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km fedyk 🐀 @karigrafia.bsky.social · 5h

As a rat researcher, I find this fascinating (and also amazed by how old the claims of “cat-sized rats” are)

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Amirite tho

White text on yellow-orange ombré background that reads:
Don't let Al ruin your writing.
It's your writing.
Ruin it yourself.

Amirite

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

In practice, AI literacy doesn’t start with building the tool for your personal use. It starts with understanding yourself as a collection of tasks who should subcontract those out to a machine. Almost no regular person’s life currently exists as such.

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km fedyk 🐀 @karigrafia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This building is the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My God. This is the center of Kyiv. A civilian building, a historic one, built in the 1850s. Russian terror knows no bounds. They are attacking and killing Ukrainian civilians just because they can. If Russia is not stopped, it will expand its terror and violence.

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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 28/09/2026

Historic England outsourced their digital image provision to a third-party company. Then the company went bust and now all their images are inaccessible. Tell me again how outsourcing to the private sector is sustainable?

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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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Tara Bush @tarabush.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Ballpoint pen sketch 👽 #xfiles

Black ballpoint pen sketch of Agent Scully from XFILES. She is looking tense, and is holding a landline phone receiver. Only her head and hands are visible. This was an attempt to get out of my pencil comfort zone.

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km fedyk 🐀 @karigrafia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Some people still debate whether fish - complex living beings - feel pain, and move the goalposts all the time to never engage with the idea of a fish suffering. Algorithms regurgitating words get more grace and consideration than our fellow animals.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh look, it is brainlike! Must be intelligent 🤔

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 30/08/2025

"Being in a colonizing discipline first demands and then encourages an attitude that might be called intellectual hubris." Turkle, Sherry (1984). The second self: Computers and the human spirit

"Being in a colonizing discipline first demands and then encourages an attitude that might be called intellectual hubris. Furthermore, since you cannot master all the disciplines that you have designs on, you need confidence that your knowledge makes the ‘traditional wisdom’ of these fields unworthy of serious consideration." —
Sherry Turkle (1984, p. 230)

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 24/09/2026

Anyone looking for human illustrators, check this out!

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

‘You people think everything is ableist and eugenicist’ OTOH: yes, online discourse both misunderstands/misrepresents the legitimate analytical power of both lenses. But, also, able bodied people pretending neither matter to dunk on strangers isn’t good; in fact it’s destructive.

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sgrd @selveste.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

I knit a Greenland shark a while ago, complete with detachable eye parasites

A dark brown knitted Greenland shark stuffie, ca. 55 cm long, on a kitchen table

The shark's eyes are snap buttons, and a hand is shown holding one button half that has a "parasitic copepod" made out of white string fastened to it

The knitted shark is suffering an attack by a parasitic string copepod attached to her eye, the poor thing

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Take note and block/report any accounts pushing Ritter, who is a transparent, unapologetic, and laser-focused Russian propagandist; he literally doesn’t talk about anything else. So if your priors tell you he has a point about something, you should revisit your priors.

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km fedyk 🐀 @karigrafia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Visiting my allotment garden makes me worse than insta psych influencers. I become a paragon of positive thinking. A fountain of affirmations. A giant of gratitude. Who knew that growing carrots could give me such a high

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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meerbuschknitter.bsky.social @meerbuschknitter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It's Autumnal knits on #showmeyourknits this week. This is my Orchard Thieves design - the first yoked sweater design I ever published. Still a firm favourite! 🧶 #knitting #bskyknits #knitsky #orchardthieves www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

Yoked sweater in greens/browns/ dark red with pattern of birds and foliage.

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km fedyk 🐀 @karigrafia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As a psychologist, I don’t appreciate how this piece is throwing psych as a whole to discredit Pinker; yes, evo psych is mostly nonsense, and the reproducibility crisis was real, but we know about it because psychologists reproduce studies to confirm findings and use this to improve methodology

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Much gratitude to Usman for his kind words. He's a fantastic writer himself, one I've read as a fellow South Asian (our governments & ethnonationalists may hate each other, but the people of our countries are joined by history and culture) for a long time now. I'm so excited for his debut novel:

penguinrandomhouse.com

A Dark and Narrow House by Usman T. Malik: 9798217043910 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

"Some writers go a step past, into the darkness, but that step past is just a starting point for Usman T. Malik . . . Follow his voice. If you dare." —Stephen Graham Jones, bestselling author of...

