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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 11h
www.tomsguide.com/ai/an-ai-tor... I wish I had thought of this. This is the correct response to the “AI torture chamber.”
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An AI ‘torture chamber’ went viral — then a developer gave the chatbot constipation
A bizarre counterexperiment challenges what we can infer from an AI describing its own suffering
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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 11h
variety.com/2026/film/ne...
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Nathan Fielder Speaks Out on Living With Elizabeth Holmes While Filming ‘You Can See Everything’ Doc: ‘She Seems So Genuine’ but ‘I Know She’s a Liar’
Nathan Fielder talks living with Elizabeth Holmes for the documentary 'You Can See Everything' and how he believes she's a 'liar.'
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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 12h
www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-dot-an... Gosh the Bitter Lesson video made by Opus 5.5 here is pretty damn good.
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The Dot and the Swarm
Benefitting from the Bitter Lesson
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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 12h
Fricking amazing doc about a brilliant middle school kid in the middle of Marathon, TX who is obsessed with Stalin. (It's also about how he's surrounded by amazing teachers and friends.) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/o...
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Opinion | The Middle School Kids Trying to Make Sense of Stalin’s Tyranny (Gift Article)
Middle school introduces us to complicated history. These kids wrote a play about Joseph Stalin.
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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 13h
It's fun to read this (wesstrabelsi.substack.com/p/boy-was-i-...) after listening to this: www.thisamericanlife.org/898/an-argum....
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Boy, Was I Wrong About Alpha School
The AI fairy tale turned nuclear-waste-level toxic
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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 15h
Stop Talking About A.I. Like a Human www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/o...
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Opinion | Stop Talking About A.I. Like a Human (Gift Article)
If we want to figure out the proper way to control A.I. models, we need to recognize what they really are.
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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.fastcompany.com/91615853/nyc...
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Mayor Mamdani just hired a bunch of 'grocery store nerds' to design NYC's city-owned markets
The agencies behind Graza, Stiller's, and more will give the municipal stores an appetizing new look. And yes, there will be merch.
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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.elmundo.es/internaciona... Putin tried to assassinate Kasparov this summer. This is outrageous. (Thankfully, the U.S. gave him special protection.)
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Rusia planificó matar a Kasparov y a otros disidentes este verano en EEUU
Rusia lleva meses planeando matar al ajedrecista y líder disidente Garry Kasparov en Estados Unidos. Este verano las autoridades de EEUU comunicaron al fundador de Free Russia...
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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... This needs to be listened to along with reading NHJ’s piece in the Times. Maybe even instead of.
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An Argument
Podcast Episode · This American Life · September 26 · 1h 2m
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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
san.com/cc/stanford-... Oh no you didn’t—
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Stanford University admits AI was used to ‘race swap’ student photo
Stanford University admits AI was used to replace a white male student with a Black woman in an image used in its student newspaper.
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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
page-rage.com
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Page Rage
Page Rage is a game that lets you destroy any page.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
CEO of MicrosoftAI on anthropomorphization: “AIs are not conscious. They do not feel, experience, or suffer. They do not have innate preferences or underlying motivations. They are sequence completion engines, internally hollow, designed to follow instructions, and accomplish goals set by humans.“
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A warning about ‘model welfare’
AIs are not conscious. They do not feel, experience, or suffer. Training a model to believe it might be a moral patient, as Anthropic’s constitution does, makes the alignment and containment challenge...
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 16/09/2026
Paul Ford: Aided by LLMs, people & companies are producing lots of software. But where are the AI-coded killer apps? “[AI is] very good at reproducing things that look and feel like what came before.” [nytimes.com]
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Opinion | A.I. Slopware Is Everywhere Now. Nobody Is Using It.
Just because A.I. is revolutionizing coding, doesn’t mean it will automatically revolutionize our apps.
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Greg Wester @gwestr.me · 16/09/2026
LOL
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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The attack surface of AI is everything we rely on computers for, theoretically anything that has a microchip. Computers, phones, routers, cars, medical devices, factory controllers, power grid equipment, cameras, smart locks.
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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode... Fruit fly brain trained to play DOOM.
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From the ClaudeCode community on Reddit: we got a whole neural scan of a fly and we wont run DOOM on it? impossble-
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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I watched this movie yesterday, "The Oldest Person in the World." youtu.be/Ju0dtWT8GQ0 It made me cry. I wrote a post about it: postliterate.org/blog/catch-a... Go see it.
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The Oldest Person in the World | Official Trailer (2026)
YouTube video by SERENADE
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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
www.reddit.com/r/TikTokDisc... Love my neighborhood
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From the TikTokDiscuss community on Reddit: Hasidic Jews help Palestinian store owner catch shoplifter in New York. "You guys are invited anytime...I'll have to give them something Kosher on me."
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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Speed, quality, understanding…pick two.
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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Are y’all watching North of North on Netflix? 👍🏽 www.netflix.com/title/81616012
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Watch North of North | Netflix Official Site
An optimistic young woman embarks on a journey to reinvent herself in her tiny Arctic hometown, where everyone knows each other’s business.
