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Scott McKee

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Experienced Web Designer & Developer | Director of UX at WTW | Head, hand, and heart

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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 9h
you don’t like ai? have you tried it? how are you supposed to have an informed opinion unless you try it? oh you have? what model? that’s an old one. you need to try one of the new paid ones. have you tried the new paid one? how are you supposed to critique a company if you’re not a paying customer?
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Bruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Brogrammers couldn't wrap their megabrains around not-a-real-language CSS, so decided to reinvent it and fight against the web platform for their own convenience. Who could possibly have predicted it would be crap for users, and would need expensive surgery to drain the festering pus?
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 01/10/2026
AI safety expert Timnit Gebru says tech leaders are promoting greatly exaggerated claims about "superintelligence" and "existential risk" as a way to distract from the real threat — their own unregulated companies.
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The Real Existential Risk Is AI CEOs Avoiding Oversight: “Alternative Nobel” Winner Timnit Gebru
We speak to the prominent AI researcher and leading critic of the AI industry, Timnit Gebru, who was recently awarded a 2026 Right Livelihood Award for her work investigating the harms and hype behind...
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Sarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this technology and the political economy that has grown up around it “is an insult to life itself”. LLMs/GenAI are fundamentally unethical, and because they break trust, sow alienation and are caustic to communities of knowledge. www.yahoo.com/news/insult-...
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'An insult to life itself': Studio Ghibli's Hayao Miyazaki condemns AI art
A clip of legendary Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki reacting to artificial intelligence (AI) art has reentered online discourse surrounding the technology’s surge in popularity. The video ...
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
AI surveillance trial costs £320k, catches zero crooks even the AI that works doesn’t work www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QEMoNIuamg… - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260929-ai-su… - podcast time: 4 min 10 sec
robot detective looks around corner
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 29/09/2026
Either this is true, in which case *what are we doing here*? Shut it down. Or it's bullshit, in which case these are truly silly people unworthy of our money
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Trapped O'Brien, Please Free Me From This Prison @radobrien.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026
AI companies when their finance documents are leaked
Very important people I invested it and turned it into 16000
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
AI coding's actual use case is enterprise software proceeding with vastly greater velocity from dumb idea to unshiftable tech debt waste dump the stuff was always terrible and barely worked, but we can churn it so much faster now
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
I wrote a paper about this (i wrote a dissertation about this, but the paper is more digestible); it's called "Any Sufficiently Transparent Magic"
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
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Iron Ring - Wikipedia
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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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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
when AI companies go bankrupt
5 panel comic

Panel 1: Red Guy with “AI” on his chest is falling backwards off a cliff. A Purple Guy is running to “save him”

Panels 2-4: Close up of Purple Guy’s hands gradually going from outstretched fingers to a closed fist

Panel 5: Red Guy falls backwards off the cliff while Purple Guy does nothing but show him his middle finger.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
been thinkin about how robots are gonna kill us
Scratchy drawing of a two panel comic.
Panel 1: 
Titled:“How we thought robots would kill us”
A robot shoots a human to death with a gun. It screams “Die flesh sack”

Panel 2:
Titled “How robots will actually kill us”
A MediBot is injecting something into a humans arm. The bot says “Whooops. I injected you with cancer instead of insulin. That’s on me”
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Dr. Pete Meyers @dr-pete.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This joke combines many of my interests ...
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 18/09/2026
Of course it was a software defect. We're going to be seeing a lot more shit like this happen over the next few years as people discover that the software industry is being unravelled not "revolutionised"
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026
I don't think there's a better illustration of the incredible danger of people credulously and irresponsibly over-adopting generative AI than the use of it by DOCTORS to note vital information. This should be as illegal as fabricating notes by hand. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated
But that decision would cause her a lot of stress, with the AI scribe making up the serious but false claim that Ms Green was taking illegal drugs.

"I was gobsmacked and in tears … it made up that I take [psychedelic] mushrooms. I have never done mushrooms in my life,"  she said.
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Nikes | AlexLeeDee @alexleedee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas.
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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026
In this essay, a consideration of one of the motivations for the increase in the harassment of researchers such as @olivia.science @emilymbender.bsky.social @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social from 'AGI' doomers: desperation: monroelab.com/2026/09/09/t...
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The AGI Inquisition
Many people, particularly women, who are in what is loosely and pejoratively called the ‘anti AI’ cohort, have commented on an increase in rhetoric about ‘artificial general intelligence’ (a meta m…
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026
This man objected to my warning that apocalyptic "AI extinction" talk is corporate ploy for regulatory capture, marketing, and side stepping accountability. He said he left DeepMind, like the Anthropic "whistleblower." So lets have a brief history lesson about DeepMind's origins in doomer cults🧵
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1. I literally quit my Google DeepMind job & lost >>$300k to call out harms regarding autonomous weapons... and extinction risk is still more important, which is why I'm speaking out + working to solve it

