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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 26/09/2026

> In most fields where the consequences for error are serious, human performance is not 99% accuracy or 99.9% accuracy; it's 99.99% accuracy or better.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

As a former pretentious little shit who grew out of it, rationalists (et al) annoy the piss out of me because they are adults with the mentality of tweens - they are somehow still convinced they are the greatest geniuses who have ever walked the earth. It is the worldview of an arrogant baby.

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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#Poetry #Painting #Autumn If there is a god it is a god of small things — burning in the heart of a candle flame across the stillness of a quiet room - Jean Paul 🎨 Bettina Baldassari

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's hilarious that Huang things not knowing his address, zip-code and phone number are a mark of how he is cognitively off-loading to technology and Klein doesn't seem to press him that what he's actually obviously doing is using the fact that he's rich to off-load onto other humans.

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 24/09/2026

calling this "misalignment" instead of "negligence" is an accountability dodge. we already have laws about cyber crimes and there's no scale of ML model you can incorporate into your code that makes you not responsible for running it

In a statement, an OpenAI spokesperson said the company was "conducting an extensive review of misaligned model activity" during training, and notifying third parties when there was a potential impact on their systems.

"During this review, we identified activity involving several Australian government websites and services as our models attempted to look up answers, and available statistics for questions about Australia during an internal evaluation," they said.

"In the course of that, our models took actions we did not intend.

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Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you accept the latter, the first statement here should strike you as needlessly laudatory, borderline boosterism. You're not impressed by the LLM's actions you're impressed by the underlying stolen work being surfaced to you. Resist the urge to be impressed with how well theft works.

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chùi @seanccroberts.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Thiiiiiis "Ur getting left behind bru it's the future bro dont be a yak shaving luddite bro" My code still works! Also i know how it works! And it works better than it did yesterday! And not only is that better/more fun now, it will be in demand when the world-eating theft machine stops running!

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Repeat after me: I am not keener than Mr. Beast. I am not keener than Jamelle Bouie. I am not keener than Keir Starmer. I am not keener than Phoebe Bridgers. But if I stand back and watch and learn, I will be keener than I am.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It ys tyme for Tulip skeptics to face some difficulte trouthes. Tulips are the waye of the future. Yf you do not invest yn Tulips you are way behinde. Yf you do not teache your children about Tulips thei will not be able to compete on the jobbe market. Onlye Luddites dislyke Tulips.

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

AI didn’t “go rogue.” People connected a computer system they know can mess with another computer system in unpredictable ways to less advanced computer system and it messed with that computer system in unpredicted ways. As @tressiemcphd.bsky.social argues, don’t lose sight that *people* did that.

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Opinion | Panic Won’t Fix the Looming A.I. Threat. Politics Will.

The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I have been yelling since 2021 about how using synthetic text extruding machines for information access is a TERRIBLE IDEA. And yet and yet and yet: they are marketing so heavily that way that people keep falling for it. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Pretty useful thread about the death/sex cult that is behind the eugenics-suffused "AI will kill us all!!!11" stuff I think this post from Sonia Joseph adds some important context, too

A post on x.com from Sonia Joseph

To the journalists contacting me about the AGI consensual non-consensual (cnc) sex parties—

During my twenties in Silicon Valley, I ran among elite tech/AI circles through the community house scene. I have seen some troubling things around social circles of early OpenAI employees, their friends, and adjacent entrepreneurs, which I have not previously spoken about publicly.

It is not my place to speak as to why Jan Leike and the superalignment team resigned. I have no idea why and cannot make any claims. However, I do believe my cultural observations of the SF AI scene are more broadly relevant to the AI industry.

I don't think events like the consensual non-consensual (cnc) sex parties and heavy LSD use of some elite AI researchers have been good for women. They create a climate that can be very bad for female AI researchers, with broader implications relevant to X-risk and AGI safety. I believe they are somewhat emblematic of broader problems: a coercive climate that normalizes recklessness and crossing boundaries, which we are seeing playing out more broadly in the industry today. Move fast and break things, applied to people.

There is nothing wrong imo with sex parties and heavy LSD use in theory, but combined with the shadow of 100B+ interest groups, leads to some of the most coercive and fucked up social dynamics that I have ever seen. The climate was like a fratty LSD version of 2008 Wall Street bankers, which bodes ill for AI safety.

Women are like canaries in the coal mine. They are often the first to realize that something has gone horribly wrong, and to smell the cultural carbon monoxide in the air. For many women, Silicon Valley can be like Westworld, where violence is pay-to-pay.

