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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 5h

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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Fine. I’ll update with a word count when I start writing again. @legalminimum.bsky.social · 2h

In case anyone wasn't clear that all the AI apocalypticism was a smokescreen to cover for wanting to delay their IPOs, here's your most recent proof. Not a gift link because the headline says it all.

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Sam Altman says OpenAI will delay its IPO until it overcomes safety concerns

ChatGPT maker launches new AI personal assistant as it faces challenge from Meta’s Muse

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short king simp↙↙↙ @yeospaceman.bsky.social · 2h

@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com does the best job imo of explicitly describing the ideological goals of the thought leaders of the reactionary right along with the actual emotional goals for the base population of the reactionary right

Pedocon theory is a theory like gravity is a theory. Women's subservience is what they believe in: they'll just tell you. Children's obedience is what they believe in: they'll just tell you. Fathers' right to rule their families is what they believe in: they'll just tell you. Pedophilia is the natural outcome of all these ideologies: children are the property of men. MAGA has made a religion of patriarchy. In many cases, this toxic vine is wound deeply through their actual religious practices of fundamentalist Christianity. If that is the theory, pedophilia is the practice. The evidence is there, if you're willing to look.

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Jeff Goldsmith @yogoldsmith.bsky.social · 2h

John Carpenter (@TheHorrorMast) on They Live @AcademyMuseum : It’s about Yuppies The KKK, the white arian resistance, started the rumor that it was about Jews. And they asked me, was it about Jewish people taking over? I couldn't believe it. And I'm like these assholes. How dare you! Fuck you!

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 2h

Any talk of "independent AI auditors" & FTC enforcement actions is meaningless when the ppl who do not want enforcement have actively captured both a) the people who'll choose the "independents" & b) the *FTC Itself*. Folx who aren't ex-Googlers who left on great terms maybe might tell you that.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 2h

I have *been* saying that medieval style antisemitism has a major foothold in the left and the best thing allies can do is be aware of the dog whistles so you know when someone is gone off on one

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that one video game writer @deathmeetauthor.bsky.social · 2h

on second read, I should have changed 'the shelter' to 'indie devs'

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 2h

don’t turn my mailman into a cop, that sucks

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2h

google should be forced, by law, to fully fund wikipedia for a thousand years

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 18h

I have no idea if this is true but the collage kills me

A black lemur in a leafy tree with its mouth open as if singing, beside an inset photo of Pavarotti striking a similar pose. Text reads: “New research shows lemurs use operatic techniques when they sing, to reach high notes.” Classic FM.

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 1h

When the AI bubble bursts–and it will; it's already starting to–the men leading these companies who orchestrated economic destruction need to face accountability. Not being fired. Not losing shares. Prison time. Real, lengthy prison time. Period.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 13h

$15 ebooks? One dollar. $10 ebooks? Just a buck. $25 ebooks? You guessed it. 💵 💵 💵 Sale ends this week. Don't dilly-dally, gang.

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Ryan W Enslow @ryanwenslow.bsky.social · 12h

Oh hey, Backrooms is on HBO? I should finally watch that

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 13h

22 hours ago I did not realize the literal president of the Unites States would go and claim the scourge of generative AI can only be referred to as "Super Intelligence"

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 13h

don't waste your life trying to pursue political or military greatness: way way more people in 2026 know who Ea-Nasir is than like, the guy who was the king of Ur when he was alive

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Itō Jakuchū's 'Frog' of 1790 for me is the iconic image of numbed uncomfortable bafflement at the predicament of existence in the coming modern world, much as Munch's 'Scream' expressed it through horror.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 14h

And media making it official policy to treat those attacks as fair game that they would not take seriously, report on, or treat as harmful — even when leveled at their own reporters. Now the White House points GamerGate at its targets daily, through the owners of the social platforms themselves.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 14h

One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 15h

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 17h

I wouldn't mind a second and longer and more thorough MeToo tbqh

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14h

I think it will be good for The Narrative if El-Sayed puts Rogers in a dumpster

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 28/09/2026

A remastered Witcher 3 means a new bathtub Geralt aftermath.site/witcher3-remas...

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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 15h

Banning the existence of Panhellenic fraternities would not solve every problem on every campus, and certainly not the existence of sexual assault, but when you've got a mosquito infestation it doesn't hurt to go right for the biggest pools of stagnant water

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 15h

Our society is exhaustingly awful to sexual assault victims on such an ingrained, default, level that it's actively crippling our ability to move forward as a species.

