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Kristine Smith

@ksmithsf.bsky.social
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Spec fic writer (the Jani Kilian SF series and more). Joiner of coffee clubs. She/ her. BJ jackal. Book View Café member. www.kristine-smith.com

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 16h
165 years ago TODAY, Charles Darwin had a normal one. "I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.— I am going to write a little Book for Murray on orchids & today I hate them worse than everything…" I think about this letter a lot.
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To Charles Lyell   1 October [1861] | Darwin Correspondence Project
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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...
futurism.com
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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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"with Claude, we will no longer need lightly stoned weirdos who work at record stores because they are neurodivergent as hell and some band you've never heard of but is about to change your life is their special interest" these tech bros really hate anyone who was cooler than them in high school
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
This right here, and it’s not just about rape. It’s literally anything he does wrong.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Some writers go ballistic at the mere mention of AI because they take the training of AI models on their work to be a form of intellectual property theft. Like settler colonists, the AI boys want to treat it as a fiat accompli; "here's a pittance—let's move forward." But what if IP theft is ongoing?
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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!
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Charlotte Canning @cmcanning.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Every time I see this argument, I think of Steve Jobs. He always said that the undergraduate class that had the most impact on him was calligraphy. Today he’d only be allowed to take computer science and never encounter the learning that changed the world.
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I don't know who needs to hear this, but yes, you do deserve to treat yourself to a day of exploring bookstores, greenhouses, libraries, museums, cafés, and bakeries.
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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Interesting thread in a disturbing sort of way. But I read/write fiction and most all my friends read ALOT.
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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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Coulahan @eastenddad.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Sometimes McSweeney's hits so hard I think they should rename it FuckSweeney's.
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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Those eyes 👀 !
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Kitty @klparmley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Art historians who are job hunting, this really is a lovely part of NC. Halfway between the mountains and the beach. The town is small but near a lot of good stuff. So, best of urban and rural worlds.
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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’ve received so many free credit monitoring offers that I could be covered for the rest of my life if I could activate them sequentially.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Tens of thousands of voter registrations have gone unprocessed in Texas. Affecting large areas deeply. If you’re in Texas, check your registration is up to date and accurate ASAP. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/22/t...
texastribune.org
DPS voter registration applications weren’t sent to counties
Counties will start receiving a surge of applications less than two weeks before the Oct. 5 registration deadline, adding work at one of the busiest points in the election calendar.
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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Reposting this horrific saga so that when Sarah goes to war with British Airways she’s got viral numbers
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Liana Brooks @lianabrooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
*taps the mic* I have two extra openings for edits starting next week. Get some edits done and help me pay for car repairs! Www.LianaEdits.com #LianaEdits
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Precisely this—the power attributed to technology makes it incredibly useful for laundering responsibility
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Futurism @futurism.com · 22/09/2026
Careful what you share with Muse.
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Meta's New Muse AI Agent May Be the Creepiest Ever Released
Meta's new AI agent Muse nags you for amount of personal information and makes personalized suggestions that start to feel creepy.
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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Goth Robin!
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Gavin Sheridan @gavinsblog.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is the GoFundMe www.gofundme.com/f/our-friend...
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Donate to Our friend and colleague Eoghan Sweeney, organized by Joseph Galvin
Our friend, colleague and comrade Eoghan Sweeney has been diagnosed with termina… Joseph Galvin needs your support for Our friend and colleague Eoghan Sweeney
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
finally?????!????
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Sharon Lee 🌳🐉 🚀 @clankorval.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Disambiguation for fun and profit OR Which book is Which? sharonleewriter.com/2026/09/disa... #writingcommunity
sharonleewriter.com
Disambiguation – Sharon Lee, Writer
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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I feel some of this. Not all of it. But then the heat might do me in anyway.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I assume this is a troll, in which case it is a wonderful one.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
opb.org
Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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Andrew Reid @reidac.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/o...
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Opinion | A.I. Is a Threat, but Not in the Way You Think (Gift Article)
The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.
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Pile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 19/09/2026
Containing these things is really very basic network security. The reason it keeps happening is because they are lazy, incompetent or they wanted it to do what it did.
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This Day in Labor History: September 19, 1945. 24 fired female employees of the Lindstrom Tool and Toy Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut picketed outside the factory in protest of their firing to replace with returning men. Let's tell the often untold story of women workers in World War II!
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Here's a list of every media company we've linked to Brown Brothers Media: futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
Here's Every Known Publication Owned by Brown Brothers Media, Which Buys News Sites and Turns Them Into AI-Powered Content Mills
The little-known company Brown Brothers Media operates a vast media empire. Here are the many sites we've linked to the network.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Lot of issues here but one part that sticks out in light of the almost-attacked-a-Chinese-ship story today: people with very important jobs where lives are at stake have bought the hype and outsourced their whole brains to AI. We're going to see more and more of this. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
In the past year, the Defense Department has rapidly made Maven a cornerstone of the US military apparatus. Several former senior US military officials now work for Palantir, including some with high-level security clearances in Centcom’s Tampa headquarters. Their role is to keep the software functioning inside secure military environments. Some Centcom personnel expected Maven to flag stale information or inconsistencies in the underlying intelligence assembled for potential targets, the officials said. It’s not clear why they had such expectations.
The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.

