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one of the reasons that I warn researchers away from adapting commercial LLMs into their pipeline is that Big Tech has a history of sunsetting popular, usable products and replacing them with worse ones. (i'm trying to ween myself off of google scholar, but it is hard).

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Marty @martincrownover.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The perfect way to put it. They found a way to worm a subscription between you and your normal work.

A screenshot of a post on Threads by Joe Hill. The post reads: "Here’s a thought about the purveyors of AI. They aren’t selling assistance—they’re selling dependency. You give up on acquiring one skill after another, give up on the knotty, meaningful struggle to acquire those skills and AI takes over. It isn’t freeing up time so you can make more of yourself. It’s encouraging cognitive surrender so you can be less."

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Mina @rivermets.bsky.social · 12h

... The Batman vs Dracula (2004). Look it's at MOST a 2, was a Direct to DVD tie in, and has some of the weirdest leaps in logic. But there are some horror sections that hold up REALLY well, Peter Stormare is an underrated Dracula, D picks off people 1 by 1, and the ending is great.

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Joker's Sinister Smile (2004 Animation)

Alt: 2004 Joker (voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson) being a vampire with fangs and licking blood off of himself. Joker's skin and hair is pure white, leaving the only darkness as his eyeliner, lipstick, and blood on his face. He's in a room with glowing shelves and the entire scene is cast in a green glow.

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David Froomkin @dfroomkin.bsky.social · 13h

We need to stop reaffirming that we don't expect Trump administration figures to face legal accountability for their misdeeds. Expectations produce reality. We need to start creating the expectation that they in fact will—indeed, must—face legal accountability.

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 18h

It's weird how the federal government is constantly being hacked after DOGE gutted the government's cybersecurity agencies.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 22h

One small, but powerful way that LLM's are supercharging scamming is by allowing scammers to write perfect context-appropriate prose - emails, invitations, "hey checking in" - that before AI would have this slightly *off* uncanniness that would alert the victim. No longer!

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⧖ big rock big river ⧖ (they/them) @bigrockbigriver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you know an academia lawyer, please DM me, I need help or my doctorate is over until I find a new university.

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Tricksy Spirit 👻🤍🖤 @tricksyspirit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’d rather no more Doctor Who than some AI slop

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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Maybe one reason we all end up having to pivot to something else is because it's exhausting constantly asking if we're good enough to be the one crab that can get to the top of the barrel at everyone else's expense.

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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Another terrible thing about this industry contracting is every time someone talented also reports getting laid off, you start hyperventilating because it means more competition from other really good writers in this space. We're all fighting over the tiniest crumbs and it fucking sucks.

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Mina @rivermets.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A while ago a friend said they were worried about me so they had me join a DND group they knew. Someone had dropped out so a new player was easy enough to add in. And to be clear, I did (and do) enjoy my time there. But due to time zone shenanigans, it starts at 9PM My time and goes until midnight

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026

Norway has solution to this actually, stay at home parents can get their share of the public daycare subsidy as cash, that way parents are not pushed one way or the other. the problem of course is virtually no one on the center or right actually gives a shit about parents

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Genuinely, this is what bothers me the most, it's fundamentally changed my relationship with art where I'm greeting it initially with skepticism and scrutiny, I never want to feel that way about art.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A few people have made the reasonable suggestion that we are living through the backlash to MeToo -- and yes, I do agree with that, at the same time as the backlash to BLM and the advances in gay rights. It's backlash all the way down.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Kash Patel’s phony manufactured stats that he uses to cover up his gross incompetence.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 29/09/2026

I get these are legal documents, not documents of the heart and soul. but does DA really think, if he's right about how dangerous what he's doing is, that anyone will give him credit for saying "now, to warn you guys yet again, when i push this button, we might all die"? that's not how ppl work.

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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Mina @rivermets.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Things I want to do: Play video games Things I need to do: Apply to jobs.

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Marie Cerda @primalux.thedeadbird.club · 28/09/2026

You can laugh & think people deserve it, just don't do it in my replies. I'm sharing this not bc I think it's a danger for myself or most of my mutuals, but Meta is really pushing Muse when you use any of their apps. Maybe your parent, or kid, or other person close to you might decide to try it.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The plan: Build a 200-room, 300-bathroom data center, 70% subsidized by federal and local governments. Make it accessible to the train. Build a supermarket for the 800 people doing 24/7 on-site maintenance. Call it the future of technology. Make OpenAI pay for the rest. Then let people move in.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

On the record, I DO think AI has the potential to be extremely dangerous in terrifying ways that we need to research and anticipate: I also want a truly diverse set of people who aren’t all part of the same millenarian Silicon Valley doom cult doing that research and safety work.

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

us taxpayers paying a private corporation for airtime for this drivel is just indefensible. where are republicans on this?

