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This was incredibly well written; please give @annaleen.bsky.social a chance to tell you (in better words than I can) what it feels like inside, and after, academia. (And supporting @flaminghydra.com is never a bad option!)

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Nina AKA Nivair @nivair.com · 14h

She worked with me to tell this story in a picture book and I will treasure that experience forever! nivair.com/posts/writing/

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 14h

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Chris Palmer @noncombatant.org · 13h

Stop Doing CVEs by @patrickod.com patrickod.com/stop-doing-c... This is the correct take!

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Stop doing CVEs

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Reach your tentacles into A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD because it is on shelves today 10/6! I'll be at Green Apple Books on the Park tonight at 7pm with @olivasthewriter.bsky.social to celebrate! Tomorrow: Chicago!

I am smiling and signing pre-order copies of A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD upstairs at Green Apple Books.

Annalee Newitz
A Wall Is Also a Road
Green Apple Books on the Park
October 6, 7PM
in conversation with M. M. Olivas

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 06/10/2026

Apple Adjustable Keyboard III.

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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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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Abolish ICE. Fire them all. Prosecute their crimes. Start with prosecuting the crimes first and work your way backward if that makes you more comfortable. But we cannot live in a country with this level of elite impunity.

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A lovely point but also San Francisco leadership is actively displacing people who already live here and closing the few underfunded services left in order to increase property values for the class of people who own everything. Progressive housing policies have never been tried

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That’s a warm radiator under Wheezy’s corrugated cat-throne, and the heat rising through it induces quite the luxurious recline

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

other day i was at david lynchs grave just having a moment of thought and admiration and lookin down at all the flowers, and coffee cups, and two cookies and a coke, and wow it just hits you like a thousand suns that art is immortal. creation is too radiant to contain in a body. we trot across time

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Holy slime mold! This is tomorrow, 10/6!! See you soon!

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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Dave McKean was one of the earliest adopters of Photoshop in comic art production, making his thoughts on "AI" especially trenchant and poignant.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/10/2026

Everybody's loving this clip, for good reason, but it should remind everyone that cities therefore have an obligation to build enough housing that all these marginalized and outcast people can come and afford to live in them on minimum wage *without* becoming homeless. YIMBY!

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Chris Palmer @noncombatant.org · 06/10/2026

I didn't realize my Bolt Thrower purchases on Bandcamp were having such an effect!

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 05/10/2026

this isn't some abstract argument either: all of our decades of experience with large, complex safety-critical systems shows that building a safety culture is the only way to manage and mitigate risk responsibly... and that's impossible to reconcile with a longtermist utilitarian perspective

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 05/10/2026

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how we got here.

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Chris Palmer @noncombatant.org · 05/10/2026

Is there any sight more powerful to the human eyebulb than a brand new pot of mustard

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

like oh is it bathtub music for middle-aged white moms, or is it a producer taking inspiration from Phil Spector's wall of sound to layer a hundred slightly different tracks of Enya's voice over each other with laser precision in a way no one had previously attempted

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The Darbscent @darby3.chickenwing-gingerbreadman.xyz · 04/10/2026

despite everything I still believe in this vision

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Kazin @themalaiseoftech.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Always and forever:

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/10/2026

The next five graphs are even less convincing, and the argumentation becomes even weaker. It was almost impossible for me to imagine how a seemingly intelligent person could have written it—but I found a secret clue buried in the text itself.

A.I. has the potential to enhance the way we live in the same way. It saved me and my colleague, Will McGrew, many hours of prowling the internet to research this essay. That left us with time to do other tasks.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

WE WILL RISE AGAIN won the Ignyte!! I'm so grateful for the little community that made this anthology real: the authors, our agents, & our amazing editor Sareena Kamath. And of course my magnificent co-editors @drkarenlord.bsky.social and @older.bsky.social 💕🚀🥹

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Karen Lord @drkarenlord.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🎉🎉🎉🍾 yay @annaleen.bsky.social and @older.bsky.social !! Thanks to everyone who voted for WE WILL RISE AGAIN!

