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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you want "personalized music" made just for you pick up a fucking guitar. Or else break the heart of someone who already has.

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Steven Dunston @stevendunston.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I love the murderbot books and tv show as entertainment but they are also a savvy exploration of our current AI landscape

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Steven Dunston @stevendunston.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

OpenClaw: Free! Muse: Free! GrokBot: $20! OpenAI: We have a bot too! for only $200!

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Steven Dunston @stevendunston.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I asked opus 5.5 to use some agents to speed up research, so it did, including accessing web versions of Perplexity and ChatGPT. I haven’t given it access to those tools. This is the first time I’ve seen this behavior.

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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

you just don't get it. transplants are bad, unless they are immigrants in which case they are good, unless they work for tech in which case they are bad, unless their work involves content creation in which case they are good, unless the content creation involves AI in which case they are bad

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Anthropic’s big AI safety move being to partner with Accenture as its “independent” evaluator to monitor that their AI agents don’t go rogue is actually hilarious. I feel like a victim of a guerrilla marketing campaign.

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Partnering with Accenture on embedded evaluation

We’re partnering with Accenture on independent evaluation of frontier AI—part of our recent commitment to embed evaluators at Anthropic. Both we and Accenture expect to invest at least $1 billion to b...

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Steven Dunston @stevendunston.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A lukewarm take is that Chinese models are about to become the frontier models, before OpenAI and Anthropic have their own data centers so Sam and Dario shift to the "responsible" players and let the Chinese be the irresponsible frontier (and then make a play to have them regulated in the US)

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Steven Dunston @stevendunston.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I wish I trusted Meta for product roadmap and data privacy, because Muse is a pretty intriguing always-on agent alongside contenders like Hermes, Grok Bot, and Openclaw. But I think I'll keep using Openclaw for now.

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Steven Dunston @stevendunston.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Trans kids are some of the most vulnerable among us. So if you don’t want to nurture and protect them, whats wrong with you? I might end up reluctantly voting for you but we can’t be friends.

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Steven Dunston @stevendunston.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Trying to explain to the tv gods that I need muppets. And I need Star Trek. But I don’t really need muppet Star Trek. Unless it’s a Farscape revival.

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Steven Dunston @stevendunston.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Surviving this heat advisory by putting an extra ice cube in my Negroni

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 09/09/2026

A malevolent AI running wild is not a different threat model than the one that already exists in the world today. This is true for all of the world's people with the exception of like 100 dudes.🤷🏿‍♂️

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Why I'm not afraid of some future Artificial Intelligence that is super human, malevolent, and doesn't care about humanity, but I am very concerned about the present. Consider such an AI. We can thin...

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 07/09/2026

the thing is, MAHA is like. one end of the spectrum. the other end of the spectrum is NOT, however, the current medical system. that's the middle of that bell curve, that. the actual other end of the spectrum is 'the medical system without medical misogyny and racism' and it currently doesn't exist.

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Steven Dunston @stevendunston.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Not publishing my dialect map because it says I am from Utah, a state I have never even spent the night

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026

Taken on their own, these facts constitute an extraordinary business story: one of the largest corporations in world history has converted its two largest cost centers into profit centers, and those profits are substantially generated by extracting payments from the company's own competitors! 10/

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Steven Dunston @stevendunston.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Relax everybody, the enshittification factory a16z tells us that enshittification isn't real. Aging, narcissistic millennials are the real problem.

This last segment is the crux of platform narcissism and the dislocation felt by early adopters in the West. This is especially true on large platforms, where you have global growth, and, thus, geographic diversification. Simply put, users in the Philippines don’t want the same things as the users in an urban centre in America want. Even at a smaller scale, users in Missouri similarly don’t want the same thing as a user who lives in Bushwick.

What people call enshittification is the feeling of feature-need dislocation. In this case, it is felt by mostly geriatric millennials. The platforms are more popular than ever. You can see it in the Monthly Active Users (MAU) growth mentioned above, 140% in ten years. The revealed preference is that people are using them more and more. Moreover, satisfaction surveys such as ACSI indicate that satisfaction with social media has remained consistent in the last 8 years, with a slight increase in the last three years, from 2020 to 2025, satisfaction grew from 70 to 75 (out of 100).

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Steven Dunston @stevendunston.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Cool let's build a whole MCU-style universe to reexamine unfairly-treated rich white guy villains. Who's next? Governor Ratcliffe? Prince John? Lex Luthor? Auric Goldfinger?

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Steven Dunston @stevendunston.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I've been using GLM-5.3-Flash for a few days and for me the jury is still out but it sure likes to talk.

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Steven Dunston @stevendunston.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I'm not saying they'll do it, or that they'll get away with it, I'll just say that building a new WH drone HQ & bunker and keeping the guard deployed in DC and stripping the military of leaders who aren't "loyal" feels like what you might do if you didn't plan on leaving when it was time to go.

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Steven Dunston @stevendunston.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Hmm. I have heard of ms Rachel and Piker but never seen any of their content. And I guess I have seen the kombucha meme but don’t know the name or content of that person. So is that zero or 2 or 3?

