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Paul Gunning @paulgunning.bsky.social · 21h

I think this hypothesis needs to be empirically tested. I'm happy to fund the parachute costs. If the pilot succeeds, we've proven that there's no real barrier to taxing billionaires at a rate which leaves them with $5 in hand.

Someone calling himself Nate Fisher pontificating on the internet "You air drop a billionaire into a 3rd world country with $5 in his pocket and with a few years he will be a millionaire. There are traits, skills and characteristics people have to maximise what they have. They know how to play any hand dealt"

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I would just like to note that the Allies started winning WW2 when they moved from naming their tanks after racist Confederate loser traitors (Stuart, Lee) to naming them after righteous Union winners (Sherman). The British caught on to this earlier, renamed the Lee the Grant, and never looked back.

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 02/10/2026

This! Which tells me, personally, that if they truly believe that its OK to make a sentient being that they enslave, well, they probably think it's ok to do that to humans.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 02/10/2026

America's vibe is best represented in fiction by the Ferengi Alliance from Star Trek and/or the Corporate Rim in the Murderbot Diaries. @marthawells.com has it down cold

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

How does it feel to have people copy your intellectual property without permission?

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/10/2026

Debating adding "champion amateur horologist" to my bio

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

With alt text. I know someone who actually did this

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On my first big overseas client conference, I was at a dinner seated next to a drunk client who kept trying to fondle me under the table. I was young, distressed, and had no idea what to do. I moved my legs as far away from him as I could, moving into the space of the man next to me, who then started patting my legs! The Regional Manager was a French woman who caught my eye, gestured for me to go to the bathroom and when I came back had switched chairs with me. What happed next was epic. A few minutes after I sat back down, she raised her hand with his hand captured in hers and announced loudly "Does anyone know whose hand this is? I found it in my lap." There was dead silence at the table. She threw his hand back at him and said calmly "next time I pick it up with my fork." Then she started a new conversational thread and things moved on. After the meeting she found me, gave me a hug, and said seriously "Never be afraid to make some noise. It is their shame, not yours."

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Paul Gunning @paulgunning.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you're only going to do the right thing because you expect a reward, you're not a good person in the first place.

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

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The problem isn't rogue #AI models, it's *negligent companies*. If a biomedical firm put their product in public water supply because they wanted to test it 'in the real world', they'd be treated as criminal at corporate & individual level. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue

Decision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Joyce Park @troutgirl.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

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Paul Gunning @paulgunning.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So there's a new Hunger Games movie coming out, and once again, it's a prequel. I'd have hoped that by now there would be more of a market for movies about what happens after you overthrow a corrupt tyrannical government that kills kids to send a message about its power.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Kalvin the Reindeer @kalvinmacleod.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I bought a bottle of pills that cure laziness but they have a child-proof lid so maybe next time.

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

No one is disposable, including the canary ❤️🦜✊

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Me to security person at Dublin Airport: I was given a lemon as a prize today. Can I bring my lemon through security? Security person (solemnly): Yes, you may bring your prize lemon through security.

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ceej @ceej.online · 02/06/2024

It’s inevitable that the people my friends and I hunt for sport would disagree with us on some small issues, but never before have these relations been so strained. This is what happens when, instead of engaging in meaningful debate, the less-evolved party adopts an attitude of “c’est la guerre.”

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If you're a Dem who thinks you'll gain something by going anti-trans, look at Gallup's "most important problem" and Fox News' "most important issue" polling and see where trans issues rank. Whoever told you going anti-trans is a savvy or necessary move spends too much time on X and should be fired.

Gallup polling. "LGBTQ rights" moves between 0 and 1%.

Fox news polling. Wokeness/transgender issues at 0%.

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If these dorks seriously believe there's a significant near-term risk of developing an AI that results in human extinction, the solution is simple and obvious: hang everyone who's trying to build AIs, for crimes against humanity and attempted genocide. The "panic" is bullshit from start to finish.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

The truth was that if United Health had an AI that was accepting a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate, United Health would stop using the AI in about 0.2 seconds.

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Thought for the day: TESCREAL is just three Christian heresies in a God-repellant trenchcoat (one of them is Calvinism with the serial numbers filed off)

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 19/09/2026

This is why I think it's so important to push back against the personification of LLMs. If a person shoots someone while wearing a hand puppet, they can't claim the hand puppet did the murder.

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The Abominable Jonathan L. Howard @jonathanlhoward.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Alan Ritchson seems an okay sort of feller.

