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Tim Nethermans

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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm telling you guys, you gotta put killcodes in the games you make now and hold them hostage. Day 0 patch set to automatically apply and delete everything if you aren't there to manually pause it. Go full Pandora Tomorrow. Your bosses don't know anything about coding, they can't fix it!
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 16/09/2026
this is just to control them, deskill them, impoverish them more
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 16/09/2026
#OtD 16 Sep 1920 Dutch communist resistance fighter Hannie Schaft was born. Under Nazi occupation, she stole ID cards for Jewish locals, and sabotaged and assassinated fascists. She was eventually captured, tortured and murdered by Dutch fascists stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8840...
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Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is of course the Orwellian goal of the AI industry--to pollute information/knowledge "tens of millions of Americans who use chatbots are increasingly likely to receive answers manipulated by Parscale on behalf of the Israeli government"
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I’m not a culture critic but this obsession with rebooting things is a sign of deep malaise. Let’s just cultivate new things. Nobody is going to be improving on Point Break.
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‘Point Break’ Series Greenlit By AMC & France’s Canal+ From Alcon
This comes after Deadline revealed in December that it was developing a series based on the iconic Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves surf heist thriller.
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Night of the Living Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Periodic reminder that your "concerns" about trans people are being beamed directly into your head by a small cadre of incredibly rich psychopaths.
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It is very rich that these people are suggesting there has been a "death of expertise" when the technologies and institutions they promote are premised on just that.
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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Data centers are providing only things that people really don't like - more inequality, more impunity, more Internet (people use it but also hate it! it's true!) - while not really providing a proper buyout. What would be the reason that people *would* support data centers in their back yards? (2/2)
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 29/08/2026
The funny thing about prompt engineering is that the word engineering implies measurable tolerance margins for error and the word prompt implies no such thing
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Rachel Leggett @rleggos.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I got the shot. I've been scheming and hoping the conditions would work out for this for two weeks!! 🪶
A broad-tailed hummingbird hovers next to an anise hyssop plant framed by purple blooms and with a rainbow behind it!!! The bird also has a little bead of water on its bill because it is raining.
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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“As Golumbia makes clear over & over throughout Cyberlibertarianism: the problem with digital technology is not that it has been captured by the right-wing, the problem with digital technology is that it is inherently right-wing.” With AI, understanding this truth grows more important by the day.
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Digital Technology Will Not Set You Free – A Review of David Golumbia’s “Cyberlibertarianism: The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology”
“This is how cyberlibertarianism works: it is not so much about party politics as it is about controlling the terms of discourse and the conversation itself. This ensures that only variations…
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
A consistent pitch by the makers of ai wearables is that they solve the problem of getting to know your child. www.businessinsider.com/parents-brea...
Molly, who runs a startup to help parents book activities for kids, is willing to use AI for logistics, like meal planning or sorting through her email to surface the most important messages from their daughter's school. Sean, who works in tech sales, wants to go further. He has his eyes on Omi necklace, an AI wearable that listens in on your day and includes a feature called Parent Whisperer. It records and analyzes interactions between parent and child, logging things like school assignments and supplies to order. The device also picks up on tone, alerting parents when their kid may be unhappy — registering everything from "from toddler tantrums to teenage mood swings," per its ad copy — and offering "expert-backed guidance" on how to respond.
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
CAPITAL: We have invented a machine that can cross picket lines PROGRAMMERS: I bet this will give us four day weekends. The left need to get behind this. What else can it do CAPITAL: Psychosis! Deepfakes! Propaganda! Plagerism! Yaml! Todo Apps! PROGRAMMERS: Run those last two past me again
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Levi @levi98k.eurosky.social · 19/08/2026
De afgelopen maanden postte IDV de meest ranzige neonazi shit op sociale media. Van "Adolf is welkom" en "Die or Fly" tot aan een foto waarmee ze insinueren dat migranten in concentratiekampen zoals Auschwitz moeten worden gestopt. Nogmaals: deze mensen organiseren de demo van 19 september!
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Levi @levi98k.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026
In Loosdrecht gaat de "buurtwacht" ook vrolijk verder. Inmiddels met een nieuw insta account. Wet op de weerkorpsen doen we niet meer aan? cc: @lisawesterveld.bsky.social
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-Boulet- @bouletcorp.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
J'en peux plus de vos conneries en IA, même pour vos takes de gauche. C'est de la chiasse. C'est de la merde jaunasse, pas drôle, mal branlée, qui ne raconte rien. Le moindre dessin de presse réalisé par un humain est mieux foutu et plus intéressant que ce dégueulis. Arrêtez, bordel.
De la chiasse IA: Une mauvaise parodie de couverture d'un album d'Asterix. On y voit Obelix chasser d'un grand coup de pied une romaine nommée Brecelectronix qui s'envole au son de son bracelet électronique. Elle a les traits de Marine  Le Pen. L'ensemble est confus et moche, et a probablement coûté 4h de flotte à robinet ouvert, mais qu'est-ce qu'on en a à foutre, hein ?Montage IA de chiasse avec 3 images superposées :
- vampire vs soleil 
- Superman vs Kryptonite 
- Facho vs Livres d’histoire
Évidemment le facho est un gros bonhomme en marcel parce que hihihi on est très intelligent les fachos ils sont MOCHES hihihi. Il fallait absolument accélérer la destruction des métiers artistiques et de la planète pour faire cette vanne qui aurait été exactement aussi efficace avec des bonshommes-bâtons mais on n'aurait pas eu les reflets sur la tête du gros monsieur (il est gros parce que pour dire que quelqu'un est moche il FAUT qu'il soit gros, mais on n'est pas grossophobes parce que ça c'est de droite)
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Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Jimbiddybimbim @jimbiddybimb.im · 08/08/2026
Thanks to @jenaciousd.bsky.social for reminding me of this video I made **four goddamn years ago**. Christ how time flies
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 08/08/2026
Arguing that LLMs are anything more than a load of numbers going into a complicated mathematical function and spitting some more numbers out. Yes they simulate. But they simulate *language*. They do not simulate the cognitive processes underlying communication.
