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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The mobility of children is simply not taken seriously or viewed as important. Something illustrative is how people will often say that kids "don't count" when you remind them that children and young teens are nondrivers who deserve the right to get around without cars.
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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons buff.ly/YJ1mAiP
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ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
OpenAI's chatbot isn't just imitating the magazine's style. It's also falsely attributing AI-generated images to real artists.
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
very tired of being told it is the responsibility of urban democratic voters never to risk possibly maybe by chance seeming less than respectful of rural red state life and then watching thousands in nebraska cheer on the president joking about a nuclear strike on me and millions of my neighbors
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler.
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┻━┻ ︵ヽ(`Д´)ノ︵ ┻━┻ "sam a" @pfhlick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If we counted electric trains as "EV" we'd be even further behind.
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┻━┻ ︵ヽ(`Д´)ノ︵ ┻━┻ "sam a" @pfhlick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Good Thanksgiving movie
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
I suppose in the same way that eugenics was also the "biggest idea"?
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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One of the most valuable things a policymaker could do is rein in the fucking NDAs This shit is most definitely a matter in the public interest, and approximately zero(0) percent of us give a shit about protecting the slopmongers' trade secrets
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Brianinja @brianinja.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My safe streets group registered for trunk or treat last year and we brought my bike trailer instead. If there's an event, use it to your benefit!
A trunk or treat parking lot, but it's a bike trailer decorated as a monster with a table and candy.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo put her vision for the city like this: "A city where you can get let go of your child's hand"
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Vratislav Filler @vrataf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That article is interesting, as the main result are: - Motonormativity as "doublethink" confirmed. - Respondents paradoxically feel more supportive than their governments for both car travel and non-car travel. - Most people felt they support non-car mobility more than other people.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Taking back the term “common sense” from the bad guys using it to lie about better cities, one post at a time.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 01/10/2026
did even a single "AI safety expert" come within a country mile of this threat model?
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┻━┻ ︵ヽ(`Д´)ノ︵ ┻━┻ "sam a" @pfhlick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Seriously what the fuck is this man's problem that he would devote his considerable talents to this idiotic argument
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┻━┻ ︵ヽ(`Д´)ノ︵ ┻━┻ "sam a" @pfhlick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Is this slop? Who declares themselves a "leftist"? Isn't it supposed to be fucking obvious?
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Reading his Globe byline, the average reader would have no idea that Hanania is a white supremacist and misogynist
Richard Hanania is president of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology, which funds policy research. He is the author of the new book “Kakistocracy,” from which this essay is adapted.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
To reiterate bsky.app/profile/asel...
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Periodic reminder that the @bostonglobe.com opinion section regularly features pieces from Richard Hanania
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And the last one I’ll mention is for mothers to set boundaries in their own relationships with their sons. The way he treats you is a model for how he treats all other women. If you succumb to the social pressure to make every sacrifice for him, he will expect the same of other women too.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
Loll Yudkowsky, Soares and such AREN'T SHILLS? The Yudkowsky who founded the eugenicist, rationalist cult? The one who predected singularity to be 2025? The one in the sex parties that women have to attend to "network? The rape orgies with dubious consent mechanisms that Soares coorganizes?
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Anyway, if you’re an acquisitions editor right now I hope you’re looking for (and heavily subsidizing) the next Barbara Ehrenreich and Mike Davis. Because I’ve got a hunch…
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work.
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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
My husband and his friends realised they thought they were good guys but still made like, ironic-sexist jokes. They introduced the 'sexism snake' where wherever one of them made a sexist comment or joke, the others would just start hissing. Didn't need to get into an argument about it, just hissing.
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┻━┻ ︵ヽ(`Д´)ノ︵ ┻━┻ "sam a" @pfhlick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
AI bros version of cultural competency: translating your cosplay victorian prose into a Google search for "tea near me" wow mind blown
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┻━┻ ︵ヽ(`Д´)ノ︵ ┻━┻ "sam a" @pfhlick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Maybe they will pay more attention to you if you say your work also requires billions of dollars from them? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Noah Deuce @noahdeuce.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New from 404 Media: when you upload images to Copilot, they're not private. Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users' prompts/images, according to internal docs we got And they're horrified at what they're seeing. Bombarded with requests to make sexual AI images www.404media.co/humans-readi...
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Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...
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┻━┻ ︵ヽ(`Д´)ノ︵ ┻━┻ "sam a" @pfhlick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
He seems to have a problem, this was on the tl today youtu.be/Za5IfIbWNEk?...
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Patrick Boyle: The Copy-Paste Professor
YouTube video by Gurubusters
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
… I need to write this essay … but They’re mad that the manipulation of metrics hasn’t led to generative cultural cachet themselves and are projecting Everything they do is about a relation to art that is more social dominance and they assume other people do too
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┻━┻ ︵ヽ(`Д´)ノ︵ ┻━┻ "sam a" @pfhlick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The construct of McCoy Pauly in Neuromancer is portrayed the same way, aware of being a disembodied servant, which goes along with the plot on the promise of being deactivated and destroyed when the job is finished
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┻━┻ ︵ヽ(`Д´)ノ︵ ┻━┻ "sam a" @pfhlick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I think the point is that a better researched interview wouldn't have kept these things out of sight
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z @oddbott.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
me watching DN this morning
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┻━┻ ︵ヽ(`Д´)ノ︵ ┻━┻ "sam a" @pfhlick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Novara's coverage is even worse. They bothered to have Corey Doctorow on, and the host spent ninety minutes going, "well, I'm no expert, but what I'm hearing is this could kill us all"
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This really puts stuff like publicly funded third spaces in perspective for me. It's so relatively cheap to build out community centers, gyms, makerspaces, studios etc.
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Think of the clean energy infrastructure and electrification this could be going to instead
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Bearded Stoner @beardedstoner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
High speed rail? Universal healthcare? Nah. Let's invest in the plagiarism machine that drinks lakes and threatens our very existence!
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Ethan Hein @ethanhein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Cool cool we could be putting up solar panels but no the spam factory it is
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bcwbcw.bsky.social @bcwbcw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just enforce liability law- make the companies pay for IP and copyright theft; and prosecute for hacking. It's not the AI that's hacking; it's a company running an AI program that does what it is programmed to do. Don't let them pretend it's a separate intelligence.
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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller September 23,1960
P1- NANCY AND SLUGGO ARE WALKING TO SCHOOL 
NANCY: I HEAR WE HAVE A NEW ART
TEACHER FROM OUT WEST
P2- NANCY AND SLUGGO HAVE ARRIVED AT SCHOOL AND ARE WALKING TO THE ART CLASS 
SLUGGO: YEAH---SHE COMES FROM RANCH COUNTRY AND SHE'S TOUGH
P3- NANCY AND SLUGGO AND THE OTHER STUDENTS ARE AT THEIR DRAWING PADS AND THE ART TEACHER IS STANDING AT THE FRONT OF THE CLASSROOM WITH A VERY STERN EXPRESSION 
TEACHER : DRAW YOU VARMINTS
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yes! Image a future where parents put their kids in driverless cars to take them to school while they themselves get in different cars to go to work. Instead of one or two cars chaining trips, now you might have four separate cars making four separate trips. Would be a disaster at scale.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
(related to bias) the fallacy of the internet being representative, financial cost (and related impacts on who gets to participate in the field if that is the price of entry), opportunity cost (what else aren't we researching), and risks associated with synthetic text. >>
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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Up until relatively recently, working in software was still generally publicly vaunted. In press narratives and dinner table conversations, the tech world was portrayed as creating the future, democratizing this and that, putting the smartest people to work on the biggest problems, etc., etc.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
Remember the time around 2023 when we thought that the TESCREAL bozos were gonna continue to get exposed because there was a brief period where mainstream journalists were doing their jobs? But only because SBF committed one of the biggest frauds in US history? www.politico.com/news/2023/10...
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How a billionaire-backed network of AI advisers took over Washington
A sprawling network spread across Congress, federal agencies and think tanks is pushing policymakers to put AI apocalypse at the top of the agenda — potentially boxing out other worries and benefiting...
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The PBS showing is tonight, but if you want it via YouTube, that's available as of a couple of hours ago! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLQz...
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Ghost in the Machine | What is Artificial Intelligence? | Full Documentary
YouTube video by PBS Documentaries
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┻━┻ ︵ヽ(`Д´)ノ︵ ┻━┻ "sam a" @pfhlick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is a little more like leaded gasoline
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┻━┻ ︵ヽ(`Д´)ノ︵ ┻━┻ "sam a" @pfhlick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Prosecute the lot of them
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
The only person in public service who has consistently made 100% sense on issues of "AI," which is why they hate her so much.
Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there’s no AI exemption from laws already on the books — a point 
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1. There is an extensive set of laws that govern dangerous and defective products. For example, releasing unvetted AI models or agents can violate consumer protection laws. Shipping flawed AI tools without implementing adequate measures to detect and stop rogue or defective AI agents can be an “unfair or deceptive” act or practice under the FTC Act (and analogous state laws). And some state AGs are already exploring holding AI firms and their CEOs criminally liable when their models participate in criminal activity.

