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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 6h

These are not very bright guys and things got out of hand.

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 11h

Dan Levy Slams Shane Gillis’ ‘SNL’ Monologue: “Speechless That Something Like That Can Exist On Live National Television” deadline.com/2026/10/dan-...

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Dan Levy Slams Shane Gillis' 'SNL' Monologue: "I'm Speechless"

Dan Levy is not holding back his thoughts on Shane Gillis' Saturday Night Live monologue.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 11/10/2026

every time I see that "what if video games 100% personalized to me" post go by, I think about how you sports weirdos have gotten so agitated over sports events that I *went and tried to watch baseball* just for the joy of experiencing it with you, and I wonder what it is like to not feel that.

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

that post making the rounds reminds me I already wrote USE THE WONDER OF AI TO NEVER SPEAK TO YOUR KIDS AGAIN www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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Now, Thanks to Sam Altman, You Never Have to Speak With Your Kids Again

AI can handle these kinds of pointless interactions.

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 08/10/2026

BREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The divide that now seems apparent is between optimizing and experiencing. Someone needs to write “Cat’s in the Cradle,” Silicon Valley edition.

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John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

not to downplay what my math friends are going through but I think this metaphor applies to so much of modern life for so many people www.quantamagazine.org/is-ai-the-en...

It's as if you were teleported to the peak of a tall mountain. Surrounded by fog, you have no idea where you are, or what's around you. You do not know how your mountain connects to others, and you have no equipment to help you explore, no way to help someone else join you. If you had climbed the mountain yourself, you would have experienced how the human body adapts to altitude and changes in oxygen levels. You might have had to invent tools to navigate, to climb steep cliffs, or to make a shelter. You might have encountered a fellow explorer, gotten lost together in a hidden valley, and found a plant that could be turned into a life-saving medicine.
Instead you're perched on the peak but in the dark, while the maker of the teleportation machine tells you that it can explore the wilderness better than any human.

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

what I had to say turned out not to be a column

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Something Like People

A poem

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yet another brilliant piece by @katemanne.bsky.social. "Education is, in the end, an individualistic and shallow response to a deep and structural problem. And it mistakenly identifies false beliefs rather than bad desires as the problem."

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They Didn’t Want Consent

On the fallacy of educating men not to rape

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The thing I've been mulling: for every horrifying sexual assault story you hear, there are 100 stories that don't quite reach the level of "report this to the police immediately" but still are traumatic, still have long, long effects. 1/

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

Remember when us phil-tech types said effective altruism was just utilitarianism taken to its worst possible extents? This is what we meant: Real harm for unquantifiable potential benefit. "…'we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology….'"

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Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI

The OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is @theonion.com - worthy. stanforddaily.com/2026/09/30/b...

Che Stanford Daily
Humor
Guy putting brown sugar in coffee doesn't see color
IANK YOU.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I also have a set of values that I apply to education which are quite fixed and so I am not open minded about things like Alpha School or obvious political ideology-driven initiatives. I'm not going to stroke my chin over whether or not Alpha School could "work." It's a bad idea from bad people.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Looking around at the so-called education "thought leader" space - because, why not me? - and it seems like having very few thoughts and rarely if ever changing those thoughts is the key to success. Unfortunately, I have lots of thoughts and am very open to changing them when evidence suggests it.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

there’s too much likability in this photo, you can’t look directly at it

Yo-yo ma being embraced by Zohran Mamdani

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026

Also? Nobody's making you use GPS and turn-by-turn computer voice navigation now. So right now could be a kind of "before GPS". It's a bit like asking about "before AI".

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Jill Anderson @jillian6475.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Same re paper maps. Also, driving to explore rather than just to get to a particular place (I think GPS etc has made "just to get to a particular place" more common). "Where does that highway lead to?"

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

have now heard or seen from multiple reliable people that this was leased pianos being returned and not the KC liquidating anything not that this will convince anyone but a few of you who follow me basically for dc debunking

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We've got to just stop it with the AI woo-woo. I don't think it's even helpful to the tech companies, let alone the rest of us. biblioracle.substack.com/p/can-we-ple...

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Can We Please Stop it with the AI Woo-Woo?

If we're going to deal with this technology we have to cut through the fake mystery.

