O-O ctober @octoberfall.bsky.social · 2hwww.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/n...nytimes.comICE Agent Shoots Man in New York City (Gift Article)The person who was shot had been taken to a nearby hospital and was conscious and receiving medical attention, according to the New York Police Department, which said it was not involved in the shooti... 000
O-O ctober @octoberfall.bsky.social · 07/10/2026getting served by various infinite scrolls a lot of translated chinese ai microdramas wherein a long-suffering character's righteous indignation leads to them destroying a public utility they ostensibly owned after harassment by its users. 110
O-O ctober @octoberfall.bsky.social · 07/10/2026the greatest weakness of “ai 2027” and “ai 2040” is that in genericizing “the President” and imposing some (though keenly fewer than they could’ve done) rationality onto the character. that and the robot murderhornet thing. 100
O-O ctober @octoberfall.bsky.social · 07/10/2026while we're talking about tom king and green lantern: omega men would be an unambiguous all-timer if bagenda had drawn all 12 issues (or even had just maintained the 9 panel grid in its guest artist issues). as it is it sucks the effect out of the otherwise perfect final page. 000
O-O ctober @octoberfall.bsky.social · 05/10/2026wtf if they’re just switching to a new app maintained by different developers, fine, whatever. but i don’t trust like that 000
O-O ctober @octoberfall.bsky.social · 04/10/2026i miss when every instagram photo was square and we all put their default filters on everything. anyway here’s wonderwall www.instagram.com/p/DeFnXsxlCh...instagram.com@cosine_cubed on Instagram3 likes, 0 comments - cosine_cubed on October 4, 2026 100
O-O ctober @octoberfall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026still don't love how vibecoding has made many engineers less attentive and less rigorous, but gotta say i love rapidly making single-use software for purposes no one before or after me has needed or will ever need 110
O-O ctober @octoberfall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026becoming clear that big finish's 13th doctor line is loosely adapting david mitchell's bone clocks 000
Reposted by O-O ctoberJohn Bolton's Mustache @jonboltonsmustache.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This will result in service members being killed. 3608
O-O ctober @octoberfall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026apropos of nothing, "Maryland Terrapins" is a great team name 001
Reposted by O-O ctoberJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026please let Ken keep talking 24906135
Reposted by O-O ctoberDrew Engelhardt @amengel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Quite the figure from @tesler.bsky.social in this @goodauth.bsky.social piece. goodauthority.substack.com/p/republican... 510949
Reposted by O-O ctoberrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026i think RFK Jr.'s colon-destroying steak and sauerkraut diet, tradwife culture, and Silicon Valley CNC parties are the same thing: a desperate attempt among powerful men to convince each other that gluttony, rapaciousness, and raw domination are not just their birthright but their responsibility 191494238
O-O ctober @octoberfall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026is this another horrid escalation of the iran war or did he just get really incensed after dinner with dario 000
O-O ctober @octoberfall.bsky.social · 27/09/2026i do enjoy how most consumer ai video tools can only start a clip with their subjects stationary and placid, having to leap into motion and expression in the first second—made better by the fact that the tools’ users are either too oblivious or tasteless to edit around this 010
Reposted by O-O ctoberWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“Let’s move past this chart era” an all timer 1116010
Reposted by O-O ctoberKieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I have a social inept but kind hearted uncle who keeps using phrases like "water get place" and "liquid-sourcing shaft". He means well. 2427440
O-O ctober @octoberfall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026maybe i'll get the $20 gpt sub sometime. certainly feels like a more dignified way to address usage caps than going from $20 to $100 with anthropic. i largely see this spending as an investment in experience at the edge of consumer tech, so variety is valuable. pain to switch clis tho 001
O-O ctober @octoberfall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026i have been testing opus 5.5 by building an pixel art image processing tool—not interested in ai art but don't mind using it to build deterministic software for art—and whatever people say about its image processing capabilities, it's not as good as people say 100
O-O ctober @octoberfall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026wait did china miéville just publish his gravity’s rainbow 010
O-O ctober @octoberfall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026considering sentiment On Here really seems to correlate to who most recently released a new model, will be interesting to see the battle of public opinion after opus 5.5 and sol 6 were released on the same day 000
O-O ctober @octoberfall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026feels like people are underrating non-narrative tv feels like people are forgetting how good dr who used to be feels like nobody ever watched review with forrest macneil 100
O-O ctober @octoberfall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026really hope the next opus update helps with the overdense claudisms. garbage verbiage like "Building it surfaced two bugs, both worth having found" goes beyond affect towards illegible and plainly wrong. 100
O-O ctober @octoberfall.bsky.social · 21/09/2026in the anthropic wetlab, extruding the perfect stroopwaffel 010
Reposted by O-O ctoberescapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026If he ordered the National Guard to start entrenching themselves on the Mall west of the Washington Monument people would rightly and immediately clock it as Bad, and yet this is Trump back-dooring the modern equivalent to flak towers from Nazi Germany into every illegal project and we get shrugs?en.wikipedia.orgFlak tower - Wikipedia 617123
