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Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

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M. Cooper @mattwritesbooks.bsky.social · 9h

I can’t believe someone made me regret holding back my hilarious reply of “Paul! You is a werewilf!”

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Chase Taylor-Carter @chasecarter.bsky.social · 21h

AI protections, RTO mandates, inadequate wages -- all corporate-owned creative workplaces are facing the same existential threats. Sure seems as though companies tolerate workers' human needs and requests for dignity only because it's cheaper. For now.

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 14/10/2026

Yell about your stuff! Yell about what you're doing! You're making incredible things and other people want to know about them!

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16/10/2026

this goes incredible places and I love everyone involved

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R.C. Brougham (but haunted like Christine) @captainruck.bsky.social · 21h

"This fucking douchebag wants to buy your government" is the sort of thing anyone who wanted to win would hammer over and over

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Muppet Pictures @muppetpictures.bsky.social · 19h

If you're still figuring out your Halloween costume, I would suggest this insane Doctor Teeth mask, currently available online. Go ahead, live a little.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Slavery was and is a real thing that has brutalized hundreds of millions of people over the course of human history, if someone tells me a fucking chatbot is enslaved I'm immediately throwing hands. It's not cute, it's not intriguing, it's an insult to real people who suffered and suffer now.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 17h

One of the reasons I get so worked up about all this, apart from the clear-and-present danger, is it's a symptom of something bigger that's rotten. Many smart & serious establishment people still think it's silly to talk about though.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 15/10/2026

Big Walk isn't on Xbox because of the 'Palestinian-led BDS movement': aftermath.site/big-walk-xbox-...

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Amy Nemmity @amy.wrestlejoy.com · 15/10/2026

It’s 6:00 am and I still have this song stuck in my head 😭

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 15/10/2026

one big problem with trying to claim that LLMs are "conscious" is that you're betting that phenomenology is going to provide more concrete evidence in the affirmative than the historical fact that people thought machines were conscious since the very first time a computer spoke... in the mid-1960s

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pussyfullawasps 🗡️ joa (they) @pussyfullawasps.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

protect yourselves from meta glasses by punching whoever is wearing them in the face

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Would be very cool if the democrats acted as if they believed this is a bad thing and a serious problem

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Crazy idea: Democrats should defend immigration and immigrants, run on the idea that immigrants make America great, and stop Homer Simpsoning themselves into the shrubbery every time Republicans try to demagogue it.

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Bitch.io: Don't Play WIth Me @nanicoolj.blacksky.app · 15/10/2026

So when are we going to understand that the plan isn't just to strip her of citizenship. They are going to try and cause physical harm to this woman. People should be more concerned and should have been more concerned this entire time.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 15/10/2026

I would take more seriously the people promoting the idea of AI consciousness if they first materially grappled with the (much more obvious) consciousness of animals and how that affects our moral obligations to them.

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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Someday, these guys will realize how much of a pussy these types of statements make them look

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😈💖Amanda Johnson💖😈 @pastelsuccubus.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Cops went from arrving to shooting in six minutes. How tf can you possibly de-escalate or even attempt to do so in six minutes.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 14/10/2026

Blew up her own campaign for nothing. For absofuckinglutely *nothing.*

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

A wild thing about Harris is that he credits his father for teaching him about the horrors of socialism. His father spent time in a Soviet POW camp. In 1944. Remind me, who were the Soviets fighting in 1944?

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I don’t use AI in my writing in any form. I use LibreOffice and Scrivener for word processing. My research is in dusty stacks and actual archival materials. I am 100% organic. 🤪

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14/10/2026

The acid test for me is a simple one: Has my professional and/or creative life benefited in any material way from "AI," and very specifically generative "AI"? No, it hasn't. Has it been negatively impacted by the same? Yup, in a whole bunch of ways. My professional life is worse now for it.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 14/10/2026

I think part of why we're rejecting "AI" en masse is because when the Internet went commercial, it was a unifying event that invited participation and interaction. "AI" is an isolating technology that's meant to reduce human participation as much as possible. How is that fun?

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I know a lot of people outside of LA like to bash "Hollywood elites" but they're a tiny % of who actually lives and works here to make the things you love watching. We have hemoraged jobs due to the same oligarchs messing everything else up. This matters.

