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Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social · 22h

Fellow fat people/people who wear plus sizes: how is the skinnypocalypse showing up in your own life, outside of media? What kinds of changes have you noticed in body politics in your own friends/family/coworkers/neighbors/self?

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Most of AI (in business terms) is driven by a false belief that TECHNOLOGY is what drove the internet and telecommunications booms of the last two decades. Technology unlocked better communication and business processes. THOSE then drove the boom. Tech was a means to an end, not the end in itself.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

you don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/10/2026

This is a good illustration of how so much of AI theft isn't indirect (ie, data sucked into a model to train the chatbot) - it's actually **direct** copying, but *enabled* by GenAI. Of course it is: chatbots absolutely suck at creating good, new stuff.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 07/10/2026

If your menu is slop, I'm gonna assume from here on out that your food is, too.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

To expand on this: Bigotry isn't a result of an innocent misunderstanding, or not having all the facts. It's not a choice made rationally, defeated with a rational argument. Bigotry is a self-protective, foundational belief used to help make the world make sense to them. Debate won't change that.

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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.

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Lisa Messeri @lmesseri.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

one of the reasons that I warn researchers away from adapting commercial LLMs into their pipeline is that Big Tech has a history of sunsetting popular, usable products and replacing them with worse ones. (i'm trying to ween myself off of google scholar, but it is hard).

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It feels genuinely ridiculous having to say this, but the point of art is to connect with another human. Someone thought of that painting or melodic line or scene or paragraph that is suddenly making you weep, and that means that they saw you and understood you without even meeting you.

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eerie dickgirl @eigenvectrix.northsky.social · 30/09/2026

RFK Jr just coming straight out and admitting that the purpose of genAI is to allow fascists to pretend that inconvenient truths aren't true. Sounds to me like a good reason to ban it at once!

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i hope that men notice how whenever a rape story gets widespread coverage, women use it as an opportunity to vent about how fucking disgusting we think many of you are and how many have made our lives measurably worse, and take a few moments to deeply process that.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 29/09/2026

Is it me or are Meta's new 'upgrade' audio only surveillance glasses just as freaking creepy as the perve glasses? So, basically they are LESS recognisable and no light to show they are recording the speech of everyone around? That's meant to be reassuring how exactly?

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

La guerra all’empatia è una componente cruciale dei regimi autoritari. Evidentemente l’ambizione è quella.

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

it really needs to be more openly discussed that all the people advocating for “we should be fine with losing basic skills if we get more systems thinking” are men, meaning socialized to expect to be able to offload basic tasks of daily living onto a wife as part of their compensation for existing

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Vitalba Azzollini @vitalbaa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ma il decreto scuola l'hanno scritto quelli che, per la "famiglia del bosco", sostenevano che in nessun caso i bambini andassero separati dai genitori? (e i "genitori del bosco" non erano in grado di parlare italiano né è stato imposto loro di impararlo, mi risulta)

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miramarco @miramarco.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What even is the point of quoting someone to add only “Yes”, “100%”, or “This person is right”? Just repost it

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

trying to build a world-destroying superintelligence but shaking my head the whole time so you know I don't agree with it

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miramarco @miramarco.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Many of us consumers have become so detached from the process of creation, that we suppose that having to work to get something done must be an obstacle to our enjoyment of the results, instead of a process that can be satisfying in itself (and such satisfaction is a form of quality assurance)

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 18/09/2026

a pretty good way to gauge the conversation is whether people are talking about harm or risk harm is about what's happening now already risk is about what could maybe happen in the future and basically the whole ai cult scene is in agreement that possible risks are more important than current harm

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

How to visit an art museum with someone who isn't used to visiting art museums:

Two social media posts by @pan_juho (Translated from Japanese):

"I love going to art museums, but when I go with someone who's not used to them, if I say, 'If you were a great thief, tell me later which one you'd steal,' they end up looking the exhibits pretty seriously, and that makes me happy.

"Whether you steal something you like or something that seems valuable -> it opens up endless conversation based on what vou liked about it or where you saw value in it, so it's also great as an easy icebreaker for chats after visiting the museum."

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

we're facing existential threats from inattentive or lazy work, as well as burnout, fatigue, low sleep — stuff that requires the kind of regulation of working conditions that the tech industry has been ambivalent on, because management was psychotic and workers were happy with the fancy cafeteria

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The thing about trying not to pick a side is that the nazis *instantly recognize* which side you picked. They immediately identify you as an ally. They know exactly what side you're on. It doesn't fool the victims, it doesn't fool the Nazis, the only people it could possibly fool is centrists.

