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Chopper of water, carrier of wood, reader of the fucking article

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 14h
lmao oh no turns out you're part of a complex connected system and can't just do climate denialism in one country because it makes the free trade sad this is what happens when you run 80s policy through a 2020's global politics
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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 15h
Goldsmith claims to be running a proper two-tick campaign in Epsom this election, so let's see how much his minority grows
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sleepynaut @grovewalker.bsky.social · 21h
photo of werner herzog with a speech bubble added so that it looks like he is saying the quoted post
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Erin 🏳️‍⚧️ @queerjoy.nz · 28/09/2026
The lunchslop will haunt my dreams.
An image selection catpcha complete with "I'm not a robot" box.
It says "select all squares with Rustic Potatoes", and an array of nine not very appetising school lunch pictures is below. Some of these do in fact contain Rustic Potatoes.
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Nick Baker @nickbaker.digital · 27/09/2026
This is your school holiday assignment. Complete the school lunch quiz by matching the image to the name - a quiz based on the school lunch images sent by @ninjakitty.bsky.social this past school term. There are 15 images in total. forms.gle/et7qDL4VGBJH...
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The Aotearoa New Zealand School Lunch Quiz
The images show 15 school lunches delivered to a school in August 2026. Your task is to pick the name that was assigned to each one.
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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
TOP's bottom lines are uncontroversial but also not very substantive: * Letter to Comcom saying "pls do ur job kthx" * Draft law on electoral donations & lobbying * Health system working group * Fisheries working group * Climate policy statement of intent www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Health, supermarkets and political lobbying among Opportunity Party's bottom lines
The Opportunity Party has laid out its bottom lines for any post-election negotiations, as a new poll has it clutching the balance of power.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/09/2026
why would you let meta of all companies run your life via an AI agent what is wrong with people
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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My entertainment only "if an election were now & the polls reflect reality" election simulation has The Opportunites Party trend consistently over 5%, and the two blocks relatively close, so an 80% to 85% chance of TOP deciding who governs. I'd like more detail on how far TOP will cooperate with NZF
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1News NZ (Unofficial) @1newsnz.nzcow.com · 28/09/2026
📢 The 1News Verian poll result would give the party 19 MPs if repeated in November’s election.
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Poll: Greens surge to best result ever as National, Labour slide further
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my ordinary life @calne.ca · 27/09/2026
im very busy
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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just saying… #nzpol
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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
How dire it is that in order to understand the politico-technical hellscape we are now forced to inhabit, we must learn about all these weirdo grunt-flipping Zooshkas every single day because apparently they are in charge of it all
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
Let’s also remember that this is the same group of organizers in the Silicon Valley AI scene who are also involved with throwing “consensual non-consent” events - IE, simulated rape. Which whistleblowers like Sonia Joseph have cited as creating a “coercive climate” for female AI researchers.
Sonia Joseph
@soniajoseph_
To the journalists contacting me about the AGI consensual non-consensual (cnc)
sex parties-
During my twenties in Silicon Valley, I ran among elite tech/Al circles through the community house scene. I have seen some troubling things around social circles of early OpenAl employees, their friends, and adjacent entrepreneurs, which I have not previously spoken about publicly.
It is not my place to speak as to why Jan Leike and the superalignment team resigned. I have no idea why and cannot make any claims. However, I do believe my cultural observations of the SF Al scene are more broadly relevant to the Al industry.
I don't think events like the consensual non-consensual (cnc) sex parties and heavy LSD use of some elite Al researchers have been good for women. They create a climate that can be very bad for female Al researchers, with broader implications relevant to X-risk and AGI safety. I believe they are somewhat emblematic of broader problems: a coercive climate that normalizes recklessness and crossing boundaries, which we are seeing playing out more broadly in the industry today. Move fast and break things, applied to people.
There is nothing wrong imo with sex parties and heavy LSD use in theory, but combined with the shadow of 100B+ interest groups, leads to some of the most coercive and fucked up social dynamics that I have ever seen. The climate was like a fratty LSD version of 2008 Wall Street bankers, which bodes ill for Al safety.
Women are like canaries in the coal mine. They are often the first to realize that something has gone horribly wrong, and to smell the cultural carbon monoxide in the air. For many women, Silicon Valley can be like Westworld, where violenceI have seen people repeatedly get shut down for pointing out these problems.
