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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

language model programs have no conscious intent or ethical understanding and they never will. you can program them to say they do, but they fundamentally cannot

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Best Heritage Minute ever made. Still gives me goosebumps.

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Luke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tech companies are trying to use the ELIZA effect and cute animation to sell you devices that will surveil you constantly, convince you they're your best and only friend, sap you of your cognitive capacities, and push your purchasing habits and opinions in whatever way they please. That's it.

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Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Anthropic warns AI may pose 'existential risks to humanity' in IPO filing" "Invest in us, so that we can end humanity, and you won't recoup your investment." is the strangest sales pitch. www.msn.com/en-us/techno...

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George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

@shadowtodd.bsky.social Ricks Derringer and Springfield, is there a Gentrys OHW coming for the Wrestling Album trifecta?

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’ve watched eight of these in their entirety.

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 21/09/2026

The AI doomerism being pushed by the tech oligarchs is meant to reinforce the idea that AI is inevitable, unstoppable, and impossible to regulate. But it's not. It's just going to require that we go back to global cooperation, hard as it may sound. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

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Justin Ling: It’s the nuclear bomb of the 21st century. This is how we can control it

Reining in AI will take international co-operation.

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George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I used to add milk to apple juice. The acid would curdle the milk into little blobs. I don’t remember it tasting good, but it looked cool.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

i would have hoped that "recruiting young idealists via harry potter fan fiction for a non-profit that is mostly concerned with who they can have sex with" clearly indicated that this was a predatory pattern i am pretty sure anyone objecting has developed toxic sex-positivity, which baffles me

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Doug Pennington @morfaleji.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A tornado inside a hurricane inside a firestorm. Agenda-setters would allow virtually nothing else to be discussed on the natl level

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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

CBS takeover failed, gas prices astronomical, food prices correspondingly astronomical, AI backlash growing, Iran war total quagmire. The only success this admin has had is protecting sexual abusers from accountability and making bank from crypto schemes.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 09/09/2026

I think the best way to think about the Omarchy stuff is not a bunch of companies donating millions of dollars to a Linux dotfiles project. It’s a bunch of companies donating money to a political advocacy project with goals like getting minorities out of open source and eliminating the Roma.

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Neovagina Evangelion @gammarae.design · 09/09/2026

AI isn't a human extinction threat. Billionaires are. AI is just a way for them to do crime and claim the computer did it

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George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Apple III, Lisa, Newton, Pippin, Cube, Cylinder, Vision, Duo

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 08/09/2026

“Elon Musk destroyed USAID as a mechanism for killing off as many of the global poor and non-white as he can before they kill him first (as he, insanely, believes)” is not a conspiracy theory. In truth, it’s very hard to conclude anything else.

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Our problem is treating these grievances like they’re reasonable concerns You want to cede from Canada because there were theoretically tampons in a bathroom you didn’t go into and nobody made you look at or touch? You know they have tampons in the grocery store too, right?

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George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Cut a corner off, and then explain to the cashier it’s actually worth $100 because of the corner’s powerful memory of the rest of the bill.

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George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Thousands of years ago I opted for Django over Rails because the deployment machines already had mod_python installed. Still the most “dodged a bullet” moment of my life.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Gloria Steinem died with fewer rights than she had during her lifetime. That fact needs to be front and centre of every media report, every dedication, every discussion of her death.

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George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

There is no distinction. English, French, Pascal, C++ — slop is slop, regardless of language.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026

looking forward to the presidential succession crisis of 2029

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Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Lot of people this weekend are gonna learn that their mental image of 9 to 5 starting Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda, and Lily Tomlin is actually Working Girl starring Melanie Griffith.

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George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

If China wanted to destsbilize the economy, they’d be feeding the bubble, not fighting it.

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George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Days since coworker asked “AI” to reconfigure firewall and disabled all ports: 0.

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George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

<sociopath> This forty-eight hour news cycle means Canada has lost control of the trade narrative. </sociopath>

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 23/08/2026

we’re at costco and my husband ordered a hot dog from the cashier and the guy said “what flavor” and my husband said wat and costco guy said “jk there’s only one flavor. it’s hot dog” and my husband said dammit you did this to me last time and the costco cashier collapsed in giggles

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George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I’m sure Prime Minister Chamberlain is doing his best in a difficult situation.

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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."

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Artificial Intelligence Policy

Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 20/08/2026

let's all take a moment to thank the EU for being the only slightly serious governing body in the west

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RE 🇨🇦 @hewer-of-code.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Somebody, make a series or a movie about supply management, like an organized crime ring of clandestine dairy farmers, producing milk without quota, selling cheese on the black market.

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George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Giving the stochastic text generator a slightly different of weights is “a perversion of writing”? If you think an LLM is capable of deftly choosing the most impactful and poetic turn of phrase, your brain has melted out your ears. daringfireball.net/2026/08/anth...

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Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing

It’s unacceptable for a tool to sacrifice an iota of clarity, coherence, meaning, quality, etc. for the purpose of embedding hidden clues within the text to suggest its provenance. The idea that anyth...

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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bro. People are cool as fuck.

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George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I 100% believe that your sexy chatbot girlfriend can code circles around you. I just think that says more about you than it does about the chatbot.

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 10/08/2026

Oh thank christ. Finally.

App store details for the BlueSky app.

Automated thread numbering is mentioned, but the important one is "turn off reposts for individual accounts that you follow"

Because some of you smash that repost button waaaaaaay too much

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller August 09,1945

P1- NANCY IS IN THE KITCHEN, AND SHE IS TALKING WITH HER AUNT FRITZI WHO IS IN THE NEXT ROOM
NANCY : AUNT FRITZI-MAY I HAVE SOME OF THESE CRACKERS?
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FRITZI: NO... I'M SAVING THEM FOR MY TEA PARTY
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NANCY: IF THERE ARE ANY CRUMBS, MAY
I EAT THEM?
FRITZI: YES ….YOU MAY HAVE THE CRUMBS
P4- NANCY IS PUTTING A WHOLE STACK OF CRACKERS THROUGH A MEAT GRINDE

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Taylor Farms salad is sold in Canada too. There was a...healthy amount left untouched on the shelf at my local Farm Boy yesterday I would appreciate a slightly more robust approach from CFIA, but perhaps they're still working out which of its 1,371 jobs to cut www.agrunion.com/jobs-cuts-at...

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

(Everyone's trying to decipher this as some 4D joke, but I was being for real, that is just the entire plot of S37 E4.)

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