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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today I heard someone use the Human Centipede as a way to explain why large model AI is inevitably heading towards its own self destruction by tainting its future inputs, and honestly? It was a beautiful teaching metaphor.

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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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grovehaunter @grovewalker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

that chatbot doing that unsafe/violative thing is not it 'going rogue' or an 'unfortunate incident of unintended consequences,' it’s the logical and devastating consequences of an unsafe product put out by irresponsible companies that have been conditioned to believe consequences dont exist for them

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How do we incentivize people to paint wizards on their vans again I haven’t seen a wizard van in a decade and it feels like we lost something precious Can we offer up a tax credit? Little bags of shrooms? Start a wizard van painting program at vocational schools?

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CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's Monday morning, and I am reluctantly entering into the discussion about what The Democrats should do about The Trans, most of which translates to "believe in something, for once in your life, for fuck's sake." No paywall on this guy: jude-doyle.ghost.io/transformer-...

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Transformer: Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes, 1998)

A few thoughts on the queer post-apocalypse.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

They are trying to blame AI for these kinds of mistakes in the way that you put googly eyes on a rock and then pretend it's a scapegoat.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 18/09/2026

An OpenAI executive similarly warned that publishers would face an “existential threat” from commercial products trained on news content in an internal message, according to newly unsealed documents.

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Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”

Microsoft, OpenAI emails reveal fear of AI “doom loop” killing news orgs.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 18/09/2026

Do you know how it felt to open a writing app that claimed to analyze your writing for optimization and discover that my books were inside its system? I had never spoken to these people. they hadn't asked for a license or permission or *anything.* and that all the big AI companies had done it too?

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

i dont want to speak for anyone but i think if i were a trans person id be sick of every election being about where im allowed to poop or if i can play games with friends or if i can read books to children. id probably be pretty upset and frustrated and disappointed at this point ngl

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026

For all that anti-AI folk get accused of "cope" (often and regularly) with regard to AI, I think a lot of the AI boosterism is cope, and much worse cope. The world is getting worse quickly and nobody wants to make hard choices. So now they're like "hey give us money and we will make magic god."

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

So (if I understand this correctly), the way AI (companies) will "solve" all the major problems in maths, biology, and medicine in the next 5 years will be by stealing and building on the ideas of researchers naive enough to think their chats with AI companies would be private.

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A24 is potentially doing something really fucked up here, but also they have the opportunity to do something extremely fucking cool and make the movie Creative Commons people would still pay to see it in theaters. but you want to benefit from a community project? then contribute to it

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The Onion @theonion.com · 11/09/2026

Australia Bans AI Music From Charts theonion.com/australia-bans-ai-musi…

“Real AI music fans don’t care about the charts. Or the music. Or anything really.”

Maurice Atkins, Tuber Peeler

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Emi @emiphemera.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I am still furious about this, so let's go: my abortion story aka why I am not dead yet. I intentionally got pregnant in 2015. I was so excited to be a mom, took extra care with nutrition and safety (I had a heavy-duty job at the time). Normal first-trimester nausea and tiredness, nothing crazy.

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/09/2026

AI companies: This technology we’re developing is dangerous and might destroy humanity and we don’t know how to stop it Other people: So we should strictly regulate it, create legislative guard rails, and monitor its development? AI companies: lol no the opposite of all that & give us more money

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026

All else aside there is nothing I want or need genAI to do for me. I like reading. I like doing research. I like playing around in spreadsheets. I like interviewing people. I like writing. I like doing these things for myself because I take pleasure in the doing and they make me a better thinker.

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

One of the things about someone in 1965 saying that in 30 years there'd be mars colonies is that 30 years before that you could barely cross the Atlantic in one hop and the Jet engine hadn't been invented, and 30 years before that the longest flights were measured in yards

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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Gabe @cwgabriel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The game industry is so incredibly fucked up right now.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

kitchen hack: if you're not sure if an egg is still good, drop it in a bowl of water. If it sinks, it's gone bad, if it floats it's a witch

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☀️ @stel.energy · 01/09/2026

i want games made by people who get to keep their jobs

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Pile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 01/09/2026

I love how Werner Herzog is ALWAYS like this:

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If you're not using asbestos yet, you are being left behind. Everyone is using asbestos, there's no point in trying to fight it. Asbestos is the future.

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Jay Turner @silopolis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Dolly, Tim Curry, and Optimus-fucking-Prime in the same week. Peter Cullen was the voice of healthy masculinity for a generation of boys who were getting lessons on how to be a caring leader from a robot that turned into a truck. Rest in peace, Mr. Cullen.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I've turned away from shops where I was going to get coffee or food at the sight of an AI-generated sign.

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Chris DeRose @scratchyderose.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

RIP king…nobody played baddies like you. 💔

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

When we hate on these disgusting immoral evil billionaires it’s bc just look at everything Dolly did. They could be doing that. They could just be helping people and every day they choose not to help people. They choose to harm. And when they die, we’ll dance and laugh and be thankful they’re gone.

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Matt @mbunchanumbers.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Old but evergreen

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2026

dolly parton taught millions of children to read dolly parton raised millions of dollars for cancer research and disaster relief dolly parton stood by the lgbtq community her entire life dolly parton personally helped fund the moderna vaccine if there was a right side of something she was on it

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/08/2026

Sometimes society at large rejects certain ideas because they’ve been thoroughly shown to be wrong and also because they suck and the people who espouse them suck and when someone comes around arguing those ideas should be part of some edgy modern debate we can and should shun them and move on.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"Americans like two-day delivery but dislike being promised that a Robot God will render them Paupers Forever. The fickle whims of the median voter continue to perplex me."

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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

also - as I have said before and will say again - the problem with AI isn't that there's zero positive, helpful uses to which it can be put; it's that none of them, whether singly or collectively, comes remotely close to justifying the dystopian shitshow that goes into making and selling the tech

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The “you just don’t like AI because you don’t understand it” argument is completely demolished whenever I post about this nuance because everyone resoundingly agrees and supports this version. People understand AI. They understand what they don’t like about it. They are not ignorant.

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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

on fridays we become medieval cats

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 21/08/2026

We need to bring back the hatchback. The people don't want sedans. They don't want stationwagons. They don't want SUVs and crossovers. They want indestructible sporty little hatchbacks with carrying capacity that feels like a bag of holding.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 21/08/2026

I was talking with a colleague the other day who said that while he’s not sure if AI will change physics research so much as to unemploy the physicists, he’s confident that teaching will always need humans.

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

So we know AI helped a negligible number of students. But how many did it harm? I've crunched the raw data provided by the lead researcher, and what I've found is that ~9,500 students using AI studied less than even the *least* studious, non-AI using student. This should shock the conscience.

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Jessiye @jessiye.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Clip Art EXISTS! And has for 30 yrs!! You do not EVER need to make a generated AI poster!! Avoid increasing your chances for early dementia! Type out the WHO WHAT WHERE WHEN and add some clip art! Bake sale? Garage sale? Concert? Pay someone or use clip art! I like clean water!!!!

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Pile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 17/08/2026

How to win at most all things:

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Kris Straub (كريس) @krisstraub.com · 17/08/2026

america has no liberal parties. we have ultra conservatives, and ineffectual conservatives

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