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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 22/09/2026

microsoft have essentially bought up and bulldozed almost an entire american arts industry as a half-hearted distraction from their main project of trying to monopolise and rent-seek global digital infrastructure and military contracts

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Jan Willem Nijman @jwaaaap.com · 23/09/2026

if you’re a games company that wants to survive it has been proven over and over again you need to do whatever it takes to stay away from being publicly traded. you’ll be turned into wood chips the moment it’s convenient.

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Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWA @jdespland.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We don't live in slop world because of AI, we live in slop world because the purpose of everything is to generate a return on investment for capital. We evaluate everything along metrics designed to serve that purpose over any other. AI is just the best way we found of optimizing for these metrics.

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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn waves a Palestinian flag on stage while urging fans to speak out for Gaza: “Don’t forget this—ever. Stand your position. Don’t ever be neutral.”

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Del @del.art · 20/09/2026

When a game studio ships a solid game, it creates TWO valuable products: 1. A solid game. 2. The team that spent years learning how to work together make a game. Because Western studios keep disbanding #2 while development cycles get longer; we will inevitably see less of #1.

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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"

Screencap from the interview linked in the quoted post

Marlow Stern (the interviewer): You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

im inclined to agree with the techlords that AI is dangerous. again, not because it's alive but because they're insisting on putting it in positions where it can hurt people, leaving aside the promised jobpocalypse they're promising us. chimp with gun

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 08/09/2026

werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)

Q: A couple years ago at IDFA, I saw this movie "About a Hero," which is this partly Al-generated hybrid documentary that tries to recreate the atmosphere of your films.

A: The intention of this young filmmaker was never to remake any [of my films], but making something in the spirit. And I immediately said, "You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It's phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not take part in it." He wanted me to explain things and have my voice in it.
I said, "You are alone. There's such a thing as free speech, which I respect. So go ahead and fail." And it is a failure, period.
It's so standardized that Al can step in because there's not real storytelling. It's mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome Al to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it's ad nauseam.
When it's ad nauseam, please, please, please let Al step in and do the job.

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Blessing Adeoye Jr. @blessingjr.com · 02/09/2026

My biggest problem with this is that a certain section of the audience believes a good review is one that conforms to the general consensus. Somewhere along the line people really lost the idea that not only can they have a different opinion on a piece of media, but differing opinions are exciting.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 29/08/2026

Nope. There is no animus. You're playing with an automated algorithm that's being assigned too many privileges with outcomes based on probability. That's like "shit I lost control of this giant bolder I was rolling down a crowded street, it must be magic."

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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 30/08/2026

The Lake Ontario/Lake America thing is a profoundly stupid version of it, but in millions of other subtler ways, we are force fed American values and American ideas about the world, because American companies like Google control the internet.

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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

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Hauntit Quine 🇵🇸 she/her @rummlie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Just so I'm clear, if you phone up Rowling's helpline, you are at risk of having your phone call tweeted out to her 14 million odd followers for a ridicule party?

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ceej @ceej.online · 13/07/2026

we are witnessing a company who thought they invented the ham sandwich realizing in real time that they sell ham, bread, and mustard at the grocery store

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Sami @samitron.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

THIS STUDIO MADE THE FAMOUS IDTECH ENGINE AND YOU'RE FORCING THEM TO USE FUCKING **UNREAL**??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? FUCK YOU

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Nick Wright had what I thought was the best take about replay which is we are using 21st century tech to officiate rules created 100 years ago and specifically designed for the naked eye and I dunno if it even makes anything better except we now argue about camera angle and light instead of plays

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Jean-Paul Blartre: Mall Cop @oldpappythomas.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Sure Microsoft may have fired thousands of people and gutted its games division but at least it had more money to pour into Copilot, the 4th most popular AI, a product nobody wants or likes except rich executives, that is constantly losing horrendous amounts of money

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 06/07/2026

This is not a dunk on Ben because he's 100% right, but as an industry we've known this for a LONG time. When Embracer and XBox (and others) went on their little recent shopping sprees, a lot of us remembered previous cycles of consolidation -> destruction and were very worried about the future

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

imagine if they fired every band member every time an album came out

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David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

My stance on piracy has remained consistent over my entire career: I'd prefer if you paid money for my games, but if that's not going to happen for whatever reason, I'd rather you pirate one of my games vs never playing it.

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Funny Karate Bear (But Festive) @thedimpsler.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Would it surprise you to learn that the guy on the left was the source of most of the company’s good ideas and has spent the last five or more years gradually being pushed out by MBA soulsuckers from the American and European offices that drove the company into the ground trying to do Fortnite

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 29/06/2026

That helps explain why big media, always the handmaiden of power, works so hard to frame climate concern as some fey, boutique, out-of-touch elite concern. They don't want you to know that other people are concerned too. If you knew that, you might organize & push for change! And so we get this:

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Slashley Cooper 🔪 @ashleycooper.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Games aren't made by studios, they're made by people. The studio is just the logo on the side of the building. The way this industry is undervaluing, abusing, and discarding people is shameful, and it's doing damage to this medium we will never fully know. All while execs line their pockets.

