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American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org · 19h
Boo! Behold the whitemargin stargazer. It inhabits parts of the Indo-Pacific. This ambush predator's upturned face allows it to spend much of its time burrowed beneath the sand—waiting patiently for passing prey like fish or crustaceans. Photo: Robin Gwen Agarwal, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist
A close-up photo of the face of a whitemargin stargazer. It has sunken eyes, a triangular nose, and a mouth full of sharp teeth.
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 23h
Just to be really clear on this, grant that LLMs think and reason and feel and decide to Go Rogue. Fine. All they can do though is WRITE code. This is completely inert. It only does anything if you decide to run the code. You may decide to read the code before running it. The LLM cannot bypass this.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026
Main thing I’ve gotten from this trip to Europe is that a lot of leftwing discourse — “content” — on social media is not a good use of people’s time A lot of “call out” and not enough of “being in community”
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Since some Bolsonaro supporters are talking about privatizing healthcare, I'm reminded of when Carla Zambelli escaped to the US, but then quickly left after she realized how expensive healthcare is here. noticias.uol.com.br/politica/ult...
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Dr Abolish ICE @pwr2dppl.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The second thing you have to know is that there's literally no justification for the way we all have the option to use stand alone fascist funded genAI. Every mention of it, every use, every dollar spent on it, is the result of inexcusable mishandling of power technology and information.
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EveryHeron 𓅣 @everyheron.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Young Heron often practice on sticks, leaves or anything that floats by. Spearing a fish is not easy, not intuitive. You need to invest to survive. 1/2
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hata_maluvanka @hatamaluvanka.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Guess I'll join ⚡️
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Swirrow @pigeo-n.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trialing out watercolour!! Might have to keep giving it a go
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J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Tech bros don’t care about any public service. So we have to show there are more of us than them
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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We're a couple weeks away from Snootfly Watch (where I wander marshes and watch for Snootflies) and I can't wait, I miss them 🖤 (mourning scorpionfly, Panorpa lugubris)
Bright red-bodied scorpionfly with black wings spread to show off his pinchy tail curled up beneath. He has the characteristic long silly scorpionfly snoot
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Chris Wade @luckshotgames.com · 09/10/2026
Bad Magpie demo is a hoot store.steampowered.com/app/4813640/...
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Bad Magpie Demo on Steam
You are a magpie with one wing, a missing flock, and an unhealthy obsession with a fallen star. Steal shiny trinkets, cause chaos, and stick your beak where it doesn’t belong.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 09/10/2026
Ditch Chrome; use Vivaldi
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
A MUST READ: “The stories that universities in the United States told about themselves died (again) in Gaza—in some cases by suicide. By contrast, universities in Gaza may be physically destroyed, but they are still less hollow than many universities around us...” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Archives, Prophecy, and Return: The Phoenix of Gaza
This review essay of The Phoenix of Gaza virtual reality project and exhibit puts Indigenous studies and Palestine studies, as well as scholars of these fields, into citational and historical conve...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 31/07/2026
The fact that it’s poisoning Black people is not seen as a negative to these folks.
techcrunch.com
SpaceX won’t remove all of xAI’s unpermitted turbines for another year | TechCrunch
SpaceX is building a new power plant for xAI's Colossus data centers, but it won't remove existing, unpermitted turbines for many more months.
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
So they asked me to delete half the deck: •screenshots of scientific articles •George Floyd’s autopsy report •med students holding signs for “White Coats for Black Lives” •a cartoonish image of Musk lest we offend the trillionaire •Butler quote: “choose your leaders with wisdom & forethought” ETC
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Aksaab @aksaab.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 08/10/2026
A visit to the Queens warehouse for the Materials for the Arts program has become a ritual for many local educators.
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Dinosaur Masks, Easels, 1,000 Top Hats: Inside NYC’s Free Store for Teachers
A visit to the Queens warehouse for the Materials for the Arts program has become a ritual for many local educators.
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Dr Abolish ICE @pwr2dppl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
*explaining to Congress while they should stop funding all experiences I personally didn't enjoy* When am I ever going to use this [collection of novel experiences that expands one's ability to deal with future new situations]????
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Jeffrey Brainard @jeffreybrainard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Lotteries have controversially been tried for managing grant applications; now an AI conference plans to use one, to help keep pace with a surge in submitted papers. And conferences are capping submissions. Will these measures be enough? #peerreview @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
As AI triggers a tsunami of submissions, computer science conferences impose caps
New controls could limit papers by early-career researchers
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Basil 🌱 @basil-mage.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Anyways
Drawing of a puppy with the caption; "Make shitty art"
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Yaso 🦋🌼 @orangeblossombitch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Reminder that I got three papers up that you can read for free on the impacts of israeli settlercolonialism and occupation on Palestinian women, environment and cultural heritage 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 linktr.ee/orangeblosso...
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orangeblossombitch Official: Instagram | Linktree
Linktree. Make your link do more.
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Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
JULES VERNE'S TOMB (1907) The monument, created by sculptor Albert Roze, shows the writer as a #revenant or returner from beyond the grave, reaching towards the sky. Its face was modelled on his death mask. Image: Amiens, France. #WyrdWednesday
Jules Verne's tomb in France
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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I didn't know his name before this but he's a real one: member of La France Insoumise (to the left of the Socialists), took down Macron's portrait in the mayor's office, said elected leaders belong in the streets with the people
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Outside the pandemic, U.S. information-sector employment is now at its lowest level in more than a decade. BLS data shows 2.739M jobs in September, down ~12% from the 2022 peak. The entire post-pandemic hiring boom has now been erased. I expected AI to cause Big Tech to shrink but not all tech. 😞
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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Look I made you some content danielkayhertz.com/buildings/
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Buildle
Buildle — a daily game: guess a Chicago building's neighborhood and the year it was built.
