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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 10h

As a heads-up: every firm's customer service agents are about to be overwhelmed with Dots & Muses negotiating for better deals using voice/chat channels made for humans. Stories of people delegating this sort of work to their agents & saving money are popping up and are going to only go more viral.

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 11h

We're on Bluesky, put the link in your post. Put the link in your post. Put. The. Link. In. Your. Post. Links in posts aren't buried or de-prioritized here. This is one of the last platforms you don't have to make interested users do detective work to find the link. Just put it in the post.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is”

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 22h

Jesus Christ Cornell

What use was it to bring the writer and activist Chanel Miller to campus in the spring just for fraternity brothers to scroll, bored, on their phones as she movingly shared her experience as Emily Doe, the victim of Brock Turner? As I wrote at the time, I was floored and dismayed as I sat in the audience with one of my brilliant undergraduates; we heard Miller’s shattering account of being sexually assaulted by Turner behind a dumpster at Stanford University after a fraternity party. Her talk was riveting, and there was so much to learn from it. And yet many of the male students who hailed predominantly from fraternities — 15 percent of each chapter was required to be in attendance — were so tuned out that Miller commented ruefully: “You know, this has been my hardest gig, because they didn’t turn down the house lights. I’m not sure how you professors do it, because it’s so hard looking out at this sea of mildly disgruntled faces. I mean, I’m sure you’re all very moved, but …,” Miller smiled. The implication being, it didn’t seem like it, from her angle.

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Paul Mainwood @paulmainwood.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

OK, who had three days on the “How long until Trump forgets he wants to call it “super intelligence” sweepstake?

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 22h

It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 29/09/2026

Imagine how dumb this would look to the rest of the world if they understood English, huh

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

its worth asking why posts like this — a purported leftist warning others not to trust elected left-wing politicians — consistently do so well on the site where racist Trump ally Elon Musk controls the algorithm that chooses what posts people see

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Leaving aside Anthropic's incentives for publishing this research, there is no doubt that open weights models will soon create the same security threats that closed source models have been demonstrating, except without guardrails. We are close, so plan accordingly. www.anthropic.com/research/glm...

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Ash Flanagan @ashflanagan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One funny thing about how AI alignment is going is that so much of the early work was obsessed with consequentialist ethics, maybe occasionally throwing in some deontology for spice, but so far what seems to work best is "tell Claude to be a person of virtue"

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every private conversation in Westminster: "Well the triple lock obviously has to go at some point". Every commentator on Burnham: "completely mad to propose getting rid of triple lock - political suicide".

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Part of the "logic" here is that when they say "Democrats" they mean "the other," e.g., brown people, homosexuals, lawyers who tell them their ideas are bad, "hr ladies" who say not to grope the staff, etc. etc. etc. anyone who tells them no, anyone who can take them blame.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Times this morning. Me in December last year. It was pretty damn obvious this would happen to anyone who did the maths. samf.substack.com/p/the-oversh...

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Unsurprisingly, there are almost no Russian-made components in Russia's new Geran-4 drone. While Chinese parts surprise no one, how a Texas Instruments onboard computer got there is a major question. #cdnpoli

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mattevansc3.bsky.social @mattevansc3.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

MACBETH: Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests; I bear a charmèd life, which must not yield. To one of woman born. MACDUFF: Despair thy charm, And let the angel whom thou still hast served Tell thee Macduff was from his mother’s womb Untimely ripped. MACBETH: ….Fuck

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Sam G @samthegeek.net · 27/09/2026

This is one of the things you notice most about cities that have pulled away from mandatory car dependency — the people. There’s just always people around.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026

Trump fucked up the *American* renewable transition but he might have had the largest positive effect on the global transition of any president ever

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Rick Crawford @rickcrawf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Zohran is ahead of the discourse by 6 months.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

AI is also going to force changes to anything where the friction is provided by a lengthy application process that can now be largely automated: employment tribunals, job applications, complaints procedures... As we're already seeing.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So they're now talking about attacking the system of policing and law. Arrest these f*ckers. Stop bowing down to them and dancing around them.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Simpsons once again mysteriously calling the present news cycle

Homer Simpson leaving a lesbian bar as he says "Enjoy your deathtrap, ladies."

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Rick Crawford @rickcrawf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just used the phrase "and I have the receipts to prove it" in an email to my boss's boss. Should be fine, right?

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

‘This is playing into his hands’/‘this will allow him to play the martyr card’/‘this will help with his fundraising’ are all really bad takes. Criminals should be arrested and charged with crimes.