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I've seen people snarking about this & as someone who is, if anything, politically to the left of me, just said to me: "You don't fight with people who are doing what you want." Yep, he prepared his remarks—it isn't inauthentic to be careful when addressing the monumental error you just made. 2/

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

Referring to the harm as being caused by LLMs, when it is caused by people, actually serves to exonerate the people as if they did not make explicit decisions.

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UofG Fantasy @uofgfantasy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The second European Conference on the Fantastic, Fantastic Spaces and Places, will take place at the University of Karlstad in Sweden from June 15th to 17th 2027. CfP here (deadline Nov 1st): www.kau.se/kufo/aktivit... Hope to see many of you there!

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Fantastic Spaces and Places | Karlstads universitet

The second European Conference on the Fantastic Karlstad, Sweden 15-17 June, 2027

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km fedyk 🐀 @karigrafia.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Antek, obligatory reading in primary school, a novella about hardships of 19th c rural life. Includes a scene where a girl is burned alive in the oven to cure her fever. I wish I could forget it.

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

Over 4 years since i wrote this appendix to my dissertation in which i explain the entire spiritual foundations and metaphysical commitments of the predominant contemporary "AI" movement in a somewhat dinner party skit.

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km fedyk 🐀 @karigrafia.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

so how’s that strategy of doing business in Russia going huh

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram:

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Lior 🇺🇦 | knitting design+garment mods @jolior.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Magdeburg trans group has now their own profile bsky.app/profile/frei... Next Sunday: clothes swap n crafts #transjoy #transresistance #SaxonyAnhalt #noAfD

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026

To ppl suggesting Stanford as an "independent Anthropic & OpenAI auditor" “The membrane between academia and industry...is practically nonexistent at Stanford, a school so entangled with tech that it can be hard to tell where the university ends and the businesses begin” nymag.com/intelligence...

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You Are Not a Parrot

And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this.

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Kol Ford @kolford.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sign ups for Just a Little Lovin' UK 2027 end tomorrow! Like so many people this larp means a lot to me personally and I want to make sure everyone who wants to participate has the opportunity to do so. Whoever you are. xx

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JALL SIGN UP FORM

Welcome to Just a Little Sign ups. Following the usual method of sign ups for this larp we will ask you to choose characters you wish to play and then offer you a place on the larp based on our abilit...

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A medieval #ship was reused as basement ceiling in Konstanz (Southern Germany), it reveals rare clues medieval shipbuilding at Lake Constance. archaeologymag.com/2026/08/medi...

The photo shows the ceiling made of a flat-bottomed sailing vessel. The planks are clearly visible. A photographer is taking a picture.

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Dr. Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi @rjelevi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I continue to be baffled when people suppose it's not incredibly insulting to neurodivergent and otherwise disabled people to assume that we can't think.

$Screenshot from a recent ADDitude magazine email, from my spam email account: "AI for ADHD Brains at Work: New Ways to Support Executive Function Date & Time: Wednesday, September 9, 2026 at 1pm EDT (12pm Central; 11am Mountain; 10am Pacific) Find it in your time zone » Expert: Diann Wingert, MSW WEBINAR SPONSOR: Inflow Adults with ADHD are positively bursting with ideas, ambition, or effort. In short supply, often, are executive functioning skills. For decades, the standard advice has been to borrow someone else’s EFs — a body double, an assistant. Now, artificial intelligence (AI) can fill in gaps for a fraction of the cost, at any hour, and without judgment. Yes, AI is controversial and has its downsides for sure. But with the right prompts and strategy, it has the potential to be life-changing. This webinar will offer a practical, hype-free framework for using AI as an executive function support. Attendees will learn which tasks AI handles well, and which ones it doesn’t. It will also address the questions thoughtful users should be asking about privacy, accuracy, and over-reliance."$

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/09/2026

Every single techbro that was sniggering behind their hands at Extinction Rebellion in 2019 is now sitting the corner rocking back and forth and chattering madly about how the large language model is going to wipe out humanity

