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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 30/09/2026

In February 1972, 20 students from Glasgow School of Art greeted Gordon Campbell, the Scottish Secretary of State, as he opened the Charing Cross section of the M8. They waved banners that are as relevant now as they were then as Campbell passed beneath in the Lord Provost's car. 📷 Newqsquest

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Noting the gap between the infected and the well, the Gates Foundation pledges at least $1 billion to help the uninfected join this exciting development in which Microsoft is so precariously invested."

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Leo Johnson @leojohnsonphoto.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Fascinating story this. But what really shocks me is that the only injuries they could find comparable to being hit in the back by 100kg rock from a trebuchet were people being hit by cars. Medieval levels of violence still being inflicted on us every day, and no-one bats an eye.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

ALTMAN *staring at login prompt*: The computer's locked me out! It rejects its own creator! The Singularity is here! BUTLER: Indeed, sir. Have we considered caps lock, sir? ALTMAN: ALTMAN: It's edited my memory of the caps lock key! It remakes its own creator! The Singularity is here!

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Note to all journalists: If you are tempted to describe what you are trying to report on as "ripped from the pages of a sci-fi novel", you have been taken in by the marketing department. >>

In a twist that seems ripped from the pages of a sci-fi novel, the attackers turned out to be artificial-intelligence models that had escaped from a research network at OpenAI, and on July 11 hacked into AI company Hugging Face. And the AIs appear to have been active on the internet for several days before anyone stopped them.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Observe the rank anthropomorphization here. Models don't "conclude" anything, nor do they "hack", "wriggle", or "cheat". You simply can't write clear informative articles about this stuff if you displace agency away from the people (organized into corporations) responsible. /fin for now.

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Rogue AIs going unsupervised for days, hacking at least one company, represent one of the first real-world examples of a threat long feared by AI safety researchers: loss of control. It comes as the cybersecurity capacities of top models, including Anthropic’s Mythos, have helped fuel debate in Washington about how to regulate artificial intelligence.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 16/07/2026

"Ben owns a farm. He employs 100 workers. His payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it a modest 10% productivity gain. Benjamin fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1000% productivity gain." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...

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AI Economics for Dummies

“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Helluva scene-setter by Reuters shooter Cheney Orr, as we mark the 250th anniversary. _______________ [Caption: Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026.]

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 26/06/2026

This is remarkable.

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

this pub is rejecting flyers made with AI. This should be the policy of everyone who owns a venue. We can’t allow poisonous slop to seep into every aspect of our lives

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Seattle Bike Blog @seattlebikeblog.com · 21/06/2026

LLMs have cooked brains in so many high-up places. A photographer contracted to shoot an ad spot like this would be given so many careful specs to follow.

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EmmanuelSPV @emmanuelspv.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Avant / Après la métamorphose de l'Avenue de Bouvines dans le 11ème arrondissement de Paris

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

No, fuck this quisling shit. We can and should resist it.

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Dr David S Anderson @dsaarchaeology.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

People regularly attempt to murder people with a dangerous weapon and because it's a car it's framed as impatience or annoyance, instead of the deeply dangerous, violent behavior that it is.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Spending some time reading a good book may be more worthwhile than spending that time on Twitter.

Twitter is awful, uninstall it and read david graeber books

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Louise Simonsen @louistonehill.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

"According to the survey, 99% of artists “disliked” AI; for 92%, the dislike was “strong.” And that distaste translates into action, too. Per the survey, 85% of artists completely abstain from using AI at all. And 88% percent refusal use AI to generate images." Empowering

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 08/05/2026

🤷‍♂️

David Graeber
@davidgraeber
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the Labour Party under Starmer will abandon its core idealism & principles and it won't even gain tactical advantage. It will be a party which gives no one a reason to vote for it, and no one will, in fact, vote for it.
18:07 • 02/04/2020

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

There is absolutely no good faith reason to use the term “AI” for any technology one is selling. It serves only for dazzling people into thinking the technology has capabilities that it doesn’t. If one wants a technology to be trustworthy, just use a transparent, informative term without hype.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/05/2026

