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Kris Powell @tanktastrophe.bsky.social · 15h
The secondhand embarrassment I feel combined with my loss of respect for the "AI" user = acid reflux with hot regurgitation
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 28/03/2025
don't post about what you did with ai. that shit is embarrassing
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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Withering
Image of Pope Leo waving his hand. Embedded tweet:

Pope Crave ®
@ClubConcrave
"not only are your gen Al memes ugly, they are ontologically hollow" - the pope
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Bebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀 @bebopott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
just really spelling out that the primary use case of AI is largely to spread and perpetuate disinformation at scale, huh?
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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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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 30/09/2026
Austin man shot by ICE agent charged with assault, resisting arrest
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Austin man shot by ICE agent charged with assault, resisting arrest
Federal prosecutors have charged the Austin man an ICE agent shot earlier this month with a single count of resisting and assaulting a federal officer, according to court documents.Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, a Venezuelan national, was shot by an ICE officer in Austin on Sept. 20. He was taken to Dell Seton Medical Center, where he was released and taken into ICE custody three hours later with the bullet remaining in his back. He had been held at a detention center in Pearsall.
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 29/09/2026
on the anthropic IPO stuff, I think this via @garbageday.email is pretty much spot on www.garbageday.email/p/they-want-...
But I’ll end this here with a little conspiracy theory courtesy of Hacker News that I have decided I will believe until I see proof to the contrary. “OpenAI and Anthropic are publicly asking for slowdown in AI research,” one user wrote. “Translation: We see this technology not being any more useful than what it is now, no AGI is coming, and the first one to accept this and slow down the dollar burn rate will incur the wrath of the market. So let's say this big boogeyman technology will end all life on earth and we all slow down together.”
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A judge has ordered the release of Douglas Stewart Carter, a 71-year-old Black man who has spent decades on death row for a 1985 killing he did not commit. He spent 41 years in prison.
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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
these are not “autonomous” attacks: they are failures by humans to implement appropriate controls for the computers acting on their behalf, and we must not forget it.
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VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Women have more executive function demands on them at home & often times in the workplace as well. I would imagine women of course would experience more symptoms related to a dopamine damaging virus.
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Oh my God, I agree with WSJ opinion Oh my God, shoot me in the face
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
OPINION COMMENTARY (U.S.)
The Hidden Agenda Behind the Al Panic
A mathematical model doesn't rebel.
Anthropomorphizing it helps obscure human errors and accountability.
By Gabriele Mazzini
September 21, 2026, 5:43 pm EDT
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Writers: gen ai is theft Artists: gen ai is theft Narrators: gen ai is theft Environmentalists: gen ai is killing the planet Scientists: gen ai is killing the planet Tech bros: BUT MAKE BRAIN WORK MUCH HARD NEED MACHINE FOR BIG THOUGHT
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Ginny Hogan @ginnyhogan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"people who exercise for an hour/day are happier" could it be that they live a life that affords them an extra hour/day to exercise
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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The same cover, but with the "say 'i am alive'" AI meme pasted on top of it after 10000 hours in MSPaint
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Dean Jobb - True Crime Writer @deanjobb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Congrats to author/essayist/poet Hanif Abdurraqib, winner of the 2026 Hilary Weston International Award for #nonfiction Delighted to be part of this & to meet fellow judges Chase Joynt, Tessa McWatt, Christina Sharpe & Jenny Heijun Wills at last night's ceremony in Toronto @writerstrust.bsky.social
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 15/09/2026
"If you’re pushing slop or eating it, you wouldn’t read it anyway. You’d ask a bot for a summary and forget what it told you, then proceed with your day, unchanged by words you did not read and ideas you did not consider."
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...
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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...
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Kris Powell @tanktastrophe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The best compliment I've ever gotten is still "you seem so much taller than five three."
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 13/09/2026
So they realized they're in the gutter, no revenue in sight, operating at a tremendous loss, and suddenly decided to slow down "to save the humanity."
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Kris Powell @tanktastrophe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Roller skating. A lot of roller skating
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Dr Rehaminator's Monster Cock @drrehaminator.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Gen AI isn't a tool the way autocorrect or the smudge tool or any other software is that enhances your work. It's a model built on the theft of other people's creativity. None of this is new or revelatory, but it is the foundation for what I think Gen AI in art actually is.
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Phase Blowly @phaseblowly.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
AI Schmuck: Guys, I quit my job because we’re making apocalyptic murder bots. Real bad. Gonna kill everyone. [a week or so later] AI Schmuck: [on LinkedIn] I’m excited to announce my new consultancy, Rumplstlskyn, founded to find creative solutions to the emerging murder bot problem.
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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
I can’t wait to read the NYT op-ed from Renee Good’s wife about grief on the one year anniversary of her death. Surely the NYT will extend the same grace to Becca Good—whose partner died protesting against state power—as it has to Erica Kirk—whose partner died defending white supremacy
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026
It's just hypocrisy to the highest degree at the expense of young Black people who just want a chance at learning too. The future of work will have to center Black people. There is no getting around that, and this article makes it abundantly clear.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 06/09/2026
This fucking guy. bsky.app/profile/giga...
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 02/09/2026
Chicago is me.
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Why read past headlines: Receipts! I have so many instances of when JD ran down Usha in public. Many were cut for length. Also analysis. JD thinks the "Taming of the Shrew" fantasy is political gold. But only to MAGA. The rest of us are grossed out. www.salon.com/2026/09/04/j...
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JD Vance's chivalry to his wife Usha fools no one - Salon.com
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has the vice president’s number
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Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
ok but hear me out, what if Skynet actually just decided to quietly take us out, one by one, by giving bad advice
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Andromeda @ulveheksa.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Questionnaire by Wendell Berry
Questionnaire by Wendell Berry

