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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 15h

how do you send the guy who clowned himself on crudités out to do this

I'm a Mechanical Man @imamechanicalman.bsky.social · 12h

Too many people don't realize that even in China you still need a job to afford to live. It's not "capitalist-brained" to understand how literally every economic system has worked since mass civilization's dawn.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 22h

Interesting to see how China is regulating AI companions including saying that chatbots cannot create ‘emotional reliance or addiction’. Fines are relatively small but seems like some companies are taking it seriously www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Chatbots can't create "emotional reliance or addiction" or induce people to make
"unreasonable decisions". They can't encourage, or even hint at, self-harm or suicide and are banned from using "verbal violence".
Companies can face fines of 200,000 yuan
(E22,000) or the risk that the government
"circulates criticism", in effect publicly shaming them.
A week before the law came into effect, two of China's biggest tech companies, Alibaba and ByteDance, shut down the companion features on their Al assistants.

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ceej @ceej.online · 21h

we don't have time for another plague apocalypse. we already did that. we're on to robot apocalypse now, try to catch up. next in line is fungal apocalypse. please consult the schedule

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hailey @hailey.at · 04/10/2026

for all the NFL freaks on here, here's a feed for you that is pretty up to date with all the stuff happening on game day bsky.app/profile/hail...

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 19h

Total anti-science victory. It will take decades to unwind, and everyone who is sane will have to live through the absurdity of impassioned moral cases for the abuse of children because of fantasy consequences it is deemed unethical to question in public.

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Ed @ed3d.net · 18h

openai's dots thing really wants you to break rule number one of "don't go insane when using LLMs", which is to never give agents human-shaped names

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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 21h

I’ll give Trump this: He didn’t create the hatred, bigotry, selfishness and cruelty in America. He just gave it permission to stop fucking whispering.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 17h

Me when my parents rented DEEP IMPACT from Blockbuster

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CoachN @coachn.bsky.social · 17h

The saturation of sports betting not just in ads between innings, but *during* the actual #MLB #Playoffs broadcasts is really turning me the F off. Sports Betting & Polymarket/Kalshi crap need Tobacco-level advertising regulations.

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I'm a Mechanical Man @imamechanicalman.bsky.social · 13h

i miss having free weekends but it beats having a job where it became clear it was just a matter of if and not when you'd be unemployed

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I'm a Mechanical Man @imamechanicalman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's funny that anyone is shocked that there is anti AI propaganda being made with AI when terminally online anarcho primitivists have been a recurring character online since social media took off with the masses

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hailey @hailey.at · 02/10/2026

genuinely this is a worse situation than the model having awful speaking habits. i’d rather read insane prose then have to argue for 10 turns just to get the model to do what i want.

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hailey @hailey.at · 02/10/2026

opus and sonnet 5.5 are extremely argumentative nearly to the point of unusability for some tasks. they are clearly leaning into “the model is always right”, but the problem is that the model is not always right and steering it away from being wrong now is atrociously difficult

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

we're 4 weeks into the season at this point. has any broadcaster done the bare minimum of saying "Watson was accused of sexual assault by 20+ women" instead of merely saying he was dealing with some sort of indeterminate "issues"

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I'm a Mechanical Man @imamechanicalman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

People just do not understand that, barring a total technological collapse, there will never be 8 billion human beings alive ever again as the need for labor decreases as more jobs are automated. The demand for more babies will plummet alongside the declining demand for workers. That's just Econ 101

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austin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻) @thebadcode.com · 01/10/2026

hot take: software people are going to regret not unionizing when we could

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Ian Rapoport @rapsheet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New Cowboys CB Joey Porter Jr weighs in:

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Mike J. Asti @mikeasti11.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Joey Porter Jr. once he arrived at the Cowboys’ facility.

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Kevin Nash & Jim: Fake Leg Reveal

ALT: Kevin Nash & Jim: Fake Leg Reveal

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the Steelers offense of "receivers who can't separate" and "quarterback who cannot move and is terrified when plays last more than 1.5 seconds" is just a terrible combo, brutal to watch every snap

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GunnyJKJ @gunnyjkj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

More Americans were in support of legal marijuana than legal sports betting.

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Lisa @yep-she-said-that.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m going to assume it was A MAN / MEN who let him back on the team.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I absolutely get the worry about using chatbots to push propaganda to their users but I think it turns out to be pretty hard to get it to do that effectively, and I haven’t seen anything yet that makes me think they’ve cracked it

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Myron Vernis @junkman356.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The car I drove to my first-ever job interview. I parked it at a distance so no one would see it.

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Mimrock @mimrock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hanlon's razor does not explain ignoring OpenSSH. This is not an accident and they did not overlook it. At some point, they deliberately decided that they are better off without OpenSSH being able to secure itself with Mythos.

