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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In other news, I spent a couple hours learning about the math involved in large language models and I AM SO MAD! IT IS LITERALLY JUST SPICY AUTOFILL IDKY I THOUGHT THE DIP$h!+s IN MY OLD PROGRAMMING CLASSES WOULD BE SMARTER THAN THEY ARE THEY ARE LITERALLY JUST WORSHIPPING A REFLECTION OF HUMANITY

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 2h

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Hatok @hatok.bsky.social · 7h

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The Bookwench 🇨🇦🐱🏳️‍🌈 @shiftercat.bsky.social · 2h

With that "beauty is bait" crap? Definitely.

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Vic! Perfecto @victorperfecto.bsky.social · 3h

There has been some fair discussion about whether or not the rising proliferation of HARRY POTTER references in media is deliberate astro-turfing or tone deaf millenial nostalgia and denial/ignorance. This though? This is DEFINITELY on the suits

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 4h

More and more convinced that the reason AI is being pushed so hard is that it allows tech CEOs to do things that a person would be sent to jail for doing, but with the excuse that it was the robot that did it on its own

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The Bookwench 🇨🇦🐱🏳️‍🌈 @shiftercat.bsky.social · 4h

And I'll mute you just as I would with a spambot.

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The Bookwench 🇨🇦🐱🏳️‍🌈 @shiftercat.bsky.social · 4h

Oh, you were never engaging in good faith. Thanks for letting us know nothing you say has value. You and LLMs have that in common.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 5h

Canada is refusing to issue ISBNs to books primarily generated with AI. This illustrates both the urgency of the problem of the growing flood of slop books, and also the toothlessness of addressing it on the honor system without there also being consequences for lying

Use of artificial intelligence
By registering with ISBN Canada, you declare that your book was created by a human author. You may use AI tools only for limited support tasks, such as brainstorming ideas, checking grammar, or formatting your book. You must not use AI to generate the text, create the artwork, or translate the book. ISBN Canada does not issue ISBNs for works whose content is primarily generated by AI. LAC is currently reviewing its policy regarding the use of AI content creation and our guidance is subject to change.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 5h

the “militant identity politics” of whiteness meanwhile gets a huge pass with this nonsense

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The Bookwench 🇨🇦🐱🏳️‍🌈 @shiftercat.bsky.social · 5h

I'm only familiar with the concept as part of a moral panic. Are there any cases that aren't that?

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The Bookwench 🇨🇦🐱🏳️‍🌈 @shiftercat.bsky.social · 5h

I've got this one! "Social contagion" is a concept frequently used in moral panics. (More on that in thread.) bsky.app/profile/shif...

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Tina Skupin @tskupin.bsky.social · 9h

@foxes-in-love.bsky.social said it best

A comic about a green fox and a blue fox .

Panel one
green fox tells his family "please respect my boundaries and be nicer to me, or you won't see me again"
His family, angrily: "stop making such childish and unreasonable demands"

Panel two:
green fox is leaving "okay"
His family: "hey!"
But green is already off.

Panel three:
Green fox is wandering around
Narrator: and green fox lived happily ever after...

Panel four:
Green fox has met Blue fox. Hearts are all around them.
Narrator: ... With people who don't think that s unreasonable.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19h

A new US indictment alleges an American co-conspirator helped fuel a school shooter’s attack in Canada. So did OpenAI's ChatGPT, according to our exclusive investigation

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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

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The Bookwench 🇨🇦🐱🏳️‍🌈 @shiftercat.bsky.social · 7h

Also, many people vastly overestimate the amount of writing that's been scanned.

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 8h

Years ago I was preparing an epistemology of gender in psychiatry lecture and included a "third gender" table I've since deleted. An ex lent me a very popular book on the anthropology of gender to prep, and I made it 5 pages in before realizing the author was using "trans women" to refer to men.

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Sean Kelly @storyslug.bsky.social · 8h

Caveat: I've known people who cut their parents off, not for non-trivial reasons, but for reasons that weren't their parents fault. This is so separate that it almost doesn't bear mentioning, but I've known people who were having, say, health issues or substance abuse problems they knew'd be caught.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 16h

In the same way that science isn't just a bunch of facts about the universe, but developing ways of knowing and finding out about it, technology isn't just a collection of mysterious machines but a set of relationships between people and our material world.

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Hannah Alexander Artwork @hannahartwork.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Moth 🔦 first picture in my October series!

A digital illustration of a giant moth fae with glowing yellow eyes clinging to a lighthouse. At it's base, a lighthouse keeper emerges from his house to investigate.

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The Bookwench 🇨🇦🐱🏳️‍🌈 @shiftercat.bsky.social · 20h

You can’t reason someone out of a view they didn't reason themselves into.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 20h

legalizing gambling was the single biggest social disaster of the last decade, and that's a high bar to clear.

