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Cedric

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 14/04/2026
I mean, it’s not wrong.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows.

I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years. Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
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Jeff Gordon “Gordongrubs “ @gordongrubs.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Got my tickets for New Years Eve. It’s going to be a fun night!
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going. It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
for World AIDS Day, a 1988 cartoon from the Advocate's Gerald Donelan
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GibbertyFlibbet @thecorrection.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
this is from April of this year, but it's so cheering I thought I'd repost - FBG's AI statement
Failbetter Games' AI Transparency Statement:
We do not use generative AI in the creation of any of our games. When we say Fallen London contains over 4.5 million words, please imagine fifteen-plus years of graft by a team of writers around the world: their calloused typing-fingers, their candles low and guttering, their hair and clothing rent over the use of an em-dash.
Also if you see artwork in Fallen London with too many eyes or fingers, rest assured that those are there on purpose.
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🎃🎃SCOOPS🎃🎃 @sundogscoops.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now (copy paste-able in the alt text)
    browser.ml.enable
    browser.ml.chat.enabled
    browser.ml.chat.menu
    browser.ml.chat.page
    browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge
    browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge
    browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled
    browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled
    browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled
    browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled
    extensions.ml.enabled
    browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate
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Pamela @pamelalehmann.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Tested this and it works. Chrome is much faster this way.
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 18/11/2025
Dr. Steve (@steveburgess53.bsky.social) has been somewhat puzzled by all the Epstein focus. Why are Trump’s activities a distraction from Epstein? Dr. Steve would argue that the reverse is more the case. #uspoli
thetyee.ca
Please Advise! Will the Epstein Files Finish Trump? | The Tyee
Of course not, says Dr. Steve. Just another sleazy moment.
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The thread o’ tweets @threadotweets.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Steve Hogarty @misterbrilliant
[gets olympic tickets to 100m butterfly] Oh my god this will be great. [sees the huge stadium] Oh wow that must be where they keep it.
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Marguerite Kenner @margueritekenner.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
I WANT TO HOST ONE OF THESE
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Cedric @singing-ced.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Very cool.
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Huh. Apparently cars don't have to kill people.
For a fast way to reduce traffic deaths: Just slow down.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
It's really cool that some of the original sit-inners were present for the unveiling of this memorial. www.oklahoman.com/picture-gall...
Ayanna Najuma poses with her likeness at the counrt during the dedication of the Clara Luper National Sit In Plaza, Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025.
DOUG HOKE/THE OKLAHOMAN
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Rachel Gutin @rachelgutin.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Fiction Standout #6: Hemlock and Silver by @tkingfisher.com is an original take on the Snow White story. It features a gloriously neurodivergent protagonist - who is not the Snow White character, and it plays with standard Snow White tropes in a refreshingly nonstandard way.
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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Reposting with Alt-text:
The lady at the charity shop today told me that she wishes people would clear out their children's old toys in the lead up to Christmas rather than after because she always sees a number of parents in the days before Christmas looking for toys for their little ones who might be strapped for cash. She said there's very rarely anything in just before, but that they get inundated with toys in the days after. 

And it really made me think about it in a way I never would have before. If you know your child is going to get lots of presents from father Christmas this year, by clearing out your cupboards a few days early you could make another child's Christmas a lot more special too.

