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Alison Gopnik @alisongopnik.bsky.social · 13h

This is an excellent article by Leif Wetherby - why AI is a cultural technology not a collection of human-like agents (citing our work on this). And why the anthropomorphism is a distraction from the very real risks and dangers and the way to deal with them. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/o...

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Opinion | Stop Talking About A.I. Like a Human (Gift Article)

If we want to figure out the proper way to control A.I. models, we need to recognize what they really are.

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Schaffe @loliryder.bsky.social · 5h

At Josh Thomas show in Halifax tonight. At 7:27pm he joked about how at his shows the most dramatic thing that happens is that someone's medicine alarm goes off. I suddenly remember my melatonin alarm goes off at 7:35pm, shouted "OH!" and pulled my phone out to turn it off.

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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you can’t quite be the “Yikes WTF my guy” Guy yet then maybe start by seeing who else around you is brave and then heartily seconding each other’s motions. Unsafe Men don’t listen to women. If you don’t want to doom us all to live in a rape house group chat forever, it has to be you.

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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For demonstration purposes, assume a casual group social setting with multiple cishet dudes, of which “You” are one. Schrödinger’s Jokester: [drops a horrible turd in the conversational punch bowl] Former Coward You: [silence or nervous laughter] New Vibe-Killer You: “Yiiikes. WTF, man?”

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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“I’ve never wavered on these issues, and politically, I’ve been successful,” Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan said in an interview with The Advocate, going on to say that allies aren’t “willing to hurt a community to score political points.” Some centrists get it.

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Chris does it occur to you that you are a problem

Al props up those of us who remain curious into old age. We're experienced enough to recognize its inaccuracies, shortcomings and dangers. It may be the end of civilization but that will be up to others, hopefully in future generations. For now, it is the quickest, most egalitarian source of information that has ever been known to man and my subscription to ChatGPT is one of my most prized possessions (after my guitars and mountain bikes).
—Chris Beaty, 69

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TriCon @tricon-hfx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It is happening! Prepping some surprises and delights for the @halconscificon.bsky.social Stories from the Stars book fair! Cole Harbour Place TOMORROW, 10am - 4pm!

A mittful of TriCon bookmarks in shades of orange

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Ghoul Friday 👻 @girlfriday.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

On the pending closure of the homeless shelter in New Glasgow - shame on osd. Shame on community. Removing shelter doesn’t remove the people using it / it just forces them out to the street and parks and makes folks more vulnerable and more desperate. I’m so disappointed.

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Schaffe @loliryder.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My TRC wish is more space for Indigenous visions of the future. Someone asked in a webinar today "What would Canada look like w reconciliation?" ...it wouldn't be the colonial project of Canada but goddamn I'd like to live there!

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026

I read this story and can’t help think of the breathless coverage media has given these delusional fantasies about superintelligent AI killing humanity in ten years, when companies are releasing tools coaching mass shooters and helping people kill themselves. People need to wake the fuck up.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/09/2026

Wow, a global economic crash! If only there were a proven financial theory saying that we should stimulate the economy in such times!

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 24/09/2026

Hey, I wrote this! You should read it!!

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Sal Sawler @salsawler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Is it my algorithm or is the entirety of social media now just people saying various versions of “the world is ending”? I get the gloom and doom, but I think we can still be curious and imagine other ways of being so that maybe, eventually, we can stop being entirely gloom and doom.

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Fluffbutt @fluffbutt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

They need to start teaching business majors that the environment is what keeps us all alive

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Schaffe @loliryder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Did not sleep so well last night, and just got up to see I'd spent the night lying on a rather largr slice of dried sweet potato the dog buried in the bed.

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Schaffe @loliryder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A friend touched a bat yesterday and then went to have all the rabies shots. I feel like that is more excitement than I would've been up for this weekend.

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Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 21/09/2026

(And a very real fear at the time was that you, a Real Man, would be naked in a locker room where a gay man might *see* you. Nevermind that films like Porky's glorified boys peeping into the girls showers, someone doing it to you, a Man, was wrong. Please don't ask me to explain.)

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 18/09/2026

There's a reason previous Liberal governments looked at privatizing airports and didn't go through with it. Private investors don't want a stake in our public assets to make them better. They’re in it to make as much money as possible for themselves - while workers and passengers pay the price.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I assume anyone who points out how small the trans population is doesn’t know any trans people & I guess that’s what it takes to care? Because if you know even ONE trans person, like a person in your life, how can you think about that person and conclude it’s okay if they get thrown under the bus?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ask yourself why a CEO who can call the president on the phone needs to write a pleading open letter like he is a daycare provider who needs money for markers?

