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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

JON STEWART: “So in the FUTURE we WILL use A.I. to cure diseases… but right now it’s mostly murder, surveillance, and surge pricing for the McRib — What a trade! I’m getting the sense you guys might be full of shit.”

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TheStupidestTimeline @stupidtimeline.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you still use Amazon, you are a moron

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TheStupidestTimeline @stupidtimeline.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Cool. Let the Utah far right and conservatives go first.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 25/09/2026

Every day we get closer to this:

Cartoon by the human artist Twonks, showing George Jetson vacuuming the floor while Rosie the robot paints a picture

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

The outright refusal to treat white supremacy as an ideology which motivates action and treat it as generally objectionable is what allows this strategy to be viable for Elon Musk.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/09/2026

I think it's impossible to build a chatbot using the techniques we're presently calling "AI" that doesn't "hallucinate." However, it's both possible *and* necessary for *us* to stop hallucinating *about AI*. eof/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/09/2026

But there's a second hurdle that makes it hard for a small but important subset of humanity to understand that chatbots aren't people: the billionaires to whom nearly *everyone* isn't a real person.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/09/2026

That texture is especially hard to find in beginner work, because beginner work is mostly full of the completely ordinary errors of inexperience, errors that AI can reliably avoid when it extrudes text.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/09/2026

He's right, they *are* fed up with monopolies. Everyday Americans, Democrats *and* Republicans, are telling pollsters they'd back a politician who campaigned on shattering monopoly power: libertyandpower.substack.com/p/pollsters-...

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Pollsters Urge Dems to Attack Monopoly Power. Candidates are Listening.

The fight against monopoly power is moving from policy papers to DCCC guidance and competitive campaigns across the country – with polls confirming it’s a top performing message in competitive races.

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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Norwegian humor is on another level. Here's how the Norwegian Consumer Council explained @doctorow.pluralistic.net's concept of 'enshittification':

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

InterRAI isn't even new! This was one of the companies i first learned about via my 1st time working w/ @cdt.org, back in 2020! Go look up "Challenging the Use of Algorithm-driven Decision-making in Benefits Determinations Affecting People with Disabilities"! What are we doing???! archive.is/d5RXZ

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A secretive computer algorithm is taking caregiving money away from disabled people

After Nebraska used a new interRAI tool to slash Medicaid funding for nearly 900 people, NBC News uncovered the hidden logic behind some of the cuts.

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TheStupidestTimeline @stupidtimeline.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I repeat: Private equity is the closest thing we have to real vampires

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TheStupidestTimeline @stupidtimeline.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This feels like tricking a toddler to be buckled into a car seat by giving them half a cookie that is actually a whole wheat cracker 🤔

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Alex Karp of Palantir says the AI industry must be nationalized to protect it from lawsuits if it accidentally destroys the world. More likely, he sees the bubble about to burst and he wants to be bought out with our tax dollars before that happens.

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TheStupidestTimeline @stupidtimeline.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I just learned how to reference the concept of enshittification at my increasingly conservative-uncurious workplace in a way that other savvy coworkers can enjoy

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Dan Meyer @ddmeyer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My hypothesis: these adults have internalized that the evidence in favor of AI in schools is wafer thin. Maybe also: the labor market seems utterly unpredictable right now so stick to learning about things that have mattered.

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TheStupidestTimeline @stupidtimeline.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Please put the clowns back in the circus

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TheStupidestTimeline @stupidtimeline.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Stop referring to AI as having human characteristics. "AI" is code that is working exactly as those white collar criminals intended

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TheStupidestTimeline @stupidtimeline.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Good. Now reinstate all the regulations that corporate lobbyists have decimated over the past 50 years.