1. How much poison are you willing to eat for the success of the free market and global trade?
Please name your preferred poisons.

2. For the sake of goodness, how much evil are you willing to do?
Fill in the following blanks with the names of your favorite evils and acts of hatred.

3. What sacrifices are you prepared to make for culture and civilization? Please list the monuments, shrines, and works of art you would most willingly destroy.

4. In the name of patriotism and the flag, how much of our beloved land are you willing to desecrate? List in the following spaces the mountains, rivers, towns, farms you could most readily do without.

5. State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes, the energy sources, the kinds of security, for which you would kill a child. Name, please, the children whom you would be willing to kill.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Death by intentional neglect is the characteristic method of murder in concentration camps
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Kris Powell @tanktastrophe.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I am one of the last remaining fans of TWD, and these fackers decide they wanna use AI in the "special" intro to Dead City tonight. Loser stuff
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Kris Powell @tanktastrophe.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Downgrade a movie: Low Fidelity
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Chicago Rapid responders are warning that ICE has been seen active in Humboldt Park as of 10 a.m. with another report of activity in Austin at 9:54 a.m. and a near-contemporaneous report of agents seen driving on 79th & Cicero in the Ashburn neighborhood. Please be aware if you are in those areas.
10:04 AM
HUMBOLDT PARK
PULASKI Y DIVISION
NISSAN PATHFINDER
🚨🚨🚨10:00 AM
HUMBOLDT PARK 
THOMAS Y HARDING 
CHEVY TAHOE NEGRA
EVITEN EL AREA9:54 AM
AUSTIN
IOWA AND KILPATRICK
BLACK CHEVY TAHOE
DODGE DURANGO black
THEY ARE IN THE AREA8/28/2026 alert of ICE active on 79th and Cicero. There is a Jewel-Osco at that intersection
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
ICE has fallen out of the headlines but July marked the largest number of migrant detentions ever on record. Five migrants have died in ICE custody in the last two months. It's also currently impossible to legally migrate to this country, as 100% of visa applications have been paused.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
4 days ago The Pentagon fired the editor in chief of Stars and Stripes. Yesterday they broke the story of Elsie Dominguez, a civilian engineer who was raped repeatedly by the Captain of a Navy ship she was on. They keep trying to silence the press & quash the truth. Elsie’s story must be told:
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Lawsuit over sexual assault aboard Navy transport ship dismissed as worker’s comp issue
The order handed down this month closed an attempt by a civilian engineer to get justice for an assault she said threw her life into shambles.
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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
National Day of Mourning immediately
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
India: "Study reveals alarming 2.5x surge in cardiac emergencies post-COVID among youngsters" Before the pandemic in 2018–19, patients under 40 made up over 8% of cardiac emergencies. That figure has since escalated more than 2.5x to nearly 21% of cases. Source: archive.md/IPpPy
A screenshot of an online news article from The New Indian Express, updated on August 22, 2026. The headline reads, "Study reveals alarming 2.5x surge in cardiac emergencies post-COVID among youngsters." Below the headline, the subheading states, "Before the pandemic took hold in 2018–19, young patients aged 40 or younger made up just over 8% of total cardiac emergencies."
