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This week on #RunawaytotheStars: Imagine an 80km rollercoaster ascent, then a cable descends from the sky and yoinks you off the rails. Catch up: runawaytothestars.com Read ahead: patreon.com/jayrockin

A fleet of vehicles depart from the glowing airlock chamber of the recycling plant and head towards the Runaway, which is stationed on the rails outside with a towering delicate-materials hitch attached to the jack sled it sits on, and a construction elevator positioned outside its docking ring. A suited Talita is shown handing off pressurized canisters of luggage from the construction elevator to Gillie and Idrisah, who are standing inside the airlock of the Runaway. Inside the airlock, the sweaty trio take off their helmets and enjoy the cool air blasting from the air pumps. Gillie's hair and Talita's mane are rumpled and wet and flattened from being in the helmets. Talita stretches her arm and jaw as Idrisah signs thanks to her for doing so much heavy lifting. On the wall panel displays, Bip waves to them and prints the word "WELCOME!" The lifting isn't done yet, though, as the trio pack their belongings into the cargo bay. Luggage is held to the floor, walls, and ceiling with thick adjustable straps, then covered with netting. Talita brings in cargo while Gillie and Idrisah tighten straps. Finally, the three follow Bip's directions into a room of the third floor. They point down from the third floor ceiling and print the words "LAUNCH BEDS." They carefully climb down the ladder through the door of the sideways room.

Gillie, Idrisah, and Talita all lie down in cushioned launch beds that are positioned flat against the interior outer wall of the ship, and buckle their seatbelts. Bip's icon lounges on the wall next to them, as if also lying down. The floor of the room (currently a vertical wall at their feet) displays a countdown of 25 minutes and 32 seconds. The launch procedure begins, described in steps: 1. Dispatches on ground rail: the sled with the Runaway travels away from the recycling plant along the outside of the berm wall. 2. Transfers to access rail: the sled switches rails onto a path that takes it around the far edge of the berm, and into the interior loop. 3. Merges onto loop rail: the sled switches tracks onto the looped end of the launch highway. 4. Passes through magnetic bearing housing: the sled rounds the loop track along the inside of the berm and passes through one of the trapezoidal buildings powering the rotors of the launch loop. 5. Approaches loop ascent: the sled heads out straight towards the climb. 6. Ascends launch loop: the sled climbs the 80 km tall rail, the ground beneath it falling away to an inky black sky with stars. Direct message log: Calcery: Hey Talita, I hope you're doing well.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 10h

I love the tech industry and their cool new product: fraud

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 12h

who's done RAG with local models? i wanna ask for some pointers. i have mixed content (html, text docs/markdown, pdfs, large library of references images, videos and transcripts… all mine)

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Folks 'benchmarking' culture in ML ("AI") is broken and has been broken for years. This isn't science, it's not showing 'sparks' (ugh) of 'emergent' (ugh) 'capabilities' (ugh). >>

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"I belong to a cult. Someone did some research that undermines the core tenets of my cult and came up with a catchy phrase that makes it harder to recruit more people to my cult. This makes me sad."

Screencap of tweet on X from @jackclarkSF (Jack Clark):

"stochastic parrot" was a mimetically-fit cognitive virus that spread from 2021-2025; it temporarily blinded many gifted people to the nature of AI progress, burning up crucial years in which they could have helped think through the response to the situation.
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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 13h

they COULD design their app to make it actually serve the customer, with an easy “reorder” button that would duplicate the order exactly without error it would be: 1. utterly reliable 2. faster 3. cheaper so much “ai” is a sloppy patch for learned helplessness at the corporate level

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 15h

On the math research end, we get lots of claims of breakthroughts from companies running closed models and not disclosing all of the inputs into those breakthroughs, because they are incentivized to make it look like their system ("the AI") did it all on its own. >>

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 15h

I was talking with @bcmerchant.bsky.social for his podcast yesterday (not sure when the ep will drop, but soon I hope), about how the phrase "stochastic parrots" seems to get under the skin of both boosters and doomers (and thus we see waves to discourse about it). >>

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MadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 21h

When your proposal gets killed by an algorithm that has no capacity to understand science, what will you do? When your colleague's proposal gets killed by an algorithm that has no capacity to understand science and amplifies biases by default, what will you do? That's where we're at 🧪

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 30/09/2026

This is now a sycophancy test. Joking about it I’ll accept, barely, but anyone who even remotely indulges this is a coward

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404 Media @404media.co · 29/09/2026

In a May email to Johnson City, Tennessee, deputy police chief Michael Adams, a salesperson from VIDIZMO wrote that the company’s product could do facial recognition on both Flock and Axon data in “one searchable platform.”

404media.co

Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras

A surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras.

