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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 4h

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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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Aw hell yeah, HK finally reclaiming its Halloween crown after the post-Covid malaise.

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m sorry, Hong Kong Disneyland is currently sold out of Cute Monkey with a Fez. Perhaps you would like to purchase an Old Colonial British Man instead?

Lord Henry Mystic plush from Mystic Manor, HK Disneyland.

A whole rack of Lord Henry Mystic plushies.

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Charlotte’s Web and exposure to flayed pig faces at Hong Kong wet markets made my daughter go off pork—probably permanently.

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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.

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Jeremy Whitley @jeremywhitley.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

If you're watching a martial arts movie and this dude shows up, you are about to be treated some of the sickest shit you've ever seen:

A picture of Indonesian martial artist Yayan Ruhian

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functional moron @fiveburger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

one thing that i don’t know how to articulate is that i see this pattern online of assuming that women must hate the men they are married to in the name of feminism- but that actually sort of reduces these women to helpless agentless blobs in a weird way

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Pretty sure this is an extension of logic from our “you can’t marry your sister, but it’s ok to marry *someone else’s* sister” conversation.

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

5YO: When I grow up I’m going to marry Izzy. 7YO: You can’t marry a dog. It’s not legal to marry a dog. 5YO: You can’t marry your OWN dog, stupid. You can marry *someone else’s* dog.

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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When farms stop yielding, hunger does not knock — it breaks the door. Across the Horn of Africa, soils that once fed nations are turning barren. This is not “bad weather.” This is climate change rewriting our food systems in real time.

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ceej @ceej.online · 25/09/2026

Be serious. Bert and Ernie are not “in love.” Maybe they used to be, once

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/09/2026

Exclusive: Our new investigation uncovers the horrifying ChatGPT history of the Tumbler Ridge mass shooter, with OpenAI’s chatbot fueling the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the day of the school massacre.

motherjones.com

ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is my new favorite thing.

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Well this explains why even GOP fundraisers were backing off. Figures there were some whispers that this might come out and they kept him at bay so as not to taint other candidates. Backing Paxton over Cornyn was a monumental political screwup by Trump.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is like eight stories in one breaking news alert. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

The Washington Post

Breaking News
September 22, 9:38 PM EDT

ICE officer who shot Venezuelan man in Texas was new recruit not using his body camera
The officer had previously worked at another federal law enforcement agency and joined Immigration and Customs Enforcement during last year’s hiring spree, two former Department of Homeland Security officials said. The Venezuelan man was shot after ICE officers attempted to make a traffic stop in Austin on Sunday.

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The whole flap is based on the assumption that someone spinning unsourced rumor articles out at Hollywood Reporter knows the difference between Old English and Elizabethan English. My guess is Eggers is hoping to use pronunciation and cadence that would’ve been more familiar in the period.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Insider trading cannot be covered by presidential immunity. There is no way to justify it. It must be challenged and taken back to the court.

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

People are sure showing how well-read they are by dunking on Eggers for an article they clearly haven’t read, because there’s no quote about “Olde English” from Eggers or even a press release here, in fact the sentence in question has “reports say” in it. Basic media literacy stuff.

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jenny (phire) @phirephoenix.com · 22/09/2026

I'm reading Moby Dick with a friend and poor Starbuck has the energy of every VP who has watched a CEO go absolutely batshit and then had to go sell the ✨ vision ✨ to their disbelieving underlings

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oh wow! Happy birthday to the TV series I’ve watched the most times, and the most incredible collection of actors ever in one filmed performance!

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Mishell Baker @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sometimes I feel shame at all of the failed projects I started, until I remember that my inability to stop compulsively trying to start things meant I eventually hit on a few that succeeded beyond my wildest dreams.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/09/2026

I'm of two minds about this information

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

How people actually treat droids in the Original Trilogy.

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Folks forget that in this movie Luke is an audience insert and part of the fantasy is getting to hang out with the cool people—old hippie veteran with odd religious ideas, the dude with a hot rod who smuggles drugs with his big weird friend, and the hot, preppy smart girl who’s way too good for you.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The problem with the special editions isn’t how they change the characters, which is a much of a muchness, is it that all the changes either look bad or interrupt the pacing of the movie.

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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hong Kong is one of the few pizza huts in the world where you can get a squid and sweet corn pizza with thousand island sauce. If you haven't experienced it, youre really not gonna be able to comprehend.

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Went to the lantern market in Yuen Long for some VERY crowded but extremely beautiful Mid-Autumn Festival lantern shopping.

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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

bloomberg.com

Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School

Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Huge blow against the cartel, the street value of this product has to be north of $80.

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Sounds like we should criminally charge the people who run Palantir and also whoever put it in charge of targeting.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 19/09/2026

The real reason this exists. Mr. Nobody As A Service for when you do war crimes

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

'PATIENCE, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue'. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

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Steve Kovach @stevekovach.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

what are we doing

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Y’all Hong Kong hit north of $15 per gallon before summer.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is the funniest feature of Book Hive.

screenshot showing the Wicked and the Warped as the most popular book I've read this year and Geopolitics of the Deep Oceans as the least popular.

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Shana @shanamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good.

The future pope at a party with a caption “they don’t know I’m the future pope”

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Karen VH @designinginward.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

news flash: constant horrors are exhausting

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Strange old world. Loads of guys who saw this when they looked like Hank, now look like the Dungeon Master. 😊

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m on a quiz show that only tapes 46 days a year and even I think this schedule is a little light.

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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It is so weird to transition from a Person Who Sits in Their Basement for Seven Years Making Up a Story to a Person Who Sells Books for a Living. But anyway my new book Hollywood, Ending comes out in SIX DAYS. Preorder your signed copy at hollywoodendingbook.com

hollywoodendingbook.com

Hollywood, Ending by John Green - Preorder Now

Hollywood, Ending - Preorder the new novel from John Green today

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’ve said before that prediction markets are an inevitable outcome for a society where everyone in the media is jockeying to tell you what’s going to happen *next* rather than focusing on what’s actually happening *now.* Remember Nate Silver and 538 started in sports odds and moved to elections.

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Josh Kaplan @josh-kaplan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

NEW: Don Trump Jr’s luxurious wedding was secretly bankrolled by a Russian oligarch close to Putin. A saga involving private islands, the Olympics, and a Russian government-backed biker gang: www.propublica.org/article/dona...

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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch

The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Me, setting up our family’s brand-new, top-of-the-line TV while knowing full well what it’ll actually be used for: “Man, PJ Masks is going to look incredible on this thing.”

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