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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My new shorthand for our new gilded age: "We shouldn't have let the phone company buy all the taxi companies." ... and warehousing and delivery companies. and courier services. and media companies. and so on

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Josh @geekcritique.org · 03/10/2026

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 03/10/2026

As another reposter has offered, here’s a little hopium hit to kick off your weekend. To Cory’s 🎯 call for physical infrastructure I’d add the complementary need to (re)build prerequisite relational infrastructure. Which needn’t wait for further rupture.

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Barg @barghestblack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

While I do earnestly believe some perpetrators of SA can grow into better people the penance these people always refuse to take is to deplatform themselves in the first place, they ALWAYS have to be ousted out of it. By keeping these things hidden, allowing yourself to grow a massive platform-

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Remember: Darwin's note of "I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything" was written on Oct 1 (1861). Thus we are free to celebrate Very Poorly And Very Stupid Hatred Day today.

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Lazy Eti @lazyeti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

THIS is what 3D artists need! Not shitty AI models churning busted assets but GOOD TOOLS which remove useless friction while giving 100% artistic control to artists!

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Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Judging by the increasing number of AI RPGs, it's only a matter of time before some AI YouTube channel pops up that reviews AI RPGs to an audience of AI chatbots. Just a swirling chaos of inhuman minds like dreaming Azathoth, its slumber serenaded by AI melodies. There might already be one.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It seems to me that a solution to encouraging AI 'alignment' would be to hold AI companies and their executives legally liable - criminally, if relevant - for what their AI agents do.

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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

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Kaylyn Saucedo - MarzGhoul @marzgurl.com · 27/09/2026

Hey, y'all. "Innocent until proven guilty" is a term intended for the court system, where a defendant isn't guilty 'til a trial finds them to be so. It doesn't mean that you don't use your own fucking common sense & good judgment to stay away from bad people. You're not imprisoning them. Thanks.

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Blaze Ward @blazeward.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

when they lost the licence, they gave a big "fuck you" to WOTC and put ALL of their games up as scans or clean copies, including a 3rd edition. Available here free www.starwarstimeline.net/Westendgames... 😍

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West End Games Supplements and Sourcebooks

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The combined undergraduate and graduate student populations of all Ivy League schools is about 140,000 students. The CUNY system alone is 250,000.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Colour cycling and hi-res Amiga AGA landscapes: A clip from the Mark Ferrari art slideshow production from 2023.

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DiscordianKitty⭐ @discordiankitty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that this is on Blizzard. It is their responsibility to take action and protect their players. This is the Nazis in the bar moment.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

To paraphrase Tom Wolfe, we are witnesses one of the great unexplained phenomena of modern astronomy: namely that the dark night of AI-Job-Replacement is always descending on the humanities and yet lands only in math and computer science.

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fab.ricious 🔜 @ Vienna ComicCon 2026! @artoffabricious.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

First of potentially a series of dragon deities, aimed to become prints for Vienna ComicCon. This one is based around infinite knowledge and intellectual power. It is seated between the stars, gazing upon them and unraveling their secrets one flicker at a time. Its eyes ever present, ever watching.

Symmetrical illustration of a dragon deity, golden lines on green and blue background. The surface of the dragon is reflective like metal or glass, its eyes and mouth glowing white hot. Above its head is the symbol of an eye which is copied around in a circle and also visible in the tiny stars behind it.

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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Gavin Newsom thinks he's The Great Unifier of Democrats and post-Trump Republicans, and is playing to the Republican base. Who will *despise* him milliseconds after hearing he's a Democrat from California. He's also pissing off the liberal and progressive wings of his own party.

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Jon F. Zeigler @jfzeigler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

First issue of the new IDW Trek comic dropped today. Captain Seven of Nine commanding the Enterprise-G. Includes a preview for the other new book that will be starting next month, starring Captain Rafaella Musiker ... and her XO, *Commander* D'Vana Tendi. I'm definitely here for this. #startrek

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Vital-Ire 🐦‍🔥 @vital-ire.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Honestly, I have no idea what is going to happen with Halo, and I'm not exactly excited. I feel like this might be the true death of the series in due time. I say this as someone who's favorite game was halo 2 and someone who enjoyed infinite for what it was, still the fans have carried this series

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Alice Ruppert 🐴🎮 @malicedafirenze.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

oh hey look tomorrow is mongolian courier rider game pronouns day, for all who celebrate

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Frozen Ocelot @frozenocelot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Once again a reminder. Don't give them a damn thing and CANCEL YOUR NITRO!

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 22/09/2026

Nothing will ever be enough for these people.

Microsoft gross profit for the quarter ending June 30, 2026 was $60.482B, a 15.36% increase year-over-year.
Microsoft gross profit for the twelve months ending June 30, 2026 was $225.465B, a 16.28% increase year-over-year.
Microsoft annual gross profit for 2026 was $225.465B, a 16.28% increase from 2025.
Microsoft annual gross profit for 2025 was $193.893B, a 13.38% increase from 2024.
Microsoft annual gross profit for 2024 was $171.008B, a 17.09% increase from 2023.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A big part of my disappointment with Democrats comes from over 25 years of writing about politics and media. I have seen how a gang of idiots on the right has dominated discourse and whipped the media to be their poodle. The unwillingness of Democrats to try is literally the worst thing.

