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Fazia Rizvi @faziarizvi.bsky.social · 8m

This nurse was a hero in the face of fascism and racists persecution, and hopefully someday we'll be able to see that in clear and unequivocal language. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Nurse charged with helping man in hospital escape from ICE custody

FBI accuses Chloe Freeman of federal misdemeanor in case of undocumented Mexican migrant arrested in Michigan

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 38m

anyway character driven stories are not, in fact, easy to generate by a thing that doesn't understand human emotion

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Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social · 29m

'7 trillion dollars from 2025 to 2030' for AI infrastructure OR '7 trillion...roughly the cost of ending world hunger for the next 75 years being spent in five' OR '$10,000 higher-education trust for every child born on Earth (700 million children) during those 5 years.'

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🇨🇦C-Complex🇨🇦🇧🇲 @darthmother.bsky.social · 8h

Tom Deininger He's been doing this for years - his stuff is amazing

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

These are stunning

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Catherine Tavares @cjtavares.bsky.social · 54m

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Kester Allen @kesterallen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Malka Older’s “The Mimicking of Known Successes” series is a lot of fun. Female Sherlock Holmes on a human-settled Jupiter

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Myriel @books-and-turtles.bsky.social · 1h

📚 Currently reading: We Will Rise Again edited by Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz and Malka Older Medusa Uploaded by Emily Devenport 📚 Next up: Medusa in the Graveyard by Emily Devenport Stay for a Spell by Amy Coombe

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brooke bikes mke @brookebikesmke.bsky.social · 1h

There’s a reason there are bike racks outside all the places my kid goes or has gone for extracurricular activities (because I requested them frok the city so I can bike my kid to her stuff).

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1h

Good research is difficult and time-consuming because it is done to *challenge* our assumptions. Synthetic users' only purpose is to allow those assumptions to remain unchallenged. They are not "research but faster." They are "going with your gut, but with extra steps to cover your ass."

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 3h

There is a lot of "oh dear" to go around in the results of this very thorough Pew study on the issues with synthetic samples, but this strikes me as particularly "oh dear" www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

AI polling results can lean on racial or partisan stereotypes

In many cases, our AI poll took beliefs or attitudes that are reasonably common among a particular subgroup and portrayed them as nearly ubiquitous. For example, our AI poll would indicate that:

97% of Hispanic adults are at least somewhat likely to follow the World Cup (while the actual share is 43%).

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1h

Yet more evidence for the towering heap of proof that synthetic users are bullshit. As with all AI products, they do not improve "productivity" for a task but create an excuse not to do the task. In this case, the task is research. AI participants do not help you do research, but to AVOID research.

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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 1h

Updates: the Ethiopian army is in control of the city of Alamata, after 3 days of fierce fighting on the city's outskirts. At least 50 people in the city died, many from artillery strikes, per medical sources reached by the BBC. A strike that targeted the city's marketplace killed a dozen people.

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Ethiopia fighting escalates in Tigray killing 52 civilians in Alamata, medic tells the BBC

The deadly fighting has also spread to neighbouring regions, stranding tourists in Lalibela.

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these vibes suck @papunakki.bsky.social · 12h

I’m reading Kocke, Handley for Introduction to Society & Change uni course, Mario Mieli, Arendt, and Miéville’s The Rouse. Too many books 😅

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caztastrophe 🐦🦝🏳️‍🌈 @caztastrophe.gay · 10h

Your Shadow Half Remains, Sunny Moraine

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Brunhilde2525 @brunhilde2525.bsky.social · 22h

Loved Automatic Noodle!

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David Goldfarb @davidgoldfarb.bsky.social · 19h

I'm in the middle of @marissalingen.bsky.social 's _A Dubious Clamor_ which I'm quite enjoying. (I am wondering whether there are previous adventures of these characters.) Next up is the new Toby Daye novel, and then after that Ada Palmer is getting me to read _The Prince_ with her podcasts.

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Scott Melton @scottmelton.bsky.social · 14h

Me too! Well, read Sword/Dagger, and now re-reading the ones in the same world. And it looks like Astarion just appeared in my account, so that's tonight settled. Also: Dead Beat (9th House #3) 13 Ways to Kill Lulabell Rock The Daughters' War re-reads of Becky Chamber, Joe Abercrombie, Adrian T

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 26/09/2026

I noped out on the first question. I CAN'T ANSWER THIS IN A FUCKING VACUUM Is the regulation something like "you should not pollute"? I like it. Is the regulation something like "should we be able to strip all your rights away and hold you in a concentration camp for months over this? I'm a no.

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ABOUT THE SAME AMOUNT
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 27/09/2026

I already have a multipurpose device that I carry with me everywhere, and I think anyone who isn’t grappling with that reality is, uh, really not going anywhere.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 27/09/2026

And then it’s like “oh yeah it records everything around you and you can talk to it and do your grocery shopping.” …yes so, even if I wanted these things, I would use my phone. I would just use my phone.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 27/09/2026

Ah yes, the function was fine, it was just the FORMAT that people objected to.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/09/2026

One of the exercises I’ve seen to illustrate this is to have kids in intro programming classes tell the teacher how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and the teacher follows their instructions literally.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/09/2026

Mr. Milan and I will both be going all out these last two days, but nothing we do will be as painful as what is happening to children in this country. If you'd like to make sure that children can have a real advocate, please donate to the Young Center. Link in quote post.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 23h

So many news items these days feel like watching bank robbers showing up to rob the bank only to find a previous generation of bank robbers who also tried to rob the bank, but, on finding the bank empty, decided to work at the bank so that they could eventually rob it.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 23h

Of course, there is also an analogous European Code of Conduct for Research integrity, from ALLEA. It lists similar types of principles: honesty, reliability, respect, and accountability. If we apply these principles conscientiously we arrive at similar conclusions.

