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

I must admit I haven’t watched the show; I only did this based on the meme format. If you think this is problematic, be sure to let me know and I’ll take it down

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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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Thank *you*, and likewise :)

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To my fellow dudes: Listen to this. Read through this thread. Read through other threads like this one. The world makes it easy for us to close our eyes. But don't think that doing so doesn't come at a cost.

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I see it as an absolute certainty that the world will look amazing and the game itself will be boring as hell

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Martin Stoermer @martinstoermer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I made a meme

$That one meme from Invincible. A superhero labeled "some random guy with an acoustic guitar" watches some fighter jets labeled "AI music generators" and says "Look at what they need to mimic a fraction of our power"$

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My current favourite German thing thanks to Duolingo is the verb for hug, umarmen. Literally to wrap in arms.

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Anthropic's prospectus details losses, growth, and, yes, a warning that its AI could end humanity | TechCrunch

As a stark reminder of how much times have changed: In 2009, Hulu ran a Super Bowl ad featuring Alec Baldwin, explaining that their business model is an evil plan to destroy all humans, and everyone immediately got that it was a joke. techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/a...

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In its prospectus, Anthropic just told investors it's losing tens of billions of dollars a year, but also growing like crazy, and — oh yeah — its own AI might pose an existential risk to humanity.

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Haha — works for me ;)

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The wonderful @carlzimmer.com has just posted what might very well become the defining “using AI for science” story of the year:

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Jens Müller @jens0331.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hmmm that’s possible 🤔 I’ve definitely encountered them, but I’ve spent much more time in the US than in other English-language regions

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I thought of those false friends recently. While we Germans understand "the end of the world" as a remote place far away. English speakers understand it more literally.

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 28/09/2026

Fun random difference between English and German: in German, you can’t kill something that isn’t alive, and you can’t destroy something that is. So both “kill the lights” and “authorities had the wild bear destroyed” need to be slightly rephrased to make sense in German.

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I still find it weird that he's promising $5,000 per person and not a million, or a hundred million per person. It won't happen anyway, so why not go big?

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 28/09/2026

AI is making the internet useless, part 35623576

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 28/09/2026

"Oh, it's perfectly safe - we put a kill switch behind the upper incisors." (Hope it's ok to post it here this way)

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 25/09/2026

For those who don’t have a subscription: the top spot went to Marvel‘s “Inhumans” (2017)

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

OK this description made me LAUGH go.bsky.app/JKv3BWU

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I just tried again, can’t take myself off the list 🤷🏻‍♂️ Not sure why they made it this way

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Haha — turns out the list will always add yourself to it. Or at least it did at the time I created this, not sure if they’ve changed it

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You’re in luck — I was gonna say I’ve maxed out the list but a few people must have deleted their accounts since I’ve created it 😱 so I’ll be happy to add you right away

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*cocks gun* "Moon's been eaten"

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regain trust from international allies, but it will be poison for US societal and political culture (and will ultimately pave the way for Trump 2.0; or I guess 3.0 depending on how we want to count)

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I agree and my assumption is that, if Trump is followed by a sane and reasonable president (and that’s a considerable “if”), the response by mainstream politicians will be to try and shrug Trump off as a freak occurrence without clear causes or consequences. This narrative will be pushed to try and

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Dr Emma Byrne @sciwriby.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

German guy here. You're right and this seems to be a recurring problem.

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Nobody can stop you eating chocolate biscuits

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