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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some good news for a change: Overcoming a massive and aggressive tech lobby and a squeamish, Silicon Valley-friendly governor, the labor movement has managed to pass a raft of first-of-their-kind AI laws aimed at protecting workers in California.

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California just passed the strongest AI labor laws in the US

Finally, some good news

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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tired: Muse, meta’s surveillance charm that is not not being marketed to kids Wire: Muse, a delightful art and science magazine for children

A hand holding the new meta muse charm, with a red x scribbled over it along with the text “eww”

The cover of muse magazine, with a circle of insects and text that says “curious collections”

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 30/09/2026

don't bother addressing a congregation unless you're in the baroque creature pulpit

Baroque pulpit ca. 1750, rebuilt 1856, Parish church in Dobroszów.

a fanciful scaled sculpture where the serpents open mouth serves as the pulpit

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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is really deeply my attitude towards clothing: mutual flourishing! When I say I’m into fashion it’s in a “I love all the ways people express themselves through garments!” way and never ever in a “ew that’s so last season” way

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026

All of a sudden we're not talking about the widely popular bipartisan opposition to massive data center buildouts. I wonder why 🤔

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 09/09/2026

Abolition Teapot by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons, 1760-80. www.flickr.com/photos/birmi...

Teapot
Health to the Sick Honour to the Brave
Success to the Lover Freedom to the Slave

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A thread devoted to Jacob Lawrence, one of most acclaimed American painters of the 20th century, born #OnThisDay in 1917. Fitting that today is Labor Day since work & labor were among his most enduring themes. First up: Home Chores, 1945, painted soon after he returned from military service in WWII

Painting of a Black woman in house dress, apron, & slippers, washing dishes at a sink

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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My coworking space has these decorative stacks of books in different colors and this is perhaps the most cursed collection of titles

A stack of yellow books with the following titles on the spines:

-Fantastic Food with Splenda
-The Happiness Advantage
-The Sign
-A Public Faith
-Taking Back the Good Book
-The Art of Her Deal

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“Be joyful though you have considered all the facts” - Wendell Berry

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We don’t have a right to ask whether we’re going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what’s the right thing to do?” --Wendell Berry

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🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️‍🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton with Keith Haring in 1985, incredible woman and supporter of LGBTQ people for decades going back to a time when few others dared.

Black and white photo of Dolly Parton with gay artist Keith Haring.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026

The grim reaper is just shooting at the wall blindfolded

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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

RIP to one of the smartest, kindest, most talented members of our species

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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has paused a lower court’s ruling that blocked key parts of President Trump’s order to restrict mail-in voting for this fall’s midterms in 23 states and Washington, D.C. U.S. Postal Service work on Trump’s order remains blocked nationwide

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26A124, 26A139 Order

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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Pleased with how the colors for this little wall-hanging scrap project are shaping up

Striped and solid brown, red-orange, and blue fabric pieces laid out. There is an embroidered image of St. Brigid of Kildare on one piece and an embroidered can of beans on another

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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

My 4yo yesterday morning, while unlocking the front door: “Everyone locks their doors at night. Because we don’t want any owls to come in!”

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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Cheez-it box color story today. Everything homemade or secondhand. #DaughterJudy #AdamsPant in gold upholstery jacquard sewed by me, and the jacket is from a trade with another IG sewist.

A mirror selfie of me in a yellow jacket, red top, gold pants, and white converse shoes

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A wild story that sums up so much about this moment. Rare books bought up by a hyperscaler, driven across the country by truck, scanned and fed into the woodchipper by low wage workers so the rich can build and own systems that squeeze, surveil, and automate labor and control knowledge generation.

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Computer scientist Margaret Hamilton coined the term “software engineer.” She directed the Software Engineering Division at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab & led development of the on-board flight software for NASA’s Apollo Guidance Computer. She was born #OTD in 1936 & turns 90 today! #WomenInSTEM

Two side-by-side black-and-white photographs of pioneering computer scientist Margaret Hamilton (born August 17, 1936). The left panel features a mature, close-up portrait where Hamilton gazes directly at the viewer with a serene, confident, and reflective expression, framed by her long, dark, slightly silvering hair. The right panel is a famous archival photograph showing a younger Hamilton standing indoors next to a towering stack of bound paper binders containing the Apollo Guidance Computer source code, which she led the development of at MIT. She is smiling broadly and wears a striped, long-sleeved mini dress with dark Mary Jane shoes and glasses, resting her hand proudly on top of the massive column of printed code. The overall composition contrasts her youthful triumph with her enduring legacy, capturing an optimistic, intellectually rigorous mood that highlights her monumental contributions to space exploration.

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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Hanging out with a 4-year-old really shows you how many ways there are to take off a sock

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 13/08/2026

'The outright exploitation of the disability community as a means of normalizing intrusive technologies has not often been named.'

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 12/08/2026

back in the real world—today is the ninth anniversary of the death of Heather Heyer, murdered by a white nationalist. from the AP live reporting that day: apnews.com/general-news...

12:55 p.m.
A friend of the woman killed when a car rammed into a group of protesters in Charlottesville says she's no different than a casualty of war.
Felicia Correa said Sunday that her friend Heather Heyer died standing up for people of color.

