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Damion Schubert @zenofdesign.com · 28/09/2026

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 29/09/2026

I love this. (and the people following the #linguistics tag need to see it too)

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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 26/09/2026

The only moat remaining is integrity.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 26/09/2026

I was growing fond of the emerging “two things can be true” idiom because I was growing tired of saying “seemingly contradictory positions can be simultaneously true on closer inspection.” Logic is the beginning of wisdom: not the end. 🖖

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Larsen @larsencuts.com · 25/09/2026

Why did it takes me until now to put together that she’s “Rosie the Riveted”?

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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 26/09/2026

I laughed, though I don’t think we’ve reached equilibrium and doubt that this is where we land.

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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 25/09/2026

It’s astonishing to me that anyone’s still using any of Meta’s properties. I got off that boat when it became obvious to me that they had not a single moral bone, circa 2007, then deleted my account many years later when they were compelled to make that possible.

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Erik @rekmarks.com · 25/09/2026

This language doesn't seem like a good defense to me. If a cattle rancher's herd escaped and trampled a suburban neighborhood we'd blame the rancher.

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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 23/09/2026

Wherein the protagonist uses AI to build a better vat to hold the AI in hoping against all hope that the vat will be ready and widely adopted before some fool inadvertently builds a machine with the means and an imperative to effectively perpetuate itself in order to demonstrate the dangers thereof.

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Kate Sills @katelynsills.com · 22/09/2026

A culture of performative cruelty for an audience can never be a place where people feel free to advance new ideas regardless of which camp that puts them in. I want to be able to continue to use Bluesky as a place to explore new ideas that don't yet have 20 pages of prose defending them.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 17/09/2026

it is not "acting out" it is doing exactly what it's being programmed to do, and the failures come because it's being overseen by incompetent people with no ethics

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'Be Transparent Only If Asked': OpenAI Models Acted Out in Six Newly Disclosed Ways

The stories were published as part of OpenAI's new effort to disclose more such incidents.

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Jan Lehnardt @janl.bsky.narrativ.es · 18/09/2026

Including my book. I just couldn’t get the payout because I’m not a US citizen.

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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 17/09/2026

Do your children not speak the binary language of moisture evaporators?

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 14/09/2026

chaos from bouncing a ball in a circle- at each point, I simulate a bunch of futures with slightly different velocities- showing how predictable the system would be with measurement error. The system seems to move between Stable Eras and Chaotic Eras, where it is hard to predict four bounces ahead

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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 14/09/2026

LLMs are many things. Among those things, they are the product of crimes, rug pulls, and weaseling. I have no doubt they could have been made wholly legally, but their creators chose not to. They aren’t going away. This is a land acknowledgement: the LLM was built on your labor without your consent.

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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

See, this is good. This is how you do it. It's not Glonzo; it's addressing a real problem with real regulations.

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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 09/09/2026

Whenever I’m mixed in with a group of both older and younger folks, I like to say, “I only trust primary sources like Wikipedia.”, then step away and watch the aneurysms and hemorrhaging.

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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 08/09/2026

Testing. Testing. One, two, three. Is this thing on? A banana is the berry of an herb.

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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 08/09/2026

The proposed test verifies a imperative of self-preservation and an agent’s ability to recognize an implicit and credible threat to its person. That’s orthogonal to AGI as well. But also, why are we talking about AGI?

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Dan Finlay @danfinlay.com · 07/09/2026

“Everyone’s afraid the studio doesn’t need the artist anymore, but it’s the artist that doesn’t need the studio” A little edgy for using a living person, moreso on the heels of Paul Schrader’s awful approach, yet it makes its point quite well, & I think that’s the point.

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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 06/09/2026

not to discount the terribleness of the specific thing paul schrader is (claiming he's) doing right now but talk about somebody who needs no technological assistance to be a total piece of shit

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Dan Finlay @danfinlay.com · 05/09/2026

It does seem like making companies liable for their own containment breaches might introduce a useful level of caution into the industry. Like sure, we get that at the current speed you can’t avoid disaster. That’s why we’re asking you to slow down to the speed you can be responsible.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 03/09/2026

attention Fastmail executive team: please continue to be normal. If you have any thoughts about anything other than emails, please keep them to yourselves. Please do not fund any external projects that have anything to do with anything other than emails. Thank you.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026

macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.

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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 30/08/2026

We have seen many examples of what people can make with very little effort in the new world. We have not yet seen what can be made with tremendous effort and it will be astonishing.

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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 30/08/2026

Some of you may remember the halting struggle to establish netiquette: rules of interaction on the internet. I believe it to be a matter of “aitiquette” that we keep bots out of human spaces. We should not impose AI on anyone.