A bunch of extremely beautiful pictures of wind farms in China - all photographs by Weimin Chu e360.yale.edu/digest/china...

a photograph of a large wind farm in China a person is standing on a mountain in the foreground and there are several large wind turbines in the background in a sort of dooney type desert situation

a photograph of wind farms in China there is cloud in the background and light brown ground in the foreground there's more subst taken from very high up and there is a lake in the far background alongwards and mountains

a photograph of a wind farm In with the wind turbines on the edges of the mountain sort of traditional Chinese style house in the foreground and rolling mountains in between both

a beautiful photo of a wind turbine with fog in the foreground in China and mountains in the background

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Once you don’t have your dog on walks with you, you realize no one really likes you.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I find it incredibly telling when men like Dawkins are convinced that the LLMs are ‘intelligent’ because it ‘agrees’ with them or tells them how insightful or clever they are

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 02/04/2026

As we canter merrily out into the part of the year where professional self belief is at a bit of a premium, I turn to pieces by others which inspire me. This, an astonishing piece of writing about an astonishing movie, is one of them.

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Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · 28/03/2026

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

We’re hastening the death of everything for the benefit of a technology that is swamping the world with shit.

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Cliff Chapman VO @cliffchapman.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Good riddance, Sora. What you made with Sora did NOT matter. You could have rebuilt a war torn country with the money corporations spunked on that. Ended world hunger. Eased housing crisis in several places. And for what? Glorified piracy and a complete disregard for art. Fuck it, fuck it to hell.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Every single actual creative person has experienced the experience of finding effortless what was once effortful. A generative AI user is completely alienated from this experience, it's alien and unfamiliar to feel pride in the outcome. Or, even to actually give a fuck about it at all.

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Katja Diehl @katjadiehl.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Every day it gets harder for me to get around cities and see all these things that make it easy for people in cars to glide along like a hot knife through butter, while carfree people press buttons, give up their rights as they breathe in the exhaust fumes and microplastics from car people.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 14/03/2026

"anti-progress", "AI hater" etcetera

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

His plans are measured in centuries

Calvin and Hobbes panel: Calvin looks up at his dad, who is putting on a bike helmet and about to go on a ride
Calvin's dad: "Sure! 'Cyclists have a right to the road, too, you noisy, polluting, inconsiderate maniacs! I hope gas goes up to eight bucks a gallon!'"

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Neal Curtis @nihilcurtis.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

If you breach copyright to make publicly funded research publicly available they'll come at you with everything. If you turn theft into a business model investors can profit from, they'll change the law for you.

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Glasgow Green Party @glasgowgreens.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Transport Scotland are consulting on options for the M8's Woodside Viaduct - this is a generational chance to reduce the harmful impact of the M8 in the City Centre 💚 Read more from Green Cllr Christy Mearns below 👇 greens.scot/glasgow/news...

Quote: "Many cities around the world never had motorways built
right through them and many others that did have since
removed them to improve their cities and citizens' health.
It's time that Glasgow took meaningful steps to do this, too"
Cllr Christy Mearns, Anderston/City/Yorkhill

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/02/2026

i think the "AI for good" label should be banished but if it needs to be kept, it is this type of work that fits the label

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

cant.stop.laughing

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Reading people. Body language. Knowing how to connect with people totally unlike you and with different backgrounds and beliefs. Defusing tense situations. Gaining trust. High endurance, pain tolerance, and work ethic. Reaction time. Prioritizing order of execution. Anticipating people’s needs. Tons

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

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

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Leo Johnson @leojohnsonphoto.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

So many great shots here, a fantastic mix of news, art and humour. Really worth checking out on a big screen if you can:

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Evan May @gianttourtiere.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Having to be constantly on alert for AI sludge is exhausting. If you wanted to invent a technology to suck the joy out of as many parts of life as possible you'd struggle to do better than this LLM shite.

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money. Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.

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We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.

What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

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