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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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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is such a disturbing read

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timthedm.bsky.social @timthedm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

When a small business uses a terrible AI-generated flyer/poster/social media post, stripping them of any personality or individuality. Stop it!

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Fred Armisen: Right To Jail. Right Away.

ALT: Fred Armisen: Right To Jail. Right Away.

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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timthedm.bsky.social @timthedm.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Stardew Valley. I didn't need an unpaid second job.

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timthedm.bsky.social @timthedm.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Just in case you thought the US understood football, sweet fancy moses.

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timthedm.bsky.social @timthedm.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Microsoft Teams is such a bag of nails

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timthedm.bsky.social @timthedm.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Riq Woolen is the most relieved man on the planet rn

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timthedm.bsky.social @timthedm.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Just noticed that my phone torch was on, 15 minutes into this tram ride, so there's that.

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

the deal i struck with burger king

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Spike Friedman @spikefriedman.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

“my favorite baseball team is doing better than they ever have before“ “that must be wonderful” “It’s the worst thing thats ever happened to me”

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

The vibes? FUCKIN IMMACULATE

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timthedm.bsky.social @timthedm.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

The mariners are making me post it again

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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

this is the most like a mike tyson's punch out guy i have ever seen anyone look

Brewers outfielder Sal Frelick making an intense face as he prepares to throw the ball

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timthedm.bsky.social @timthedm.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Gail's stuff is amazing! Support indie business!

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mothcub @mothcub.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

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Anthony Clark @nedroid.com · 26/08/2025

A jury of my peers? TWELVE murderers?!

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

AI stocks drop sharply after an MIT report says 95% of AI investments generate zero (0) return. Even AI prophet Sam Altman acknowledges there's a bubble:

Traders pinned some of the declines in the US on a critical report on Monday authored by a branch of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Researchers said “95 per cent of organisations are getting zero return” from their investments in generative AI, the technology that has sent US stocks soaring to record highs in recent months.

“The story is spooking people,” said one trader close to a multibillion-dollar US tech fund.

The stock drop also came days after OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman signalled an AI bubble might be forming. “Are investors over excited? My opinion is yes,” Altman said late last week.

He said: “I do think some investors are likely to lose a lot of money, and I don’t want to minimise that, that sucks. There will be periods of irrational exuberance. But on the whole the value for society will be huge.”

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

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timthedm.bsky.social @timthedm.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

This thing did (or didn't) send Carrie Coon to the other side* (*Leftovers, not The Gilded Age) cc @minakimes.bsky.social

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Today is World Listening Day so it's a good time to share this again...

An underlined quote in a book that reads as follows…

“The biggest communication
problem is we do not listen to
understand. We listen to reply.

– Stephen R. Covey”

And I feel it is important to mention here that I was not the one that highlighted this quote (because I’m not a monster). Again, just to reiterate, I, Adam Sharp, do not, now or ever, go around highlighting passages in books like some kind of savage.

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John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

The real AI arms race is between one another 🥰 nymag.com/intelligence...

Stories about Al deployment tend to fall into a few categories. You've got productivity stories, where workers — most visibly at tech companies — talk about how Al tools are making parts of their jobs easier or harder, increasing their workload or simply making them redundant and taking their jobs. You've got top-down management stories, where Al use is suggested or mandated by leaders demanding more efficiency, who are either betting that a great deal of automation is possible within their firms, or who are just worried about getting left behind.
Then you've got the stories in which people are more clearly using new Al tools against one another in an escalatory way.
Job hunters, now able to generate custom applications instantly, flood employers, so employers turn to Al to manage the glut. Spammers and other bad-faith actors flood social media with near-infinite material, pushing the platforms to double down on automated moderation.
Rapidly generated presentations lead to rapidly scheduled meetings recorded and automatically transcribed by AI assistants for machine summarization and analysis. Dating-app users generate chats with Al only to be filtered and then responded to by someone else using AI. The starkest and most consequential such story is what's happening in education: Teachers dealing with students who generate entire essays and assignments are turning to Al-powered plagiarism detectors, or getting pitched on ed-tech software that solves cheating with surveillance - with, of course, the help of AI.

