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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/09/2026

To be the boss is to sit alone at your desk, haunted by the suspicion that you are not in the driver's seat, but rather, you are in the back seat playing with a Fisher Price steering wheel.

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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 23/05/2026

It's unfair to call the Marvel movies "kid's movies", they also have serious political messages, such as: - America is good - the military is good - military contractors are good - billionaires are good - heroes protect the existing power structure, villains try to change society

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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

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If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific works, it is the responsibility of the author(s). 2/
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We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper. 3/
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The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/
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Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ("here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?"; "the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments") end/"

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 04/05/2026

Love the Wayback Machine? ❤️ Here’s your chance to stand up for it 📣 When news can't be archived, we all lose part of the public record 🕳️ Tell major publishers: keep journalism in the #WaybackMachine. ✍️ Sign here: www.savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders Campaign is a project of @fightforthefuture.org

Screenshot of a Fight for the Future petition page with the headline "Tell New York Times, The Atlantic, and USA Today to keep the crucial work of journalists in the Wayback Machine!" with the subtext that major media outlets are blocking news preservation and that the petition demands they stop.

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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

“If plagiarism is wrong & bad & theft is wrong & bad & schools are duty-bound to help instill these values in students, how can they justify adoption of a technology that is, at its core, built on stolen work & whose purpose is the extrusion of text to be passed off as one's own thinking & writing?”

2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com

The Final Boss

This morning I attended one of the new NYC Chancellor's public "conversations," his administration's initiative to "engage directly with communities to reflect on what safety, academic rigor, and true...

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bad internet @badinternet.oracularhades.com · 12/03/2026

"AG Paxton alleged that Samsung uses automated content recognition (ACR) technology, which can capture hundreds of images of what’s on your TV screen each minute, without first obtaining Texans’ expressed, informed consent."

androidauthority.com

Samsung TVs will stop hiding the click-through consent screen that let them spy on you

Samsung and the state of Texas have reached an agreement regarding the company's data collection practices on TVs.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

One of the things that really fucking annoys me about AI is that people *do not understand it* (on purpose, bc these companies want it that way) and they assume it’s as reliable as the computers they’ve been using their whole life when it’s actually about as reliable as your least capable intern

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Would be interesting to compare the results on more recent models - but this problem won’t go away. LLMs are always going to be extrapolating from what has already, and often, been thought, which is why they aren’t windows to the future but anchors to the past.

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spool32 @spool32.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Clicktatorship.

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Paolo Giacometti @piteypase.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

What’s the concentration of microplastics that I need to have to start failing the “Are you a robot” questions?

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Paolo Giacometti @piteypase.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

@louiestowell.bsky.social my daughter is devouring your Loki books in Spanish. Any idea when/if the translation of the 4th book will be out? Is there any way to keep track?

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

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Sean @stholeary.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

The fact a *single* Amazon full-time employee requires SNAP benefits should be a crime. The fact Amazon is the largest employer of SNAP recipients is a disgrace. Jeff Bezos shouldnt be that rich; he should be in jail.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 25/10/2025

EFF has submitted an amicus brief to Ecuador’s Constitutional Court challenging the constitutionality of the Ley Orgánica de Inteligencia and its implementing regulation, the General Regulation of the LOI. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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EFF Backs Constitutional Challenge to Ecuador’s Intelligence Law That

In early September, EFF submitted an amicus brief to Ecuador’s Constitutional Court supporting a constitutional challenge filed by Ecuadorian NGOs, including INREDH and LaLibre. The case challenges

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 21/08/2025

Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.

With generative AI models now capable of producing fluid, context-rich dialogue, Mattel’s new vision is a toy that grows with the child, holds personalized conversations, and recalls past interactions to adjust its responses. It may learn a child’s favorite story or phrase, sing their favorite song, or have full conversations about almost anything. Mattel has promised that these interactions will be “secure” and “age appropriate,” but not much is known beyond that.

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The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org · 19/08/2025

A federal court ruled that ANTHROPIC illegally copied MILLIONS of books to train its AI. All authors and publishers whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirate websites are subject to receiving compensation. This could involve your work. For more info: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 10/01/2025

New tech is emerging all the time and while many devices are making our lives easier, there are also plenty gadgets that miss the mark. EFF’s Cindy Cohn judged the “Worst in Show” at #CES2025.

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Worst in Show 2025:

The Worst in Show winners prove that just because you can add tech doesn’t mean you should.

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Paolo Giacometti @piteypase.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

My 6 year old has started the year writing a list of “new year’s revolutions”. I love the title, but the contents are things other people in the family should do.

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Paolo Giacometti @piteypase.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

In an incredibly un-shocking twist, the same people who vehemently oppose gun licenses on grounds of privacy against government databases are kept in one by gun sellers, which is then sold in the open.

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Paolo Giacometti @piteypase.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

6yr old trying to make fun of a classmate: “he has huge balls!” Wife: “saying someone has big balls is often a compliment not an insult” Him: “Then, mommy, you have huge balls!”

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Paolo Giacometti @piteypase.bsky.social · 13/10/2024

Stories usually start with “once upon a time” but in my house they start with “I’ll tell you if you promise I won’t get in trouble”

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

Millions of kids design games on Roblox. But the company pays in Robux, and doesn't let you cash out until you hit 30,000. That should be $300, but after the company cut it's just $105. So kids are being underpaid, while the CEO took $232 million last year.

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We Investigated Roblox: Your Kid's Favorite Game Is Exploiting Them

Why the FTC should look into one of the largest social platforms in the world.

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