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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.myatproto.social · 13h

And you are teaching the baby that you care for them, that they deserve your time and attention, that you enjoy their company, that they are a person and not a series of tedious tasks and obligations

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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the Apollo project who ultimately led the 100-person team that guided Armstrong and Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon, dies at 90. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...

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Margaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died

Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Police chief: good job pinching those burglars Crab cop: *clicks claws excitedly*

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

While digging around their website, I found their ethics policy—including a section on AI-generated content. I suspect that’s a part of what happened here. And I’m upset about that too! I did NOT speak to a journalist with the assumption that my interview would be funneled into producing AI slop.

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Tanya @taffydacks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Do the airline staff at each terminal intentionally talk over each other when making announcements? It's obnoxious and impossible to understand each of them.

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Tanya @taffydacks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm so sick of being advertised AI garbage. I just unsubscribed from @99pi.org for all the Claude crap.

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today's winning Biology All email--in fact this is a contender for best this year

Hi all,

We received a package with no name to GSB 2144 with 80 sheep brains in it. If you are expecting this package, please reach out and we can coordinate the pickup!

Best wishes,
Jenna

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Tanya @taffydacks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We once received a box of plastic educational primate skulls instead of, iirc, pipet tips. Quite the surprise on opening the box. This... This is something else entirely.

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026

Leaving a bomb with a timer in a building doesn't get reported as "bomb tries to blow up building", and OpenAI's employees designing an extremely clumsy, badly designed self-prompting language model hooked up to public actions that can cause harm shouldn't be reported that way either

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

the footage of the president speaking at a news conference and you can't hear him because it's the press he banned who bring the sound equipment is too on the damn nose because guess what we wouldn't have if people hadn't kept insisting on handing this asshole a microphone over & over & over again

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John L. Walters @johnlwalters.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Whenever someone smart says, ‘I asked ChatGPT and it said xyz,’ I’m reminded of Baldur Bjarnason’s excellent article ‘The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con.’ softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme... #quitgpt #TheAICon @baldurbjarnason.com

The intelligence illusion seems to be based on the same mechanism as that of a psychic’s con, often called cold reading. It looks like an accidental automation of the same basic tactic.

By using validation statements, such as sentences that use the Forer effect, the chatbot and the psychic both give the impression of being able to make extremely specific answers, but those answers are in fact statistically generic.

The psychic uses these statements to give the impression of being able to read minds and hear the secrets of the dead.

The chatbot gives the impression of an intelligence that is specifically engaging with you and your work, but that impression is nothing more than a statistical trick.

This idea was first planted in my head when I was going over some of the statements people have been making about the reasoning of these ‘AI’.

I first thought that these were just classic cases of tech bubble enthusiasm, but no, ‘AI’ has both taken a different crowd and the believers in the ‘AI’ bubble sound very different from those of prior bubbles.

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Martin Thunder @martinthunder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Sci-fi talks about fully-sentient and malevolent AI trying to kill us all. In the real world, it’ll be an LLM hallucinating and launching ICBMs followed by “oops, I’m an AI and I sometimes make mistakes.”

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Tanya @taffydacks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Get up, come on, get down with the Frenchness

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Quiznos is partnering with Blackwater to crush insurgencies in their supply chain.

A notification reads "Chipotle is partnering with Palantir to track food safety risks at its stores"

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The role of "protector" under patriarchy seems to mean "I wield the option of violence" that can also be turned directly on women who are not obedient, aka submit to being protected according to his rules.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 09/09/2026

"surely it is insidious Chinese propaganda that's making normal people hate and fear us, instead of how we say stuff like this on main all the time" - the big American genAI companies

I don't know what my probabilities are on literal extinction, but I think there are a number of ways AI could go poorly for humanity, and at the current frankly terrifying pace humanity will be quite lucky if we manage to find and stay on the narrow path between all the bad outcomes.

