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AI should not be given access to audio production because they will recreate the Bene Gesserit Voice and command humans to kill themselves.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 21h

Well, happy Charles Darwin is “very poorly today & very stupid & hate[s] everybody & everything” to all who celebrate, because he wrote those words in a letter to his friend (and author of Principles of Geology) Charles Lyell 161 years ago today

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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here it comes... the large coronal hole is almost directly facing Earth now, which means fast solar wind is 3-4 days away. In fact, NOAA SWPC has just issued a G1/minor storm watch for Oct 2. This means there are chances for mid-latitude auroral displays Thu and Fri nights. #heliophysics

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Steve Downey @sdowney.org · 30/09/2026

Huh, remember when we gave AOL and WorldCom all the money because Internet?

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Steve Downey @sdowney.org · 30/09/2026

There's a reason we made so many ashtrays in school.

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The Phantom Tollbooth Quotes @phantomtollbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"But there is one problem even more serious than that," he whispered ominously. "What is it?" gasped Milo, who was not sure he really wanted to know. "I'm afraid I can tell you only when you return. Come along," said the Mathemagician

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NosferaPru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please stop calling me on my phone that's not what it's for

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Steve Downey @sdowney.org · 28/09/2026

From Gerry Weinberg, for consultants -- The Helpful Model: No matter how it looks, everyone is trying to be helpful. It's at least partly to maintain your own sanity.

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Steve Downey @sdowney.org · 28/09/2026

Still wondering about where in the Forgotten Realms our Hero gets lip gloss. "A wizard did it" only goes so far.

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Steve Downey @sdowney.org · 28/09/2026

I would like more coffee but I am trapped.

Fynn, smol bean, resting his head on my arm.

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Steve Downey @sdowney.org · 28/09/2026

There's a lot of money off balance sheets on all sides that has to start moving next year, and they desperately need a story why not paying the loans isn't their fault.

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Steve Downey @sdowney.org · 28/09/2026

For AI the problem isn't insiderness. It's that they are quite insane and the risks they want regulated are straight out of 50 year old SF. On top of the general lack of Software regulations.

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Steve Downey @sdowney.org · 28/09/2026

Wall St will always come as close to the line without going over as allowed. Even there, while CEO may want the general framework relaxed, and more risk allowed, Compliance is taken super seriously, and the details come a lot from industry.

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Steve Downey @sdowney.org · 28/09/2026

CEOs and lobbyists tend to meet with legislators and maybe political appointees. Before MBAs ate the world, C-types were experts in their industry. Airline safety regulations were demanded by the airlines, and were pretty good.

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Steve Downey @sdowney.org · 28/09/2026

I was satisfied with the Spider Noir ending, definitely a complete story. Wonder Man was a complete story but ends leaving me really wanting to spend more time with the characters talking acting craft with each other. I'd watch either knowing they end.

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Steve Downey @sdowney.org · 28/09/2026

Regulatory capture is a real thing. But really, most of the time, an industry is full of people who want real regulations and have the expertise to help define and enforce them. That doesn't mean they could be voluntary. Or that they could just do it themselves. Have you met people?

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Steve Downey @sdowney.org · 28/09/2026

I made my parents teach me to read by the expedient of making them read the same book "again" until I could read it by myself.

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Hear me out, we all agree to cancel Monday..." 📷️ Paul Browning

A pair of Kestrels huddle together on a mossy branch, their heads tucked close as if whispering conspiratorially to one another. The golden evening light highlights the intricate patterning on their feathers while the woodland behind fades into a soft blur.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 27/09/2026

Place the close “ or else I’ll feel like I’m quoting the entire thread NO I AM NOT NEURODIVERGENT AT ALL WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT AHAHAHA

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Steve Downey @sdowney.org · 28/09/2026

It is such a Monday that I thought it was Tuesday for the first 30 minutes.

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Steve Downey @sdowney.org · 27/09/2026

Beat me to it. 😀 Adipose / Partners in Crime S4E1.

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Steve Downey @sdowney.org · 27/09/2026

Literally to try to appease the Catholic Church. Which was not appeased.

