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Steve Turner

@stevet-au.bsky.social
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Writer based in Australia, either working on something, or posting about news, events, fun, hating AI... this site appears to be suitable.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 04/10/2026
The fucking stupidest people in the world have all the money. These are the kind of thoughts you couldn't torture out of me.
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AI Bros Are Having a Meltdown Because the Associated Press Stylebook Clarifies That AIs Don't Have Feelings
The Associated Press Stylebook posted a reminder not to anthropomorphize AIs because they can't think, trigger a meltdown among AI bros.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline
The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off
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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
not sure why I made this but now you have to see it
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@JFriedhoff

me at 13: wow i can't wait til we have immersive computers everywhere like star trek
me at 30: wow i can't wait until we destroy all computers like in dune
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Steve Turner @stevet-au.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Great news! (Especially as I was a last day contributor!)
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Jen Johans @filmintuition.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just a dozen hours left for the Veronica Mars Book Project campaign on Kickstarter! I’m keeping it open after that for late pledges as requested, but the tiers will be slightly more. So if you agree with the great Drew McWeeny, join us for as low as a dollar. 🩵💙 www.kickstarter.com/projects/wat...
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The Veronica Mars Book Project
Taking you behind-the-scenes of Veronica Mars. Funded in 24 hrs. Our next stretch goal is $10K for more art, merch, & reward tiers.
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Steve Turner @stevet-au.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I just pledged the Neptune level to www.kickstarter.com/projects/wat... because I saw a link from @crobertcargill.bsky.social and I figure this will be a great read when it's done! Loved VM, one of the best.
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The Veronica Mars Book Project
Taking you behind-the-scenes of Veronica Mars. Funded in 24 hrs. Our next stretch goal is $10K for more art, merch, & reward tiers.
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Jen Johans @filmintuition.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just 8 hours left for the Veronica Mars Book Project Kickstarter campaign. Backers requested I leave it open for late pledges but there will be a tiny price raise starting tomorrow, so please consider backing us tonight! www.kickstarter.com/projects/wat...
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The Veronica Mars Book Project
Taking you behind-the-scenes of Veronica Mars. Funded in 24 hrs. Our next stretch goal is $10K for more art, merch, & reward tiers.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Google and Apple immediately update their maps.
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Steve Turner @stevet-au.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
AI Bro scum obsessively use women against their will, alive or dead, real or unreal. I wonder what that indicates?
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Dan Johnson, 💀Socialist💀 @coil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Heck yeah.
Human-made over 5 years

No AI has been used to generate any code or content in or about the game, and never will be. Slow Roads has been a labour of love since the project began in 2021, and has been built with a decade of experience in 3D graphics and creative software development. Textures are hand-drawn, sounds are recorded locally, and all systems are designed and engineered specifically for the unique context of the game. This is a solo-developed project that I take great care over, and I believe AI simply doesn't belong in creative projects like these.