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 27/09/2026

another day, another bit of evidence that the scientists who willingly hand over proprietary information to AI firms may experience some consequences

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Mina @rivermets.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

For the last few days I keep feeling slightly unwell in different ways and it is not fun. I woke up this morning feeling like I had an ear infection which has now transitioned to "I have a headache and my mouth feels weird." who knows on the earache.

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(GDHitless) PT @pleasantlytwstd.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026

You-yes you! 🫵🏿 Are you - a speedrunner / challenge runner - interested in charity fundraising - looking for more activities and camaraderie w/ your Black peers year-round - Black? (Obvy) We want to hang with you in BaF! 🫶🏿 We're fundraising for Race Forward in February and would love to have you!

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 26/09/2026

Curious if anyone else has noticed this. Since Trump 2.0, I've noticed a significant backside in gluten and dairy free options and dietary accommodations at restaurants, public events, and even some grocery stores.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 26/09/2026

When I ask, I keep hearing that they got rid of gluten and dairy free options because people complained those options are "woke." This sucks because I can't eat even at places that used to be safe (Crohn's Disease). The plural of anecdote isn't data, so is this just me? Have you seen this too?

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yeah. As the fella said, if you’re gonna seriously gamble, it’s imperative that you be forced to visit a miserable place and be surrounded by miserable people.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

7/ An expert explained that losers like me are the bettors that sports betting companies are most interested in. A small group accounts for a large portion of revenue. And what keeps losers loyal? VIP programs. The more you bet, the more you get: free bets/swag/fancy dinners.

Screenshot of article from the Philadelphia Inquirer. Headline reads: FanDuel sent a personal message from Phillies star Bryce Harper to a customer with a gambling addiction.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

like 20% of this test is explicitly asking the respondent their Thoughts about the Blacks. whoever designed it did their homework

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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

kudos to the crack team of NYT reporters who spend thousands of hours watching Scandinavian-, Portuguese-, Italian-, Spanish-, Zulu-, Arabic-, Farsi-, Turkish-, German-, Hindi-, Telugu-, Bengali-, Chinese-, and Japanese-language television in order to compile their ranking of the century's 100 shows

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isaac @sevier.io · 26/09/2026

Parts of the climate movement have been building ecosocialism— a future without oil corporations and without utility corporations. We aren't going to stop and more people are joining us all the time.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Once again, the Supreme Court prioritizes imaginary harms done to Trump by not allowing him to indulge in his conspiracy theories, as opposed to the very real harm done to citizens who may lose the ability to vote in this case.

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Mina @rivermets.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So, who wants to hear about my crack ships.

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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Anthropic has designed a product that regularly produces automated hacks of other entities, including governments. That’s not “going rogue.” It is either a terrible design problem or what they intended.

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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the headline, but the article discusses some apparent witness tampering by TESLA'S LAWYERS!!!

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

GenAI users: I am so fucking productive now, I am programming things naught but gods would dream of, I- Every single genAI CEO: well, it's like you- no one, I mean, really needs to read nowadays, right? Btw I don't remember whether you wipe before or after pooping

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

GenAI evangelists: there is no deskilling. You become as a god, a machine god, you- Every GenAI CEO: no one needs to know how to read and also I don't know how to put my pants on anymore

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's funny that for years now people have been saying that using generative AI very obviously deskills you, and people kept going no no you're wrong you Luddite And now all the genAI CEO's keep coming out in public to announce they forgot how to read and do math and can't remember their address etc

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

People were like no, using genAI doesn't deskill you. And then *all* the CEO's started announcing that not only is deskilling the explicit goal, but then they brag that they don't know how to toast a poptart

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Texas actually could be arizona; there is so much fury from trump voting Hispanic families, and their kids who can’t vote yet but will remember this, at the trump admin rn, but are the Dems willing to invest the time and energy to hone that into a sustainable drift and wins? Idk man

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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is, I think, one of the best Metroidvanias of the last 15 years and you can EASILY finish it within this timeframe. Hell, you don't even need to feel bad about not paying Ubisoft, because they disbanded the team, anyway!! Also it runs at a (99% consistent) 60 FPS on Switch. Do it do it do it.

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John E Warren 🤠🐝♿️ @floppyadult.com · 24/09/2026

On the same day we have a story about Bobby Kotick throwing his weight and money around to smother journalists calling him all the things he actually is behind the scenes, we have a different tech CEO leaning into a microphone simply admitting that he’s a moron.

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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/09/2026

DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Reading this and getting struck by how much current AI Safety/alignment stuff is built on fixation on technical problems at the expense of meaningfully grappling with social alignment (politics)

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SPOOKYTime, M.D.🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @saigontimemd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

All of these fuckin "AI DOOMSDAY SCENARIOS" talk about the AI as if it has the ability to launch nukes, make chemical weapons, create a robot army of billions, etc. and it's like how did it get that access? Who let it build those things, or built those things for it? Huh? HUH? So stupid.

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Always a treat to be reminded of an old friend

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