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Mike Riverso

@mikeriverso.bsky.social
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Sci-fi, games, and progressive politics. “De-escalate all conflict that is not with the enemy.” #BlackLivesMatter. #TransLivesMatter. He/him. Toronto.

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 3h
Let this sink in. Cornell University refused to refund Jane Doe's tuition the semester she was raped. Without this money, she could not transfer to another school. Essentially, she was forced to stay on campus where she saw those seven rapists frequently. Eventually she dropped out of college.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2h
A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 1h
like i say every time this comes up, the term for what awaits survivors who go through the official system (cops, rape kit at the hospital, the hell of a trial where you as the victim get to be cross examined by yr rapist’s defense) is called “the second rape”
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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 1h
OK guys this is my perfect lazy weeknight dinner and it’s SO quick and SO easy and you probably have ALL the ingredients in your cabinets RIGHT now. So first we start with Madagascar vanilla paste and salmon foam
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LaTia is a free agent @latiajacquise.com · 28/09/2026
well. two months before my four-year anniversary, my role at wizards has been made redundant, and I have been laid off. i have a lot of feelings i'll probably never put words to, except to say that i don't regret a single day and have so much love for anyone else affected and those who remain.
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Jordan Hopkins @jordanhopkins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sadly I have been let go from Wizards today as part of a bigger corporate restructure. Obviously I'm gutted and I will miss working on a game I love alongside some really incredible people. I'm glad that I get to look back at my work on MagicCon and Final Fantasy and be proud.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 7h
Oh, this is amazing. radaronline.com/p/bari-weiss...
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EXCLUSIVE: Bari Weiss 'Likely Out' at CBS After Paramount/Warner Bros. Merger as 'Anti-Woke' Editor Blamed for Torpedoing '60 Minutes'
Bari Weiss has been blamed for 60 Minutes' slide in viewership this season after making sweeping changes to the news network.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 9h
Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him
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Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess
Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 9h
“Anita Sarkeesian is to blame for the Cornell 7.” It must be tiring to have this world view.
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journalists and feminists failed to do anything to stop rape gang fraternities (which had tons of women protecting them too) and instead went after isolated teenagers playing anime JRPGs who got called f***** in the hallways as the source of all rape in the world
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10h
“What if we released malware represented in the form of a cute avatar” is an actual business plan now.
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Dots are OpenAI's new personal agents and soon you'll be able to control several of them - Engadget
Sure, seems safe.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Other fun facts from the story: 1. nearly a quarter of Anthropic's 2025 revenues came from two customers 2. These numbers *include* the revenue share from Amazon/Google selling their models.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
Summary
Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"wow what a low effort post." yes. exactly. it's a post
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h
We all complain about the media’s failures but organizations like @propublica.org and @texastribune.org are doing the work and deserve our financial support
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 17h
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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Daniel Solis @danielsolis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This week's t-shirt is a very silly joke for fans of linguistics, Ghibli, and milky drinks. #WeeklyTshirt #Ghibli #Boba danielsolis.threadless.com/designs/kiki...
A black spikey shape wearing a red bow and riding a witch's broom. 
A blobby shape filled with milk and tapioca balls, with a red spiral stripped straw.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 17h
You have to wait until the sixth paragraph of this piece before you learn, in the New York Times reporting on the murder of THEIR OWN EMPLOYEE, that the victim was a trans man who had been abused for being trans by the in-laws who murdered him. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Couple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)
Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 17h
Holy shit www.wbaltv.com/article/new-...
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New York Times games engineering director allegedly shot and killed by in-laws
A man and woman in their late 70s allegedly shot and killed their son-in-law, a New York Times employee, in the parking lot of a Bay Area park, officials said.
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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 17h
Unclear what the difference between the Muse Mac app and actual malware is.
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Stacey Mason @stcymsn.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
Formal affordances are the elements that pull a player toward certain actions, they “cry out” for the player to take those actions. Material affordances are the actions a system actually allows the player to take. Agency occurs when the two are in balance. (Mateas 2001)
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026
AI cannot and will not ever be able to employ contextual judgment the way a person can. it does not have any social adeptness. it does comparative pattern matching, it doesn’t actually KNOW anything in the way a human does
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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 28/09/2026
Opinion: Doug Ford's plan to spend $48 million ripping up Toronto bike lanes has attracted some naysayers. One East York resident texted the premier's cellphone to tell him about his close friend who died in a cycling accident and asked him to reconsider. The response he received included "lmao."
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Graeme Bayliss: His cyclist friend was killed. Why did Doug Ford’s response include ‘lmao’?
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Going to work now feels like doing homework after the teacher quit and told the class that education is fake. Everyone just coasting on inertia and hoping there's still a point to all this
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Nick Carnes @carnes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“inevitable” tech
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Cube @prototypecube.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
"all empires fall but it's rare you see one jump"
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"X is better now than ever."
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John Jones @johnmjones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There is evidence that Gary may have personal issues preventing him from forming meaningful relationships which are totally unconnected to his employer www.wired.com/story/tech-b...
ENGAGED IN A flirtatious conversation at a bar in Manhattan, 23-year-old Gary stood with a Guinness in hand as *he explained to a woman why he took an engineering job at Palantir,* the data analytics company cofounded by Alex Karp and Peter Thiel.
*Raking in a $250,000 salary would allow him to help pay off his parents' mounting medical bills,* he explained.
Gary wasn't met with sympathy. Medical debt, the woman told him, was "not an excuse to work somewhere like that."Gary has resorted to saying he works in Al.
"Even that gets some pretty bad responses sometimesạẠỊhe says. His Hinge profile doesn't mention his employer. And
*sometimes he makes up stories out of thin air to justify working for Palantir-like that line about the medical debt. His parents don't have any, nor are they ill.*
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The most useless form of news is “CEO says.” Can this tool actually do what it says or is the company just trying to profit off fear?
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Trash @trashxdiscourse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hey man, if you're out there, if your mom wrote this letter to Abigail Shrier about you, please drop a gofundme and we will get you the fuck out of there.
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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
it's wild how every two years democrats run a campaign in Texas which takes for granted that Texans are inherently reactionary and that the democrat party must appeal to that reactionary nature, and every time that strategy fails the conclusion is that Texans were more reactionary than expected.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.
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matt.j.robb & 16h (€) So muse handled my Facebook marketplace today. Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price and then they showed up without it even telling me until late tonight that it messed up.