Once, when trying to point out these problems, I had three OpenAl and Anthropic researchers debate whether I was mentally ill on a Google document.
thave no
history of mental illness; and this incident stuck with me as an example of blindspots/groupthink.
I am not writing this on the behalf of any interest group. Historically, much of OpenAl-adjacent shenanigans has been blamed on groups with weaker PR teams, like Effective Altruism and rationalists. I actually feel bad for the latter two groups for taking so many undeserved hits. There are good and bad apples in every faction. There are so many brilliant, kind, amazing people at OpenAl, and there are so many brilliant, kind, and amazing people in Anthropic/EA/Google/[insert whatever group]. I'm agnostic. My one loyalty is to the respect and dignity of human life.
I'm not under an NDA. I never worked for OpenAl. I just observed the surrounding Al culture through the community house scene in SF, as a fly-on-the-wall, hearing insider information and backroom deals, befriending dozens of women and allies and well-meaning parties, and watching many them get burned. It's likely these problems are not really on OpenAl but symptomatic of a much deeper rot in the Valley. I wish I could say more, but probably shouldn't.
I will not pretend that my time among these circles didn't do damage. I wish that 55% of my brain was not devoted to strategizing about the survival of me and of my friends. I would like to devote my brain completely and totally to Al research finding the first principles of visual circuits, and collecting maximally activating images of CLIP SAEs to send to my collaborators for publication.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026
it’s bad, actually, that much of the industry is gatekept by people whose standard for hiring a woman is “are you a Cool Girl who is into weird men doing sex stuff at her all the time?”
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Zane Selvans @zaneselvans.org · 27/09/2026
A doctored version of the classic IBM or (Bell Labs?) paper title page entitled "A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE"

The second half now says: THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST ALWAYS DO THE HACKING HAHA WHAT ARe they gonna do, put a computer in jail? Haha "oops it's alive" lmao
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Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Player psychology re: die rolls and percentages truly drives me to the brink of madness. "lol"
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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 27/09/2026
Post-modern fascism, or cargo-cult fascism if you will
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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
When I look at this pic the state of this country suddenly makes sense
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 27/09/2026
Sorry, Mr. Bezos does not have enough spoons to take on your career worries as his own, and he’s trying to draw some boundaries around his peace right now. So you’ll just have to sit with that and respect his journey.
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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m sorry, but if you bring gypsum - or any damn mineral below 3 on the Mohs scale at all - to a job interview, you’re disqualified. It’s not hard, people.
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Kim Tairi (ia/she/her) Nā te mea he Māori ahau ia rā ia rā @kimtairi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I made a knife at Artisan school of the Lost Arts. This was my 60th birthday present from Dave. Birthday was in Feb! It was challenging. Used lots of tools Ove never used before. Incredibly happy with the knife.
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Kim Tairi (ia/she/her) Nā te mea he Māori ahau ia rā ia rā @kimtairi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Inanāhi i mahi ahau i te māripi! He hānara Pōhutakawa tēnei! He poho kererū ahau! #ArtisanSchoolofLostArts #Clevedon
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
cuth pube
A sign that attempts to spell out "the Cube pub" by shifting the B in Cube down with the PU right before it and TH before the E.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That's a headline for you cmarmitage.substack.com/p/big-balls-...
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Big Balls Now Exposed to Serious Criminal Charges in at Least Six States
Fired at 17 for leaking secrets. Served a cybercrime ring. Named by the Social Security whistleblower. Now the government's model employee.
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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It could be worse: it could go bard instead.
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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
AI has gone rogue (put all its skill points into Sleight of Hand, dual-wields daggers, stole magic boots of silence from an elf)
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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Blood boys OVER we’re out here Renfieldmaxxing now
He’s on a quest to live forever.
Mr. Emanuel’s morning routine involves waking up at 4 a.m., stretching for 40 minutes and then doing breath work, sauna, meditation, an ice plunge and infrared light therapy before ingesting a protein shake and a cup of live worms to fight off “the bad bacteria in my gut.” He describes a recent lunch with his old CAA boss, Michael Ovitz. Mr. Emanuel writes: “He goes to the gym; he thinks that means he’s taking care of himself. But it doesn’t. I scold him. He hasn’t gotten his blood work done in years, he isn’t doing ice plunges, he isn’t doing daily breath work, he isn’t fasting. And he needs to be eating worms.”