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The Bookwench 🇨🇦🐱🏳️‍🌈 @shiftercat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Weird little freaks are kind of his specialty, aren't they? I think it's why he was so much fun as The Question in the DCAU.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’m realistic enough to know that we’re not going to fix the campus rape problem overnight, because patriarchy is multifaceted and cockroach-like in its survival abilities, but something I think we could get in place fast is a program for letting victims transfer without penalties.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Megyn Kelly, who is a danger to her children, is being perfectly consistent by simultaneously declaring trans people innate sexual predators *and* defending the world's most famous sexual predator.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 06/10/2026

one of the deepest sicknesses in the world are the people who feel personally attacked over other people getting the same rights as them

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is the way.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 06/10/2026

it doesn't matter how much liberal zionists want to say "well that isn't _my_ zionism" because this is the actual zionism that is being embodied by the policies and actions of the state of israel, not your fantasy of what zionism _can_ be, but the reality of what zionism _is_

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HolBat(Commission open on November) @kholbatar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hercule Poirot The Patron of Mysteries #commission #artdeko #artsky

A man with short, slicked-back hair and a curled mustache, wearing a dark suit, white shirt, and bow tie. A large round magnifying glass is held in front of his chest. Palm leaves and geometric elements are visible in the background. The main colors are dark blue, black, gold, and bright yellow.

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The Bookwench 🇨🇦🐱🏳️‍🌈 @shiftercat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don't think anyone is under the illusion that HP is one coffin nail away from dead. But the tide of social opinion absolutely can turn. It just takes mass effort. What's your alternative? Just throwing up your hands in despair?

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

These are great signs—with the powerful messaging that we need to see—and they’re free! Grab some!

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

The Guardian is abysmal on far right politics (comes with being centrist liberal and transphobic) to begin with, & today's piece on Flávio Bolsonaro, "Keeping up with the Bolsonaros: Flávio’s surprise first-round election win heralds rise of a political dynasty" feels like it's downplaying a lot.

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Bearji @bearji.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Welcome! Come on in." Skeletons: "Ayyy, you're here!"

Japanese Dungeons & Dragons Basic ruleset cover art. A young woman in light armor with a bow in her hair and a sword at her side smiles and gestures casually towards a pair of giant open doors, behind which wait skeletons and a winding stairway rising into a glowing star.

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The Bookwench 🇨🇦🐱🏳️‍🌈 @shiftercat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I might be willing to forgive them if they stop messing with the author of Spots the Space Marine, since she's a friend of my spouse. But unless and until that point, I'll keep telling everyone how awful they are. They don't want bad publicity, they should stop doing bad things.

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The Bookwench 🇨🇦🐱🏳️‍🌈 @shiftercat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I thought the books were fun the first time around, but the world-building is astonishingly sloppy, and there are a lot of ugly problems that, once you notice them, you can't un-see.

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The Bookwench 🇨🇦🐱🏳️‍🌈 @shiftercat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Because it provides free advertising for the franchise, and is something execs can point to as proof that there's still interest in the IP.

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The Bookwench 🇨🇦🐱🏳️‍🌈 @shiftercat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don't know about individual writers, but the Games Workshop management have awful, AWFUL policies. Like, "telling Amazon to remove an indie author's work because they (falsely) claim to have 'space marine' copyrighted, and "undercut a local business, then raise prices after that business folds".

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The Bookwench 🇨🇦🐱🏳️‍🌈 @shiftercat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My recs would be @diane.dianeduane.com's Young Wizards series and, especially if they're into anime, Witch Hat Atelier. (The idea of a magic school predates the 20th century, so there are lots of options.)

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The Bookwench 🇨🇦🐱🏳️‍🌈 @shiftercat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

When we finally got a male employee, we had to figure out something gender-neutral, so he was our "book boffin".

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The Bookwench 🇨🇦🐱🏳️‍🌈 @shiftercat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I also read somewhere that the brain "boots up" during the birth process, but I can't find a good source for it. It sounds like there are a lot of dramatic changes! I'm firmly of the viewpoint that ancient people weren't stupid, they just had vastly different frames of reference.

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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 06/10/2026

if you're angry about Megyn Kelly being a disgusting rape apologist, instead of just hoping she steps on a rake that smashes her teeth out, consider this:

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Friendly reminder that Megyn Kelly was sexually harassed by Roger Ailes and Bill O’Reilly and STILL this is how she, and women on the right, treat rape victims.

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The Bookwench 🇨🇦🐱🏳️‍🌈 @shiftercat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Aww, thanks! 😊 At one of my old bookstore jobs, the staff joke was that we were like bar wenches, but for books.

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The Bookwench 🇨🇦🐱🏳️‍🌈 @shiftercat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I had the "How To Be a Grouch" book! Foods to make you grouchy: sardine ice cream.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Post Harry Potter art, I'm blocking you without hesitation. I don't care what the excuse is, don't support monsters.

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The Bookwench 🇨🇦🐱🏳️‍🌈 @shiftercat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This part is really interesting to me, because a lot of older religions believe in ensoulment at first breath, rather than at quickening (and the idea of ensoulment at conception is, AFAICT, extremely recent). Perhaps there was a recognition that a lot changes in those first few moments.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This study helps to put an end to the misinformation spread about mRNA vaccines. Providing data on the absence of long-term risks helps strengthen confidence in these vaccines, which will be developed for other viruses and diseases.

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