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Effective Altruism is just Silicon Valley Objectivism. Every so often someone has to invent a rationale from first principles about how, if you think about it, being a selfish turd is the best way to go.

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

From: The Czech Year (1947), dir. Jiří Trnka, Kreslený a loutkový film Praha This film is a master class in stop-motion cinematography and editing

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Skelenaut @skelenaut.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Every day that goes by without another person doing a killdozer amazes the shit out of me.

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Skelenaut @skelenaut.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Every day that goes by without another person doing a killdozer amazes the shit out of me.

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Steven Curtis @stevencurtis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And all because you won’t write your own sentences and paragraphs, as you had to do only five fucking years ago. We could end all this tomorrow if everyone just searched, read, thought and wrote by themselves

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Željka Dobraš @dzeljka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

this is your chance to play the most design cohesive game ever! seriously, one of my favs

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

thinking about Shakespeare's sonnets about immortality and realizing how weird it is that the AI cult believes in the idea of preserving human consciousnesses while actively destroying the only technology we currently have to do that: Art

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 30/09/2026

Shhhh Sneak preview of @beckbook.com's exegesis on Philip K. Dick Don't tell my editor 🤫 beckbook.com

THE LAST TEMPTATION oF BECK

Dick and Hubbard--two more different science fictior writers Can
scarcely be imagined. And yet, both claimed to have received visions, to
have been granted prophecy.

What do you do if God speaks to you? What do you do once you've
glimpsed the ultimate Truth?

Dick died in 1982, never having come to a conclusion about what had
happened to him. He left a record of what hed experienced, but left it to
his readers to form their own opinions. His work remains in print: no
church has declared it to be scripture.

That said: Dick did, in fact, invent a religion. It's in his novel Do An-
droids Dream of Electric Sheep? (later the loose inspiration for the film
Blade Runner). In the world of the novel, a new faith emerges after a
nuclear apocalypse. Its adherents call it Mercerism

Mercerism's practices revolve around a machine-the "empathy box"--
that one has to interface with by holding two handles. It bears an uncanny
resemblance to an E-meter. But this fictional device doesn't measure your
emotions: it stokes them

When you grasp the handles of the empathy box, you suddenly feel as
though you are a man named Wilbur Mercer, who is climbing up a
treacherous hill, only to be pelted with rocks by mysterious and evil fig
ures in your periphery. People use the machine to experience Mercer's
physical and emotional pain-as well as the emotions of all the other
worshippers using an empathy box at that moment.

In real life, this is what art does. It's what art is for. Art, at its best.
makes other people real to you. It gives you a glimpse into something
outside yourself, but just as real as you are, It's proof that we're not sur-
rounded by automatons

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

With alt text. I know someone who actually did this

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On my first big overseas client conference, I was at a dinner seated next to a drunk client who kept trying to fondle me under the table. I was young, distressed, and had no idea what to do. I moved my legs as far away from him as I could, moving into the space of the man next to me, who then started patting my legs! The Regional Manager was a French woman who caught my eye, gestured for me to go to the bathroom and when I came back had switched chairs with me. What happed next was epic. A few minutes after I sat back down, she raised her hand with his hand captured in hers and announced loudly "Does anyone know whose hand this is? I found it in my lap." There was dead silence at the table. She threw his hand back at him and said calmly "next time I pick it up with my fork." Then she started a new conversational thread and things moved on. After the meeting she found me, gave me a hug, and said seriously "Never be afraid to make some noise. It is their shame, not yours."

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 29/09/2026

it’s tiresome but I think we have to keep asking these guys, so—who benefits from convincing people reading and writing doesn’t matter anymore

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Skelenaut @skelenaut.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just imagine not comprehending that art is communication.

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Lorraine🍬 @lorandbehold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ok here we go 🍝 Spaghetti Celesti: Devour the Heavens ⛅ is out now for free!! 🍴 the best pixel spaghetti of your life ↪️ prepare them & fork them perfectly ⭐ get those 5-stars reviews 😡 and be quick ! the people are hangry play it at punkcake.itch.io/spaghetti-celesti #fallingblockjam #pixelart

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AppleInsider @appleinsider.com · 28/09/2026

In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.

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Meta's new AI agent blatantly ignores users permissions

In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New from 404 Media: when you upload images to Copilot, they're not private. Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users' prompts/images, according to internal docs we got And they're horrified at what they're seeing. Bombarded with requests to make sexual AI images www.404media.co/humans-readi...

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Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified

Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

chat is this good?

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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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Sam Antics @dsoart.com · 04/07/2025

Garfield digivolutions (11/2021)

Drawing of Garfield with three arrows pointing to three different Garfield digivolutions, a little bomb thing with arms and legs,a lion, and a winged dragon with a gun head.

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kristsune @kristsune.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sable is an absolutely stunning game which i adore, and the book is just as gorgeous. Highly recommend picking it up when available again!

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Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Remember this shit next time some billionaire or billionaire's lickspittle warns about class war. There's never not been one, and they wage it openly against us.

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Its so insane that a business owner would be like "looks good" ? And you have to assume a lot of these people are fairly tech illiterate, so how are AI services reaching/advertising to them? Genuinely curious about this insane phenomenon that seems to be everywhere now

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026

An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.

