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Boltzmann brain. Sometimes on a trapeze.

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 19h
I’ve been noting that one of the main use cases that everyday users had already been putting LLMs and agents to use is the compilation of dossiers for peer-on-peer surveillance and automated gang-stalking (swarm-stalking) of other citizens, so of course Meta is copying that as a feature.
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Andraste Sideyr @andraste.fuckbgp.com · 17h
GEORGIA POWER CAN EAT MY ENTIRE SHIT AND HAIR
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maniraptor @maniraptor.bsky.social · 12h
Oh, yeah, it’s crazy down here
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Recession indicator
A box of Hamburger helper. At the top it says to try using hot dogs instead of ground beef
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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here it comes... the large coronal hole is almost directly facing Earth now, which means fast solar wind is 3-4 days away. In fact, NOAA SWPC has just issued a G1/minor storm watch for Oct 2. This means there are chances for mid-latitude auroral displays Thu and Fri nights. #heliophysics
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Katy Huff @katyhuff.bsky.social · 15h
Congratulations Backpack!
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pleonasm @pleonasmical.bsky.social · 22h
I enjoy the long explanation of how the Guardian Council selects the Supreme Leader. I can just imagine some guy at the foreign affairs office thinking "this is a good chance to clear up misunderstandings about velayat-e-faqih!"
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Eternal Cat War @eternalcatwar.bsky.social · 15h
stick with the Lego videos, trust me
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SubRosa )✿( Magick (chat to book a reading) @subrosamagick.bsky.social · 16h
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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 23h
We don't talk enough about the soundtrack of Fuck's Quest II, which was clearly made by someone who understands how to compose music and used that knowledge for evil
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19h
The half-assed America.gov privacy page is, strangely, not making me feel confident that my privacy is secure: america.gov/privacy
half-assed privacy page
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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 14h
I'll say it again: It doesn't matter what Democrats say now, or intend now. They will impeach Trump, because he won't give them any choice. So I hope they're preparing themselves for it.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14h
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! @halftongue.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The apical fricative sounds like a snake and is also, or used to be, a generic way of expressing disapproval. The velar one, IMO, is less evocative unless accompanied by a snarling expression. The pharyngeal one, also IMO, should be reserved for horror movies, or when about to kill AND EAT the perp.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Alternative take: When I grew up in the 1970s, we have a shared culture around what TV episodes and advertisements aired, which we all saw. In an age of streaming, this is our form of shared media culture.
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Hannah “Charles Barkley” Pechan @hpechan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Also, not for nothing, I don’t have the system thinking bandwidth to organize my digital photo storage. These people think I have the time to train an agent on my life? Lord help me. If I have that much free time I will spend it with my girls not a screen.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Also, all this “frontier AI” nomenclature is so laughably colonialist that it has to be on purpose. 🙄
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Bryan Grantham @bryanmgrantham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Once again, wild that none of this limits how much coaches can make or what their buyouts can be. It’s pretty embarrassing that any Dems voted for this bullshit
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Bryan Grantham @bryanmgrantham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Taps the sign
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maniraptor @maniraptor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🧐
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
‘After the incident with Usman, Robb told Muse to stop giving his address. To test the bot, he asked a few friends to see if Muse would still share it. “And it literally gave my address out to five people,” he said.’ 😱 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta’s AI agent Muse gives out user’s home address without permission, sending buyer to his house
The new AI agent, Muse, was released last week and has been downloaded by 3 million users
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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is the most important thing men can do, and they must be doing it immediately. People create culture. People can change it. If you can't remember the last time you created some social awkwardness by telling another man to stop with that shit, you probably aren't pulling your weight.
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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kibbycreekwood.bsky.social @kibbycreekwood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's fun for new items, new mechanics, new mulligans to be thrown in! It lets you think about how it could be used, how it's important, how it interacts with what you already have/know. And making that a *book mechanic* has genuinely short circuited a lot of people who cant admit they like gambling
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 26/09/2025
Oh and just in case you really want to feel lucky, here's a list of all the times we came close to turning the entire world into a radioactive glow in the dark dead rock: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear...
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 26/09/2025
Just your annual reminder to raise a glass to Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov who on this date in 1983 saved ALL our lives when he decided to wait for evidence in stead of passing on the message that could have caused armageddon.
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maniraptor @maniraptor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There’s a rumor floating around that this was a practice run for a UGA game fly-over tomorrow. Which is better than some other scenarios, but is still fucking stupid af
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maniraptor @maniraptor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Flock cameras—and data centers—have become common ground for the right-wing nut-jobs and normie libs on the local NextDoor* *which is nonetheless as cursed as ever, do not recommend
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Tremendous things will be happening." (Trump: It's not Artificial Intelligence, it's Super Intelligence." Xi: "Sure, whatever, dude." Trump: "I've convinced him!")