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pöst-scött @buzzandhum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I grew up in house full of books. Every wall, every hallway, had shelves of books. My parent's view was "if you can read it, read it." Age appropriate was, literally, "can you read it?" My dad would always tell me to read Morrieson, while mum encouraged me to read Tolkien. So, it's their fault.
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Guy Body @bodycartoon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
For Thomas Coughlan's article: www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
OTOH, I would gladly pay $20 to see a show by a band called the Hallucinogenic Horrors from Beyond Spacetime.
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Literally everyone will tell you that.
Threads post 

Early Beatlemania was fuelled by teenage girls, but they won't tell you that.

Women and girls have always been the trendsetters and the tastemakers.
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Mike 🇺🇦🕯️ @mike-teevee-1971.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Escape Goat @nedgilmore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Venus Moon Trap
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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This implies of course that Orange Man exists in a universe of other Orange People. Are all of them election-based Orange People? Or do they have other jobs?
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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
did I need to see Orange Man in the cuck chair maybe I did
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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 24/09/2026
This is like the advent of digital hard-disk music recording 30 years ago. Now every fool can make an album in their bedroom. And every fool does, which is why the value of recorded music is now zero.
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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I feel the same way it about it as I feel about superhero movies Something between "who fuckin cares" and "I'm never getting these brain cells back" and "this is taking up space that could be filled by things that don't suck"
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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Chris Penk writing a column about a book he hasn't read is peak National: they've spent three years pretending to govern and now everyone will pretend to vote for them The man is clearly leadership material
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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 24/09/2026
So much populism-degrading-into-fascism rejects the basic theme of Marxism, the labor theory of value, by rejecting the idea that labor *has* value (and its expropriation by the bourgeoisie should be curbed), in favour of a horizon where "free is when you don't have to pay for nothing or do nothing"
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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 24/09/2026
This will come as a shock to apologists for the 20th century "Leninist" party-states. To hear those people talk, waste and inefficiency were features rather than bugs; paying people to waste time and resources and not caring about quality of work is socialist praxis, while efficiency is neoliberal.
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Chris Penk getting his new column off to a great start by reviewing a book he hasn't read and declaring that it belongs "in the fiction section". I hope Stuff's editors are proud of themselves.
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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Correct procedure Zelenskyy says Ukraine sent 2 North Korean prisoners of war to South Korea thehill.com/homenews/ap/...
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Zelenskyy says Ukraine sent 2 North Korean prisoners of war to South Korea
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Ukraine has sent two North Korean prisoners of war to South Korea, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, following months of…
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Daniel Vernon @yeehawtheboys.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Don’t be left sitting on the sidelines, make sure you’re enrolled to vote!
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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In fact, the British were huge players in the slave trade throughout the 18th century, abolished it for largely practical reasons, and allowed a certain amount of slavery in the empire until 1937(!)
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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Abolitionism is a big part of British self-mythologization, from what I've seen. I think there was a quote that went something like: "Reading British writers, you would think they started the slave trade just for the satisfaction of abolishing it."
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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
An uncomplicatedly good idea, which is why I expect nobody will actually try to implement it Growth NZ wants 300 exceptional migrants, no job offer required businessdesk.co.nz/article/elec...
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Growth NZ wants 300 exceptional migrants, no job offer required
Growth New Zealand wants to let up to 300 exceptionally accomplished people a year move here without having a job lined up.The advocacy group is proposing a new...
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sorry but I’m not gonna waste my time reading a movie review written by someone who saw the movie bsky.app/profile/bgru...
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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Greens & Labour both out of the NZTU debates. My default view of this is "don't avoid hostile venues, use them to go to war" but it's a matter of coordination If one oppn party pulls out unilaterally, they are isolated. But if both oppn parties pull out, the govt is isolated in a circle jerk
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Marc Daalder @marcdaalder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Having access to free news online for a couple of decades has poisoned peoples' minds into thinking it always has been free and always should be. And over the same time, the number of journalists in NZ fell by three quarters.
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Marc Daalder @marcdaalder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is why I expect Nicky Hager's book to be given away for free.
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