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Not That Rick Scott 🇨🇦 @shadowspar.bsky.social · 1h

absolutely this. there is a big difference between voting for the PQ and voting "Oui" in a referendum. les Québécois/es understand that very well; others, often not so much.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 8h

The president of the United States says that "the New York Times, and many other Artificial Media Outlets, should be arrested" for denying that the arena in which he spoke had empty seats. It's really bad! www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

The Ohio Arena was already full to the brim — And yet these people were still trying to get in. The New York Times said, “There were empty seats” when, in fact, there were none, and thousands of people had to be turned away. The New York Times, and many other Artificial Media Outlets, should be arrested for their dishonesty and disservice to our Country. When Bernie Sanders has 500 to 1,000 people, they make it sound like it’s the biggest event that ever took place. When PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP has 50,000 people, they make it sound like nobody showed up! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 8h

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.

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"In an interview on Monday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Politico that the world 'should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology.'"

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6h

The approved 2026 Chicago Public Library (CPL) total budget request is $169,257,813, which includes an operating budget of $103,966,346. [Just thought I would leave this here]

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 9h

[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!

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Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many

Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.

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/noclip @noclipvideo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🚨NEW DOC ALERT🕹️ In the first of three videos exploring the legacy of @thatgamecompany.com, we talk to co-founder Jenova Chen about Flower, Flow & the unique origins of the studio. WATCH HERE: youtu.be/6uYOnnz8o0g

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Flower, Flow & the Origins of thatgamecompany - /noclip Documentary

YouTube video by /noclip

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Let books be. Today kicks off #BannedBooksWeek, an annual observation started more than 40 years ago in response to a sudden surge in attempts to censor or remove books in libraries, schools, and bookstores. Sound familiar? Find ways to get involved and spread the word: bit.ly/4yvixbB.

LET BOOKS BE. Various line drawings related to libraries and books, including a hand holding a sign made of an open book that reads "Freed for ALL to Read," a tote bag that reads "Totes Resist" carrying a book, a full book cart with the head and tale of a horse with text that reads "A Wild Ride," and a closeup of two feet standing on a stack of books that say "A Soap Box" on their spines. Text at bottom reads "Protect the freedom to read. Banned Books Week, October 4-10, 2026." American Library Association. ala.org/bbooks

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 03/10/2026

What do you get when @Negativlandland.bsky.social brings its sound collage, sampling and cultural mischief to the Internet Archive? 🎛️📚 KQED’s Gabe Meline reviews the collision of experimental music, technology, fair use and the strange business of preserving culture. www.kqed.org/arts/1399397...

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At the Internet Archive, Negativland Reminds the World Why They Matter | KQED

Two Bay Area institutions came together for a night of soundscapes, sampling and discussion about art.

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Three panel comic. Panel 1: a high school basketball game. The home team is down 9 points, and some players are looking discouraged on the bench. The coach points to a player just out of frame and says, “flippers, you’re in!” Panel 2: the away team attempts a deep 2-point shot, possibly to beat the buzzer, which is blocked by Flippers, a whale who doesn’t even have his arms up. Panel 3: the game ends and the home team excitedly crowd around Flippers, who won them the game. A player from the away team looks stunned, with his hands on his head.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Tbh, the biggest problem with all of the arguments about whether AI is or can be "conscious" or "intelligent" or whatever is that these terms are still poorly defined and not at all understood wrt humans, let alone machines.

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Defence Scheme Enjoyer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸 @maxp94.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Some big highlights: -The US is both very interested and very involved in this, demonstrating deepening knowledge of the issue. -the Trump administration provided the software behind the data leak -key leaders of the movement have been working closely with the US government.

theglobeandmail.com

The elephant in the room

Alberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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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David William with a 'This IS my costume' pin @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"One of the unfortunate lessons that ought to survive the collapse of parasocial confidence is that we simply do not know public figures like Jacob Geller in the comprehensive way their work can make us feel that we do."

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David William with a 'This IS my costume' pin @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New ambient for #BandcampFriday. As this was the soundtrack for an outdoor installation that was part of a larger festival, I tried as much as possible to follow Eno and make something that people passing by could listen to on their way to another destination.

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light waves, by zeta ii reticuli

track by zeta ii reticuli

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 01/10/2026

Throwing billions in public money behind a pipeline at a time of climate breakdown – while sweeping aside environmental protections, meaningful Indigenous consultation and workers’ right to strike – is absolutely not in the national interest.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is.

Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.

Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.

an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Indigenous languages are often hidden to LLMs, for good reason. We speak with Keoni Mahelona about his work on Indigenous data sovereignty, and why it’s worth being skeptical when the “AI" industry says it cares about preserving Indigenous languages. (with @emilymbender.bsky.social)

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David William with a 'This IS my costume' pin @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"'Imagine there are no rules of the road. And you release billions of cars – the AI agents – and you just let them drive through playgrounds, hitting kids. That's where we are.'"

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Debbie Iron Bow @ironbow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is Annie Ironbow, my mother. She spent from age of 4 to age 13 in Delmas residential school. There are no descriptions worthy to tell of the trauma she experienced there. Today, I honor her, speak of her. She is why I am here today, because she survived the unsurvivable. 🪶

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David William with a 'This IS my costume' pin @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Kent Monkman, The Scream (2017). #nationaldayfortruthandreconciliation

Kent Monkman's The Scream, in which Indigenous children are being ripped from the arms of their mothers by Catholic priests, nuns, and RCMP officers

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David William with a 'This IS my costume' pin @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Me: what a nice day to be relatively intelligent, nothing could possibly spoil my mood

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026

Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him

karlbode.com

Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess

Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i like this a lot more than the phrase "Artificial Intelligence"

an advertisement for "Claude Smart Toilet"

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David William with a 'This IS my costume' pin @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wearing my Open Your Mouth And Say...SNFU shirt to the dentist to let him know I'm still punk

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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Residential school denialism is "part of a willful strategy to create chaos and confusion about the truth so as to block the path to healing, justice, and reconciliation." Read an excerpt from TRUTH BEFORE RECONCILIATION, out now from @umanitobapress.bsky.social.

