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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The anchor is not where you thiiii-iiink!

Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Fat Bear Week has me waaaaay too invested in the story of 909. Maybe it is because I just finished teaching a section on Roman classical theatre, but the tragedy of 909 feels like it was written by Seneca.

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you want to say that clear statements of what's going on with LLMs aren't getting enough media attention, then do something about that and lift up the work of those of us who have been researching and speaking about this, from a place of expertise. >>

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Gentles, do not reprehend If you pardon, we will mend And as I am an honest Puck Fu-u-u-u-u-ú-uck

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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

MIT spent $3 million on 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras while laying people off, shutting down libraries, and canceling journal subscriptions. In this article, 4 faculty & I discuss our new arts initiative to celebrate surveillance and repression on college campuses: fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...

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How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 25/09/2026

These Fat Bear Week contestant write-ups are *intense.* explore.org/meet-the-bea...

806's caring nature does have limits. On July 28, 806 attacked, killed, and partly ate bear 909's spring cub.
The cub swam across the river while her mother fished in the river mouth. This placed her near the 806 family
and sparked their curiosity. After a few minutes the cub ran from the family, perhaps due to confusion about
her own mother's location or to escape to the safety of nearby trees. This triggered 806 to chase.
806's attack on 909's cub might seem incongruous with her adoption of Biggie just a few weeks before. The
adoption is evidence of 806's devotion and her behavioral flexibility. The fatal attack illustrates her ferocity
and predatory instincts. But these behaviors are not mutually exclusive. Variations of them exist in all mother
bears. They are honed through learned experience and initiated by circumstance. 806 is neither villain nor
hero. She's a bear, one who is fully capable of expressing great ferocity at the same time she is devoted and
caring. This is her first Fat Bear Week appearance.

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wait. Motorola, the original mobile phone company, the early Android maker of the Droid, the designer of the epitome of flip phones, is releasing not only a phone with active Bluetooth stylus BUT ALSO able to run GrapheneOS?! Bye Samsung, as soon as my current S23U stops getting security updates.

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

load can get a course release to do research. The Advanced Research Directive fellowship, which offered a 1 semester teaching release, has already been defunded several yrs ago. Now the Wolfe fellowship may also be gone. How much is CUNY spending on AI bullshit? Does CUNY want research? 2/2

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

bsky.app/profile/oluf...

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yes, because it helps you avoid being a mark and to place accountability in people making these tools. Hope that helps.

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026

lol lol lol lol lol lol lol

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It is a profound indictment of most media coverage of Big Tech that your best bet for getting an informed understanding of AI and its dangers is following a decently curated list of Bluesky shitposters

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#NJTransit as a system might be a huge clustermess... But this morning our bus driver was a miracle worker!

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Students can tell when every standard isn't really a standard but a slippery thing that we redefine for convenience and if things don't matter to us, how can we expect them to matter to our students?

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Nicoletta Penguin @nicoguin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I learned about this earlier in the year from @djinnandtonic.bsky.social who had both some amazing posts about Minnesota people using similar tactics against ICE and has shirts via www.etsy.com/shop/WideAwa.... They inspired one of my favorite protest posters.

@djinnandtonic.bsky.social-inspired protest sign of the Boston anti-man hunting league sign with ICE at the center instead of SH (slave hunter). It's a bright green circle with magenta letters: ICE in the center, surrounded by 6 letters representing people who have different roles in stopping a kidnapping, one who tries to talk the kidnapper down, 5 to grab the kidnapper if that doesn't work, and an outer circle of 12 people who create a commotion so that the kidnapper can be removed from the situation).

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We also looked at some FSA primary sources and this one really grabbed students' attention. It's a diagram that shows the arrangement of members of the Boston Anti-Man-Hunting League as they would surround a man-hunter, concealing him until he consented to release the person he was trying to kidnap

This diagram, explained by a note written by Henry I. Bowditch, shows the arrangement of members of the Boston Anti-Man-Hunting League as they would surround a man-hunter, concealing him until he consented to release the person he was attempting to kidnap. The League was a secret society founded in Boston in 1854 to resist the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. The diagram, in pencil and watercolor on brown paper, places the slave hunter in the center (SH), surrounded by the speaker of the committee (S), a member to take hold of the hunter's head (C), two members to take hold of the arms (A1 and A2) and two for the feet (F1 and F2), and twelve additional members to form an outer circle to ward off intruders while the committee conveyed the victim to safety. Bowditch's note continues, "One plagued in this way would not invite others to come & run the same risk of annoyance."

