Reposted by Jon KnightMicah @rincewind.run · 10/10/2026if your agents are going to commit crimes, you are legally responsible if you cannot figure out how to prevent your agents from doing crimes, you’re going to have to choose between releasing them and protecting yourself from criminal liability imo this would do more for “ai safety” than a sex cult 522688529
Reposted by Jon KnightTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 10/10/2026My latest @newscientist.com cartoon 2943421566
Reposted by Jon KnightREwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026HAHAHAHHAA JAMES BLUNT SHOWER SCENE HAHAHAHAHA 4512
Reposted by Jon KnightI Liv, I Die, Oliviagain Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Okay. Another call. Anyone know any media outlets for press in gaming, film, horror, or the like? We’re gonna be dropping a VERY BIG press announcement soon! We want REACH! 21615
Reposted by Jon KnightDavid Rolfe @dorolfe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Fuck yes. Tax billionaires out of existence. This is @johnrogers.bsky.social loose-nuke theory of politics. 24613
Reposted by Jon KnightJohn Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Put a reminder on this, I loved her first booK INFRASTRUCTURE. Approachable without being simplistic, a genuinely fun read on some very crunchy stuff. 25216
Reposted by Jon KnightPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ringen.wikipedia.orgIron Ring - Wikipedia 2073732301
Reposted by Jon Knight#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 23/09/2026*If you don't like coders for some reason, this is a real schadenfreude feast of coders lamenting and wringing their newly-useless human hands www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/c...reddit.comFrom the ClaudeAI community on RedditExplore this post and more from the ClaudeAI community 1211630
Reposted by Jon KnightThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Yes, there are technical, formal legal reasons why terrorism law is applied to protesters carrying placards, but not to political activists slashing boats. But stepping back, there is something wrong with a legal regime which criminalises one more than the other. A triumph of form over function. 1035191
Jon Knight @syntheticbrain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Just finished The God-King Chronicles #3 by Mike Brooks and have thoroughly enjoyed all three. Nuanced world building, and a conclusion I found deeply satisfying and intriguing (for slightly spoilery reasons). + Dinosaur mounted samurai! I'd love to see more in this world @orbitbooks.bsky.social 010
Reposted by Jon KnightDel @del.art · 20/09/2026When a game studio ships a solid game, it creates TWO valuable products: 1. A solid game. 2. The team that spent years learning how to work together make a game. Because Western studios keep disbanding #2 while development cycles get longer; we will inevitably see less of #1. 211740410
Reposted by Jon KnightMaureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 18/09/2026OH WOW. I knew it was bad, but this suggests bad, bad. 45310
Reposted by Jon KnightMax Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"No, it will take too long. Let me sum up:" 59318
Reposted by Jon KnightR. Blaylock Art @meanderingunicorns.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Many fantasy and sci-fi authors have created compelling fictional religions, but @tkingfisher.com has written the only one I actually want to join. Let me be be useful. Let me be practical. Let me find ways my skills can serve others in the Temple of the White Rat. 934860
Reposted by Jon KnightDavid M @meacod.bsky.social · 13/09/2026If the job is only about the code then I'm absolutely in agreement with you. But if the job is only about the code, I suspect that people misunderstand entirely what their job actually is... 1111
Reposted by Jon KnightThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026NEW Why holding a placard is a terrorist act, while causing disruption in a balaclava is not The mess caused by ministers and the police not taking terrorism law seriously By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th... 321420631
Reposted by Jon KnightGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you... 685265934800
Reposted by Jon KnightMicah @rincewind.run · 06/09/2026Discworld QOTD, from Lords and Ladies 291081228
Reposted by Jon KnightJohn Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Your occasional reminder that ATOMIC ROBO is the finest pulp scifi comic in existence, and nothing is stopping you from going back to the beginning and reading the century-long story of a Nazi-punching Cthulhu fighting snarky robot. 39729
Reposted by Jon KnightDimension 20 @dimension20.dropout.tv · 07/09/2026every job deserves comfort, dignity and safety! 🫡 3867702315
Reposted by Jon KnightJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 07/09/2026If every statement about Extinction Rebellion had opened with "Climate change is the single biggest issue facing humanity, and we understand why people have legitimate concerns the world isn't doing enough to tackle it…" this approach might be *faintly* defensible. But they didn't, and it isn't. 12730279
Reposted by Jon KnightHell Dunkin @halduncan.com · 06/09/2026[Benoit Blanc in the county of Midsomer] Why, Inspector Barnaby, I find it quite peculiar that one single small English county the size of your Midsomer should have, as quaint and charming as it may be, such a remarkable tally of most bloody murders. 1277
Reposted by Jon KnightGoodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts. 895453543
Reposted by Jon KnightThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026NEW The legal agony of Wile E Coyote Coyote vs Acme may be one of the best films about civil litigation ever made By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...prospectmagazine.co.ukThe legal agony of Wile E CoyoteCoyote vs Acme may be one of the best films about civil litigation ever made 15838280
