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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 05/10/2026

it is interesting that I can't find any mainstream media coverage of Altman's sister Annie going viral on social media over the weekend for uploading footage of the first hour of her deposition in her lawsuit against him (one of two) in which she is alleging years of CSA

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Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman

Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is a community note for the ages.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Bleak stuff here: the fascist international in country after country judging that they don’t even have to pretend any more that they aren’t farcically corrupt criminals, and they may well be correct.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 28/09/2026

The push to make it so that "websites as a destination for humans is over" is an intentional move to violate the freedom to read of individuals and move access to information into a "pay to get an opaquely intermediated version from a nontransparent source" model.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 27/09/2026

The Internet, Social Media and AI are facilitating the churning out of obscene atrocity denial propaganda to deterritorialised global audiences in a way that feels unlike any prior epoch, and I feels like nobody in power is even willing to confront that because they expect to exploit it themselves.

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It's Abby. Yep @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So unfair that I'm gaining weight just because I eat more and sit on my ass all day. Fuck you, God

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026

great art articulates eternal truths

script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read

ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
[They do not log off]

CURTAIN

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 21/09/2026

great news! | patreon.com/lubchansky

PANEL 1: A TECH BRO running through the street, holding a laptop over his head.
TECH BRO: GREAT NEWS! I THINK I WROTE THE COMPUTER PROGRAM THAT'S GOING TO KILL EVERYONE.

PANEL 2: MATTIE peers at the laptop, which just says KILL ALL HUMANS on it, with a blinking cursor. Another WOMAN runs away.
MATTIE: IT LOOKS LIKE YOU JUST TYPED A SENTENCE HERE ON THE LATPOP.
WOMAN: AHHH! DON'T LET IT NEAR THE NUKES!

PANEL 3: The TECH BRO shakes his head.
TECH BRO: NO. YOU CRETIN, YOU DON'T TRULY UNDERSTAND ITS CAPABILITIES.
TECH BRO: PLUS, IT'S SCRAPED FROM SOMEONE *ELSE* TYPING IT. IDIOT.

PANEL 4: A BUSINESSMAN hands the SCIENTIST a big bag of money. The space behind him is also filled with bags.
BUSINESSMAN: HERE IT IS! EVERY PIECE OF CURRENCY EVER MINTED INCLUDING COINS FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD
TECH BRO: THANK YOU.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 10/07/2026

Please consider not saying that some AI models or some statistical models are good, useful, beneficial, whatever else positive, in science if it's not your research area. It's ok not to know things. It's ok not to both side things. It's ok to ask colleagues who are experts.

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monarch of ashes @cephalopod.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

very funny to pretend that bluesky takes toxicity seriously when their lead engineer is openly posting like this lol

@katelynburns.com: Literally do not have tome for that every month. That's just not how humans work.

@why.bsky.world: You’re a podcast host, you have enough free time to talk to the latest chatbot every so often

@katelynburns.com: you think I do my podcast full time?

@why.bsky.world: Well I assumed “freelance journalist” was just a euphemism for unemployed “influencer” so yeah

@katelynburns.com: Lol

@why.bsky.world: Claiming to be a journalist while refusing to do some pretty basic research is some clown shit

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 12/09/2026

The “AI copies itself to another computer” meme and the “recursive self improvement” meme are both ideas originating in science fiction, but which sound technically plausible enough due to the way digital software and computer networks work that the non-experts building this stuff believe them

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Emphasizing purity over power is the biggest problem of the progressive movement. Many people proudly declare they would rather have perfect allies than tangible gains. When they cannot actually purge their coalition, they spread a stab in the back myth, and sell apathy and despair.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You’ve gotta use AI because it’s the future. But also it’ll take your job. But also it’ll create a paradise on earth and solve most of our problems. But also it’ll end humanity soon. But also you’ll get left behind if you don’t use it right now.

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The US has a dark history of unaccountability.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Worth repeating: when the far right says “protect our women and children” the only word they care about is “our.” The second women don’t submit, this is the end result. That why a large percentage of far right anti-immigration‘protesters’ get arrested for violence against women and children.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

2020: not died of covid, died with covid 2026: not died of measles, died with measles It's the same shit all over again.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Gloria Steinem died with fewer rights than she had during her lifetime. That fact needs to be front and centre of every media report, every dedication, every discussion of her death.

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Doug , Space Wolf @ebonscale.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

If you are a developer and you post important updates *only* to your Discord, you are wrong. Period Discord is an ephemeral chat service. Not a database, forum, or publicly available site. Posting announcements ONLY to a closed ecosystem is not how development updates should be handled.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

They need to make a backpack that you can wear with a suit that doesn’t make you look like your mother packed your lunch for you.