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Windborne @windbornesingers.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Seems like an appropriate moment to repost this #nokings #protestart #protestsong #raiseyourvoice #singout
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
#A_NewHope ✊
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 19/10/2025
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
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Ricardo @rdrouyn.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Army of Frogs - Watercolor Me
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 08/10/2025
The fact that they can't get a random sampling of citizens from any city to indict people for interfering with ICE seems more informative than any political poll, tbh
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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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Brendan @chibdm.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Wow! Brilliant for writers!
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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I wrote a comic called THREE about the Spartan worker-class, the Helots, and talked to a bunch of PhDs in the field. My take-away was how unwilling anyone was to state something was true firmly. After that, I'm even more more wary of Hot Take History online. That you're sure makes me unsure.
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Kat Brown @katbrownwrites.com · 24/09/2025
“An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in patients.” What an absolutely incredible, joyous achievement for everyone involved. Hurrah for science and scientists! www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that could transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
To a great degree we’re dealing with the fallout from a generation of men who got lucky once during a specific moment in tech evolution, made to feel as gods, but are all now suffering their mid-life crises having accomplished nothing else of note. These men have made nothing other than money.
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
A statement from Tylenol
TYLENOL
Nice try. Release the Epstein files.
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Tom BPM @Metaphor Chicago/GATEway Fate @bearpigman.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Happy Bi Visibility day, I'm bringing this back
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J. Elvis Weinstein @jelvisweinstein.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.
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Steve Hyndside @stevehyndside.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
"You can't call yourself a patriot and then dodge paying your fair share of tax" @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Nigel Farage.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
FWIW i’ve switched to @bookshop.org for ebooks and Libro for audio books and with very few exceptions had the exact same experience as Amazon without the greasy aftertaste. Highly recommended.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 11/09/2025
‘New York Times’ Announces New Columnist Will Contribute Nothing To Society 3 Times A Week
‘New York Times’ Announces New Columnist Will Contribute Nothing To Society 3 Times A Week
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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
There is no route out of fascism that involves sacrificing the vulnerable. All that does is tell the fascists that we're willing to turn on each other for the illusion of safety.
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Tal @starplanes.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
We're going to crowdfund Re: Frankenstein in October! Follow the page to be notified when it goes live! www.indiegogo.com/projects/re-...
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Re: Frankenstein
From the team behind Re: Dracula - an audio drama adaptation of your favorite gothic sci-fi novel!
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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
I like how in the Batman: The Animated Series episode "Almost Got 'Im", Batman fights a cassowary. It's not mind controlled or genetically enhanced in any way, it just attacks Batman because cassowaries are assholes.
A cassowary!A cassowary attacking Batman!Watch out, Batman, it's a cassowary!
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it: Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.
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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Okay I wrote about it. lyz.substack.com/p/we-are-tra...
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We are trapped in an imaginary crisis
The make-believe problems of 2025
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 13/08/2025
Corporate America has been waging a war against the trade union movement for a simple reason: They know that union workers earn higher wages and better benefits than non-union workers.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 09/08/2025
This is so true that it nearly burned a ghost in my monitor.
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Lostcatdog @lostcatdog.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you” Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”
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The Onion @theonion.com · 07/08/2025
Sleeping Man Flanked By Laptop, Phone, Earbuds Like Egyptian Pharaoh Buried With All His Treasures
Sleeping Man Flanked By Laptop, Phone, Earbuds Like Egyptian Pharaoh Buried With All His Treasures
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 05/08/2025
New research is calling for the federal government to implement policies that already exist in the U.K. and New Zealand, including a national sick leave policy and the right for all working parents to request flexible work arrangements. #canpoli
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How Can Canada Better Support Working Parents? | The Tyee
Catch up to other countries with flexible hours and parental leave, a think tank says.
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RJ 🌹🐺 @shoren18.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
If you live anywhere & think that threatening Jewish people will affect the genocide being perpetrated by the Israeli govt against the people of Palestine, then you believe in a vast conspiracy network of Jews that stretches from the Israeli cabinet to every corner of the world. Plainly antisemitic.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 04/08/2025
You know how dogs will happily gobble up another dog’s barf? That’s what I think of when I watch yet another set of techbros decide to revive yet another failed, incredibly stupid idea in the hope that it might just work for them. Call it the Barf Eater Theory of the 2020s Tech Economy.
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Veni Kunche @veni.dev · 31/07/2025
Well this is bad. Google is indexing ChatGPT conversations exposing sensitive user data I tried a few quick searches. I found someone's chat where I can see their api key I found some building their resume. Their name, email and phone numbers are exposed. www.fastcompany.com/91376687/goo...
fastcompany.com
Exclusive: Google is indexing ChatGPT conversations, potentially exposing sensitive user data
Thousands of shared ChatGPT chats are now appearing in Google search results.
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