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TheStupidestTimeline @stupidtimeline.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Attention religion: More of this, less ( preferably no) megachurches or prosperity gospel

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TheStupidestTimeline @stupidtimeline.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Private equity is the closest thing we have to real vampires

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TheStupidestTimeline @stupidtimeline.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

THERE IS NO MORE SPACE ON MY BINGO CARD

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The Onion @theonion.com · 16/09/2026

Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression theonion.com/trump-says-recession-u…

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The Onion @theonion.com · 16/09/2026

Congress Passes $430,000/Hour Minimum Wage For Billionaires To learn more about America's gaping wealth gap, head to youtube.com/politizane.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We’re not going to wait for them to build biological weapons. AI destroys the environment on its own. An AI data center spewed thousands of gallons of diesel into a NJ waterway. Contractors are still skimming oil from Anderson Creek, which feeds into the Hackensack River. www.nj.com/hudson/2026/...

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

No shit, 100% agree here.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

AI doom or not, something has shifted with AI recently. The guardrails that kept AI sitting in a chatbox are gone, the models are better, there's more compute. AI agents are everywhere. They are annoying as hell. IMO the situation is going to get much worse www.404media.co/theres-a-100...

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There’s a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Already Ruining the Internet

“AI agents” now have enough power and permission to be extremely annoying online.

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

FOREVER AND ALWAYS MY DIRECTOR 🥳🥳🥳🥳 (Not my video.)

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/09/2026

The only thing Peter Thiel hates more than the Antichrist (spoiler, he's just talking about Greta Thunberg) is "wasteful competition": www.youtube.com/shorts/WmRC_...

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Peter Thiel: Competition is a waste of time. Do not compete.

YouTube video by Elon Clips

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TheStupidestTimeline @stupidtimeline.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I have questions. Like, we are hiring horses and sheep to be agents?

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/09/2026

Mark Zuckerberg's quest to replace your friends with chatbots makes sense once you realize that for Mark Zuckerberg, you and your friends are already just balky, shitty chatbots: pluralistic.net/2026/08/06/s...

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Pluralistic: Eternal Sloptember (06 Aug 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/09/2026

The fact that Bezos needs to piss and also the fact that he commands an army of hundreds of thousands of workers who are prohibited from pissing really supports my hypothesis that billionaires don't really believe that other people are *real*.

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TheStupidestTimeline @stupidtimeline.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Things I was frightened of as a child: 1. Getting pregnant and not being able to go to college/have a fun adult life- yay effectivene sex ed 2. Getting electrocuted in the shower during a thunderstorm = living on a well + DIY electric work 3. Environmental destruction, looking at you, ozone hole

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TheStupidestTimeline @stupidtimeline.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Since most people can't describe how LLMs & agents work/calculate, this is a big ask.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

It's a Python loop and a chatbot. The people responsible didn't accidentally create god: they created autonomous malicious software and then failed to closely monitor it, resulting in it doing something both foreseeable and bad.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

Riley had a very good way of summarizing this: "LLMs are real, AI is fake." LLMs - chatbots trained on things like CTF logs that can break into servers - are real.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

It's as though they found some guy under a Prius removing the catalytic converter with a Sawzall and handed him a piece of software that could shut down major American cities. That was - and is - *very bad*.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

But sometimes, the NSA (and other "security" orgs, like the CIA) will discover a really *juicy* bug and then *keep it secret*, so that they can use it to attack their adversaries.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

They did what they were designed to do, and because OpenAI ran them with inadequate supervision (without a "human in the loop" that checked each iteration through the Python loop to ensure it hadn't gone off the rails), they trashed a competitor's servers.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

When ChatGPT's chatbots deployed this tactic, they weren't "setting their own goals" or displaying worrying initiative. They were rolling out a tactic that has been understood by American middle-schoolers for about two decades.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

Given that AI insiders have mostly cooked their brains in this fashion, it behooves us all to treat these people as unreliable narrators of their own products' capabilities.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

OpenAI did not "lose control", the agents did not go "rogue" and there is no "swarm" that "escaped". all control and responsibility remains firmly in the hands of these "frontier" labs. most importantly this "rogue" narrative is an intentional and strategic marketing PR

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/09/2026

Creating an AI agent and asking it to email strangers on your behalf is like forcing strangers to watch you masturbate. Incompetently.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/09/2026

Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...

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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We need to really focus on the fact that OpenAI employees are behind this not sentient software. Like, if a person/company creates a malicious code then they’re responsible. AI does not change that

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