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

more software can be good. but only when it's given the position it deserves: subservient to the customer. almost no business does this any more. they treat software as the boss, to be served by the customer.

december 2019 tweet from me:

software shouldn't demand. software should empower.
that's why i specifically designed it so you can track time in @nokotime with as little detail as you want. just time? fine. you can add the project later. if you like.

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Alex Ries @alexries.com · 29/09/2026

My mate Stan, a skilled artist and storyboarder (he worked on Pantheon), has released the first episode of his visual novel. It follows members of a space rescue org called the OSR! www.patreon.com/standrawsspa...

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OSR - Prologue and Chapter One | Stanley Von Medvey

Thank you to all my patrons and supporters! Please enjoy the first chapter of the OSR audio visual novel, it's a labor of love. Narrated by

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Those who think AI is going to largely automate white collar jobs in the next couple of years don’t understand the nature of work - @sarahoconnorft.ft.com nails it www.ft.com/content/4aad...

It is not obvious that AI agents could eliminate the need for this type of work, since it involves persuasion, contestation and the exchange of tacit knowledge and experience that is spread across different departments, and often exists inside people's heads rather than in a neatly codified handbook on the intranet.

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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Stanley Von Medvey @standrawsspace.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

www.patreon.com/standrawsspa... Watch the whole thing on Patreon!

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/09/2026

If a "climate tech" company is pivoting to servicing the needs of a generative AI industry that specifically hungers for fossil fuels, how on Earth is that still "climate tech"? That is petrotech - and we should call it that, when it is that. techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/t...

The pivot has helped many climate tech startups land fresh funding from investors. Total venture deal value has risen for four consecutive quarters, cresting the $14 billion-mark in the first quarter of this year, according to the most recent available data from PitchBook. It’s the best fundraising environment for climate tech in the last few years, with most of the deal value driven by sectors boosted by data center construction, including the built environment, grid infrastructure, and dispatchable energy that can be turned on or off when it’s needed.

Ultimately, the undercurrent at New York Climate Week was that the data center party won’t last forever, but it might last long enough to help startups build durable businesses. Once that happens, they can refocus on the carbon-cutting mission they were founded to pursue.

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Sevoris (he/him) @sevoris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We have this whole thing with being „data-driven“, but I feel like a lot of data-driven doesn’t actually change anything, because data is about the most *dangerous* thing of „measured anything“ you can have.

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hawaii hit with back to back to back storms and people are worried about the poor tourists. People really don’t see locals as real. We just magically pop up in hula skirts when you show up to create an idyllic scene for you

Weather channel news report by Jonathan Erdman that says “Hawaii travel looks better this winter despite busy hurricane season. Four tropical storms and hurricanes have affected Hawaii in six weeks. But don’t cancel your winter travel plans.”

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There is a truism in campus sexual violence advocacy that schools can violate students’ rights because they can reset the movement every four years. On the flip side of that, there is also a new cohort of students every four year who still believe rape is wrong and expect better of their schools.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And that brings us to present day. The most reliable way for a campus sexual assault story to make it into a newspaper is for the survivor to file a lawsuit against their school. And the two main vehicles survivors used to do that have been closed for years.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There was also a sense that Trump losing re-election would fix everything. But Biden dragged his feet on undoing the damage of Title IX. And then HE lost re-election and his Title IX regulation was vacated before it ever really went into effect.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Trump rescinded prior guidance on Title IX during his first year in office, then put out a new regulation that experts warned would retraumatize survivors and offer perpetrators impunity. It literally had provisions designed to allow confessed perpetrators to get away with rape.

time.com

A New Title IX Rule Essentially Allows Accused Sexual Assailants to Hide Evidence Against Them

A mere three months after its release, the DeVos administration’s new Title IX rule goes into effect on Friday, August 14. With the rushed timeline...

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost.

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tagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s interesting to think about this fake award on the same day that nature published the story on fake academic societies. Billionaires creating new awards for ideological capture and to launder their reputations is also a scam, but its not treated as such and gets a ‘Newsvertisement‘ in the WSJ

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Worth the Alt text: The incident fits a broader pattern in the discourse around ‘free speech’ and ‘cancel culture’: whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship.

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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"She-Hulk images come up a lot, the person who works on the prompts told 404 Media. Other contractors also wrote they were presented with pro-anorexia content."

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New from 404 Media: when you upload images to Copilot, they're not private. Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users' prompts/images, according to internal docs we got And they're horrified at what they're seeing. Bombarded with requests to make sexual AI images www.404media.co/humans-readi...

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Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified

Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...

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Astrid Deilmann @astriddeilmann.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bezeichnend: Trumps Leute bedrohen nun direkt deutsche Parlamentarier, die sich für ein Verbot der Rechtsextremen einsetzen. Das zeigt: - in wessen Interesse die AfD agiert. - die Rechtsextremen sind offenbar so nervös, dass sie ihre großen Brüder holen. Und wie richtig ein Verbotsverfahren ist.

