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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In the 1985 Doctor Who serial Vengeance on Varos, an authoritarian regime run by a weak man keeps the downtrodden population in line by broadcasting public executions to distract from the fact that it has tanked the economy through a combination of incompetence, arrogance and institutional cruelty.

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ElizabethwithaZ @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've found recently that repeating "Efficiency isn't one of my values" as a kind of affirmation has been really freeing.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 25/09/2026

As an academic, it feels like some colleagues have lost the ability to engage deeply: they don't want to read an article unless it directly answers a question they already have... basically like using a chatbot they only want an answer to a current issue & not to actually learn anything or explore.

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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 07/10/2026

I once had someone tell me, and I do mean this literally, that LLMs transcend the limits of turing machines and computability because they are not constrained by having to give correct answers

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Three Scary Rogue Agents in a Trenchcoat @alexhanna.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Why isn't this on every TV screen and not the fairy tale of killer robots

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 07/10/2026

It’s not better for the generations after us, who are watching every one of their career ambitions disappear in real time before they even get to start them There are students right now on their third or fourth change of major, as the funding keeps getting cut and the rugs keep getting pulled

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Using AI is almost certainly harmful to us cognitively, emotionally, creatively, and socially. We should not use it. We should not normalize it.

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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We are basically like this in research already. Postdocs and PhD students growing plants, doing tissue culture, and pipetting, while AI chat bots doing the analyses, writing proposals and papers. Humans having to do the menial tasks, while AI chat bots took over the creative work.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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💖gail 💖 🔜 GATEway FATE 🔜 MC ATL @notgodzilla.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

can we PLEASE bring back the word "poser" and stop using "larp" or "cosplay" - being a "poser" or "faking" being into something is lazy and disingenuous whereas cosplayers and actual larpers are passionate about their hobbies and out a lot of time and effort into them

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Tof Eklund @tofeklund.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"AI may make your job easier, but that effort has just been shifted onto your users. They are noticing it and they hate it." I've said this before: if you bracket self-delusion, generative "AI" doesn't save labour, it displaces it onto the people who have to deal with the slop.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Iconic part of my childhood was watching the Carol Burnett show every week and watching the cast try not to break during moments like this. THIS moment? My entire family was on the floor, dying laughing. RIP Bob Mackie, who always understood the diva assignment.

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We set up a surveillance panopticon 45 days after the attacks that has come to define our hellish reality and explicitly degraded our constitutional rights. Congress passed a law giving up their right to declare war. Our government's immediate response was to restrict the rights of Americans.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10/09/2026

You know, when you find out that the art you like is made by people you've learned hold views you find wholly repugnant, I don't think you need to disavow ever having enjoyed the art. It's okay to acknowledge you liked or loved that art, but are now putting it aside. That was then, this is now.

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John Scary Name Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My sister in law found a book by the Irish patron saint of the arts, Don Conroy, and he unironically did the meme.

Cover of the book, "Wildlife Fun with Don Conroy." On it, we see a photo of the artist, surrounded by drawings of plants and a fox

Interior, showing tutorials on how to draw a deer and a hedgehog. You know the ancient meme, "draw the rest of the fucking owl?" Basically, that.

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phylan @phylan.website · 08/09/2026

"my LLM is so powerful it's dangerous and risks breaking containment!" "ok let's destroy it" "oh, haha, no. no." "let's intensively regulate your company then" "oh, no. no. look can you just put it in the newspaper that it's powerful"

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Katie Tiedrich @katietiedrich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’m not the first person to make this observation but the prevalence of nauseating ai-generated business logos means stuff like this hits CRAZY for me now

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

OpenAI set $22M on fire just to steal $1M from a human who did the actual work, and that’s the business plan our economy is betting everything on? Lol.

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This would be a great time for someone with good security chops to start a password manager that pledges to - be cross platform - support basic power features (passkeys, TOTP) - not get in bed with fascists

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 01/09/2026

A fundamental problem with "oh it's useful for coding" is that "generating more software faster" has, if anything, negative marginal utility in itself. The world is not suffering from a software shortage. The world is suffering from a software quality crisis, which LLMs seem more likely to worsen.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes? Trye a tarot deck. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes. Not so hotte damne swyvinge evil.