These are stories about AI, but they're also stories about broken systems. Students flocking to ChatGPT in the classroom suggests that they see school in terms of arbitrary tasks and attainment rather than education. The widespread use of Al in job hunting drives home the extent to which platforms like LinkedIn, which promises to connect job seekers with employers, have instead installed themselves between them, pushing both sides to either pay up or dishonestly game their systems. A dating app where users see opportunity in automated flirting must already be a pretty grim space. If Facebook can be so quickly and thoroughly overwhelmed by Al-generated imagery and bots, it probably wasn't much of a social network anymore — a low-trust platform better at monetizing users than connecting them. Smaller-scale AI arms races like these don't take hold unless users (or workers, or students) have already been pitted against one another by systems they don't respect. In an uncomfortably large portion of modern life - especially online - that's exactly what's happened.

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timthedm.bsky.social @timthedm.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

A curse on the houses of people who have a side meeting in the chat of a Teams meeting

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 11/06/2025

Happens to the best of us brother www.vulture.com/article/dieg...

Inside the smaller of two movie theaters at L.A. film mecca Vidiots, Diego Luna is telling me about the time he got detained at Heathrow. It was the day after the Andor wrap party, a raucous event that celebrated the end of six years of work on Tony Gilroy’s critically beloved Star Wars series. Tequila was flowing, and after two seasons of strict COVID protocols against socialization, Luna went hard. So hard, in fact, that when he was packing the next morning, he casually threw a memento he had taken from set — the blaster belonging to his character, rebel spy and resistance leader Cassian Andor — into his suitcase. He showed up at the airport toting an MW-20 Bryar pistol and a severe hangover, and security didn’t love it.

“I could barely speak English. My eyes were red, and I had a blaster that, because we have the best props team, looks real,” he says, pitching his voice as he recreates the anxious moment. “I said, ‘Have you seen the show? I’m the guy from the show!’ One guy recognized me from Narcos, which also didn’t help. Then another guy went, ‘That’s true, he’s a guy from Rogue One.’ Then everyone wanted to touch it.”

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Jooli-AHH! Boolia 👻🍂🎃 @jooliaghoulia.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

The perfect bird feeder doesn't exi--

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timthedm.bsky.social @timthedm.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

This is astonishing. A slow, silent, existential threat.

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Will Sebag-Montefiore @wsebag.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Jordan Peterson on lasagne

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Chris Plummer @chrisplummer.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 23/05/2025

open chart, keep scrolling down www.gelliottmorris.com/p/republican...

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Nick Clegg has a bloody cheek piping up at all. It was the austerity he enabled that is most responsible for Brexit & the continued unravelling of our social fabric. Then he swanned off to piss around at meta. Twat.

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

New Pope has a Twitter account and this was the last thing he sent

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

On KNEECAP. This week’s episode of The Group Chat: linktr.ee/TheGroupChat...

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 29/04/2025

This is a new image from #JWST. The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way. Everything else is a galaxy. Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

“is my calculator horny?“ our tech columnist asks. “i entered 5318008 into it and turned it upside down. what i saw surprised me”

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

🚀🚀

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

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Danny Heifetz @dannyheifetz.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

This viral post on the US Institute of Peace is worth your time

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

A beautiful peace of writing.

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phil mccrevice @jewkrainian.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

genie: and for your last wish? me: I wish I could talk to animals [later at the zoo] elephant: get me the fuck out of here gorilla: get me the fuck out of here giraffe: get me the fuck out of here

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PieGuy @ilovepie84.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Accidentally took one of my wife’s multivitamins and now I have a Pinterest account

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Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Until today I had missed the detail that Nick Clegg made £100M - ONE HUNDRED MILLION POUNDS - working at Facebook. (To put that in context, it's the same figure he pledged in British aid for Syria in 2013.) Good morning, I hate everything again.

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