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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 10/10/2026
"Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given...individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do." @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026
The whistle crew has sent more than 1.7 million whistles to every state in the nation (and DC), and we're going to keep doing it as long as the need is there.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026
In case you missed it last night: we are seeing reports all over the country of immigration surges and state violence. If you need whistles for your community, we will send you 100-3000 3d printed for free, and we will love doing it. 3dwhistles.com
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If you’re at NYCC, begging you to mask. Someone I know measured the air quality and it is bad. Don’t let appearances be the reason you get and give COVID.
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Robin Goodfellow (Puck) @thehonestpuck.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
a good reminder
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The remaining 6 million remain unvaccinated. The vast majority of the doses administered were mRNA vaccines, made by pharmaceutical companies Moderna or Pfizer. Over the four years following the first dose, the incidence of all-cause mortality among those who received a first dose of mRNA vaccine
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
cause.” For the study, researchers assessed data from nearly 30 MILLION adults aged 18 to 59 between 2021 and 2025. Most -around 23 million- received at least one vaccine dose from mid-2021 onwards, when France launched its mass vaccination campaign against the virus that fuelled a global pandemic.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And IN CASE YOU MISSED IT. More recently, two more studies showed updated COVID booster vaccines continue to provide meaningful protection against major adverse outcomes, cardiovascular complications, hospitalization, AND all-cause death. • www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/upd...
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Overall mortality in unvaccinated individuals was roughly 50% HIGHER. The advantage held even after removing coronavirus-related deaths from the mix. The study has been published in JAMA. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED. • jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 🧪🧵⬇️
Key Takeaways
•In a French cohort, the incidence of all-cause mortality among those who received a first dose of an mRNA COVID vaccine was 0.4% after a median follow-up of 45 months, compared with 0.6% of those who were unvaccinated.
•After standardizing characteristics between the two groups, all-cause mortality incidence was 25% lower in those who had received a COVID shot.
•Vaccinated people were 74% less likely to die in a hospital because of COVID-19 compared with those who weren't vaccinated.Key Points
Question
Are COVID-19 mRNA vaccines associated with the long-term risk of all-cause mortality?
Meaning
These national-level results found no increased risk of
4-year all-cause mortality in individuals aged 18 to 59 years vaccinated against COVID-19, further supporting the safety of the mRNA vaccines that are being widely used worldwide.
Abstract
Importance While several studies have assessed the impact of COVID-19 vaccination on short-term mortality, none have compared long-term mortality by vaccination status, particularly in young individuals who are less likely to experience severe disease following SARS-
CoV-2 infection.
Objective
To compare 4-year all-cause mortality in individuals aged 18 to 59 years vaccinated with the mRNA
COVID-19 vaccine vs unvaccinated individuals.
Design, Setting, and Participants
This cohort study used data from the French National Health Data System for all individuals in the French population aged 18 to 59 years who were alive on November 1, 2021. Data analysis was conducted from June 2024 to September 2025.Exposure
Exposure was defined as receiving a first mRNA dose between May 1 and October 31, 2021. Individuals who were unvaccinated by November 1, 2021, were assigned a random index date based on vaccinated individuals' vaccination dates.
Main Outcomes and Measures
Cox models weighted for sociodemographic characteristics and 41 comorbidities were used to estimate 4-year all-cause mortality. Time to event was censored at all-cause death, COVID-19 vaccination for unexposed individuals, or study termination on March 31, 2025. Complementary analyses were performed, including a comparison of the main causes of death available up to December 31, 2023. Follow-up began 6 months after the index date in both groups to address immortal time bias. Short-term mortality within 6 months after vaccination was assessed in a separate, independent study using adapted self-controlled case series models.Results
A total of 22767 546 vaccinated and 5932 443
unvaccinated individuals were followed up for a median
(IQR) of 45(44-46) months. Vaccinated individuals were older than unvaccinated individuals (mean [SD] age, 38.0 [11.8] years vs 37.1 [11.4] years), more frequently women (11688 603[51.3%] vs 2 876 039 [48.5%]) and had more cardiometabolic comorbidities (2126 250[9.3%] vs 464 596[7.8%]). During follow-up, 98 429(0.4%) and 32662 (0.6%) all-cause deaths occurred in the vaccinated and unvaccinated groups, respectively. Vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 (weighted hazard ratio [WHR], 0.26 [95% CI, 0.22-0.30]) and a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality (wHR, 0.75 [95% CI, 0.75-0.76]), with a similar association observed when excluding severe COVID-19 death. Sensitivity analysis revealed that vaccinated individuals consistently had a lower risk of death, regardless of the cause. Mortality was 29% lower within 6 months following COVID-19 vaccination (relative incidence, 0.71 [95% CI,
0.69-0.73]).