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The media has the AI threat all wrong

Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.

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Skelenaut @skelenaut.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Touch screens are such a loser interface. Make me a smartphone with buttons.

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Skelenaut @skelenaut.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We really need to make it illegal for the government to distribute doctored and AI generated photos.

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Skelenaut @skelenaut.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Trump regime's razing of our country's cultural capital is doing incalculable damage.

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Skelenaut @skelenaut.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We really need to make it illegal for the government to distribute doctored and AI generated photos.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

APStylebook @APStylebook
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Adam Steinbaugh @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

BREAKING: An Iowa state court dismisses President Donald Trump’s frivolous lawsuit against veteran pollster J. Ann Selzer (represented by @thefireorg.bsky.social) and the Des Moines Register newspaper, a victory for First Amendment rights. Opinion here: www.fire.org/research-lea...

This case sets a President, a member of Congress, and a former state senator against a pollster and a newspaper, and it arises out of an election. A case of that kind invites the reader to look for a political result. The Court’s role is narrower. It is to sit as an impartial arbiter, to apply the law without passion or prejudice, and to rule without regard to the politics of the day. As such, the only question before the Court is whether the Petition states a claim the law recognizes. At its core, the Plaintiffs’ Petition seeks to stretch both Iowa statutory and common law beyond their current bounds, turning speech that enjoys the highest category of First Amendment protection into a liability. After considering the parties’ arguments, the Court must conclude that the protection is too great and the reach is too far. The case must therefore be dismissed.

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fingerspit @fingerspit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

back when i played it i thought it was my goty; nowadays i just think of it as one of my favorite games i’ve ever played. nothing quite like it.

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Skelenaut @skelenaut.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Why did It's Always Sunny and Futurama both parody Gilligan's Island a week apart? Is this a Volcano and Dante's Peak sort of thing?

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 18/09/2026

Fortnite is selling your favorite characters back to you as husks aftermath.site/fortnite-kingd...

the Don Draper presentation meme with Kingdom Hearts characters in Fortnite on the easel

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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Pokemon Company has printed so much 30th Anniversary that the scalpers are crashing out, prices are collapsing, kids are actually opening good cards! And there is Joy! Sweet Joy! Joy in Parent Town!

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026

as a hater let me acknowledge something ai is good at: producing irritating discourse at scale this is usually because, like "ai" itself, people are talking about different things like they are one thing so let me disentangle, with statements numbered for easy disagreement

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Mr. Tyler CroOoOoOoOok @mrtylercrook.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

One of the side effects of universal enshitification is that every corporate change becomes a natural jumping-off point for consumers.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Anthropic, Meta, and Google "breaking containment" incidents all resulted from setup errors (or a stunt) by the same company: Irregular. Irregular created a sandbox that wasn't really a sandbox because it had a live internet connection, and gave instructions that were then carried out online.

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Skelenaut @skelenaut.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I could go so exquisitely berserk.

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Skelenaut @skelenaut.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I kind of want to kill the internet.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Kiara Pendragon ∍⧽⧼∊ Godslayer 🏳️‍🌈 @aapur.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

They fired so many artists over this too. People who helped make the game iconic were tossed out on the street because the Slop Faucet could do it "decent enough". If you still play Fortnite, you're funding the hyper-acceleration of AI replacing Artists in Gaming

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Josh - Halloween enthusiast @captainmushface.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

'Keep the corpse moving so it can vote how we want' is one hell of a necromancer strategy

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Skelenaut @skelenaut.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Touch screens were a mistake

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This really isnt funny anymore. Its embarrassing. He's clearly dead or incapacitated and someone is using his political power completely unchecked. The people of Kentucky need to protest and demand to know where their rep is. This is the antithesis of a proper democracy.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I don't know if Matt Levine's theory about what's behind recent calls for AI regulation is correct. But it does sound plausible! www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/09/2026

I know this'll ruffle feathers but I agree with this Food/Water watch analysis. Diverting renewable energy away from fossil phase-out and climate adaptation and towards melting graphics card to power chatbots is the formal end of moral purpose for clean technology.

Data Centers With Renewables Aren’t the Answer
So all these power plants and “temporary” turbines are raising power prices and polluting our communities. Why don’t we just power data centers with renewables?

Many data center companies are pledging to (eventually) do just that. But even if these pledges weren’t just empty greenwashing promises, powering data centers with clean energy is utterly unrealistic. It also threatens the progress of our already dangerously slow energy transition.

Continuously powering a 1 GW data center would require nearly 20,000 acres of solar panels or 185,000 acres of onshore wind power. We cannot afford to waste the time, space, or money to build renewables for Big Tech’s profit machines.

Already, data center growth is outstripping available renewable energy supply and redirecting renewables from other industries. It’s drawing urgently needed renewables from existing technologies and resources. We need to focus our renewable energy resources toward thos

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 12/09/2026

Oh good. I can finally have children. I’ve always held off because I wasn’t sure if they’d really mesh well with my aesthetic, ya know?

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

New trailer for "Wildwood" stop motion feature film by Travis Knight & LAIKA Studios. In theaters everywhere on October 23. >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtr5...

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Crossplay @crossplayblog.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Roblox has banned short-form video loops content targeted at kids, but it's not clear why it was even possible

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