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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Just also want to note that trans people and advocates for the unhoused have told people for years that Gavin Newsom is trash. If this is what makes people realize how awful he is, great, but I really hope this is also a wake-up call to listen the first time someone tells you who they really are.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Decades and decades of a national policy and zeitgeist that amounts to 'nobody needs to care about social studies' and we're now in an unwinnable war with a foreign country whose culture and leadership we did not understand based around geography we ignored. 🤷‍♂️

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Themefinland @themefinland.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Do not buy LG TVs: - They actively record and transcribe any conversations that happen inside your home, even 30 feet away from the tv. - They share this data with 3rd parties - They are able to connect to the LG servers even if you unplug the ethernet cord. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFV...

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216,000,000 Spy TVs | The LG Smart TV Problem

YouTube video by Gamers Nexus

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's vastly more comforting to believe in an imminent robot apocalypse than the truth: the things that will destroy us are extensions of the unsexy but obvious problems all around us. We are not doomed in one grand way, but a thousand petty small ways.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 19/09/2026

I'd like to remind everyone of the principled courage of the Pentagon press, which walked out of the building their beat relies on rather than sign a loyalty oath. One of them was a dear friend for whom it was a giant sacrifice and I'm so proud of him. The White House press isn't in the same league.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

incredibly well-done resident evil teaser from a movie theater

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

now this is fun. guest post on Terry Tao's blog by the great Grant Sanderson of 3Blue1Brown arguing that we should "give novel and compelling motivated explanations academic credit similar to what generating new proofs of open problems has had historically."

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If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it

[This is a guest post by Grant Sanderson. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] A sentiment echoing throughout the mathematics communit…

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🍁🎃Eski🎃🍁 @eskiworks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Oh my god, I haven't encountered this attitude since art school years when a snobby art supply store clerk sneered at me for buying alcohol markers because they were "just for illustrators". Some fine arts people really are on another planet.

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Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I would much rather look at a YouTube thumbnail from a photoshop amateur than an AI one. Hell, my immediate distaste for AI thumbnails only encourages me to never improve my crappy Photoshop skills. I already get enough grief from bozos who accuse my poorly photo-chopped images of being AI slop.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?

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Some guy @internethuman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Let me just get up on my soapbox here.. Even intelligent people are dumb! Being a good stock trader or engineer or lawyer or whatever doesn't make you good at anything else. Ellison MIGHT have been a good tech business guy or have some expertise with computers. Doesn't mean shit about media.

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Aron Durkin @arondurkin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We have run a games business for 10 years. indie, AA, AAA, mobile. We’ve done all of it. Not a single bit of overtime has been done. 4 day weeks for years too. The whole team is super committed and passionate. Less toxic bullshit in our industry please.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Gonna go out on a limb and suggest the loudest voices in the tech industry have very little grasp of the variety and complexity of the world outside their own industry, with a side dish of not understanding that to most people step one in furniture shopping is not "buy a CNC router and lathe"

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 16/09/2026

Today, I'm calling to immediately press pause on the development of advanced AI while lawmakers and regulators put systems in place to keep people safe.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This, absolutely sincerely. Most of these guys are doing high crimes and misdemeanors. A bunch of them are involved in waging an illegal, unauthorized war. Congress' investigatory powers are at their *peak* in an impeachment context. So impeach, impeach, impeach.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

HUGE: Elizabeth Warren, AOC, and other members of Congress have introduced a bill to push private equity out of healthcare. The Stop Corporate Takeovers of Physicians Act would make it illegal for private equity, insurance companies, and for-profit corporations to own or control medical practices.

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✧ spiders @spidahs.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

setting up Foundry VTT for the first time while also helping your players make their sheets at 1 AM while high is a very harrowing experience

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Ishmael, The Transition will be Live @comrade-ishmael.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A lot of 5E characters are very floaty and unmoored to material reality, if not bending reality around them. A GURPS player is making a million tiny decisions constantly that reflects characterization like burning Fatigue for extra effort and load outs.

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Dr Simon Garcia @simonledoc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I wouldn’t say that AI hallucinates, that would implies that it’s unexpected and abnormal. AI is prone to blatant errors because it’s a design flaw. Don’t use their words, they’re twisted and just serve their interests regarding AI.

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Lonestar Gooner @lonestargooner.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Your regular reminder that GenAI: -is NOT sentient -will NEVER become sentient -is not hacking with volition -will ALWAYS be at risk of hallucination -WILL NOT LEAD TO AGI. These voices cut through the hype and obfuscation: - @edzitron.com - @doctorow.pluralistic.net -Cal Newport -Gary Marcus

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SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Never thought software would ruin a philosophy problem, but here we are. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/scratc... PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

4-panel SMBC comic update. Two people talk as they walk down the street. The man asks "do you think p-zombies are possible? Beings that are outwardly conscious but with no internal world?" The woman answers "Not for long, no. Just take your p-zombie and put it in a harness with a scratchpad." The woman gets more intense as she continues to explain : "now it has a physical record of interiority. All you have to do is take that record, shove it up the p-zombie’s ass, and now it is literally internal." The man responds, saying "I don’t know if that last part is okay," so the woman reassures him by saying "no, no, it isn’t conscious until after."

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