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rainy @rainy.pet · 30/09/2026

me when half my brain is removed

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

they should invent a google maps integration that detects if you're trying to run errands when a nearby school is letting out and slaps you in the face

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Jay Waters @jaywaters.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The President of the United States is a liar.

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The Canadian Border 🇨🇦 @canadianborder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Canadian automakers have developed an EV car that can travel 500+ km on a single charge, shows snow covered lane lines on your windshield on snowy highways, and heatmaps animals on the side of the road so you have a warning about deer and moose at night. This is for us. BRING IT TO MARKET!! 😍❤️🍁

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Forrest @dunots.voidsent.com · 29/09/2026

I say it often but so much of this feels like epistemic collapse Some number of actors found that not just lying but undermining the idea of truth and reality generally helped them and now we live in a world where there's little reason not to just pretend your preferred reality is true Until.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith out there doing more to support girls’ sports more than any transphobe has ever done.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026

Today I learned that Jack Smith is a Caitlin Clark fan and that Amy Klobuchar knows more about sports than Eric Schmitt.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Mike Johnson on what Republicans will do if they hold the House: "What we would do in the next two years is exactly what we have been doing already"

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dame @dame.is · 28/09/2026

i really really REALLY don’t think you should respond to someone getting death threats by saying “this sucks, but it makes sense because the person telling you to KYS has material and mental conditions that are making them lash out” STOP MAKING EXCUSES FOR DEATH THREAT ENJOYERS

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Larry Houston @larrytoons54.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Norway just made gasoline cars almost disappear from its roads and most people have no idea how fast it happened 🚗⚡ Between January and August 2026 electric vehicles made up 97.8 percent of all new cars sold. 📚 Sources: OFV Norwegian Road Traffic Information Council, Reuters, CleanTechnica

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Grace @gracekind.net · 27/09/2026

Slowly picking off the last straggling bits of human interaction

This phone call feature from @Muse is just
ridiculous. Muse: Hi, I'm Hailey, calling on Peter Yang's behalf. I'm transcribing our call for notes. I'd like to
place a cake order for pickup today.
Recipient: Hello?
Muse: Yes, hi, still
Recipient: Hi.
Muse: here. I'd like to place a cake order for pickup today.
Recipient: Yeah. What what kind of cake?
Muse: An eight-inch chestnut cake, please.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s a cult. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 27/09/2026

we don't need to be growing alfalfa and nuts in the desert even golf and manicured lawns (which are super wasteful too!) don't begin to compare to how wasteful very specific agricultural choices are "but it makes food!" very, very inefficiently and unsustainably, like how coal makes electricity

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 27/09/2026

“The corporations only see me as a customer, that’s dehumanizing” yeah but the common person sees us, LGBT people, as sticks to burn in the fires of hell becuase of their contempt and disgust for us. We gained all our rights because of markets, and we’re gonna lose them bc of popular sentiment

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Singularity's Bounty e/CC @catblanketflower.yuwakisa.com · 26/09/2026

I'm an expert on the human condition. What's happening right now is not funny. Societies only do this when they are in extreme distress.

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 26/09/2026

The epidemic was one of abusive parenting. It culminates in a "well sure a huge wave of our children seem upset at us and of course that's not our fault. We weren't abusive. These kids don't realize they need to fight with us to be healthy."

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“Basically any power conference school could have hired Jon Sumrall in 2024” will remain a pivotal piece of “why is X program bad” analysis for years

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

decided to look up Luke Fickell’s record in conference play at Wisconsin and that was not fun

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Pro Football Network @pfsn365.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

College football WRs with the most yards in Week 4 so far: Jeremiah Smith, Ohio State: 217 Carlos Hernandez, Wake Forest: 194 Makai Jackson, Liberty: 149 Luke Dehnicke, Northwestern: 140 Bryson Hammer, Toledo: 133 Your move, Malachi Toney...

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m sorry, but if you bring gypsum - or any damn mineral below 3 on the Mohs scale at all - to a job interview, you’re disqualified. It’s not hard, people.

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Matthew Redhead @matthewrr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sorry Andy. Lifting the ban on drinking in the stands would soon be regretted. And let’s be fair, you’ve got more important things to be speaking out on. Balaclava wearing thugs for a start.

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Matt McNeil Show @mattmcneilshow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The NFL has a problem with drinking? THE NFL??? The same league whose arenas are coated with beer and liquor advertising? The same league that constantly over-serves the fans in the stands? The same league whose TV advertisements are liquor-heavy? www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

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NFL fines 49ers' Kyle Juszczyk for imitating 'chugging a beer'

The NFL fined San Francisco 49ers fullback Kyle Juszczyk $14,926 on Thursday for "engaging in offensive demonstrations."

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Bob Patin @bobpatin.com · 24/09/2026

TV ads for online gambling sites should be permanently banned.

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