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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

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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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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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline

The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Limix Colonel @kastor.sh · 28/09/2026

As I have reiterated many times before, as someone who actually understands and has worked extensively with language models... it is fundamentally *not possible* to programmatically detect if a work of text is written by AI.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Having written a TV show built on "deep dives on one bad rich guy per week" with one version 2008-2012 and another 2021-2025, I'll say that the OG evil rich guys were evil greedy assholes, and the new rich guys are mentally disordered perverts, and so do evil. And not the good kind of perverts.

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Sydney on the streets, Reira in the (character) sheets @setsunamh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I really would love to use something like @ellipsus.com instead of Docs, but I absolutely MUST be able to access and work on my files offline. I've been looking for a while now, and nothing checks all the boxes: Windows and iPad with offline mode *for both*, supports headings, zero AI. 🫠

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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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Nɪɢʜᴛ Exᴄɪsɪᴏɴ🔪 @nightexcision.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

When there are multiple stories about data centers simply building gas turbines without permits, PROVING they can’t be trusted, you’d be a fool to trust them. This is not paranoia, it’s pragmatism.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I think what I find really depressing about AI in higher education is how so many people didn't even wait for the evidence/research before we decided on telling students "how to use AI responsibly" which often includes things like checking grammar, and obviously, we shouldn't have been

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Jeffrey Lerman @snakester95.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

After seeing genAI game trailers appear even before Gamescom, I reached out to a few trailer editors to see how they feel about its use. Derek Lieu gave me this winner of a quote, among many others in the article.

A quote from the article, said by Derek Lieu. "Even without considering the negative ethical, ecological, or legal implications of using genAI (of which there are MANY), I think it's utterly ridiculous to even consider using it in creative works because even a little bit will make people question everything else in the game or trailer. You can’t put a tiny little bit of poop in a dinner and expect people to eat it."

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 23/08/2026

Racists are liars because racism is a lie.

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Lady RatBird @cinniharpy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Heeeey so sales have slowed both online and at events. I need to buy bird food, groceries, and pay some bills. It would mean a lot if you'd consider getting some dice and/or spreading the word 🙏💖🦜

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I submit this is the most important story of the day. In 2017, a sailor told the President that the old steam carrier catapults were better than the new electric ones, probably in the same way your elderly neighbor says carburetors were better than these new fangled fuel injectors.

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Worth reiterating every time that this is not some cancel-culture purity test: JK Rowling has pledged more than a billion dollars of her Harry Potter money towards bankrolling anti-trans lawsuits. This finances that.

deadline.com

Nicholas Hoult In 'Harry Potter' Season 2 As Gilderoy Lockhart - Excl.

Nicholas Hoult has joined Season 2 of HBO Max's 'Harry Potter. He will play Gilderoy Lockhart, portrayed in the second movie by Kenneth Branagh.

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Your bad art is better than AI slop.

four frame comic. first frame shows a typical AI poster that says : All chatgpt flyers look the same, especially with this font! the text above it reads : I won't go to your event if the poster was made by AI. second frame shows a still frame from a Hank Green youtube video. text above reads : I won't read your post or email and I won't watch your video if they were made with AI. third frame shows an AI restaurant poster of burgers and chicken in a window. text reads : I won't patronize your shop or restaurant if it is advertised with AI. last frame shows an MS paint window with badly written : Your bad art is better than AI slop. text reads : if you can't take the time or make the effort to interact with me yourself, then why should I do it?

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pumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

aside from surveillance tech, axon also invented the concept of “excited delirium” to cover up the fact that cops kept killing people with their supposedly “non leathal” tasers. axon is one of the most evil companies in america

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Sydney on the streets, Reira in the (character) sheets @setsunamh.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This couldn't possibly go poorly or lead to deaths, result in less help being deployed when needed, or have troubles with accents or different languages. Nope. No issues with this whatsoever. 😡🤦🏼‍♀️

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/08/2026

Finally, there's an *economic* coin-trick: "AI will destroy jobs." Sure, yes, AI is destroying jobs. But there's a vast difference between "You got fired because an AI can do your job" and "You got fired because your boss was convinced that the AI can do your job, even though it *cannot*." 45/

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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This is the tragic yet logical result of a decades-long project—undertaken by rightwing politicians and “business-minded” administrators alike—to distort the meaning of higher education, to deny the intrinsic value of the pursuit of knowledge, to deprive us all of richer, more purposeful lives.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime and it has nothing to do with AI, crypto, metaverse, robots or any of the other massively hyped "tech" the media always talks about instead

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 03/08/2026

What if instead of starting substacks in twenty-fucking-twenty-six people learned to give one iota of a fuck about whether they want to associate themselves with nazis.