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Of course we don’t know the exact numbers as these world-saving companies won’t share them. Must be to protect human civilisation! futurism.com/future-socie...

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AI Agents Are Using an Outrageous Amount of Electricity

A single AI agent uses an amount of energy equivalent to two household appliances, most of it wasted on re-reading its own logs.

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 15/09/2026

a lot of my frustration with the LLM onslaught has in fact been disappointment at realizing how many people do just want to pretend (at work, creatively, interpersonally)

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Mathematicians out here saying it is not the proof that matters, but the human understanding of the proof. We are all humanists now.

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 14/09/2026

Here is the latest combined forecast across all 14 models, compared to past strong El Nino events. It shows just how extreme and unprecedented this event is forecast to be:

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

So (if I understand this correctly), the way AI (companies) will "solve" all the major problems in maths, biology, and medicine in the next 5 years will be by stealing and building on the ideas of researchers naive enough to think their chats with AI companies would be private.

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miramarco @miramarco.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Since it won’t be easy to recognize if an Apple Watch is Series 12 at a glance, people will assume that *anyone* wearing an Apple Watch is constantly transcribing what they say. Old Apple Watch owners will effectively be treated as glassholes. This move by Apple may damage their brand irreversibly

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"there is no evidence—none—of any corresponding learning benefit arising from students using AI" Empirical evidence of the educational harm of generative AI buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/the-50-per...

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Joshua Grochow @joshuagrochow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

And you have to ask yourself: why was it worth $22M to them? Because to them math is just their most successful PR bid, (since the claims of AGI aren't sticking). They are betting that the (false) claim "We solved math, so we can solve everything" will gain them way more than $22M in market share.

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George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I think we're at the point where we can incredibly comfortably say that your attitude towards Reform, Restore, MAGA, the AfD etc is how you'd have responded to fascism in the 1930s

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/09/2026

A question we could face ourselves: what might we do differently, if we accepted that the police are not failing to protect the public, but telling us who they believe is worthy of protection?

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Just a thought, but if we’ve reached the point where governments are warning people that they need to start stocking up on food, maybe it’s time to start treating climate change like AN ACTUAL FUCKING EMERGENCY.

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 02/09/2026

August 2026 was the warmest August on record in the the Copernicus/ECMWF ERA5 dataset, at 1.65C above preindustrial levels. This beat the prior record set in August 2024 by a fairly wide margin (~0.14C).

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miramarco @miramarco.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I think what small business owners get from AI is the appearance of polishedness, which they perceive as more professional. They see handwritten signs as amateurish, not as charming. Like those authors who are embarrassed by their own writing voices and use LLMs to get an impeccable but bland style

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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Well dang, should’ve just memed it in the first place

An illustration by Gustave Dore for Dante’s Divine Comedy that shows two silhouetted figures standing on a tall summit gazing up at a great celestial conflagration of souls in heaven. Text reads “We already had free art for people who are broke or bad at designing things. It’s called the PUBLIC DOMAIN”

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miramarco @miramarco.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The reason why many (if not most) Wordle-inspired daily games have become graphically similar to each other is that they're all vibe-coded. Even the ones that came up before the advent of AI, many have been updated with Claude. What was a cornucopia of coding creativity has become dull and samey.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Might be even worse. The president doesn’t seem to care if it’s AI or not, nor see relevant distinction between real and fake. Narrative is all there is. The White House is organized around this, acting as if fantasy narratives are real. And millions of Americans voted for reality TV over reality.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I forget where I was reading/listening to this, but in some blogpost or podcast I saw recently the author/speaker was pointing out that the promise of "convenience" and "frictionlessness" has been one way we have all been hooked into this. >>

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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

How in the *hell* do you get Viagra in chocolate syrup by accident in a factory

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Horrificallie @grissallia.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I'm kind of hung up about the fact that Dolly never hid her faith. She was just as open about that as everything else, and it drove her to actually love people, not to judge them and wrap it in theological bullshit and pretend it was love, or to demand people believe what she did. She just loved.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026

Living in a fascist surveillance state means that ultimately everyone falls into one of two categories: police or criminals.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 22/08/2026

It’s worse than this. Having been in the room with many of them (long ago, before I knew they were psychopaths), the tycoons who are left running the industry have an active contempt for ordinary people, including their own workers. They actively want to oppress, control and punish them.

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Nick Walker @nickwalker.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Actually sad what AI has done to the world of souvenir fridge magnets, postcards, etc. It's kind of microcosmic of the whole issue: the people in charge of fridge magnets don't seem to care that fridge magnets actually matter to people who collect fridge magnets.

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