Conclusions and Relevance
In this national cohort study of 28 million individuals, the results found no increased risk of 4-year all-cause mortality in individuals aged 18 to 59 years vaccinated against COVID-19, further supporting the safety of the mRNA vaccines that are widely used worldwide.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
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💜 QUOTE POST MUTUAL AID! Reposts can now be hidden @hoydenspark.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Nox has been royally screwed by work, needs DAILY shelter met, and also food! Send via: linktr.ee/noxthesyn Quote post the OP - be part of #ShoutySunday to #KeepFolksAlive bsky.app/profile/noxt...
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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026
Sitting in a diner sandwiched between a guy who’s using Chat GPT on his laptop & a girl looking at AI memes on her phone and thinking about the person who told me that they use CGPT to manage their day to day life all I can think of is how convenience consistently overrides common sense for so many.
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 03/10/2026
The Beetle by Richard Marsh was published the same year as Dracula and outsold it. It is a compact megapack of *every single thing* Victorian empire men were scared of, including but not limited to women,sex, homosexuality, foreigners, gender, race, the end of empire, old things, and new things.
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Autumn Wolff | Lesbian Romance Author @autumnwolff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I spent way too much time in Photoshop making this, but he's worth it. The Elf lives in my head rent-free. Do it for him.
A Simpsons screenshot replaced with photos of Nightcrawler from X-Men.
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Seven Eagles, Lyse Kisser @lyses-good-boy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is bad journalism. It cannot be overstated how much harm has been caused by lumping "LLM driven toxic bullshit" in with the traditional understanding of AI as a computer science discipline. The tools and techniques described in this article have nothing to do with LLM-based systems.
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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you can budget $5 per month & give $1 each to 5 fundraisers, you'll make a significant difference. I'm not blowing smoke—this is actually effective. It also shows folks who badly need it that people see their struggles and care.
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Scoop: Meta's Muse AI can make phone calls. Internally, Meta has told employees that many of these calls will be made by human beings in a call center: www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...
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Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center
"This has potential for so much negative PR. It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch."
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Cliff PervoSCARY @pervocracy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
real sick of hearing people use their Reasonable Bipartisan voice to agree that "the state must be the final authority on the gender of minors" is a sensible compromise and not a line from a cyberpunk dystopia
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Cliff PervoSCARY @pervocracy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
it remains extremely fucked up and under-commented-upon that laws targeting trans *children* specifically are further right and more extremist than ones where children are only collateral damage we should not agree that "we'll hurt the children more" is a moderate compromise
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026
25 years ago, terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people, including 2,753 New Yorkers. As we remember that terrible day, let us also remember the first responders, office workers and strangers who ran toward danger to help each other.
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Mþ. Kestrel 🏳️‍⚧️♿️📚 @kestrelsward.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
If I were a billionaire, I would have an employee whose entire job was to go through and fully fund every survival/medical GFM/chuffed/etc campaign. And it truly baffles me we have so many billionaires who are NOT doing this. It would be pocket change to them.
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Katie West @katiewest.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
If you're in Canada and want to tell Tim Hortons that their Harry Potter marketing campaign is shit, you can contact them here: www.timhortons.ca/support
help.timhortons.ca
Tim Hortons Help Centre
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 26/08/2026
The FDA just approved daraxonrasib, a breakthrough drug for advanced pancreatic cancer that doubles survival time. This is huge: pancreatic cancer was once thought untreatable. The researchers received a standing ovation when they presented the trial results, unheard of at scientific conferences.
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silas denver 🍎 @sweatermuppet.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
completely real question i had to answer for the hospital im getting top surgery at
a surgery form. the question being asked is "what are your pronouns?" the only answers are yes or no.
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Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 04/08/2026
public libraries ftw
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Well, it finally happened, took 6 years but someone irl asked me if I'd heard about the internet story about the guy who ordered a ton of rice
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Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
People send me posters and flyers they've designed to help promote the Gender Census sometimes, and they're way better than anything I make, so it is time to have a system for sharing them! drive.google.com/drive/u/0/fo...
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Crowdsourced promo - Google Drive
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
on this day in 1995, scientists discovered bisexuality. happy 31st birthday to all my fellow bs
cover of newsweek magazine shows three mysterious people standing together in dramatic shadows. the text reads “Bisexuality. Not gay. Not straight. A new sexual identity emerges.”