The article features a photograph of a young woman sitting at a wooden desk in front of a laptop, holding her face in her hands in a gesture of stress or exhaustion. A caption beneath the photo reads: "Medical experts urge young adults to maintain a minimum of 30 minutes of daily physical exercise, eliminate intoxicants, and undergo periodic cardiovascular screenings." The article byline attributes the piece to Ejaz Kaiser.
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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Chicagoan: The cup is in Chicago, the greatest city in the world
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Still thinking about the Luddites I came across this. How fascinating it is to watch what might be the germ of a neo-Luddite movement around surveillance technology. And a guy writing a nudge-wink, fuck-the-man, banger of a country song makes me feel American in a way that for once isn’t pejorative.
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The Pentagon on Friday moved to fire the editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes as well as its retiring publisher and a civilian reporter who covers the Middle East for the news organization. Read more: www.stripes.com/theaters/us/... #Flashes
From left: Stars and Stripes Publisher Max D. Lederer Jr., Editor-in-Chief Erik Slavin and reporter Lara Korte. (Stars and Stripes)
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 20/08/2026
The US has never had a race war really and when people want to point to "race riots" they're usually contained to the communities that POC actually live. What we have had is white people repeatedly being aggressors and attacking Black people and POC for resources.
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Kris Powell @tanktastrophe.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
People using AI are the ones getting left behind 💅
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Kris Powell @tanktastrophe.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Thank you for another excellent collection, @juliusgoat.bsky.social, and the short detour to watch "Phoenix" lest I have it spoiled. "Fighting in the Dark" gets ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
stop making me know about joe rogan jesus christ!!! i am a BEAUTIFUL WOMAN i shouldn’t have to KNOW about that my GOD
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14/08/2026
Lagunas was identified on social media by community ICE watchdog Ismael Cordová-Clough one week ago. In both Chicago and Minneapolis, he has threatened people by telling them they won't "like the outcome" if they continue observing. We've watched his behavior escalate over the last year.
side by side of matching arm tattoo
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Kris Powell @tanktastrophe.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
We'll find out together that I have heart problems
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This cruelty has no need but cruelty. Haiti remains deeply dangerous; a country in the throes of anarchy. Hundreds of thousands of people are SAFE. They are safe. They are safe here and the nation has decided to make them unsafe. We are embarking on a tragedy and we cannot look away. We cannot.
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Yikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org
WASHINGTON — Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center jobs analysis of monthly data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That brings the total net number of women who have left the labor force since January this year to 845,000. In comparison, there are 406,000 fewer men in the labor force now than in January. 

A total of 165,000 women, aged 20 and over, left the labor force last month — meaning they are neither working nor looking for work — while men's labor force participation was unchanged. Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July. Women accounted for all of these losses, losing 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000 jobs. Women make up 50.1% of the workforce.
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