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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 11/08/2026

what if i do not want to be optimized. what if i want to make mistakes because that’s how you learn; what if i want to do nothing sometimes, what if i want a world that is weird and challenging and has mysteries left to reveal. what if i like taking the long way

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If you focus on the way that Trump is adding administrative burdens on most Americans, while exempting an inner circle from regulation, you would learn a lot about the second Trump term

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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I must have misheard, but it sounded like someone at my coworking space just said their child’s name is Washer-Dryer

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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Branding inspo: these off-brand recycled printer cartridges are by RETCH

A black cardboard box with the text: RETCH INK CARTRIDGE

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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The men’s World Cup is cool and all but GO THORNS @thornsfc.com

Providence Park stadium, with a soccer game in progress on the field

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Are cherries on your #July4 menu? They come thanks to workers like "Julia" who shared this pic from where she was harvesting cherries in WA state. She works piece rate, which means she rushes to pick as much as possible while getting the quality growers require. #WeFeedYou

A worker standing in front of a box full of cherries the crew has just picked

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We and AI @weandai.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The official launch event for The AI Resist List is finally here, and you can join in person or online! The airesistlist.org has met a seemingly urgent public need for examples of ways communities around the world are moving against extractive AI and exploring more equitable technology futures.

airesistlist.org

The AI Resist List

A living directory of ways communities resist AI harms—and build alternatives worth fighting for.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Fascists marching in the capital, assured of protection from their President and indifference from much the plutocratic media, marking the 250th anniversary of the American experience.

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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

This morning I chatted with a neighbor as she set up this July 4th mini parade. We talked about our complicated feelings about this day. She is a descendant of George Mason, one of the fathers of the Bill of Rights. He refused to sign the Constitution tho, in part due to his abolitionist beliefs

A colorful display of miniatures, with a line of toy cars displaying tiny American flags in the front

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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Brought this one out again this morning

A hand holding a sign that says “Catholics Against Christian Nationalism”

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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Looking through the @cascadiajs.com pics like, oh yay, I look like such a fun & vivacious person having a great ti—ohhhhh noooo, this is my true posture

Me at the Cascadia JS Web + AI Conf smiling behind the lectern as I give my talk

Me speaking to Jonathan Keslin outside. We're both smiling.

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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Curious to see how this policy plays out, but I think it’s a really smart move by Tidal, at the very least for marketing. I hope we see more tech companies paying attention to how wildly unpopular the incursion of AI into culture is, particularly for creative content

Screenshotted text: “Tidal will not allow music that is 100% AI-generated to be monetized. No royalties will go to such releases, nor will AI-generated uploads be eligible for direct-to-fan sales.

We will expand these policies to music that is substantially AI-generated when AI detection technology is sufficiently reliable to do so.”

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

See, people always want to make this just about "sports," but the real upshot here is that, 6-3, trans women can't make a claim under the Equal Protection Clause. And if they can't do that, it's hard to see how they have constitutional rights.

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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

“Sister Susan Francois…has been active in the family support operation that maintains an aid tent outside Delaney Hall. She told Salon that she considers working conditions in the facility to be “very close to slavery.”” www.salon.com/2026/06/29/d...

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Delaney Hall is reshaping how ICE runs its detention centers - Salon.com

Detainees ended a hunger and labor strike shortly after ICE updated its detention standards

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

David Ignatow, from Living is What I Wanted: Last Poems (1999)

Fixed or impermanent

All these objects
fixed in their places--
trees, houses, the declaration
of independence, the bill of rights,
the constitution--awaiting
an end. The earth spins as if in search
of its executioner, perhaps
a comet sent at random
by the law of impermanence,
fixed in us
like a bent tree.

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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

At least we have Rilke (from Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, Macy & Barrows translation)

Words printed on a page:

I would describe myself
like a landscape I’ve studied
at length, in detail;
like a word I’m coming to understand;
like a pitcher I pour from at mealtime;
like my mother’s face;
like a ship that carried me
when the waters raged.

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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Dark dark dark. Can’t stop thinking about Andreessen’s “introspection is a recent invention” quote from a few months ago and how these dudes just so perfectly embody the intersection of absolute cabbage-brained foolishness & cartoon bad guy (but real, so not actually funny)

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Molly Jean @mollyjeanbennett.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

“It’s me and two mountains that are sad but I PROMISED to make them feel better”

A child’s drawing of a yellow person next to a blue shape with two blobs with faces inside it

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I’m coming to understand that maintaining hope is radical.

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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Our residency call for the 26/27 academic year is live! The theme this year is Creative Misuse - interpret as you will. Read the full prompt: https:// drive.google.com/file/d/16zB-7J4UoajGAooans30yEgQKlzys2hD/view Fill out the application: https:// forms.gle/KNfcAGBVCbyURiWJA

a MISTY robotics robot appears via security camera on the screen of an Apple IIc computer. An explainer for the Apple IIc is under the screen.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

‘Time and again, when the goblets passed and seasoned fighters got flushed with beer they would pledge themselves to protect Heorot and wait for Grendel with whetted swords.‘ ~ Seamus Heaney (trans), Beowulf. #BookWormSat 🖼 Joseph Ratcliffe Skelton, 1908.

Grendel roaring as he lopes along with background of sun setting over watery landscape. Illustration.

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