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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18h
I don’t want my entire intellectual world to be consumed by convincing people that their brains are worth using 😭
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 01/10/2026
AI safety expert Timnit Gebru says tech leaders are promoting greatly exaggerated claims about "superintelligence" and "existential risk" as a way to distract from the real threat — their own unregulated companies.
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The Real Existential Risk Is AI CEOs Avoiding Oversight: “Alternative Nobel” Winner Timnit Gebru
We speak to the prominent AI researcher and leading critic of the AI industry, Timnit Gebru, who was recently awarded a 2026 Right Livelihood Award for her work investigating the harms and hype behind...
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 11/08/2026
I didn’t even see this had been announced. I was lead writer on this one! And Saber replaced me with ChatGPT midway through development. All the passenger voices were AI too. Either they changed direction at some point or they’re not disclosing it on Steam
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Rideshare "Stimulator" - Announce Trailer | PS5 Games
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Jacob Gellman @jacobgellman.com · 04/08/2026
There is no way that betting on wildfires should be legal. www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/20...
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As Oregon burns and gamblers bet, lawmakers push back against wildfire betting markets drawing millions
Wyden and Merkley are urging federal regulators to crack down on prediction markets that allow users to wager on how long wildfires will burn and how much damage they will cause
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Yes, the Problems are bad, but this is no time for radical things like Solutions
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Goat (rotated), by Arthur Dove, 1935, 📸 by Joan Monfort
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Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
a flow-chart with 2 islands. "Do I need AI?" that flows into a final island saying "No"
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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
One hell of a chart... Via @superjoost.bsky.social superjoost.substack.com/p/ubisoft-an...
Char titles "Share price history for Take-Two and Ubisoft against each CEO's comments on emerging tech

The chart shows Take Two's stock rising as its CEO is quoted expressing skepticism about cloud gaming, VR, and gen AI making games, while Ubisoft's fades as its CEO enthuses about each
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Emad @thisisemad.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Got to write about Labour’s colossal task in regaining the trust of lost voters. I’m unsure if this task is even possible anymore www.middleeasteye.net/news/starmer...
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Starmer's legacy: Labour has a mountain to climb to recover its Muslim voters - www.middleeasteye.net/news/starmers…
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Starmer's legacy: Labour has a mountain to climb to recover its Muslim voters
The party's stance on Gaza caused a rupture with nearly half of its former voters deserting the party, especially in constituencies with large Muslim populations
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
i'm not sure any tech criticism i could put forward rn would be more effective than the totality of this screenshot
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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Something I really hate about myself is I can now tell with fair certainty if someone’s fake writing came from ChatGPT or Claude
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I could not love @edzitron.com’s latest newsletter edition more. We should shout this from the rooftops. www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-...
LLMs impress the writers who do not want to write, the coders who don’t want to code, the researchers who don’t want to research, and the lawyers that don’t want to actually understand case law. Those that desperately tell you how powerful AI is and that you simply must use it are looking for you to validate their own laziness or distaste for effort, and those who are impressed with LLMs’ outputs tend to be people with low standards.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Politicians endlessly blame immigration for their own failures. So, when immigration is reduced, their ‘success’ isn’t recognised. No one’s life has particularly improved. Because no one’s life was ever going to improve by reducing immigration. Because our problems were never caused by immigration.
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404 Media @404media.co · 18/05/2026
University of Washington researchers planned to have preschool teachers wear cameras that would record everything they saw, including the children they were teaching, then use it to develop AI models. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Story by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/researchers-...
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 12/05/2026
7 months to go
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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
The Onion ass headline
Telegraph headline: sick of being dismissed as racist, Essex Man has turned to reform
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 09/05/2026
There are lots of questions I want to ask Reform people, mostly starting "about that five million quid", but it would be a shame to let this moment from Robert Jenrick slip past unnoticed. thecritic.co.uk/toda...
On Jenrick ploughed, trying to ignore the chuntering that was now coming from the woman at his side. “The most important thing in politics is to be honest with the public, and being honest means saying what needs to be done and actually doing it, not a sham scheme like Rwanda.”

Let’s just press pause there. It was understandable, in the wave of words pouring from Jenrick’s mouth, that this line passed without comment, but it’s barely two years since the plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda was so important to him that he resigned over moves to water it down. “I genuinely believe, having immersed myself in this issue for 14 months, that this is a good policy,” Jenrick told parliament at the time. Now it turns out it was a sham.