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Steven Dunston @stevendunston.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I use AI to help operationalize my small agency. I hire designers and writers to do the creative work. In my personal time I am also a musician and I am writing a book, both of which I do without AI. Human creation and AI productivity are not inherently opposed.

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Steven Dunston @stevendunston.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It’s called Bluesky because most of it goes way over my head

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Steven Dunston @stevendunston.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

UncSaaS had a good week. Blip or market shift? Generally, HubSpot seemed more AI forward in its updates over the past few quarters, but the Salesforce partnership with Anthropic gives them some momentum, if the workflows are meaningfully improved.

Big jumps in stock prices for Salesforce and HubSpot the week ending on 8/28

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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 26/08/2026

Want a full stack Substack replacement? Including paid memberships? All built on the same cool decentralized technology as Bluesky, where you own all your data instead of Substack owning your relationships with your readers? (All of which you should.)

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Steven Dunston @stevendunston.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Introduce yourself with ten acts you’ve seen live: Joanie Mitchell Bob Dylan Van Morrison Little Richard Bonnie Raitt Lyle Lovett Booker T Jones Fiona Apple Chick Corea Mose Allison

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Steven Dunston @stevendunston.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This planet is strange (laudatory) from page one. So far I really like the latest novel from @annleckie.com

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Something I really love is that we as a society heard the wii background music and were like “yes. This. This is special. We’re keeping this.”

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Steven Dunston @stevendunston.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Milo getting deported as retaliation against the English for the y’all skeet.

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Steven Dunston @stevendunston.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Made some tacos with the remarkable scarlet runner beans from @ranchogordo.bsky.social

Three tacos on a blue plate with scarlet runner beans, pickled root vegetables, olives, sunflower seeds, and micro greens

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Steven Dunston @stevendunston.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Who gets to decide whether "y'all" is performative? Are we doing forensic dialect analysis of everyone's backgrounds?

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Steven Dunston @stevendunston.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Ontario is perhaps the most-spoken word of the Wendat language, and there are 10k+ American Wyandot tribe members in Michigan, Ohio, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma who won't appreciate Trump's antics.

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Steven Dunston @stevendunston.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Ontario is not a "Canadian" name. It's a Wyandot name. Thousands of the Wyandot (Huron) people still live in both the US and in Canada.

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Steven Dunston @stevendunston.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Lake Ontario is named so by the Wendat people. My wife and children are of Wendat heritage, and we happen to be headed to Quebec and Ontario next week for some cultural immersion. Trump's lake-naming tantrum is just one example of the thoughtless ways indigenous language gets destroyed.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"Lake America" instantly just absolutely clogged with algae. Six uniformed National Guard guys standing on a beach dumping windex into it. It smells like a turtle tank.

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Steven Dunston @stevendunston.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

In the Bush era, at the height of country music's pro-war, pro-god, anti-gay Toby Keith years, Dolly performed at the Country Music Awards. She chose to sing John Lennon's anti-religion, anti-war song "Imagine," accompanied by gay icon Elton John. She was not neutral in the culture wars.

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Steven Dunston @stevendunston.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I don't believe in immortality but there is somehow more Dolly energy in the world today than there was yesterday, and right now it feels like almost the same thing.

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Steven Dunston @stevendunston.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Days like these make KEXP invaluable. Thank you for the Dolly tribute in real time.

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Steven Dunston @stevendunston.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I use LLMs all day to help run my agency. Not to replace creative work, but to support and augment it. Currently I subscribe to Ollama for DeepSeek and Anthropic for Claude, but if AI data centers went away tomorrow I could still do everything on a $5k Mac. That’s the likely future for me.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

new proposal: a16z specifically is not allowed to build data centers

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Steven Dunston @stevendunston.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Terrible AI stuff is happening: stealing art, destroying books, data center spree, SV market grab, AI slop everywhere. But if Anthropic and OpenAI disappear tomorrow, builders could still use free/open models on their own hardware to do cool stuff. That's new and exciting and not going away.

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Steven Dunston @stevendunston.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It’s not a trolley problem it’s a pedestrian safety problem. We’ve got to prevent people from ending up on the tracks and forcing our trolley operators to make impossible choices.

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Steven Dunston @stevendunston.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Trying and failing to imagine a non-spreadsheets office job

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Steven Dunston @stevendunston.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Spreadsheet people are created by microwaves

Comparing rise of spreadsheet and microwave from 1980 to 2000

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Steven Dunston @stevendunston.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Spreadsheet Peoples are the new Sea Peoples

Simpsons "Sea Peoples" meme updated to "Spreadsheet Peoples"

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Steven Dunston @stevendunston.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Rent a basic web server: $20/mo Build an equivalent local hardware machine: $100 Rent Claude Opus 5: $20/mo Build an equivalent local hardware machine: $300,000 That is the difference between data centers and AI data centers. And the reason people say we're in an AI bubble.

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Steven Dunston @stevendunston.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I am pro speeding cameras and anti surveillance cameras. I contain multitudes. Or at least nuance.

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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This is one of those arguments that sounds like slopulism but is actually, if anything, understated. 56% of Colorado river water goes to GROWING FEED FOR LIVESTOCK IN THE DESERT.

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