Please note that procedural generation is not a form of generative AI; the procedures used to generate the world in the game are mathematical functions that have been derived and defined by hand, with direct creative intent.
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Steve Turner @stevet-au.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is so true. This garbage can exist, but who wants it? Who cares? Their only hope is fraud and deceit, hiding it, pretending it is something else. It's designed to be a scam to defraud actual creators and trying to look like "the real thing". They have no argument in favour of this stuff.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Every time a discourse kicks off over whether AI music, literature or art will be "as good as" the real thing, I'm always amazed more people don't cite that **there already are** creative pursuits where human-free spectacles have been available for decades, and nobody has ever wanted to watch them.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Count Melancholia @lillyh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Gernsback Continuum short film - you just have to re-watch it once in a while! youtu.be/xh5QHtGmXn4?...
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TOMORROW CALLING
YouTube video by Tim Leandro
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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New Post: Why I Love AI Next month it'll be twenty years since I went to university, learned to program, and studied AI. I wrote about why I loved it, why I still love it, and why, unfortunately, it no longer exists. www.possibilityspace.org/blog/posts/i...
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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I just read a third or possibly fourth news article where the reality of an 'AI has discovered something marvellous!' story turns out to be GenAI somehow accessed material it had no permissions for, which was the outcome of an expert's years of work, and presented it without attribution. GenAI lies.
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Photography by Elliot McGucken
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Steve Turner @stevet-au.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I thought this song was an entirely US thing, but I've just looked it up now and apparently it's even number 1 in Australia, and I genuinely had no idea that was the case until now. Have never heard of it before either.
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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Steve Turner @stevet-au.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
But of course... AI as the "zero accountability" machine, literally another of the *real* reasons the corporate world is so sold on this technology.
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It's Chaos, Be Kind @atomicovermind.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
New missive from the Department of Forseeable Consequences.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 26/09/2026
Meta's platforms have repeatedly been caught running ads for deepfake "nudify" apps that let you virtually undress real people without their consent, but they won't run an a trailer for an upcoming documentary that reflects poorly on Elon Musk. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Steve Turner @stevet-au.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's wild how these people have ceased to offer solutions for "hard" things. They now want to sell us the idea that we need them to do easy things, and that we should forget how to do them entirely ourselves.
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WIRED @wired.com · 25/09/2026
Annie Clark, aka art-rocker St. Vincent, explicitly designed her signature guitar to sit comfortably against a woman’s torso. It weighs around 7.5 pounds, with a roasted maple neck that offers easy access to the upper frets (where the shredding happens). www.wired.com/story/16-wom...
Music Man St. Vincent HHH
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 24/09/2026
A painting of a bird beside the text "I miss the days when bullshit was funny"
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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
They want you, your kids, and everyone else to be dumbed down and reliant on their shit regurgitation machines. They want you to be unskilled, lose it, and dependent on them. These fuckers have publicly talked about SELLING BACK "intelligence and skill" before. Altman's talked about it.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Arguing about who is truly English while AI leeches into our lives is like the Mexica having a furious debate over a minor doctrinal issue while Cortes limbers up on the beach.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If you exchange the ability to read books and perhaps even write them for the ability to ask a machine to tell you about them or to put words in your mouth, you have not made a good trade. You have not traded like for like or worse for better. And that is the exchange being proposed
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CRSerenity2132 @crserenity2132.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
As @johnrogers.bsky.social regularly says: "Because the companies. DO NOT. Play by the Rules. Visibly. Repeatedly. Pathologically."
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026
Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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informationbank.bsky.social @informationbank.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Ricardo Semler on the prisoner's dilemma on data centers: trillions of dollars obsolete in just a few years | Fortune
Communities need safeguards now to avoid a future “Silicon Belt” of stranded assets and broken tax promises.
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Steve Turner @stevet-au.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is fucking insane.
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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Congratulations to every fucking prick who denied or didn't give a shit about the climate crisis. Walk through the fires to pick up your prize: a ruined planet. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Jaw-dropping’ El Niño bursts through temperature record months before peak
‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will have a huge impact on communities across the world
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Will Wilkinson @wlknsn.xyz · 24/09/2026
“Our models took actions we did not intend” = “we intentionally directed our software to perform a task without human supervision knowing that it is inherently unpredictable and might implicate us in the violation of laws or damage to others’ systems but we’d prefer to be exempt from liability, thx”
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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 24/09/2026
Jim Henson would have been 90 (yup, you read that right: NINETY) years old today. You can celebrate his life by celebrating creativity, diversity, peace, imagination, and silliness.
A tuxedoed Jim Henson sits in a sea of Muppets.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You know who else was obsessed with dancing around on the pinheads of imagined classifications based on where great grandparents were born and what they believed? The Nazis.
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Kelly Thompson @kellythompson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Again I am begging all LEGIT people running cons, signings, talks, events, etc. to stop using Ai to write your emails. What's happening is ALL THE SCAMMERS/CONMEN are ALSO using it, and so your emails are basically indistinguishable from them. They give off slop vibes EVEN IF YOU ARE LEGIT.
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Sean Phillips @seanphillips.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I did a film poster!
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Steve Turner @stevet-au.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
He just seems like the nicest person on earth, so the idea that anyone was "scared" of him, or "worried" about him is well... Well, we know exactly what it was of course.
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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Paul Verhoeven would be all “no, that’s too unbelievable.”
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Steve Turner @stevet-au.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Again and again, the AI bros love to present their "killer" use for AI as a complete removal of their interaction with other humans. As far as they're concerned, it's not a minor business tool, it will help them stop being human. And they seem to revel in it. WTF is wrong with these people?
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Steve Turner @stevet-au.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So this piece of shit, that anyone with a brain knew was a piece of shit, that got endless coverage from dumb fawning media, may well just be a rapist as well (like seemingly every other trash man on earth). What a surprise.
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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
From my new essay about the new social contract AI/AGI is actually meant to force us to sign: catvalente.substack.com/p/grand-thef...
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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If AI DOES become indispensable to the functioning of society, it won't even be because it's any better at doing stuff. It will be because large institutions that dictate the shapes of our lives have surrendered key functionalities to, like, three companies.
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Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The two major rivers in China are named "Yellow River" and "Long River". Shanghai means "On the Sea". Beijing means "North Capital".
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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