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Nithya Raman @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social · 11h

LA is HOT. But does it have to be this hot? Did you know shade from a single tree can drop temps by 20° or more? Yet working-class neighborhoods like South LA, East LA, and the Valley get the least tree coverage and bear the brunt of extreme heat. Let's finally cool things down for everyone.

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Michael Strode @michaelstrode.bsky.social · 12h

Great source of upcoming titles for your TBR pile.

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Michael Strode @michaelstrode.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A) Love the owl, and B) Come Away Again sounds cool.

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AppleInsider @appleinsider.com · 28/09/2026

In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.

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Meta's new AI agent blatantly ignores users permissions

In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not.

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Michael Strode @michaelstrode.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Mass piracy for training purposes is not fair use under copyright law." Got 'em.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is about one thing and one thing alone. Steering our research dollars for cancer, heart disease, and new infectious diseases to Trump’s political allies and friends.

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Michael Strode @michaelstrode.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Thanks for the reminder - just submitted a request for my local library to purchase.

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Michael Strode @michaelstrode.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Great newsletter, led me to follow several authors and buy their books.

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway

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Michael Strode @michaelstrode.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The one that worked for us is Astepro, a non-steroidal antihistamine nasal spray. Vast improvement on other options. Hope it helps.

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Michael Strode @michaelstrode.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Same, every time I finish a chapter. Did it for backup purposes, not suspecting I might someday need a paper trail for "Hey, it was actually me who wrote this thing."

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Michael Strode @michaelstrode.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Unsplash is great. unsplash.com Also, there are always options to use instead of gen AI.

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Michael Strode @michaelstrode.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Pre-order sale at Barnes & Noble, today only! Link in comments.

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Valerie A. Traina @v3ndettaval.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

YOU MUST READ THIS by journalist and author Sarah Kendzior‼️🤬😱👇

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2026

Looks like OpenAI may have stolen another mathematicians work.

Screenshot of an X post by user Valerio Capraro (@ValerioCapraro) featuring text followed by an embedded photo of a man in glasses and a dark sweater against a forested outdoor background.
The post text reads:
"BREAKING: OpenAI might have stolen another major proof.
In a detailed Mastodon post, which I report in full in the comments, Andreas Thom presents several pieces of evidence suggesting that OpenAI may have trained Astra on conversations in which he and Gábor Kun were working on Gromov's soficity conjecture, one of the ten problems OpenAI later announced Astra had solved.
I know Andreas. We met several times early in our careers. He is an exceptional mathematician, a leading expert on sofic and hyperlinear groups, and one of the most respected scholars in the field. He has spent two decades working on this problem.
If his account is correct, this is not a minor dispute over attribution. It would mean that unpublished human work was absorbed into a model and then presented to the world as a breakthrough by the model itself.
And if the allegations raised by Levent Alpöge, Tristan Buckmaster, and now Andreas Thom are all substantiated, we are no longer looking at isolated incidents.
We may be looking at one of the greatest intellectual scandals in the history of science.
AI is not discovering new mathematics.
AI is stealing human discovery."

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Michael Strode @michaelstrode.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

BigAI: "Look, China is rushing to fill its silos with monkeys, and you don't want them to get there first, right?"

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Michael Strode @michaelstrode.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Helpful advice, as always. Happens to come as I'm making up the list of authors to ask for blurbs, so ... thanks!

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Michael Strode @michaelstrode.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period. (Not actually sure how to access it, never tried.)

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Michael Strode @michaelstrode.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Excellent piece. Needs more em dashes ... (Seriously, though, I find myself using them *more* now. Pry them from my cold, dead hands, robots!)

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Evan May @gianttourtiere.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I guess there's some more 'why won't people come around on GenAI' discourse and while I have no doubt the tech can/will be improved, there's still a) it's built on theft, b) it's scab work against artists and c) I'm only interested in art created by humans. Because that's the whole point.

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Michael Strode @michaelstrode.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I hear you. FWIW, glad to be following your feed - I enjoy your art.

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Michael Strode @michaelstrode.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

What a horrible night to have a curse.

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Michael Strode @michaelstrode.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It may be possible that it's due to a confusing or poorly designed form: bsky.app/profile/guyn...

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 03/09/2026

Hey friends, if you have any books in the Anthropic settlement, please go read @courtneymilan.com & @victoriastrauss.com's timelines! There are some publisher hijinks afoot including multiple publishers "accidentally" claiming 100% of a book's settlement, or claiming 50% on reverted titles.

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