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Joshua @jaw6.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Seems like there’s never been a better time to learn about White-Smith Music Publishing Company v. Apollo Company en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-S....

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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

again i am just not that interested in debating whether human rights should theoretically extend to robots and ai when we currently don't even extend them to all humans

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Samantha Mash @samanthamash.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Did this piece recently for Mother Jones for their article "Should We Kill One Kind of Owl To Save Another?" You can read it here if you wan to learn more about this issue that is impacting wildlife in the Pacific Northwest www.motherjones.com/environment/...

An illustration of a Northern Spotted Owl and a Barred owl clashing in a dark moonlit wooded space over a long red string that they each pull on as it wraps around their bodies and the enviornment

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ☃︎ ❄︎ @moxiest.art · 15/08/2026

people get intimidated by the social belief of "supporting the arts" as like donating $5,000,000 for a new wing at a museum or hosting some gala it's not. 10% of our audience throwing us $1.00 a month would literally be *life-changing* money most artists are in the same boat.

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

age 16: Computers are amazing! I'm going to do amazing things with computers! age 46: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for a functional search engine or the library or friends

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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 11/08/2026

what if i do not want to be optimized. what if i want to make mistakes because that’s how you learn; what if i want to do nothing sometimes, what if i want a world that is weird and challenging and has mysteries left to reveal. what if i like taking the long way

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GroovyShelly @groovyshelly.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I'd love to credit whoever wrote this. No idea. But I'm 100% with its message. When I think of how the '80s ethos, "Greed is Good" has metastasized, it surprises and depresses me. Imagine having so many millions, hundred of millions, even billions & caring about nothing except your own vanity.

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Kyle Shevlin (he/him) @kyleshevl.in · 28/07/2026

Let’s assume for a second AI is making you more productive. Is it making your life any better? Are you healthier? Happier? Have more free time? Have richer social lives? Greater fulfillment? I’m not being hyperbolic, the main thing AI has increased in my life is misery. How am I supposed to act?

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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 22/07/2026

It's safe to assume that all major LLMs are scraping Bluesky data to train future models. As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models. There are submarines in the Great Lakes.

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Polly SinclairLewis Fry @sinclairlewis.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

…to live here. He’s Somali and lived in mpls for several years. Then, he went on to explain that he will never, ever live anywhere else. Why? He said it’s because Renée and Alex gave their lives to protect him and people like him.

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Polly SinclairLewis Fry @sinclairlewis.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I have been forced to take Uber for five trips in the last two weeks. I think I posted fairly recently about how I engage with most drivers. My most recent driver made me tear up. I asked my usual questions. He was so happy to tell me how long he’s been here and what it means for him…

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Stina @stinah.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

If you use AI for your advertisement flyers, I'm going to make assumptions about you. I'm going to assume you cut corners on everything. If you're a bakery, I'm going to assume you use poor quality ingredients. If you're a handyman, same thing, I'll assume you cut corners on your work.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 21/07/2026

1. In an incredible new landmark review, the Health Council of the Netherlands has declared that gender-affirming care for trans youth works, reducing wait times is "morally urgent," and regret is rare. It is the latest of many Euro countries to advance care. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Landmark Official Dutch Review Recommends Trans Youth Care, Call For Expanding Treatment

The review finds that wait times must be shortened, that few people detransition, and that trans youth care has enormous benefits.

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Lyse @lyse.myatproto.social · 21/07/2026

The reward for toil had been more toil. If you dug the best ditches, they gave you a bigger shovel. - Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 21/07/2026

The answer to "why does everything suck now" almost ALWAYS goes back to "venture capital." Which goes back to "a lot of people have too much money and don't know what to do with it." Which goes back to: "We need to tax rich people more." It's like it's the solution to 99% of our problems!!

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Anders @derzquist.net · 16/07/2026

During the height of Metro Surge one of the ways I would describe things to people outside Minnesota was "The hardware stores are putting gas masks & safety vests up front, like stores put N95s & hand sanitizer up front in 2020."

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

In America today, the wealthiest 1% is now worth more than the entire American middle class. That never happened before.

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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 15/07/2026

LLMs have taken steve jobs' "a computer is a bicycle for the mind" and replaced it with driving a huge american pickup truck to the corner store that's a five-minute walk away

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