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 14/10/2026

AI perhaps offers us a really great opportunity if we choose to take it. The one thing it produces is cliche. In order to resist it, we must declare a war on cliche. We must make our language and remake it. Our visual imagination should be shaken up and strive for the shock of the new.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 14/10/2026

Simba Kundizeza's statement on his Caine Prize-winning story "The Blue Fighter" is also worth reading—keep in mind, the evidence-free article slandering him was published in The Atlantic to a mass readership and his defense is a tweet to his eight hundred followers

Simba Kundizeza
@S_S_Kundizeza
Statement on The Atlantic article concerning “The Blue Fighter”

I would like to say at the outset that this statement is not in any way a proffer of an explanation or a defense against the allegations levelled against me in the article published by The Atlantic, because I don’t believe the article warrants either. I am however writing because of the level of public interest generated in its aftermath, and out of respect for the people who have supported and championed my writing, as well as my fellow shortlisted writers for the Caine Prize. I want to set the record straight.

For the avoidance of doubt, I wrote "The Blue Fighter." I did not use generative AI to write it. It is entirely my own work.

This story did not appear out of nowhere; it has a concrete, documented history. Its genesis was during my LOATAD Black Atlantic Residency in Ghana. While there‚ I read a poem by vangile gantsho titled “my father's hands․” I was inspired by this poem to write a story about my family's experiences in Zimbabwe‚ including my father leaving his accounting profession and the hardships my family faced as a result․ Other aspects of the story‚ including characters and the setting‚ are drawn from events in my own life․

There is also a clear chronology to the story's development. I sent the completed first draft of the story to vangile for feedback on May 15‚ 2025․ I then submitted the story to The Shallow Tales Review on May 27‚ 2025․ Fiction editor Nzube Nlebedim accepted the story on June 10‚ 2025‚ and it went through the standard editorial process. vangile then provided her feedback to me on June 25‚ 2025․ On the same day Nzube also provided editorial feedback to me․ In an email dated June 27‚ 2025‚ I sent the final draft and requested that the editor preserve the formatting of an epigraph in the story as originally submitted by vangile as a courtesy to her․ The story was published on June 30‚ 2025․

The Atlantic article seems to question the story's authorship by comparing its style to my other writing. As writers we develop recurring interests, but we don’t produce work from a single fixed template. My debut novel, “Freelance”, and the story titled "The Whistleblower" published in Transition Magazine in 2021 which is referenced by Ms. Vara, are thrillers dealing with political intrigue. "The Blue Fighter," however, is a deeply personal story about economic collapse and familial relationships. The voice shifts because the subject matter demands it. To suggest that a writer cannot write in different styles or genres, or improve his writing substantially after five or more years fundamentally misunderstands the craft of writing.

The motive for my supposedly using AI to generate the story is equally difficult to understand. I was under no obligation to write “The Blue Fighter”. I was not commissioned to produce it, nor was I paid a fee for its publication. The decision to submit the piece for consideration for the Caine Prize was made by the editor of The Shallow Tales Review months after its publication. I therefore didn’t write the story with any guarantee that it would be submitted, let alone win anything. The idea that I would have somehow written the story with the express intention of entering and winning the Caine Prize, despite the inherently competitive and uncertain nature of the prize, conjures up a motive that simply did not exist.

"The Blue Fighter" is my work, and I stand by it completely. I'm grateful to vangile for her inspiration, to The Shallow Tales Review for giving the story a home, and to the Caine Prize judges for recognizing the work on its merits. I’m also heartened by the numerous messages of solidarity from fellow writers and readers, and to Adrienne Ingrum and Regina Brooks at Serendipity Literary Agency for their support throughout.
I look forward to continuing to work with the Caine Prize team, and to celebrating this recognition with the people who helped bring this story into the world.

Most importantly, I will continue to write.

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 14/10/2026

In saner times, we would consider an American who graduated from a US law school and then spent the only practical part of her career practicing for an undisclosed employer in Beijing as "having been developed as a Chinese asset and should in no circumstances be permitted in the White House." But...

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Every one of these idiots is screaming "REGULATE US!" at the top of their lungs. They want that because regulation will shut out open source solutions and allow Anthropic and OpenAI to become a duopoly that own the field.

