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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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to wound the autumnal kitty @blurry-line.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Protestant guilt is the idea that enjoying things is suspect

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Mike. 🇨🇦 @arkwulf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They straight up announced that they don't consider the Sequel Trilogy (which prominently feature women and people of colour in lead roles) to be "Core" Star Wars films. This isn't really news to anyone paying attention but it's certainly a case of saying the quiet part out loud.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 03/10/2026

(Yes, I'm watching the new Netflix adaptation of East of Eden.) I'm forced to conclude these guys don't actually read anything. Not the stuff they claim to love, nor the stuff they claim to hate

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 03/10/2026

It's interesting to me that the American authors conservatives deem acceptable/non-woke/masculine--your Steinbecks, Cormac McCarthys, Faulkners, Hemingways etc--all identify brutality as the fundamental language and original sin of the United States. There's nothing very patriotic about their work.

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Madeline Ashby @madelineashby.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Critics: There cannot be a kinkier relationship at the core of a film than the romance in PHANTOM THREAD. COYOTE V ACME: …Hold my anvil.

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Like, oh, you guys had real urban planning? And now you don’t have a city that’s mostly made up of single family dwellings? And you have mid-rise buildings that were deliberately built to house families, not just rundown mansions carved up into crappy units and/or steel and glass high rises? WILD.

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s truly wild going to Montreal and seeing all these purpose-built 3, 4, and 5 floor apartment buildings that are, like … meant to be apartments? Coming from Toronto where bylaws banned the construction of apartment buildings (except on certain streets) for many years, it’s such a revelation.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

So when all is said and done, we're not even getting a full 50 episodes of Strange New Worlds??? Lucille Ball is spinning in her grave.

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spooky lilli @toomanymouths.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

ribot's guitar solo on "clap hands" by tom waits is my favorite solo probably ever and also it uses like three notes but is played with a vibe i have never seen anywhere else in the world

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AAAAHH-lex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 02/10/2026

happy october

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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

NEW: An iPhone hacking company claims it can freeze the iPhone in a state that makes it easier for cops to access data. The iPhone has an automatic reboot feature that reverts the device to a state where data is harder to extract. This would defeat that feature. www.404media.co/cops-can-byp...

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Cops Can Bypass iPhone’s Automatic Reboot to Get Into Locked Phones, Leaked Video Claims

Magent Forensics, the owner of the GrayKey phone unlocking tool, says it can bypass an iPhone rebooting feature that was locking cops out.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In a new terrifying essay Bill Gates says AI is on track to ruin everybody’s life. This is is not “AI will lead to apocalypse” this is “AI will materially ruin the lives of most people in our country and on the planet if we don’t stop it.” It’s like the Pope’s encyclical without a God

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mcc @dryad.technology · 02/10/2026

Anyway, most conversations about AI are poisoned by the fact we all use the word "AI" to describe things that aren't AI. But if we're splitting up the debate and now we get to call LLMs whatever we want, I'd like to suggest "unintelligence". I'd sound like a doofus. But so does everyone else now

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 28/09/2026

More evidence of the hidden ways in which LLMs are powered by (likely exploited and poorly paid) humans

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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

These boundary-pushing visions of total takeover examine the terror and transgressive thrill of losing oneself to a host of uncanny forces. Check out our new POSSESSIONS collection on the Criterion Channel! www.criterionchannel.com/collections/...

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Possessions

These boundary-pushing visions of total takeover explore the terror and transgressive thrill of losing one’s body and mind to a host of uncanny forces.

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 01/10/2026

I once had a mother/daughter team of Jehovah's Witnesses knock on the door talking about original sin, Eve and the serpent. I said that was because the bible was battling the cult of Ashteroth, the snake goddess, and got my Robert Graves book off the shelf. The daughter looked interested.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

These bros are claiming gender discrimination. Dude. It’s a dog. You’re not a good fit. Some dogs are afraid of wheelchairs. They would not be dogs for me. It’s a bummer, but guess what: there are plenty of dogs in the world. You’re likelier to get one if you aren’t an evil shitlord to rescues.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Toxic masculinity is absolutely a dangerous factor in animal rescue. My sister has dealt with men who refuse to neuter, to believe that a dog with behavioral challenges won’t just bow down to their alphaness, who have threatened to shoot her and her staff because they refused to adopt to him.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There’s a behavioral dog rescue in NC called STAB that does absolutely hilarious dog bios. After posting “Two Mommy Tommy”, a dog looking for lesbians because he despises men, men have been bombarding their FB page and escalated to doxxing and threats to family. Men: validating Tommy forever

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 01/10/2026

the timing of this

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VOID VOID VOID @burnyourbones.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Baldwin went on to say "It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves can we understand them in other people."

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Starting to look over what I've been watching for the year, and for favorite performances in the category of "artificial lifeforms whose performances do the lion's share of carrying the film" a pair of winners.

