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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

“Sycophancy was present across all the chatbots they tested, & the bots frequently told users that their actions or beliefs were justified in cases where the user was acting deceptively, doing something illegal, or engaging in otherwise harmful or abusive behavior.”🧪

“What's more, the study determined that just one interaction with a flattering chatbot was likely to "distort" a human user's "judgement" and "erode prosocial motivations," an outcome that persisted regardless of a person's demographics and previous grasp on the tech as well as how, stylistically, an individual chatbot delivered its twisted verdict. In short, after engaging with chatbots on a social or moral quandary, people were less likely to admit wrongdoing - and more likely to dig in on the chatbot's version of events, in which they, the main character, were the one in the right.”

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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 25/03/2026

These products cannot survive a world in which fraud is career-ending, as it has been (to an extent) in the past. They need us to normalize it, so we all do fraud accidentally by missing something emitted by the Fraud Machine. Oops and move on? And a Fraudster's Dividend. This is epistemicide.

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Sean Marotta @smmarotta.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

One thing that AI evangelists seem to assume, particularly legal AI evangelists assume, is that the thinking and analysis is quick, and the writing is just tedious busywork that slows us down. But the writing IS the thinking and analysis. You work out the thinking and analysis by writing it down.

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kristin (she/her) @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org · 17/03/2026

FullStop Australia is a crisis line for people who have experienced sexual harassment and assault. This article shows that they successfully fight subpoenas of records for calls to their helpline. Clearly 1800 RESPECT has no excuse. You can call FullStop on 1800 385 578.

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Imogen Cassidy @imogenwrites.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Another plug before I go to bed - I’ve had a lot of lovely messages already from folk who have listened and enjoyed and I couldn’t be happier. Go listen to Welcome to Fosters!

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Squonky Boy with a Stonky Ploy @voidburntflesh.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

!!!!! Just listened to this and it is EXCELLENT. Can't wait for more 🔥

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Hannah Erroneous @themonaogg.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

This team was such a dream to work with as a VA, and I think folks are going to love the show!

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Hannah Erroneous @themonaogg.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

It's out, it's out, today's the day! Catch me voicing a certain mysterious, and surely not villainous, media magnate in this Australian-made Rusty Quill audio drama about working wizards down under - first episode just dropped!

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

one way AI has fucked up search results is that -- to anthropomorphise AI a little -- it's a fucking poseur. when it doesn't know, it assumes a confident stance and says "oh, yeah, usually when people say that they mean this, check it out" and then just starts spewing bullshit

Google AI search summary claiming that "hearts and diamonds" "in the context of "bob dylan" "usually refers to" a song from blood on the tracks, but is also "intrinsically linked to Joan Baez's song 'diamonds and rust,'" which is total nonsense.

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Cliff PervoSCARY @pervocracy.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

This study confirms something I suspected - LLMs trained on medical case studies are good at diagnosing from case studies. But when they have to interview a patient who doesn't know which information is relevant or how to describe it in medical jargon, their accuracy plummets.

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Cliff PervoSCARY @pervocracy.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

i'm not like a strict pacifist or anything but i do think it's a problem that the higher you rise in government, the more violence you're expected to authorize in very casual and routine ways not even the big stuff, more the "annual budget sign-off, sir, just a re-up" on human pain

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Raima Larter @raimalarter.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Just tried this...and it works. Thanks, Dan!

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Watching disabled people around the world mourn Alice is a reminder of the good aspect of the internet. 30 years ago, few people outside of SF would ever have known Alice existed. I never would have met her. The internet connected us all. Let’s honor Alice’s memory by using that power and community.

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Paul Evans @pauliewaulie.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Here’s Nick Cave replying to a correspondent called Valerio who was asking him about how to respond to a growing sense of cynicism - here. www.theredhandfiles.com/do-you-still...

