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Chris

@sketchseven.bsky.social
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Animator, motion graphics artist, writer. Owner/director of @animseven.bsky.social Be kind.

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Loish @loish.bsky.social · 7h
Dang yall, thanks so much for the support 😭 Usually I ignore the random AI accusations but I wanted to take the chance to talk about how important it is to do your research in times like these. Didn't expect to get soooo many kind comments though! We gotta stick together, my beloved art community ♥️
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 12h
The first move for Skydance after the merger announcement: fire the studio executives who brought in One Battle After Another and Sinners.
hollywoodreporter.com
Michael De Luca, Pamela Abdy Out at Warner Bros.
The news comes as Paramount Skydance is readying to finalize its deal for the legacy studio.
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Chris @sketchseven.bsky.social · 3h
Uh so radium poisoning has what symptoms, exactly? This guy is in for a bad time if this is real.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Nicole is a leading expert on the issue of campus sexual violence. I am floored that USA Today would do this to her. I find this kind of journalistic behavior unethical and morally reprehensible, twisting an interview with a renowned advocate for survivors into a hit piece against a survivor.
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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is insane.
Christopher Hale w @ChristopherHale
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Michael Tracey published what he said was the ID of the "Jane Doe" in the Cornell case. Then he took it down, claiming he just wanted to make a point and didn't want to see harm to the person he named. What he hasn't admitted is that he mistook info on a sketchy site for official NY court records.
An archived copy of Michael Tracey's original Substack post includes a screenshot from "eCourt Records" and the commentary: "It's [name redacted]. Don't blame me -- the New York Court System just posted it. Seemingly inadvertently. Oh well."Screenshot of Michael Tracey's post on Substack titled "Note on Jane Doe." It reads: "After identifying Jane Doe earlier tonight, I have now removed the information I published. Why? Because the principle has been served: to underscore that permanently anonymizing litigants who make sensational, spectacular, reputation-destroying claims about others — so long as they can self-declare some form of victimization — cannot be countenanced.

It’s destructive, and an egregious abuse of the legal system by huckster plaintiff’s lawyers. This practice has to end. Lawyers who seek to monetize this sleazy tactic should have to think A LOT HARDER about the claims they’re willing to throw out into the public domain, using impressionable clients who may not even know what they’re getting themselves into.

So why have I now removed her information?

Because I don’t believe she’s the main “villain” here. I primarily blame the bottom-feeding, media-manipulating, sleazebag lawyers who’ve made a whole cash-grab industry out of this racket.

Thomas Giuffra in particular has a lot to answer for. He’s the central reason for the current debacle.

