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Boots on the Ground Midwest @bootsonthegroundkc.bsky.social · 9h

There's an updated map of Kansas 287(g) agreements in this article ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Catbus @catbus.phd · 8h

don't bother addressing a congregation unless you're in the baroque creature pulpit

Baroque pulpit ca. 1750, rebuilt 1856, Parish church in Dobroszów.

a fanciful scaled sculpture where the serpents open mouth serves as the pulpit

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Jeb 🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @jebdarsh.bsky.social · 8h

TIME LOOPS ARE A GO If you havent backed this you should

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NinaLewis @ninalewis.bsky.social · 12h

Once upon a time there was a guy whose friends believed - on flimsy evidence - that one of the friend's fiancée had been unfaithful to him. The bridegroom and his boss decided to shame the innocent!! bride at the altar. Her own father called her a slut, even though she denied +

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17h

“For months, Anthropic has been hosting private meetings like this one, shuttling in dozens of religious scholars from across the world, papering them with nondisclosure agreements and demanding that key aspects of many conversations remain confidential.“ www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...

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Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models (Gift Article)

In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.

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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 19h

We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs

Night. The House of Chimes - a tower which you might immediately think of as Big Ben - is adrift in the River Thames. It still seems to be keeping time. In the background, a large, alien building looms over the city of London.

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 30/09/2026

How many times must we say this? AI* software does not “go rogue” any more than your printer “got religion” when it stopped working Sunday. Software does not have intent or agency. People do. And this feels like some people might be exposed to liability. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/t...

Months before OpenAI’s artificial intelligence went rogue, two employees raised an alarm with top executives. They were ignored.

In emails, the employees said they worried that OpenAI’s newest artificial intelligence models were not being appropriately monitored during testing to gauge the technology’s sophistication and to secure the models, according to messages viewed by The New York Times.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Definitely click through on this story for the quotes from the Third Way spokesperson, who AGREED Democratic candidates should NOT adopt Republican language on trans issues. I was floored - even tried to get Billie to put it in the headline. This is not just analysis, these quotes are news.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Anthropic's numbers are as bad as my worst expectations, and it's impossible to see how it manages to make good on its spending commitments. OpenAI and Anthropic are toxic companies with rotten economics, and should not be allowed to go public. www.wheresyoured.at/dead-money/

In any case, these numbers are as bad as I’ve always thought they’d be, if not a little worse. I don’t see how this company becomes one that can afford its $518 billion in compute commitments, nor do I see how it magically works its way out of the economic equivalent of septic tank.

This company will, if allowed to go public, likely lean on the very same junk-grade/high-yield debt that AI data centers and neoclouds like CoreWeave currently need, and it will do so at volumes of somewhere between $50 billion and $100 billion a year for a company with few assets, endless losses and a CEO with the grace of a drunk elephant.

Anthropic is not the future of technology, nor is it the next Google, nor is it the next Microsoft, nor is it, to quote Reuters, capable of “[transforming] the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet.”

It is impossible to rationally argue that the economics of OpenAI and Anthropic make any real sense. To claim that this is “just like Uber” or “just like Amazon Web Services” or “just like the Dot Com Bubble” is to bury one’s head in the sand or, on some level, want to know less about the world. This is serious, dangerous, and should not be seen as “business as usual.”

We must treat OpenAI and Anthropic as what they are: economic disasters waiting to happen.

To do anything less is to directly invite danger to the door of every investor that’s allowed to believe that they’re funding the next industrial revolution.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Free newsletter: When will the AI bubble burst? When the money runs out. Raising debt for AI data centers is becoming untenable, infrastructure break-even points keep getting further away, and many of VC's AI investments look like dead money. www.wheresyoured.at/dead-money/

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singedsun @singedsun.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Lol nice try Marshall. Streisand effect in action.

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Joshua @ughsighshrug.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As Daniel Sloss said in his fantastic special which is most certainly making the rounds again... "I believe that most men are good, of course we are. But if 1 in 10 men is shit and the other 9 do nothing, then they might as well not fucking be there." Abhorrent.

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singedsun @singedsun.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

RIP Dennis Haskins. This show was bonkers, but it was my childhood from the original Miss Bliss, to the College Years and wedding special.