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Erin Maher @theerinmaher.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Of course they will not require the boys to be molested in this way before being able to play sports. This is going to keep girls from wanting to play sports, which is exactly what they want.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/04/2026

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It’s important to understand “age verification” and “kick the kids off social media” laws as a gift to Big Tech. These policies allow surveillance capitalism to chug along full steam ahead and let Silicon Valley giants off the hook. Instead of regulating their biz model, we just put up age gates

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 26/07/2026

Would assume everyone knows it by now, but just in case "First the traitors, then the invaders" is an explicit reference to The Turner Diaries, where a white supremacist revolution overruns "The System" and kills all their enemy during the evocatively named "Day of the Rope".

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The Turner Diaries - Wikipedia

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Tons of peoples' Claude chats are exposed on Google. Cryptocurrency keys, API keys, login credentials, legal discussions, more. This happened with ChatGPT last year. And Claude too. There's clearly an ongoing issue with search engines indexing peoples' AI chats www.404media.co/tons-of-peop...

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Tons of Peoples’ Claude Chats and Creations are Exposed on Google

Claude users are creating public share links, but probably don't realize that means their chats are now ending up in Google searches where anyone can dig through them.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 20/07/2026

Reminds me of every time I point out to work AI agent "you made a mistake" and it says, "You're right, I won't do that again." ... And it does it again. And again And....

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/07/2026

This is why gender affirming care and abortion are part of the same fight for bodily autonomy. You ignore what's happening to trans people at your peril.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 19/07/2026

Excuse the fuck me? They are using AI to put Black prisoners in conditions of greater torture in Canada? Does AI do anything that's not violently antiblack? @hypervisible.blacksky.app

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Sydney on the streets, Reira in the (character) sheets @setsunamh.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I realize this is an older meme, but my friends talked about it today and I took forever to pick my list. Anyone my video game match? 😅

About me: Video Games grid of game covers. Favorite Game: Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep, Best Story: Final Fantasy X, Favorite Art Style: Hades, Biggest Personal Impact: Kingdom Hearts 1, Best Combat: Tales of Arise, Overhated: Horizon Zero Dawn, Underrated: Trials of Mana, Overrated: Dark Souls, Needs a Remake: Chrono Trigger, Criminally Overlooked: The Dig, Favorite Protagonist: Tales of Berseria, Favorite Antagonist: Kingdom Hearts 2, Best Soundtrack: Donkey Kong Country, Best Multiplayer: Split Fiction, Not Usually My Thing, But... No Man's Sky, Turn my Brain Off: Stardew Valley, Best with Friends: Super Smash Brothers Ultimate, Best Retro Game: Looney Tunes B-Ball, Nostalgic Childhood Game: Yoshi's Island, Game everyone should play: Persona 5.

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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 15/07/2026

1. After pushing anti-trans laws to ‘protect women’s sports’, Project 2025’s Heritage Foundation now wants women’s sports gone to ‘assist fertility.’ Turns out it was about women’s sports all along—if getting rid of women's sports counts, that is.

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After Pushing Anti-Trans Laws to ‘Protect Women’s Sports’, Project 2025’s Heritage Foundation Now Wants Women’s Sports Gone to ‘Assist Fertility’

Turns out it was about women’s sports all along—if getting rid of women's sports counts, that is.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

the fuck

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Nobody (except a bunch of brain cooked execs) wants this.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

This is actually the perfect distillation of the fascist mindset of tech oligarchs—they want working people to blame immigrants and people of color, so we don’t unite against the oligarchs.

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tami lam @cuppy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I don’t want this point to be lost in the discourse. Going digital-only means inequity for people who cannot afford internet or constantly purchasing new games. Libraries provide opportunities for people to experience games they otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford, and that will be lost.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

This is a reminder that some schools have already begun closing girls’ athletics teams because the requirement to verify gender was too onerous. Even just a form signed by a parent confirming their child’s gender identity is a barrier beyond what boys are required to do to play sports.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The thing you need to understand is that there are 2 (TWO) different method for amending the constitution 1) The process laid out in the constititon itself (conventions, or 2/3's of both houses followed by 3/4 of states ratifying) OR 2) find five votes on the Supreme Court.

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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Irina Ratushinskaya didn’t scratch her poems into a bar of soap with a matchstick, memorize them and wash away her forbidden work as a political prisoner in a Soviet labor camp for you to tell me AI is "inevitable"

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𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓰𝓱𝓮𝓻 (𝓼𝓱𝓮/𝓱𝓮𝓻) @rubymae326.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This is probably the most insightful read I've ever appreciated on the topic of #UBI that didn't require a college degree to understand. #UniveralBasicIncome is the way to go, the math proves it, and Scott's explained it well for us.

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 25/06/2026

if your article is headed with an AI image then i'm not reading your article

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