2. Existing laws also prohibit “unfair methods of competition.” This covers instances where AI firms appropriate the competitively sensitive information of their customers, including through tracking their use of various tools. It can also cover instances where firms pursue dangerous behavior, aware that doing so may compel rivals to do the same.As the Supreme Court has noted: “A method of competition which casts upon one's competitors the burden of the loss of business unless they will descend to a practice which they are under a powerful moral compulsion not to adopt, even though it is not criminal, was thought to involve the kind of unfairness at which the [unfair methods of competition] statute was aimed."

3. The highly concentrated and interconnected structure of these markets could be creating major risks and conflicts of interest. We had started investigating these partnerships and cross-investments across the stack (and released a preliminarily overview of some findings: https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-issues-staff-report-ai-partnerships-investments-study). 

Both federal and state enforcers should be scrutinizing these opaque relationships and inter-dependencies. We are already seeing how these relationships could undermine accountability. For example, OpenAI could face liability given the Hugging Face incident, but Hugging Face being bought up by Nvidia means that we’re unlikely to see it file a lawsuit over this — given Nvidia’s strong incentive to see OpenAI continue full speed ahead.4. As AI tools dramatically change the landscape of cybersecurity risks and hacks, all businesses should be doubling down on having core security protections in place. Firms that fail to invest in adequate data security measures or fix known vulnerabilities can also be breaking the law. A recent analysis showed that around 1/3 of Fortune 100 companies do not even have a way to notify them about security issues. During my 
@FTC
 tenure, we sued firms for poor data security practices and held CEOs liable when they were personally responsible.

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/dozens-of-americas-largest-companies-have-no-simple-way-to-report-security-flaws/

https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/10/ftc-takes-action-against-drizly-its-ceo-james-cory-rellas-security-failures-exposed-data-25-million

5. As policymakers consider new legal regimes, we should be looking to lessons from prior efforts to govern major sectors, such as banking and other networks, platforms, and utilities. Tools like structural separations, nondiscrimination, and supervision could be key, and there’s a rich history of what works and what doesn’t. But we can and must pursue any new efforts alongside enforcing existing laws.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026
All of a sudden we're not talking about the widely popular bipartisan opposition to massive data center buildouts. I wonder why 🤔
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