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I'm been wondering if it would come to this and apparently it has. huge move from cloudflare, which hosts a fifth of all websites on earth.
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Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search
The nuclear option is gaining traction as web traffic collapses and Google refuses to negotiate with content creators
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Adrian Harley @adrianharley.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The best part of #readercon with friends is, of course, the friends, but a close second is getting to split up the panels and report back
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Katherine Crighton @katherinecrighton.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
My very long #Readercon day of programming is at an end, and I am still absolutely delighted by the lovely work of @dbcalligrapher.bsky.social, who transcribed quotes from my presentation on The Saga of Blood Marmalade IN THE PRETTIEST POSSIBLE MANNER
Quotes transcribed by the Driveby Calligrapher, laid out in a loose pattern. Starting from the top row, left to right, they read, "they lived in the same observable universe we do." "Weird research Blood Marmalade betrayal" "Cry into your soup because of your new cursed knowledge" "Aww yiss, a reference list!" "I am now a (very shitty) chemist! ...in a historically accurate manner" "Kerchiefs: all the cool people are wearing them" "We should all be weird about research to avoid poisoned knowledge"
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Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 08/07/2026
"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...
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These Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big Tech
Despite breathless reporting on how AI is going to change the world, Hannah Cyrus, a Bangor librarian, said that, in her experience, most library patrons aren’t finding it helpful.
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 08/07/2026
I have never objected to anyone using my work for fanfic because it always seemed the greatest possible compliment that people's imaginations were sufficiently sparked to want to create their own work off its back. I love that people did it for the sheer joy of story and creativity. welp.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 07/07/2026
Incredible news. Illinois Governor Pritzker has signed a law removing testosterone HRT from the PDMP program, a program other states can use to access people's prescription records across state lines. It will protect trans people in IL from places like TX. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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IL Gov. Pritzker Signs Law Protecting Trans Patients By Removing Testosterone from Govt. Monitoring Program
Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) could be exploited to carry out anti-trans attacks. Illinois just made it harder to do.
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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
“AI in libraries” should be “what can you tell us about corporate profit-driven control of search and retrieval” instead of “when are librarians going to get on board.”
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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 23/05/2026
New favourite example of Grice's Maxim of Relevance
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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
one of the many reasons why it is necessary for Jews and Muslims to work together to oppose religious hatred is that the deus-vulters are way ahead of us on that front
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 20/05/2026
ProPublica’s board and senior management hide when asked to engage with bargaining. The board meets today, but they won’t meet with us. We will make our voices unavoidable until they agree to a fair contract, so, today, we welcomed folks to our office with flyers about our fight.
ProPublica Guild members handing out flyers on the sidewalk.A stack of flyers that read: Investigative journalists deserve basic worker protections. Why is ProPublica management refusing to agree?
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 27/08/2025
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
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I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/09/2025
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n
Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The world is stupid, but I just watched a squirrel break into a car in the parking lot below me, steal a package of crackers, and escape to a nearby tree. So at least somebody is winning.
Photograph of a car with a squirrel inside of it, perched on the steering wheel. The car is the color of champaign at a beige convention, and the squirrel is the color of squirrels. The squirrel is holding a package of crackers in it's mouth. They are the kind like you get at a restaurant, where you get two crackers wrapped in plastic.

The driver's side window is slightly cracked. This is how the squirrel got in, and how it got out. It threw the crackers out first, and then climbed out after them. Everything in this operation suggested that this was not the squirrel's first rodeo.A closeup of the squirrel sitting on the steering wheel. The squirrel deserves a name, so we'll call her Anjeloma, and she's what you might call a winner. She is still squirrel colored. The crackers are white, and labeled "Zest." As if Anjeloma needed more zest. Squirrel, please.

You can't see much of the car, but you can see smudges of grunge at the edges of the windshield, where the wipers have cast aside the debris of previous rains and pollen-falls.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I'm telling you, the solution to many problems in education is to hire school librarians (at a liveable wage, with administrative support, and adequate resources). Your students don't need an LLM, they need a librarian.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
"Turns out students aren't great at asking questions well." No fucking shit. Literally any educator could tell you that. 90% of my job as a high school librarian is trying to figure out what kids actually want versus what question they asked.
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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...
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Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content
“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 30/03/2026
If you are freaking out and need help doing this, TELL BLUESKY. One of us will help you! DO IT!
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