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Salamandrina

@salamandrina.bsky.social
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Writer of stories that scare people. Technical trainer. Photographer, designer, destroyer of worlds. All thoughts belong only to me.

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
AI Bubble Teetering on the Brink as OpenAI Admits to Massive Financial Failure in Leaked Documents Financial Times reveals that OpenAI’s annualized revenue is roughly $20 billion lower than previously expected: futurism.com/future-society/ai-fina…
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Russia can’t even produce enough diesel for its own needs! “Guardian analysis of port records and ship-tracking data found that in July and August over 176,000 tonnes of fuel, mostly diesel, was loaded at several South Korean ports on to seven tankers that made 14 voyages to Russia’s far east.“
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Fuel from South Korea being shipped to Russia as Ukraine war grinds on
Exclusive: Guardian analysis finds more than 150,000 tonnes of fuel was shipped to Russian ports in July and August, some using sanctioned tankers
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 09/10/2026
Who went through all the major platforms where the Pentagon might stream their barbaric firing squad "livestream" execution to see if it violated their policies? Me. I did it.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
when the racist trillionaire with a breeding cult and a child porn bot is funding your opposition you should say something about it
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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 09/10/2026
Seriously, please don't be too shy or polite to ask for ICE whistles if you need them, especially in SoCal. A bunch of us have stockpiles all ready to go in case of surges, if you have the ability to pass them out, we have the whistles!
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026
The exact personalization I want for my software is for it to not contain AI.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Just today: - The Trump admin announced the first public execution since 1936. - Trump tried to incite a race war against Somalis. - Trump said anyone using the phrase AI is "THE ENEMY" - The NYT reported on a potential ICE plan to deport migrants on military boats and ferries.
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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Well. Don't love this.
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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 07/10/2026
Arizona and Virginia, both of which are governed by Democrats, are ending Medicaid coverage of care for trans youth, Transitics has learned. The bans, which go into effect on October 13th, mark the most significant Democratic capitulation to Trump's anti-trans demands yet. Cowards.
transiticsnews.com
Democrat-led Arizona, Virginia Quietly End Medicaid Coverage of Care for Trans Youth, Acquiescing to Trump Demands
The policy changes, which go into effect on October 13th, see Arizona and Virginia join Kansas as states where Democrats have needlessly opted to restrict Medicaid coverage of gender-affirming care.
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I think if you’re not local to DC it’s difficult to comprehend how fucking sad it is to watch all this happening to this beautiful city. I’m barely local, as a transplant to northern Virginia, and I’m very sad
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The "Is AI alive" conversation is 100% this, too. If you can be conned by a chatbot, I fear for your general safety. You are the guy at the stripclub who think the dancers really like you.
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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026
Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I can't wait until the real estate billionaires start fighting the tech billionaires. Because why do we need offices if we're all supposed to be out of work and replaced by AI within half a decade according to these ghouls?
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Elin Winkler @doronjosama.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Shhhhhhh, don't tell him, I feel like we should just let this happen. #darwin
Screenshot of an article headline from Futurism that reads "Alternative health influencer says he's been drinking from a radioactive jug for 250 days straight"  and "My favorite thing about radium water is it pulls the vaccine toxicity out of the body"
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 03/10/2026
You'd think that the Democratic party would be making hay over their opposition's biggest donor fighting to let his bot keep making revenge porn.
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Jeremy Kun @jeremykun.com · 29/09/2026
3rd circuit rules AI training on copyrighted material is NOT fair use. Wow! chatgptiseatingtheworld.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
chatgptiseatingtheworld.substack.com
BREAKING News: Third Circuit affirms summary judgment rejection of fair use defense by ROSS Intelligence in AI training
Opinion under seal for now.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And, for the coup de grace, two bills protecting fire survivors from predatory insurance companies, which he vetoed, deliberately, to punish fire survivors for rejecting his "reform" bill that was actually a huge payout to SCE for starting fires. calmatters.org/economy/2026...
calmatters.org
Newsom vetoes insurance-claim bills: Is it ‘petty’ politics?
California governor rejects legislation sponsored by LA fire victims, who had spoken out against his wildfire-liability effort.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And so it continues... Our economic debates seem utterly disconnected from the reality. That reality: This is an economy mostly creating healthcare jobs, and it does so month after month, and everything else is just noise.
Line chart titled "Effectively all of the net job creation has been in healthcare and social assistance, and jobs are shrinking in the rest of the economy" showing change in non-farm payrolls since January 2025 through September 2026. Healthcare and social assistance added 998,000 jobs with consistent growth throughout the period, while the rest of the economy lost 222,000 jobs, meaning all net job creation came from healthcare. The rest of the economy showed particular weakness from May through August 2025 when losses reached 218,000 jobs. This striking divergence reveals an unusual concentration where one sector's growth of roughly 48,000 jobs per month has offset persistent contraction across all other industries combined.
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Infuriating. Loish’s art has been RIPPED OFF by AI, since the very beginning, because she is popular and well loved. Now it’s coming back around to bite her again
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Salamandrina @salamandrina.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This was exactly why I liked it. It was a cozy fantasy, not a thinly veiled erotic novella. It was light and fluffy as cotton candy, with the right level of curmudgeon on both sides.
