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This was another plank of the so-called 'long tail' model of digital culture, that you could make a living by giving away your main stuff for free and then charging for merch, which missed that most people aren't going to buy extraneous merch even of what they like or love

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Frog and Toad ate one very last cookie.

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Rob (the floor one) @floorisbed.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

ELON MUSK: [speaking into watch] what should i say to mark zuckerberg WATCH: hello mark zuckerberg ELON MUSK: no no I’M not mark zuckerberg, i’m elon MARK ZUCKERBERG: [to watch] hello

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As a society, we have forgotten that the phone still works when you hold it up to your ear

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

post a meme made by you

Gimli legolas meme

Gimli: “never thought I’d be fighting alongside disney lawyers”

Legolas: “DISNEY OWNS THE CONCEPT OF A MEME AND demands $10,000 for unauthorized use and ORDERING YOU TO CEASE AND DESIST IMMEDIATELY”

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

delighted to share with you a few slides from my powerpoint on the culture industry, which I first made in 2015 (?), pre-AI, and have added to, little by little, over the years, as the processes of homogenization have intensified & the smothering sameness of mainstream ideas become more choking: +

Slide from Culture Industry lecture: The Culture Industry / Art Under Late Capitalism. "The whole world is passed through the filter of the culture industry" (99).

Diagram from mid 2010s showing the consolidation of media conglomerates in publishing-- now hilariously (?) obsolete

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 27/12/2023

I know it's a controversial take, especially because so much effort went into stealing him, but if world events keep escalating I think we should return Timothee Chalamet to the Fae. They're obviously still super angry

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Sam Frantics @dsoart.com · 05/10/2026

Garffeld Pt 16

3-panel Garffeld comic: panel 1, Garffeld is looking at his bowl of food, and exclaims "'Sblood!"; panel 2, he looks over to see Nergal the kitten looking innocent, and thinks, "Nergal has partaken in my food and defiled it."; panel 3, he is slumped over, thinking, "I will surely starve."

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Deepak Karra (deepak_karra on IG) captured this shot of a pink robin, native to the forests of South Australia & Tasmania. In technical terms, this is a bird shaped like an orb, or 'BORB'. 🐦🟣 Reminder that this little guy is a direct descendant of theropod dinosaurs like T. rex. (📷: Deepak Karra)

A poof of bright pink belly feathers that looks like one of those fuzzy pencil-toppers is surmounted by a dark grey head in which is a wary dark eye. It's gripping a pink flowering branch that changes from nearly vertical to actually vertical, requiring a sort of death grip by the legs.

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In my quest for minimalism, I have made a relaxing game of balance 🧘 Please try it and let me know what you think? It’s real quick, and I’m proud of this one.

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Notan

A quiet black-and-white nonogram that starts at two by two and eases up to fifteen.

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🧌🥛 🏨 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

can’t sleep because of all these popes who don’t even run local models

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Argentine Economy Minister Luis Caputo “said the idea for the citizenship-for-investment program emerged during Milei's July 2024 visit to Sun Valley, Idaho, when ***tech executives*** expressed interest in obtaining Argentine citizenship.” 10/3/25 … 1/ share.google/N7XP8wxC0vzz...

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Argentina offers citizenship to wealthy foreigners | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Argentina on Friday announced plans to offer citizenship to wealthy foreigners in exchange for cash contributions or investments in government bonds, as libertarian Presiden...

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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What? Are you ok, Economist?

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I rarely see Tennessee Warblers in the Spring but happily see quite a few of them in the Fall. Most of them fly across the Gulf of Mexico to get to their wintering grounds. Safe travel little birdies!