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Residential school denialism and the backlash against reconciliation

To mark the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation—and following a gathering of white nationalists near Kamloops, where members of Second Sons Canada displayed a banner invoking residential school ...

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Me: If I was rich I wouldn’t go insane. I might buy a few small luxuries, but I’d stay a normal person *someone hands me $50 billion* Me: I will build an underground city. It shall be an Ark for 10,000 humans to survive the coming Conflagration

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is what happens when you offload your collection development to the vendors to put together “packages” of whatever content THEY want to sell you

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh look more and more elaborate scams using artificially generated and digitally manipulated content to prey on academics and researchers.

nature.com

Exclusive: Sham scientific societies are misleading star researchers

A Nature investigation reveals a network of organizations that have been building their ranks through deceptive practices.

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David William with a 'This IS my costume' pin @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"In addition to the explicitly labeled 'machine-generated' titles, there is also the case of Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Advanced, which Springer Nature retracted only after Retraction Watch reported that the title had multiple references to works that did not exist."

insidehighered.com

AI Slop Coming to University Library Near You (opinion)

Librarians must hold the gates against machine-generated titles.

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Jill "Bury a Friend" Pantozzi @jillpantozzi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Last month, a Google alert directed me to an interview I did with cartoonist Matt Furie—creator of Pepe the Frog…only I haven’t done any interview and I’d never even met Furie. So I clicked. "None of this is true": AI, content farms, and one completely made-up article. bsky.app/profile/then...

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 28/09/2026

Thanks to y’all’s help & some more research, my list of video games that include printing presses is growing I think I’ve found a student who wants to work on this project with me, so any other suggestions—particularly from the 80s & 90s—would be most welcome I can’t find an existing list anywhere

Sid Meier's Colonization (1994)
* Anno 1404 (2009)
* Deus Ex Human Revolution (2011)
* Dishonored (2012)
* Assassin’s Creed 3 (2012)
* Anno Online (2013)
* Bioshock Infinite (2013)
* Assassin's Creed Syndicate (2015)
* Fallout 4 (2015)
* Civilization 6 (2016)
* Graveyard Keeper (2018)
* Anno 1800, Empire of Skies DLC (game 2019, DLC 2022)
* Hitman 3 (2021)
* Pentiment (2022)
* Baldur’s Gate 3 (2023)
* Esoteric Ebb (2026)
* The Sinking City 2 (forthcoming)
* Stop the Press! (forthcoming)

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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Read this in the context of the UCP's current scapegoating of immigrants. Alberta's Deadly Betrayal of Meat Plant Workers During COVID via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...

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Alberta’s Deadly Betrayal of Meat Plant Workers During COVID | The Tyee

A shocking report finds the UCP ignored evidence of high risk.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 28/09/2026

The lie that privatization will reduce wait times is already being exposed, but that won’t stop political leaders from continuing to try to destroy our public healthcare system.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ukrainian board game studio Boardova has broken into US hobby distribution, four years after its launch by two volunteers who met while supporting refugees and Ukraine’s army in the wake of Russia’s invasion: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20... (Hat tip @wargamer.com for excellent background info)

Three wooden board game meeples in purple, green and red, on a series of nine hexagonal tiles with illustrations of various terrain types, such as mountains and a river. The purple and red meeples resemble humans, while the much larger green meeple is a strange-looking humanoid with horns. Aridnyk board game from Ukrainian publisher Boardova.

Two cards, one being showing the word Directive and lots of instructional writing underneath, the other in a deep red/brown with Directive and Ministry of Truth visible in white writing. Cards from the board game 1984: Unperson from Ukrainian publisher Boardova.

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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The act of hate and violence shown by white nationalist residential school denialists demonstrating on the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation is abhorrent, dangerous and unacceptable. Read my full statement here:

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MP Leah Gazan Statement on the Denialist Attack at Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation

MP for Winnipeg Centre

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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@libshipwreck

I know we’re all tired of being on Zoom, but some important Zoom etiquette reminders:

- everyone wants to see your cat

- don’t just say “my cat is here,” hold your cat up to the camera so we can see it

- when your cat is on camera, either say “cat” or type “cat” in the chat

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mothra stewart @gorl.gay · 28/09/2026

the real housewives of USS enterprise (NCC-1701-D) im sorry

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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 26/09/2026

Over the ten years, Premier Smith claims Alberta faced a hostile federal government, oil and gas production doubled, and Ottawa poured tens of billions into energy infrastructure. The tolerance of her big lie is almost as remarkable as the lie itself. ow.ly/Fl7950ZRRaq

On the left: a photograph of Alberta’s flag, which features the provincial shield of arms, waving in front of the Alberta Legislature building in Edmonton. On the right: text that reads “Danielle Smith has turned western grievance into a national unity crisis.”

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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh, you like psychology? Name five ways you can help me

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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's wild how the same symbol can be assigned very different meanings - and yet neither of those conversations has space to discuss settler colonialism.

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