I am heartened by the many costly actions OpenAI has taken recently (detailed in several recent posts), but regardless of what you think of OpenAI, this is not a problem that can be solved by any one company (or country) in isolation. We need coordination to be able to approach future capability increases with an appropriate degree of caution and humility, and we need it yesterday.

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I do not expect my situation to remain exceptional, and I know plenty of other features automakers are arbitrarily putting behind paywalls. I can maybe stomach that for something like advanced driver assistance. I cannot and will not stomach that for basic things like navigation.

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Louigi Addario-Berry @louigi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm proud to announce the creation of the Association for Human Mathematics. We aim to protect mathematics as a human endeavour against the threat of AI and to maintain the independence of the mathematical community from corporate interests. www.ahmath.org

ahmath.org

AHM

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026

This is child abuse.

But forced social media assignments are just the beginning. As part of the bootcamp, students are also required to pass an eyebrow-raising heart rate challenge, in which they’re hooked up to live monitors in front of their classmates and presented with a pre-recorded video of their parents berating them.

“The challenge rule was simple,” one student wrote: “my resting heart rate was 80bpm, and I had to stay within 10 percent of that the whole time. Anything above 88 was a fail.”

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026

I really want to hear from the dozens of journalists who wrote glowing profiles of Alpha School in the last few years. Actually scratch that. I never want to hear from them again.

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AI School Hooking Children Up to Heart Monitor in Front of Class While Playing Critiques of Their Work

The controversial AI-focused private school Alpha School is making its students do some unusual things before enrolling.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

every time I see this human thumb I think about how fuckin wild it is that the story about the cava bag full of $50K in bribe cash just... disappeared

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Tanya @taffydacks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Ghoulish disregard for the abducted driver

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Tanya @taffydacks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Oh the markings worked on me! It took me several seconds to parse the image as a butterfly and not a pair of birds eyes peeking out of a strangely shaped hole.

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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is just to say... I have stolen the work that you spent years creating and which you were probably hoping would pay your bills But online sharing doesn't count It's actually a compliment So fuck you BTW, I'm a fan

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Lingthusiasm @lingthusiasm.com · 06/09/2026

Why do some kinds of conversations seem to flow really easily, while other times, it feels like you can’t get a word in edgewise, or that the other person isn’t holding up their end of the conversation? This is the Lingthusiasm episode that people keep telling us changed their life

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39: How to rebalance a lopsided conversation

Lingthusiasm Episode 39: How to rebalance a lopsided conversation Why do some conversations seem to flow really easily, while other times, it feels like you can’t get a word in edgewise, or that t...

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.

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Tanya @taffydacks.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I mean not to defend MCPD, but this is in Frederick...

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Tanya @taffydacks.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Cocomelon and Blippi were already mindless souless content, but I'm sure within a few moments AI can make them even worse.

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I want to see midterm campaign ads that are just loud ass data center nosies for 30 seconds straight.

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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Before losing her life in 1986 aboard Space Shuttle Challenger, Christa McAuliffe was set to be the first teacher in space with plans to teach a lesson to kids around the world from orbit. Today is her birthday, and even now, her courage and dedication to education continues to inspire.

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Tanya @taffydacks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I enjoyed trying out the new game Outlier and I'm disappointed to see it is made with AI. It's harder and harder to find anything made by humans anymore.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Hegseth has taken out more American generals than Iranian ones.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Instead of lowering flags to half mast for Dolly, they should reinstate vaccine mandates. They should invest in public health. They should walk back discriminatory LGBTQ+ policies. They should stop banning books and fund libraries. That’s how you honour her legacy.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 26/08/2026

my view on driverless cars is if the tech billionaires wanted me to trust them on this, maybe they shouldn't have adopted "move fast and break things" as their motto

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Tanya @taffydacks.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I dunno I think she would've wanted us all to feel supported and uplifted.

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Decades before Dolly Parton helped fund research supporting Moderna's Covid-19 mRNA vaccine, she raised money for people with HIV and AIDS and joined the 90s "Break the Silence" campaign promoting AIDS awareness, sex education & condom use - at a time when doing so in country music took courage.

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