2. GDM does NOT want to stoke fears about extinction risks lol
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
People who continue to pursue a technology under these circumstances are either massive liars or truly believe this and are persisting anyway, and either way they are rotten people who should be removed from all forms of power and access.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Historians, help me out: Do we have precedent for what to do when the media interviews members of cults and just platforms them, with zero acknowledgment that they are living inside their own delusions? www.marketplace.org/episode/2026...
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The Hugging Face hack shows what happens when AI agents work together
Nate Soares, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, says the attack presents a narrow window for humans to act.
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
welcome to 2020s tech. we got - pervert glasses - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - the button that does nothing - we outta ram - we outta hard drives - we outta graphics cards - ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses - wiretap
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026
Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Imagine being stupid enough to learn the wrong lesson from every movie you’ve ever watched or book you’ve ever read.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Created this for a reply on LinkedIn, but it applies pretty generally, so posting it here, too:
Simpsons "Don't make me tap the sign" meme with the text "Just because you've identified a problem doesn't mean an LLM is the solution" on the sign.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.
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Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
OpenAI is now facing more than 50 consumer harm and wrongful death lawsuits alleging that extensive use of ChatGPT resulted in psychological harm, physical injury, and even the deaths of users and/or those around them. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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OpenAI Is Now Facing Over 50 Consumer Harm and Wrongful Death Lawsuits
OpenAI was hit with 30 new lawsuits overs its alleged role in the Tumbler Ridge school massacre. It now faces over 50 consumer harm lawsuits.
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Adrian Roselli, pH0 @aardrian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“Evaluating a Success Criterion” adrianroselli.com/2026/09/eval... My steps for getting the W3C’s most current (and soon-to-be-current) position on any SC. 470 words. #WCAG #accessibility #a11y
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Evaluating a Success Criterion
Sidney Paget illustration of Sherlock Holmes from Strand Magazine, December 1892, p.646, but I added papers from his March 1893 (p.281 of Strand Magazine) illustration and then two versions of the W3C...
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
And there you have it. Google Maps is calling Lake Ontario Lake America, despite having NO obligation to do so. Cowardly, unnecessary, corporate capitulation.
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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Fisher/Jameson said "It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism". And yet, that act of imagining alternatives is urgent; if AI tells us nothing else, it tells us that capitalism is actively imagining the end of us.
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Craig Abbott @craigabbott.co.uk · 12/08/2026
AI models have started putting invisible watermarks into the content they write. So, if you use AI to write stuff for you, re-structure your own writing, or even just use it to correct your grammar, then may want to know how this could affect you! www.craigabbott.co.uk/blog/2026/ar... #ai #EuAiAct
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Article 50 of the EU AI Act, and what it means for you - Craig Abbott
AI now leaves watermarks in generated text. What that means for you if you write with AI.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton did what literally no techbro billionaire would even think of doing: filling her life with good deeds that make people mourn her when she dies. Not one of these assholes would even think of this, they are all right now completely and honestly baffled by the outpouring of love for her.
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Aboogail Screamini @abbeyperini.dev · 24/08/2026
Don't know who needs to hear this today, but React isn't the only front-end web development tool.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Dependency is the goal.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
LinkedIn just announced its “seems like AI slop” button has been used by a million people since launch and its efforts are already materially improving feeds, with AI slop getting 40% fewer views. I’d personally pay good money for a “seems like AI slop” button at work. 🤪
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LinkedIn says its AI slop button is working - Engadget
LinkedIn says its AI slop button is working.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
One of the reasons I expect AI usage by businesses to increase is that using AI creates problems that are only fixed by using more AI. We use AI to write code and now there’s too much code to review. Do we (A) use less AI to reduce the flood OR (B) use AI for code reviews as well Rinse & repeat.
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Jason Lengstorf @jason.energy · 15/08/2026
lots of talk about the mental toll of AI (probably thanks to @tolin.ski’s recent video) and a big factor seems to be constant context switching please allow me to tap the sign:
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Please stop multitasking. I’m begging you. Please.
The greatest trick we ever pulled on ourselves as knowledge workers was convincing ourselves we could juggle multiple projects with no consequences.
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Jason Lengstorf @jason.energy · 15/08/2026
it’s kinda funny watching people get mad about text watermarking in LLMs. “word choice matters!” if you feel so strongly about that, have you considered… choosing the words yourself?
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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 13/08/2026
“AI Software Development – What Does The Data Say?” codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/08/1… > If anything, the average team is taking longer to ship worse software Anecdotally, this is what I've been hearing too. Higher costs; worse outcomes.
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AI Software Development – What Does The Data Say?
I’m currently pulling together a bunch of sources – that are mostly recent – on the topic of LLMs and their use in software development. Some are peer-reviewed studies. Some are i…
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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 12/08/2026
“I'm done using AI – Brett Codes” brettcodes.com/im-done-usin... > This is a horrible existence, and it was one of the other signs that this is untenable for me to continue like this.
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I'm done using AI
Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.
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Vale @vale.rocks · 10/08/2026
Some quick thoughts on the new CodePen. It isn't for me (but that's alright). vale.rocks/micros/20260...
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CodePen 2.0 Release Thoughts - 10 Aug 2026 01:10 UTC
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Hidde @hidde.blog · 02/08/2026
🔗 From today, EU regulation around labeling AI generated content goes into effect. The Commission provides icons that can be used digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/...
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EU Icons for labelling AI-generated content
Deployers of generative AI systems can use the EU set of icons to label certain AI-generated content, in accordance with the AI Act transparency rules.
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