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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 7h

Counter-argument: This is awful. Lego used to be a £20 box of bricks and no rules, to let a kid's imagination run riot. Then smash it and start again. Now it's a £140 kit to make one thing that happened before the kid was even born. Then put it on a shelf and dust it. Go shit in your hat, Lego.

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Chris Milsom @chrismilsom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

MorrissAI ?

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I just saw a post from some guy saying that traditional music is “over” because AI music will provide “infinite personalised songs”. I want music that reflects the misshapen thoughts of another human being, not the output of an algorithmic average.

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rich uncle skeleton @alexeptable.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just keep having visions of some poor fucker getting psychosis when his spotify plays an AI knock off of Mr Brightside but it features his name and personal details about his life he accidentally shared with a bot

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 15h

this would be an incredible film if you started it with all the normal serial killer hunting tropes

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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 23h

@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 18h

You may sneer at the term “Super Intelligence“ for AI, but many said “Information Super Highway” would never catch on.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked

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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban

The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press

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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🐾🐾🐾🤍..

A cosy illustration of a fluffy black cat stretched out asleep on a wooden wall shelf, beside three books and a trailing potted plant. The background is a softly textured blend of muted green and warm golden tones. White handwritten text above reads: “It’s nice to leave a little room in the day for nothing in particular.”

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A. Feder Cooper @afedercooper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Our large-scale study of memorization of books in open-weight LLMs (e.g., Llama, Qwen) will appear at the 2026 Conference on Language Modeling as an oral. We made a website for exploring our results on 200 books and 14 models: books-memorization.github.io

books-memorization.github.io

How much do open-weight LLMs memorize specific books?

Open-weight LLMs memorize books far more than previously believed. Memorization varies by model family, model size, and book. In extreme cases, entire books are memorized, and we can generate them eff...

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One Does Not Simply Re-Tweet a Meme @evilmagnus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is an amazing study that does a great job of illustrating how memory works in LLMs. Obviously can't run these tests against the closed-source models! They put additional filters in front to prevent/obfuscate extraction for some reason *cough* NYT *cough*

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Dutchscientist (the real one) @dutchscientist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I would find a phone like yours, make it wet and leave it somewhere among the goats 😇

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alisoncitrine.bsky.social @alisoncitrine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wow, if proof was needed Palantir are are up to no good, then this is it Shame on Tom Watson 😕

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/09/2026

It's not "super intelligence." It's not even "intelligence." It continues to fuck up easy questions, like to whom I dedicated my most recent book. Also, Mike Johnson is a craven, simpering weasel and none of the people standing near him in this video respect him even the tiniest bit.

"To whom did John Scalzi dedicate The Shattering Peace"

"John Scalzi dedicated his novel The Shattering Peace to his longtime editor and friend Teresa Nielsen Hayden"

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VivicorpCEO @vivicorpceo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"give it up" buddy I'm literally asking them to take it away so I can't accidentally end up having to deal with it because some moron stuck it in a product that was better before it was in there

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Fuck 12 @la-tron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do these people not unserstans that people who pushback on AI don't actually use AI? Like we aren't secretly using it but publically denouncing it.

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Peter G @kingsigy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For one, my fucking browser would work better. Two, my operating system would be better. Three, my phone would be better. Fuck, can we get rid of AI today?

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judgeaxl.bsky.social @judgeaxl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Since I actually know how to perform the tasks my job demands of me, sure, no problem. In fact it'd be a relief to not have to read an AI-written document again. I die a little inside every time i read that templated bullshit.

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TaurenMoo @taurenmoo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah honestly I use AI 0% in my daily life, its more an annoyance than fucking anything. I can't even respond to a fucking email without AI injecting itself between the seat and the fucking email text by immediately moving my text to a "what would you like to write" prompt... FUCK ALL THE WAY OFF.

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theplasmawolf.bsky.social @theplasmawolf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I avoid AI as much as I can. Them asking if I can live without AI is like them asking if I can live without the flu. Yes please!

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If people don't want to pay tax to make this country function and help out the rest of society and particularly those who need help most... then maybe they should move to Dubai and stop bleating about it. Really sick to death of it.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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Robert Fietzke @robertfietzke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Niemand: Die Linke sollte einfach mal regieren, dann wird sie sich schon von selbst entzaubern. Wir sollten die Sorgen & Ängste von Linke-Wählern ernstnehmen. Daher kopieren wir jetzt Teile ihres Programms und sprechen vor allem über ihre Themen Soziale Gerechtigkeit, Lebenshaltungskosten & Mieten.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

4. Read aloud to your kids. Let them read aloud to you. Use props, funny voices, whatever it takes to bring the stories to life.

