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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 4h

The order in the 3d Cir case finding that AI training is not fair use, in the context of the use of headnotes/summaries of caselaw is out. While I get that a lot of people will like the outcome, it's a terrible decision that's likely to benefit big business. www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/252...

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 7h

This man is doing more harm to the US military through screaming incompetence than most foreign adversaries could manage through the use of force.

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 30/09/2026

The part that turns me into a rabid harpy is someone will STILL ask “Well why didn’t she just come forward” as if that’s an actual question that needs to be discussed in 2026. (Yes I’m aware)

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Republicans gave Obama wiretapping powers and the lesson they took wasn't "maybe presidents shouldn't have wiretapping powers," it was "we have to make sure all future presidents are Republicans forever" They are acting accordingly now

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 29/09/2026

It’s Launch Day, darling! This one is not cozy or for the faint of heart, please note the warnings, but it’s here at last! And while you should read in the way you like the best—dude, Neil Newbon’s narration knocks it out of the PARK. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/813073...

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Baldur's Gate 3: Astarion by T. Kingfisher: 9798217298594 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

The roguish charlatan Astarion will free himself from a centuries-long fate of servitude or die (a second time) trying—in this decadently dark fantasy adventure by award-winning author T. Kingfisher.....

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Dropout @dropout.tv · 29/09/2026

Want to know more about Hundreds of Beavers on Dropout? Here’s Sam Reich to explain…

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Will "scifantasy" Frank @scifantasy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I heard a lot about Hundreds of Beavers when it came out but I didn't have the opportunity to see it. It's on @dropout.tv? Nice!

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I give up. I’m moving into a cave.

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Will "scifantasy" Frank @scifantasy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Okay, this is more like what I was given to understand Seattle is like.

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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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Sean Eric Fagan @kithrup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#HeadsUp: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weird is on US ebook sale for $3. I got some for random giveaway. I enjoyed the book, although I'll note I'm starting to worry the author will turn into another Scott Adams.

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Will "scifantasy" Frank @scifantasy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Hold still. This patch needs cleaning."

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The trouble with book tour is that I can't properly promote and shout about upcoming events when I'm on airplanes and running from one location to the next. Fun fun fun. But! Come see me tomorrow night in Redmond, WA for fun, and the kind of exhaustion that comes only from too much travel.

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Will "scifantasy" Frank @scifantasy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Took the bus instead of the light rail to work. Pro: quicker and more direct. Con: much less smooth of a ride. Decisions...

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We all dream of that amazing out-of-nowhere contact from someone with so much faith in our work that they reach out first. And sometimes it happens! But even when it's real, no one legit will judge you for being cautious. Don't bite every hook that's dangled in your tank.

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 28/09/2026

Also summarized.

Me: GIRL MY COUNTRY IS SO FUCKING STUPID

Ale: Yes, I know.

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Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The ELECTROTYPE FIEND!

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 28/09/2026

🧵. There are a few games that do interesting things with owning your mistakes. But most games actually do not *expect* you to do that. The failure state exists only to make success feel valuable. They don't actually expect anyone to settle for failing.

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Look, everyone is wrong about most things most of the time, and any group that thinks it has better principles or better access to the truth is setting itself up to enable deeply immoral and abusive behavior. It sucks that this could describe dozens of different things, but that's where we are.

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Cadu Rodrigues @sotosendocadu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tbh, I think we need to kill the concept of being the idea guy by this point People really misunderstand art making and even working professionally in creative fields because of how people over appreciate "the idea" part of the process

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Will "scifantasy" Frank @scifantasy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Someone just stopped me to ask for directions to the light rail. What's weirder, I was able to provide them.

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Will "scifantasy" Frank @scifantasy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Enstabbinations complete! COVID and flu.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 25/09/2026

These clowns want to cede the most important decisions in comics storytelling to a fucking bot. And you know this would lead to further underpayment of artists. Boycott any book or publisher that uses this.

Walk me through what the platform actually does.

You put in a manuscript. The system spends time studying the story, including the thesis, the background, the protagonist, and the emotional beats that pay off for a reader, and produces a storyboard that gets you to roughly 60–70% of a finished product. Then an editor, the author, and an illustrator go in and shape that further, because a purely AI-generated output tends to lack soul and be generic. This is not a self-driving car. It's more like handing a Ferrari to someone who already knows how to drive.