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European Code of Conduct 2023

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 23h

These 5 principles (honesty, scrupulousness, transparency, independence and responsibility) are based on the Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity (NCCRI), which is freely accessible here: www.nwo.nl/en/netherlan...

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Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity | NWO

NWO adheres to the Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity as the guiding principle for its integrity policy.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Dear @erc.europa.eu , we DO already have common standards & frameworks. 'AI' likes to pose itself as 'special' but we do not need to reinvent the wheel. We already have established codes of conduct for research integrity. We just need to apply them. See below + more resources in thread🧵

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
We must protect and cultivate the ecosystem of human knowledge. AI models can mimic
the appearance of scholarly work, but they are (by construction) unconcerned with truth
— the result is a torrential outpouring of unchecked but convincing-sounding “informa-
tion”. At best, such output is accidentally true, but generally citationless, divorced from
human reasoning and the web of scholarship that it steals from. At worst, it is confidently
wrong. Both outcomes are dangerous to the ecosystem.
Olivia Guest, Iris van Rooij, Marcela Suarez, et al. (2025, n.p.)
Knowledge production is supposed to be safeguarded by (inter)national codes of conduct for research
integrity (ALLEA 2023; KNAW et al. 2018). Such codes forbid, for instance, fabrication of data,
falsification of results, plagiarism, and, generally, distortion of the scientific record. Many argue that
new rules are required to regulate academic AI use, but pre-existing guidelines fit the bill (cf. Tafani

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 23h

OpenAI alerted Chicago it accessed a city database amid reports of its agents going rogue. buff.ly/YRxXyV3

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The 51st @51st.news · 23h

NEW: Looking to lend a hand? Each week, we round up ways to work with our neighbors to build a better D.C. Here's this week's list:

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15 ways to volunteer and organize in D.C. this week

A Swap Palooza, a talk on Big Tech, and more ways to get involved around the city.

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 23h

"appeared to"

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J. P. Gownder (கவுண்டர்) @jgownder.bsky.social · 23h

Tell them, John Grisham! “I wrote 50 books before I ever heard about Al, so I don't need it."

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J. P. Gownder (கவுண்டர்) @jgownder.bsky.social · 23h

AI doesn't belong in the writing of fiction, period. I operate in the AI space professionally, but I don't use AI to write my reports. I spent decades learning my craft and I write far better than AI.

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Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Another way to say this is that it's really sad that a group of shameless villains abused America's trust, optimism, and support for tech in order to build an adversarial culture where tech is usually out to get people.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026

It’s really stunning how the USA has so swiftly shifted from being one of the most techno-optimistic and tech-industry-loving countries on earth, to a country where most people seem to assume - not incorrectly, at least in many cases - that tech is out to get them.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I honestly don't think we make enough of this. We decided to reverse a trend of a century or more of birdlife dying out & with time and money and community we did it. There are *goddamn kiwi* in the back yards of my neighborhood. There are species we haven't seen in a century in & around Zealandia.

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So these were taken on my walk to work, from an inner suburb to the city fringe (Karori to Kelburn, for locals). I grew up in the area, and I absolutely would never have seen these birds in people's front yards 30 years ago. Wellington & its people made a choice to bring them back & we succeeded.

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Aves do Brasil @avesbrasil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🇧🇷Pato-mergulhão 🌎Mergus octosetaceus Conservação: Em Perigo Crítico O pato-mergulhão é uma ave anseriforme da família Anatidae. Também conhecido como merganso-do-sul, mergulhador, patão e pato-mergulhador. 📷 Sávio Bruno

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Warning Bites @artofsophistry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Halfway through @cheriepriest.com Maplecroft. Just finished @aptshadow.bsky.social Preaching to the Choir and Veronica Roth’s To Clutch a Razor. All strong recommendations.

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Southern Breach @southernbreach.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Finishing Negative Space, going to read Get in the Van, then The Rouse

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

also thinking a lot about how #MeToo apparently went too far, when it’s quite obvious now that it didn’t go far enough. it didn’t really go anywhere. there were no lasting consequences of that cultural moment beyond people making jokes about it.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Having real #MeToo flashbacks today, what with various news stories going around, and thinking a lot about how women were encouraged to rip themselves open and show off our trauma, in all its Technicolor glory, so that men might begin to believe us

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

Your annual reminder that any treats that have black icing are probably using activated charcoal for coloring which neutralizes meds like, say, birth control pills. Ask my cousin. Quint's 6 now. This also applies to antibiotics and head meds. Be careful, please.

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

yes!! also if you have somebody in your life who uses antipsychotics but may not be online enough to see stuff definitely let them know. a lot of people aren't as tuned in (for various reasons) and even a day or two with bad med absorption can be real dangerous

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/09/2026

I went to a really cool mostly-outdoor museum in Norway called Kistefos, or as I like to call it SCAVENGER'S REIGN: THE EXPERIENCE

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Ioana Patringenaru @ioanapatrin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Update: finished "Hollywood, Ending" and it's really good. Be prepared to google modern and contemporary artists.

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