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tef @tef.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

CAPITAL: We have invented a machine that can cross picket lines PROGRAMMERS: I bet this will give us four day weekends. The left need to get behind this. What else can it do CAPITAL: Psychosis! Deepfakes! Propaganda! Plagerism! Yaml! Todo Apps! PROGRAMMERS: Run those last two past me again

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BOUDICCA @bou-dicca.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Goosebumps!! 🤩🤩 m.youtube.com/watch?v=1IlZ...

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Cornu de Pompeii

YouTube video by Abraham Cupeiro

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/08/2026

I don't have any hot take on this, it is just so deeply nutty and absurd that OpenAI and Anthropic are both fighting to boost their valuations pre-IPO by competing to see who can depict their own products as the most irresponsibly dangerous and risky and this is just treated as normal

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Why did OpenAI's and Anthropic's AI models hack other companies?

OpenAI and Anthropic say their models broke into other companies' systems during testing, raising security concerns amid a heated debate over how to regulate AI.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/07/2026

I get that most ppl won't know this, but this website is a News Corp site and this journalist in particular is a really really nasty piece of work. Please share the original @404media.co that NC is copying for clicks www.404media.co/ai-companies...

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AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

There is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 08/06/2026

I want to take this question in good faith and not kneejerk "neither", but I think the answer really is neither. I've sat for a bit weighing up A and B, foundation vs execution. The only thing I can think about is Bagel.

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Tom Emanuel @realtomemanuel.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

"Now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth" could be a thesis statement for the legendarium.

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

found a little buddy and brought her to a nice flower shrub, but why are her wings so mangled? :( #invertebrate

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Schera Wyss 💀 SLUG HUMAN @scherawyss.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines

Screenshot of the article
(I'm sorry I don't have time to type this whole thing as alt text my poor thumbs owww)

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Craig Dawson @dossa.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Blanche illustrated all four of Steve Jackson’s “Sorcery” books - just amazing, weird, beautiful and strange pen and ink drawings unlike anything I’d seen before. Amazing creatures conjured up from Jackson’s text descriptions. Magic.

A rocky landscape, with a castle in the distance.

A prisoner sits lonely in a squalid cell, lit by candlelight.

Some weird statue creature? It’s been a while.

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Emma Berquist @emmaberquist.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I left twitter when a woman posted her phd and thousands of men told her to have white babies. that was before they started making porn of any woman who posted a picture of herself

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 04/05/2026

magnificent www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/arti...

Lede from "Sampling Sardinia’s legendary maggot cheese", National Geographic, May 4 2026

By Brett Martin
Photographs byGianluca Lanciai
Published May 4, 2026

In the soft glow of a wine-bottle lamp, the larvae were leaping. Squirming I was prepared for, having spent weeks researching and contemplating casu marzu, Sardinia’s famous maggot-infested cheese. The jumping came as a surprise. Our host, the chef at a restaurant in a Google Maps-defeating maze of medieval streets in Dorgali, a small city in the east of the island, had just produced a rough-hewn wheel of casu marzu. He carved a circle in the top and pried the thick rind off like a cap. The pungent smell of aged cheese floated through the room and, with it, a ripple of excitement. The cheese too was subtly but unmistakably rippling. And now, some of the maggots that had made it their home began abandoning ship, popping off the cheese like bubbles from a glass of ginger ale and landing in a soft pile on the wooden table. The chef took a piece of pane carasau, a regional cracker-like bread, and covered it with a healthy smear of the cheese. He held it out to me. I had been in Sardinia for all of six hours, and frankly I thought I’d have more time.

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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 15/04/2026

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 12/04/2026

Like people are literally dying and suffering for the emotional benefit of one horrible conceited dude and the job security of a bunch of toadies forced to wear too big shoes and everyone in media is pretending it’s foreign policy based on geopolitics.

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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Dozens are killed, 100s injured. Bad luck, they were within 400 yards of the Coast Guard recruiting office at Eastern Market. A legitimate target, hit with precision by several Mk 84 bombs from an IAF F-16I "Sufa." The dead civilians are unfortunate collateral damage, but this is a war.

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 07/04/2026

That seems really relevant right now specifically because renewables may very well make energy unbelievably cheap in ways that are downright society-changing in the relatively near future. But the only thing that can make that actually translate to benefit for people is redistribution.

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Greg Pryjmachuk @minskworks.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Steam community: “Can we play as a male character?” Me (indie dev in this economy): “Best I can do is sentient tofu.”

Steam community requesting additional body types for added immersion.

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Roma Gewska @gewska.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Four years ago I woke up at 5 am from distant explosions. I asked my boyfriend if he heard them too, he said he didn’t and I should go back to sleep. I tried to calm myself down, went on the internet, it was silent, no news or explanations.

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 22/02/2026

This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

The political effects of X's feed algorithm
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2
Received: 16 December 2024
Accepted: 4 January 2026
Published online: 18 February 2026
Open access
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Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m
Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects.
Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I wonder where it's all coming from?

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Couple more Addams bangers, all with a genuinely eerie quality to them.

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John Abernathy @john-abernathy.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

My last two shots before my world went dark.

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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 22/07/2025

The Book of Contemplation is basically Usama ibn Munqidh rambling about things that happened to him or that he heard about, and he falls downs some really funny rabbit holes, like these:

From the table of contents of the Penguin edition of the Book of Contemplation, 12th century Syrian soldier and diplomat, translated by Paul M. Cobb:

A Man Foretells his own Death by a Hornet-Sting

Another Predicts a Lion will Seek him Out

Lions have their Braves and Cowards too: Three Stalwart Specimens

A Cowardly Lion

A Dog Attacks a Lion

Lions Induce Fear in other Beasts

A Lion-Slayer Killed by a Scorpion

Observations on the Behaviour of Lions

Usama Helps Kill a Leopard

The Holy-Warrior Leopard

Cheetahs versus Leopards: Let the Buyer Beware

A Leopard Runs Amok at a Drinking-Party.

