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I am really astonished at what a good boy he is. I was expecting a much more difficult time but he's just kind of bunny-hopped into our life like he was always meant to be there.

I have so much catching up to do!

🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

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My 17th book is a month old today! It's been a stellar few weeks of excitement and chills since THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT released, and to celebrate my cursed film novel, I've made a @letterboxd list of all the movies mentioned or referenced across the book 📽️ boxd.it/TMsMu

This Movie Doesn't End the Way We Want by Hailey Piper, art by Julia Lloyd, sitting atop a stack of Hailey Piper's other books including other Titan Books releases like A Light Most Hateful, All the Hearts You Eat, and Teenage Girls Can Be Demons. Next to the stack are a couple art prints on one side and neon letters saying "One Month of Curses" on the other

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Doppelfoxx Publishing 📚🦊 @doppelfoxxpublishing.com · 01/10/2026

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Yes. And at every scale, too. Look how eager they are to blame "rogue AI" for human errors. Laying groundwork for a massive accountability shrug.

Agreed. And in some cases very literally. A not insignificant number of people genuinely seem to want to invent a god that will then tell them what to do

caffeine anxiety ego death @mxdshipwreck.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

This is really good, and deeper/more thoughtful than you may expect it to be. This is a very compelling argument for touching grass.

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Hey gang. I am loath to post this, but I once again find myself in bleak financial circumstances and could really use some help. If I've ever made you laugh or scream-puke and you can send a few bucks my way, I'd be so grateful. Venmo: @mshippyx Cashapp: $anaximanderx ko-fi.com/mxdshipwreck

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Otts @skanott.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Crap like this is why corporate personhood drives me as nuts as it does. We invented a new, imaginary type of person, gave them a ton of superpowers, and made sure that they legally weren't ALLOWED to have a motive other than shareholder profit. Like Homelander without mommy issues.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I once visited an ice cream shop/bar/laundromat in Colstrip, Montana and a tire shop/sandwich place in Winslow, Arizona but this takes the prize.

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ALL THE HEARTS YOU EAT has been out for 2 years this week, and it looks like the audiobook is on huge discount from Libro FM 🫀 A full cast narrates my biggest novel yet, the tale of a woman trying to pacify a ghost and discovering something far worse has its eye on her. libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

screenshot from Libro FM showing All the Hearts You Eat by Hailey Piper, art by Julia Lloyd, narrated by L Morgan Lee, Sena Bryer, Em Grosland, Alexis Vandom, and Jeremy Carlisle Parker, is on sale down from 27 dollars to only 3 dollars

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

At the end of the day, I think my official opinion is that AI as it currently exists can already do great harm, and doesn't need sentience or super intelligence to do it. Because the real threat is not AI, it's human greed and human vulnerability and human economics.

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We're speedrunning toward a future where news orgs are forced to use AI to create photos that are no longer available from archives, and if I have to explain to you why that's bad then you're already too broken to be part of society.

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Monte did so good at the vet's office but he was deeply unimpressed.

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I loved them as a kid and then felt deeply betrayed when I finally caught on about the Bible stuff. But I think returning to them as an adult would be enjoyable.

Also typos jfc. Maybe it's the autocorrect trying to sabotage me ;) (Because this is Bluesky: that was a joke. I just can't type on my phone for shit, apparently)

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Right?! He weighs like 3.5lb now! He's starting to look like a real cat!

I guess what I'm thinking is, does a thing even need to be conscious in order to hold us in thrall? If the bar to clear is "a force we interact with but don't understand the inner workings of manipulates our behavior" then capitalism qualifies as much as their hypothetical super intelligence.

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I admit I have only a very passing awareness of this being a thing that exists but my understanding is it's imagining an omnipotent god type scenario while I am imagining more of a "trees domesticated mammals" dynamic.

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I think as mammals with a certain kind of intelligence, it's hard for us to conceive of a thing that can "think" without that thing also being "alive" in some sense that we can recognize. And I think where we draw the line of thought, desire, and life is filtered necessarily by our lens.

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I think some of the book's arguments rely on accepting certain assumptions inherent to its premise: namely, that "super intelligence" could exist as they describe it, and that such a thing could "want" something, and that it would desire replication and pursuit of its preferences.

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Do I believe this to be true? Not particularly. But it is interesting to consider.

For example, in order to learn human language, it would first need us to put a ton of language on the internet where it could access it, and incentivize us to use the Internet for that purpose.

That hypothesis could certainly make sense of many of the decisions that have followed re: the way we use tech and put it in everything. Social media, cryptocurrency, smart appliances, etc actually feel very coherent in this model as building the infrastructure an AI would need.

Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 13/10/2026

If we assume that they are right in their premise that AI would manipulate humans toward achieving its own weird, inscrutable goals, up to and including the creation of increasingly intelligent AI, one could argue that this process started decades ago.

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Great. Getty's entire library will be fed to a slop machine forthwith, I'm sure.

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Aliya Bhatia @aliyabhatia.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Love to call all pieces by Apar a "must read" but specifically this one: AI-enabled voter file clean up has led to the disenfranchisement of millions of eligible voters. This is by design: www.techpolicy.press/indias-sir-v...

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India’s SIR Voter Purge Shows Digital Authoritarianism in Action

A deep dive on the democratic crisis unfolding following the digital purge of 130 million voters from the rolls in India by Tech Policy Press fellow Apar Gupta.

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T.L. Bodine @tlbodine.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

But do you at least have pants

T.L. Bodine @tlbodine.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I think about that all the time. How much of the "eagle-eyed hunter" trope was really just that one dude in the village with 20/20 vision? Although I do also wonder if more of us are nearsighted now because we all read and use computers from an early age