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vic-or-squeak!! ᓚᘏᕐᐷ @gizmouse.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

made this edit in a fit of rage

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"we should rename Mar-a-Lago something funny, make Google display that" My brother in Christ, the Ontario legislature can declare Google's workers in Ontario to be unionized and assign their collective labour rights to whichever union will be most militant, think bigger

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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

IT WAS NEVER THE IMMGRANTS IN SMALL BOATS The world is 700% richer than in 1970 but the average person is only 8% richer Because the richest 0.01% are 4000% richer We are all being robbed every second of every day, and it doesn't matter how much profit or growth there is It will never reach you

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/08/2026

14 hours later and my mentions are still full of angry treatises about badly behaved cyclists. Bike lanes are not a reward for good cyclist behavior! They are infrastructure proven to make cities safer for ALL ROAD USERS. Whatever way cyclists have wronged you is irrelevant to the discussion!

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 16/08/2026

I don't know how I can even be surprised anymore, honestly, but here the fuck we are I guess

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/08/2026

These gloves don't cause neuromuscular incapacitation the way that a taser does. In fact, they only work when applied directly to bare skin. These aren't made for apprehending anyone. These have one and only one use: causing extreme pain to already-restrained captives. In plain language: torture.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Lest we forget that this is how Johnson got his start too: covering the European Parliament for the Telegraph and rather than doing any actual journalism, just regurgitating the same "those wacky Eurocrats!" bullshit week in and week out.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This is how you know we need a wealth tax

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The danger however comes when we confuse his title for his expertise. "Secretary of Health Kennedy says ___" gives the air of legitimacy. Far better to say "Heroin addict Kennedy", "Man who eats road kill and has a brain worm", "Harvard drug dealer" or even "Nuzzi's ex boyfriend".

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Caroline Baxter @convergingriskslab.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Nathaniel Raymond pioneered the use of satellite imagery for war crime forensics. His alarm about Google's baffling decision is appropriate. I tried it earlier today hoping it would be hard, but in ~65 seconds I'd put a convincing F35 base in Papua New Guinea. Google needs to delete this feature.

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 31/07/2026

Well, it’s invoicing day, and since they’re really apparently not going to pay me for something I wrote for them two months ago, I guess today is the day to post about how @vulture.com fucks over its film freelancers. Long (sorry) thread, with receipts:

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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

All those creators making sponsored videos for AI companies are probably wondering why their memory cards cost 238% more than they did last year.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

We still have the cultural image that actual Nazis were defeated in the 1940's, and the remaining Nazis are either unemployed basement-dwellers or fringe militias in Idaho. There is still a reluctance by media and business leaders to say openly that the world's wealthiest person is a Nazi.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Witch-hunts targeted women with financial independence and status. In colonial New England, women from families w/o male heirs made up 64% of the females prosecuted for witchcraft, 76% of those who were found guilty and 89% of those who were executed. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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What makes a woman a witch? Financial independence

Women aren’t being burnt at the stake any more, but there is still risk and violence implicit in the label ‘witch’

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 16/07/2026

I'm hopeful people will finally realize that Serkis sucks and has always sucked, whether it is trying to declare the work of animators irrelevant to his performance as Gollum or the fact that he directed a godawful Animal Farm for Angel or this latest embarrassment. Dude's a chuddy dolt.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15/07/2026

I write about this in the book. Increasingly, the proposition from these companies is “let us surveil you constantly.” That’s it! That’s the deal. In return you get the (supposed) benefit of a machine that “knows” you, whatever that’s supposed to mean. finance.yahoo.com/technology/a...

OpenAI's success in hardware will hinge on bringing a novel approach to the market — something it aims to do with the smart speaker. For instance, the device's technology is meant to become increasingly personalized and proactive as it gains a deeper understanding of its owner over time, according to the people.

OpenAI envisions the device anticipating needs, surfacing information proactively and serving as an expert on its user, they said. Though the speaker is designed to stay in the home, it will be easy to move around the house.

OpenAI believes the product's defining feature will be its personality and ability to connect on a humanlike level with users. The speaker incorporates mechanical elements that can move on their own, creating a sense that it is alive and not just an object responding to commands. The machine also will draw on personal information such as emails to better understand its owner.

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

[mysterious circle of robed figures] JK Rowling: hello children Rowling: apparently amnessty international ssayss i'm anti-rightss Rowling: how dare they! Rowling: i'm going to take away their right to ssay that

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Skr @majoneza.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Phones can't handle leaving wifi, windows is broken, autodesk is a collection of fail, but we're supposed to believe these morons can now suddenly make functioning software. AI even

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jordan's ghost 🍖💧 @jordo.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

i'm so glad the episode is out and i can finally say "bilbofied" in public

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

i will say this, i do think anglo planning is just uniquely bad and weird and i think it mainly is because, to be quite frank, it is mostly motivated by bad concepts and bad ideology: a toxic mix of car brain, william morris, land ownership by tax evaders and, in america, literally racism

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