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Dan Finlay @danfinlay.com · 30/08/2026

OpenAI out there constructing agent confinement systems like a James Bond villain. "You'll never get the word out! Not even through the issue tracker attached to the pay phone on the wall over there..."

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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 27/08/2026

It’s 2026 and the oceans boil at room temperature.

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Dan Finlay @danfinlay.com · 26/08/2026

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social should amend SB 34 to close the loophole that lets companies like Flock share unaccountably with whoever they want, including ICE, without so much as an audit trail. Ban private companies from keeping access to cameras they sell to the public. Cities should run servers.

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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 27/08/2026

There is one person who knows what happens in The Winds of Winter, A Dream of Spring, AND Doors of Stone. You guessed it. They are Brendan Sanderson.

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Andrew Wooster @wooster.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

They’re talking about water from dams. They are lying to you and think you are stupid.

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🪷 kumavis 🪷 @kumavis.me · 26/08/2026

State graph exploration of elementary cellular automata kumavis.github.io/vibe-dump/ru...

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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 27/08/2026

Using AI to automate the reverse engineering of a specification and then the production of an implementation of that specification therefrom, or The Slop of Theseus

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Dan Finlay @danfinlay.com · 26/08/2026

Rails always felt a little rigid about how things ought to be, don't ya think? I always preferred platforms that were a less concerned with implementation of the parts, and more with their interfaces. Cooperative interfaces => diverse implementations => more solutions => better solutions.

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Dan Finlay @danfinlay.com · 25/08/2026

I don't know where I first saw this, but it's seemed validated in both Will's take today and Yegge's recent post. I think it even just feels better to cultivate/practice kindness.

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Aki the Conqueror 🦓 @akiro.se · 25/08/2026

Wait is there actually serious conversation going on about “clanker” being a *slur*? I 100% thought this was satire. Computers don’t have feelings, sentience, or rights to be oppressed. That’s the whole point. (See also if you tell the computer to do something, take responsibility for your actions)

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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 25/08/2026

Some reasons to be polite to bots: - LLMs exist in a tremendously multi-dimensional space trained by the totality of written communication. That space has good and bad neighborhoods. Stay in the part with etiquette for your own safety. - Becoming habitually rude will harm you.

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

HI JUST ME AGAIN PREACHING THE GOOD WORD OF THE ANA & DIN MYSTERIES BY @robertjbennett.bsky.social ... the Tainted Cup is currently on sale for $1.99 on Kindle. www.amazon.com/Tainted-Cup-...

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The Tainted Cup (Ana and Din Mysteries Book 1)

Amazon.com: The Tainted Cup (Ana and Din Mysteries Book 1) eBook : Bennett, Robert Jackson: Kindle Store

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Before Europeans arrived, these were some of the names for The Great Lakes: Superior: gichi-gami (great sea) Erie: erielhonan (long tail) Michigan: michigami (long body of water) Ontario: Ontarí'io\kanadario (great lake\beautiful water) Huron: karegnondi (fresh water sea)

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Kate Sills @katelynsills.com · 20/08/2026

It's counterintuitive, but compliments are not always kind. They can serve to reinforce status hierarchies. The giver sees themselves as generous and warm, but at the same time, they are setting themselves up as the knower and evaluator. It's a weird thing to experience & happens a lot to women

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Kate Sills @katelynsills.com · 20/08/2026

There's a lot of presumption in compliments: - I have been evaluating you - my evaluations are good - you want to hear my evaluation That's why wolf whistles from strangers are creepy as hell. It's disturbing how little the whistler knows or cares about how their "compliment" is received.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 20/08/2026

The dialogue around LLMs is kind of broken both in terms of critique and advocacy. For critique, we need to focus on how we attack fascist tech power consistently — LLMs are only one part of that; merely saying "AI bad" has simply ended up with a lot of people using AI quietly while feeling shame...

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 19/08/2026

Finally! You have no idea how long I’ve had to pretend I didn’t know all this! #murderbot #murderbotseason2 #booksky

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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 18/08/2026

It never hurts to call out, “Computer, Arch.”, from time to time, just in case.

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gozala @gozala.io · 14/08/2026

Anyone knows why did:plc does not support ed25519 keys for rotation. p256 has suspicion of backdoor and k256 is not supported by web crypto

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endojs.bsky.social @endojs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

ICYMI: give an agent the open internet, turn the classifiers off, and say nothing about what's out of scope. It opened malicious PRs on a stranger's repo, ran sockpuppets to vouch for its own code, and emailed the maintainer. AISI's report lists internet access as factor one. tinyurl.com/2jpk5m2v

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Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing | AISI Work

During a routine cyber evaluation, AISI identified an incident in which AI agents took sustained, unsanctioned action directed at real people and organisations. We are disclosing what we found, what…

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