Reposted by O-O ctoberMatthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Evanston police chief Schenita Stewart tells me that EPD contacted the agents involved, including one who had blood on their hands The agent "told the officer that agents had attempted to identify an individual who resembled a person they were seeking." 18953184
Reposted by O-O ctoberMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026last night we had ed sheeran apologizing for saying what’s happening in palestine is bad and at the same time david byrne putting up a huge graphic that says MAKE AMERICA GAY AGAIN and showing footage of ICE brutality to a sold out crowd. you can actually be famous and successful AND give a shit. 604776612
Reposted by O-O ctoberChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026the experience of COVID really drove this home for me. It wans't the apocalypse, life went on, but a million people died and there were enormous social costs, some of which continue to this day and then when it was done most people were like "let's never think about that again" 792364392
Reposted by O-O ctoberrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 20/09/2026just saw a Disney+ banner for Latinx Heritage Month. i think this will stop the planes from falling out of the sky 11015
Reposted by O-O ctoberrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 16/09/2026like, Robert Kraft banned Macklemore over "Free Palestine," but literally "Heil Hitler" isn't getting Kanye dropped from the same stadium 1165360
Reposted by O-O ctoberThe Integers, PhD @theintegers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I have solved my trade deficit with the grocery store by deciding to starve to death 12116978
Reposted by O-O ctoberlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026It's genuinely fascinating that the US president keeps announcing that he just flat out doesn't know what trade is, he legit doesn't appreciate the concept of exchange and instead views economic activity through the lens of a dragon attempting to maximise its gold hoard to sit upon. 883853597
Reposted by O-O ctoberGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I don't think people really understand the psychic impact of knowing that multiple times a day every day your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, and everyone who could ever have any power over you is being flooded with agitprop designed to make them hate you 8980982032
O-O ctober @octoberfall.bsky.social · 17/09/2026that’s right, algorithmically served instagram reel i will not repost. Let Down by Radiohead *is* an excellent song! 000
Reposted by O-O ctoberChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This is going to make me sound old and maybe a little nostalgic but it’s really striking how in the Trump era, no one even pretends to debate about policy anymore. 1984784530
Reposted by O-O ctoberJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 13/09/2026It can only good happen. It can only good happen. It can only good happen. It can only good happen. It can only good happen. othermeans.substack.com/p/the-wheels...othermeans.substack.comThe Wheels Are Coming OffIt Can Only Good Happen 41801149
O-O ctober @octoberfall.bsky.social · 13/09/2026northern irish secession evokes a recent, bloody history and feels like it won’t be safe until we’re generations removed. scottish secession is concerning b/c its proponents seek to establish a petrostate. welsh secession as a concept is just baffling. 000
O-O ctober @octoberfall.bsky.social · 13/09/2026thinking about helicopter story, which has a very 2019 view of ai as inscrutable statistical models, contrasted with what we have today, which are still black box statistical models, but a type that never shuts up and ‘feels’ very scrutable, even if not 001
O-O ctober @octoberfall.bsky.social · 12/09/2026thinking about the moment in my life when i took the courseload of a literature major. good times 000
O-O ctober @octoberfall.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Tom Junod’s Falling Man in Esquire Esquire Classics podcast on Falling Man The Hanged Man tarot card Meditation at Lagunitas by Robert Hass The Disintegration Loops by William Basinski “Time Becomes A Loop: William Basinski Interviewed” at The Quietus (1/2) 100
Reposted by O-O ctoberMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026Let us remember the extraordinary compassion, resilience and bravery that carried our city through its darkest day. Today, New York remembers. We will Never Forget. 253943395
O-O ctober @octoberfall.bsky.social · 11/09/2026i have flown into or out of nyc on 9/11 the last couple of years. didn’t have to travel this year, so i’m working from home to avoid the security lockdown at the wtc office. this was the view when i left late last night. 001
O-O ctober @octoberfall.bsky.social · 06/09/2026now, do i like The Kaleidoscope itself? it’s about as well-written as any of these this century—not a point in its favor. and really i’m finding it strange to read first person from the dr’s perspective. that’s virtually never how it works; 100
O-O ctober @octoberfall.bsky.social · 06/09/2026it’s remarkable that after decades of waffling and redirection around ‘The Secret Origin of Doctor Who’ Jo Martin comes in and fairly decisively inserts a semiautobiographical version of the good half of the 2021 America Chavez retcon. certainly more successful than the last go. 100
O-O ctober @octoberfall.bsky.social · 05/09/2026finished This Town Will Never Let Us Go. intentionally unintentionally prescient novel about The End of History (no not that one) and the War on Terror (no not that one). lawrence miles, unrestrained by concept or editors and barely restrained by endemic formalism. 100
Reposted by O-O ctoberProPublica @propublica.org · 05/09/2026Maricopa County, Arizona, often sends out more than 2 million ballots in its initial mailing. Under new regulations ordered by Trump, it’s possible that one ballot with a bad barcode or wrong voter information could delay the entire batch.propublica.orgNew Mail Voting Rules Moved Forward Despite USPS Officials’ Concerns About Mass DisenfranchisementIn internal meetings, officials worried the rules they were drafting could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms. 74941508