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Jill Anderson @jillian6475.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I just subscribed to a listserv. Time travel! Back to.... the 2000s? (Not a complaint, it still seems like a perfectly valid way to communicate. But while I'm in 2003 or so, should I warn people: no, really, That Guy is going to run for president, beware!!! ?)

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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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Jill Anderson @jillian6475.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Potholes? In Atlanta? Never! /s

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Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Movies are amazing, but you don’t have to see the ones they say you do, now more than ever. You have a choice. Ask your local theater to book something weird and bring all your friends. It requires almost no effort!

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Pretty sure this is a lost lyric from Warren Zevon.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When Coxon was suddenly ALL OVER the media, it felt to many like that was because his story deserved that much interest i.e. that the media was doing its job informing the public of an important threat. The wall-to-wall media coverage wasn't organic though, it was orchestrated: >>

piratewires.com

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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

All of the older, now establishment Hollywood figures who are embracing this technology are basically pulling up the ladder behind them as they head into their sunset years

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

this story has some incredible tidbits. They hoped to sell 100 VIP tickets to cover expenses and sold six lol

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I mean no offense to any network when I say that the most consequential name here w/r/t Trump is Fox Trump's whole public life has been being on TV and watching TV. Being president for him is watching a 24/7 TV show where he is the star--esp on Fox Suddenly losing that is going to be existential

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

AGAIN! You do not need to fear "superintelligent AI" "going rogue" & killing humans, when HUMANS keep putting regular, everyday shitty-assed, extremely error-prone "AI" into potentially life-&-death-crucial systems. It does not have to be "powerful" to do that! It can do that & still be very shitty!

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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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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯

Charles,

Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development.

Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk.

This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives."

For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control.

Those safety concerns must be taken seriously.

And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm.

But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good.

The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to finance

themselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined.
Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections.
It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies.
That tells us two things:
1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; &
2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk.
That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people.
These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow.
But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash.
In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power.
In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are.

What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion.
When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all.
From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong.
Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from.
It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public.
When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares.
The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out.
But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny.
Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab.
Heads, they win; tails, we lose.

We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.

We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.

And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity.

But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

It's time we hold them accountable.

Thank you for reading.

In solidarity,

Alexandria

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 01/08/2026

Dear media, please be even a little bit critical and suspicious of whether the people with literally trillions of dollars & the world economy riding on you believing what they tell you might have reason to lie about what's happening inside their products that they refuse to let anyone else analyze 🫠

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madison @beastlibrarian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the deprofessionalization & undervaluing of disciplinary subject knowledge that's so hot right now in academic libraries bums me out

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Everyone is running around talking about fictional "existential risk" of "rogue AI" systems this week. It's never the "AI" doing something though, it's people using janky software in ill-advised ways. (On top of all the harms of producing the software, etc.)

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is my new campaign: Humanize the Homework! Did you know? A human wrote that! Human work deserves human work in turn.

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

There are humans directing the things other humans report "AI" is doing

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Late to this (on the SUNY P blog) but the editors of Teaching Poetry Now did a great Q&A: "[Poets] wrestle w/ history, politics, race, philosophy, technology, sexuality & gender, science, nature...We don’t need to 'teach poetry' to use poems in the classroom." sunypress.edu/Blog/2026/Re....

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Rethinking the Poetry Classroom

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Amalia H @amaliah.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Slightly nervous for any university administrator to read it, but thanks to the work of scholars such as @cjdenial.bsky.social & @benpatrickwill.bsky.social our first-year humanities program has a pedagogical statement on gen AI, with reading list! core.humanities.uci.edu/index.php/ge...

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Our Pedagogical Approaches to Generative AI in Humanities Core

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Jill Anderson @jillian6475.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ohhhhhh. Her "American Childhood" meant everything to me in college, and 100% was my earliest influence for my current research (intellectual girl / art-making girl). RIP Annie Dillard

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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Bob Mackie also designed the punchline costume for one of the funniest sketches of all time -- the 1978 Gone with the Wind spoof on The Carol Burnett Show where Scarlett improvises a dress out of ugly, absurdly thick curtains. It was Mackie's idea that she should leave the curtain rod in.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 15/09/2026

Pitching Matthew Rhys on a swimming safety PSA.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 15/09/2026

Reaching out to Kate O'Flynn for a book safety campaign.

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Jill Anderson @jillian6475.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Reorganizing gems by color in a pattern 😱😱😱

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