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Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social · 5h

I can’t believe how good episode 5 of this new season of Dark Matter was. Wow. Sad. Beautiful. Poignant. Hopeful. 🥹

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 8h

Holy crap. Can’t make this stuff up

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Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social · 11h

New shibboleth just dropped: SI

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Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social · 12h

Nick Cave on AI and creativity

My objection is not with A.I. in general. For better or for worse, we are inextricably immersed in A.I. It is more a kind of sad, disappointed feeling that there are smart people out there that actually think the artistic act is so mundane that it can be replicated by a machine. I find that insulting. There’s no earthly reason why we need to invent a technology that can mimic this most beautiful and mysterious creative act. Particularly writing a song.

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 16h

Oh come on, make it subtext at least

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Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social · 16h

Just realized I’m going to find it very difficult to contain my reaction if anyone uses the term “super intelligence” in front of me.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 20h

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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Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social · 20h

Joyce Carol Oates is 88 years old and still out there tracking and decimating neo-fascist trolls. Is “squad goals” still a thing?

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Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social · 21h

Eugenics and just pure horseshit, too, of course.

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CNN @cnn.com · 30/09/2026

A shark that became trapped in a canal in Busan, South Korea, has unexpectedly brought in thousands of daily visitors and become the city’s honorary ambassador.

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Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Two of my favorite things, one team! (I need that hat.)

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026

Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him

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Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess

Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable

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Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Trump is giving a press conference about how we’re changing the name of “artificial intelligence” to “super intelligence” and I think I’m going insane. Musk, Nvidia’s Jensen Huan, and Google’s Sundar Pichai among others standing behind him. We all just refuse to call it that right?

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Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Apparently this rarely happens, but it’s still horrifying to think about given how many of us wear backpacks on the subwayhttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/nyregion/subway-backpack-dragging-death.html

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Man Killed After Bag Gets Stuck in Subway Doors, Police Say

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Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Kinda need a new Roadrunner cartoon narrated by Werner Herzog now.

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Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m hearing ICE was involved in a car accident in Elmhurst after an attempted abduction. There’s a lot like this happening daily in NYC that gets little attention. Hope to see some reporting on this one. As of 10 minutes ago ICE was still there.

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You know what's messed up is this is like the fourth time in twenty years I've read this exact headline

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

OpenAI has apologised for hacking Australia’s Medicare statistics system in a blog post that revealed the intrusion was broader than first known.

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Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Meta’s track record with privacy continues to be abysmal.

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Scoop: A controversial Sydney data centre project that was proposed to be built 20 metres from houses has been withdrawn by its developer, citing "changes in the regulatory environment." with Ange Lavoipierre www.abc.net.au/news/...

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Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

History rhyming and repeating: “As fears about jobs and the economy spread, the United States forcibly removed up to 2 million people of Mexican descent from the country—up to 60 percent of whom were American citizens.” www.history.com/articles/the...

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The Long History of Anti-Latino Discrimination in America | HISTORY

School segregation, lynchings and mass deportations of Spanish-speaking U.S. citizens are just some of the injustices...

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Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“These acts and statements followed a familiar pattern in the administration’s dealings with the press—how much authoritarianism can we get away with?” www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

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“Flashing red.”

As the Trump administration openly defies a federal court order restoring access for CNN, MS Now, and Politico, the White House press corps needs to hold its nerve.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

The trans women in sports panic has got to be one of the GOP's most successful manufactured culture war campaigns. Somehow they got a lot of people who would otherwise say they support trans rights to somehow fear "fairness" in sports. It's a non-issue.

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Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

At the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library for @datasociety.bsky.social’s event: Who Gets to Decide How AI Enters Our Schools?

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Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Could there be any more perfect marketing to be plastered across a Cybertruck?

White Cybertruck parked near Times Square with marketing for titanpeptides.org. This shot shows the rear of the vehicle. Additional advertising appears on both sides of it.

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Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Seems like maybe another example of keeping an overtaxed “human in the loop” as a “moral crumple zone,” so your work on LLM itself and what it’s doing can continue unchecked.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is in Copilot, the least sexy chatbot imaginable, and one of the less popular ones, even though it’s packed into Windows. ChatGPT logs have to be a total cesspool

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Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Everything I don’t like is a psyop! Climate change. Transgender people. Evolution. Etcetera.

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Adriaan @adriaandotcom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I love to have a timeline of places I've been, but don't trust Google with my data. So I'm creating an iOS app called Places: your private timeline.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 21/09/2026

"We didn’t so much lie to you as tell you stories that were untrue. We hoped the stories would add magic to your childhood and reassure you that capitalism is a fair system for everyone, instead of one in which some people can’t afford insulin while other people are Jeff Bezos." buff.ly/KM3opmg

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Son, You’re Old Enough to Know the Truth, There is No Such Thing as the “Invisible Hand of the Market”

“You’ll probably hear this soon enough from the other kids on the playground anyway, so I might as well tell you. Santa isn’t real, the Tooth Fairy is imagin...

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

RE: The Weight The theatre chains aren't exactly making this easy to see, but it is playing nationally, and well worth making the effort

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C.K. Gill 🕷️😷 @ckgill.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026

Model Collapse is my new drag name

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Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Human in the Loop is the name of my new bitpop electronic band.

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Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just like all the recent SCOTUS picks who said under oath Roe V Wade was settled law?

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Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tasteful interviewees know to sneak sips of scotch from a silver flask concealed in the breast pocket of their sport coats.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Cops put this woman in solitary for three days on the strength of Flock "evidence" that she had killed people in a hit and run. Her car, meanwhile, had zero visible damage. But cops told her the "damage" was consistent with the accident. They believed Flock over their own eyes.

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Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

To be honest Tommy, I less worried about pilots pretending to be furry creatures in their spare time than these posers pretending they’re special forces and terrorizing our neighbors on our dime and full time.

Various flavors of weekend warrior playing dress up in camo and masks with assorted weaponry while employed for ICE and/Border Patrol

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/09/2026

Look, we know for fucking sure that my dog is sapient and also unpredictable and it turns out of he mauls someone I’m liable and he can be put down.

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We need a global conversation about the meaning of “consent.”

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The Verge @theverge.com · 24/09/2026

It’s 2026, and the number-one tech trend seems to be devices that constantly listen to and record everything and everyone around us at all times — with or without consent. Read more from @janus.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/tech/999889/...

Verge headline: Everything is spying on you and there's no opting out
by Janus Rose

Photo of Mark Zuckerberg wearing Meta smart glasses

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...

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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily

Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities

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Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is why I prefer to think of myself as a designer 😅 *plus teacher, writer

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