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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 03/10/2026

The bigger tragedy is that many researchers will be forced to forgo a research career entirely. Think of all the innovations and cures that will be lost to the world. Americans will pay for this structural vandalism for generations to come.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 30/09/2026

Anyway, a crucial driver of technofascism is the networks of capital that recruit and enculturate young tech workers into going along with producing society-wide sociotechnical harms through the uncritical production of surveillance and AI technologies.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If what I'm proposing is true, it definitely seems like someone (whether a Smith or Schmitt staffer, latter being more likely) was unable to tell the difference between the Hawkeyes & Hawks, and this led the Schmitt team to run headlong with a very poorly sourced accusation bsky.app/profile/donm...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's never "AI agent breaks containment, cures cancer, does a bit of tidying up and puts the kettle on", is it?

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

literally the only impact it would have on my life would be to spare me the aggravation of all the slop I run across.

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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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Liana Brooks @lianabrooks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm not giving up my 2017 minivan for anything currently on the market. I don't want a screen that's all on piece and you need to look to touch. I don't want voice controls in a car with kids or music. I don't want a car that's hackable.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 31/07/2026

We're in the era of incompetence & cybercrimes headlined as "unprecedented model capabilities gone rogue." So OpenAI & Anthropic are trying to one up each other with such incompetence because the "press release as a service" performing media & clueless politicians parrot pre IPO CEO talking points.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 24/09/2026

Paraphrasing a great comment from this last #FOSO26 panel: Anonymity without accountability leads to a cesspool of harassment that runs counter to the very civil properties that anonymity and anonymous speech is meant to protect.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

reposting for the evening crowd, because despite its deceptive simplicity, I worked a lot harder on this one than usual

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

"Minidisc is the wave of the future! Just like all these interactive laserdiscs i stocked up on!"

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

AI is a technology but perhaps more importantly it's an ideology, and that ideology is monarchial bossism.

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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Every so often, in the bullshit-tsunami that is AI reporting, it's helpful to remind yourself that LLMs still haven't figured out how to tell time.

A Gizmodo article from April 7, 2026, with the headline "Sam Altman Says It’ll Take Another Year Before ChatGPT Can Start a Timer" and the subheader "An $852 billion company, ladies and gentlemen." Apologies for the Altman picture jumpscare.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's crazy to me that this is not leading the New York Times, NBC News, CNN, etc. If you're that numb, maybe think about a field other than journalism.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026

All else aside there is nothing I want or need genAI to do for me. I like reading. I like doing research. I like playing around in spreadsheets. I like interviewing people. I like writing. I like doing these things for myself because I take pleasure in the doing and they make me a better thinker.

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If you pre-order @timnitgebru.blacksky.app’s book right now maybe it will go to number one on the NYT best seller list and we might finally have a sensible AI conversation in the mainstream media for once in our lives www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U...

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Deep Unlearning

Timnit Gebru, one of the fiercest voices in the world speaking truth to power, chronicles her journey as a refugee and Black woman in STEM—deliveri...

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Nathaniel Poor @natpoor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Option 3: “Reducing everything to a binary.”

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 08/09/2026

Like, if when someone says "language influences and even creates thought" what you turn that into is, rather, them saying "language creates the capacity for thinking," a LOT of misunderstandings are going to happen, whether you agree or disagree with that assertion you turned their statement into.

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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It really bothers when people dismiss victims of bigotry and discrimination standing up for their rights as being 'culture wars', much 'identity politics'. Civil rights, and the ability to live your life free of harassment and bigotry is a material, serious political subject.

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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 31/08/2026

You should know that getting poked with a stick welded by a drone is inevitable. You should just get used to it, else you'll be left behind.

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The hollowing out of much American manufacturing employment over my half-century on earth has been a long-running, real-time experiment in stated vs revealed preference at scale.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

To anyone who does not live in Paris but visits the city at regular intervals (as I do), the transformation has been staggering: Paris has been reclaimed from cars. It can be done, and could be done in London too. It is all about political will and taking the risk of being unpopular - for a while.

