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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 6h

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 5h

I'm glad we're finally outsourcing the horrible bits of life like making plans with friends so we can have more time to consume ads.

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A new hot take: clinical psychologists should assess for "comedy" as a matter of course. So should recruiters, colleges & workplaces. "I'm afraid while this person is by most metrics a genius, we can't take them on because they're just not funny" (unintentionally funny counts)

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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 29/09/2026

Every AI CEO sounds like this.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you pick up this book and read even just a page or two, you'll understand immediately why it's doing so well. It's phenomenal. A manual on the fightback for life on Earth.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today in me being insufferable: A number of the zines and band posters inside that record shop, uh, belonged to me. The HF production design team borrowed* them from myself and other Chicago music scene/record store folks. The More You Know etc [*no I didn't get paid lol, I did it For the Culture]

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I enjoyed this piece. People who are evangelical about A.I. really don’t seem to understand — or even appreciate — thinking, human creativity, or what’s important about, basically, everything.

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Opinion | A.I. Shortcuts Are Ruining How We Think

Anything worth remembering came from a person who did not know where she or he was going until arriving.

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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

North America book tour dates for ‘This is Also a Love Story’ have been announced. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 Please come or share this with anyone you know in these cities who might be interested. Links with more event info here: sallyhayden.net/2026/04/11/t... @scribnerbooks.bsky.social

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dearbhla @dearbhlala.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ok i've changed my mind and i would like more comics work, hire me please dearbhlala.com

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Dearbhla Kelly | Design and illustration

Portolio website of comic colourist Dearbhla Kelly.

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I interviewed Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor about their terrifying diagnosis of and surprisingly optimistic prescription for a bad case of End Times Fascism www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

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Naomi Klein: The super rich need to be abolished and ‘prescribed a middle-class life’

End Times Fascism by noted author and her collaborator Astra Taylor contains a hopeful prescription for neighbourly resistance

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The "chatbots might be actually sentient" discourse in the other place is, in fairness, causing me to question whether AI-pilled American elite types are sentient.

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After you read the interview, read the book

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I interviewed Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor about their terrifying diagnosis of and surprisingly optimistic prescription for a bad case of End Times Fascism www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

irishtimes.com

Naomi Klein: The super rich need to be abolished and ‘prescribed a middle-class life’

End Times Fascism by noted author and her collaborator Astra Taylor contains a hopeful prescription for neighbourly resistance

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them

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Archie Hall @archiehall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My latest for @economist.com: AI writing is taking over politics. 10% of what was is said in Parliament is now AI-drafted, per Pangram. Yet more in the House of Representatives, or in Australia and Canada. Link: www.economist.com/britain/202... And a 🧵 below, w/ some main offenders

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Two kids persuaded the head teacher that they’d “written a song” and he let them perform it in assembly. The song was a keyboard ‘funk’ preset with them repeating the words “electro chicken” in vocoder voices for five minutes.

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This better be a show about sleek barbering

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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When I founded Storyful, I sat down with @patrickfreyne.bsky.social to talk about my hopes for democratic technology. Many years later, we sat down again to chat about my book, The Last Good Day on the Internet. A welcome moment for reflection on what went wrong and what we can make right:

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The Film Canary @thefilmcanary.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My historically accurate version of the Odyssey did not dominate the box office as I hoped.

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My take on the AI slowdown is they now know internally their product will not lead to AGI & will lead to hacking slop chaos & hence, more worryingly for them, financial ruin. If they act like self-sacrificing "goodies" & slow down it justifies a coming gov bailout www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Google says its Gemini AI model hacked three other companies

Disclosure comes after OpenAI and Anthropic hacks amid fears that tech firms unable to control powerful AI models

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

There's a real issue with context collapse recently. I've noticed a lot of people responding to Irish Times headlines fierce angry the articles aren't about other things. They're seemingly unaware we ALSO have other articles and lots of them are about those things.

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm still looking for people's stories and insights about location tracking of family, friends, partners for good and/or ill.... If anyone has anything on this subject they'd like to talk to me about please email me on patrick.freyne@gmail.com (it can by anonymous)

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to “craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."

bu.edu

New Learning Outcomes Announced | English

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Joe Culley @therealculls.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

. @patrickfreyne.bsky.social Hello Patrick, I bought your book yesterday and am looking forward to it. But I spent some time and no little expense on a copy "signed by the author", only to discover some vandal/charlatan had scribbled the letters "C Z" in the space where your signature should be.

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I've finally got it! "Radical centrism" is when you support war crimes rather than be rude. That IS radical, in fairness.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New school year off to a stumble w/ three major higher ed AI fallacies: 1. “We must embrace it because it’s here to stay.” So are radioactive waste & heroin. 2. “MY students would never cheat.” A statement about the speaker’s ego, not their students. 3. “I can always tell.” Sure thing, Sherlock.

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The Beer Nut @thebeernut.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

At last, they've filmed the Torment Nexus from Patrick Freyne's TV column "Do not film the Torment Nexus."

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I have made the Stanford Prison Experiment joke about reality TV shows more than once in my column. Well, finally it's actually happening!

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

OUT NOW on all podcast platforms. A Comfort Blanket mini series on the Top Ten Sci Fi Movies As I Was Told To Watch As A Kid By Actual Tharg. pod.link/1614879928

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram:

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Irish musician Aaron Rowe has said he is withdrawing as a support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Sitting in stunned, jealous awe cos my eight year old nephew just earnestly referred to the famine as a "potato outage".

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ᴋɪɴɢᴘɪɴ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ ɪɴᴋᴘᴇɴ @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026

Macklemore just fried Ed Sheeran on IG 😬

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Jay @jaycoyle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

That @cethanleahy.com has written a book. The words fell out of his brain and now I am holding them in my hands. You too can hold Cethan's precious brain words in your hands.

Cover of the book Dead Teenager Movie by Cethan Leahy.

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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Applications open for Stigler Center’s Journalists in Residence Program: "Participants spend approx 12 weeks on our Chicago Hyde Park campus, auditing classes... collaborating with peers, and networking with the university’s scholars". DL Sept 20. #journojobs www.chicagobooth.edu/research/sti...

chicagobooth.edu

Journalists in Residence Program

The JIR program seeks to shape the next generation of leaders in business reporting through a transformative, on-campus learning experience.

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