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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 18h

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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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 01/10/2026

BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.

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kristina @mudkri.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Look, man, I'm an old™️and I still deal with slimy behaviour when I go to the pool and I just float myself over to another lane so I can swim in peace. We leave lunch rooms, buses, coffee shops bc of the invisible and real 6th sense that things at any moment will go array.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Lot of conversations about Good Men™️and to this day, I don't think there's a better takedown of them than this speech Hannah Gadsby gave back in '18 at the height of #MeToo (Starts in earnest about 1 minute into the video)

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Hannah Gadsby Full Speech: "The Good Men" & Misogyny | Women in Entertainment

YouTube video by The Hollywood Reporter

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Whenever I read about men using AI to draft love notes for their wives, I feel a seething fury. That is something you could easily have done yourself, and it would have been a million times more meaningful. Technology is training us to be dependent and soulless.

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026

I wrote this two years ago, when the Roberts Bank terminal expansion was clearly heading toward some kind of approval — but well before another new oil pipeline was going to feed into it. This Pacific Link pipeline will add even more noise stress to the underwater recordings included in this piece:

theglobeandmail.com

Critically endangered orcas in B.C. are struggling to navigate in a sea of shipping noise

Our need for transportation and shipping is causing a kind of pollution that’s invisible (and in this case, inaudible) to humans. What does all this noise mean for the 75 or so Southern Resident Kille...

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Surely this could be useful for someone.

Odd Ladies Meet Tonight
--The Daily Item, 29 Mar 1961

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 01/10/2026

it’s become so normal for people to disclose their rapes to appeal to people’s humanity around rape cases that we don’t think about how disgusting the need to do that is put the worst moment of your life out for public consumption, so that half the comments can call you a liar.

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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I saw a study where Canadians were one of the slowest to pick up AI because of our distrust of it. Our computer scientists arguably did the most ground work to create AI in ‘90s, so we’re not scared of tech. This article proves it. What we distrust is that they are USA-based systems.

ctvnews.ca

Canadians embrace AI in health care, but not U.S.-based tools, survey finds

More than two-thirds of Canadians are uncomfortable with the health system using artificial intelligence tools based in the United States, even as strong majorities support AI helping doctors diagnose...

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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just talk to another human already jesus fucking christ

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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

With premiers like Smith & Ford ripping public healthcare apart in Canada, SIGN THIS PETITION to stop the bleeding & establish national standards that can’t be circumvented by premiers wanting to hand out fat privatization contracts to buddies. Do NOT forget the confirm email, please!

ourcommons.ca

Petition e-7691 - Petitions

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kristina @mudkri.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’ve read thru this thread and it’s distressing to me that the Cornell dudebros are out attending classes like they didn’t rape a woman and that Silicon Valley is what I’ve always known it to be, places where the Cornell 7 grow up to thrive. I’m old, and nothing has ever changed. Men are not safe.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I remember a really frustrating conversation with a generally decent cishet white guy about a news story where a woman was roofied. he went off about wishing he could beat that guy up to avenge her, and I was like "how about start with calling out your friends' sexist tweets?" and he was like 😳

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 28/09/2026

Former ‘South Park’ writer Toby Morton has created a website to expose information about Cornell University’s administration in response to the group sexual assault case: “Accountability should not disappear when the headlines do. And we all know this headline will disappear.”

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kristina @mudkri.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I notice how many male mutual followers never say anything. “Oh I show my support just not on socials.” Ok, Chad, show your work.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“It’s not ALL men.” None of the 50+ men the Cornell rapists invited to come join them in raping a woman they’d drugged went to the authorities or tried to stop it. Not all men would rape an unconscious woman, but where are the men who’d try to stop it, or EVEN FUCKING OBJECT?

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kristina @mudkri.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think the thing is, a coffee, iced or otherwise is something many people buy before a job interview bc a. The coffee shop is in the lobby b. The 4min to get the coffee acts as a calming of nerves c. Egregiously there are too many companies who lack basic manners to even offer candidates water.

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kristina @mudkri.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

22 Minutes is also reason this country can never be conquered.

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

‘I had iced coffee with McCauley HALF AN HOUR AGO!’

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kristina @mudkri.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have a few quibbles, but those are after the top-10, which for once are all pretty much in order. There are many not on the list, but I think the only one I would say is truly missing is Letterkenny (we could really have done with leaving off Louie).

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kristina @mudkri.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

if anyone even sees these posts, ever, a quick note that if a peri woman tells you that she is having a ragey time and everything/one is stupid w/ citations, I'm pretty sure the reply to that shouldn't be, "maybe you should just not get mad at everything" Brilliant. Why didn't *I* think of that??

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Bob Rae on fighting for democracy: "I think it's really important for people to understand that this is the battle of our lifetime. And our grandparents and our parents fought that battle in the Second World War. We had it on easy street for quite a while. And now we've got to fight again." #cdnpoli

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Booo-ca Soppres-satantic. @lucasalami.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Luke just did something more interesting and creative than the trek writing room has done in two years.

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kristina @mudkri.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is why Canada will never be conquered.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New — I had the opportunity to see NAZA, the documentary freaking out the Israeli government because of its horrifying firsthand descriptions of the way the IDF has used AI to target and massacre Palestinian civilians. My thoughts on the film’s damning revelations, and the banality of evil:

thehandbasket.co

I saw the documentary the Israeli government doesn’t want you to see

'NAZA' dispels once and for all the myth that the IDF didn't target civilians in Gaza.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 23/09/2026

Look, I don't know if that's true, but air travel is one of the safest forms of travel, so THANK YOU FURRIES, FURRIES WIN AGAIN

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kristina @mudkri.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s national redhead appreciation day so please appreciate accordingly.

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kristina @mudkri.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I don’t think I’ve been as excited to read a *new* book in ages after reading this quite frankly, fuck you review to Bret Stephens, from the same newspaper and on the same day. This Masterpiece Is the Novel of the Decade, if Not the Century. 🎁 link.

nytimes.com

This Masterpiece Is the Novel of the Decade, if Not the Century (Gift Article)

Marlon James’s story of gay experience and murderous homophobia in Jamaica is a maximalist’s banquet — and the Booker Prize winner’s finest book yet.

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kristina @mudkri.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What a banana pants news day and it's not even elevenses.

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kristina @mudkri.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Here’s the thing: Bret is an idiot.

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kristina @mudkri.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Good morning! Last day of summer. Let’s enjoy two great things, Earth, Wind and Fire set to Paul Rudd dancing.

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kristina @mudkri.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Leave women to their hobbies.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026

congratulations to everyone on reinventing Worse Cable

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kristina @mudkri.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Good morning! Last day of summer. Let’s enjoy two great things, Earth, Wind and Fire set to Paul Rudd dancing.

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kristina @mudkri.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I have to work this morning and tomorrow, please keep me in your thoughts as I have to schmooze people who think they are important. Not enough coffee in the world for this.

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