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Anthropic estimates risk of humanity’s extinction from AI at over 10% — The Verge
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Anthropic researcher pegs AI extinction risk above 10%
An Anthropic safety researcher says artificial intelligence carries a greater-than-10% chance of killing all humans within the next decade.
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Anthropic’s Lead Researcher Puts AI Extinction Risk Above 10% This Decade
AI extinction risk raises serious concerns as Anthropic's lead researcher predicts over 10% chance of human extinction in next decade.
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‘AI could kill us all’: Why this Anthropic researcher walked away
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon has quit, warning that frontier AI labs like Anthropic and OpenAI are racing toward self-improving...
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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"the raw data of a novel" 🙃 The way AI evangelists talk about art is truly alien to me. (From a comment left on an article of mine.)

If you put in the raw data that is needed to write this novel and all the ideas are yours what is wrong with having AI write it? All the foundation was yours. Maybe you're not that great of a writer, but hey you can sure craft a plot and storyline, build characters and design your own world. Yet the problem comes in putting it all together. Isn't that writers use to do before AI was hire GHOST writers to finish a manuscript?

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Lola | Third Vault & Johnson Ofair @thirdvaultyarns.com · 09/09/2026

Guess I haven't quite finished going down both memory lane & pulling books off the bookshelves! This Vault Keeper's Library special is coming to Yarndale! The Ninefox Gambit is the first in a fantastic series by Yoon Ha Lee which kickstarted my tradition of leaving cons with a pile of books. 📚️

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...

theverge.com

LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby

Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.

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km fedyk 🐀 @karigrafia.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

these people will justify ableism and speciesism as their god-given right but show them a glorified autocorrect and they rally for its “selfhood” and “feelings”

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Strange Horizons Fiction Submissions open on the 1st of October, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC! The max word count per story will be 5,000 words. There will be a 1,000 story cap. Once we reach that number of submissions, the window will close. Link to more information ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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km fedyk 🐀 @karigrafia.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

tis the foraging season and learning about new fungi from Polish and Finnish sources at the same time sure is a ride

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Do I want satisfaction? or do I want to write a story that feels disjointed and horrific and too fast and breathless and then robs you of your future, like a colonial empire actually does to the people under it's thumb? We have people who write these stories! they will make you uncomfortable!

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Once again, the implicit assumption of nearly every argument for “AI in the classroom” is that the real subject of every course must be (the benefits or shortcomings of) AI

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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I fight for a world where “culture war” means “sourdough contest“

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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 05/09/2026

Hi folks, we're 202 away (total) from meeting these goals! One-stop giving - Too many links? Want me to sort out where your funds go? tiny.cc/divyafunds -- Retaj bullet wound healthcare: 433/520 chuffed.org/project/1232... Ahmed survival & legal: 133/250 chuffed.org/project/ahmedf

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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 04/09/2026

I don't know what to say anymore about the giving circle, or what to say about Akram that he isn't constantly testifying about. Read his own words. 1640/3500 by Sunday. We will be 1300 short. Our worst week since May 2025. Give / find the Abdelwahed family's link here. chuffed.org/project/hope...

An orange graphic featuring a black ink illustration of a crouching falcon looking off in the distance. Title: “Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza giving circle". Text: Six families are completely starting over—amidst their grief and pain, they have lost their homes, livelihoods, and communities, and must still seek food and shelter. Help them start over and continue to survive this life-and-death situation. Click "weekly"! https://tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCircle.”

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Happy Rice Truck Day to all who observe

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Oh I missed this Once again I’m struck by the vacuous yet arrogant emptiness of these people, they are incurious and uncaring, and the world tells them they are special and wonderful for being like this

To Sam's way of thinking, the case against Shakespeare could be made with basic statistics:
"I could go on and on about the failings of Shakespeare ... but really I shouldn't need to: the Bayesian priors are pretty damning.
About half the people born since 1600 have been born in the past 100 years, but it gets much worse than that. When Shakespeare wrote almost all Europeans were busy farming, and very few people attended university; few people were even literate probably as low as ten million people. By contrast there are now upwards of a billion literate people in the Western sphere. What are the odds that the greatest writer would have been born in 1564? The Bayesian priors aren't very favorable."
(Michael Lewis, "Going Infinite")

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