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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

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

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It’s weird that we all have to pretend crimes are legal if you use a chatbot to commit them.

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I would personally put it in at least the top 10. It sits at the intersection of ‘systemic problems require systemic solutions’ and ‘no seriously, fuck that fascist weirdo’, which a good place to look for solutions imo.

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It’s actually both Worse and Stupider than it sounds. There are many good explainers floating around, I think @faineg.com does a particularly fine job here: bsky.app/profile/fain...

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Unreported gunfire until the whole neighborhood started going to the Zoning Board of Appeals meetings to complain about the noise.

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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Curious how you can help? We ask that you sign our petition for Wizards to voluntarily recognize our union, share it with your communities, and keep an eye on this account for future updates! actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...

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Stand with Dungeons & Dragons and Magic Workers Forming a Union!

The Dungeons & Dragons team and Studio X (Magic: The Gathering; Duel Masters) are forming a union! We are joining the ranks of United Wizards of the Coast - CWA (UWOTC-CWA) and following in the fo...

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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...

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Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA

Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Does that really work? Just waiting here for a clue to come and try to beat you up?” “More often than you’d think. Our guy is clearly a fan of the classics, and traditionally that’s…” *intercom buzz* “Hey Sam, there’s a ‘Guido McFist‘ here to see you?” “See? Now go hide behind the door.”

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 02/10/2026

This! Which tells me, personally, that if they truly believe that its OK to make a sentient being that they enslave, well, they probably think it's ok to do that to humans.

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The fascists are stealing our pianos.

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My ‘Bond markets are functioning in an orderly manner’ T-shirt is raising a lot of questions etc.

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There’s this idea that you need to engage seriously with everything anyone says, and I just don’t think that’s true. There’s too many people saying things, it’s reasonable and indeed necessary to have a ‘this guy is a crank, next’ filter.

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If Chinese companies don’t want to sign on to the ‘stop losing money’ agreement, you simply have your pet regulators to ban them from the US market while mumbling about national security. Or get DoD to fund your training to ‘win the AI race’.

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That’s why they need government to intervene - if they can make it illegal/too difficult for new competitors to offer a better product, they can all agree to slow development of new models enough for the existing ones to earn out. (Assuming inference actually is a profitable & big enough market)

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m still not sure what they hope to gain by delaying. The public isn’t getting any more excited about data centers, and they themselves are saying they should (be forced to) stop improving the product, so what’s supposed to be different next year?

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Has anyone gotten it to write code for them yet?

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thread - this framing is one I think more folks should default to as they talk about what the big tech companies. They talk a lot about values and mission and The Future, but what they actually do is almost always what you’d predict from looking at the incentives inherent in their business models.

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’ve been following along as people try to make local coding models work, and the current state of the art appears to be ‘you need a machine that costs $12k and is back-ordered into 2028 and can then wait too long for output that is barely usable’. It will get there, but maybe not for a while.

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yeah, a lot of home maintenance items are currently in the ‘when either we get a second income or one of learns to fix drywall’ bucket.

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yeah, if I were going to go argue with the post, which I am not, it would be to propose that *everyone* is in a self-curated bubble now because that’s how culture works in the era of streaming and short-form video social media and so on.

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You know, I thought I had a good handle on how weird and awful these people were, but somehow they’re both weirder and worse.

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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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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have been trying to convince product managers of this for years. Hasn’t worked yet. I say ‘it should be opt-in’ and they say ‘you mean the notifications are on by default’ and I say no, and they just kind of look at me, baffled, like I suggested mailing the user an ostrich.

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yep. A lot of the rich white dudes in charge were only ever pretending to care about diversity and racism and not sexually harassing their employees. They also assumed that basically everyone else was also pretending, and would be happy to stop. I’m glad they were wrong.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think it's very simple, the bosses agreed with Trump about "wokeness" and this was an excuse to purge anything associated with it bsky.app/profile/trac...

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oh, yeah, I think of myself has coming somewhat late to Magic. I played for the first time in 1997.

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

‘Edit - bite mark in comments’

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’m not saying he should be banned from the internet or anything. Free speech and all that. I just think users deserve some kind of ‘be aware: cognitohazard ahead’ notification before they‘re exposed to Arguments Georg over there, so they can make an informed decision.

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I think it’s meant to be unclear whether it’s a concept lost in translation or one that simply doesn’t translate.

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

No, I do not know this reference. It is a phrasing that, these days, makes me begin to suspect LLM writing, and thus check the rest of the text to see if anything is ‘load-bearing’, ‘sharpened’ or ‘honest‘.

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Genuinely might be unknowable. He’s pretty deep into cognitive decline, has always had strange and nonsensical fixations, and is surrounded by sycophantic fascist weirdos of all kinds. There could be just about anything in there.

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Right, they’re developing the valuable skillset for… a job we’ve explicitly decided shouldn’t pay enough to live on?

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 19/09/2026

If I have ever been subtle about CS Lewis being a bisexual kinkster, I apologise, the subtlety was not intentional

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I know this is a joke, but occurs to me to ask, even if it were true, why would it be okay to underpay high school kids? Why should we expect them/their family to subsidize the McDonalds with discount labor?

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Cucumber sandwiches with fancy tea. Or make pickles. Zucchini your options are pretty much zucchini bread or ‘stealth gift it to neighbors and hope they don’t figure out it was you’.

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My immediate thought was that they’re already failing at step 0 - as many people have observed, they basically refuse to be nailed down about what the hazard is.

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Over-estimating the impact of the product *is* kind of the whole AI ballgame.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026

great art articulates eternal truths

script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read

ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
[They do not log off]

CURTAIN

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Well, at least they’re catching up to the rest of us. This is all very stupid and worrying but it’s also pretty funny that the median BlueSky poster was dramatically more correct about this than the (presumably highly-paid) analysts at JPM.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The absolute refusal to learn from anything even once is why you should try not to put the literal stupidest people alive in charge of your country, don't do it again

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.

Screenshot for a Defector podcast episode with the headline "Consider the Emotional Lives of Scallops" only the accompanying photo is a white gormless stubbled red-headed UK singer of recent notoriety giving a flat smile to the camera while wearing a washed out peach top as beige as he is against a flat background. So, actually, probably a scallop anyway.

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Chalk up another one for ‘that which is adequately explained by stupidity’.

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Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

From what I’ve seen, saying nothing and waiting for the popular attention span to run out is far more effective than it should be, but also these guys can almost never manage to do it.

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Graham Stark @graham.loadingreadyrun.com · 14/09/2026

The comedy we make at LRR… y'know, it could destroy civilization. It's simply SO funny, funnier than any human could conceive, it might be the end of all things. Obviously we're excited, but we also want to acknowledge that our comedy is simply too powerful and there is no choice but to submit.

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Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 10/09/2026

feeling increasingly annoyed and disrespected when receiving playful warnings that I have too much email from the email company that got me to sign up for email with them by promising they would have room for all my email forever

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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 10/09/2026

honestly I'm very disappointed at the lack of progress in aligning humans for safety

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