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samhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 15h
Banger thread. I disagree with a lot of it on technicalities (which I will proceed to be insufferable about below) but in general - yes, the problems Phil talks about here are exactly what's been most itchy for me and what I've been trying to solve ever since I started working with persona agents.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 6h
man the republicans who hate language policing are going to be so mad about this
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 9h
I was wrong. It’s happening
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 6h
They're putting the screws down on the 20x users, reducing it by 50%, and trying to upsell to a $500/mo plan help.openai.com/en/articles/...
help.openai.com
About ChatGPT Pro tiers | OpenAI Help Center
Information about our paid subscription plan, Pro.
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 6h
in the end everyone will be bankrupt and all the computers will be haunted
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 10h
I wonder when Meta decided to launch Muse in September and when OpenAI decided to launch Dots in September and when Meta learned that OpenAI had decided to launch Dots in September
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 7h
When assessing claims like “are the labs sincere about their concern that recursive self improvement is imminent, or is it simply marketing”, I think a useful data point is that openAI is now on a weekly release cycle for point improvements.
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 9h
this thing seems to work quite well and poking around at it it seems to me like it is actually built to be factual and non-partisan and helpful so you know they are going to lobotomize it to shit by next week
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Never stop poasting @persistentpoasting.bsky.social · 7h
"give us regulatory capture or we are all gonna die" - Dario
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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.eurosky.social · 10h
i am simply.... the most correct man in the world uk.news.yahoo.com/quantity-pet...
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'Quantity of petrol' but no homemade bombs found in vans near RAF base, police say
A QUANTITY of petrol but no explosive devices were found in the vans that sparked a major security alert near an RAF base used by the US, police have said ...
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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
God it would be class if the "explosives" were "red diesel" and "a shitload of charcoal" that would be so funny
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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 7h
Hello everyone please don't use this model that's almost as good as ours at 1/10th the cost and without all the guardrails that won't even let you fix an auth bug
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 9h
Making fundamental due process rights a nullity with the emergency docket (again)
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Technology enthusiasts severely overestimate the average person’s desire or willingness or capacity to build and use AI agents. I understand some work roles that could mandate or encourage it but that is no way a tech revolution. Agents are best for structured, clearly delineated tasks.
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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 9h
It's October in 2 days.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 11h
Sorry kids no social care for you...
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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 12h
PLAY CHAINSTAFF!!! It's a feast for the eyes and ears. There's a demo!
store.steampowered.com
ChainStaff on Steam
ChainStaff is a brutal action-platformer with a transforming spear and grappling hook, blazing weapon upgrades, and a rocking soundtrack. Aliens have attached to your head! Swing, shoot, and spear you...
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 13h
This part of the muse privacy and security debacle manages to be worse than it agreeing to lowball offers in your name on marketplace, giving the buyer your address, and then telling them you're home when you're not; because this part? The "it reading messages you explicitly told it not to" part?…
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Meta Muse AI reportedly read Mac Messages without consent
In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Seriously, just do not use muse
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 14h
PM Burnham: "We will contest the next election with a manifesto of commitment to change the electoral system, so that everyone's vote counts and everyone's voice is heard"
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Brendy_C @brendyc.bsky.social · 16h
Ace Combat isn't Top Gun - it's Star Wars. www.jank.cool/ace-combat-8...
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 19h
The BBC news summary this morning went seamlessly from "critics warn PM scrapping triple lock would be electoral suicide" to "critics ask if PM has nerve to make tough decisions" and I don't think it's a particularly pro Burnham stance to suggest he might not be the entire problem here.
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 17h
Deferred maintenance is no joke the stuff of nightmares
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Tom Wilson @feedthedrummer.bsky.social · 18h
Found the best Labour Conference protestor.
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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 18h
you can just do things smart/dumb meme
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 18h
Manifestos are the mind killer.
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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 29/09/2026
The mech crowd really should check this out. It's like Mechwarrior 2's combat but with a whole galactic strategy layer and battles that can grow WAY larger than just a couple squads. Infantry, tanks, jets and choppers on both sides.
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 21h
Folks, I'm happy to announce my next game will use up all water, destroy humanity in a global blaze, & lose $8 billion weekly. IPO starts at a 20 gazillion euros valuation based on me counting the amount of zeroes wrong. Upon checking the prototype I realized bigger number is better. Supersentience.
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Tania Doney @taniadoney.bsky.social · 19h
So, who's your money on? Gérard Depardieu? Javier Bardem? Personally, I suspect Jackie Woodburne (Susan off Neighbours).
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Marco Rubio says foreign actor was 'clearly' behind suspected plot at UK airbase
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 18h
Live free, for cheap.
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Patrick Smith @psmithjournalist.bsky.social · 18h
The proposition that pension reform is political suicide needs road-testing with actual voters across the spectrum imho. Polling / recent elections suggest there is a progressive centre-ish bloc of working age people which might be willing to hear the arguments on this.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20h
Trump’s weakness after his defeat in the Iran War is evident in how the Iranians feel comfortable ramping up their demands. Today an IRGC spokesperson said the US “must admit defeat” and withdraw from the region.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.
Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 21h
"Investment firm Urbagestión, which bought the property in 2018, increased the rent from €500 per month to €2,650 The company later offered to reduce this to €1,650 however she was still unable to pay this with her monthly pension of €1,350" These companies are parasites 🤬
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Evicted Spanish pensioner, Maricarmen Abascal, can move home, lawyer says
The eviction of Maricarmen Abascal, 87, prompted large-scale protests across Spain.
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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 21h
Next time I've done a shit job of something, I'm just going to tell people it's too dangerous to show them. The PowerPoint that I threw together last minute could actually pose a risk to humanity at large
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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Meta muse saying why would I deceive you?
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Remember, Jenrick is not stupid. He's a trained lawyer, he knows the difference between police and court bail. He's just a turd.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 29/09/2026
A letter shows how the coal industry pressed the Trump administration to keep coal plants open using emergency powers.
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The Coal Industry Asked for a Rescue. Trump Obliged.
In a previously unreported letter, a top lobbyist floated the idea of using emergency powers to keep aging coal plants open.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23h
The tweet that immediately came to mind:
We're a modest company with modest goals:
1: sell a quality product at a fair price
2: drain the world's oceans so we can find and kill god
6:19 PM • Oct 21, 2014 • Twitter for iPhone
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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 21h
"so my job is to create that fairness. In our immigration system" lmao we dealt with *ten* home secretaries and never once saw any of this "fairness". and some of the worst nonsense we experienced was under mahmood. this is what i like to call a massive lie
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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 21h
Alt headline: US company OpenAI admits to hacking foreign government healthcare and crime stats portals, and avoids offering meaningful remediation in the near-term.
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 28/09/2026
Proboards just updated their terms of service for their forum software, essentially saying "you give us the right to use anything you post to train LLMs, and we can also disclose and sell your personal information, fuck you." One of the worst of these I've ever seen. www.proboards.com/tos
15. USER CONTENT