Jenrick is on the very short list of politicians who have complained about appearing in this sketch, something that cheers me up even on the lowest days. He shares with Farage a total lack of shame, a naked concern only with his own interests, and a level of
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 08/05/2026
Bloomberg News has won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary for “trAPPed” a graphic novel depicting the trials of a woman in India held under “digital arrest” as part of a widespread and ruinous scam
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Arrested by Phone: A Graphic Novel
No texting. No visitors. No escape. She was caught in India’s new digital nightmare.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Something we don’t address enough is how many people, especially adults, do not have a working imagination.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
At a time when the president is starting wars, sniping boats, taking bribes, gutting vaccines and decimating foreign aid, The Atlantic publishes two (2) articles decrying a New York Times podcast where a Twitch streamer says shoplifting isn't a huge deal.
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
WSJ reports that Sam Altman has apologized to the Canadian town of Tumbler Ridge, for not alerting authorities after OpenAI banned the ChatGPT account of the person who later did the mass shooting there. Read my recent investigation—and I have more coming soon. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0... 1x
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The chilling role of ChatGPT in mass shootings and other violence
Several attacks involving OpenAI’s chatbot—including Tumbler Ridge and FSU—raise urgent questions about the technology.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I thought about what would happen if a person fell into a pit that was deep enough that the bottom never arrived and if after a while you would adjust to the dropping and have time to reflect on how screwed you were or if instead your heart would give out after a minute or two of the falling.
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There’s a hole in the earth
This story appears in my book A Creature Wanting Form. We were sitting in the sulfurous hot spring rubbing the mud they have there on our faces and going like look at me I’m a mud man I’m going to ki...
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🍉paraver🟩🟡🟥 @paraver.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
“The right wing is on the decline. People are realizing that they have no vision or solutions, just hatred and empty slogans. All they’ve brought to the world is war, inflation, inequality, and social division.”
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Aiyana White @aiyanaewhite.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.
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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection. So forgive me if I smell a rat.
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Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · 10/04/2026
More people died in Israel's latest bombing of Lebanon than died in the 2020 Beirut port blast Brilliant reporting by @rayajalabi.ft.com as.ft.com/r/3d576d7b-9...
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
today sure feels like one of the all time ‘so i still just gotta go and do my little job during all this?!’ moments
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
this wikipedia editor is orbiting the moon right now!
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
"My patient is refusing a drug studied in 170,000 people because of side effects that a 124,000-person analysis just confirmed do not exist — while injecting a compound studied in 14 humans, from unregulated sources, based on the recommendation of someone who profits from selling it."
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My patient would rather take a peptide than a statin. That reveals an uncomfortable truth in medicine
“The volume of evidence behind a therapy has become inversely correlated with public trust in it,” writes Vikas Patel.
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John Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
"Is there any sense of decency left in you?" The question that hangs over our age.
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Emad @thisisemad.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
what in the electronic shutter is happening with this photo
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
You could not waterboard the statement "AI makes me a better writer" out of me. If the prose from the Great Automated Averager is an improvement on what you can do yourself, then you're admitting that you are a below average writer. Not below average for reporters; below average for the gen pop.
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A.Degen Art @adegenart.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
wip King
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The IDF statement sounds like parody but it’s real: “The toddler was brought by a Hamas operative into a dangerous area to be used as a human shield.”
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404 Media @404media.co · 24/03/2026
NEW: WebinarTV, a company that bills itself as “a search engine for the best webinars,” is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links, recording the calls, and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for profit. @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social reports:
404media.co
This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts
WebinarTV hosts 200,000 “webinars.” A Zoom call you may thought was private might be one of them.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Everyone is rightfully talking about what an incredible interview this is but I want to note this depressing and distressing quote from Mehotra. It’s the AI mentality in a nutshell. It’s not about quality or uniqueness or human creativity. Just build something sort of fiiine and they will come.
“What are LLMs really good at? They're really good at averaging what everybody says. So can they do something really unique like you do?
No, probably not. Can they take some part of your suggestion and turn it into something useful enough that you can get 1,000 people to pay 100 bucks a month? I bet you can come up with something because the bar isn't high.

I know we've flipped the conversation around a little bit. If we're talking about you and your business opportunity, you don't really need to replicate yourself the way you would be in person. You just need to create enough benefit that 1,000 people pay you 100 bucks a year.
That's what you need to do. Is there some part of your methodology that you think is so good that people would do that? I bet there is.”
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I wrote about the situation, which I assure you I am monitoring very closely. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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We’re All Just ‘Monitoring the Situation’
Vibe-coded dashboards elevate the online news scroll to a different level.
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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
This is what the internet was literally made for: beautifully niche nerd shit.
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
dying at Hassane Diallo and Olivier Rioux
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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This week’s column on how major Arab powers tried to build a new Middle East over the Palestinians’ heads - and failed.
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Emad @thisisemad.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Yesss
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
the stink of gender resentment coming off Silicon Valley has been obvious for a while. these men hate women because they hate being told no.
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Todd Woody @toddwoody.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
New: The number of days where extreme heat makes it too dangerously hot to walk the dog, sweep the porch and engage in other ordinary pursuits has doubled since 1950. Older people experience a month a year when heat prevents them from routine activities. Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Extreme Heat Is Making Life Increasingly Unlivable
The number of hours where it’s too hot for everyday activities has doubled since 1950, a new study found.
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