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warrior rabbit @warriorrabbit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Virginia is for lovers… of cats These colony cats need food. Regustered charity, tax deductible. Can’t give? Please share the post with others. #Virginia #cats #colonycats
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨🚨Emergency protest🚨🚨 The Drexel board will be at the constitution center in Old City (525 Arch St, Philadelphia, PA 19106) from 5-6. We're asking Drexel to disaffiliate from the Academy of Nat Sci to allow them to negotiate what's best for them w/o Drexel interference. Be there.
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Nick Barreto @nick-barreto.com · 29/09/2026
The whole "breaks containment" narrative itself is such an absolute fiction in itself. It's not like we haven't for decades had ways to completely block network requests entirely when we want to. I guess "I didn't set up an appropriate environment for my tests and they broke" doesn't make the news
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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's never "AI agent breaks containment, cures cancer, does a bit of tidying up and puts the kettle on", is it?
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
Basically using LLMs and agentic ai is a massive security risk and no one should do so basically ever and these companies should be prosecuted for hacking. Also two-party consent should extend to all electronic communications.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
It ALMOST feels like we’re just starting to reach the normies with “the federal government and Silicon Valley have joined forces to spy on every aspect of your life and it’s called Palantir” and it’s either going to be the turning point for radical privacy or cripple the concept forever.
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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At this point, I assume any defense of AI was written by it. I’ve not been wrong.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One hundred percent. Rats from a sinking ship. They see the pendulum swinging back and want to make sure they're not in the flight path. No mercy.
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 28/09/2026
An unelected political appointee is disobeying the will of Congress & the rule of law by withholding funds for programs approved with bipartisan support. Blatantly unconstitutional. Flagrantly anti-science. The latest example of authoritarianism from the Trump admin.
npr.org
What to know about the $810 million in spending canceled by President Trump
President Trump announced plans to cancel $810 million in Congressionally approved spending, a move that some in his own party are calling illegal.
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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
The USA’s war on ADHD medication & treatment availability is (and always has been) eugenics & medical Calvinism. www.theguardian.com/society/2025... Medication (& behavioral therapy is usually a good plus) saves, enables, & improves lives. #NoStigma
theguardian.com
ADHD medication linked to lower risk of suicidal behaviours, study suggests
Research also suggests the medication lowers risks of substance misuse, transport accidents and criminality
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Salamandrina @salamandrina.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I managed to quit before I started medication (took many tries), but the urges didn’t decrease at all until I did. Now I barely have any, even if I have been drinking or am stressed. I started smoking to stop self injuring, also a result of depression and anxiety from untreated A(u?)DHD
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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 28/09/2026
part of the problem with handling oppression as a problem resulting from individual prejudice compounded at scale is that it makes saying this kind of thing sound conspiratorial instead of just what happens when people are looking at an oppressive culture and figuring out how to profit from it
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Marissa Louise NYCC @marissadraws.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Anyway, that thread is way too long. But if you ever wonder why I'm furious at certain wealthy types, it's because we have already seen all this play out. I don't know why we are removing the guard rails (SNAP, child protections, breaking wealth, etc) & allowing it to happen again!
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New, from me: Once memory-holed, DOGE is now the subject of revisionism. To better understand why DOGE failed, I talked to people in the civic tech movement that DOGE displaced, who continue to offer the alternative model for how to modernize govt. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-vs-ci...
donmoynihan.substack.com
DOGE vs. Civic Tech
As DOGE revisionism picks up, a contrast with the civic tech movement it displaced illuminates its failure
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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Write it on the goddamned sky
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Andrea Shockling @andreashockling.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We already have the ‘lost generation’ of folks not diagnosed with autism or ADHD until adulthood when the floor literally drops out from under them and they are so severely burned out they’re in a crisis state. But go off.
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Crypt Echo @corinnabechko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Pervert Pendant is alliterative so I’m thinking that’s a win for us branding this “little guy.”
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Salamandrina @salamandrina.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We tried, but the store we were picking up from is sold out.
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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A lot of my gn work is adaptations and let me tell you; if you try to do it this way you are going to get the worst slop imaginable. I've seen what other co's have produced with this kind of thing. They are a MESS with truly no value. This is a collaborative medium for a reason.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good morning, team. We have 3.5 days until Drexel closes the Academy of Natural Sciences. It’s time for you- yeah YOU- to make some calls. Step 1: Tell the following people we need help pressuring Drexel to keep the museum open: Josh Shaprio 717-787-2500 Mayor Parker's 215-686-2181
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 23/09/2026
Impeach all the liars who said they had conversations with him, after you impeach his propped-up corpse.
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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My reaction to this was “huh, doesn’t sound like Duckworth.” So I watched it. She’s talking about tariffs & funding USAID & farm bankruptcies & it’s obvious that the “save face” bit was acknowledging these things will change only if Trump agrees & you get him to do that by letting him think he won/1
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"[T]he Constitution limits how the House can exercise its authority to refuse to seat members-elect. New York Rep. Adam Clayton Powell had won reelection in 1966, but the House voted to refuse to seat him. In the 1969 case of Powell v. McCormack, the Supreme Court ... ordered the seating of Powell."
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Salamandrina @salamandrina.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Who decided that cooktops/ranges in the middle of the damned room was the way to go. Down with open floorplans, first, and also, no stoves/sinks in islands 2026
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
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