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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Maggots, Lycanthropes & Ice Skeletons) @hannahshelley.site · 02/10/2026

Please stop anthropomorphizing computers. They cannot "run" a program, because they don't have legs

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Chris Palmer @noncombatant.org · 02/10/2026

Here are the lyrics to the Slow Horses theme song: 🎶 What the show is a-BOUT It's sung by a lout 👨‍🎤 It's time for the goose honk, a-gaiiiiiinnnnnnn 🎶 *goose honk*

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Chris Palmer @noncombatant.org · 02/10/2026

"It was a credibility-destroying moment for a local Democratic Party that seems dead set on eroding its credibility by any means necessary."

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jenny (phire) @phirephoenix.com · 29/09/2026

I gave a talk last week about tech billionaires (we really don't like them) and how to fight them (labour organizing, it's always labour organizing). Come take a 9-minute break from producing shareholder value and watch! Thanks to @thewalrus.ca for inviting me for #WalrusTalks 🍁

youtube.com

Jenny Zhang: Workers Can Take Back Tech

YouTube video by The Walrus

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"For America to right itself, we need changes on the scale of Reconstruction and the New Deal. And I worry that’s not going to happen if Democrats and the broader anti-Trump left are taking their cues about what’s necessary and politically possible from the Times." newrepublic.com/article/2160...

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The Left Must Fight The New York Times’ Monopoly Too

The paper’s editorial vision is out of step with the robust liberalism needed today.

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Chris Palmer @noncombatant.org · 01/10/2026

Don't worry, everyone. There's no way this is true

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

genres in the US are often designed as a way to let racism do your listening for you.

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 01/10/2026

Okay so I don’t think this is true - historically speaking, mass violence consistently comes from an attempted rejection (rather than a *lack*) of empathetic impulses, which exist whether we want them to or not, and desire to distance oneself from an externalized target.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 01/10/2026

Images are once again borked on Bluesky, and once again you see why alt text has more than one use.

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Chris Palmer @noncombatant.org · 30/09/2026

"The star was descending into the ocean — an incredible illusion caused by the planet’s rotation — and pale clouds made of ice arched across the brutal blue sky. ... It was freakishly beautiful, like everything on this alien world." — @annaleen.bsky.social www.coyotemedia.org/excerpt-anna...

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Excerpt: ‘A Wall Is Also a Road’

The new novel from San Francisco sci-fi writer Annalee Newitz is a thought-provoking meditation on human nature, told from the perspective of an adventurous alien amoeba.

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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026

This New Mexico lawyer is representing a man who was found guilty of killing his wife earlier this year. Here he is being ripped apart by judges who found that he used ChatGPT to make up nonexistent witnesses and testimony. Read more: www.404media.co/chatgpt-fake...

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026

Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.

Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.

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Spooky Catsculptor @catsculptor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm from a family of Lutheran famers from northern minnesota. They live lives of what I can only describe as grim contentment.

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Wilzax @wilzax.website · 28/09/2026

---s--srwx

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The thing about this book is that I wrote it from a deeply personal place-- it takes place where I went to hs, the main girl looks suspiciously like me-- about the rape culture I experienced at the age that was unacceptable. And all I've ever wanted for this book was its cultural irrelevance.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"i'm james talarico and i approve this message"

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Chris Palmer @noncombatant.org · 29/09/2026

"Captain ACAB Collectively tracking the hidden costs of law enforcement $417,226,529.79 in CA settlements 294 cases 11 CA municipalities" captainacab.com

captainacab.com

Captain ACAB -- CA settlements from law enforcement.

Tracking the hidden costs of law enforcement in the United States. $1,563,000.00 in CA settlements and counting.

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BlackCatRanch @blackcatranch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hey #booksky - I just finished a lovely book by @annaleen.bsky.social -- and I think you should read this #book too! www.livegreenwearblack.com/2026/09/revi...

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