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Tina Carleton @oreganospice.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm now trying to think of law firm specific things people should know: Lawyers can't do math Every lawyer has one law tv show that they inexplicably give a pass to while bitching about the inaccuracy of all of the others Lawyers can be defeated with silver

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Will "scifantasy" Frank @scifantasy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Managed to escape the tea festival only spending $18 on tea (and $4 on a delicious piece of millionaire's shortbread). But drank a lot of delicious samples, and I now have a list of a lot of fantastic local(ish) tea shops/dealers!

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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Given that AI is ideologically and technologically driven by exploitation, entitlement, theft, plagiarism, sycophancy, narcissism, a refusal to accept consequences and a baseline level of hostility towards human rights, it should surprise nobody that this extends to the industry's treatment of women

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Will "scifantasy" Frank @scifantasy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Neighborhood exploration is done for the day. Oh hey. Look where it ended.

A banner and giant teapot bearing the label "Northwest Tea Festival."

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Mezzo @heartbreak.one · 27/09/2026

Aella, your event fucking sucks, and if you can't figure out how to have a sexy time and also have explicit consent idk what to say other than "skill issue" sorry I'm just SO MAD

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The National Association for Information Destruction has to have one of the highest ratios of implied to actual villainy out there. (They certify companies that do things like un-reconstructable shredding.)

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wing is approximately seven 1/3 flyers that draw cards @sevenishmagpies.com · 27/09/2026

Okay hi now that I'm at a computer and checked to make sure I'm not breaking an NDA by saying this here's full context to the survey email (tagging @graham.loadingreadyrun.com @shivambhatt.bsky.social since y'all interacted with my initial bed skeet). This gon' be a thread.

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 27/09/2026

really hope that the message people take away from all the EA sex parties stuff is "don't import inherently coercive real life employer/employee or mentor/mentee dynamics into your edgeplay kink spaces" and not "THEY DO THE IMMORAL KIND OF SEX DISGUSTING"

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Will "scifantasy" Frank @scifantasy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My mother: "Don't be mean." Me: "I'm not being mean, I'm being snarky. There's a difference."

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Will "scifantasy" Frank @scifantasy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today's agenda: visit Queen Anne, South Lake Union, and Capitol Hill; tea festival (hi @teawitch.bsky.social!); COVID and flu shot appointment; Mud Bay (pet food store). Once it's not too early, that is. For now, tea.

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Will "scifantasy" Frank @scifantasy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Notes from a Time Zone Transplant: It does get quiet here and on the rest of the Internet around 9-10PM Pacific Time, when most of the US is asleep. Flip side, by the time I wake up (for real, not counting feline intrusions into sleep), the Discourse of the Day is already kicking.

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James Harbeck @sesquiotic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One reason everyone should study things like philosophy and critical theory is so we don’t get these random burps of “If you don’t like this thing I like it must be because you hate every member of this group I associate myself with”

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

there is a certain undercurrent of something that can only be described as puritanism on this site, where understanding a bad thing must mean you're into that thing because apparently the only way to battle bad things is to yell loudly they are very bad someone else better fix them but not like this

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yes. YES!!!

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Will "scifantasy" Frank @scifantasy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don't exactly feel _bad_ for them, but I have to imagine they weren't thrilled when Severance came out.

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Will "scifantasy" Frank @scifantasy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Dear U District Station, this is just weird.

The wall of the light rail underground station features fake windows that are screens showing what look like images of the inside of apartments.

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Will "scifantasy" Frank @scifantasy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Initial Northern Seattle impressions: Roosevelt feels like Bed-Stuy or other less gentrified neighborhoods. Probably because Green Lake took up all the gentrification. Northgate is a mall. Maple Leaf is Stamford, CT, Western Edition. Mountlake Terrace and Lynnwood next.

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Will "scifantasy" Frank @scifantasy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Eowyn was serenading me from 3-4:30, so I'm late off the blocks. Today, I head north on the Link to explore the northern suburbs.

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Friday Afternoon Tea @fridaytea.com · 26/09/2026

Looking for something delicious to do in Seattle this weekend? Come out and say hi to your fave tea nerds at the Northwest Tea Festival! 🍵❤️ We'll be pouring tastes and geeking over our favorite beautiful leaves Saturday and Sunday at the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall. Drop by and say hello!

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Last night I finished reading the 64th and final book in the Warhammer 40,000 Horus Heresy series.

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