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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 7h

Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 15h

“I don’t understand why they tell us not to rebel when all we study are people who rebelled—Rimbaud, La Boétie…” ( @humanite.fr is doing some excellent live coverage of the student protests) www.humanite.fr/direct_conte...

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Over here checking sources @janis.bsky.social · 11h

I understand about adding more description, but I don't think this is how it's supposed to work.

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Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · 11h

Note: It’s absolutely not about giving public school parents more control over what’s in their library. This is a narrative to sell a bill. There is evidence this is not true. Please see this post. TX was one of the states : bsky.app/profile/flfr...

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Over here checking sources @janis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I found this handout from Vancouver’s ABC party in my mailbox. So tacky.

A flyer featuring photos of opposition politicians in the Vancouver municipal election, with bright warning lettering saying “dangerous opposition,” and “All oppose your voice for lasting change”

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Over here checking sources @janis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

What the hell, man. It’s Myrna Loy month but a person needs to sleep, work, etc

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Over here checking sources @janis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I feel guilty about still loving to drive, but I think we can all agree on this. KNOBS

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Over here checking sources @janis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I have a meeting but I sure hope other folks will go to this.

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Over here checking sources @janis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

One thing about working for decades in public libraries: you end up weeding more old fad diet books, health books, exercise books, and business books than some people have had hot dinners. An endless pipeline of junk.

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Over here checking sources @janis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"...they worry, about artificial intelligence, looming legislation and harassment of their staff. But most of all, they want you to know what the library really is: a safe place for people to gather around books, ideas and one another." Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Forget the Shushing. Librarians Have a Whole Lot to Say. (Gift Article)

We asked dozens of them about America’s libraries — what they provide, what they need to survive. Here’s what they told us.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hot take: I don't think social media made people dumber. We've been dumb this whole time. It's just that you used to have to have a job that people sent their dumb letters to, to notice. This made "Engaging with fools" an occupational hazard rather than the 24/7 experience it is presently.

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Over here checking sources @janis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It was an interesting time to be a reference librarian as well.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

China’s clean-air campaign has cut Beijing’s smog by 70% in a decade, and cut heavily polluted days from 58 a year to just one. The effort has prevented an estimated 680,000 premature deaths since 2020 and generated $715 billion in cumulative health benefits. buff.ly/ZfRCR1q #ShareGoodNewsToo

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China’s air best on record, delivers $715 billion in health benefits: officials

More than a decade after China launched an aggressive campaign against the choking smog, the country’s air quality has reached its best level on record, with the cleanup generating an estimated 4.8…

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I feel like the debate about what parts of AI are good and what parts are bad should wait until we solve the worldwide crisis caused by the fact that almost of all of its evangelists in both tech and govt are morally, intellectually, and ethically unequipped to oversee it, when not downright evil.

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Over here checking sources @janis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Belarus is the only European country with capital punishment. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital...

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Capital punishment by country - Wikipedia

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Over here checking sources @janis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There can be so much joy in a "See also."

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authorpierredurand.bsky.social @authorpierredurand.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#amreading Didnt realise reading fiction can be so addictive. over last few years, and not a conscious decision, there was hardly a day i didnt read at least a little. Then stopped for 2 weeks waiting for a book. I became agitated and felt weird! At least it's a good addiction to have! (I think)😱

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Over here checking sources @janis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One thing I don’t understand about our local and provincial elections right now: Mamdani is right there! Why aren’t we seeing any of our politicians trying the same approach?

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Over here checking sources @janis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Wordle 1,930 3/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Over here checking sources @janis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What I'd really like to see is fewer people falling for misinformation. Not likely, I know, but a person has to have hope?

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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats

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Over here checking sources @janis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The argument I keep hearing is that we can't do anything at all if we don't have a country. (But there is always some emergency that is somehow more pressing than the climate.)

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

From Serena Jampel, one of the writing tutors I worked with at Harvard on the difference between the human tutor and AI and how a writing tutor can help a student find their voice. Lots of wisdom and also this truth: "the more you use it, the more you use it" www.harvardmagazine.com/commentary/h...

And that was another remarkable feature of the Writing Center. Sometimes students would resist my feedback, insisting that their structure would make sense once they added a bit more reasoning. In doing so, they were often pushed to articulate their thinking more clearly, and to affirm their confidence in their position.

An LLM cannot do that, because it does not have its own opinions or thoughts. It is only trained to engage the user: the more you use it, the more you use it. That’s actually the antithesis of writing instruction, which aims to cultivate independent thought.

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Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 25/09/2026

Can someone in the media please ask our Minister of AI why a technology that tells kids how to commit mass violence is something we need in schools? www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...

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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

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Over here checking sources @janis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’m so sorry I have a big scheduling conflict, because I’m sure this will be amazing (like everything @writingtheother.com does)!

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Scoop: Meta's Muse AI can make phone calls. Internally, Meta has told employees that many of these calls will be made by human beings in a call center: www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...

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Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center

"This has potential for so much negative PR. It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch."

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Over here checking sources @janis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Unfortunately pretty sure it’s A.I.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...

The imposing Callanish Stones stand talk with their shadows spanning out across the glass. It's a super clear sky, but looks cold. Above the central stone is a strange figure-of-8 shape of dots. This is the location of the Sun, at noon, on various different days across the year.

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Over here checking sources @janis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I don't believe in astrology but I can also appreciate the accuracy of this trolling.

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Over here checking sources @janis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It’s shocking to me how many politicians are currently using this playbook, and how openly.

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 20/09/2026

Normal? Not at all. Birdsong fades. Summer temperatures soar. The danger is we simply adjust – but we shouldn’t. We cannot allow the climate crisis to rewrite our idea of what's normal.

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

They haven't lost control. They keep letting it loose and then saying it went rogue. If you intentionally drop a brick off of a building and it hits someone, it wasn't a rogue brick just because you couldn't predict the exact person it would hit.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 19/09/2026

I gave a talk yesterday at a clean tech in incubator, and this was literally my thesis.

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Muppets have to put on a show to save the Kennedy Center. There you go, Disney, that's your premise.

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Over here checking sources @janis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

On a lighter note, I was just scrolling through an online program for an event and saw no sign of the date when it is happening.

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 19/09/2026

Yes and . . . It's all people. People are responsible for killing these children. And lying about it. And dehumanizing them. And writing a whole report that says it was the fault of putatively non-human factors like "intel" and "A.i."

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