Given the intense nationwide and global interest in this case, I don’t want to bring any further negative attention to this woman. I don’t believe she ought to be punished or subjected to any retribution or humiliation. I believe a RATIONAL solution is necessary here. Not more character assassination — of her, the seven young men, or anyone else. Truly, that is my genuine view."
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 02/10/2026
just wanna re-up the part where I wrote that many immigrants in Maine have been sheltering in place since January for their own safety, with ICE still operating in the area. it is October.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Putin's winter offensive against Ukraine is leaked: "an intercepted Russian plan to cause the energy system to collapse through methodical attacks. The plan, a copy of which The New York Times obtained, describes a campaign of strikes using up to 1,000 missiles, drones and bombs.
nytimes.com
Russia Is Planning Its Most Powerful Blow Yet to Try to Freeze Ukraine
Ukraine showed European partners what it said were intercepted Russian plans to cut off major cities from power, heat and water this winter.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New GB News accounts are out. Here are their losses to date. Or "spent political donations" if you prefer
Line chart titled 'GB News has lost £142m to date', showing cumulative losses in pounds rising steadily from around £3m in 2020/1 to £142m by 2025. The red line climbs most steeply between 2021/2 and 2023/4, reaching roughly £110m, then flattens as growth slows towards £142m. A note states the latest figures cover the seven-month period to 31 December 2025. Chart by Press Gazette, source: Companies House
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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Actual LOL
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/10/2026
OMG you have GOT to be kidding me
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Albert Dros @albertdros.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What a light last week in the forest near my house
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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Remember, folks: for every author you see on here describing how they’ve filled out forms to get *some* compensation from the Anthropic AI case there are dozens, hundreds, hell THOUSANDS of us who get 0 because our books weren’t registered with the US copyright office yet have UK copyright!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 30/09/2026
The deep past is so fascinating as an artistic subject, bridging between reality and fantasy. Image is a "Screengrab from BBC Earth Science on Youtube" according to the source. #SciArt
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Chris @sketchseven.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
All the signs are there for GOP trying to steal election/deny results in November. Their defeat needs to be too big to even have space for denial - even then they’ll claim the scale of the defeat as proof it’s fraudulent. Dangerous times.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There's a shit-ton of actual anti-Semitism in the world today, but Netanyahu's fraudulent misuse of the term devalues it dangerously. Hamas is anti-Semitic and murderous. Netanyahu is a cynical, murderous shitheel. Mamdani is an American politician with a perverse impulse to tell blunt truths.
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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
whenever you feel like you’re too small to change anything know that citizens from small towns and cities that speak up against flock and axon cameras in their communities (and sometimes get arrested for it) are fighting and sometimes succeeding against this
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yesterday, Trump’s America dot gov site answered factual questions like “who won the 2020 election” accurately. Today, it no longer does.
Daniel Dale 
@ddale8
X.com
Yesterday, asked about its chatbot's many debunkings of Trump, the White House said it "will continue to be updated to provide more features, resources, and the most accurate information from the federal government."
Today...lots of accurate answers have been simply forbidden, with the chatbot framing information like who won the 2020 election as forbidden "political commentary." x.com/ddale8/status/...

Daniel Dale * @ddale8 • 20m
Yesterday: Trump administration chatbot says it's not true that Trump inherited the worst inflation in history.
Today: Says it can't answer such questions...
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Amos @amosduveen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Interesting thread. Set aside the fact that genAI is riddled with errors that it inherently can neither detect nor correct, this is a neat summary of why they are struggling so hard to even find a use case among the general public.
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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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Chris Washington @cwashington.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is impressive work.
youtu.be
We Built the Product Apple Gave Up On...
YouTube video by HTX Studio
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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Another day, another eyebrow-raiser from a Reform-led council.
thelondoneconomic.com
Concerns raised after Reform council REJECTS motion calling for DBS checks
The Reform-run council in Barnsley has been accused of showing 'weak and feeble leadership' after blocking the motion on DBS checks.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 28/09/2026
Proper "source: I made it up" stuff, on the social network the government still seems determined to use through dozens of official and unofficial channels.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's difficult to engage in diplomacy when you're too simple-minded to think about anyone except yourself . . .
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 28/09/2026
are we finally going to accept it's all a scam, a "mechanical turk", it's all humans?
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Farage honks his mouth off about ongoing police investigations, when told not to. His Welsh leader is in prison for taking bribes from Russia. He whips up riots. He’s in bed with Trump, foreign money, crooks and crypto billionaires…. A massive problem with national security is Farage himself.
sky news

