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Darius Baktash @sol-cantus.myatproto.social · 11h

@joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social I think this answers your question from yesterday's set on where he gets it.

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Darius Baktash @sol-cantus.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026

Christo-fascists are pro-abortion, they just classify it as acceptable after menopause.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Disturbing 🧵 I work in DC, but it's part of my job that I don't speak to journalists; I prep people who do. One of the things that I've noticed is a significant deterioration in basic standards of practice, including respecting off the record communication and porting quotes from other contexts.

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Jazz. @jl3001.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026

The MSMA hotline for reporting ICE abductions in DC is: 202-335-1183. Text if you see ICE, call if you see an arrest.

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Giles Mutterscrawl @mutterscrawl.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026

So, when the Republicans lose the #Midterms and Trump/Hegseth order troops to polling places and attempt their whole coup, we all know not to go to work and instead to fill the streets to make it clear *We Are Not Having That Shit* Right? We all know to not accept fascist fuckery?

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Darius Baktash @sol-cantus.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026

I'm not Catholic, but I have to respect the savvy of hundreds of years of understanding that when your opponent (American Christo-fascism) is imbibing from its own still, you don't drink the foreshots in their honor. help.stillspirits.com/hc/en-us/art...

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What are the heads, hearts and tails in distilling?

When distilling there are 'cuts' to be made to ensure you get safe and desirable tasting spirit. Below explains the cuts; Foreshots: The first distillate or condensed vapour from the still which ...

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Darius Baktash @sol-cantus.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026

Journalism and AI/commercialized LLMs are anathema. You cannot average what is new. You cann't report through hallucinations. The written word for what is true and real must never be filtered through a system that cannot see reality.

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Darius Baktash @sol-cantus.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026

All "Golden Parachutes" should be cut and anyone benefitting from them in the past should have them stripped and redistributed to those laid off. Zaslav and every other CEO like him deserve prison for the abuse and starvation their greed has caused.

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Darius Baktash @sol-cantus.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026

Folks, please stop using memes with Vince McMahon. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_M...

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Vince McMahon sex trafficking scandal - Wikipedia

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 02/10/2026

The President, who continues to hide service member casualties, is now sending up to another 10,000 troops to his illegal war of choice in Iran. When Trump says he's planning on renewing his war next month, believe him. Congress must cut off funding. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

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U.S. Sending Third Aircraft Carrier, Up to 10,000 More Troops, to Middle East

The deployments come as President Trump weighs resuming bombing Iran after the midterms.

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Soraya Morvan Smith @smorvansmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Si ça ne déclenche pas un scandale, je ne sais plus quoi dire. Les images de @remybuisine.bsky.social montrent un homme frapper la vitre d’un Chicken Street devant les pandores qui semblent trouver ça tout à fait normal. WTF?

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Darius Baktash @sol-cantus.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026

Susan Collins: "Yes, I'd love to see what your SuperPAC can do for me that isn't judicially accepted bribery because SCOTUS is run by ethically bankrupt assholes, but technically is bribery by every other metric on planet earth and the cosmos beyond." Also Susan Collins...

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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 02/10/2026

In 2003, the U.S. military bombed Iraq’s national seed bank in Abu Ghraib, effectively eliminating hundreds of varieties of indigenous seeds adapted to growing in the drought-prone desert climate. A year later, U.S. law prohibited Iraqi farmers from seed saving. (First published in 2025 by Prism)

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Saving Iraq’s Seeds, One Garden at a Time

Comprising a diverse range of backgrounds and ages, the collective fosters a space for voices of Jewish, Muslim, and Christian seed stewards from the Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region…

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Kansas has 4 former, living GOP governors. Two have now endorsed Adam Hamilton, the Dem, for Senate. Mike Hayden just penned this oped in the Kansas City Star this morning; Adam Graves had done the same last month.

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's insane how many ppl even entertain the idea of data fabrication as being good for research.

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Darius Baktash @sol-cantus.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026

When submitting material to the FDA for just testing approval (Phases 2 and 3), they had to make a hard rule that stacking papers into the supplements to pad out evidence would cause more rejections. Experts have to read it all to approve a drug, and 1000 useless articles is a waste of time.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/10/2026

Weeks after Russell Vought told Congress that Bilt had fixed its problems without the need of CFPB enforcement, nearly 1,900 Bilt customers received mistaken debt collection notices saying they owed hundreds or even thousands of dollars on their cards.

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The Trump Administration’s Plan for Protecting Consumers? Politely Ask Companies to Behave.

Rather than investigate a buzzy fintech startup for throwing users’ accounts into chaos, the Russell Vought-led Consumer Financial Protection Bureau trusted that the company was “back on track.” Custo...

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here ya go! More soon.

A square imager with a light parchment background with a snippet of text. The text reads:

The old shopkeeper had three minutes left to live.

Augustus kept the quiet countdown going in his head while the old man dealt with an even older customer who could not fathom why a shop of enchanted objects couldn't fix his marital issue.

"But it's magic innit?" the customer whined. "You've got summat can fix my, er… lazy soldier?"

"Sir, I enchant items," the store owner gently reminded. He gestured at the shelves and displays of various potions, baubles, and even a few weapons that populated the space. All of the work was sublime, and you could feel the hum of the spellwork from the moment you entered the shop.

The clearly tired shopkeeper continued. "Right now, it's an appendage. If your wife ever cuts it off, then it would be an item, but I would still have nothing for you. You want the apothecary three doors down."

It was a shame, really. Augustus could tell that the salesperson was damn good at their job, even with fools embarrassing themselves like this.