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Calvinball Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

yall, ig is popping off. the girlies are doxxing every single admin they can find at cornell, plus the cornell 7 and their families. women are (correctly) going scorched earth.

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manewt.bsky.social @manewt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Friend who works at meta: “Do not use the muse agent, it’s like inviting a Vampire inside”

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Based on my own reporting on OpenAI's audited financials from 2025, it appears that Anthropic was a worse business (at least in that year), spending $2.75 make $1 versus OpenAI spending $2.60 to make $1. So many people told me this company was "more profitable"! www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-op...

OpenAl Lost $38.5 Billion In 2025
2025 — OpenAl Had $13.07 Billion In Revenue, $34 Billion In Costs and Expenses, and $20.92 Billion In Losses, with a net loss attributable to the company of $38.53 Billion
• Revenue: $13.07 billion
• Cost of Revenue: $7.5 billion
• Research and Development: $19.18 billion
• Sales and Marketing: $5.73 billion
• General and Administrative: $1.57 Billion
• Total Costs and Expenses: $34 billion
• Loss from Operations: $20.92 billion

The Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year, a threefold surge from 2024, accounting for more than half of its
$12.65 billion in total operating expenses.

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singedsun @singedsun.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Watching some of the VMA performances from last night and What the Actual Fuck possessed them to give Sombr part of the George Michael tribute? No thank you.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Ladz ❄️🖤🩸 @ladzwriting.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

REMEDY BOOK RECS Who else is trapped in a Hiss-warped version of Manhattan this weekend now that CONTROL RESONANT is officially out? I've collected some reading materials to hold you over between sessions Check them out 👇

Books for fans of Alan Wake, Control, Alan Wake II, and Control Resonant

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It seems to me that a solution to encouraging AI 'alignment' would be to hold AI companies and their executives legally liable - criminally, if relevant - for what their AI agents do.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

We had to wait for the....NEW YORK POST to write about this. Y'all know there is so much more where this came from but journalists don't want to dig and people are terrified to speak to any journalist seeing the type of reporting they've been doing

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 25/09/2026

Premium newsletter: This is part two to my Hater's Guide To AI debt, a massive guide to how skyrocketing treasury yields, investor anxiety and ever-expanding data center costs have made "AI factories" economically unviable - even if they had demand. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-the-...

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Premium: The Hater's Guide To AI Debt (Part 2)

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AI operates according to Air Bud rules, I see

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

Every villain has a weakness. And occasionally their weakness is turning to the camera and explaining what their weakness is and that their weakness is making themselves stupider

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

He's also really not alone in this. We wrote a bit about this in various places of our book, Why We Fear AI - variations on that theme are common across the tech billionaires Here's some examples from Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt, etc

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

it really needs to be more openly discussed that all the people advocating for “we should be fine with losing basic skills if we get more systems thinking” are men, meaning socialized to expect to be able to offload basic tasks of daily living onto a wife as part of their compensation for existing

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 24/09/2026

this lady on threads posted this big huge thing about how artists are just jealous that everyday people can now use AI to create better art that gets more attention so i click through to see her “art”… i wish there was an unveil feature here:

AI slop dragon in sunglasses

BIGGER IDEAS
MESSIER CREATIVE PROCESS
MORE MAGIC
PET MORE DRAGONS
SAME SARCASM
Fueled by Coffee Chaos
BIG IDEAS
AI CHAOS
* DRAGON ENERGY
* SARCASM & SPELLS
WOMEN WHO CREATE
FANTASY OVER FEAR
PROMPTS & POSSIBILITIES
CREATE WEIRDER BRAVER
KINDER
COOLER WORLDS
FABULOUS
CHAOS
LIVES HERE
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Nvidia buys Nvidia to supply Nvidia with Nvidia on behalf of Nvidia

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Orchi @orchiscribbles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy Bi visibility day! 💗💜💙 Never underestimate how fast I can crank out #lowerdecks art. 😌 #StarTrek #StarTrekLowerDecks #BradBoimler #BeckettMariner

Fan art of Star Trek: Lower Decks characters Beckett Mariner and Brad Boimler in the show's official style. Boimler is standing, leaning slightly to the left, balancing his weight on his right knee, which he has up on a shiny alter. His elbow is placed on his knee and he is stroking his chin while smiling smugly at the camera. his other hand is on his waist and his other leg is behind the alter. Mariner is sitting on the alter, leaning on Boimler, her right arm is resting on his leg. She has left leg on the alter. With her left hand she's doing a Vulcan salute and smiling mischievously at the camera. They both have two gold pips.
They are washed by two strings of lights in the colors of bisexual and pansexual flag, the bi colors are on Boimler's face, the pan colors on Mariner's. The background is outer space with lots of stars.