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RedArmyFraction @nopassaran.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Metallica, the Band that put the don’t tread on me snake on their album cover, along with a song called “Don’t Tread on Me”, would like you to know they avoid politics

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DarkLordNecro, PNW Progressive @darklordnecro.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The "controversial" comic with over 43 false reports to silence the creator and the real feel of the people. Enjoy, like and reshare "The Day All Billionaires Died..." By #noneofthisisok

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 14/10/2026

And you shall know them by their desire to remain in the conversation and command respect but refuse to admit their vote, lest it allow everyone who could hear their words to discount them as fuckery. Yea, they did vote for Trump and somehow think we do not know, amen.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 14/10/2026

If you're loudly complaining about being asked who you voted for, then we know who you voted for. You could lie, you could tell the truth and deal with the consequences, or you could even just walk away. But the meandering, rambling, flop-sweat responses? We know who you voted for.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 14/10/2026

In my experience in America when people won't proudly tell you who they voted for, you know who they voted for.

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The Chaser @chaser.com.au · 14/10/2026

The viral footage had the wearer of the glasses describe the 'discrimination' he faces as people ran away from him at his local park. chaser.com.au/general-news...

Meta Glasses capture footage of man being avoided for wearing Meta Glasses - The Chaser

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 14/10/2026

Once I was a proponent for ending online anonymity simply because I wanted consequences for bad actors, but back then I still believed in the purpose of a system being what it claims to be and not what it actually does. Corporations and governments can't be trusted if only for their carelessness.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

New: I pulled the Character ai bankruptcy documents. They show: - They were spending $14 million/month on compute alone at a time their revenue was around ~$1 million/month - Currently losing $9 million a month - They admitted they enshittified & that it didnt work www.404media.co/character-ai...

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Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work

Character.ai enshittified its product but was still burning tons of cash, its bankruptcy documents say.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This Cornell Chi Phi alum's story of being sexually assaulted as a pledge—and his ensuing mental health struggles—has really stuck with me. (Chi Phi is the fraternity where Jane Doe was gang raped.)

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GUEST ROOM | I Lived at Chi Phi in 2012. Now I Say Tear It Down and Build Something New

Jared Hoffman '15 shared his experience as a member of the Xi chapter of Chi Phi. He calls for the tearing down of the Greek system and of the Chi Phi house.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It does appear the "data center eliminated Nazi and otherwise fuckface bots" narrative is basically wishcasting, it does show you how popular getting rid of this shit would broadly be, and that maybe a smart person should run on it.

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Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

So, it's been about one month since Macklemore got dropped from the Ed Sheeran tour and my Macklemore video got a big bump from the news, I'm donating the extra revenue from it (about $400) to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund (pcrf.net) and hey, maybe you want to also

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PCRF

The Palestine Children's Relief Fund was established in 1992 by concerned humanitarians in the USA to bring injured and sick children for free medical care they could not get locally

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

At some point we also have to deal with the fact that one of the two parties is openly hostile to democracy. If you have to win big every election or else the country falls into despotism we're all just playing Russian roulette every few years

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Former “free speech” crusaders have ushered in an unprecedented campaign of censorship in Texas universities, resulting in pulitzer winning books being banned, medical and scientific facts being suppressed, and entire fields of study deemed “woke” being eliminated www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Over the past decade, some conservatives have invoked principles of academic freedom and free speech in order to subvert both. These conservatives mocked “snowflakes” and “trigger warnings,” and then passed legislation making it illegal to hurt white students’ feelings by discussing historical or contemporary events. They invoked academic freedom and then began erasing fields of study they found politically inconvenient. They railed against “indoctrination,” and then argued that the state is entitled to control everything said in the classroom.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The most indebted corporations in America right now are, at their core, computer virus companies. They think the computer viruses are their girlfriends, so they think this absolves them of guilt. Let's find out!

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Anthropic warns AI models could soon copy themselves across home devices

Anthropic's latest research adds to the growing safety concerns around AI from the ability for models to carry out cyberattacks to the technology going rogue.

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Granite Man @granitedhuine.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

2006: "Illegally downloading media is theft because you’re taking something you didn't pay for." 2026: "Buying media isn't ownership because you paid for something we can take away any time we like."

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