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Beau @drbeaubeaumont.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

To be fair, you honestly can’t say that Enid Blyton isn’t prepared to move with the times.

BBC headline: Five arrested as counter-terror police investigate major incident near RAF Fairford

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“‘Hell!' said Harriet. 'Oxford, thou too?'”

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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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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yes, it's that time again when the Fascism scene returns to London and this year black is very much in vogue. From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 25/09/2026

I guess that the best argument, for me, against AI is that everyone advocating it seems to be a psychopath.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The mayoral discourse in Berlin continues to be *utterly* unhinged. If the AfD had topped the polls the narrative would be “finally the people have been heard!” but since the Left won, it’s all “Queer Islamofascists and Woke are trying to conquer us with, er, affordable rents!”

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Der Krankenpflegel 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @krankenpflegel.de · 24/09/2026

Kurzer Reminder, dass mit einer RRG-Regierung in Berlin ein AfD-Verbotsverfahren im Bundesrat eine Mehrheit hätte. Nur, falls ihr euch fragt, warum die Rechten, Konservativen und Hetzblätter so eskalieren.

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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Please can someone call the burns unit? 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Has Ahmed @HasAhmed_20h

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The only Muslim bothered about you eating this much bacon is your cardiologist.

Lee Anderson MP

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@LeeAn....

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It's all about choices!

I've made mine.

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

*If you don't like coders for some reason, this is a real schadenfreude feast of coders lamenting and wringing their newly-useless human hands www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/c...

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From the ClaudeAI community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the ClaudeAI community

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Slow marching being an obvious threat to public safety meriting prosecution, unlike blocking ports and knifing boats with someone still on board /s

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New Post: Why I Love AI Next month it'll be twenty years since I went to university, learned to program, and studied AI. I wrote about why I loved it, why I still love it, and why, unfortunately, it no longer exists. www.possibilityspace.org/blog/posts/i...

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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Many think that AI is safe to use for simple tasks that require no 'research'. Here's an example. A black-and-white photo. AI was asked to colour it. What can go wrong, right?

A black-and-white family photo. A Christmas scene, the family gathered, all generations, next to the tree.

A screenshot of the command. Ai was asked "recolour this image"

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just as well those committing wrongs against the RNLI are not holding placards supporting a proscribed organisation, else they would really be in trouble.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Child: This is my first time meeting a mayor. Mamdani: Wow, have you ever met a prime minister? Child: No Norway PM Jonas Gahr Støre: *walks over*

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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This was quite the suprise. Ich freue mich sehr, gemeinsam mit zwanzig anderen tollen Menschen das Bundesverdienstkreuz zu erhalten. I am delighted to be receiving the Federal Cross of Merit on German Unity Day, alongside twenty other wonderful people. Dankeschön. It's an honour.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026

The RNLI is the closest you will ever get to actual Batman. When rescue is visibly, viscerally, obviously impossible; when the water is a smothering, thundering black wall and the wind is screaming straight from Hell; when you are absolutely going to die: someone’s hand pulls you out and you don’t.

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 21/09/2026

Should have been “what shall we do with the sunken Nazi”, kicking myself, in my defence it is still ear-ly in the morning

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"...and it will have all lasers on it and it can turn into a massive robot and I will be driving the robot and the lasers will be its eyes and it will have a massive sword and the sword will be a laser..."

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/09/2026

I don't think we disdain the center-right enough. First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation; Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers; Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

been thinkin about how robots are gonna kill us

Scratchy drawing of a two panel comic.
Panel 1:
Titled:“How we thought robots would kill us”
A robot shoots a human to death with a gun. It screams “Die flesh sack”

Panel 2:
Titled “How robots will actually kill us”
A MediBot is injecting something into a humans arm. The bot says “Whooops. I injected you with cancer instead of insulin. That’s on me”

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Being grotesquely rich doesn't mean you're good at anything except taking money off other people and hoarding it. And by definition, that skill cannot work for more than 1 in a million of us. So why the hell do expect wisdom or useful policy from these ghouls? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Manchester United Muslim fans group calls on co-owner Jim Ratcliffe to quit

Supporters’ club says billionaire should stand down after ‘completely unacceptable’ comments on the UK and empire

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