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The agenda is being forced upon us. Even our games aren't safe.

A bright sun in a clear blue sky with bold text below stating, "They made the sun bisexual in GTA 6." The word "bisexual" is in a vibrant pink and blue design. "INFOWARS" is written at the bottom.

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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 23/09/2026

Happy Celebrate Bisexuality Day! Here's the bi flag, shown my DOS program VGAPride for showing pride flags, running on a Pentium-60.

A beige desktop computer and CRT monitor, showing a bisexual pride flag

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im nicebart trans rights 👼🏼 @nicebart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If anybody is within spitting distance of Dodge City KS (Amarillo, OKC, Wichita, etc) holler at @kcdsa.org linktr.ee/kcicefree

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KC ICE FREE | Linktree

Linktree. Make your link do more.

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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The best way to acknowledge a bisexual's visibility is to give them some money.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 23/09/2026

Fidelity’s Director of Global Macro saying that the AI trade has been “dead money” for three months, and that it’s inflationary, meaning (as I’ve discussed multiple times) that the more debt they raise the more expensive debt becomes and the more they build data centers the more expensive it gets

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Jurrien Timmer @TimmerFidelity
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On the Al front, the trade has been dead money for more than 3 months now. The metrics I am following (token expenditures and GPU lease rates) are all flat to down. The price of memory (DRAM) seems to be the only thing that is still going up.
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Yes, Al will change our lives (for the better l trust) and down the road it may well unleash a productivity miracle that raises the economy's non-inflationary speed limit enough to keep the world's mounting debt burden sustainable. But until then the buildout is inflationary with an unknown return for the companies who are investing trillions into compute. The demand fo capital (equity and debt) from corporates is rising at a $3.3 trillion clip.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Did you know a paper book will never have ads in it? And that book sales can help a disabled author like me afford my meds? The more you know! Anyway, Someone You Can Build A Nest In is a Prime Big Deal right now is just $13 for the paperback!

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Playtest Material Magazine @playtestmaterial.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A serious one today. "This is a call to our readers and future readers: please, consider before scrolling away, if you think our magazine is worth £18+postage. It is not just an investment in a bundle of paper, but in meaningful critique in the ttrpg space." playtestmaterial.org/playtest-mat...

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Playtest Material launches its first ever subscription drive

Playtest Material needs 75 subscribers to break even — one of those could be you.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If you're a Dem who thinks you'll gain something by going anti-trans, look at Gallup's "most important problem" and Fox News' "most important issue" polling and see where trans issues rank. Whoever told you going anti-trans is a savvy or necessary move spends too much time on X and should be fired.

Gallup polling. "LGBTQ rights" moves between 0 and 1%.

Fox news polling. Wokeness/transgender issues at 0%.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 19/09/2026

Muse probably can’t ‘see’ your notifications. But it also has no idea how it works. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

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Meta’s Muse is creepy, but maybe not for the reasons you think

Muse probably can’t ‘see’ your notifications. But it also has no idea how it works.

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They Call Me Doctor Mae @dr-maeforrest.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Batman says Trans Rights

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Vi7id @ultra-vi7id.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

An underrated fandom experience is having a friend you can privately complain about your least favorite ships or headcanons with so you can have your petty bitch time without ever insulting or offending anyone in the fandom, and I think more people need to learn to do this

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The Story Engine @storyenginedeck.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We're hosting a writing contest - and YOU COULD WIN $250! To enter, you just need to write a 100-word piece of microfiction based on the Story Engine prompt below and submit it before September 30. Visit our website to read the full contest details! storyenginedeck.com/pages/microf...

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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