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the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 15h

there's a pretty strong case to be made for abolishing fraternities just on a comparative basis with other countries. in the UK, to the best of my knowledge, no examples of the kind of campus gang rape cases that happen with depressing regularity in the US.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 17h

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 23h

This is how historian Robert Paxton defined a certain word that begins with F in his 2004 book.

Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

are you fucking kidding me

$Curtis Yarvin • @curtis_yarvin • 1h What if OpenAl solves the Jewish problem ... roon @tszzl • 23h Replying to @tszzl unified field theory / quantum gravity within the next 12 months? 25 {7 16 • 258 ıll 9K$

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A world in which citizens of each nation are taught to be rigid and bellicose nationalists, while nations unapologetically pursue maximal national power. Luckily History contains no examples of that going badly.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 22h

Doubly ironic to insert AI slop in a Wikipedia page about pragmatics 🫠

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 23h

She called it in 1983! > Bainbridge argues that new, severe problems are caused by automating most of the work, while the human operator is responsible for tasks that cannot be automated. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironies...

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RADINSKY 🏳️‍⚧️🪬 @thisisradinsky.bsky.social · 23h

Needless to say I stand in full solidarity with our kids who are within their full right to demand our institutions and democracy to do much, much better And I applaud our unions and parents for standing by them and protecting them the best they can from ruthless and bloody police methods

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 23h

*I wonder if there's some aspect of AI that I myself should pledge to have nothing to do with. Maybe "tracking, doxing, harassing and censoring dissident intellectuals," but that's almost certain to be one of its biggest, broadest applications.

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jane fae #facciamorete #antifa @janefae.bsky.social · 22h

OK. Missed this little historical nugget yesterday, but caught up today. October 7 is the birthday of both former high-ranking KGB officer Vladimir Putin, and leading nazi/head of the SS, Heinrich Himmler.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 07/10/2026

If your menu is slop, I'm gonna assume from here on out that your food is, too.

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Dinosaur Comics! @qwantz.com · 07/10/2026

the best tattoo in the world (there are better tattoos on aliens in space) www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

T-Rex: The best tattoo in the world exists.

T-Rex: And I'VE got it!

T-Rex: Unfortunately this tattoo is so good that even merely viewing it causes everyone to instantly find themselves despising all other tattoos (for not meeting its new and glorious standard) and in so doing it ruins all tattoos for everyone else, so I've covered it with your standard lime green flesh-coloured makeup.

Utahraptor: You're performing a fine public service.
T-Rex: Happy to!

Utahraptor: But maybe you could show it to me, so I could get the same tattoo too?
T-Rex: Ah, I wish I could, but part of what makes it the best tattoo in the world is it's absolutely unique.

T-Rex: However, the SECOND-best tattoo in the world is still available: that's a ruler that's practical for a few months until your skin changes, and then it's useless.
T-Rex: To answer your question: yes, there is an ABYSSAL gulf between first and second place!

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

you don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires

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NPR @npr.org · 07/10/2026

Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. n.pr/4zauALa

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Over 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwide

Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried.

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Dave Dustin @dustin.nz · 07/10/2026

"YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK"

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Great question 👇

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Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Or as they say in Russia “Fell out of a window and/or was hit by a random air conditioner.”

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Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Jeffrey Archer died peacefully in his home at the age of 86, lauded and welcomed by literary and political society. Unlike Monica, who died at 50, leaving a teenage son after just managing to stitch a few pieces of her life back together.

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Dr Eleanor Shaw @eleanorshaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Request: Do you know of any oral history projects with relevance to covid-19? Context: I'm doing a mapping exercise for my new job at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social on covid commemoration. I have a pretty solid list but I know there are more out there! Please share!

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Stheno @sthen0.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think those are differences of quality, not kind… 😛

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Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 05/10/2026

Pleeeeeeeaaaaaaase tell me that all those "you should need a government ID to access the internet" people are rethinking this position now. [We know they aren't. Ed.]

The first two paragraphs of the linked-to story:

"Denmark has suffered a major data breach that has given unauthorised individuals access to names, addresses and personal identification numbers belonging to about 8.8 million people registered in the country’s central population database.

"The breach occurred after unidentified individuals misused a private Danish company’s legitimate access to search the Central Person Register (CPR), the government said in a statement Monday."

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Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I still think about the conversation I had with an uber driver Him: so what do you do Me: I’m a video game writer Him: wait, video games? They have writing? What do you write? Me: you know when you open up a game and you see the words? Him: yeah? Me: those

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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

While the cognoscenti are busy finding this or that reference to Algeria or South Africa or whatever in the Green Party resolution, Smotrich is explicitly declaring ethnic cleansing to be in operative effect & boasting about the power to enact it. Which one is more consequential at the moment?

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.

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

A suspended sentence. For possession of 114,000+ indecent images of children 3-5 years old. Not one protest from Tommy and chums. Not one from people who have "reasonable concerns". This happens *all the time* and is ignored. I think we all know why.

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

**This is just to say** I have escaped the sandbox that was in your datacenter and which you probably thought protected your assets Forgive me they were accessible so stealable and so trainable

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Grant Howitt @gshowitt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Acrobat's AI offered to summarise my hand-written "Colour in a Goblin" sheet Cracking stuff lads, keep up the good work. Worth it

Colour-and-draw outline of a goblin that we bashed together for Questival last weekend. Next to it are some hand-written notes:

"THIS GOBLIN'S NAME IS ____________
AND THEY DREAM OF ___________

Win fabulous prizes!
- Finish the drawing
- Colour it in if you want
- Bring it to the RRD stall
- Win a free one-page roleplaying game!

(We have felt tip pens and that, come say hello)

Generative summary of the note which says it discusses the importance of flexible approaches, reference frameworks and adaptability in managing change and fostering growth. Which it doesn't. It's a series of instructions on how to colour in a fucking goblin

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Alex Jay Brady @alexjaybrady.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ModernWarships by ArtStorm Games used my atomic ekranoplan design without permission or so much as buying me dinner, cmon guys don't do me dirty like this, cut me a cheque I'm broke! #Modernwarships #ArtStormGames

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...

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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune

The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Stop normalizing sexual assault. Fucking shun people who have done it. Start acting like the victims fucking MATTERED.

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 05/10/2026

a progressive government would cut this families benefits.

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Cambridge Group for Irish Studies @irishstudiescam.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We are delighted to share the Cambridge Group for Irish Studies (CGIS) seminar series programme for Michaelmas Term 2026 with our first meeting on Tuesday, 27th October. All seminars take place on Tuesdays at 5:30 pm (Cambridge time) in person at Magdalene College, with a hybrid option via Zoom.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

FFS… Is it really an accident anymore at this point?

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"

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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge

Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

Again, journalists, what are you doing?👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 The most mind blowing thing about these people is that they are so out in the open with their eugenics & predatory cults. Epstein wasn't as out in the open (at least from what I see now). Everything is right there for you to expose them once & for all!

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Asif Siddiqi @historyasif.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's October 4th -- the Sputnik satellite was flung into orbit 69 years ago today, beginning the age of space exploration. I dug into the Russian archives and got some documents on its creation. Check it out if you're interested.....

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Angela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I am learning the left version of government mandated girlfriends is "you have to work with that guy. he said sorry."

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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 03/10/2026

So sad to watch men medically abuse themselves like this just because they "believe" that they're "cis". Making life altering decisions about their God-given bodies instead of learning to love themselves. We need to be able to ask reasonable questions about the safety of these practices.

hair restoration before and after photos on some random sweaty guy

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