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Pots and Plots @inthebookgarden.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New #fantasy review from me today. The Tower of the Tyrant by J.T Greathouse. A deep, thinky novel with some glorious worldbuilding. potsandplots.blog/2026/09/24/t... #bookreview #booksky

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The Tower of the Tyrant by J.T. Greathouse: The Long Tail of History

The Tower of Tyrant by J.T. Greathouse is a thoughtful novel thay takes worldbuilding in new directions.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you

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J.T. Greathouse @jeremyteg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Final Fantasy XIV is great because what if I told you the little lizard guy in the middle of the screenshot was the king of this neon soaked cyberpunk metropolis?

A tiny lizard in a poncho stands on the neon-soaked streets of a cyberpunk apocalypse, surrounded by his subjects which are humans and elves in color-coded streetwear.

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J.T. Greathouse @jeremyteg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Between Nathan Fielder's movie on Elizabeth Holmes and Alex Gibney tackling Elon Musk, it's gonna be a crazy year for the Oscars documentary feature betting markets

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Gordon McAlpin @gmcalpin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

this is fucking stupid just don't allow it

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Karli! @karlicartoons.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

THE SEGWICK COUNTY ZOO PRINTED OUT MY DRAWING OF THE BABY TAWNY FROGMOUTH AND GAVE IT TO THE KEEPERS AND SHOWED IT TO THE FROGMOUTH ITSELF!!! HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!!! 💕💕💕💕

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Narnia books as Isekai Manga

1. My Sweet Tooth Made Me The Villainess’ Slave
2. In Another World, The Dwarves Picked Me To Lead The Revolution
3. All At Sea With My Level 0 Sailing Skills
4. On A Mission In Another World And I Can’t Remember The Cheat Codes
5. That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Horse
6. Help! My Uncle’s In Love With The Demon Queen!
7. Reincarnated In Another World Just As The Game’s Ending

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If you're still on the fence about whether AI is good or bad for society, consider this: The fascists desperately want it

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J.T. Greathouse @jeremyteg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

it should be illegal for so many video games I want to play to release at the same time

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The trouble with the rationalists isn't the polyamory, and it isn't precisely the freaky sex stuff or the play parties, except inasmuch as all of that stuff is downstream of the actual problem: that they're part of an extremely insular, incestuous millenarian religious movement trying to build God

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I keep seeing videos of a guy who catches crabs and lobsters, cracks all the barnacles off them, puts a shrimp in their claws and throws them back. can you imagine. abducted by aliens but they just give you a spa day and hand you two hot dogs and let you go

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I cannot tell you what absolute fiction this is. AI is heading for a crash and this cackhanded Terminator narrative is being engineered to save them. The fact that the unsubstantiated testimony of a former employee has been the top story on BBC News all day is absurd and irresponsible.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026

crypto, car dealerships and MLMs. ripe targets for political and policy reasons.

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 11/09/2026

“To leave no loopholes Hitler exacted from all officers and men of the armed forces an oath of allegiance—not to Germany, not to the constitution, which he had violated by not calling for the election of Hindenburg’s successor, but to himself.” -Shirer, Rise & Fall of the Thrid Reich, p. 375

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Weird thing people try to do in AI debates is redefine plagiarism as just being about credit. No. Plagiarism is *passing off work you didn't do as your own*. Copying from public source (e.g. wikipedia), friend writing your essay who doesn't want credit, LLM writing it - all plagiarism.

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This bellicose, corrupt regime is a national embarrassment and an international danger. We could not hope for a more steadfast and welcoming ally and neighbor than Canada. 🇨🇦 I love Canada 🍁

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Phil Szostak @philszostak.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“Tony [Gilroy] finally turned to me, and he said, ‘Hey, you just got to stop pitching plot. Plot is bullshit. Plot is what happens when you get the behavior right. Pitch me a line of dialogue, pitch me atmosphere, pitch me something visual. Stop pitching stuff that happens.’” 1/2

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alex fox @alexfox.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

btw i am ON THE COVER and WITHIN THE PAGES of the next GRIMDARK MAGAZINE ISSUE. live october 1st. if you know me this is a dream come true and basically the only publication i ever wanted to, ahem, crack. 🙏🏻🙏🏻

oct 1 2026 issue of grimdark magazine, featuring my name ALEX FOX on the cover along with some other much heavier hitters (stephen graham jones, senlinyu, ken liu)

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J.T. Greathouse @jeremyteg.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It's Bandcamp Friday! And while I do not make music, my good buddy Jack does. His band Timeworm just released a new single and it slaps. timewormband.bandcamp.com/track/thoughts