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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I love this! Hippy chicks rule! #momsky#sheshed

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

"Across predictive policing, facial recognition, automated welfare, deepfake sexual violence, and embodied robotics, AI does not malfunction; it performs exactly as designed, reproducing historical domination." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Robots Behaving Badly: Algorithmic Colonialism and the Consequences of AI - Bronwyn Carlson, Tamika Worrell, 2026

This article examines the political, social, and relational consequences of artificial intelligence through an anti-colonial and Indigenous lens. Challenging cl...

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Danielle Ryan (Lestat Era) @danirat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I think another lesson to take from the loss of both Dolly and Tim Curry is that neither of them took themselves seriously but they took the work dead serious that's the most important thing pour all of yourself into the craft but have fun and don't get an ego.

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Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

@thomaszimmer.bsky.social always hits 🎯 . “Trump has, this is key, a very clear view of how society should be ordered, how power and status should be distributed, and who should be at the top. His worldview is fundamentally anti-egalitarian and strongly authoritarian.”

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Does Donald Trump Have an Ideology?

No, not exactly. But he has a consistent, grievance-fueled idea of how power and status should be distributed, and that aligns him with the Right’s ideologues just fine

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Be like Dolly.

A post from M.S. (@MalaakSafa
) on X reads: "Dolly Parton didn’t spend her dollars on space travel or a trip to the titanic because she was writing checks to put 150 million books in the hands of children." Below the text, there is an image of Dolly Parton in a white dress, sitting on a chair and reading to a group of children seated on the floor in a large, ornate room with a crowd of adults standing in the background, some taking photos.

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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Guys. Where are the posts reminding us not to speak ill of the dead? I'm not seeing them for some reason.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Liberals say they support placing women in positions of power. So why don’t support the mentally unstable young woman with no security clearance who has become Trump’s most influential aide?

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

LLMs aren't close to acting like Skynet, Neuromancer/Wintermute, or other sci fi creations (Jane, The Entity, System AI, etc). Big machine learning advancement, but not that. But the industry likes the comparisons, because it makes their product out to be more capable than it is. It's marketing.

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Brad Takei @bradtakei.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

$125 and a side of recall notice. Winning.

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mqb2766.bsky.social @mqb2766.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Will they be driving through the reflecting pool?

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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."

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Artificial Intelligence Policy

Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Beginning my research seminar, as always, with Lynn Hunt's essay How Writing Leads to Thinking (and Not the Other Way Around). Should be mandatory reading in light of the impact of AI. www.historians.org/perspectives...

Writing is stressful. Sitting in my computer chair my neck and shoulder muscles almost immediately tense up as I dig around in my brain for the best phrase or even any coherent string of words, whether I am writing an essay like this one, a book chapter, a letter of recommendation, or an email message to a friend. Writing is time-consuming. It’s a great way to pass the time on a long airplane flight because you lose track of the passage of time altogether. It’s even better, from that point of view exclusively, than watching an episode of Mad Men on your laptop. Writing means many different things to me but one thing it is not: writing is not the transcription of thoughts already consciously present in my mind. Writing is a magical and mysterious process that makes it possible to think differently.

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Mamdani is succeeding in part by projecting joy Ossoff is succeeding in part by projecting steely ferocity We’re in a moment when attitude is nearly as powerful as ideology, because we all need courage. And these are two ways of summoning it

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

For what it's worth, I'd argue that a guy willing to let 14 million people die in a cost cutting exercise that doesn't even affect him is absolutely NOT someone I'd trust with my survival on a Mars colony, where the oxygen I breathe costs thousands per litre.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/08/2026

O'KEEFE: You have been writing letters & trying to get updates on the status of McConnell. Have you heard anything? BESHEAR: I have heard absolutely nothing back from Mitch McConnell... all he needs to do is do a video for 2 minutes to the people he's supposed to serve, but he absolutely refuses to

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The cyclospora outbreak has reached 13,895 cases across 47 states. The FDA has recalled 1.6 million eggs due to salmonella contamination. Screwworm cases continue to rise. And we’ve just surpassed 2,500 measles cases — breaking 2025’s record. “Make America Healthy Again.”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It is sort of insane that we are talking about trying to save the desecration of knowledge by the US federal government like its the Taliban

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 12/08/2026

Stories that the authors of the Bible borrowed from other cultures and religions, including the flood myth, the Garden of Eden, etc. I learned about these in a religion & mythology class in college, which cemented my atheism. [threads.com]

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Woody Berner (@drummerforsomeoccasions) on Threads

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