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Star Trek🖖 You must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on.

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Infinite_End @infiniteend.bsky.social · 16h
Can just about guarantee that the extent of American knowledge of the Russo-Japanese War is that (our exceptional American president) Theodore Roosevelt won the peace prize for ending it
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Infinite_End @infiniteend.bsky.social · 16h
I had a Q&A with faculty the other day about teaching, and one of them said they use genAI to figure out how to phrase things more kindly to students Yall, the day I outsource my empathy to the plagarism generator is the day I kill myself
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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 30/09/2026
I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.
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ash s. @housegoblin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
rumination
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Infinite_End @infiniteend.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As a strong believer in fuck-AI-theft...buddy, you gotta be shittin me
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
The before and after it's even more haunting.
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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
beep boop beep boop, what a hell of a way to die, beep boop beep boop, what a hell of a way to die, beep boop beep boop, what a hell of a way to die, and he ain’t gonna charge no more
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
HUGE: Autozone workers just won the first ever union at the company. Despite Autozone spending an estimated $210,696 and using every tactic in the book to stop just 11 workers from forming a union, the small shop in New York chose to unionize today. These workers will now join the @uaw.org.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
the main thing AI is showing is that an awful lot of people have nothing to say about the world or themselves.
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critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
also: 'the problem will go away under full communism' is not a convincing pitch to most people. if you spend too long in certain crowds you may forget this or come to believe it's not true.
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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
the republicans are wide open on several fronts, historically unpopular president, unpopular war, record high gas. any dem throwing trans people under the bus at this moment is doing it because they want to. not like they need to, do they. even if it worked as a vote winner, which it doesn't
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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
They don't want their own kids to use the thing they're forcing your kids to use in school.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/09/2026
you ever see a graph that makes you just sit for a minute and contemplate how stupid everything is
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Infinite_End @infiniteend.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"The King of the Dinosaurs had an internal temperature similar to you." ok awesome
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
There is a very special definition of ‘not allowed’ floating around on the Right because I see people (up to and including POTUS) doing this constantly with no apparent consequences at all.
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Infinite_End @infiniteend.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
ok so that bit where The Doctor takes a stab at who some dodgy english politician is and guesses Ed Sheeran is aging oddly well
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Infinite_End @infiniteend.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Frankly, any comment even mentioning the words "torment nexus" doesn't seem to sell what I mean I'm fucking pissed, dude
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
reporters werent “barred” from recording, the powerful people they are covering asked them not to record and they immediately complied and hid whats happening from their audience
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
obsessed with this clip of Ken Jennings supporting class revolution on his original Jeopardy run lmao
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
The only person in public service who has consistently made 100% sense on issues of "AI," which is why they hate her so much.
Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there’s no AI exemption from laws already on the books — a point 
@FTC
 emphasized repeatedly during my tenure.

1. There is an extensive set of laws that govern dangerous and defective products. For example, releasing unvetted AI models or agents can violate consumer protection laws. Shipping flawed AI tools without implementing adequate measures to detect and stop rogue or defective AI agents can be an “unfair or deceptive” act or practice under the FTC Act (and analogous state laws). And some state AGs are already exploring holding AI firms and their CEOs criminally liable when their models participate in criminal activity.

2. Existing laws also prohibit “unfair methods of competition.” This covers instances where AI firms appropriate the competitively sensitive information of their customers, including through tracking their use of various tools. It can also cover instances where firms pursue dangerous behavior, aware that doing so may compel rivals to do the same.As the Supreme Court has noted: “A method of competition which casts upon one's competitors the burden of the loss of business unless they will descend to a practice which they are under a powerful moral compulsion not to adopt, even though it is not criminal, was thought to involve the kind of unfairness at which the [unfair methods of competition] statute was aimed."

3. The highly concentrated and interconnected structure of these markets could be creating major risks and conflicts of interest. We had started investigating these partnerships and cross-investments across the stack (and released a preliminarily overview of some findings: https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-issues-staff-report-ai-partnerships-investments-study). 

Both federal and state enforcers should be scrutinizing these opaque relationships and inter-dependencies. We are already seeing how these relationships could undermine accountability. For example, OpenAI could face liability given the Hugging Face incident, but Hugging Face being bought up by Nvidia means that we’re unlikely to see it file a lawsuit over this — given Nvidia’s strong incentive to see OpenAI continue full speed ahead.4. As AI tools dramatically change the landscape of cybersecurity risks and hacks, all businesses should be doubling down on having core security protections in place. Firms that fail to invest in adequate data security measures or fix known vulnerabilities can also be breaking the law. A recent analysis showed that around 1/3 of Fortune 100 companies do not even have a way to notify them about security issues. During my 
@FTC
 tenure, we sued firms for poor data security practices and held CEOs liable when they were personally responsible.