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

It's interesting to me that these guys put so much energy into refuting (what they think we meant by) "stochastic parrots" and maybe not as much into refuting the (solid) research connecting "AI" to eugenics, racism, and fascism. >>

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In solidarity with my New Mexico family, I am not going to complete today's #NYTimes Spelling Bee for its egregious rejection of that word as a valid answer.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

All we can expect when trying to scale up AI systems is diminishing returns and devastating environmental damage. Calls for `slowing down’ can conveniently hide the diminishing returns, while still convincing people that the tech is “all powerful”.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 18/09/2026

a pretty good way to gauge the conversation is whether people are talking about harm or risk harm is about what's happening now already risk is about what could maybe happen in the future and basically the whole ai cult scene is in agreement that possible risks are more important than current harm

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 01/08/2026

Dear media, please be even a little bit critical and suspicious of whether the people with literally trillions of dollars & the world economy riding on you believing what they tell you might have reason to lie about what's happening inside their products that they refuse to let anyone else analyze 🫠

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

And posting about it on Substack. Irony? Or fitting?

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Wait... so is there like a Black Mirror video out there? Why else would he bring that kind of thing up at a Senate hearing?

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Seize any "AI" company's assets as precautionary enforcement if they do business in New York, use the information of New Yorkers in their training data without the express consent of the New Yorker, or fraudulently lie to New Yorkers in order to coerce money or information from New Yorkers?

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Some of America’s biggest coal plants are becoming solar farms. Minnesota’s Sherburne County station, once the state’s largest coal burner, is now home to 1.7 million solar panels, reusing the old coal plant’s substation to cut a five-year grid-connection process to about one year; 1,500 sheep […]

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Made the mistake of trying to use a Microsoft product for the first time in a while (other than the Outlook/Excel/Word/Ppt suite)...

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

AI Doomerism has been in the news lately, especially with the loud, viral resignation of Jacob Coxon from Anthropic. Maybe I've missed it, but I haven't seen any statements from CEOs and other execs who are more on the AI Booster side of the ledger. >>

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Allison Adato @editgirlnyc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

One hates to be formulaic, but here's a blueprint: 1. Play the music 2. Light the lights 3. Put on makeup 4. Dress up right 5. Get things started

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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 10/09/2026

There are currently no active conversations for a full ‘MUPPET SHOW’ series revival. Disney, The Muppets Studio and Point Grey Pictures have had difficulties with deciding on a premise for the series that they can all agree on. (Source: Deadline)

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This feels like some kind of poisoned honeypot for the LLM scrapers.

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

As a '90s nerd, I was more of a DC kid. After DC ruined the screen version of Swamp Thing by canceling it and Wonder Woman was folded into the Snyderverse and then canceled. I thought there wouldn't be a watchable screen adaptation...

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Would have thought that almost half of the US (and definitely more than half of those of us of driving age) having our identities stolen and leaked would have been a bigger story... www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The Thursday before Labor Day Weekend at the start of the school year, and all the "AI" are down without any notice or explanation from the companies? Such beauty, brings a tear to your eye... Like the C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026

ChatGPT, Anthropic, Gemini, and Grok, all experiencing major issues today. And if that could go on for just like, 13 more weeks, I think we'd all benefit immensely.

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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

New season of free public programs at CUNY Graduate Center! In person/online - reserve: www.gc.cuny.edu/public-progr... Feat journalist Carol Jenkins, historian Heather C Richardson, Luke Waltzer of Teaching & Learning Ctr, historian David Blight, NYT’s Salamishah Tillet, filmmaker Natalie Musteata

6 people looking at the camera with different backgrounds & expressions

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

What is going on? Someone just walked into the bathroom with their cellphone blaring '90s Swing Revival big band Royal Crown Revue's "Hey Pachuco."

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Elise A. Mitchell @bydreamphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I’ve had this convo privately enough times in the last week to go public: I don’t think there is any valuable way to use AI in a history classroom.

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

So it seems that Google won't let me set my Android Auto mapping to MapQuest. Will CarPlay allow me to? #MaybeNewPhone

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Knew I shouldn't have tried my luck taking the train today. NJTransit canceling my train without an announcement, just quietly dropping it from the board. I should just work remotely every day.

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Damn it, #Debian! Ok, so what slopless distro do I switch to now? (And yes, I realize the irony of posting this on the vibe-coded, down-every-other-day because of slop code Bluesky)

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I honestly don't know

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Christopher Silsby @silsby.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

(Please don't milkshake duck mapquest... Please don't milkshake duck mapquest... Please don't milkshake duck mapquest)

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