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Steve Downey @sdowney.org · 27/09/2026

No one can do math. Settling the tab at department dinners when I was a Maths major was always terrible.

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Steve Downey @sdowney.org · 27/09/2026

I am suspicious only because it sounds like such an easy lawsuit to win. Data from EDM events had strobe effect seizures at 1.25 per 10K people, so, rare but not that rare. Multiple events with nothing done is how that McDonald's lost the hot coffee suit. Deservedly.

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Steve Downey @sdowney.org · 27/09/2026

My favorite Mexican restaurant was a food cart on the north side of Bloomingdales on 60th Street.

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Steve Downey @sdowney.org · 27/09/2026

They're starting to vanish, too. Between costs and the younger generation not wanting to take on the family business. Italian deli is more like the pizza operations. Bagels are somewhere in between, since you do need a good sized kitchen, but specialized.

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Steve Downey @sdowney.org · 27/09/2026

I never expected immanentizing the eschaton to be something I had to worry about other people worrying about. Or having to find out how "eschaton" is pronounced (hard ch).

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Steve Downey @sdowney.org · 27/09/2026

The Illuminatus! trilogy was accidental vaccination against the TESCREAL virus.

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Steve Downey @sdowney.org · 27/09/2026

It's also important in explaining why the popular kid clique in High School is doomed and you will be avenged.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 26/09/2026

Right so the real trouble with phones is that they can make us think that we're not bored when we are in fact still bored

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Steve Downey @sdowney.org · 26/09/2026

"you had my curiosity, but now you have my attention"

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Steve Downey @sdowney.org · 26/09/2026

"Sucks for everyone" is the best way to harness the energy of the aggrieved white suburban mom. Keeps them from worrying about the "undeserving".

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Steve Downey @sdowney.org · 26/09/2026

Airplane-bullet-holes-diagram.gif

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Steve Downey @sdowney.org · 26/09/2026

Not common, but well known enough to be understood. Apparently originated in a word game, Gruesomes, of the worst possible thing to say or ask. (My) Usage is for utterly misunderstanding or ignoring the context of an event.

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Steve Downey @sdowney.org · 26/09/2026

She does not get eaten by eels at this time.

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Steve Downey @sdowney.org · 26/09/2026

Shades aren't enough. The future is so bright, you gotta wear welding goggles.

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Steve Downey @sdowney.org · 26/09/2026

“He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.”

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves The World day to all who celebrate.

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Steve Downey @sdowney.org · 26/09/2026

My cats are not sure what we're looking at, but are happy to participate.

Fynn, the very orange smol cat, and Bubba, who is spiritually orange, looking in the same direction I am, because that's what we are doing together.

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Steve Downey @sdowney.org · 25/09/2026

The sky is trying to warn me

A very very red sky at sunset in the approaching Stormpocalypse.

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Steve Downey @sdowney.org · 25/09/2026

Is it fair to read the * * * at the top of page 5 as redacted swearing at the 8th Circuit and the Sec of State?

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Steve Downey @sdowney.org · 25/09/2026

'AI "super intelligence"' is a "rationalist" / TESCREAL article of faith. It's a risk like Roko's Basilisk. Existential risk is a term of art in AI. Pin anyone down on what they mean. If it means risk to the infinite future of humanity filling the local galactic cluster or human extinction, no.

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Liz Shuler @lizshuler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

*9 to 5* may have been a comedy, but for so many of us women fighting for respect on the job, it felt all too real. Dolly helped make us laugh at the boss and imagine what we could change together. Happy 9 to 5 Day! We miss you, Dolly.

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🎃 𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

ICYMI, this account that is live-blogging The Lord of the Rings (based on Tolkien’s calendar in the appendices) is just getting started again with Frodo journey. It’s a good follow if you want to see random appearances of hobbits and such on your feed.

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When you're thinking about the all time greatest moments of television, not nearly enough people think of this one.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026

lol lol lol lol lol lol lol

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Detritus Books @detritusbooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nobody talks, everybody walks.

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