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shaunt @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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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026
video games as a whole make hundreds of billions of dollars a year and apparently somehow nobody can make any money on them or pay anyone to make them
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
skipped a pretty key step in the movie review process here
the free press: Hold Your Applause for the New Gaza Documentary
There may yet be hard truths in 'NAZA,, including evidence of Israel's systemic failures. But the reporting around it treats flimsy claims as proof of criminality.I haven't seen the film. This means I cannot confidently assess its editing, corroboration, or the
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever
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Tilo Jung @tilojung.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Wählerschaft: Nein zu neoliberalen Reformen! Merz: Jetzt erst recht neoliberale Reformen! Völlig lost.
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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Supporting Israel is the modern equivalent of touring Apartheid South Africa.
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram:
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Literacy crisis: everyone is mad at Ed Sheeran, but if you actually read his statement he specifically said he’s not complicit
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Mike Carrington @mikecarrington.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is, we told it to do something, left it to do it, it did it...oh no only we can stop it doing it again by you continuing to prop up our broken business models with billions of capex
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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 11/09/2026
the mathematics award winning fields medalist and known himedanshi yu deng just said that if ai puts all mathematicians out of a job he's gonna go home and write yuri novels. girl please do it anyway i need to see what yuri a fields medalist mathematician can do omfg
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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"
Screencap from the interview linked in the quoted post

Marlow Stern (the interviewer):  You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.
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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...
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Lilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’
‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Except that Germany (among other European societies) has robust social welfare and other state benefits and that still hasn't stopped the AfD's rise, because the AfD's rise is mainly about immigration (and therefore identity).
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 08/09/2026
werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)
Q: A couple years ago at IDFA, I saw this movie "About a Hero," which is this partly Al-generated hybrid documentary that tries to recreate the atmosphere of your films.

A: The intention of this young filmmaker was never to remake any [of my films], but making something in the spirit. And I immediately said, "You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It's phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not take part in it." He wanted me to explain things and have my voice in it.
I said, "You are alone. There's such a thing as free speech, which I respect. So go ahead and fail." And it is a failure, period.
It's so standardized that Al can step in because there's not real storytelling. It's mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome Al to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it's ad nauseam.
When it's ad nauseam, please, please, please let Al step in and do the job.
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Literal Ham @literalham.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
it's exactly the same as the trans panic, or the "being straight is still cool" articles: "this heavily stigmatized group of people have fought for years to decrease their stigma. now theyve succeeded at getting ppl to hate them *a tiny bit* less, here's why that's a huge problem For Society"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Once you notice this, it's the most obvious double standard in the political press. Democrats have to answer for the smallest voice even if it has no actual tie to them, but Republicans never have to answer for the insanely racist billionaire donor driving their entire party.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I teach history. That's my profession. That's what I'm trained in, that's what I was hired to train students in. That's what all my experience and interest is in. I don't know a thing about AI and I don't want to. So if you want to teach AI, go teach AI in your own fucking classroom.
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jon rosenberg @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Maybe I'm in the minority here but if people who support AI are being shamed into silence then it's working. The shame is working as intended. The left's biggest problem is that it's afraid to hurt the feelings of folks who need to have their feelings hurt. Let them experience introspection for once
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Gender studies might be the most vindicated academic field of all time
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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
"how were people writing 10 page papers before AI???" we were smarter than you. you could've been smart, too. but you sold your brain for nothing
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Do not speak to me of "barriers to entry". Every act of creation is slicing out a thin sliver of light from the existential darkness of the human condition. You not being able to pick up a fucking pencil and risk failing does not even register.
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Possum Every Hour @possumeveryhour.io · 18/06/2026
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Happy Pride! Folks on the asexual and aromantic spectrum are queer too. The A in LGBTQIA+ belongs to us, not allies. Being queer isn't only about who you fuck.
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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.
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Merlin G.G 🌻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ VisDev Artist @everydaymerlin.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
adhd is crazy cause you can rot for an entire week and finally on day 7 your third eye opens and all the tasks you were procrastinating on get done in 3 hours
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Mitch Dyer @mitchyd.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
“Please have 2+ years of experience with an engine we announced on Friday” really sums up the state of the games industry.
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Alice💔& Rayon🌵 @splitxheart.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
It most uncool aspect of pro-AI folks is that they don't even know what they are talking about. Nothing about these days' AI really stands out as cutting edge either, it just assissts you in becoming less capable as a human. They brag about being useless without a computer holding their hands.
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
If I’m not evolved enough to understand it, then why did they have to steal my writing to train it?
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
OUT: tech bros inventing the bus IN: tech bros inventing employees
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
The Boys and Daredevil: Born Again are somehow the best pop cultural commentaries on the second Trump administration, which is less a matter of "superhero metaphors allow for sophisticated social commentary" and more a matter of "reality is now full of cartoonish supervillains."
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Oh sorry, so religion and politics should be separate? Is that what you're saying? bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Why Hungary Matters Six big-picture conclusions from Orbán’s smashing defeat – and what it all means for the transnational struggle against rightwing authoritarianism. The most important one: Nothing about rightwing authoritarianism is inevitable. My new piece:
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Why Hungary Matters
Six big-picture conclusions from Orbán’s smashing defeat – and what it all means for the transnational struggle against rightwing authoritarianism
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14/04/2026
Here's the conclusion of my free newsletter going out tomorrow, on the dangerous rhetoric spread by Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis. wheresyoured.at
I will be abundantly clear for legal reasons that it is illegal to throw a Molotov cocktail at anyone, as it is morally objectionable to do so. I explicitly and fundamentally object to the recent acts of violence against Sam Altman.

