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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I am skeptical of the most florid claims being made about AI's destructive potential, but I do think we need to heavily regulate AI for the sole reason that I would like to hear less about all of these people.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh.

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NeuralStunner @neuralstunner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I hope you're prepared for the rest of the English-speaking world to call it "Pomp-eh".

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 23/09/2026

hahahahaha INCREDIBLE *CHINA IS HOLDING SENSITIVE F-35 PARTS DIVERTED TO HONG KONG *PENTAGON SAYS IT'S WORKING TO RETRIEVE STEALTHY JET PARTS *UPS FLIGHT WTH PARTS WAS HEADED TO US BEFORE BEING DIVERTED

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Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is truly excellent. “With the whole species riding shotgun” is a killer parting shot. You don’t have to agree to appreciate the clarity and logic of a specific set of tools for thinking about the problem. Maybe The Problem of our age.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 24/09/2026

What the actual fuck. Trump apparently used U.S. government money to air this gross propaganda ad on Fox News tonight. This version he posted on Truth Social a couple of weeks ago; when it aired on Fox News tonight it said "Paid for by the U.S. Government" underneath.

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NPR @npr.org · 24/09/2026

Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren asked Trump officials to explain why the Census Bureau's parent agency cut a ban on political interference from its scientific integrity policy, as NPR first reported. n.pr/4d56tVL

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Warren demands Trump officials explain removing a ban on interference in census data

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow

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Rollofthedice @hotrollhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Or is this an example of mere skepticism, or an example of a real argument? rollofthedice2.substack.com/p/paperclip-...

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Paperclip Maximization Is a Failure of an Idea

Why the thought experiment doesn’t add up

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Albany Cheshire @albanycheshire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

She's just code switching.

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Squirrels on suicide missions have knocked out power to Castle Rock, Colorado twice this week. Our investigation has revealed a century of squirrel attacks covered up by the pro-squirrel media.

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Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

How much of what we are experiencing is because Greenland appears oversized in the newly-popular Mercator projections?

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Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is what I hated most about working in QA. Literally no one was happy to see you coming.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...

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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats

Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

When they eventually make a movie about this time, please don't put the male politicians in good suits. IMO, the ugly, low rent tailoring should be part of the story.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 14/09/2026

One thing not getting as much attention re: Dario's essay. In it, he talks about the need for third party evaluators to review models for safety. But a few days before the essay, Anthropic... refused to submit its latest models to the UK's evaluator: www.ft.com/content/560e...

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Anthropic withheld latest AI model from UK testing agency

Decision to exclude Aisi has prompted fears inside British government of protectionist shift among tech groups

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Cally Beaton @callybeaton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Anyone who has ever complained about London Underground, complain no more.

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Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Something that genuinely doesn’t suck!

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Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’m very in my head right now about why both of these reactions are prevalent…and ARE they valid? In the sense of being morally OK? I’m not asking to judge anyone, I’m asking to guide my own behavior. I really struggle with what to do about good ideas from bad people.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

you can be arrested if you give water to people waiting on line to vote

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Yan Basque @yanbasque.com · 10/09/2026

Everyone claiming this is an "accessibility feature" for Deaf people, I urge you to familiarize yourself with the term "disability dongle." blog.castac.org/2022/04/disa...

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Disability Dongle | Platypus

Disability Dongles are contemporary fairy tales that appeal to the abled imagination by presenting a heroic designer-protagonist whose prototype provides a techno-utopian (re)solution to the design pr...

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Forget planting trees for a second. Let's talk about BOGS. Did you know that peatlands cover a tiny 3% of Earth’s land, but store MORE CARBON than all the world's forests combined?They are an ultimate MVP of our climate system and it’s time we start hyping them. Join me! 🧵 1/

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In what universe would a white Mayor be told he could not attend a commemoration in Oklahoma City because "Timothy McVeigh?"

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

every day it gets dumber and worse

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Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

So how much patriotic drinking of 🇨🇦 booze do I need to sign up for?

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Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Are you watching your bread in the new steam oven that you don’t know how to work and using The Force to guess temp and timing, or are you “Normal”?

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

we look at things like the US battery storage and go "well we should be doing that" and sure, we should be doing some of that. But we generate baseload out the ass. Thermal storage costs an order of magnitude less. We are already paying cities to improve infra. Simply lay one more pipe

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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

hurts to see somebody else living my dream

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Lisa Kramer @lisakramer.com · 06/09/2026

Good news about the Queen’s Park Crescent East sign: They remembered the apostrophe  Bad news: They had no idea where to put it

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie

Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 06/09/2026

If you're wondering why authors are getting so rabid here: First Anthropic stole our books. Then we got denied compensation because of US unjust copyright law and publishers failing to meet their contractual obligations. Then publishers and agents apparently claimed author shares. Now this.

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Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Interesting and vaguely concerning read. Anytime things get non-transparent and likely correlated, I worry.

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

obsessed with this from @racketmn.com. one of my core principles is that we need like 20x as much scene/street style photography from media outlets as we have. it's so wonderful racketmn.com/enjoy-43-lov...

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Enjoy 43 Lovely Portraits of Minnesotans Thriving at the 2026 MN State Fair - Racket

At the Great Minnesota Get-Together, humanity shines as bright as the midday Midway sun.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I like that this design appears to show the birth date of liberty as 1776, and its death as 2026

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Gods no. If we’d had the technology to do a “is this a good time” text in the 1880s it would never have occurred to anyone that cold calling would be a norm. If you call me without texting first I assume you either need to be bailed out of jail or picked up at the emergency room.

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Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Today I am preoccupied with rare events that are not in training data and consequential for autonomous systems. This fits the bill, I think? Are there other things like this I can hyper focus on?

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Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This one broke me today. No words. Tears and rage.

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I am going to regret this but we legit have so much room for data centres that dont use infinity water

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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Fox News complains that underage teenage girls aren’t getting pregnant enough: “The problem is teens and young adults. From ages 15-19, the fertility rate is down 70% in the last 2 decades, which means we are telling people who are young not to have babies.”

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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 01/09/2026

You're celebrating the death of a middle manager who *checks notes* was a lawyer who worked in a division ensured the business adhered to conflict of interest regulation. You're a garbage person who doesn't need a platform.

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 01/09/2026

There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places. —Wendell Berry

An image from 2023 showing a stretch of Weelaunee Forest destroyed to make way for the construction of a police militarization facility known as Cop City>

From this article: https://crimethinc.com/2023/09/05/understanding-the-rico-charges-in-atlanta-a-sweeping-indictment-seeks-to-criminalize-protest-itself

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Dean Eckles @eckles.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Friends don't let friends cite Ariely

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Adam @adam35.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

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Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I know there are a lot of stereotypes about how polite and kind Canadians are. I therefore think what comes next is going to surprise the f&$#k out of a lot of people. Eh, Buddy?

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