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Thoughts, by Timeworm

track by Timeworm

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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is how fast oil use can disappear China's reduction in oil consumption during first half of 2026 due to replacement of fossil vehicles with EVs exceeded the UK’s entire oil consumption during that period China’s CO2 emis fall Q226 due to plummeting oil use carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

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Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use - Carbon Brief

China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the strait of Hormuz crisis.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026

Amazon's own balance sheet presents the most compelling evidence that we are stuck in the Enshittocene, the era in which everything is turning into a pile of shit, because the worst ideas of the worst people now make the most money. 1/

Hieronymus Bosch's 'The Conjuror,' a painting depicting a medieval con artist playing a shell game for an audience of astonished peasant rubes. The image has been altered: the conman now has Jeff Bezos's grinning head, and the mouths of all the peasants have been replaced with inverted Amazon 'Smile' logos, so they are now frowning.

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Steve Jurvestson (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jeff_Bezos%27_iconic_laugh_crop.jpg

CC BY 2.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I think it's important for Americans to understand that the rest of the world is making plans without us. We're about to be trapped and isolated inside the walls Trump is putting up literally and figuratively.

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Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Jesus Christ, famously stingy about giving fish to people

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Justice Ramin Arman @justiceraminarman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I’m excited to report that we have an Associate Game Designer position open on the D&D Game Design team. These roles don’t come along often and are a great place to take your TRPG career to the next level. Apply here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/hasbro/jobs/... #dnd #WOTCstaff

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Associate Game Designer - D&D

Renton, Washington, United States

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Wait, the official US White House website is featuring an arcade style game in which a cartoon white man in a suit chases cartoon black and brown people, eats/destroys them, and changes them into orange-clad inmates!?!

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/09/2026

Had a wonderful time talking to Vanity Fair for this profile and Q&A about the AI bubble and my larger thesis about how we got here. www.vanityfair.com/story/ed-zit... Archive link: archive.ph/IG97X

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He Did Tech PR. Now He Rails Against AI for a Living.

Ed Zitron isn’t concerned about our AI revolution turning into a murder-robot nightmare. He’s warning that the companies involved are spending insane amounts of money that they will never make back—an...

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

How can it not turn out this way with infinite content machines? It can only "superpower" the existing internet economics of shrinking returns and pressure to constantly increase outputs.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

More seriously, this likely is future of AI generated "content." A few grifters will make it work, but overall it will be a race to the bottom generating infinite content for increasingly small returns and begging for money and/or teaching grift courses on using AI (the real money)

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

had an idea for a cyclops design

A warped, body-horror take on a cyclops.

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J.T. Greathouse @jeremyteg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Was just talking to a buddy about switching to ProtonMail. Seems like it's time.

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This is a very encouraging sign. It’s also a reminder that Trump will attack the mail in ballots as they are counted on order to discredit or throw out Democratic votes. Vote early and in person or use a ballot drop box if one is available in your area.

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Noelle Cook @noellecook.com · 31/08/2026

Gen X, this is our retirement they’re talking about. Maybe we don’t say “whatever” this time.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Leaving aside the obvious potential for like half the country to have a foodborne illness in the near future, if you’ve interacted at all with actual farmers it is really hilarious that he thinks they’re gonna react positively to being told to work more and/or pay more people to do this.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/08/2026

Centrists cannot bring people on the left "back in line." They have to quit it with this rhetoric. If they treat people on the left as a greater enemy than Trump, the thing that is going to happen is that people on the left will fucking fight them tooth and nail. Include me in that number.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is set up for laughs, but it’s actually one of the best demonstrations I’ve seen of how being capable of producing convincing sounding language and understanding meaning are two completely different things. A chatbot does not understand you, it just has automated responses based on your words.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I think the mainstream American political universe has not quite grasped how difficult it is about to become for Republicans to keep brain-poisoned Twitter Nazi freaks out of their campaigns. It's a solid 85% of their talent pool under 30.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

God help the GOP if "Nazi infiltration of the Republican Party" ever becomes an obsessive media discourse object the same way "antisemitism on the left" has. Even the world's laziest reporter could find three of these guys on every campaign. It'll be shooting gallery.

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J.T. Greathouse @jeremyteg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I've been using LibreOffice for basically my entire writing career (I used OpenOffice for a bit before that) and I've never had problems with it. If you're looking for a Microsoft alternative, this is as good as it gets.

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Auuuulet 🍂👻 @aulet.es · 26/08/2026

"LibreOffice 26.8 contains no generative AI features. Documents are not transmitted to remote services for processing, and no component of the suite requires network access to function. This is a deliberate position."

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The only realism left is dystopian SF

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

they want domestic servants

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J.T. Greathouse @jeremyteg.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It's interesting to rewatch Breaking Bad in the psychological context that all of the adult principal cast probably voted for George W. Bush

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