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 02/08/2026
just normal things that a minister of environmental protection in a totally normal country would normally say to allow for a totally normal practice.
To facilitate this plan, Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman declared the crocodile a "cultivated wild animal". Under this new taxonomy, the reptiles will be released into moats around Israel's dungeons, where Palestinians are imprisoned and treated like animals.
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Florence @justflorence.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 01/08/2026
2024: "All they have to do is release the hostages" 2025: "All they have to do is fully disarm" 2026: "All they have to do is allow us to keep killing them and fully colonize Gaza"
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: two friends are playing cards. There is a birdcage hanging behind them, just peaking out of frame. Friend 1 asks, “does your bird talk?” To which friend 2 replies, “Please… don’t.” Panel 2: friend 2 continues, head in hand, “he’s on this alpha male influencer thing right now.” Behind him, the bird - posed and wearing sunglasses and a leather jacket - is leaning forward on a tiny easy chair in his enclosure. Panel 3: with his hands clasped, easing back into his chair, the bird says, “stops eating seeds. Focus on your net worth.”
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Tim Nethermans @plakaap.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
OpenAI called, they said that they need to inspect your wallet. For important agentic wallet inspecting purposes. They said it's very urgent, if you don't let them do it their AI might go rogue
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 26/07/2026
Now is a good reminder that machine learning is a rebranding of statistical learning. Reinforcement learning is something I first came across in control theory. Many ML formulations are from information theory, a much more theoretically grounded discipline that's been around for decades.
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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 22/07/2026
"AI" is a PSYOP, distortion of language and the meaning of words (e.g. "compute" 😩) is part of it. • "the AI escaped containment" → "The system performed as programmed" • "the AI went rogue" → "the system performed as programmed" • "the AI hacked into X" → ""the system performed as programmed" 👇
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
violence
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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know destroying them is an "optics problem." www.404media.co/ai-companies...
404media.co
AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"THE ODYSSEY is historically inaccurate" Oh word, did you notice that there is a Cyclops in it
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furby hancock @furbyhancock.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Cannot CHECK PHONE in combat. Cannot CHECK PHONE in combat. Cannot CHECK PHONE in combat. Cannot CHECK PHONE in combat. Cannot CHECK PHONE in combat. You were killed by DARK WIZARD!
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CJ @virmalised.us · 18/07/2026
it sucks that the web is so broken that we have resigned search and knowledge acquisition to (1) proprietary products (2) stochastic document encoders. I would like neither of these in my search results.
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This is how to speak to every single one of those sycophants.
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Chariot Rider @chariotrider.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Since the spring of 2023, I have been creating a non-violent art museum in Doom. My goal was to find art that engaged with the themes that informed Doom's creation, while also exploring the possibilities of virtual museum spaces. Please enjoy this museum. Download link below
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GG TRIBUNE @ggtribune.com · 10/07/2026
OPINION: I Think I Know How To Solve the Video Game Industry’s Problems ggtribune.com/2026/07/10/o...
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.
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petra @kutheks.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Ook zou het Witte Huis met één druk op de knop al onze computers kunnen hacken nos.nl/nieuwsuur/ar... dat is absolute onzin. de NOS voor al je desinformatie
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Europa loopt ver achter in AI-race en de doemscenario's komen nu al uit
Eerder dan experts verwachtten, probeert Amerika AI-technieken voor zichzelf te houden. Dat legt Europa's afhankelijkheid pijnlijk bloot.
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David Fickling @davidfickling.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
If I was still living in Europe I would be livid at how people are trying to turn heatwaves into a hurr durr “yOu caN’T gEt GoOd icE IN bArs” culture war joke. Most of Europe doesn’t have AC because they didn’t need it until 5 years ago. BECAUSE THE CLIMATE IS WARMING! This is not difficult.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 16/06/2026
The social internet got turned into a giant dopamine farm by a handful of companies who literally hired the same psychologists who design casino floor layouts, and the policy-makers just threw up their hands and said "guess we better ban kids from using the internet then"
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Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Mancubus has a terrifying secret
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Mr. Cait @chas.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Remember how you used to just know everyone’s phone number? Then cell phones came out and you could barely recite your own number? That’s what AI’s endgame is but for every aspect of your life.
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
I genuinely do not see a reason not to outlaw the distribution and hosting of AI video generation
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should
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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 20/05/2026
if search engines stop directing people to other websites then there will be barely any incentive for people to write anything on the web, unless we go back to a pre-1998 blogroll/webring mode of discovery bsky.app/profile/tech...
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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 20/05/2026
it bears repeating that AI is a machine for destroying information
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20/05/2026
Crypto and AI cannot be managed; they must be restricted www.cmu.edu/work-that-ma...
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Data Center Growth Could Increase Electricity Bills 8% Nationally and as Much as 25% in Some Regional Markets
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GrapheneOS @grapheneos.org · 10/05/2026
Apple and Google are gradually expanding their use of hardware-based attestation. They're convincing a growing number of services to adopt it. Google's Play Integrity API and Apple's App Attest API are very similar. Apple brought it to the web via Privacy Pass, which Google intends on doing too.
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