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OhBollox @ohbollox.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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The Ethics Of Vigilante Counter Terrorism | Philosofree
This is an archival of The Ethics Of Vigilante Counter Tërrörism on philosofree's YouTube channel. This was only archived in case the original video goes down. (Why would they take it down? Watch the ...
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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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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OhBollox @ohbollox.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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OhBollox @ohbollox.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Ohhhh how was it? I can see a cheap copy near me.
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This is set up for laughs, but it’s actually one of the best demonstrations I’ve seen of how being capable of producing convincing sounding language and understanding meaning are two completely different things. A chatbot does not understand you, it just has automated responses based on your words.
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Kevin Fox @michigrim.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Watching Dead Heat and this almost feels like a Naked Gun bit.
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OhBollox @ohbollox.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Hell yes.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...
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OhBollox @ohbollox.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
If they always threw knees like that perhaps they’d have kept the Falkl
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Ross Thompson @wintermute115.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The Luddites' actual argument was that automated looms meant expensive, skilled workers were being replaced with literal children, who were then getting maimed and killed, and maybe this is bad.
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OhBollox @ohbollox.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Of course I'll help then.
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OhBollox @ohbollox.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I know how it works, does this mean I'm ineligible?
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
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OhBollox @ohbollox.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
40 years ago... BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 27/06/2026
“…its most severe and widespread heatwave on record—an oppressive force made hotter by carbon pollution and less bearable by repeated failures to prepare for it.” rare capsule description acknowledging both human-caused pollution and human-caused inaction?
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‘A sad inevitability’: after decades of climate warnings, why is Europe so unprepared for rising heat?
Scorching summer of 2003 triggered first efforts to deal with the problem but heatwaves still have devastating impact
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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I'm not sure how so many people have managed to forget that if we cook the planet, we cook ourselves. Guys, we're on the planet. The one that's cooking.
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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Jason Schreier
@jasonschreier.bsky.social
Finding all your old Twitter follows here is very fun, like it's Final Fantasy 6 and you have to go around getting your friends back together because the old world got destroyed by a sociopath with bad jokes
2:32 PM • Apr 28, 2023
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OhBollox @ohbollox.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
@rhiannonkagoe.bsky.social ma'am have you seen this shit.
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alina ! @ifuckgamecubes.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
edited quote from the pawn stars guy that blurs out all the other text and leaves "SOCIALISM IS LIKE HEROIN. GREAT" the graphic was made by t*rning p*int usa
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OhBollox @ohbollox.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Lessons in Birdwatching, by Watson.
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I just—like, sure, being a trillionaire is cool I guess but what’s it all for if you haven’t even seen the wreckage of the titanic firsthand
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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 12/06/2026
Breaking news: Derbyshire Police has launched a criminal investigation and removed an officer from frontline duties over allegations of use of AI to "create evidential material in a number of cases": as.ft.com/r/46862d95-f...
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Criminal investigation launched into alleged use of AI by police officer
Derbyshire Police says officer probed over allegations of perverting the course of justice
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OhBollox @ohbollox.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
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OhBollox @ohbollox.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
#Widow'sBay with the single funniest scene I have enjoyed in months.
Matthew Rhys dozing in a recliner before a very unwelcome visit.
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OhBollox @ohbollox.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.
Man yelling into bored woman's ear in nightclub meme captioned 

I can summarize that for you
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 28/05/2026
Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes
Because the truth is, tech doesn't have an image problem. It doesn't have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What's wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn't successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What's wrong is that he's trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that's designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn't that you haven't told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them. (
There are things in the world that are more important than money. The fact that you seem not to believe this, that you seem to think any motive beyond ruthless acquisitiveness is fake, dishonest, or childish, is the heart of your problem. Your attitude is not by any means unique to tech, but the
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foaming pipe snake @guntoucher.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
print of Miyamoto Musashi by Utagawa Kuniyoshi
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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
its so funny people are still like "actually the economy is better than how it appears" and the average millennial retirement plan is to strap a bomb to your chest
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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning
LLMs impress the writers who do not want to write, the coders who don't want to code, the researchers who don't want to research, and the lawyers that don't want to actually understand case law. Those that desperately tell you how powerful Al is and that you simply must use it are looking for you to validate their own laziness or distaste for effort, and those who are impressed with LLMs' outputs tend to be people with low standards.
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 26/05/2026
People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 26/05/2026
This is Chris.
When Chris sees trouble,
Chris doesn't wait;
Chris acts.
Be more like Chris.
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 25/05/2026
It's a machine that makes you stupid, but it's also a machine that makes you *insufferable* www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence
Despite rising concerns about sycophancy—excessive agreement or flattery from artificial intelligence (AI) systems—little is known about its prevalence or consequences. We show that sycophancy is wide...
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OhBollox @ohbollox.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
For fuck's SAKE.
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
A man watches a Youtube video entitled "The Secret Marxism of Space Jam." He asks himself "why am I still watching politics Youtubers." He weerily stares up into the sky and states "I am 33 years old." He takes a book off a shelf. He intently reads a boring historical tome entitled "Famous Naval Battles."
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what was I made for? @jjbbllkk.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Fucking stop using fucking Spotify just fucking stop. There are no excuses. If you're an indie artist and you prop up Spotify because you think it helps you you're part of the problem. Stop using it to listen. Stop using it to host your music.
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Rhiannon Kagoe @rhiannonkagoe.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
the making of a Jill sandwich ✨ #ResidentEvil
watercolour painting of the sandwich lady
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
People prefer to use “sycophantic” AI systems that reinforce their pre-existing beliefs. In a new paper (n=7,227), we found that people enjoyed interacting with sycophantic AI chatbots more than interacting with neutral chatbots or “disagreeable” chatbots that challenged their beliefs.
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OhBollox @ohbollox.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I believe this is an attempt to motivate the Reform vote in Makerfield against Burnham, if one is to believe in big-brain plays. 65% Leave in the ref.
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Pope:”Reading nourishes the mind, helps cultivate a conscious and well-formed critical sense, guards against fundamentalisms and ideological shortcuts.” Reading is “an antidote to closed-mindedness which manifests in rigid attitudes and reductive views of reality.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
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Pope Leo: Literature must be a 'school of fraternity and peace' - Vatican News
Pope Leo XIV sends a message to the Turin International Book Fair, taking place this week in the northern Italian city, reiterating that literature ...
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Always worth remembering: ChatGPT isn't a tool, it isn't a companion. It's a product -- and everything you type in that box is data you are sending to OpenAI.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
yes. correct.
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
One of the largest drops in nhs waiting lists on record, which no one will now hear about. Opportunity cost from all the leadership turmoil www.england.nhs.uk/2026/05/heal...
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NHS England » “Huge moment” as the health service hits 18-week target amid half-a-million waiting list drop
NHS England » “Huge moment” as the health service hits 18-week target amid half-a-million waiting list drop
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Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Fun fact: the magical child safety solution which Jess Philips cited in her resignation letter is a vendor-specific offering, which benefited from an intense PR and lobbying campaign, and was previously praised by ... Prince Andrew. I always keep the receipts. heatherburns.tech/2026/02/20/t...
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The Prince, The Paedo, The Palace, and the “Safety Tech” app – Hi, I'm Heather Burns
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OhBollox @ohbollox.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Share the last 4 TTRPGs you played and expose your gaming habits (Or don't. I'm not a cop) Call of Cthulhu Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Alien Mythras
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OhBollox @ohbollox.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
How did you get on with Compile?
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