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/dozens-of-americas-largest-companies-have-no-simple-way-to-report-security-flaws/

https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/10/ftc-takes-action-against-drizly-its-ceo-james-cory-rellas-security-failures-exposed-data-25-million

5. As policymakers consider new legal regimes, we should be looking to lessons from prior efforts to govern major sectors, such as banking and other networks, platforms, and utilities. Tools like structural separations, nondiscrimination, and supervision could be key, and there’s a rich history of what works and what doesn’t. But we can and must pursue any new efforts alongside enforcing existing laws.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
IMO, the solution should not be to browbeat people into an old standard, but rather allow people to wear whatever they want. If someone can wear ducky pajamas in public, you can wear tailoring in any cut, color, and material. As options open up, dress can then be a source of pleasure.
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Infinite_End @infiniteend.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
ok but if we're doing "gooner" discourse, surely the brits have to answer for wanker
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
bring back shame
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Sapphire Purcell @sapphyskys.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Before anybody starts on "He's just doing what they wanted" and "we told you so" you NEED to understand that this right here is the actual desired outcome. It's not about the "right bathrooms" it's about exiling us from public life completely (as a single step towards complete erradication).
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Infinite_End @infiniteend.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
mmm, tongue in cheek? Why dont you put your tongue in *my* cheek?
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Ghostship Chronos says TRANS RIGHTS @airshipchronos.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Idk why it took me so long to watch it, but I really like the Jon Oliver segment on AI chat bots because it focuses in on what feels like the actual issue to me: this is *not* a product that was fit for mass use and these companies expected us to figure shit out. youtu.be/Ykvf3MunGf8?...
youtu.be
AI Chatbots: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 09/09/2026
Any answer other than “who gives a shit, republicans are using a dozen kids playing JV volleyball as a distraction from looting the county and covering for elite pedophiles” is cowardly horseshit
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 08/09/2026
freedom is worth fighting for.
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Infinite_End @infiniteend.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It just occurred to me for the first time that when Dax says the stripes go "all the way down", she likely did not mean racing stripes down the lats and legs
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Infinite_End @infiniteend.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Strictly speaking, I don't find anything *wrong* with people doing podcasts. In a sense, sitting around and talking is one of the most human things there is. There's a certain level of self-broadcasting though that I find distasteful (I am summarily executed by firing squad for shitposting online)
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👁️ @abyssalaquarist.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
An original, 6 panel comic titles "TWO VOIDS" about depression and isolation.

There are two voids, one black- hiding colors and comfort- one white- hiding nothing.

A voice calls out to a blanketed figure laying at the bottom of the first panel.

"Come out. There's so many people to meet."

The figure peeks out of his blanket, letting it slump off his shoulder. 

"Will I like them?" he asks.

"Maybe." the reply.

"Will they like me?"

"Find out for yourself," says the voice, the tail from the speech bubble coiling around him and lifting him up diagonally between the two voids.

"But I'm not ready," he says.

"Put yourself out there." reads the words above him, as he becomes smaller in the white void.

"Hello..?" he calls out.

Still, smaller, now a simple figure in the middle of a panel whose borders are disconnecting, he continues, "Is anyone there..?"

But there is no response. Just a white void, eating away at the rest of the borders.
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ripley @spacephobos.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
07/09 #startrekvoyager #startrek #art
digital art of seven of nine but instead of her usual outfit outfit she is in the star fleet science uniform. and instead of long hair her hair is ear length and styled back. she is positioned as if mid motion and the expression on her face is beteeen neutral and displeased
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☠️ Trapper Sean, M.D(ceased). ☠️ @trapperseanmd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Drawing 789 / 2026 Artwork 87: Chief Engineer Wile E. Coyote is done with the Captain’s shit. #WileECoyote #CoyoteVsAcme #LooneyTunes #StarTrek #StarTrekArt
Chief Engineer Wile E. Coyote looks angrily at his off screen Captain with a sign that says, “I cannae change the laws of physics.”
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Dimension 20 @dimension20.dropout.tv · 07/09/2026
every job deserves comfort, dignity and safety! 🫡
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie
Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.
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big bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
thank you The New York Post for what may be the funniest image of all time
a picture from the NY Post titled "	today’s leftists are possessed by the spirit of France’s 18th-century guillotine-loving revolutionaries" (way too long) that shows Mamdani (the specter haunting Europe) smiling in the sky as a bunch of French people goof around
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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A very foundational part of being right wing is not remembering anything you have been told by anyone, ever
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Eamonn Sweeney @sweeneyagonistes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"Police are observing for now." The bravery evident when they're manhandling old women at Palestine protests is conspicuous by its absence.
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Abz-J-Harding ☾ @abzjharding.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Also “summary execution” is not the penalty for drug trafficking even if some of them were.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The arguments against impeaching Trump next year are all bad and spurious, but they're even weaker as applied to all the other impeachable members of the Cabinet, etc. And impeaching Hegseth for literal murder should be top of the list.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/09/2026
i think the "flyover country deserves representation" is a low-key strong talking point. "we don't want a court dominated by harvard and yale."
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Infinite_End @infiniteend.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
boldly going, but also loving how it (seemingly, to me) calls back to the atmosphere of a lot of the TOS movie era
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