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Ovis Ex Machina

@sheepmachine.bsky.social
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I get paid for engineering so I can lose money doing photography. Opinions probably aren't my own but I couldn't tell you precisely where I got them from. Grateful to hug my wife and kids every day.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's always been stupid and fake, but even more so now, that a "caravan" of migrants would be coming here, of all times, given how we are torturing and renditioning and sending them to concentration camps.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/09/2026
You Can Be Anything You Want, Says Fictional Character theonion.com/you-can-be-anything-yo…
You Can Be Anything You Want, Says Fictional Character
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Jaz @jaz.sh · 27/09/2026
Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.dev
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A living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours.
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Ovis Ex Machina @sheepmachine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
False. They're resigned to losing the midterms but it's the executive branch doing the fuckery here and they're not in play right now so the rationale is still hanging the entire country out to dry. Again.
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Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 25/09/2026
Click "Download Full Zip" at the bottom of this page before Flock gets it way. flocksurveillance.org
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
I'm gonna do a recap of this week when I get a breather because the hype DDOS strikes daily 🙄 As for the whole CRISPR Dario "discovery" announcement:
Fome @at_fome

I work in CRISPR discovery research. This is one of the most exaggerated nothing-burgers ever and would be laughed out of the room if a human scientist attempted to publish something like this. (cont.)

quote tweeting Min Choi (@minchoi) 

This is wild.

Claude just found something humans missed.

It spotted a hidden repeat pattern in raw bacteriophage DNA...
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Ovis Ex Machina @sheepmachine.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We need to draft laws where the courts treat officers not wearing and using their body cameras as premeditative. If you shoot someone in the line of duty and your camera is off or you're not wearing it, we need to treat that as intentional planning to escape accountability. Make it gross negligence
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Smartypants @smartypants.dropout.tv · 22/09/2026
The greatest math discovery 😳
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Vader in The Empire Strikes Back telling Lando “I am altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further”
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Ovis Ex Machina @sheepmachine.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Dude spent so many years crafting false but plausible sounding attacks on vaccines as a part of his ambulance chasing years practicing law that he's now set his mind on that lunacy as truth. It's like someone trolling by pretending to believe in flat earth bullshit eventually abandoning reality.
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The DSR Network @thedsrnetwork.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Top AI researchers are increasingly convinced that AI is about to kill us all, so why isn’t our President? @alondra.bsky.social joins @djrothkopf.bsky.social to analyze where the truth really lies and how concerned we should all really be. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d... youtu.be/pzji2H3pilA
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
Remember the time around 2023 when we thought that the TESCREAL bozos were gonna continue to get exposed because there was a brief period where mainstream journalists were doing their jobs? But only because SBF committed one of the biggest frauds in US history? www.politico.com/news/2023/10...
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How a billionaire-backed network of AI advisers took over Washington
A sprawling network spread across Congress, federal agencies and think tanks is pushing policymakers to put AI apocalypse at the top of the agenda — potentially boxing out other worries and benefiting...
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Ovis Ex Machina @sheepmachine.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Same with veterinary practices as well. These slimy bastards looked only at how much money people would spend to save their own life, the life of a family member, or the life of a beloved pet, and decided that's the vein to mine.
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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
god this is good
flight of the concords scene with murray, brit and jemaine. 

"How's this, then? Ed Sheeran, beloved by all, left without an opening band at present. Enter you two."

"What if we want a free Palestine, Murray?"