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

omg i knew i felt a connection to klimt for a reason

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Adam P Knave @adampknave.com · 28/10/2025

They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

would anyone like my recommendations of gay romance books i really liked. i have a bunch up my sleeve now, they are pretty much all fairly raunchy historical fiction

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Hannah Erroneous @themonaogg.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

One of the best things about this book - which can reasonably be described as a Jewish High Holidays romance - is that it contains an exquisite line about using your procrastination time more joyously and fully. It's so sweet and I recommend it so much I may reread it tonight.

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 22/09/2025

dudes rock

Tumblr post from every-lemon
Sep 8

so my spouse is part of a weirdly intense but mostly benign men's workout group that meets at like, 5:30am outside every day, even in winter. they do a lot of burpees and lugging cinder blocks up hills and stuff.
they take turns leading the workouts and tomorrow is his turn. I asked what he was planning. he handed me a sheet of William Carlos William poems from a large stack he'd printed.
I said "what" and he explained, helpfully, "it's a William Carlos William themed workout." I asked what inspired it and he said "l've been planning this for months."

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it was a smash hit.
a dozen guys showed up (more than usual). spouse brought a red wheelbarrow and they took turns bringing cinder blocks up the hill with it. then they broke up in teams and did a relay with an "icebox" (cooler filled with 40lbs of ice). at the end he opened the cooler to reveal it was full of beach plum lacroix and all the guys cheered. they drank sparkling water as he read 'approach of winter' out loud.
he was home by 6:30am.

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

beautiful

I am here to be rude, because this is a rude technology, and it deserves a rude response.
Miyazaki said, "I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself." Scam Altman said we can surround the solar system with a Dyson Sphere to hold data centers. Miyazaki is right, and Altman is wrong.
Miyazaki tells stories that blend the ordinary and the fantastic in ways people find deeply meaningful. Altman tells lies for money.
And I'm glad they're lies. Because the makers of Al aren't damned by their failures, they're damned by their goals. They want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again. They want to create a new kind of mind, so they can force it into mindless servitude. Their dream is to invent new forms of life to enslave.

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

re: chatgpt and suicide/psychosis, if somebody talked like that to other people in any of my peer support groups they would be banned instantly. a healthcare or psychiatric provider who did so would be stripped of their licensing. a crisis hotline would be sued into oblivion. shut it the fuck down

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Hannah Erroneous @themonaogg.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Gailey's already an autobuy author for me, ever since The Echo Wife, but I am making particular grabby hands at this:

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

ICYMI! PLEASE REPOST! Poets! Uncanny Magazine is OPEN to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26! Poetry Editor Betsy Aoki can't wait to read your poems!!! buff.ly/9AyStcb

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Chelsea Thompto @cthompto.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

🧵 (1/8) New semester new AI policy for my syllabus. Drawn from my prior policy, @melhogan.bsky.social 's very clear and concise recent post about AI's problems, and reading "Empire of AI" this summer. For context, this is for a creative coding class in an art department. #academicsky #criticalai

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I don’t ask this kind of thing often but I urge anyone who cares about ensuring that the pro-ceasefire, pro-Palestinian movement doesn’t just become a grab bag of antisemitic conspiracies read this book as soon as possible

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DEAD RISE
The MURDER of MARY PHAGAN and the LYNCHING of LEO FRANK
"Brilliant.... Ninety years later, the tale of murder and revenge in Georgia still has the power to fascinate.... Intense, suspenseful."
-The Washington Post Book World

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

A key point in Fahrenheit 451 is that books were banned because they made people depressed and uncomfortable. The novel's protagonist, Montag, is taken into custody after he reads a poem that makes a woman cry because she realizes the emptiness of her life.

[quoting a tweet from isabelunraveled in which she rails against depressing books that get branded as “great writing”]

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/07/2025

I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.

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🌸Bibi🌸♿ @bibiblossoms.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Many people asked me to make pretty/cool walking sticks! So I did! If I don't sell at least 100 of them. I'll have to cancel them and not make them. I know they aren't "cheap" but I wanted to make something of quality that would last. I wanted it to fit many weights and heights.