It is also morally repugnant for Sam Altman to somehow suggest that the careful, thoughtful, determined, and eagerly fair work of Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz is in any way responsible for these acts of violence. Doing so is a deliberate attempt to chill the air around criticism of AI and its associated companies. Altman has since walked back the comments, claiming he “wishes he hadn’t used” a non-specific amount of the following words:

A lot of the criticism of our industry comes from sincere concern about the incredibly high stakes of this technology. This is quite valid, and we welcome good-faith criticism and debate. I empathize with anti-technology sentiments and clearly technology isn’t always good for everyone. But overall, I believe technological progress can make the future unbelievably good, for your family and mine. 

While we have that debate, we should de-escalate the rhetoric and tactics and try to have fewer explosions in fewer homes, figuratively and literally.

These words remain on his blog, which suggests that Altman doesn’t regret them enough to remove them.

I do, however, agree with Mr. Altman that the rhetoric around AI does need to change. 

Both he and Mr. Amodei need to immediately stop overstating the capabilities of Large Language Models. Mr. Altman and Mr. Amodei should not discuss being “scared” of their models, or being “uncomfortable” that men such as they are in control unless they wish to shut down their services, or that they “don’t know if models are conscious.” 

They should immediately stop misleading people through company documentation that models are “blackmailing” people or, as Anthropic did in its Mythos system card, suggest a model has “broken containment and sent a message” when it A) was…They must stop discussing threats to jobs without actual meaningful data that is significantly more sound than “jobs that might be affected some day but for now we’ve got a chatbot.” Mr. Amodei should immediately cease any and all discussions of AI potentially or otherwise eliminating 50% of white collar jobs, as Mr. Altman should cease predicting when Superintelligence might arrive, as Mr. Amodei should actively reject and denounce any suggestions of AI “creating a white collar bloodbath.”

Those that defend AI labs will claim that these are “difficult conversations that need to be had,” when in actuality they engage in dangerous and frightening rhetoric as a means of boosting a company’s valuation and garnering attention. If either of these men truly believed these things were true, they would do something about it other than saying “you should be scared of us and the things we’re making, and I’m the only one brave enough to say anything.”

These conversations are also nonsensical and misleading when you compare them to what Large Language Models can do, and this rhetoric is a blatant attempt to scare people into paying for software today based on what it absolutely cannot and will not do in the future. It is an attempt to obfuscate the actual efficacy of a technology as a means of deceiving investors, the media and the general public. 

Both Altman and Amodei engage in the language of AI doomerism as a means of generating attention, revenue and investment capital, actively selling their software and future investment potential based on their ownership of a technology that they say (disingenuously) is potentially going to take everybody’s jobs. 

Based on reports from his Instagram, the man who threw the molotov cocktail at Sam Altman’s house was at least partially inspired by If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, a doomer porn fantasy written by a pair of overly-verbose dunces spreading fearful language about the power of AI, inspired by the fearmongering of Altman…I need to be clear that this act of violence is not something I endorse in any way. 

I also need to be clear that people feel like they’re being fucking tortured every time they load social media. Their money doesn’t go as far. Every time they read something it’s a story about ICE patrols or a near-nuclear war in Iran, or that gas is more expensive, or that there’s worrying things happening in private credit. Nobody can afford a house and layoffs are constant.

One group, however, appears to exist in an alternative world where anything they want is possible. They can raise as much money as they want. They can build as big a building as they want anywhere in the world. Everything they do is taken so seriously that the government will call a meeting about it. Every single media outlet talks about everything they do. Your boss forces you to use it. Every piece of software forces you to at least acknowledge that they use it too. Everyone is talking about it with complete certainty despite it not being completely clear why. 

