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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
ESPN producer Nicole Noren quits over sports broadcasting's increasingly predatory promotion of gambling: “I’m not going to work for a gambling company and have blood on my hands.”
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Nicole Noren: “I’m not going to have blood on my hands.”
Why Nicole Noren, a decorated ESPN producer, quit in protest.
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Colin Girth @bonuseruptus.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Show me a smart device that has the 96GB of RAM required to run a barely decent LLM, and I'll just rip it out and do something useful with it. Also, at current prices, that much RAM would cost approximately one (1) used car.
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 11/10/2026
if i was the richest man alive i would be pulling people out of poverty left and right and going down in history as the most beloved philanthropist who ever lived, which is precisely why i'm not the richest man alive. you have to be willing to exploit and harm scores of people to become that.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/10/2026
Forward-Thinking CEO Hoping Company Can Capture New Audience By Making Product Worse In Every Conceivable Way theonion.com/forward-thinking-ceo-h…
Forward-Thinking CEO Hoping Company Can Capture New Audience By Making Product Worse In Every Conceivable Way
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Daniel Sereduick @danielsereduick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Cybersecurity lawyer - culpability accrues to the deployer of the malware, including malware designed to evolve, and specific intent isn't required
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Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If nothing else, just read the opening paragraphs of the new @vevalenz.bsky.social piece. This sort of casual cruelty, and worse, is so common in U.S. jails/prisons that to most it barely registers as scandalous—but it is, and this reporting really matters: boltsmag.org/california-p...
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 09/10/2026
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Ex-Postmedia chair alleges Ford’s office used son’s government contract as ‘leverage’ for an op-ed
Premier’s Office, newspaper chain denied Paul Godfrey’s claim that political pressure was used to extract access to Postmedia’s op-ed pages before last year’s snap election
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Welcome to the future of thinking. NERVE CENTER premieres next Thursday on InfoWars.
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lucindacatchlove.bsky.social @lucindacatchlove.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I wish these people would stop trying to claim that their clinical narcissism and psychopathy are autism as a means to rationalize (and cover for) their own lack of physical and cognitive empathy and their grandiose belief in their own superiority.
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We use farts to clear a room, poison an elevator, and dutch oven our partners. But other animals use it for flotation! Communication! ...ok and potentially also to dutch oven their partners. www.snexplores.org/article/anim...
snexplores.org
Farting fish and tooting manatees — how some animals use gas
Humans think farts are funny — but some animals rely on farts for flotation, communication and more.
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A Mathematician Discovered a New Eight-Faced Shape. It Looks Like a Glitch in Reality gizmodo.com/a-mathematic...
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A Mathematician Discovered a New Eight-Faced Shape. It Looks Like a Glitch in Reality
For a seemingly pointless exercise, these odd shapes can actually serve a practical purpose.
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There is no safe way for researchers to use the systems provided by OpenAI, Anthropic, or any of these other companies. They have all admitted that plagiarism is an integral component of what they do. If you put your work in – even if it's just to touch up a manuscript – they will take it.
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Butt Praxis @buttpraxis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I will vote, make calls, knock doors, take up arms for whoever destroys the online gambling industry
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Jason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
AI EXECUTIVE (bragging about his product): Using this every day has made me incredibly stupid
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Hope For The Planet @h4tp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We now have rigorous pooled data showing that even without active restoration efforts, cleared rainforest can rebound to 75% of their former species composition and 90% of species diversity within just thirty years. #goodnews
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Rainforest biodiversity rebounds within a single generation | The Optimist Daily
A major Ecuador study finds cleared rainforests can recover 90 percent of their species diversity in just 30 years, as long as humans leave the land alone.
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Mike the Mad Biologist Who Is Raising Serious Questions @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is a really good point that often goes missing: machine learning, whether original flavor or spicy, isn't new per se. OpenAI and others just decided to build ML/AI tools without adequate safety precautions so it could 'scale.'
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I often think about the speed camera chopping vigilante who returned to the scene of their crime on Parkside Drive multiple times but Toronto police didn’t catch them & it led to Doug Ford banning speed cameras for 16 million people & now speeding is at epidemic levels & people will die.
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John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Excellent @himself.bsky.social post here, scratching at some of the overbearing tendencies — sometimes subtle and unintentional, sometimes open — in AI discourse www.programmablemutter.com/p/machine-go...
programmablemutter.com
Machine god metaphors eat your brain
There are other ways of thinking about AI
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Carney is truly the Reagan of Canada. A calming, paternalistic figure in a period of apocalyptic uncertainty who galvanizes the economy with short-sighted right wing fiscal policies. And like Reagan, every disaster that Canada encounters in the future will be traceable to his administration.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“.. The greatest danger facing society isn’t that software will awaken and overthrow its human masters. It is that we will allow the creators of the software to abdicate human responsibility for the systems they choose to build ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW BRAIN DROPPED
med.stanford.edu
Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds
Stanford Health Care delivers the highest levels of care and compassion. SHC treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, primary care issues, and many more.
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🎃 Decorative Gourd Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This gets back to the moravec’s paradox thing where we wrongly assume that if a computer can do something we think is hard, it must also be able to do all the things we would have to learn to do in order to do that hard thing.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
I know many things are bad and there is no shortage of doomscrolling you can do. But little things still matter. A hot shower. Drinking water. A compliment from a stranger. A kind gesture. Knowing your enemies are aging poorly. Getting enough sleep. You still deserve time to rest and recover.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 20/09/2026
Big Tech companies are rapidly expanding their use of guarantees to back debt for AI data centres and chips, issuing up to $300bn in commitments in less than a year while recording little of that exposure on their balance sheets. Read more: ft.trib.al/wCv2DQr
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 16/09/2026
Avez-vous déjà pleuré de joie ? Racontez-nous
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Avez-vous déjà pleuré de joie ? Racontez-nous
Vous avez ressenti de la joie et, soudain, les larmes sont venues. Qu’est-ce qui les a provoquées ? Comment avez-vous vécu cet instant ? Quel souvenir en avez-vous gardé ?