'We have a massive problem with national security': Farage challenged on Fairford speculation
Reform UK leader told his social media followers the five men arrested after an RAF Fairford situation were "Iranian nationals". Sky's Rob Powell spoke to him after it was confirmed the men arrested are British nationals.
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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Man's Hilarious Confused Look
ALT: Man's Hilarious Confused Look
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 28/09/2026
‘Stress is climbing in the private credit market with software names accounting for 36% of debt under pressure. Of the roughly 5,000 companies held by BDCs a year ago, nearly 600 showed signs of some degree of credit pressure by June 2026.’ pitchbook.com/news/article...
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As unprofessional as it may be, I suspect I will be shouting "we have been saying this for years" a lot today. Harsher immigration policies don't just ruin individual lives, they damage the economy, reduce jobs, and generally harm the whole country.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New whistleblower account: Former employees of the Kennedy Center say that center officials canceled a plan to start overhauling its leaking infrastructure months ago, despite those officials now asserting the leaks posed an urgent safety risk requiring the building to close.
nytimes.com
Kennedy Center Shelved Repairs Now Cited for Closure, Whistle-Blowers Say
In a letter to Congress, former employees say the center delayed a plan to address the leaks that its officials now cite as a serious safety risk.
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404 Media @404media.co · 28/09/2026
Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: LLms are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
404media.co
‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Your taxpayer dollars are being illegally spent to air a literal Trump 2024 campaign ad.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Pentagon's public tally of troops wounded during the Iran war was quietly increased this week without explanation from Trump's Defense Department. The total number of troops now wounded during the war is 861, according to DCAS.
washingtonpost.com
Pentagon quietly adds dozens to tally of troops wounded amid Iran war
With the addition of 29 U.S. sailors and eight Marines, the total number of personnel wounded since the start of hostilities has risen to 861, a Pentagon database shows.
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"we didn't have anything like as many people claiming to have ADHD back in the days when everyone carried around a pack of inhalable stimulant drugs and took between 20 and 40 doses every day"
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Lucy Promise @julesprom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
i think there is a lot of people who either dont know he sucks or do know but its just vague “yeah hes said some dumb things and the cybertruck is cringe” reasons who arent prepared to confront just how unimaginably stupid he is or how his empire is built on lies which this documentary will reveal
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.
It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
no plan,

Johnson on X
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Bear in mind - these are the same platforms going ‘it’s awful that there’s child sexual abuse material in ads that people buy on our platforms but there’s nothing we can do, we’re just a market square!’
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Pupperpotamus @pupperpotamus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My hot take is that fandoms have always been a majority of nice people with a subset of absolutely rancid, judgemental arseholes that never got bigger, just louder, but because platforms learned that arguments drive engagement and therefore you see more ads, they tailored algorithms towards that
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
8/ As the @nytimes.com reported, DraftKings uses machine learning and data scientists to entice losing customers with promos to keep them going — even if those are the customers at risk of becoming addicts. The company says it doesn’t unfairly target people.
nytimes.com
How DraftKings Uses A.I. to Target the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose
Data science helps determine who receives betting incentives, but the company has resisted using similar technology to protect gamblers at risk of addiction.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Chris @sketchseven.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Massively powerful piece and so well written.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is extraordinarily well written.
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Every piece I read from the ex-Starmer crew has the same flavour- a bleeding over of their distaste for other more socially liberal colleagues in the Labour Party, which has been retro-fitted into an entire explanation for how politics should work, even as it failed when actually tested.
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's very "funny" this is happening at the same time the AI companies got away with stealing everyone's books
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The way to understand the Right is that they are trying to reassert what they say is the reality of hard-wired human difference - on immigration, hard borders, ethnicity, anti-DEI, 'pathologising AuDHD', gender roles, 'all must have degrees' etc. Their enemies are equality & 'melting-pot diversity'
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ouch
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sure. Brexit meant we huffed out of our agreements on managing the flow of asylum seekers. The boats symbolise “taking back control” by going it alone. But it’s only a “crisis” because politicians and media choose to blame immigrants for their own failures. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
independent.co.uk
Burnham blames Brexit for small boats crisis - but rules out early general election
Burnham lamented a ‘loss of collaboration with neighbours’ following Brexit but has ‘knocked dead’ the idea of an early election before 2029
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Amazing investigation by TaxWatch into an offshore tax advice network that appears to be linked to Craig Whyte, the disgraced former owner of Rangers. The network may be fake. The advice is bogus. Anyone following it is going to end up in a bad place.
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