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Well…this certainly makes me feel better…

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 21h

It's Banned Books Week. My fellow librarians, listen carefully: your book displays should be almost exclusively writers who are alive. Yes, I know classic literature is also being banned, but most of those authors are dead. They aren't suffering financially from bans and challenges.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22h

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Sean Massey @seanmassey.net · 04/10/2026

Saw/heard one of those earlier during the Packers/Bucs game.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Brainstorm: How do we use this to taint everyone getting funding from Musk. "Backed by the guy demanding the right to disseminate fake pictures showing you naked"?

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Mr. Spookytime Grift @djdunclive.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm not normally in favor of pillaging with God as the excuse but computer parts are expensive these days...

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026

Lolll I've been doing this shit forever and saying the same exact thing I'm saying right now more than a decade ago and am "being pushed by contrarian media dynamics." 🙄 All of you are hypnotized by talk of fictional machine gods and it's me who has to bring evidence to the contrary.

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andré, but scarier @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

no one's doing it like college woso

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!

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iWillVote.com Pollock ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 30/09/2026

"this was elder care masquerading as world-saving 'policy,' stringing together some of Tr*mp’s favorite activities—proximity to power, document signings, arbitrary renamings— for an entire day" @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/09/30/i...

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In the "Unites States" of "Super Intelligence," "Issues Are Remediated" - emptywheel

Once you realize Trump's morally binding AI code doesn't even spell "United States" properly, the whole sham looks even more ominous.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Sean Massey @seanmassey.net · 28/09/2026

Who's ready to party like it's 2001?

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Sean Massey @seanmassey.net · 27/09/2026

VAMPIRE! VAMPIRE! VAMPIRE! VLS Doors open. Stakes away!

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I find it strange that some people refuse to believe this is the way our decentralised culture works now, that it's possible to be completely ignorant of hugely popular things that don't match your tastes and interests. People aren't lying about that because they think it makes them look cool.

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Sean Massey @seanmassey.net · 27/09/2026

It’s great that Walmart and Target can automatically link in-store purchases to my online account based on my credit card or let me start returns in the mobile app. But what I really want is the ability to print off a gift receipt (or send a digital one) from my purchase history after the fact.

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Words to live by: “baby’s in his find out era.”

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Sean Massey @seanmassey.net · 26/09/2026

“Look at these memes we had AI cook up. Aren’t they the dankest?”

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Sean Massey @seanmassey.net · 26/09/2026

DnD Beyond recommended Oak as a possible name for my latest D&D character, so I’ll be playing a human ranger named Oak Palletburg in my next game.

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Sean Massey @seanmassey.net · 24/09/2026

Worse than Concur? I didn’t know what was possible…

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Sean Massey @seanmassey.net · 24/09/2026

After what happened to the Korean engineers at that new Hyundai factory in Georgia last year, will S. Korea be willing to invest in facilities in the US? Or will they feel like they have no choice?

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Sean Massey @seanmassey.net · 24/09/2026

I wanted to live in interesting times. Just not...this interesting.

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Sean Massey @seanmassey.net · 24/09/2026

I'm sorry, sir. But you're two "accomplishments" short of being twelve kinds of sad.

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Sean Massey @seanmassey.net · 23/09/2026

Is Natalie the modern-day Edith Wilson?

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think the median American position on trans rights is something like “I don’t understand why that man wants to wear a dress but by God it’s his right as an American” which is pretty good, you can work with that

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The Dad Without Life Insurance @lhommedauphin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“people who make politics out of transgenderism are weirder than transgenders”

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Sean Massey @seanmassey.net · 23/09/2026

That said, there are layers of safety nets. Paper maps. Learning how to use a compass and spot trail markers. Having one or more buddies so they’re not alone. And a radio so they can call for help. Far Out and AllTrails are nice. But I’ve gotten lost or misdirected when solely relying on them.

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Sean Massey @seanmassey.net · 23/09/2026

I’m an assistant scoutmaster for my kids’ troop. Trust me - having maps in their phones doesn’t stop the kids from feeling lost. But, also…not every kid is in scouting and purposely goes places where they have no maps or cell signal.

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Sean Massey @seanmassey.net · 23/09/2026

This could be a real paper talking about how the TNG era actually tackled the implications of AI with Data, the ExoComps, and eventually Voyager’s Doctor

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I know we're all* numb to this by now, but it really needs to be said that any one of the batshit insane tyrant tweets from our special little boy would've led to swift efforts to remove any other previous president.

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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This! 👇🏽 AI evangelists pretend that the debate over the nature of AI—namely whether it’s sentient or not, is a referendum on whether it’s dangerous. But that has no relationship to reality. AI can be, AND IS, harmful regardless of whether it’s conscious or merely a creature of its training data.

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Sean Massey @seanmassey.net · 23/09/2026

Rebel Starfighters and their Impact on Early Childhood Literacy Rates in the Outer Rim

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Sean Massey @seanmassey.net · 23/09/2026

Scaling Thermal Exhaust Ports - Why Bigger is Better

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026

i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ATTENTION, NERDS ANOTHER DINO-MUMMY HAS BEEN FOUND IN THE HELL CREEK FORMATION IT IS A T-REX AND THE PALEONTOLOGISTS WORKING ON IT ARE TEASING INDISPUTABLE EVIDENCE OF FEATHERS THIS IS NOT A DRILL www.youtube.com/shorts/PQ0dg...

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Rex Jr | A T. Rex Mummy May Reignite the Feather Debate #animals #dinosaur #evolution #fossil

YouTube video by Zeke Darwin

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Sean Massey @seanmassey.net · 23/09/2026

Is it just me, or does posting a picture of John Thune on the phone laughing make Miller even look more pathetic?

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Sean Massey @seanmassey.net · 23/09/2026

American politicians that are backed and funded by American Businesses that have a vested interest in using said military to advance their interests.

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Sean Massey @seanmassey.net · 22/09/2026

I can't stand "Choosin' Texas." It's...just an annoying song that doesn't make sense to me. And...I kind of like Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You." Yes, it's overplayed. And yes, it's an earworm. But...it's also fun.

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Sean Massey @seanmassey.net · 22/09/2026

It's a really dumb song. You're not missing anything.

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Sean Massey @seanmassey.net · 22/09/2026

And yes, there are a lot of load bearing conditionals like "may" and "might" and "could and "opinion". I'm obviously not an expert, economist, or sociologist. This is just one perspective from the cheap seats.

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Sean Massey @seanmassey.net · 22/09/2026

It's obviously not the only factor, but I think (and again my unexpert opinion) is that this might have contributed to the vibecession. Americans are used to stores overflowing with cheap products. The combination of shortages/delays and rising prices may have been a contributing factor.

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Sean Massey @seanmassey.net · 22/09/2026

IMO, there might be one more factor here. COVID introduced major supply shocks to the US economy - something most people aren't used to. It's more than raising costs - seeing some empty shelves at Walmart/other stores plus daily news about major US ports being backed up.

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Sean Massey @seanmassey.net · 22/09/2026

This…this is a great read. It kind of sums up how I’ve been feeling about recent AI topics.

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