"I reckon you'll get lots of things for free when you're proper rockstars. This might be your ticket."
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The last time ICE had a Senate-confirmed Director was January 2017. It seems we’re likely to reach a decade of Acting officials now.
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NPR @npr.org · 16/09/2026
ICE agents turned up at David Streever's home over a harsh email he sent to an ICE official. Now a court order prevents the federal government from making additional threats against him. n.pr/4irNxUL
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Judge blocks DHS from acting against a man over a harsh email to an ICE official
ICE agents turned up at David Streever's home over a harsh email he sent to an ICE official. Now a court order prevents the federal government from making additional threats against him.
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Accountabilabuddy🔻 @accountabilabuddy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
As well as all the other opening acts scheduled for other segments of the tour. And all he had to do was enforce his existing contracts against some of the most corrupt, unpopular, and unnecessary people on Earth: sports team "owners." www.thewrap.com/creative-con...
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Ed Sheeran Fallout: Tour Openers Finneas, Lukas Graham and Aaron Rowe Drop in Solidarity With Macklemore
Ed Sheeran's house band and opener Aaron Rowe have dropped out of tour in solidarity to Macklemore.
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Ovis Ex Machina @sheepmachine.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This isn't for saving lives, this is for murdering people in the creepiest way possible and the fact that this article presents it otherwise proves that this is just a press release.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 17/06/2026
Editing and posting some old CALIFORNIA CONDOR'S IN THE WILD pictures just because that's possible. 🪶
California Condor number 26 brown from the Southern California flock in flight, taken October of 2024. Condor spotter doesn't list them, so they've likely since passed away
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Ovis Ex Machina @sheepmachine.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"Team fit" 🤣
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026
There are many many stories here. One of them, is that this is straight out of the tobacco & fossil fuel playbook. Have the same companies and billionaires fund "independent" institutes staffed by the same people, and "cite" their reports as "independent experts" showing "consensus."🧵

Ben Recht
@beenwrekt
I love that AI companies have decided METR should count as a third party.

(METR) is highlighted in the following post.

