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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 03/10/2026

AI people think you can’t speak meaningfully about AI until you reach the point that you aren’t sure if it’s not a person and you feel existential vertigo about what it can do. Thing is, those feelings are just part of a mass indoctrination to a cult, they’re not part of understanding AI better

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Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Also, it does not inspire confidence when the CEO of the company keeps openly mocking the idea that someone's old writing could be flagged as a false positive, like this is so ridiculous and never happens and people who say it does are making it up... when it very demonstrably does happen, and did.

A tweet from Bryne Hobart: "Pangram is good, but has some well-known failure modes, like: - A time you heard it didn't work - A school essay you wrote years ago that it flagged as AI (you don't have a link or the essay text handy) - A different AI detector got it wrong, and they're all the same, right?"

Max Spero, the CEO of Pangram, quote tweets the Byrne Hobart tweet to agree with it.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 03/10/2026

Contagion popped up on my recs so I turned it on and I forgot that in this movie, people want the vaccine for the pandemic so badly that they're like, kidnapping the family of CDC members and holding them hostage to get doses. 2011 had a lot more faith in us than we deserved.

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Ash Poprik 🗡️ @ashleypoprik.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Interested in game writing or narrative design? I put together my favorite narrative-focused resources FOR FREE for your viewing pleasure. You'll find gems from legends including Mary Kenney, Anna Megill, Emily Short, Susan O'Connor, and Toiya Kristen Finley. Enjoy! drive.google.com/file/d/1xIvw...

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Nomada Studio @nomada.studio · 02/10/2026

Still sleeping side by side💤

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Okay, Steam Sale time! Who'd like some recommendations? Let's get the ball rolling with one of my favourite games of 2025, The Séance of Blake Manor! A positively genius detective game steeped in Irish history and mythology with a striking comicbook artstyle and authentic turnip jack 'o lanterns. 🎃

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The Séance of Blake Manor is a supernatural detective mystery, set in 1897 Ireland, where you investigate the disappearance of Evelyn Deane in a remote hotel full of secrets and other-worldly occurren...

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And Trump's cronies bleat about 'sovereignty!' unless of course you are Canada or Denmark or Venezuela or Iran or whatever country he carelessly threatens or attacks next. We are not required to pretend these guys are sincere. They are not. Treat them like the liars they are.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026

getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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waaaaaaa @hexkeys.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

XIV women week day 4 - stormblood #xivwomenweek #ffxivart

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Wow. LOISH got accused of using Ai to make her art. I started following her on early deviantart. I remember first seeing her paintings in college. This is ridiculous, no one is safe. Artists Ive followed for actual decades are getting harassed because their work has been stolen and regurgitated.

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You are not ready for how good this is. Absorb the data first, then horizontal axis, then vertical. Absolute 😗👌

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Harper Jay @dreamcastaway.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm not overly interested in a lot of the wider internet conversation RN. The sleuthing and well I always knews, the fact this may have come about without respect for the victim's privacy. I'm upset in a lot of ways and I wish this had been different.

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Pella @pellamore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

RIP android auto "You shouldn't be looking at your phone while driving so we'll make voice commands" "we'll now forcibly update to ai that misinterprets all your voice commands. No you can't refuse or go back to the version that worked"

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

True not just in publishing/writing. Look at how this new Meta Muse basically jumps into the user's shit, mixes it around, gets it everywhere. Shares their address. Lies to their contacts. Sells their stuff at a low price. Do not let the vampire in. Hang garlic. Sharpen stakes.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

Oh hey look: exactly what a bunch of us said was already and would keep happening— data centers being placed in spaces where their harms will fall on those already most marginalized— is, in fact, happening.

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Take a look at Mothership's homepage and just look at the range of bylines it's already enabled. One of only a few, green shoots in the games media right now and as the last few days have highlighted, its existence feels absolutely vital.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Also, and I cannot stress this enough, you can do both. The sheer ability of people to hear "Voting matters" & interpret that as "I just personally ordered you to never volunteer or donate to a cause ever again. And the only way to break the spell is complain" It's a monument to human ingenuity.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You've seen fireworks that look like jellyfish, but what about a jellyfish that looks like fireworks? The E/V Nautilus filmed this rare Halitrephes maasi jellyfish glowing like a firework at a depth of 4,019 feet (1,225 meters) off the coast of Baja California, Mexico. (📷: Ocean Exploration Trust)

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This. I strongly believe a lot of men have no idea how often women contend with this, and how it can stunt their ambitions.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yup. Though I think the more troubling aspect is that it's not that nobody *can* stop him -- it's that those who can, don't want to, and therefore will do nothing to rein him in.