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 23/06/2026

The rewriting of Starmer's record and sympathy accorded to him is yet another sign of how broken this democracy is Starmer was elected by default against an alternative most had come to despise He chose to double down and go further right, at a huge direct cost for many communities

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 22/06/2026

No obvious blunders besides being on the wrong side of Epstein, putting grandmothers in UK Guantanamo, supporting genocide, installing draconian internet measures, failing the trans community, failing the Muslim community, but generally it comes down to having the spine of an octopus.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 20/06/2026

>becomes prime minister >wins largest majority seen in labour history >pivots the party hard right, cracks down on palestinian protestors and privacy rights >completely destroys the labour party >resigns what was bro doing any of this for

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onion person @junlper.beer · 17/06/2026

the war in iran that trump started is a complete victory for iran honestly. they’re coming out of this looking stronger than before the war. it’s sort of wild how much donald trump is destroying the united states hegemony

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functional moron @fiveburger.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

i wish it wasn't the case but elon buying X seems to be one of the most successful propaganda campaigns of all time. he bet that people would be addicted enough to posting that they wouldn't leave no matter what. he was basically right and can effectively change how they think and act now!

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Oscar Robin @oscarrobin.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Fuck Microsoft. They do loads more truly evil shit too but this is still terrible.

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Spooky Neighborhood Spider-Menace @icanfly42.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I legitimately think Linux bullshit is easier to deal with than Windows bullshit, people are just used to Windows bullshit. Give me a terminal over regedit any day of the week, give me apt over hunting down exe files, etc

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Oscar Robin @oscarrobin.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

As a software engineer at a big company, these numbers feel about right to me. LLMs are *accelerating* work but also reducing its quality and reliability.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

not polite to call some people stupid, but it is genuinely a party of stupid people

The Washington Post tweets: "Social Security’s trust fund is now due to run low on money beginning in 2032.

The government acknowledged that the Trump administration’s immigration policies and tax cuts are expected to contribute to the insolvency."

There is then a link to the story.

Someone on Twitter replies: "Explain to me like I’m an idiot how deporting people contributes to my nest egg evaporating?"

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Oscar Robin @oscarrobin.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Same can and will be true of One Nation in Australia.

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Dora B @heyitsdora.com · 20/05/2026

Just a reminder this is the studio that announced it's using gen ai for all loc going forward, who spent a bunch of time raging about "woke" around its gay character, and whose ownership has rancid takes around racism and sexism www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/ki... www.polygon.com/kingdom-come...

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Kingdom Come lead hails LGBT award nom, declares it doesn't make him 'Woke'

O dull old world, that has such people in it.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 16/05/2026

i lost my mind when i saw that chuck schumer posted about the UAP file release but nothing about the supreme court gutting the voting rights act the same day

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/05/2026

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed. Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 05/05/2026

Deepfakes are everywhere, but digital forensics investigators are fighting back. Learn more: scim.ag/42dMPBg

To verify images, digital forensics investigators will often check whether the geometry of the scene is realistic. In a real photo, lines that run parallel in reality—like floor tiles—should meet at a single vanishing point. In this image, however, the dotted lines do not meet in a single point, indicating it is a fake.
Image: an AI-generated image of soldiers marching down a hallway in three lines, wearing fatigues and carrying rifles. Four dotted white lines have been added over the image, running along the floor tiles visible in the foreground and extending back to where the vanishing point should be, behind the soldiers. Instead of meeting in a single point, the lines all cross at different points.

Investigators also examine reflections. The lines connecting points on an object to matching points in its mirror image run parallel in reality, so similarly should meet at a vanishing point. In this image, the lines again do not converge on one point, revealing it to be a fake.
Image: An AI-generated image of a plastic cartoon dinosaur toy with its reflection visible in a small mirror. Four dotted white lines are layered over the image, connecting points on the toy with the same points on its reflection: the top of its eye, the end of its jaw, its hand, and its foot. The lines extend out to the side of the image, where they all cross at different points rather than meeting at a single point.

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

What the hell www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 28/04/2026

The answer to this is unequivocally yes. Antisemitism has no place in this world. You can be 100% anti-Israel, anti-Israeli politics, anti-Israeli genocide, anti-Israeli propaganda, anti-Israeli lobby, & never once conflate that with Judaism the way Israel wants you to.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Pope Leo turned the question around like the boss he is.

Screenshot of a tweet by perrito barista (@Carlitospindola), translated from Spanish, quoting Pope Leo responding to a question about migration by reframing it: "What is the global North doing to help the global South in its situation that forces them to migrate?" The embedded video shows the Pope holding a microphone aboard what appears to be a plane, with clergy visible behind him.

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