And these companies are, in no uncertain terms, coming for your job. 

That’s what they want to do. They all say it. They use deceptively-worded studies that talk about “AI-exposed” careers to scare and mislead people into believing LLMs are coming for their jobs, all while spreading vague proclamations about how said job loss is imminent but also always 12 months away. Altman even says that jobs that will vanish weren’t real work to begin with, much as former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati said that some creative jobs shouldn’t have existed in the first place.

These people who sell a product with no benefit comparable on any level to its ruinous, trillion-dollar cost are able to get anything they want at a time when those who work hard are given a kick in the fucking teeth, sneered at for not “using AI” that doesn’t actually seem to make their lives easier, and then told that their labor doesn’t constitute “real work.”

At a time when nobody living a nor…
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Hex @hexcat.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Happy 20 years of Neil banging out the tunes 🐀🎶🎉
Neil banging out the tunes April 13, 2006
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 12/04/2026
went to check out the techno rave outside Parliament and I don't think I have the data allowance to share a video from it but let me tell you: there sure is a techno rave outside Parliament right now, celebrating Orban getting ousted
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
men can’t understand what it’s like for women to see story after story after story of women being victims of sexual violence in a culture where it’s routine; what it’s like to live in a world that is fundamentally hostile to our existence. it’s a wonder we leave the fucking house, let alone thrive.
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Toothybj @toothybj.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Dam him up!
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!
A starfield filled with thousands of stars and shining clouds of dust. The Milky Way\u2019s elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Spanning more than 100,000 light-years, Earth is located along one of the galaxy\u2019s spiral arms, about halfway from the center. Credit: NASA
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Tunç Tezel @tunctezel.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Here it is.👍🙂
As seen from Artemis 2, the Moon with an earthshine crescent eclipses the Sun, and four planets are visible to the lower right of the Lunar disk. These are Saturn, faint Neptune (which needs a pointer), Mars and Mercury
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/04/2026
Eclipsed Moon, with Venus, from #Artemis II. The subtle color in the corona is beautiful.
A close-up view from the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II crew’s lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, captures a total solar eclipse, with only part of the Moon visible in the frame as it fully obscures the Sun. Although the full lunar disk extends beyond the image, the Sun’s faint corona remains visible as a soft halo of light around the Moon’s edge. From this deep-space vantage point, the Moon appeared large enough to sustain nearly 54 minutes of totality, far longer than total solar eclipses typically seen from Earth. This cropped perspective emphasizes the scale of the alignment and reveals subtle structure in the corona during the rare, extended eclipse observed by the crew. The bright silver glint on the left edge of the image is the planet Venus. The round, dark gray feature visible along the Moon’s horizon between the 9 and 10 o’clock positions is Mare Crisium, a feature visible from Earth. We see faint lunar features because light reflected off of Earth provides a source of illumination. [alt text from NASA]
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026
Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
If Trump gives an order to use nuclear weapons in Iran, everyone who helps implement that order - right down to the guys driving trucks on the airbase - should end up in front of a firing squad.
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
i think if you tweet "a whole civilization will die tonight" you shouldn't go to the hague, the hague should get to come to you
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 06/04/2026
"Trying to 'engage' with fascism is like trying to have an intimate emotional relationship with a running chainsaw. The very act of framing fascism as a reasonable partner for dialogue is an act of propaganda that validates and normalizes fascism." Good read on the utter failure of corporate media:
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
My God.. a MAGA lunatic who is responsible for the lives of millions derangedly claimed he has the power to teleport and the most the NYT could say about it is "experts are dubious" We're cooked, fam
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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 31/03/2026
“States can’t ban conversion therapy but they can ban trans healthcare. They can’t regulate ‘crisis pregnancy centers’ but they can ban abortion. The plain text of the Constitution just happens to align with the GOP political platform. Do not dare suggest we’re doing politics.” —The Supreme Court
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Possum Every Hour @possumeveryhour.io · 22/03/2026
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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Placeholder assets in a game should look obnoxiously temporary, so obvious that no one would mistake it for the final asset. In past games we've used the doge dog (rip) as an icon, hot pink versions of characters, our CEO's head, etc. If you use a temp asset that seems passable, it may stay there.
Andreas and Werner next to a spit with upside down Bambi on itEx Libris page from Pentiment with a smiling line drawing of a person in the middle imageAndreas and pink Gernot stand-in talking to Gernot with a jester hat onAndreas performing the lemon juice candle minigame revealing the words "Guy sux"
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Weird how every journalist writing ‘balanced’ feature stories on this issue turns out to be a deranged conspiracist and ideologue the second you hear them speak off the cuff
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