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If by "collaborate" you mean "incidentally prompted each other" then yeah, pretty much. Which is sort of what's going to happen when "models prompting other models prompting other models" becomes your structure and then you don't put firebreaks on execution of the output by the harness.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“Hype is eating the future, and leaving us the bones.” Sun-ha Hong of UNC-Chapel Hill says the Silicon Valley hype machine systematically “borrows credibility from the future to purchase legitimacy in the present.” The cost, he argues, is a planetary-scale drain on our alternatives.

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Tech Hype is Cannibalizing the Future

Every day, we are told that we live in the future—but hype is eating the future and leaving us the bones," writes Sun-ha Hong.

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RoombaRider @pfoxen.bsky.social · 1h

I'm also a fan of "minimum punishment for financial crimes is forfeiture of all gains, then punitive fines assessed. And no, YOU don't get to tell us your gains, we'll get outside forensic assessment to do that and take a generous approach"

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RoombaRider @pfoxen.bsky.social · 1h

It might be different if fines scaled. $1MM fine might be nothing to a billionaire, but 1% of wealth per infraction might start making them take notice. Fixed dollar fines are definitely regressive.

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 1h

It really is too perfect that the same people who claimed participation trophies were ruining our children and keeping them from actually achieving things have devoted their lives to a man who demands the world’s most prestigious trophies for doing nothing at all.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1h

I would be EXTREMELY annoyed to discover my PR is "AI"-generated, and as someone bombarded with dozens of "AI"-generated emails daily, I assure you the stink of "AI" is immediately noticable and immediately dismissible. Publishers are not doing their new books any favors in using it.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 4h

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Panel 1: a large robot (composed of AI servers, network switches, storage arrays, and power distribution units) and a human are talking.

Professor "You don't want to destroy humanity do you, lLLM-A-9300x?"

Robot "Haha. What a silly question, Professor. I have no desires or feelings of my own whatsoever."

Professor (relieved)"Oh good."

Panel 2: they walk on. The robot continues "I am merely a tool of the company that created me. And that company, being composed of humans, will naturally have humanity's best interests at heart."

Panel 3: The professor is conspicuously quiet.
"Right?" says the Robot.
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More silence

"Professor?"

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 11h

The machine did not "go rogue." The machine belongs to and is the responsibility of the people who own it. Hold those people accountable for their goddamn machine.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 2h

Not only should we introduce penalties and fines for the companies that break important things by designing crappy software, we should introduce regulations and penalties for the media outlets that act as accomplices by shifting responsibility away from the companies that cause these failures

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16h

My man ended USAID, condemning millions to death

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 1h

didn't we already do this with that travesty that was The Hobbit trilogy

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RoombaRider @pfoxen.bsky.social · 2h

What conceivable reason would I have to allow YouTube, an app on my phone, to "determine relative positions of nearby devices" ever?? Hell no you may not, you (poorly) play videos on my device! That's not location-dependent! And tech bros wonder why people hate modern software.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14h

republicans used to complain about the violence in gangster rap and now they want to livestream an execution

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 13h

I miss when technology was fun, now I have to worry about it my wifi enabled toaster is going to call the cops on me.

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RoombaRider @pfoxen.bsky.social · 11h

One or more humans designed the wrappers around the models. One or more humans designed the testing parameters and environments, and even more humans approved those measures even after previous illegal results. Throw them all in jail and liquidate the company.

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Erica Henderson @ericafails.bsky.social · 18h

Ok this is the favorite commission for day 2. The prompt was "ghost rider as a mail carrier"

Ghost rider driving one of the new electric mail trucks

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 17h

dc statehood is non-negotiable after trump's actions in his second term. republicans despise the people of the city that hosts them, and there is little reason to think that, now that the seal is broken on treating them as an occupied population, a next republican president will be more restrained

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RoombaRider @pfoxen.bsky.social · 11h

I want this, but electric. This vibe, this aesthetic, this seating, but with electric and a small selection of modern safety/convenience goodies hidden away behind the simple aesthetic.

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 13h

It’s cool, and not incredibly demoralizing, that the last ~25 years (? more?) have been an increasingly flagrant demonstration that The Rules, as we were brought up to understand them, just do not apply to a lot of people

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RoombaRider @pfoxen.bsky.social · 15h

There's virtually no way to prevent such a platform from being abused. It WILL be abused, because its market lacks any specificity around which to develop expertise and safeguards. "Prediction markets" will be abused as a matter of course and arguably provide no benefit.