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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Cat by Vasily Kandinsky, 1907 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…
The Hilla von Rebay Foundation, On extended loan to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

© 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
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Hazel Brandybuck @voodooforce.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Women don’t need men to protect them. Women need men to stop protecting each other.
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 06/10/2026
This is actually…quite a bit more accurate than I’d have guessed
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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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Allison🐛🪲 @allisonstoiserart.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I launched my plush woodcock bags in my online shop this weekend!
Two plush woodcock bags sitting over a grassy field at dusk. A woman wearing green wearing a plush woodcock crossbody bag in a forest.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
“A Lee County, Florida, woman was arrested on a felony charge after a threat linked to an Anthropic Claude AI chatbot conversation, or ‘diary,’ by her account was reported to law enforcement via Anthropic’s human review team…”
tomshardware.com
Anthropic reports Florida woman’s Claude ‘diary’ threat to shoot up sheriff’s office, felony charge follows — it’s at least the third such conversation to reach police since August
Investigators say a message the following day mentioned a new gun.
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GLITTERING CAMILLE @rozorosso.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
it's such amazing protagonist syndrome for somebody to write that down under the assumption that it's unique, laudable, and should necessarily be reflected in their adult life
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
Your favorite Anthropic so-called "whistleblower" said that the rationalists have "specialized minds" that allow them to see that the end is about to be brought on to us by a magical machine god. Parroting the cult leader (of the rationalists, the R in TESCREAL) who says the same about himself.
His autobiography even opens with a parable: as a small child he threw his favorite squirtgun off a third-floor balcony rather than accept that his mother could lend out what was his, and felt complete when he heard it hit the pavement. He goes on to describes himself as a specialist in the technological transformation of the human species, one of the few people alive with the standing to steer it. He identifies with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the one person who sees the danger clearly and has to act while everyone else gets on with ordinary life.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026
Please read my comments to this. The NERVE to call those of us with peer reviewed empirical work as conspiracy theorists and not those doing seances for the AGI god (e.g. Hinton's students). But I have more things to say in the comments.
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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I wish all science teams who advertise their work with GenAI a very pleasant emergency meeting to mitigate the damage to public trust.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026
An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.
disconnect.blog
The media has the AI threat all wrong
Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.
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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Artists, show how much you've improved in 30+ years - 🦀 edition 1994 vs 2026
blurry phone pic of a kid's drawing of a crab in markers. the anatomy is extremely wonky and stubby but all the anatomical details are there.portrait of an orange hermit crab in circular, ornate blue frame. the crab is in a snail shell with various worms and bryozoans encrusting its surface.
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
😀
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026
Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng
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Ctenophores Rock! @ctenophoresrock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is Bob. They are a hermaphroditic comb jelly that recently underwent reverse development from adult lobate to larval cydippid, following a period of stress. The event reduced our colony to just Bob. Once our food source stabilized, Bob began to flourish & what was 1 Bob is now 500+ Bobettes! 🦑
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Momo @heyheymomo.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Come on
4 panel silly comic in black lines only. A blob guy has a big pencil. It says “I draw”. In the second panel he seems happy with his drawing and it says “all done yeah”. Panel 3 shows him holding up the drawing of a triangle with legs and a happy face. He goes “come on”. In the final panel he’s very pleased with himself, closes his eyes and tells himself “I’m a bit incredible”
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Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is an incredibly depressing article and the societal consequences downstream from the death of tons of news organizations are probably gonna be pretty grim
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TAKAO★WATANABE🌿10/23-28Exhibition @watanabetakao.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Fall is just around the corner. I wonder what kind of fun activities I’ll do when fall comes? #Illustration #CommentPls #RTpls
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 22/09/2026
“There are a lot of reasons not to have hope in this moment, but seeing people from different political stripes being able to talk about whether there are datacentres … I think it’s a good and hopeful thing, actually.” I spoke to Ryan Priest at @computerweekly.bsky.social about data centres.
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Interview: Paris Marx on why hyperscale datacentres pose greater threat than AI ‘science fiction’ | Computer Weekly
Ahead of the release of his new book, Paris Marx tells Computer Weekly how tech companies’ insatiable datacentre demands are accelerating the climate crisis.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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conito 🦢 @bunbuncita.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
i want our bodies to stop being sexualized, for our resources to stop being depleted, our land to stop carrying the weight of your "eco friendly" country as you use us as a trashcan, i want our history to be heard and understood outside of the lenses of the usa because we are not them and never will
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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🚨 URGENT: The USDA wants to rescind the Roadless Rule, threatening 50k acres in FL's Apalachicola, Ocala & Osceola forests—home to 136 threatened/endangered plant species like rare carnivorous plants! Submit your comment at Regulations.gov (Docket: RIN 0596–AD66) by Oct 6! 🌲👇
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BOGLUDDITE @brucemackay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Didn't get invited back to the annual Bloom&Bliss exhibition, probably because last time I drew an abandoned car instead of like flowers or whatever. But you can get a print of my dumbass car over here: www.inprnt.com/gallery/bruc...
Illustration of a piece of shit light-blue ’86 VW Golf Jumbo with a black door and the carburetor and battery stolen on a white background. There is a CD hanging on the rear-view mirror. Realistic perspective has not been observed.
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American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org · 21/09/2026
What’s a spiny lumpsucker? No, it’s not a nickname for your ex: The spiny lumpsucker (Eumicrotremus orbis) is a fish that has a powerful pelvic fin helps it stick to solid surfaces, acting like a suction cup to hold it in place! Photo: ajustinfocus, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, iNaturalist
A photo of a spiny lumpsucker perched on a rock on the ocean floor. The fish is small, with spiny fins. It has wide eyes and prominent lips.
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