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Mark Wilkins / FC Darwin 🇮🇸🇺🇸 @markwilkins.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

…and Travis Knight is probably far better known than average just by virtue of being the heir to Phil Knight’s Nike fortune.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

A wrong Grok post making up a white guy who stopped the Australian mass shooting.

BBC
'Hero' who wrestled gun from Bondi shooter named as Ahmed al Ahmed
Emily Atkinson
Sun, December 14, 2025 at 1:06 p.m. CST
2 min read

A "hero" bystander who was filmed wrestling a gun from one of the Bondi Beach attackers has been named as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed.

Video verified by the BBC showed Mr Ahmed run at the gunman and seize his weapon, before turning the gun round on him, forcing his retreat.

Mr Ahmed, a fruit shop owner and father of two, remains in hospital, where he has undergone surgery for bullet wounds to his arm and hand, his family told 7News Australia.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially. Period. This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.

Vaccine Safety
MENU V
For Everyone
NOV. 19, 2025
KEY POINTS
• The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.
• Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.
• HHS has launched a comprehensive assessment of the causes of autism,
including investigations on plausible biologic mechanisms and potential causal links.

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Destin @destinlegarie.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I got to play @PlayEVEVanguard's Operation Nemesis event that's still live and free to play right now until Oct. 2nd. Here's some beginner tips to get you started. Play at evevanguard.com #sponsored www.youtube.com/watch?v=th2W...

evevanguard.com

Scifi Shooter | EVE Vanguard

EVE Vanguard is a sci-fi sandbox FPS where every fight, scavenged resource, and choice shapes a brutal, player-driven universe at war.

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man? Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.

Homeland Security
@DHSgov
Which way, American man?

http://JOIN.ICE.GOV

photo of uncle sam with his hat off at a crossroads with title "America Needs You, Join ICE Now"

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Mark Wilkins / FC Darwin 🇮🇸🇺🇸 @markwilkins.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Id dot me is a nightmare. I had horrible problems with them trying to submit a utility bill to prove my address. Yes, much of it was in a foreign language, but it was obviously a utility bill and had my name and address. Anyway, I thought they now allow using the alternate login dot gov service.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Me: take hours to read a book You: have your super hot ChatGPT girlfriend download a million books, read them, then summarize them all to you in a barrage of lies that you can't even tell are lies because you don't read books; also you have the critical thinking skills of a shovel-struck donkey

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smikes.bsky.social @smikes.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Leaving the country? Do yourself a favour and get your important documents “apostilled” before you go… bsky.app/profile/smik...

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Mark Wilkins / FC Darwin 🇮🇸🇺🇸 @markwilkins.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I am certainly a grave disappointment to my Icelandic tutor, but she puts on a brave face.

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Joshferatu Scare @joshscherr.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

when they realize you're not supposed to be in the group chat

A shot from Eyes Wide Shut: two people, dressed in black robes, wearing Venetian carnival masks, eyeing an outsider (Tom Cruise) down below

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

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Mark Wilkins / FC Darwin 🇮🇸🇺🇸 @markwilkins.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

In my years at Dreamworks, they never would have made a special dish, but they might decorate something specially for a special occasion. They wouldn’t do this all the time because people would get very sick of it.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 06/07/2024

Well this is grim

weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt

and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here"

the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine

with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world

but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED

this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me.

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he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood

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it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors

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Mark Wilkins / FC Darwin 🇮🇸🇺🇸 @markwilkins.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

🇮🇸🇮🇸🇮🇸 Today was the first time we have voted in an Icelandic parliamentary election. Ten years after arriving in Iceland, it’s a big deal. Í dag var í fyrsta skipti sem við höfum kjósið í Alþingiskosningu. Tíu ár eftir komuna til Íslands, þetta er mikið mál.

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Mark Wilkins / FC Darwin 🇮🇸🇺🇸 @markwilkins.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I worked at Disney Animation back then, and the attitude was “Kids will watch anything. Our job is to entertain the parents.

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Mark Wilkins / FC Darwin 🇮🇸🇺🇸 @markwilkins.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Iceland is my adopted home but it’s as bad or worse than the U.S. in terms of regulatory capture and self-dealing. I wouldn’t be so quick to bump it to the top of your list.

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Mark Wilkins / FC Darwin 🇮🇸🇺🇸 @markwilkins.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

Have to share this wild video: Eve Online's largest coalition is moving, and they made a time lapse. youtu.be/OcHUJkuQyLI?...

youtu.be

Imperium Capital Fleet Moves to UALX

YouTube video by Shingly

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Mark Wilkins / FC Darwin 🇮🇸🇺🇸 @markwilkins.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

I have problems dealing with the fact that Titanic’s 30 year anniversary is a few years away.

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Mark Wilkins / FC Darwin 🇮🇸🇺🇸 @markwilkins.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #131,234!

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 15/08/2024

Did you get sign off for the KPI? KPI. We need to circle back. Circle back. Did you define OKRs? OKRs. Let’s circle back. Circle back. Let’s parking lot that. Parking lot. Can we take this offline? Offline. Ok, you’re on baseline. Let’s end early and give you back 5 minutes.