From Twitter. fattys_revenge writes "Every season of Reacher so far has been great, and I understand why they may be avoiding the earlier novels due to their slightly less standalone nature, but every year I'm sad to learn that next season won't be the book where he kills his way through a white supremacist militia camp"
Alan Ritchson replies, "My favorite book. Fun fact: I had it approved until someone got re-elected."

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Elizabeth Lanphier @ethicselizabeth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Although in this case maybe the guy who believes that his wife’s phone understands her as well as he does should absolutely not be surprised if she says to him “I want a divorce.”

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Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 16/09/2026

"Your brains stop developing at age 25" was a press misrepresentation of a study. They wanted to see if brains continued to develop after adolescence, so the study was capped at age 25. A later study with a wider subject pool showed that brains are ALWAYS developing our whole lives.

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Scornflake Ghhhoul @scornflakegrrrl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yet again I wonder what is so special about racism and xenophobia that it makes it legitimate concerns, yet being worried about genocide or climate change somehow don’t get the same treatment

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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 16/09/2026

I believe it was @dsquareddigest.bsky.social who noted that the only way to survive an argument with Milton Friedman was that when he said “let us assume” to immediately interject “no, we will not assume that” and it’s an equally valid approach to discussing “AI risk”.

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qntm @qntm.org · 16/09/2026

To be clear, the title of the French translation is "La division antimémétique n'existe pas", not "Request Rejected". A classic semipredicate problem

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👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Personally I would not pick this fight with the youtube guy who demonstrates all the ways he can nail you with an arrow at 200 yards using his feet while wearing 12-inch Pleasers, whose wife can also kill you with her bare hands, and has 9 billionteen followers who are all trans women with swords.

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Earthling #6 @dustsquid.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A long time, running late, I got to the airport and had somehow forgotten my book. I ducked into a book store and saw a new book by Varley I hadn't read. I paid and dashed to my plane. As the plane pushed back I opened my brand new copy of "Millennium" and read, "The DC-10 never had a chance"

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Paul Gunning @paulgunning.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Normally, my impulse would be to say "Subsidised sports facilities are how we make sure everyone has a chance to be a great at a sport", but golf isn't meaningfully a sport so much as business networking with sticks, and I feel like it can pay its own way.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

IMO, the solution should not be to browbeat people into an old standard, but rather allow people to wear whatever they want. If someone can wear ducky pajamas in public, you can wear tailoring in any cut, color, and material. As options open up, dress can then be a source of pleasure.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'm a professional book reviewer who gets a ton of PR emails from publicists. Do you know where I first hear about 80% of the books I end up reviewing? From authors and readers on bsky.

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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

could probably just leave this one up for the rest of the year at least

New York Times opinion headline reading "This Is Really Bad"

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Dear Democrats, You will never be able to triangulate your way through racism/sexism/transphobia, because pushing a lighter, politer form of bigotry is always a lose-lose proposition. The bigots want the uncut stuff, while normal people aren't drawn to cowards who sell out. Stand your ground.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Anyway I bet it really did FEEL like unity to everyone who was an enthusiastic participant in the mob screaming that anyone who questioned them was a terrorist sympathizer who hated America. Being inside the tent pissing out of it is a great way to form a memory that nobody got pissed on.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11/09/2026

If you put ten children in a room with a single large red button that launches all nukes, it would be a genuine threat to humanity. But it doesn't mean children are a human extinction risk. It means the person who puts them near the nuke button is a human extinction risk.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 09/09/2026

If the people working at Anthropic et al sincerely believe that GenAI will kill 10% of humanity in the next decade, why can't we try them for conspiracy to murder?

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Only in Republican America is it illegal to give water to people waiting in line to vote, but it's OK for the president to bribe them with a promise of $5,000 to influence *how* they vote.

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Raysident Evil @sireviscerate.myatproto.social · 10/09/2026

FDA (20 years ago): This milk has been sourced from a meticulously inspected dairy farm, and has been through a certified pasteurization process. FDA (today): Look, it's liquid, and it's from a cow. At least that's what they tell us. It's fine, probably.

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 09/09/2026

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'll say Jackie Fisher's brain moved too fast. Generally over the bit that asks "is this actually a good idea?"and straight onto the bit that asks "who can I fight over this?"

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Scornflake Ghhhoul @scornflakegrrrl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’m shocked and surprised at learning how the stealing lie machine managed to solve that maths problem

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