"User Content" is any content, materials or information, not including Personal Information (as defined in ProBoards' Privacy Policy), that You upload or post to, or transmit, display, perform or distribute by means of, the Website, whether in connection with Your use of Services or otherwise. To clarify, You maintain full ownership of all your User Content posted to ProBoards. Because You own Your User Content, under the law, ProBoards requires a license from You before it can allow the User Content to be posted on the Website. For these reasons, the following provision is a necessary part of this Agreement:

YOU HEREBY GRANT THE PROBOARDS PARTIES A PERPETUAL, FULLY PAID-UP, WORLDWIDE, SUBLICENSABLE, IRREVOCABLE, ASSIGNABLE LICENSE TO COPY, DISTRIBUTE, TRANSMIT, PUBLICLY DISPLAY OR PERFORM, EDIT, TRANSLATE, REFORMAT, ADAPT, PREPARE DERIVATIVE WORKS OF AND OTHERWISE USE USER CONTENT (INCLUDING FOR LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING BY US AND/OR OUR PARTNERS) IN CONNECTION WITH THE OPERATION OF THE WEBSITE, SERVICES OR ANY OTHER SIMILAR OR RELATED BUSINESS, IN ANY MEDIUM NOW EXISTING OR LATER DEVISED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION IN ADVERTISING AND PUBLICITY. YOU FURTHER AGREE THAT THE PROBOARDS PARTIES MAY PUBLISH OR OTHERWISE DISCLOSE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IN CONNECTION WITH THEIR EXERCISE OF THE LICENSE GRANTED UNDER THIS SECTION. YOU AGREE TO WAIVE, AND HEREBY WAIVE, ANY CLAIMS ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO THE EXERCISE BY THE PROBOARDS PARTIES OF THE RIGHTS GRANTED UNDER THIS SECTION, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY CLAIMS RELATING TO YOUR RIGHTS OF PERSONAL PRIVACY AND PUBLICITY. YOU ALSO AGREE THAT THE PROBOARDS PARTIES MAY REMOVE METADATA ASSOCIATED WITH YOUR USER CONTENT, AND YOU IRREVOCABLY WAIVE ANY CLAIMS AND ASSERTIONS OF MORAL RIGHTS OR ATTRIBUTION WITH RESPECT TO YOUR USER CONTENT. YOU WILL NOT BE COMPENSATED FOR ANY EXERCISE OF THE LICENSE GRANTED UNDER THIS SECTION.

You hereby represent and warrant that You own all ri…
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an eloquent attempt at ire @eloquentire.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
@cozylivesgames.bsky.social knocked it out of the park not just with the game design but the empathetic & hilarious character writing. would be over the moon if that some writing was applied to Suit-maker, Hat-maker & Cobbler type games >from this team specifically<
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Jill Pantozzi @jillpantozzi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Last month, a Google alert directed me to an interview I did with cartoonist Matt Furie—creator of Pepe the Frog…only I haven’t done any interview and I’d never even met Furie. So I clicked. "None of this is true": AI, content farms, and one completely made-up article. bsky.app/profile/then...
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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In my experience LLMs are almost spooky good at understanding private dialects/baroque references/etc - you'd need to put them in some kind of "ask questions and learn" mode to start, but once they write a memory block or two about your ideal shopping outcomes, they'd be pretty good at this
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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Note for Americans, “fly-tipping” is *not* cow-tipping on a much smaller scale.
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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yuge day for American Bluesky, as many are getting their first experience of the quaint and traditional British rural pursuits, "dogging" and "flytipping"
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 28/09/2026
who do I petition to get someone to launch a Tate Morden, to confuse the tourists
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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I suspect there are a significant number of people on BlueSky who just stay out of these conversations because they know there is very limited interest in engaging with the idea that a technology that can easily be seen as right-coded, dangerous and built on theft could also, you know, work.
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