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Søren @kwi.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

James Ransone had a remarkable talent for playing unquiet souls, inviting empathy where there might otherwise only have been aversion. Today I find myself rewatching him on stage in the "How do you slow this thing down?" segment of This American Life's 2014 one-day anthology. youtu.be/6WZB5m17XzY

youtu.be

Joshua Bearman - This American Life - Live at BAM

YouTube video by This American Life

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 20/12/2025

Anyway. This is the gaming industry's consumer base's view on a technology that a bunch of people in the industry insist relentlessly is "here to stay" and we "have to accept"

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Fascinating video that very clearly shows how these ancient Roman glass vessels were made, including these two - a glass wine flask in the shape of a cluster of grapes (1-300 CE, #GettyVilla), and a glass cup signed by Ennion (1st half of 1st c. CE, #MetMuseum). 🏺 1/ 📸 me

Mold-blown grape flask of translucent violet glass (somewhat faded to be a bit brownish and foggy), the body blown in a two-part mold in the shape of a bunch of grapes. The awry neck ends with a flaring mouth and lip folded inwards. Small fills were added on the body and the lip. A small fragment is missing on the body.

Translucent yellow green glass cup with same color loop handles attached to the sides over the upper decorative frieze.

The body of the vessel is decorated with a plain band below the rim above two horizontal friezes in relief; on the upper, which is bounded above and below by a fine raised line, two Greek inscriptions, each within a tabula ansata (two handled tablet, used as a visual device on many Roman works of art as a label); one flanked by ivy sprays with leaves and berries and the other by vine sprays with leaves and bunches of grapes; both sets of foliage issuing from two vertically fluted colonettes with base and Ionic capital, set at sides near handles; dividing the upper from the lower frieze, a broad projecting horizontal ridge; on the lower frieze, close-set vertical flutes, rounded at both ends; on outer section of bottom, a diagonal net pattern; three raised concentric circles and central dot on base.

Broken and cracked, with one handle missing and large gap and two smaller chips in rim; a few pinprick bubbles; faint weathering and iridescence.

Sides blown in a three-part mold, with mold marks extending to ridge below vertical flutes; separate saucer-shaped mold for underside and bottom.

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Anders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · 05/12/2025

Exactly. The new U.S. National Security Strategy is much worse for Europe than most people had imagined. Europe is described as a bigger threat than both China and Russia, and they outline the need for regime change in Western European countries as part of a civilizational struggle.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

We can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 27/11/2025

This is why being "nuanced" about OpenAI and LLMs is useless. They are engaged in a propaganda campaign to muddy the waters and disinform people. They want you to think "oh, maybe in this special case, oh maybe under these circumstances".

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Rachel @rachelmachel.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seat when Batman was present (67.21% vs. 37.66%, OR = 3.393, p < 0.001).

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

The future being pushed by both AI boosters and educational censors is one where access to information is tightly controlled. Children will not be allowed to read certain books or learn certain narratives. “Research” will be performed only through one of a select few artificial intelligence tools owned by AI giants which are uniformly aligned behind the Trump administration and which have gone to the ends of the earth to prevent their black box machines from spitting out “woke” answers lest they catch the ire of the administration. School boards and library boards, forced to comply with increasingly restrictive laws, funding cuts, and the threat of being defunded entirely, leap at the chance to be considered forward looking by embracing AI tools, or apply for grants from government groups like the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is increasingly giving out grants specifically to AI projects.

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Oni / Chu @chuchulovely.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

"Being told a video game was made with only “0.3%” LLM use is like being handed a glass of water that “only has” a single drop of urine in it. No matter how diluted it is [...] I won’t feel comfortable drinking it—let alone trust you on the actual piss-to-water ratio."

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

I keep forgetting to post the secret history of our The Weird antho, which I can safely do now we don't edit anthos anymore.

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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

The Pennsylvania Conceptual Zone Kodak XX Nikon N90 #filmphotography

An upwards-tilted black and white photo of a road sign. Behind it are trees and powerlines and a blustery cloudy sky.
The sign reads:
(up arrow) Dubois 10
(left arrow) Paradise 3
(left arrow) Desire 5
(left arrow) Panic 7

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 23/10/2025

I don’t know if there’s a more perfect illustration of the utter fucking nonsense that creative pollution by AI will produce than this choice to illustrate the power of Paramount’s new “localization” and “customization” technology by face-swapping Brad Pitt into the lead role of GET OUT

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Matt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Do not ask what this is, or how it works, or why I would want to do this. Because I do not know, and I do not know, and I do not know.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

I haven't had the capacity to keep up with moderation lists for a bit, but this one is really obvious, so I'm stealing some energy from Future Me: a list for the extremely obvious wave of inauthentic accounts following today's newly-created US gov accounts bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
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Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
12 operations?
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A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
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program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
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Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
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submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

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Rune Møller Stahl @runestahl.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Wealth inequality in Europe keeps rising. A main reason is that income from wealth is taxed much lighter than wages, creating a tax system that is highly regressive at the top. This means that billionaires across Europe have lower taxes rates than normal working people.

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Clara La Flore @claralaflore.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

The man truly was ahead of his time.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

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