Embedded Evaluators. Each frontier AI company commits to giving ongoing, employee-like access to a team of embedded third-party evaluators (such as METR), whose role is to verify adherence to safety practices and commitments, report incidents, and help assess the alignment of not just completed Al models but training pipelines and processes. This is the key step for verifiability of any pacing commitments, and has precedent in the
banking industry, which sometimes involves regulatory "supervisors" embedded along with employees. Anthropic is unilaterally committing to this step now. We intend this to be part of a broader push to redouble efforts on our safety and
alignment work.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas.
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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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Alex Witkowski @alexincommunity.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Whenever there's another internet meltdown over someone's AI superintelligence claim my first stop is to @timnitgebru.blacksky.app , @irisvanrooij.bsky.social , @olivia.science. People cry "We must listen to the experts," so I listen to the experts.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem died with fewer rights than she had during her lifetime. That fact needs to be front and centre of every media report, every dedication, every discussion of her death.
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Ovis Ex Machina @sheepmachine.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I love the Ig Nobel awards
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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 03/09/2026
Never too early to check your voter registration. www.vote.org/am-i-registe...
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mikey neumann @mikeyface.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
New video doing quite well! www.youtube.com/watch?v=98s4...
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Dear Hollywood, I Wish - Movies with Mikey
YouTube video by FilmJoy
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A heartbreaking tragedy. Driven by racism and cruelty. Historians looking back on this shameful period will wonder how this was allowed. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/spring…
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Haitian student dies by suicide after ICE issued him an ankle monitor
Pierre Damas Bel, 20, of Springfield, Ohio, expressed feeling “shame and humiliation” at having to wear an ankle monitor
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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/09/2026
“Some of the biggest names in Hollywood are in the running, but a dark horse contender from Petco is making a big impression” — anonymous source
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Amazon MGM Narrows List Of James Bond Candidates To 6 Actors, 1 Extremely Suave Ferret
CULVER CITY, CA—Amidst intense speculation over who would next portray the iconic secret agent, a source within Amazon MGM Studios revealed Wednesday that producers had narrowed down their list of Jam...
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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Oh fuck yes, I can’t wait for this
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mikey neumann @mikeyface.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Last video: youtube explodes New video: here you go no issues www.youtube.com/watch?v=98s4...
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The New Age of Hollywood - Movies with Mikey
YouTube video by FilmJoy
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Yes we all think this is stupid but we, the ppl brushing our teeth, are not the customers The customers are the investors who in ~1yr will be enticed to fund Dyson's smart dental AI spinoff, featuring models trained on "the world's largest real time floss dataset" gizmodo.com/dysons-smart...
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Dyson’s Smart Toothbrush Uses a Camera to Floss Your Teeth
Yes, you can watch the camera feed from an app.
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Mike Henry @onlyveesaz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Boom 💥 I’ve been sitting on this for a few months but I can finally share the news! My image won the Plants for Birds category in the 2026 Audubon Photography Contest
My winning image
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 31/08/2026
I’m curious, if “eggs expensive under Biden” was newsworthy, how come “Trump intentionally caused every single fucking thing to be heinously expensive” isn’t a story?
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Dimitra Rizou @ahoyuniverse.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Solutions to all the world's problems #cartoon
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Cuban: I've given money to end Citizens United. I know my next dollar isn't going to change my life. But it can sure change a lot of other people's lives, and that's the way I try to live
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Nancy @plaintanjane.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
“Because of their wealth,” the brief says of the billionaires, “amici have the capacity to be extraordinarily influential in America’s political system. But amici didn’t ask for this power. And they don’t want it.”
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Mark Cuban Joins Legal Fight Against Dark Money and Super PACs
Through a brief authored by the Election Law Clinic at Harvard Law School, Mark Cuban and 4 other billionaires argue in favor of Maine's SuperPAC law.
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Ovis Ex Machina @sheepmachine.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
From tonight's #eclipse
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Nancy McClure @apertedesign.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Having just seen the original in Madrid, and read a book on the Basque Resistance, this hits hard:
Text from the artist:
ICE OUT
"My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti's mouths are actually their last words in Morse code:
'I'm not mad at you, and 'Are you okay?'' Jennifer Nelson
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“While Picasso was living in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II, one German officer allegedly asked him, upon seeing a photo of Guernica in his apartment, ‘Did you do that?’ Picasso responded, ‘No, you did.’” via pablopicasso.org The horse (loon) represents the people of Guernica (Minnesota)
Photo of the 1937 original of Picasso’s Guernica
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Aulet 🍂 @aulet.es · 26/08/2026
"LibreOffice 26.8 contains no generative AI features. Documents are not transmitted to remote services for processing, and no component of the suite requires network access to function. This is a deliberate position."
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 27/08/2026
Answering earnestly: Because no US solar billionaires own newspapers, social media networks, or TV stations.🤷🏿‍♂️ 2026 news owners are helpfully very transparent about the fact that their newspapers and social media networks cover the stories that they want them to, and from the framing that they like
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Ovis Ex Machina @sheepmachine.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Greatest mental health app ever and I'm not even joking.
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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 27/08/2026
“ These people decided that they want to build a machine God, and then they end up stealing data, killing the environment, and exploiting labor in that process.” @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Tech bros are so obsessed with building an AI machine god that they don’t care that their products are trash.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This decision recognizes the essential work of the workers who put food on our tables. While this is a heartening step, we know attacks on farm worker wages will continue. The UFW will continue to fight for the wages farm workers deserve. 1/
Farmworkers harvest leafy crops beneath a headline stating a US federal court ruled Trump’s bid to cut farm worker wages illegal.
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Ovis Ex Machina @sheepmachine.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Would be pretty funny if someone compared Pelosi's stock portfolio to Trump's to see who is better at this.
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"Deep Unlearning: The Rise of AI and the Radicalization of a Tech Idealist" by Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Watch the interview and then preorder the book! www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U...
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Deep Unlearning
Timnit Gebru, one of the fiercest voices in the world speaking truth to power, chronicles her journey as a refugee and Black woman in STEM—deliveri...
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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Find out which of your local businesses are working with ICE. (New database from @theappeal.org) The Appeal’s investigation reveals a widespread web of public and private entities enabling Trump’s deportation machine. theappeal.org/ice-local-bu...
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Deportation Dollars: ICE Contracts With More Than 1,000 Businesses Across the U.S.
The Appeal’s investigation found contracts in nearly every state. Find out if your local businesses are working with ICE.
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