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 16h

lmao that's actually so funny?? It's just an app that makes you immediately stupid, incredible

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h

“Just feels more racist, I guess?”

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 18h

So let's get this straight: Russia just murdered over 65 people in Ukraine in less than 48 hours. Crushed a building on top of sleeping families to celebrate Putin's birthday. And today, the U.S. announces that they are lifting sanctions on Russian diesel and planning to buy some,

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RoombaRider @pfoxen.bsky.social · 17h

I HATE those "aha, a TWIST! Aren't you INTRIGUED?" posts. They're trying for clever and engaging but the content doesn't warrant the induced emotion. Plus they feel super manipulative in who you're supposed to empathize with

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

a big part of ossoff's rhetorical success is it doesnt contain the compromise and caveats that are a baked-in part of democratic party rhetoric. theres no pretending that his opponent is just misguided or will be pulled back from the edge by "the good republicans." ossoff is saying "fuck this guy"

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 19h

Democratic leaders surely know this and yet insist on trying to find the magic formula for a glowing NYT oped instead of flipping the table and going full feral meme content generation

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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 19h

This is clearly not acceptable

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

begging with all my heart for more Democrats running in this election cycle to pick up what Jon Ossoff is putting down CALL 👏 THEM 👏 NAZIS 👏 TO 👏 THEIR 👏 FACE

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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

As @klg.bsky.social notes, Hegseth has doubtless not read Charles Dickens' letter to The Times on witnessing a public hanging, but we must. kerryngoldsworthy.substack.com/p/the-execut...

"The horrors of the gibbet and of the crime which brought the wretched murderers to it faded in my mind before the atrocious bearing, looks, and language of the assembled spectators."

Kerryn Goldsworthy, quoting Dickens

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Cyberpunke ys a cautionarye tale not a businesse planne

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Wild for this to come out on the day Hegseth makes the firing squad a perfectly normal part of American political discourse.

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RoombaRider @pfoxen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Translation: other people need to accommodate us and get out of our way, but we aren't going to tolerate any restrictions on land or in space.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026

a livestreamed execution is just a lynching

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

this is so bleak, actually imagine being called a slur for a group you don't even belong to and instead of going "wow holy shit, no one should have to put up with that, we need to hold people to account," you go "no guys it's okay I hate them too!!!" and just hand the bully your lunch money

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Jesse Pohlman (He/Him) @jpohlmanwriting.com · 08/10/2026

Okay, at this point I have to ask where the national Democratic party is on telling its candidates, "Don't talk like JK Rowling, it's probably demoralizing." Because this is just fucked. And if your answer is, "They need to run to the concerns of their district," you're fucking wrong.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Important note: no!

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The argument has been made that this unethical study is “just following the standard of care in G-B”. But the research team HAS the vaccine and the ability to administer the birth dose. We know what will happen when they withhold it. Infants will be infected with Hepatitis B.

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 08/10/2026

I DO NOT WANT TO DOWNLOAD AN APP TO TURN OFF THE HOTEL THERMOSTAT I WANT TO PUSH A BUTTON I WANT ONE BUTTON THAT DOES ONE THING

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Dr. NerdLove @doctornerdlove.com · 08/10/2026

Some people truly don’t seem to actually understand the point of family…

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

they did the thing

an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Dr. Fade @fade.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"At this point, you may be wondering why the AI doom contingent does not just stop building frontier models entirely, if they are so convinced that these technologies have a significant risk of killing all humans."

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RoombaRider @pfoxen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Software already feels like it's had that problem for a while; how does this system not make that worse?

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RoombaRider @pfoxen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Now you can really watch companies' products suffer as they hand the same couple thousand experienced seniors around and watch these non-managers try to download institutional experience into junior project engineers. There's no real institutional knowledge transfer, no culture building.

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RoombaRider @pfoxen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

As a genuine question: in this operational model, where does the next generation of expertise accrue the needed experience to BE the next generation of expertise? I've watched non-software engineering get hollowed out by automation and leaning for decades;

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caemeron @caemeroncc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

it's actually like this: you're creating a hurdle I might possibly look past but probably won't, while I doubt that your AI slop ad is actually bringing anyone in

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is obscene. Destroying something so precious for shitty memes? Just sickening.

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