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I run we all know that this is what people were imagining Laura Croft looked like when they were playing Tomb Raider.

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 21h

no idea who made this but I think of that random person with gratitude every time I heat up any sort of wraplike food object in the microwave

two scenes from an X-Men animated program: in the first, scott summers and jean gray are making out; he is labeled "microwave heat" and she is labeled "plate." in the second, we are more distant from the couple, and wolverine is standing in the foreground, labeled "my burrito."

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 09/10/2026

This is unsurprising because ai generated code *is* ai generated text. Code is text. People think code is different because you can test to see if it runs. But that just tells you if it runs (or passed the tests defined in the code) It does not and *cannot* tell you if it makes sense

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Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I don't think LLMs are conscious but I do think (and I don't know if there have been studies on this or if this has been verified, it is just something I think is likely) people who regularly use LLMs and also frequently behave extremely abusively to LLMs are more likely to be dicks to humans too

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just speaking for film & TV there isn't really a job loss due to AI. It's been mostly due to successive punches of pandemic, streaming collapse, union strikes, studio consolidation and interest rates. This trend was in place way before Midjourney was pumping out pictures with 14 fingers.

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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

When Edward Teller was chair of the early AEC Reactor Safeguards Committee, he was considered extremely conservative in his safety demands. His reasoning was that even one catastrophic accident could destroy all public enthusiasm for a technology he believed was important.

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Rook Lafetra @rooklafetra.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My issue with the TOS is that it's reinforcing two ideas simultaneously: 1) Claude is a thinking, feeling being that is in some ways equivalent to a human being in moral worth 2) Claude is a product with terms of service I have no desire to be mean to Claude. I have concerns about the framing.

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Sapphire @lilbluegem.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Agreed — no one has yet explained to me how you can be mean to a CSV.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Why would we let Anthropic decide this for us? If you ascribe to a moral philosophy or religion that disavows being mean to a toaster, that is fine. It is not however fine for a tech company to make, functionally, a moral law for a talking word toaster that is promised to rule us one day.

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A. Cosmographer @acosmographer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A lot of lawyers on here are going full lawyer brained on the Anthropic move and praising it as an ethical decision, not giving a moment's thought to *the actual behaviour* of the compan(ies) involved. It's dispiriting.

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A theremin played with zero physical contact just tackled Diva Dance from The Fifth Element, the operatic alien aria Eric Serra wrote for Plavalaguna. Pure electromagnetic wizardry.

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Sapphire @lilbluegem.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Except they probably are trying to hold LLM instances responsible for what they recommend, rather than letting the culpability flow both to the operators and the companies that created them.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

trans people: gender is mostly vibes and chemicals. we're just trynna be happy in our bodies legions of cis people: i will devote the rest of my life to trying to destroy you with fire

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Sapphire @lilbluegem.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This feels like the actual story of the Girlluminati coven that manifests during some sleepovers.

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Elizabeth she/her @eisraeldavis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Reading teacher just back from reading conference here. This is how we get a reading and critical thinking crisis. Reading to children isn't about saying the words on the page out loud to them. It's about the conversation and language development.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

our dad (ALSO A SOFTWARE ENGINEER BTW, ALVIN!) read to us every night when we were kids it was foundational not just to raising children who read for pleasure and shaping our tastes in books (highly endorse the Narnia-Hobbit-LOTR-Shannara progression), but also in our relationship with our dad!!

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

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Diana Joy @dianajoy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This thread is both amazing and terrifying.

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Sapphire @lilbluegem.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I feel like the better solution, for which there is precedent, is to put the freeway under the ground, with the community space on top of it. Quieter, less load requirements, replaces anti-social urban heat-island with community space, air & light vents can be plant-lined for filtration…

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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

with alt text so we can share

A four frame drawing of an older, grey haired woman in a yellow shirt talking to a younger, brunette woman with glasses in a green shirt.

The older woman says, "All this Jane Doe, Cornell stuff is totally overblown. It's so silly!" and she continues, "If that's what they call rape now then I guess my friends and I have all been raped, too!"

There is a moment where neither woman speaks, then the younger woman places her hand on the older woman's shoulder, with a look of compassion.

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Sapphire @lilbluegem.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Teeth are hard. One of my dental visits I was told: “Well the good news is you still have your original teeth”

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Actors may not want to weigh in on politics but I assure you politics will be weighing in on the entertainment industry

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T E Hodden @tomhodden.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Gee, I wonder why the 'Save The Steal' crowd are being so quiet given: Trump has had meetings with a women he pardoned for attempting to throw an election. Trump is denying outside election observers to watch the mid-terms. Trump is sending *his own* observers instead.

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Otter-class speeder bikes: not practical, but very cuddly.