Reposted by Jon KnightEmma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Molly and her two kids and Golden Retriever are all packed up and headed to her mother's house for the holidays. Oh no! She broke down in Cherrybrook. And the mechanic can order the part, but of course it won't be there until after the New Year! But it will Cost A Lot of Money But his aunt ... 59018
Reposted by Jon KnightPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 13/12/2025Imagine living in the Hallmark Romance Universe. You've got a fulfilling job and life and friends in a vibrant bustling place, and then some monstrous entity yoinks you right out of your life to the middle of bumfuck nowhere thousands of miles away. And then, starts *fucking with your mind* 9405105
Reposted by Jon KnightStephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Correction: 1930s problems require 1945 solutions 634252
Reposted by Jon KnightDiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 28/08/2026‘COYOTE VS. ACME’ is finally playing in theaters! • Warner Bros. tried to permanently delete the film for a tax write-off 3 years ago. • It is now the highest-rated Looney Tunes movie ever. Read our review: bit.ly/CoyoteDF 323132898
Reposted by Jon KnightNaomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026It does occur to me to wonder whether there is any woman who was working in games in the UK in 2014 who has subsequently gone TERF. For me, I think it was a full education and inoculation about how an online terror mob is organised and what its distinctive signs are. And who will help & who will not 212910
Reposted by Jon KnightJuliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Allowing third parties to interfere in the doctor-patient relationship and deny trans people medical procedures opens up everyone's rights to opt or not for treatment to ideological challenge. History shows allowing erasure of rights for one group soon sees others targeted. It isn't a 'them' issue. 312244
Jon Knight @syntheticbrain.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Got the base game based on this and will have to give it a go! 000
Reposted by Jon KnightMir @hovermyr.bsky.social · 01/07/2026read Baru Cormorant on a friend's recommendation and. jesus christ. oh my fucking god. what the fuck. 61119
Reposted by Jon KnightSwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 22/08/2026Ask a capitalist for a list of traitors, and they'll give you a list of people on the left. Ask a leftist for a list of traitors, and they will also give you a list of people on the left. 923828
Reposted by Jon KnightAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I think we still underplay how much this has to do with X. It remains the main platform used by politicians, commentators and journalists, it was bought by Musk precisely for this purpose, and it's worked 22699203
Reposted by Jon KnightMicah @rincewind.run · 18/08/2026Discworld QOTD, from Interesting Times 9682158
Reposted by Jon Knightbleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 19/08/2026C-3PO would make the worst art though. Seems like the kind of guy who would have an unsuccessful audition for Cambridge Footlights and spend the next 20 years working on a comic novel that sucks. However, I follow R2-D2 on Soundcloud. Imagine him doing some dark, trancey beats; a bit Aphex Twin. 2294
Reposted by Jon KnightJack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Just saying, the trans community told everyone that once The Guardian had successfully dragged trans rights into the mud they'd move on to the nuerodivergent. And they were right. 251684606
Jon Knight @syntheticbrain.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Review thread for an RPG I've never (I think?) heard of that sounds awesome. 200
Reposted by Jon KnightGwrach Gymraeg @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026It is typical of the moral bankruptcy of this government that, after an emergency meeting about the climate, their first thought is not, ‘what can we do about it’, but rather, ‘what can we do that makes it look like we are taking it seriously without actually doing anything or upsetting our donors.’ 39723
Reposted by Jon KnightThe A.V. Club @avclub.com · 13/08/2026"People like it," the Matrix co-creator said of her new script The Hunted. "But they really don’t want to make it because it’s [got a] wall-to-wall trans cast." www.avclub.com/lilly-wachow...avclub.comLilly Wachowski says Hollywood won't make her new action movie because it has an all-trans castLilly Wachowski says Hollywood won't make her new action movie because it has an all-trans cast 482424582
Reposted by Jon KnightCatherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 12/08/2026A TON of the suggested use of AI isn’t about replacing labor, but replacing human connection w/ a monetizable, easily manipulated & monitored digital life-dispenser Use it to talk to yr kids/co-workers/partner/friends! As all those things! As a therapist! As an artist! As YOU, so you don’t have to! 37312
Reposted by Jon KnightRob Schoof @robschoof.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026U.S. Army troops faced off against Ukrainian drone operators at a military exercise in Germany earlier this year. It didn’t go well for the Americans. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...wsj.comExclusive | U.S. and Ukrainian Forces Went Head-to-Head in an Exercise. Ukraine’s Drones Won.A battlefield drill this spring showed that the U.S. military hasn’t fully absorbed the lessons of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. 1168
Reposted by Jon KnightGwrach Gymraeg @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Wait, so the Prime Minister wants to send cis men to women’s prisons because the men’s prisons are overcrowded, but he wants to send trans women to men’s prisons because we are supposedly a danger to women 🤦♀️ 4454153