should just get to do "sorry deleting now" after ventriloquizing living and dead people without their consent to make money

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Allister Jones 🍃🐦アリスタ 🔜 KinshokuCon @allisteranim.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Kinda Fucked Up that in our lifetimes we've gone from "never share personal info on the internet" to "hand over your identity to the most incompetent corporations imaginable".

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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Another favor to ask on a research project. We're wrapping up a large project on AI music. We need folks to participate in a short 10 min quiz to test your ability to distinguish between AI music & human music. Especially looking for help from musicians! uchicago.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management

The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.

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animal crossing pics @goj.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Animal Crossing (2001) #ac

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Hooded Horse @hoodedhorse.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

"It’s not a PR issue, it’s an ethics issue." -- The Head Horse

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The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab and ETCH) @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

For better or (mostly) for worse, 2025 is almost over. For all the human creatives out there, artists, writers, musicians, dancers, choreographers, and so many more, thank you for your perseverance and courage. Happy to announce: ETCH (Ethnical Technology and Computing for Humanity), a nonprofit.

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

1/5 Seeing some tech/ai slop accounts online claiming that AI has always been used in games, pretending GenAi is a part of that, when its absolutely not. Yes, AI has always been a part of games in: NPC behaviors, Data Mining, PCG’s (Procedural Content Generation) etc All different from GenAi!

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 08/12/2025

We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.

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The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools - Nature Communications

The relative importance of close-proximity interactions, shared space and air quality to the transmission of respiratory viruses is not well understood. Here, the authors investigate this question by ...

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Or better yet: make GenAI about an assault on civics. Because if you are selling a product that necessarily attempts to con one person into believing they are engaging with another person when they are not, you’re not just ruining education. You’re dismantling society’s foundations in social trust.

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 03/12/2025

Society work ahead? I sure hope it does.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Starting January 1st, California will mandate that any use of AI-altered real estate photos in listings be disclosed, and that a link to the unaltered image be included. It will be a criminal offense to fail to make this disclosure.

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WebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org · 22/11/2025

Happy 20th Birthday Xbox 360 Xbox 360 website in 2009

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