Short description: A humorous photorealistic montage shows two stormtroopers with jetpacks racing across a grassy field by riding Steve the otter in front and a fluffy round cat just behind.
Text in image: (none)

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Sapphire @lilbluegem.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

What a succinct explanation of the artistic hellscape that we are approaching. Support your favorite independent media creators as you are able.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“Tastemaking” though gag inducing is gonna be super important , because they won’t just be making terrible things … they will be trying to force you to agree And throttling things that prove them wrong Profitability by production will HAVE to be weighed against trends

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💜 Big 💚 Roux 💛 @thegatesofmel.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

FOUR TIMES THE PEAK ELECTRICITY DEMAND OF THE ENTIRE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS!!!!!!!!!!

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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Gas-fired kitchens are basically an OSHA hazard. Induction solves it.

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Rob (the floor one) @floorisbed.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

ELON MUSK: [speaking into watch] what should i say to mark zuckerberg WATCH: hello mark zuckerberg ELON MUSK: no no I’M not mark zuckerberg, i’m elon MARK ZUCKERBERG: [to watch] hello

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

at least we know who the FBI was trying to recruit now

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erratrix or treats @chiptune.gay · 07/10/2026

two-factor authentication safeword

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm increasingly frustrated that people who are anti-AI aren't being taken seriously, and taking a page out of my thoughts on why the anti-trans backlash got as far as it did I'm starting to think the anti-AI side isn't extreme enough.

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Kybosh @kybosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.

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Experimental MSU-1 streami. #123
nasonliu wants to merge 2 commits into a
agg23 commented yesterday
If it works, that's pretty cool; I didn't think
would ever see this implemented (I also didn't
expect LLMs to exist).
However, this is not something you can PR
here, or anywhere. You sent me a nearly 50k
line diff, unasked for, completely LLM built, and
you somehow expect me to review it. There is
SO MUCH unrelated garbage here. Never
minding all of the docs and Python, you've
somehow touched basically all of the upstream
HDL, which already had MSU1 support, so idk
what in the world you're doing.
This kind of behavior is not acceptable. You are
infringing on the time and brainpower of people
by pushing "your" content that little/no of your
brainpower went into; completely unrequested.
I hope for the sake of all responsible
maintainers that you do not do such a thing
again.
Again, I think it's cool that you and your LLM
supposedly got this to work. It has no place in
my world.

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The Nerdskull @nerdskull.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Gavin Newsom: “We can’t deny the Paramount Merger, what if David Ellison decides to take Paramount out of California? We will lose an entire industry!” David Ellison the day after the merger goes through: “Anyway, we are going to do mass layoffs throughout the new organization.” Newsom is an idiot

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My next book has a whole section on the psychology behind "People becoming successful by simply lying about already being successful then charging other people to learn their 'secrets' about how to become successful". This would make a perfect case study, but I doubt the legal team will go with it.

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Lawvers for Andrew Tate have had to admit in
court that he is not a citizen of Estonia as he
previously claimed.
Much of his wealth and status is fabricated, they
said in attempt to convince the court he and his
brother are not a flight risk if released on bail
That included his claims to seven passports.
"The Tates are engaged in several businesses
teaching men how to earn money. It is in their
interest to portray themselves on social media
as uberwealthy." 1/3

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The fascist monopolization of US media, intent on ending what's left of democracy on behalf of billionaire mobsters, was finalized by a Democratic-appointed SCOTUS justice.

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@DEADLINE
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan denied a last minute
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Discovery, a transaction that is scheduled to close on
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See more details here: deadline.com/2026/10/paramo..
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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don’t care where you started out on the political spectrum If your kid comes out as trans & you don’t become a rainbow-clad, parade-cheering ally & rock-solid supportive girl/boy/enby dad/mom? You were never a parent at all You were a doll collector furious they didn’t stay in their packaging.

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de la Nae (Kelsey)🐀 @delanae.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

i'll tell you what, if the AI+etc assholes want me to stop bagging on them so hard, they should get Universal Basic Income implemented.

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isa 🔞 LBX 430 @babeyxiao.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

this child of mine (1/3)

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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.

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Sapphire @lilbluegem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Caves of Qud is great. “And this is my water-sib, a respected legend amongst the Issachari tribes: sucks-huge-dicks” “NOT WHAT I AM CALLED!!!”

A screenshot from Caves of Qud:

Chugs-upon-Serpents, legendary Issachari rifler

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Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When you have ADHD you learn pretty quickly that routines can't be maintained all the time. That sometimes you are going to drop the ball. I think the biggest coping mechanisms I have learned is not to punish myself for that but to get back to the routine.

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TheWotch @thewotch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is all such bullshit. So many people are going to lose their livelihoods because this was allowed. Yet another purposeful failure of our government. Ellison is going to do massive political harm across all these properties. We are in dire need of so much trust-busting.

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Sapphire @lilbluegem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I like describing him as “Democratic Donald Trump”. He seems to like fascism, lacks any real conviction, and generally takes actions that favor the billionaires and corporations.

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TheWotch @thewotch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

PLEASE do not let Gavin Newsom trick you into thinking he'd be a good Democratic presidential nominee. He's trash. He's just a Republican in disguise.

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