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Victoria McIntosh @vmcntosh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If there’s one thing this whole “AI generated Lake America” debacle illustrates, it’s don’t underestimate Halifax when it comes to a grudge. Just look up what we did to Celine Dion.

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 18/09/2026

Canadians understand that we’re not going to save Canada by selling off our critical infrastructure. If you agree that public goods should stay in public hands, add your name to tell Mark Carney: Canada is not for sale. www.ndp.ca/canada-is-no...

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Tell the Liberals: Canada is not for sale

Mark Carney wants to sell Canada's airports, water systems, and public infrastructure to the highest bidder. We won't let that happen. Add your name now:

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Schaffe @loliryder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The self same CIBC that just fired a whole bunch of Halifax workers and outsourced the jobs to foreign workers? That CIBC?

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Elbows up baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bloomberg headline reads: “Morgan Stanley, CIBC Win Mandate for Sale of Canada Airport Concessions”

Wikipedia page for Morgan Stanley opens: “Morgan Stanley is an American multinational investment bank and financial…”

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Schaffe @loliryder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Jumping on this to say that Christopher Walken's new movie Back in Black is insanely fun and clever and Walken just crushes it.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

And now these folks want to claim that the vaccine that came as a miracle, saving countless children and immeasurable pain, is a "massive fraud"? The ignorant arrogance of a (subset of) society that has erased its history and replaced it with conspiracy theory.

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.

Screenshot for a Defector podcast episode with the headline "Consider the Emotional Lives of Scallops" only the accompanying photo is a white gormless stubbled red-headed UK singer of recent notoriety giving a flat smile to the camera while wearing a washed out peach top as beige as he is against a flat background. So, actually, probably a scallop anyway.

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Schaffe @loliryder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Couldn't happen to a better producer.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15/09/2026

Never forget that maintaining the status quo is, and always will be, a political act.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

One of the problems with the "safety" frame is it can be used to justify all kinds of terrible things Our goal can't just be to keep the most number of humans alive regardless of the cost There are fates worse than death I'm fighting for human justice and liberation, not just human survival.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

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I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 15/09/2026

i do unfortunately given this like 9/2 odds

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

Finally, there is no central organization focused specifically on collecting and technically analyzing information about small and novel drone attacks on civilians. We need to build one.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

To support this goal, we believe that the International Committee of the Red Cross and associated legal experts should produce an updated Commentary to the Geneva Conventions, explicitly and clearly applying the law to modern drone warfare.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

The current crisis of attacks on civilians with drones is a grim mirror of the global rise of disregard for IHL and human life itself We believe that by taking up the drone attack issue directly, the global community can help legal authority fight back against this wave of impunity and cruelty.

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Help needed for these wolve . Time is of the essence. Info on how to help save these wolves in pics. The petition in link below actionnetwork.org/letters/prot...

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YELLOWSTONE'S OLDEST WOLF
MATRIARCH COULD BE HUNTED IN JUST 4 DAYS.
1090F has survived an extraordinary 12 years in the wild.
But after moving beyond Yellowstone's protected boundary into Wyoming, that protection disappears.
On September 15, wolf hunting season opens: putting 1090F and members of Mollie's Pack at risk. Hunters have even publicly expressed intentions to target her specifically. But this is NOT just about famous wolves in Yellowstone; this is about pushing back against the unnecessary culling, killing, and lethal management of wolves. The North American Wildlife Management Model is dated. Wolves don't understand invisible park boundaries. They shouldn't lose their lives simply for crossing them.
LINK IN POST TO TAKE ACTION NOW. Urge Wyoming officials to protect 1090F, Mollie's Pack, and create no-hunting buffer zones around the park!
Please sign and share before September 15.

Photo of an elderly wolf howling up to the sky on a snowy day. She is great with a white face. The text over her says URGENT
Yellowstone's Oldest
Matriarch Wolf Could Be Killed in 4 Days

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Rina O'Malley @rinaomalley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Katie Dippold winning an Emmy for a pilot spec she wrote EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO is the universe screaming "Don't Give Up!"

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Schaffe @loliryder.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Oh here's the whole entrance!

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Maybe top ten most iconic looks ever.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

But it feels like the way advertising and capitalism preys upon young men has a different form. Whereas those ads for women and girls focus solely on these unrealistic expectations, the big predator industries are things like pornography, sports betting and video games. All those feel more escapist

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Schaffe @loliryder.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We still say "tricked by business" in our house when a brand does something shady.

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Schaffe @loliryder.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Very worthwhile read, especially if you were worried "AI" is going to kill us all (it won't, poor regulation and a bunch of tech sociopath billionaires will).

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