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no

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Hannah Flynn 🐀 @itshannahflynn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A rare place in an industry-leading writing team, for the right person 💚

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's easy - and correct! - to focus on just how ghoulish and profane this view of human creativity is. But even if you're the most cynical capitalist on earth, the evidence that people would enjoy entirely dehumanised content, at anything like a scale that would justify this hype, is extremely thin!

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Fred Coppersmith @unrealfred.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“AI is just another tool.” No one’s arguing that. We’re arguing that it’s a *bad* tool, right now often dangerously bad, and that if it’s going to be used at all, some very fundamental problems with it first need to be addressed.

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Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

lol are there even 50 narrative designers with jobs at this point

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 30/09/2026

He releases this even with Third Way, a centrist org, telling dems to stop doing this. bsky.app/profile/erin...

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MikeyBlighe 🏳️‍🌈🩷💛🩵🏳️‍⚧️ @mikeyblighe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, and while it is to commemorate and acknowledge the damage done by the residential school system it's also to drive the point home every year that indigenous people are still mistreated and ignored in too many conversations. The work is never done.

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Truth coming out of her Perfect Garbage can to alert mankind GRAVE SEASONS is launching MARCH 9 💃🏾🔪💃🏾🌾💃🏾🪦💃🏾

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Ash vs the Evil Dead @ashflanagan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A LOT OF STAY AT HOME PARENTS ARE ONLY DOING IT BECAUSE THEY CAN'T FIND A JOB THAT PAYS MORE THAN THE COST OF DAYCARE

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 29/09/2026

It's nice to see a 'cozy' game in a setting that doesn't sugarcoat things. Ecological collapse, crime and stress abounds, but you also get to run a street corner restaurant or nightclub and hang out with the regulars. Word is this one's a performance hog, though.

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Pella @pellamore.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Utterly baffling. EVEN if it worked perfectly it's not a use case, and it's far from perfect

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Pella @pellamore.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

(assuming you're not paying for solid gold pens or something, plus I'm sure the kids love having no say when it comes to what school supplies they have). Then it shows the woman WEARING THE EARBUDS while at the dinner she was supposedly being freed to pay more attention to.

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Pella @pellamore.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I keep seeing those stupid ads like "I've sorted your emails for you! Registered for after school sports (assuming they're the right sports and not on the moon or something), put the carpool on the calendar (assuming it hasn't just doxed you somehow) and bought school supplies!"

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm categorized as an AI subscriber, because I'm subscribed to the 3 TB tier of Google Drive and and they literally just changed the name of the plan to "Google AI Plus." Those "AI subscriber" numbers are 100 percent juiced and phony, and you're a sucker if you believe otherwise.

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Elizabeth Zelle @kohizeri.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In the games user research space we've actually had to change how we talk about game systems with playtesters, because while 'NPC/Enemy AI' is common developer jargon that players used to be fine with, the term has been thoroughly poisoned by GenAI and will now elicit negative reactions from many.

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J. R. Moock, jr. @jrmoockjr.northsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sucks to suck, you piece of irredeemable human garbage

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Spicymochi @spicymochi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I had to give her a friend

Illustration of two very round bears covered in snow

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am an AI doomer inasmuch as I feel strongly that AI is doomed and that it is our responsibility to accelerate that doom.

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 30/09/2026

we fucked up bigtime when the internet slipped from the utopian promise of being able to connect with ANYone into the hellscape of being connected to EVERYone

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 30/09/2026

So-called AI detection tools might be an even bigger scurge than AI. I was talking today with a student (a senior), who shared that they now have to spend time "dumbing down" their papers--shortening sentences, removing advanced vocab and punctuation--because otherwise they get flagged as "AI."

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If rapists actually faced consequences for their actions we wouldn’t have nearly as many rapists. In reality many rapists actually benefit from their actions

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“ME TOO went too far” said the country that re-elected a rapist.

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