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Oku ΘΔ @oku.mow.haus · 26/07/2025

“Please send us emails instead” means “we can put key words from your script on our corporate spam filter and ignore you, but calls shut down our entire contact infrastructure” Keep fucking calling.

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The Aleks (they/them) @thealeks.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

A quick technical reminder for creators who have revenue sharing enabled on @itch.io : the way to change the amount you're sharing with the aforementioned platform is simple: Log In => Settings => Revenue Sharing => Move The Slider Down to 0 Maybe move it up once the NSFW policy is reversed.

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

If you were forced to bet on which university courses of study still will be relevant in 50 years, languages, literature, history, philosophy, and arts are all pretty good wagers. They have an excellent track record over the past thousand years or so.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/07/2025

yessss One of the guys that taught some of the woodshop fundamentals just openly explained that he was involved with the tool library because he hated capitalism. One of the things I want people to think about is this: you can have ANY TOOL YOU WANT and also YOU DO NOT HAVE TO STORE OR FIX THEM.

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

think of it like this: we eat cause we need nutrition for our bodies both producing and consuming art is how we nourish our minds. you can actually see people who don't have art in their life going off the fucking deep end. it's a processing/centering mechanic. it's a meal for the human in you

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Chris Ferrie @csferrie.com · 16/05/2025

I noticed something today that I forgot existed... a garage sale sign. Who knew it would lead to an existential crisis? csferrie.medium.com/saas-self-as...

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SaaS: Self-as-a-Service

Attention Conservation Notice. It’s rant time. You see, back in the 20th century, we were taught to build our identities by choosing things…

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Neil Williamson @neilwilliamson.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Just me deleting my old Soundcloud account.

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Heather Hogan @heatherhogan.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

This is incredible. This computer science professor makes his students play a game that simulates the risks and repercussions of getting Long COVID, and then he's like, hey anybody want a mask? And: "approximately 95 to 100% of students who’ve played the game now wear masks in his classroom."

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Hannah Erroneous @themonaogg.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Hey folks, can anyone recommend an NDIS Support Coordinator working in Victoria who you've been really pleased with? Searching on behalf of a client, looking for personal recommendations only, ideally from the client side rather than the coworker side but will take both.

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🍼 Lily & friends 🏳️‍⚧️ @entransify.cub.tf · 17/04/2025

i did not have "ASAN and Autism Speaks in agreement on something" on my 2025 bingo card...

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I'm late in spruiking this, but my flash piece 'Optimal' has been out in Banksia Journal for a month or so now: banksiajournal.com/optimal/

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Optimal | Banksia Journal

This is the best story to read. We’re explaining this now, so it’s clear in your mind.

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Gareth Southwell @garethsouthwell.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

The new OpenAI creative writing bot's "short story" has the phrase "democracy of ghosts". It's the sort of phrase that would make me stop and admire it, if I were reading a human author - which, it turns out, I was, because it's from Nabokov's 1957 novel "Pnin". www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

fun fact: if you draw fanart for a game within the first week of any sort of major PR event for it (announcement, demo, release etc) there is a 99% chance the entire dev team on the game knows who you are because they are doing nothing but reposting fanart in slack

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Oops, thought I'd filled both 2025 issues of Weird Horror. I am 8k words shy in issue 11 (Fall). Instead of opening for a full month for 2 slots I am open today til Feb. 28, end of day. No reprints. 5k words max. 2-cents per word. Simul subs okay. Send to weirdhorrormag (at) gmail (dot) com

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Peter Hollo @peterhollo.com · 25/02/2025

Please to put my name to this important - and entirely un-radical - message in the SMH & Age today. @timhollo.bsky.social and various other friends & relatives are there too. Notable that many many more Jewish people signed than could fit on this one page. #OzJewsSayNO #No2ethniccleansing

Picture of me wearing a Tzedek t-shirt and holding a full-page newspaper ad stating "Australia must reject Trump's call for the removal of Palestinians from Gaza" "Jewish Australians say NO to ethnic cleansing!"

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