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Mark Wilkins / FC Darwin 🇮🇸🇺🇸 @markwilkins.bsky.social · 10/08/2024

Yeah. In the case of a food that weren’t to my taste, I’d never call it “quite nice,” but instead focus on offering thanks for the host taking the trouble to prepare it. Among Americans, the thanks would be genuine and they’d still get the message. 🤣

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Mark Wilkins / FC Darwin 🇮🇸🇺🇸 @markwilkins.bsky.social · 10/08/2024

What’s missing for an American is the convention that it is deliberately weak praise only when there is a social expectation to say something positive. Many Americans would just be (slightly) more direct about their feelings.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 25/07/2024

8-SECOND KAMALA HARRIS AD: x.com/KamalaHQ/sta... TRUMP AT RALLY: "And then their campaign says (goofy voice) 'I'm the prosecutor, and he is the convicted felon—" HARRIS (VOICEOVER): "I'm Kamala Harris, and I approve this message."

Tweet from Kamala HQ Twitter account with video described and linked above with the text "We approve this message"

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Wallace @wallace.bsky.social · 01/07/2024

Absolutely wild that the court accuses the dissent of "fearmongering" with "extreme hypotheticals" when the actual basis for the indictment is a coup attempt that led to an attack on the capitol

The dissents’ positions in the end boil down to ignoring
the Constitution’s separation of powers and the Court’s
precedent and instead fear mongering on the basis of extreme hypotheticals about a future where the President
“feels empowered to violate federal criminal law.”

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Mark Wilkins / FC Darwin 🇮🇸🇺🇸 @markwilkins.bsky.social · 20/06/2024

The iteron was inspired by the fact that at least one bulkhead likely gets a little warm in flight...

Closeup of Iteron booster directed at part of the ship itself.

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Mark Wilkins / FC Darwin 🇮🇸🇺🇸 @markwilkins.bsky.social · 20/06/2024

CCP devs using the new Eve Online SKINR tool to make one-of-a-kind SKINs for the Art Without Borders charity? Yes! #SKINRShowdown Here are mine: Enyo, Vexor, Iteron, Machariel.

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SaraKateW @sarakatew.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

I POOPED AT THE SEANCE

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 10/06/2024

code's haunted

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Mark Wilkins / FC Darwin 🇮🇸🇺🇸 @markwilkins.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

The problem with neural networks has always been that they produce interesting results without anyone (including their creators) having a clear idea of how they work. As a result, it’s very difficult to get results that meet any kind of specification from models trained on generalized data sets.

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Mark Wilkins / FC Darwin 🇮🇸🇺🇸 @markwilkins.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

My new book: Toddler Negotiation: Getting to “No.”

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Mark Wilkins / FC Darwin 🇮🇸🇺🇸 @markwilkins.bsky.social · 09/03/2024

If you’re talking about the U.S., the Copyright Office has taken the position that AI generated elements are not copyrightable, but human elements added or combined with AI-generated elements can be. This affects registration but may not be definitive with the courts. We’ll see.

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Mark Wilkins / FC Darwin 🇮🇸🇺🇸 @markwilkins.bsky.social · 09/03/2024

BTW, your comments highlight how important it is to distinguish between copyrightable elements being present in a derivative work and a work being used as an input to a transformative process that does not carry copyrightable elements through to the product. With generative AI, either can be true.

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Mark Wilkins / FC Darwin 🇮🇸🇺🇸 @markwilkins.bsky.social · 09/03/2024

The potential liability associated with using AI imagery isn’t that every image it produces is infringing of another image, but that it can infringe any of millions of images in its training set without anyone knowing that’s the case. The original’s creator could surface at any point and sue.

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Mark Wilkins / FC Darwin 🇮🇸🇺🇸 @markwilkins.bsky.social · 09/03/2024

Because the people who are saying that are not saying so on the basis of current copyright law. Whether an AI image infringes on a copyright depends not on whether copyrighted artwork was used in its creation, but whether the image has visibly infringing copyrightable elements of the original.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

"Are you better off today than you were 4 years ago" is gonna get thrown around a lot this cycle and somehow it's gonna be about the price of gas and eggs, and not how we ran out of space in the morgues and had to stack bodies like firewood in vans in central park

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Mark Wilkins / FC Darwin 🇮🇸🇺🇸 @markwilkins.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

Total failure for me. I was worried that someone else was trying to change my password and somehow had access. Fortunately, looks like a bad deployment. 🤣

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

babe what's wrong? you've hardly touched your security clearance

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Mark Wilkins / FC Darwin 🇮🇸🇺🇸 @markwilkins.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

Let's be honest. The one thing LLMs are really good at is generating lots of really convincing disinformation. Say you're Eritrea and you want to produce 80 million convincingly-real-looking tweets that make it seem like people support your point of view. Awesome! GPT has you covered.

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Mark Wilkins / FC Darwin 🇮🇸🇺🇸 @markwilkins.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

I think, to them, “wider” means “beyond Alabama.”

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

everyone automatically clacks these twice upon picking them up because deep down we all know we’re crabs

A pair of silver aluminum barbecue tongs on a white background .

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