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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 12h

garble fixed, definitely curious about your thoughts on the piece though

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 13h

journalism in your imagination: breaking huge scoops, changing the world journalism in reality: fighting with the CMS

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 14h

seeing some weird garble in this article that's not showing up in the CMS, looking into it with the tech team 😓

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 14h

I think the piece makes it clear that we are not 100 percent convinced but they look pretty convincing, especially after he said something very similar on Fox News! But we'll definitely update if the evidence tips against

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 15h

The guy who quit Anthropic saying AI is poised to kill humankind strongly appears -- though he didn't respond to a request for comment -- to have some extremely bizarre old tweets futurism.com/artificial-i...

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These Strongly Appear to Be the Old Tweets of That Anthropic Employee Who Quit Citing Risks to Humankind and They Are… Pretty Bizarre

Old tweets that appear to belong to former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon have resurfaced, and they contain questionable assertions.

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 15h

Ok but “the rainforest is gay” is a helluva shitpost lmao

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 15h

almost certainly not a great idea though, especially at bulk quantities or "aged" in the terrible phenomenon that i learned about from this piece

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 15h

fortunately i do not believe that drinking human urine is typically fatal!!

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 16h

here is a helpful guide: if someone is obviously too inebriated to consent to sex, it is sexual assault

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 18h

this is a silly post but i think the actual story perfectly illustrates a HUGE issue with AI: users will always figure out ways to manipulate it to agree with whatever deranged worldview they happen to subscribe to

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/10/2026

Going to be honest this might be my favourite headline of the AI bubble

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

every day it seems like a brand new sentence is written to describe the state of the world

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Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

today's hardware designers could never conceive of what Kazuo Kawasaki was doing in 1996

A colorful retro computer setup featuring a purple keyboard, a small teal touchpad, and a teal circular CD-ROM drive with a matching keypad-style controller resting on top. The hardware is arranged against a dark background in a vivid purple-and-turquoise color scheme.

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 30/09/2026

yeah whatever else you can say about AI, it is a heat-seeking missile for people looking for validation for bad ideas

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 30/09/2026

unfortunately i must report that it is horribly real

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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 30/09/2026

I am never touching the lathe of heaven again

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 30/09/2026

i have nothing but support for people who drink piss for the love of the game

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

NEW: Brown Brothers Media — the vast content network scaled through the heavy use of AI + fake writers w/ fabricated credentials — has halted publishing amid what appears to be a Google crackdown on many of its sites. BBM may have been earning 64m+ readers per month. futurism.com/artificial-i...

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That Company That Buys Struggling News Sites and Turns Them Into AI-Powered Content Mills Has Halted Publishing After a Futurism Investigation

Brown Brothers Media has halted publication at its wide-ranging AI-powered content farm empire -- for now, at least.

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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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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 30/09/2026

where it loses me is that there's no meaningful "artist" with a story or any other social positioning to the music

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 30/09/2026

i could MAYBE imagine future "artists" that are AI characters that listeners develop parasocial relationships with -- but even leaving aside whether that's a good or bad thing, i haven't seen any evidence of that happening so far

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 30/09/2026

self driving i'm on the fence on whether it gets there -- leaning somewhat yes after the past year -- but tesla obviously released it YEARS before it was ready for public roads

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 30/09/2026

prime example of AI bros not understanding that people listen to music because they're interested in the intent and character of the artist bsky.app/profile/down...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...

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In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault

Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 30/09/2026

i legit hate to be a boomer who is opposed to anything new, but it sure feels like one of the key challenges facing humanity is how to keep technology from destroying us in multifarious ways

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 30/09/2026

i feel like the thing is using a sampler/drum machine/auto-tune/whatever previous moral panic over "computer music" to make a good song in reality takes immense skill and artistic intent writing a prompt to AI generate a song... i just don't see evidence of the skill and artistry

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 29/09/2026

hard to shake off a feeling of dread that everything is turning into a noxious stew of AI, doom loops, gambling, and graft

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 28/09/2026

NEW: After we published an investigation into Brown Brothers Media, a company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills, we got a tip that completely gobsmacked me: one of the brothers has extensive connections to Ghislaine Maxwell futurism.com/artificial-i...

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You Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine Maxwell

Ideapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.

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Johannes Franzen @johannesfranzen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Incredible stuff.

Commentary|Essay

AI and the crisis of the author

By Anchit Sathi

September 4, 2026
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Editor’s note (September 21, 2026): We have removed this essay. AI was used in its preparation. The TLS editorial guidelines prohibit the use of AI in the writing and editing process. The author states that he was unaware of the policy.

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 29/09/2026

kids today are trying to make sense of the archaeological record

kid on reddit asking "how did hippie culture suddenly vanished"

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Happy National Hamburger Day @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

How does this story keep getting more insane

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 29/09/2026

not to 30s-post excessively, but the feeling of falling into bed before 9:30 when you're exhausted hits so good

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 28/09/2026

Somehow "the guy who buys struggling publications and fills them with fake journalists that publish thousands of articles of AI slop to overwhelm google? turns out he goes way back with Ghislaine Maxwell, the collaborator of Jeffrey Epstein" feels like the ultimate and most exhausting 2026 sentence

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 28/09/2026

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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

kind of obsessed with the fact that there's an AA-style support group called Dogs Anonymous for owners who don't want to publicly admit they can't stand their dogs. by @jasooooon.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/inside...

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