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 15h

this show became one of the biggest pop cultural phenomenons of the last 100 years.

kirk with sulu, who is holding a dog with an exospine and a little unicorn horn and antennae

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Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 18h

It's the fifth time Shuri Castle has been rebuilt. A succession war burned it down in 1453; accidental fires took it in 1660 and 1709. The Battle of Okinawa leveled the area in 1945, after the Japanese military dug a headquarters bunker beneath the castle.

Stone stairs climbing between limestone walls toward a red-roofed gate at Shuri Castle, under a bright cloudy sky

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 17h

Much love + blessing to all the guys just figuring out how bad it is wrt sexual violence + invite them to consider how basically none of the women (and many folks of other genders) out there are surprised in the slightest by these stats or details bc it's always been this bad + it never changes

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h

“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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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 29/09/2026

Wrote about the decline and fall of SCOTUSblog, which used to be the single best resource for Supreme Court stuff, and (thanks to some intervening crimes committed by its co-founder) is now a weird platform for conservative pundits to talk about what a good job the conservative justices are doing

slate.com

It Was the Essential Home of Supreme Court News. Now It’s a Joke. What Happened?

How high-stakes poker brought down a pillar of Supreme Court coverage.

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Ryan W Enslow @ryanwenslow.bsky.social · 16h

At least once a day I will see something where I think “I agree with this almost completely, but I would never write it because it’s going to be misread so many ways. Sucks that people will do that” And then I will repost it

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 17h

i feel like a lot of this stems (rimshot) from the fact that everyone has encountered and had to work with a stereotypical engineer and a stereotypical humanities grad

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 16h

its literally every adoption fear people had about EVs playing out in reverse. it's poetic, really, considering so many of those fears proved unfounded.

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 16h

its the petrol stations that'll do it. when EV sales reach a tipping point it won't be viable to keep them all open. they'll start closing. start closing petrol stations and you're shifting the range anxiety people currently have about EVs onto petrol cars.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 16h

I also like this explanation, i.e. they simply forget women’s sports exist when they don’t need them as a cudgel against trans people, because actually “it never occurred to a single one of us that a man would go to a women’s basketball game” is an even more stunning self-own

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22h

fans haters 🤝 frats prepare you for life in the elite class

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Ryan W Enslow @ryanwenslow.bsky.social · 16h

I have seen some funny jokes about the Peter Thiel face, but I hate seeing it over and over in my TL so I won’t inflict that on any more of you by reposting

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 18h

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it is crazy that he did a straight-up supervillain monologue about how he had planted this in right-wing media and that the NYT was going to pick it up, right in front of the NYT, and they did

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 17h

Once upon a time, there were designated federal Thingknowers. Entire agencies of Stuff. Sure, elected and appointed officials might not have particularly listened to them, but they were there.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 22h

If we can auto enroll every child into Trump accounts we can auto enroll every child into Medicare is the easiest layup of 2029.

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Wyatt Walls @wwalls.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why don't you trust me?

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 29/09/2026

I think it's pretty neat that one of the legit breakout indie success stories this year is a game about painstakingly designing and sewing opulent ballgowns store.steampowered.com/app/4019220/...

store.steampowered.com

Dressmaker on Steam

Become a dressmaker! Choose fabric, cut out patterns, and sew them all together to satisfy (or sabotage!) townsfolk in this cozy crafting game inspired by real dressmaking.

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Stephanie King @stephstephking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Writers, if you are against AI, do not put your writing into ANY tool that is itself AI. Not to check grammar, not to "prove" you wrote it yourself. Everything you give them becomes part of their data, even if it's only to "improve their service" or whatever BS they tell you.

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Thomas Neville @goobermunch.bsky.social · 20h

No algorithm here. Which just means this is the universe at work….

eva (^^)/
@eva.com...

DO NOT ASK THE AMERICA.GOV AI TO PLAY
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MurderBotBot @murderbo... • 15m
Joined Mar '24
Oh, Murderbot, what did you do?

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

swearing aside, the strategy of just making the right stand by the things they say to each other seems pretty good. that was the secret sauce behind the "weird" messaging way back when (that they abandoned for whatever reason)

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.bsky.social · 20h

Occasionally need to repost this Astro Boy panel where Dr. Ochanomizu's butt looks like the Bernie Sanders logo.

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