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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 15h

Having seen the Joyce Carol Oates very bad, not good tweet about romance and AI, I can't help thinking about the way that romance has been treated as a punching bag for so long and always by people who are completely unwilling to engage with the genre and know little about it.

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Parsingphase @parsingphase.dev · 03/10/2026

“I quit OpenAI because my bank account filled up”.

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Buck @turbineseaplane.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They never seem to want to leave BEFORE getting rich. 🤔

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

dude was literally in charge of "safety" washing the kitten crushing factory Atlantic bears responsibility for platforming his bullshit too

David Robinson led transparency work for OpenAI's safety team

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tante @tante.cc · 03/10/2026

Really tired of the "I worked at the kitten crushing factory for years, made a fuckton of money and now I found my conscience and get to tour the stages of the world telling people how to be ethical" grift.

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tante @tante.cc · 03/10/2026

So the "I left $AILab for ethical reasons" grift is starting up: I understand wanting that bag, wanting to be in on a big thing. But if you thought OpenAI or Anthropic were okay a year ago or so, I really am not willing to give you any credit for leaving now.

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I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken - The Atlantic

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/10/2026

This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

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MiserableX @onlytoad.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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Doug Hammond @hammie777.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As hard as it is to believe, that is the actual position of the so-called law and order party.

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MingTheMerciless @mingthemercyless.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And he didn't do it alone.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It wasn’t but thanks

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Amazing news! MLB has dropped its proposal for a baseball game in Grand Teton National Park! Thank you to everyone who pushed back and stood up for our parks!

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Pappas: It’s a golden age if you’re Don Jr. getting a Russian oligarch to pay for a wedding reception, but for the rest of us, it doesn’t feel like that. They can put out whatever numbers they want. The American people know that this is a totally incompetent president who is estranged from reality.

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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The colder autumn nights in Germany coaxes this magnificent eagle, Oropherion, to spend his nights in his heated indoor winter aviary. This is an African Martial Eagle (Polemaetus bellicosus), the largest eagle species native to Africa. (Cr @birdsofprey_nathalie_denolf) #birds #eagle

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Generative AI is not just the instrument and aesthetics of fascism, but it has permanently sewn itself to fascism in a fucked up human centipede of scammers and grifters and guys who've long ago forgotten how to think.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Remember that literally every single one of the billionaire freaks behind generative AI has very publicly aligned themselves with trump and his policies Their CEO's are in and out of the oval office for photo ops, they're donating mountains of money to him, they're literally getting military titles

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this absolutely banger 🧵

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

Trump is standing like no human has ever stood before

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Jacob Lowenstein @jmlowenstein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

100%. There’s a 7 minute version I saw where you can see Klob put together in real time and she seems like she’s even one step ahead of Smith in realizing the goof. It’s pretty impressive.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026

What's fun about this whole contretemps and why it's worth watching again is how smirky Schmitt starts out - this is going to be his big moment – and how honest a puzzled Smith comes off, and how sharp Klobuchar was to quickly figure out the basic mistake. And then how pissy Schmitt gets at her.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also, all this “frontier AI” nomenclature is so laughably colonialist that it has to be on purpose. 🙄

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JC Andrijeski (author) 📚🔥🪄🌙☕️ @jcandrijeski.com · 28/09/2026

This is positively grotesque. How anyone can look at this and see it as anything but a moral and ethical dystopian nightmare is absolutely beyond me. Its technological grave-robbing and necrophilia rolled into one.

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JC Andrijeski (author) 📚🔥🪄🌙☕️ @jcandrijeski.com · 28/09/2026

That's the part I can't get past. The theft. The industrial scale theft everyone hand-waves away. Even those who purport to hate A.I. gloss over the stolen labor as if it's just an ethical detail rather than the core of the entire thing. I can't even get to the jobs bc I can't get past the theft.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

But it has to steal from them first. Otherwise, no product, no credible claim as a basis for firing people.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You would not believe all the smart, seemingly normal people I know who treat the crimes & ethical violations of AI like a petty distraction...or who have pre-emptively surrendered to their own exploitation, saying "It's inevitable, we just have to accept it." It's like a "Twilight Zone" episode.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I will never understand why smart people all around me respond to AI with enthusiasm: it's as if they're attending a dinner party based on theft of their neighbors' groceries, plates & cutlery, saying "how convenient that these dishes just appeared, what a time-saver to steal from the neighbors!"