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Rose Grimm @rgrimmturner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The ending is 🔥. Vraiment magnifique.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Starting to think that Mark didn’t start Facebook to make the world a better place 🙄

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Velour Shirt @object.works · 29/09/2026

This is a metaphor for so many things these days that I couldn't choose

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

i cant stop laughing at everything about this sorry

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Punished Cat Guy (extra punished Cenobite version) @majima.club · 28/09/2026

Why are you judging me bro, you were asleep too

An orange tabby kitten in an upcycled cat bed looking kind of judgey

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Sam Frantics @dsoart.com · 28/09/2026

Garffeld Pt 15

3 panel Garffeld comic: panels 1 and 2, Nergal is sitting next to Garffeld who thinks, "Nergal thinks himself a comely cat; a picture of vanity. I hate vanity."; panel 3, Nergal thinks, "Envy is no less a sin deserving of hate in the eyes of God."

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Jacob Whittaker @vonfunkenstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This. The people profiting from the AI label spent more than a decade being on the fringe. The label isn't just to sell products, it's to cement their importance and relevance.

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Best experienced not as a headline but as a random sentence in your feed

A New York Times headline by LIA LEENDERTZ
Maybe We Should Leave Birds Alone

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Hourly Peanuts Comics @esnupi.me · 27/09/2026

Sunday Peanuts by Schulz: Sunday, September 11, 1988

A Peanuts comic strip, drawn by Charles M. Schulz, originally released Sunday, September 11, 1988

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you needed to gauge just how capable executives are of stupidity, consider how so many of them seem to have failed to realise that senior software developers were once junior software developers.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Research Cruise AR103 Thread: Views & Critters Yesterday’s Wilson’s storm-petrel extravaganza off the back deck! 🪶🌿🦑

A wilson’s storm petrel flying over the ocean’s surface

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Two great tastes that go well together: Moomin and tower-tunnel. By Paul Antoine Takahashi on instagram.

Moomin with lantern looks down into tower-tunnel with the words from the wall in Annihilation represented next to the steps.

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Sam Frantics @dsoart.com · 23/09/2026

Pepe the Amygdala

Pepe the King Prawn muppet as a large monster with many limbs and a big pulsing brain-head thing.

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Incredible Facebook slop ad I just got

Horse pin with an illustration of a horse and the following text:
"Give a man a horse he'll eat in a day, teach a man to horse. and make him drinks water."

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/09/2026

investigating Elon Musk, subpoenaing him, making him testify under oath, and working toward significant prosecutions should be one of the leading Democrat campaign promises right now not just for DOGE, for a decade of self-driving fraud that has killed more than 60 Americans, and many other crimes

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Sam Frantics @dsoart.com · 21/09/2026

Garffeld Pt 14

3 panel comic of Garffeld: panel 1, Garffeld is crouched on a cushion while Jon is saying, "A poor, benighted creature was left at the door. I will tend to it till it is well."; panel 2, Jon holds up a small grey kitten and says, "This is Nergal."; panel 3, Garffeld flops his head down on the cushion, while thinking, "Wake me on judgement day."

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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯

Charles,

Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development.

Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk.

This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives."

For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control.

Those safety concerns must be taken seriously.

And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm.

But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good.

The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to finance

themselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined.
Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections.
It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies.
That tells us two things:
1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; &
2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk.
That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people.
These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow.
But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash.
In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power.
In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are.

What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion.
When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all.
From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong.
Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from.
It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public.
When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares.
The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out.
But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny.
Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab.
Heads, they win; tails, we lose.

We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.

We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.

And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity.

But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

It's time we hold them accountable.

Thank you for reading.

In solidarity,

Alexandria

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

NEW: Brown Brothers Media is the most successful media company you've never heard of. For years, its success was fueled by AI, fake writers, and fake reporting. When we started asking questions, BBM started mass-deleting content. Somehow, what came next was even worse. futurism.com/artificial-i...

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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month

Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

when wikipedia launched, the idea that an encyclopedia could be reliably maintained by the public was a joke. now, it's a marvel, a remarkable resource, virtually the only website that remotely delivers on its potential and practically the last pleasant browsing experience on the internet.

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