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026
I'm just going to keep yelling this louder and louder until it clicks: weird overpaid AI nerds hand-wringing about human extinction are trying to distract you from the extremely deadly and serious harms they are causing yesterday, today and tomorrow www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Headline: "US Data Centers Set to Burn More Natural Gas Than Most Nations" above a photo of natural gas compressor towers, power lines and a crane at an industrial site, illustrating rising gas use tied to data centers.News excerpt reporting that U.S. data centers’ natural gas use is expected to grow by 15 billion cubic feet per day by 2035—amounting to more gas than every country except China, Russia, Iran and the U.S., citing the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It’s a bit odd to talk about potential costs when in reality nobody has *any* idea what Carney actually has in mind, I can’t remember a single time in the past 50 years where one man was given such latitude to determine Canada’s future in the absence of *any* public debate or discussion.
thestar.com
There are costs for Mark Carney’s closer ties with Europe
There could be a political cost in addition to the financial price tag for Canada’s proposed “unique alliance” with the European Union.
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The benefits of privatization are routinely asserted with great confidence, although rarely with any proof. The evidence suggests that privatization costs us dearly while eroding public control over key parts of our economy—and, with it, our collective power and democratic capacity as a nation.
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How privatization became the economic dogma of our time
The doctrine of privatization has become so pervasive that it is rarely questioned or challenged, becoming a driving force in our politics. The benefits of privatization are routinely asserted with gr...
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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Le Devoir @ledevoir.com · 11/09/2026
Le regard de notre caricaturiste Godin sur l'actualité du 11 septembre 2026 👉 bit.ly/4xnA9VA
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 10/09/2026
arstechnica.com
Boy developed "toasted skin" condition from using a laptop every day
Laptops don't usually get hot enough to burn—but they can still be harmful.
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Snake that hunts with fake spider on its tail shocks scientists www.popsci.com/environment/...
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Snake that hunts with fake spider on its tail shocks scientists
The scientists examining the spider-tailed horned viper's bones were in for a surprise.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/09/2026
Trump Claims He Was Falling Man theonion.com/trump-claims-he-was-fa…
Trump Claims He Was Falling Man
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A Fantastic LEGO Model of Experimental Math Rock Duo Angine de Poitrine laughingsquid.com/lego-angine-...
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A Fantastic LEGO Model of Experimental Math Rock Duo Angine de Poitrine
LEGO enthusiast Bill Ward built a model of Québécois experimental math rock duo Angine de Poitrine, inspired by their 2025 KEXP performance.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 09/09/2026
Nation’s Smart Toilets Begin Counting Down theonion.com/nations-smart-toilets-…
Nation’s Smart Toilets Begin Counting Down
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Dr. Tanya Lentz, R.Psych. @pednpsy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
So @mark-carney.bsky.social, if you want to unite us, do so in a way that does not glorify a man who harmed so many people. Unite us with a Canada of which we can be proud.
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Keubiko 🇨🇦 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 💪 @keubiko.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It’s true. My barber had like a $1K per month trade deficit with the grocery store. He stopped eating and gives himself 3 haircuts per day now instead. True wealth. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
ICYMI: Meet the 2026 Ig Nobel Prize winners: designing the perfect splash-free urinal; using mosquito proboscises to “necroprint” tiny nozzles; studying composition rates of buried cotton underwear; the aerodynamics of a healthy nose-blow, and more. arstechnica.com/science/2026...
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Meet the 2026 Ig Nobel Prize winners
The annual award ceremony features miniature operas, scientific demos, and "24/7" lectures.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 03/09/2026
Last year, Casey Revkin learned that parents at the South Texas Family Residential Center reported finding cockroaches in their food and said their children were vomiting after drinking the tap water. “I wanted to help fix some of that,” Revkin said. wapo.st/3UwpwSt
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Gregory Kohn @kohngregory.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
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The English Working Cat: J. B. S. Haldane and a Noncapitalist Experimental Organism | Isis: Vol 117, No 3
AbstractDuring the 1940s and 1950s, the celebrated and controversial British geneticist J. B. S. Haldane decided to investigate heredity in house cats (Felis catus) by initiating a breeding program at...
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La Presse @lapresse.ca · 02/09/2026
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Hausse des loyers | Près de 300 000 logements abordables « perdus » en trois ans
Le Québec a perdu près de 300 000 logements abordables dans les trois dernières années, s’inquiète Vivre en ville. En pleine campagne électorale, un vaste sondage de l’organisme, mené auprès de 5500 locataires, révèle que le loyer moyen continue d’augmenter rapidement.
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 01/09/2026
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Business leaders urge corporate Canada to support daycare as ‘nation-building investment’
Advocates in the corporate world say the conversation around early childhood education should be an economic one
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 01/09/2026
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Volunteer program aims to comfort patients without loved ones in their final moments
No One Dies Alone pairs those who are nearing death and have no family or close friends available to sit with them with trained volunteers
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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Metascientists need to be required to read history of science. We already know so much about how an individual experiment is not a miraculous thing that is supposed to single-handedly produce fail-proof scientific facts. More than science, it's our assumptions about science that we must fix.
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Is doomscrolling bad for you? A meta-analysis of 42 studies (N=46,912) finds that consuming short-form videos is linked to increases in inattention & impulsivity; reductions in working-memory span & self-regulation; elevations in anxiety, depression & stress; and a surge in addiction symptoms.
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Fall asleep to this infinite loop of the modern voice of freedom and justice.
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