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Madeline Ashby @madelineashby.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Pro-tip: the hero of a given story is the hero of that story BECAUSE HE TAKES A DAMN RISK, INCLUDING THE RISK OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION AND BEING MARKED AS “TOO EARNEST/SINCERE/ETC.” SUCK IT UP.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A lot of guys I'm seeing are mentioing that they aren't saying anything because they're afraid to come off as "performative". Guys, please be performative. Please be cringe about it. That fear you have to look bad is the same fear that shut the 50 other group chat members up. Say something

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Jason Krawczyk @jkrawczyk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Submissions are open! www.littleghostsbooks.com/submissions

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A sincere belief in personal responsibility as equally applying to everyone, and not just as a racist euphemism, is totally unrecognizable as “conservative”

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John Sundman @jsundman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today I read in the Economist about the 'apostles' of effective altruism, a quasi-religious Silicon Valley philosophy; an essay about the 'apostles' of rationalism, a Silicon Valley quasi-religious cult, & an article about the 'apostles' of the network state. BITCHES, WANT MY FUCKING ROYALTIES! 1/

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Acts of the Apostles: Mind Over Matter Volume Blue

Amazon.com: Acts of the Apostles: Mind Over Matter Volume Blue: 9781461104209: Sundman, John F.X.: Books

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 01/10/2026

Inevitable outcome of a society that tells little girls that boys hurt/hit/harm you when they like you. Except now the boys are men using and using state surveillance tools to terrorize women

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 01/10/2026

“There are a lot of books being published about how Big Tech is ruining our environment and our minds … but Hyperscale is the one I’ve got my eye on this fall.” @literaryhub.bsky.social recommends my book HYPERSCALE on its non-fiction list! Preorder now: hyperscalebook.com

Is Nonfiction in Crisis? These 14 Books Suggest Otherwise

Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech's Data
Empires by Paris Marx

There are a lot of books being published about how Big Tech is ruining our environment and our minds (often by publishers that still think Al might work for them), but Hyperscale is the one I've got my eye on this fall partly because I'm such a fan of author Paris Marx's podcast, Tech Won't Save Us.

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WIRED @wired.com · 01/10/2026

Asking AI companies to self-regulate is a great way to pretend like you’ve accomplished something. www.wired.com/story/whatev...

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Whatever AI Safety Is, It’s Not This

Asking AI companies to self-regulate is a great way to pretend like you’ve accomplished something.

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VOID VOID VOID @burnyourbones.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

keep thinking about "personalised" books/art made by AI and remembering James Baldwin's quote "you think your pain and heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read" these AI bros are deliberately doing a psyop on themselves to cauterise their capacity for empathy

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Mike Schreiner @mikeschreiner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Put another way, Ford wants to spend more on removing bike lanes in Toronto ($48M) than he's spent protecting all of Ontario's businesses from an international trade war. Ontario deserves serious leadership, that follows through on promises, and actually puts people before profits.

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Mike Schreiner @mikeschreiner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Doug Ford is all words, no action. He promised $5 billion to protect Ontario businesses from Trump's tariffs. Two years in, he's given $100m to one steel company and only spent $40M across all other businesses.

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Ford government ‘Protect Ontario’ tariff program spent $140 million so far | Globalnews.ca

On Tuesday, during committee at Queen's Park, Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy was grilled by opposition MPPs on how much of that cash has actually been deployed.

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Kaelyrhn 3³ ✅ @kaelyrhn.kayleighbourquin.com · 30/09/2026

The three major, or rather two major and one minor alien species that first and for a long while only appeared in Star Trek animation; Caitian¹, Edosian and Aurelian; have now all appeared² in live action. That's fucking wild to me.

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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 01/10/2026

Theo Moudakis depicts how Trump will react if Mark Carney wins the Nobel Peace Prize

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 01/10/2026

NYC’s PIT Crew (Public Interest Technology) is already delivering: Click to Cancel is here, with the law saying it has to be as easy to cancel a service as it was to sign up for it. The site makes it easy to report any products that violate the rules: www.nyc.gov/main/click-t... Kickass!

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Click to Cancel - nyc.gov

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Last year, DOE canceled $365 million award to build solar and storage systems at hospitals and community housing facilities in P.R. In January, they quiety canceled $450 million in funding for grid resilience programs, the final dismantling of Biden's $1 billion Puerto Rico Energy Resilience Fund.

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The end of DOE’s grid work in Puerto Rico

The Trump administration has canceled all eight of the remaining awards devoted to distributed energy on the island.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“The profound moral question is not, 'Do they deserve to die?' but 'Do we deserve to kill them?'" - Sister Helen Prejean

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 01/10/2026

Many men rape; many men giggle encouragingly, or shrug indifferently, when their friends rape. Many men rape, and few seem to think that it’s a very big deal, writes columnist Moira Donegan

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The horror of the Cornell rape case is how ordinary it is | Moira Donegan

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is.

Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.

Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.

an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol

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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wonder why women are so down on the nonconsensual nude & child sexual abuse generators

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Can AI strengthen democracy? Only 6% of Americans think so, survey finds
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Updated September 30, 2026 11:35 PM

Women between 18 and 30 showed the highest level of concern about the societal impact of AI, with 58% saying Al is having a negative impact on the world. That's compared with 38% of men in the same age group who say the same.

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 01/10/2026

Absolutely incredible treasure trove here from the golden era of “movie magic.” Poring over stuff like this in movie magazines and TV specials as a kid is what made me want to get into special effects*

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