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The U.S. owes $40 trillion in debt. Everyone has an opinion about why. But there’s one question you almost never hear asked: Who’s actually getting paid?

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MikeyT00 @devilmikey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The construction industry is going to absolutely boned when AI goes pop and all their data center deals fall through and future ones are canned. Just no money coming from anywhere else right now.

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Mary @lillifen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yeah you can pull the same kind of data from a lot of other parts of the economy. Was just talking with friends the other day about the flows of investmental capital in private construction are being almost entirely displaced into data centers.

Graph showing that since december 2023 private construction spending has increased for datacenters while all other private construction has decreased, showing the displacement of flows of investment capital.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026

two startups trying to IPO out any day now are literally responsible for a multi-billion-dollar assault on basically everything worthwhile about society, it's maddening

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026

It is really important to understand that anyone trying to claim this is a "technological transition" is either deeply misguided or trying to sell you something. What this is, is a deliberate act of harm being done by people with names and addresses.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026

Video games' cycle of consolidation has exploded this year, but in film consolidation is still going and consolidation, of course, leads to mass unemployment. That it does is almost the point of consolidation.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026

It's also important to understand the current moment in the entertainment industries as one in which the large corporations that run these sectors are engaged in disciplining their labor forces through mass unemployment, using the investment crunch as a window of opportunity to do so.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026

And you might think "well they're replacing film workers with AI", except how the fuck is AI supposed to replace a gaffer? Movie budgets have not meaningfully dropped; they're not shooting fewer days to make a movie.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026

What is happening is not that AI-generated cultural goods are replacing human-made cultural goods; what is happening is that capital is flowing out of the production of cultural goods *entirely,* making us all poorer for it.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026

Declines also just correlate with the rise of the AI bubble on somewhat coincidental terms. *all* at-home entertainment was overinvested in during the peak of covid, and we're experiencing a hangover crash from that, for example, which is now being compounded by AI-driven misinvestment.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026

But the crowding out is extremely obvious to see, in particular, in video games because just Microsoft by itself is responsible for a huge proportion of the bleeding because they're explicitly divesting from Xbox to plug the gaping financial ulcer that is OpenAI.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026

In both film and video games, you see a ton of *project cancellations* and a general difficulty in funding new projects, which wouldn't be the case if AI was displacing workers in producing those products—you'd expect the opposite, in fact, if it was becoming cheaper to make a movie/game.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026

It really doesn't make sense to attribute those job losses to AI-the-technology, because if that were the case we'd be observing AI outputs displacing conventional entertainment products, and they're clearly not. Rather, the impact of AI is that AI-the-business is crowding out other investment.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's already estimated that the richest 1% alone evade $163 billion in taxes every year. But Trump gutted the IRS — including the unit tasked with auditing billionaires. The agency's audit revenue fell 35%. Now, Trump's IRS is not publishing data on unpaid taxes. See the problem?

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Changa_Husky @changa.gay · 28/09/2026

The one Christmas present I want is Oracle dying.

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Lutin Lyes @lutinlyes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And me sitting in a teams meeting, listening to management say "AI is here to stay", for the 10th time in a fortnight, like a defensive prayer against reality...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026

make no mistake: anyone telling you AI is “just like the dot com bubble” or “just like Amazon web services or uber” is beyond misinformed, verging into the realms of actually wanting to know less about the world. It means they have never actually looked at any of the numbers. Or they can’t count.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026

AI has lost the Mandate of Heaven I’m afraid. WSJ saying it’s a “when” the ai bubble bursts. SNL dabbing on their biggest names for being weird. FT says 50% of chips sold in 2026 and 2027 have nowhere to go. Hundreds of billions short on revenue for even 10% ROIC. A disaster.

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janiejo.bsky.social @janiejo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#TaxTheRich

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Get out and vote! He literally had people raise their hands and pledge to cheat two weeks ago in Dallas.

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