One minute, sixty-three seconds.

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Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They want them to quit so they can give contracts to private companies. Corporations needs their donor kickbacks.

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Union of Legal Workers for Trans Liberation @ulw4tl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yesterday was the final day of employment for eight laid-off union workers at Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE). This is how they were informed:

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Many women are on X posting about rapes of long ago, gang rapes at college, rapes in more recent times, how in the aftermath of the attacks they were let down by universities, cops, D.A.'s and doctors. And, pain/agony they feel for Jane Doe and wishes to comfort her. Scum/bots reply to mock them.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well if we actually do this we have to admit that the “AI” conversation isn’t an AI conversation It’s a. “Content” one that these technologies are founded since industrialization in inequity , that should be framed on what that content is and the rights of those who make it

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Darius Baktash @sol-cantus.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026

Dear journalists, "AI tried to" is not a factually correct headline when talking about commercial LLMs. "AI services were directed at..." is within the ballpark. "[x] directed an AI service to..." is closer. "[x] used LLMs to..." is the most correct you'll get for lay folks.

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Darius Baktash @sol-cantus.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026

Never buy or build a home where a carpenter bee gets better wifi in your walls than you do in your living room. - Parable of the log cabin owner.

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Darius Baktash @sol-cantus.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026

You cannot hone your words with a tool designed to blunt them. The average is not an edge and more force applied is not a blade despite the incision made. To cut to the truth, you must write yourself, and let no one and no thing else describe the planes you carve from your thoughts.

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Darius Baktash @sol-cantus.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026

And now that I've gotten this out of the way, here's actual meat and potatoes world builders can work with. Infantilizing Shackles This pair of magical manacles is a Patron's gift to those who sign their pact, built to enslave beings of much higher power, infantilizing both summoned and summoner.

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Darius Baktash @sol-cantus.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026

With the advent of D&D x Warcraft (the combined power of two franchises built on corporate overlords I hate destroying material I love!), and discussions around it in my friend's group, here's my contribution to Worldbuilding in those spaces. Ignore the lore, it's infamously never stable.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

* checks the news * aaaand speaking of the Supreme Court abusing the shadow docket

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

His entire business model hinges on hoovering up public money and then turning around to use some of that money to promote white supremacy which somehow brings in more public money.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The paper is short and we’ve included a Glossary of terms to further improve accessibility. Download paper here: 📝 journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... If you find our paper useful in your teaching of students in Psych, AI, or otherwise, @olivia.science and I would love to know.

Table A1. Glossary of terms used in the article

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Darius Baktash @sol-cantus.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026

Tuvok Throat Singing Tuvan Neck Pinch Both performances that can be found on Tuvalu Tonight at 8pm TVT.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On the math research end, we get lots of claims of breakthroughts from companies running closed models and not disclosing all of the inputs into those breakthroughs, because they are incentivized to make it look like their system ("the AI") did it all on its own. >>

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Darius Baktash @sol-cantus.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026

You can name it the Goldfoil Flak Cannon or Pink Elephant's Navel Inquisitor Guide, but it'll still be the same junk software run on choking gas turbines and by Silicon Valley gas bags. No one wants the Pink Elephant, we did not consent.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 30/09/2026

"Super" is clearly to deemphasize "artificial". Besides terminological nuance is very hard to adjudicate cos: > the technology industry will slip through[,] consolidating its power. It has indeed done so many times before by using previous phrases as buzzwords like big data, machine learning [etc.]

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Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia

Artificial intelligence (AI) companies and their rhetoric infringe on academia in harmful ways, mirroring past uncritical acceptance of industry logics, such as those of tobacco and petroleum. In this...

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I will in any case not be reviewing applications unless they are LLM-free texts bsky.app/profile/iris...

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 29/09/2026

Okay, just so we have a record: The Facebook Fake-Out, a record of Meta's tactic of transgressing, getting caught, waiting for things to blow over, and then breaking the rules again. I documented the pattern so we have a link to share for the next time they do it. www.anildash.com/2026/09/29/f...

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The Facebook Fake-out - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The first requirement of restorative justice is a perpetrator’s confession. He has to admit what he has done and to take accountability. The men in this case are smearing the victim and threatening her with lawsuits. They are not candidates for RJ. They would turn it into a new site of violence.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

All of these responses are tinged with himpathy, implying that rapists can be healed by empathy and education. You cannot educate someone who does not respect you. Men getting more empathy than their victims is why rape is so common in the first place.

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Darius Baktash @sol-cantus.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

Family day at a Rennfair and I need to look up some historical items to cobble together a costume. AIslop is absolutely hitting Etsy. Apparently humans had an extra meter of legs in the 19th century.

A picture of an Etsy seller's grey colored great coat with a circus stilt performer's worth of extra leg length and matching coat coverage.

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Darius Baktash @sol-cantus.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

Commercial LLMs (ChatGPT, Muse, Gemini, Claude, etc) are not and will never be HIPAA compliant, and this story is another in a long line of proof. Do not trust your health data to these companies.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When Coxon was suddenly ALL OVER the media, it felt to many like that was because his story deserved that much interest i.e. that the media was doing its job informing the public of an important threat. The wall-to-wall media coverage wasn't organic though, it was orchestrated: >>

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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Darius Baktash @sol-cantus.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026

"Have you watched the [new anime genre] show?!" No, no I have not. Every time someone invents a new type of anime genre, I fear for how quickly and terribly the fetish material will reveal itself. 99.999% of the time, it's just misogynistic power fantasy.

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