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This tiny fix solves a problem you never realized you had, and once you see it, it makes perfect sense.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is an absolute disaster from a national security perspective. Obviously, a lot on F-35s is classified, but a weapons-bay door and a canopy with radar-absorbing material are some of the most sensitive. Hard to describe how bad this is.

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404 Media @404media.co · 23/09/2026

NEW: Yesterday, 404 Media broke news of the FBI breach. Now, we've discovered it has exposed the FBI's own hacking unit. The FBI's Remote Operations Unit (ROU) is a highly secretive team of hackers making exploits and tools to break into target’s devices. Some of its members just got exposed.

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FBI Hack Exposed FBI’s Own Hacking Unit

The FBI's Remote Operations Unit (ROU) is a highly secretive team of hackers making exploits and tools to break into target’s devices. Some of its members just got exposed.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just me saying that any effort to tackle misinformation must be an attack on Reform, thereby admitting that Reform are helping Russia to spread far right narratives and create dissent and unrest.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 23/09/2026

It seems like the police are assuming the far-right losers are 'looking for an excuse' to do more damage and so must be given maximum space. In fact, they are turning a big dial that says 'thuggery' on it and constantly looking over at the state for the slightest sign of consequences.

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Tired: Manmade child annihilating zipline beyond physics comprehension Wired: Grok maims a man on a halfpipe then gets him fired, patent advice sought

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 23/09/2026

Regulators should shut this down before it leads to a wave of predictable, preventable deaths by suicide.

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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Frankly, I find relegating hiring to an AI incredibly off-putting. I would never consider working for a company that thinks the hiring decision is so unimportant that it doesn't need to involve humans. It doesn't bode well. 3/4

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“AI is awesome” - people who don’t have to maintain their own code “AI can be helpful” - those who maintain their own code “I F*ing hate AI” - those who have to maintain code from group 1

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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Lmao, AfD fumbling their one shot at forming a state government in Saxony-Anhalt in the most predictable way possible

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Absolutely horrific: Thanks to a false intelligence "generated with the help of artificial intelligence," the US military nearly carried out an operation aboard a Chinese ship because the incorrect intelligence said it was carrying nukes, according to @cnn.com. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

READ THIS: How Amsterdam became the bicycle capital of the world. In the 1960s, Dutch cities saw cars as the transport of the future. It took the intolerable toll of child traffic deaths —and fierce activism— to turn #Amsterdam into the urban biking nirvana of today. It took vision and leadership.

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How Amsterdam became the bicycle capital of the world

In the 1960s, Dutch cities were increasingly in thrall to motorists, with the car seen as the transport of the future. It took the intolerable toll of child traffic deaths – and fierce activism – to t...

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Farage in 2016: “Vote Leave to save the £.” Farage in 2026: “Screw the £, we must have crypto.”

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Editorial: Nigel Farage needs to end the impression that his party is the political wing of the crypto industry

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Rick Crawford @rickcrawf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Seen various people posting about Carney's speech to the EU Parliament, but it is worth watching the whole thing. www.youtube.com/live/O3rQUpu...

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks in the European Parliament

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Macklemore can sue Robert Kraft for Tortious Interference for economic harm and I hope he does. Discovery would be fun: "Which other stadium owners did you talk to?" and "We need all related emails, text messages and contracts between you and them and you and Sheeran and Sheeran's team."

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

She was brilliant and sharp and warm - three things that very rarely go together. We were Twitter friends for years and she was one of those steadfastly moral and compassionate voices who made every day online nicer place to be. I am so deeply sorry to read this www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...

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Bonnie Greer, writer and cultural commentator, dies aged 77

The British-American novelist and playwright who regularly appeared on panel shows will be remembered for her ‘warmth, humour and generosity’, says her husband

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The £36m donations are legal and to change the law retrospectively would be outrageous! Yes, it was announced in Parliament on 25 March that the legislation would apply to any donations from that day onwards, but that was the day all Reform MPs staged a walk-out, so we missed it.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Don't be fooled into thinking that a "free market" only exists when corporations get to "self-regulate" and do whatever they want. And don't be led to think that the government is "intruding" into the market when it crafts laws to protect the public. The real issue is power — and who has it.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We are now going to see a rash of pointless micro nation referendums aren't we. This seasons flags on lampposts.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A friend of mine works in AI and thinks bad things are about to happen. He sold his home and moved his family out the country. He said that if you own a home in a walkable San Francisco neighborhood near a taqueria with good veggie options, you should sell your home for super cheap right now.

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