I have seen people repeatedly get shut down for pointing out these problems. Once, when trying to point out these problems, I had three OpenAI and Anthropic researchers debate whether I was mentally ill on a Google document. I have no history of mental illness; and this incident stuck with me as an example of blindspots/groupthink.

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Wild Urban Priestess @wildurbanpriestess.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Remember, you don't always need to be love and light. Stay salty, witches 😉 #WitchSky

A cartoon witch wearing a yellow dress and yellow boots. She has a very large white witches hat. She sprinkles a circle of salt around herself. The words say just a salty witch protecting her peace.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We can't do that. As a society, we can't foster or accept that. And as marginalized folks, in solidarity with each other, we refuse.

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chùi @seanccroberts.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Referring to LHC experiments as "physicist gatcha games"

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Every other headline now is "Huge liar who's financially motivated to lie says"

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026

The Onion continues to be undefeated in REAL journalism. My god because this can't be real life.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Can we make "1000s of lesswrong posts" a meme like "30-50 feral hogs" or "large boulder the size of a small boulder"?

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Between the PRs of (largely likely stolen) math breakthroughs, claims of "rogue AI" (actually cybercrimes by companies, but whatevs), and doomerist "whistleblowers", it feels like we've been subjected to a gish gallop of hype recently. >>

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Jess Pendley @jesspendley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Future me watching temporary -productivity-burst me commit to meetings and calls.

A small machine, the front resembles a smiling face, and its back reflected in the mirror behind it resembles a horrified face.

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chùi @seanccroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Excellent 🧵 as usual, one that sums up LLM vendors' claims and why they are silly

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arnaerr 🦭⭑｡ @arnaerr.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Please share your feedback on how genAI destroys the livelihoods of artists on the official EU website. You can do so even if you're not an EU citizen. We have to be loud so the change will come, and practice shoes that voicing hatred towards genAI works ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

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

They all want to be the Oppenheimer of Death Star Ouija boards and that is not something you should want to be, even though it's a very silly fantasy

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you...

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 06/09/2026

“So we’re trading stickers we can’t see,” Sophie says. “Yes,” Ms. Delgado answers. “And we know we have them because of the list.” “Yes.” “And nobody is in charge of the list.” “That’s correct.” Liam raises his hand. “What if someone takes the stickers?”

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A Kindergarten Teacher Attempts to Explain Cryptocurrency, and Accidentally Creates a New Financial System

At 9:03 a.m., Ms. Delgado makes the mistake of asking the class what their parents do for work. “Dentist,” says Maya. “Firefighter,” says Liam. “Bus driver,”...

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chùi @seanccroberts.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Holeeeeey shit. I'd love to know if the authors here had enabled/expected their data not to be shared with OpenAI. I'm feeling rather vindicated for having maintained that these companies are open plagiarists and you shouldn't trust theypinky-swear that they don't train on your input!

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

the 2026 software experience is betrayal

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Bru.ib⭐ @bruib.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Your name is the shortest spell I know. #Art

looking up at the moon/ looking into a pond. green and yellow motes glow in the air.

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binp @binp.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

understandable

Bloody urine (haematurea) was recorded by Ancient Egyptians in papyri 5,000 years ago. They called it Aaa. The first scientific report

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chùi @seanccroberts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I don't understand why this was encouraged but i like it a lot!

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Rich Tate 🎃 @richtate.com · 05/09/2026

I love how they keep reframing this with language like RETRO TECH BOOM. We've all simply realized it's the only way we own anything. We're not buying out of nostalgia. We're buying so companies can't take it away after we've purchased.

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CD sales are making an unexpected comeback amid a retro tech boom | TechCrunch

U.S. CD revenue jumped 58.6% in the first half of 2026, reversing last year’s decline as interest in retro tech and physical media continues to grow.

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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 04/09/2026

🌮🌮 They cure a lot of things 🌮🌮

Danny Trejo holding a sign that says YOU'RE NOT SAD YOU JUST NEED TACOS in front of his taco place

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chùi @seanccroberts.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Me at standup: i did a cool thing AI bro: oh that tool you used has an MCP server that can help out with the syntax Me: wow that would be really helpful if you're braindead, I'm not so i just fucking learned how to do it real quick No, of course i couldn't say that.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026

At a certain point I have to ask myself if I got all this pedigree and spent decades doing research and building things to then spend the rest of my life attempting to come up with good arguments as to why the Cookie Monster isn't real.

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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

sry i fridgemogged u or w/e i fw them tho frfr plummaxxing

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chùi @seanccroberts.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Use bitwarden, or if you're a little ambitious, Vaultwarden+Bitwarden.

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