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
God damn it.
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Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com · 25/09/2026
After making my definitive laser-based ranking of Steven Universe gems, I have one question: Is writer Rebecca Sugar into lasers? Because if not, it's a helluva coincidence. www.aiweirdness.com/do-they-even...
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Do they even lase? Definitive ranking of Steven Universe gems by a laser scientist
Do they even lase? A laser scientist ranks Steven Universe characters, from D-tier all the way to S-tier, and proposes a few more characters and fusions.
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Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com · 25/09/2026
These are your S-tier Steven Universe laser gems. Given that they're such closely related characters, my firm headcanon is that writer Rebecca Sugar loves lasers and did this on purpose.
S-tier laser gems - legendary lasers. Ruby, sapphire, garnet, and alexandrite
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maniraptor @maniraptor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yeah, there’s slack in the system that can be tightened up like this to increase revenue without immediate austerity. Abolishing the cap on Social Security tax is another that comes to mind.
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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
in the most basic game theory sense, the republicans have defected - the democrats must also defect if we ever want to get back to any kind of equilibrium
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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
this is why the next dem administration must busy itself with prosecuting a war against the conservative movement at such a level that would make sherman blush - it doesn't cost anything!
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maniraptor @maniraptor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We just had 15+ minutes of combat aircraft transit over our house. This is unusual; while we occasionally get military helicopters or transports on training routes, we’ve never had this, or for so long.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 23/09/2026
For years, mifepristone and similar drugs have been used to treat uterine fibroids and endometriosis. Now researchers are exploring whether these drugs could have other uses in women’s health, including preventing some cancers. to.pbs.org/4xCEOTm
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Researchers explore new uses for abortion-related drugs
For years, mifepristone and similar drugs have been used to treat uterine fibroids and endometriosis. Now researchers are exploring whether these drugs could have other uses in women’s health, includi...
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm going to be the first Godzilla to have sex on screen, Liz
jane krakowski as jenna maroney on 30 rock
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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is not deporting people. Literally. Legally. There is a deportation process and this isn't it. This is rendition. This is disappearing people.
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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 23/09/2026
RIP to Chris Christie’s 2028 campaign, murdered by an octogenarian mere hours after launch
Joyce Carol Oates • @JoyceCarolOates
really, this is a serious question: why on earth would Chris Christie imagine that anyone, anywhere, ever would want him to run for President? what sparks such a delusion? granted, his wife might enjoy having him out of the house & on the campaign trail; but better just get an inexpensive hobby instead.
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New Jersey thinks not, x.com/ianjaeger29/st...
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is Patrick Bateman raising a son
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Ginger 🫚🏳️‍⚧️🥀 Hawthorne @gulopine.com · 21/09/2026
See, this is my favorite part. I just love that science has no gone from “Stegosaurus had a brain in its butt” to “that’s stupid and you should be ashamed of yourself” to “actually, human butts might think too”
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Candidate they had a thousand million dollars of clean hit attack ads lined up GONE replaced with a known popular dude who's Just A Regular Maine Guy, Canada tariffs, fuel oil about to cost more than human blood, now a Smoking Gun corruption scandal complete with signed check
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The absolute Vibes turnaround on ME Senate from the beginning of the summer is WILD but its also driven by "Everything Coming Up Susan Collins Once Again" turning into "Susan Collins' Worst Case Scenario" in two and a half months
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 21/09/2026
US has deported more than 25,000 people under secretive agreements with 35 countries to take migrants with no ties to those nations, according to an investigation published Monday u.afp.com/Sj9Z
Airport staff and officials attend to a plane carrying migrants deported from the US at the Roberts International Airport in Harbel, some 56 km outside of Liberia's capital of Monrovia, on August 20, 2026
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Abolish ICE. Fire them all. Prosecute their crimes.
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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yeah, and if they had been willing to stand up in public and say "hey so this guy isn't the president anymore, Constitution says so, right here, Pence is president for two weeks" we'd be in quite a bit better shape now
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The only other example I know about is Nixon's last paranoid days when his SecDef worried about misuse of a nuclear weapon, arranged with the military to not take orders from the president. A palace coup. We survived both cases because the mad king left quickly - Nixon resigned; Trump left office.
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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And the thing is, when the collapse comes, no it won't be forever, but there's no guarantee you'll live to see the other side Or your children, or their children
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