The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode. According to two of the sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. Military planes were in the air, one of those sources and another source familiar with the incident said.

It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. CNN was not able to learn what the misidentified cargo was.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/09/2026
I think it’s pretty fun to watch the rationalist millenarian AI sex cult sputter and squawk like a flock of turkeys suddenly confronted with a mirror over “the public found out about you and they think you’re evil, but also enormous dorks.”
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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Can this be used to reassess the Anthropic decision (judge decision of fair use) IANAL so no idea.
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Sailor Michael @sailormichael.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If you asked me it cost us 3 elections. 2000, 2016 and 2024 and millions died because of it. You can fact check me on that.
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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Oddly reassuring. It’s not the chatbot behaving autonomously, it’s people not doing their jobs properly.
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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Definitely a thread worth reading and saving.
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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Unbelievable. Yet given other things I've read about that era, totally in keeping.
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Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · 16/09/2026
I spent 8 years living in a village in the middle of nowhere not far from an immigration detention centre. On one evening I was locking up the pub (for clarity I worked there I hadn’t just broken into it) Two men appeared from the pub car park shadows. They were walking slowly towards me
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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm my own boss, so I may be in trouble
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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🤯
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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Start the day with one of @davidzinn.bsky.social 's lovely critters,
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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The absolute best
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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
QFT
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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A bit of food history to fill the weekend.
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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 09/09/2026
Quick clinical note: If you have client who suddenly feels brilliant, overconfident and seems hypomanic without history of significant mood instability OR a client who suddenly out of the blue seems to feel confused, incapable, insecure & everything they do is wrong - ASSESS THEIR AI USE.
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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
25 years ago, almost every plane that was over the North Atlantic when the second tower was hit was forced to land in Newfoundland. A call was on the radio: they needed folks who spoke various languages to come to the stadium to help organize the sea of humanity that just showed up at our door.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 11/09/2026
Gentle reminder that if Anthropic and the rest of these "A.i." companies succeed, they will replace "knowledge workers" with bullshit machines controlled by far right assholes. That's a move that only benefits fascists and billionaires and fascist billionaires - not you and me.
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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 11/09/2026
Here’s my attempt to explain what the hell is happening here. tedium.co/2026/09/11/i...
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The Worst Spam Emails: Inside iLands' AI Agent Hustle
iLands, a new AI agent-centric startup, is spamming creatives like me numerous times a day. What do its agents want? My job. Why? They need to buy more tokens.
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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Welp, if I ever get a smart TV, it definitely won’t be an LG futurism.com/future-socie...
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LG TVs Caught Secretly Recording Users and Scanning Their Homes For Other Devices, Even When Disconnected From the Internet
An investigation found that LG smart TVs are spying on customers and recording clean audio of their conversations.
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