Absolutely wild. 1/2

[Embedded image of a series of text messages from a meta muse "agent" given the call sign "Jarvis" (Parts of first message obscured by its logo have been replaced with brackets and ellipses and best guesses from context):]

Heads up, Usman is […] building right now for the MX Keys Mini [. He is sta]nding in front of the Shoppers Drug [Mart.]

$10 by e-transfer. The auto-reply told him to message when he's at your door.

10:28 PM Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating.

Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't available, which is on me. That's a bad look and it made the no-show worse.

I've sent him an apology from your account owning it and offering to try again another day. But the negative rating is real, and I should probably stop the auto-replies from claiming you're home when I can't verify that. Want me to change the pickup replies so they don't promise you're there?

[reply, presumably from the threads user]: You gotta never do that ever again don't agree for pickup unless you check with me

[Response from Muse "Agent"]: You're right and I'm sorry. That should never have happened. It's locked in now as a hard rule: i will never […you]'re there unless you've explicitly […] that specific pickup. If someone proposes a time, I'll tell them I'll check and…  Screenshot of a tweet from Ray Wong @raywongy:
    Deleted Muse after seeing this post on Threads about how it told some Facebook Marketplace sellers the guy’s address and they showed up at his door

    Dangerous and creepy

    This would have been 1000x worse if the person was a woman
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HyveMynd @hyvemynd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just saw a skeet asking if we can erase Trump from history. I get the sentiment, but no. No we can't. Erasing something from history means people don't learn from their mistakes and so do that thing again. Trump needs to be in the history books as an example of what not to do.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Elon Musk is shutting down the Catholic Bishops in Brazil account on X to help the right-wing win the election there paydayreport.com/x-blocks-acc...
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X Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back Lula
Polls show Catholics backing Lula as the church denounces foreign interference.
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Mike Riverso @mikeriverso.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And torrents remain the best and only way to watch what you want, when you want.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
when the rich Do Crimes
3 panel comic

Panel 1
Fully Gold Guy and Blue Guy. 
Blue Guy: Sir you have broken the law

Panel 2:
Blue Guy: Time to FACE THE CONSEQUENCES 

Panel 3:
Gold Guy: Nah
Blue Guy, Shrivelling like a cowardly dog: okey
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Frances Meh @francesmeh.reviews · 20/08/2026
i've been going to a weekly support group called Hope but every once in a while they skip a week
calendar event: No Hope Today
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m a dual national. I’m not planing on committing any crimes anytime soon, let alone ones with a sentence of 5+ years, but if I ever did I’m not sure why my second passport should disqualify me from facing the same British justice system as everyone else and instead strip me of my citizenship
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horror Ewacui @ewacat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The amount of slop on YouTube really is abhorrent, using someone else's login and I realise now how cultivated my experience of it has been
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The problem isn't rogue #AI models, it's *negligent companies*. If a biomedical firm put their product in public water supply because they wanted to test it 'in the real world', they'd be treated as criminal at corporate & individual level. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue
Decision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
like I don’t know how you learn Thing One about how LLMs work without immediately seeing that fed on their own output, they just average (narrow) the language band infinitely until it breaks
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
they keep saying model collapse won’t happen, but the Google and Microsoft docs in the OpenAI case kinda contradict that claim plus the more you understand about how LLMs work, and their attractor states, the more model collapse is like LOOMING in your vision
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I don’t want to be a dick. But having read a few things by this Yudkowsky guy and now seeing that he left school in middle school and didn’t go to high school or college I think I’m understanding the situation a lot better, or things at least seem to fit.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026
you know what? I agree with him my moral and ethical story about how we live together in this moment is we throw all of these assholes out of office and then we put them in jail
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
hi we're a website you have used for 20 years, we have no idea if you are over 18, send us a selfie. let us connect to your camera. can we get a booty pic with panties on and one without them on? can we also get 3 different pics of your boobs any position
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 25/09/2026
Every day we get closer to this:
Cartoon by the human artist Twonks, showing George Jetson vacuuming the floor while Rosie the robot paints a picture
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
JK Rowling's death will be funny as hell because it'll be Charlie Kirk but wizard-themed. The worst and stupidest fucking people you have *ever* seen, dressed as wizards and crying and producing terrible genAI slop of a suspiciously Charlie Kirk-like Harry welcoming her to heaven etc
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bree bird 🇨🇦 @goose.ski · 25/09/2026
[image of saw gerrera]

People who become right wing because they get annoyed by leftists are weak willed, most leftists are annoyed by leftists every single day.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Listen, I just think it's weird that the same people who are saying they're worried that AI is going to wipe out humanity are also eager for military contracts that will give AI control of weapons.
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