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Initiative: AfD-Bekämpfern droht Einreiseverbot in USA – Linke entsetzt

Die US-Kongressabgeordnete Anna Paulina Luna droht Politikern, die sich für ein AfD-Verbot einsetzen, mit Einreiseverbot in die USA. AfD-Gegnern wirft sie Demokratiefeindlichkeit vor.

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Hoywoj @aushoywoj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Die Fraktionsvorsitzende der CDU Heidenau erklärt die Stolpersteine (sie nennt diese despektierlich "so'n silbern-goldener Stein") seien ihr ohnehin "noch nie aufgefallen". Ein Stolperstein für den früheren Bürgermeister von Heidenau liegt direkt vor dem Rathaus, aus dem Sie hier gerade spricht.

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Space Shaman @spaceshaman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mittens in a different way

Doremy Sweet (a cat) approaches. She stands on a garden box.

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 27/09/2026

The article’s point, this really highlights the situation. If nobody involved in the production or use of software bothers to care about the harms and body count of software, literally any shitty technical practice or lack of accountability is on the table. It’s a race to the bottom of the abyss.

The tragedy of software engineering today is that we are actively engineering systems where neither the user nor the builder seems to have any interest in checking whether or not there's a body behind the door.

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 27/09/2026

Software engineering as a technical practice became fundamentally broken when the community of practitioners was unable to collectively come together and wrestle with the ethical implications of their work under the light of the way software could be used to facilitate eliminationist outcomes.

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think it's important to consider toast's little mittens

toast (the cat) loafed in bed with his little mitten paws sticking out

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Stanley Von Medvey @standrawsspace.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

www.patreon.com/standrawsspa... OSR Prologue and Chapter One!!! Over a year of work, will be premiering YouTube on Wednesday - but you can watch it NOW on Patreon!

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

it's a risky move but is there a bigger mood booster than drawing an ink sketchbook page all in one sitting?? ps after asking on here about refillable pens I got some second hand rotring isograph nibs and I love them

photo of sketchbook page with ink drawing of a narrow path and big crack willow waving in the wind

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Death to fascism, freedom to the people @atriflemiffed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Of course these exact same parents are perfectly happy to force their own neurotypical children to take stimulants to maybe do slightly better in school but oh no, we can't have medical diagnoses of actual neurodivergence

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The problem isn't rogue #AI models, it's *negligent companies*. If a biomedical firm put their product in public water supply because they wanted to test it 'in the real world', they'd be treated as criminal at corporate & individual level. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue

Decision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways

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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds. Here is my contribution; a stunning European Shag on the Isle of May #SuperSeabirdSunday

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Brooks @bahroox.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

it's been a while since I saw a "I have complex, original thoughts and therefore must be way smarter than the plebs" guy. you'd think most people eventually realize that literally everyone also feels like they're the first one to Think About Stuff and so grow out of it by 19 or 20, but I guess not

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𝔇𝔢𝔢𝔭 𝔇𝔢𝔩𝔳𝔢𝔯 - ℑ𝔰𝔢𝔨𝔞𝔦𝔷𝔢 𝔐𝔢, ℭ𝔞𝔭𝔱𝔞𝔦𝔫! @therunepony.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Who are KVLTGAMES? Well, according to a German-only Wikipedia page... Nazis. Like literally neo-nazis who made a Turner Diaries simulator that got their previous publisher banned from Steam.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.

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ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?

Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.

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Sevoris (he/him) @sevoris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Discord introduced their new age verification right alongside incentives to floss your brains with gambling ads, the evil fucks

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Amrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Es gibt wieder Waldohreulencontent 🥰

Waldohreule im Baum schaut auf mich herab

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Sevoris (he/him) @sevoris.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Unironically my creative policy. And it works!

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

looked this up and hwaet the FUCK. what the fuck ISFDB. why are you deadnaming and *deadphotoing* trans women. that is absolutely fucking cruel!

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MadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is it. This is what everyone is enabling by humoring genAI: you spend months writing something that took you years to get at, for an opaque algorithm that a few control to spit a number and cut you off right there and then. This is what we're up against 🧪

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/09/2026

They used the existence of kids with ADHD and autism to delay and dismantle care for trans youth. Now they're delaying and dismantling care for kids wtv ADHD and autism.

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Simon Scott @simonscott1975.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the "but pocket calculators though" argument, and I hate it. I hate it because a) we all suck at maths now and bi) yes we have calculators but do we actually use them? bii) we've lost the *feel* for maths, which means we can be manipulated by numbers much more easily.

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