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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Original Sin of AI
The harms of chatbots are clear enough to do something about them now.
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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
youtu.be/svl_1upFpQo
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The paradox at the heart of AI and science | Terence Tao
YouTube video by Big Think Clips
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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
nolanlawson.com/2026/08/23/t... Sad but true. Canary in a coal mine.
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The asteroid currently hitting frontend web development
A lot of the educators I admire in the frontend web space seem to be either bowing out or dialing back their efforts: Axel Rauschmayer, Salma Alam-Naylor, Josh W. Comeau, to name a few. Other well-…
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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
open.substack.com/pub/dwarkesh... Must-read retelling of the OpenAI/HuggingFace hack
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The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations
The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 25/08/2026
Japan enlists 1,800 people to drag a 360-tonne castle keep using ropes and rollers
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Japan enlists 1,800 people to drag a 360-tonne castle keep using ropes and rollers
After repairs to Hirosaki Castle in Aomori prefecture, officials employed a technique known as hikiya to move the structure more than two metres To chants of “so-re, so-re”, about 1,800 people came together in northern Japan over the weekend to pull a 360-tonne castle keep a little more than two metres closer to its original resting place as part of ongoing renovations. The keep – a fortified tower within a castle – had to be moved to repair a wall that was damaged in a major earthquake. Continue reading...
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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
hellgatenyc.com/ai-anthropic...
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The AI Book Devourer Is Feasting on New York's Bookstores
"This personally for me was a windfall that allowed me to keep my two assistants and helped me stay in business," said one New York bookseller.
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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
In Taipei, underground malls connected to the subway have karaoke booths, for those times you just gotta sing it out.
karaoke booth in underground mall in Taipei
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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Sometimes you can find gold on Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/HistoryAnecdotes/s…
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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Sometimes you can find gold on Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/HistoryAne...
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From the HistoryAnecdotes community on Reddit: Early Woodland People Figured Out the Structure of the Universe by Shitting Their Brains Out In Mammoth Cave, KY
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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
www.npr.org/2026/08/18/n... A heartbreaking story.
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She told no one about her agony except ChatGPT. What her death reveals about AI risks
A 29-year-old woman confided her suicidal thoughts to an AI chatbot — not to her therapist, not to her parents, not to her best friend. What can AI learn from her death?
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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
www.cnn.com/2026/08/18/c...
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China’s most famous comedian under investigation for joke about communist song | CNN
A stand-up comedian, considered one of China’s most influential cultural figures, has been placed under investigation and had performances cancelled after he joked about a communist party song.
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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
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Connecticut judge says plaintiff hid messages for AI in court filings
A state judge in Connecticut said a plaintiff in a case before him included “hidden text” in court filings meant to serve as instructions to any AI system reviewing the documents.
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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Is anyone developing AI tools to remove AI generated manipulation to photos?
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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The democratization of software development that is unleashed by AI won’t really be democratic. What will happen is more people will have access to a tool that makes them believe they are geniuses and don’t have anything to learn from other humans who have actual expertise and taste. Leading to slop
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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
www.kyivpost.com/post/82225 SF is now.
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Nvidia AI Chip Found in New Russian Missile, Ukraine Says
Ukraine's military intelligence says it found an Nvidia Jetson Orin computer module in Russia's new S-71 Monochrome cruise missile, indicating possible AI technology use.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Trying to imagine the front page NYT & lead story CNN & Sunday show coverage if the US were running out of missile & oil reserves when a Democrat was President
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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
support.claude.com/en/articles/... Instead of a tracking pixel, it’ll be a tracking em-dash.
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How Claude marks AI-generated content | Claude Help Center
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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Reading this fascinating book, The Character of Logic in India, by Bimal Matilal. Came upon this very handy chart showing a classification of debates. Thought I’d just post this on the Internet.
Chart showing a classification system of debate 
Cover of book, The Character of Logic in India, by Bimal Krishna Matilal
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
NEWS: Knox County is Tennessee's 3rd largest county, and it voted for Trump by 20%. It has a GOP-run school board known for banning books & approving controversial charter schools. Democrats last night flipped control of the school board in Knox County.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I learned that 90% of you just observe (but I bet it's higher here), 9% engage (like, comment, smash), and 1% create most of the content you see. I feel like we should totally screw up those numbers.
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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
aeon.co/essays/an-ai... Sidenote: Bet most people who use Ubuntu don’t know what it means. And even more people who don’t even know they’re using Ubuntu.
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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
@jasmine.bsky.social I love how you dropped “tacit knowledge” subtly in your podcast with Ezra Klein. Love your writing and work!
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M31🍁 @m31author.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It is expected to cost roughly $8,500. It made its public debut June 7, when President Claudia Sheinbaum drove a prototype onto a stage near Mexico City, and manufacturing targeted for early 2027 at a proposed assembly site in Puebla. Charging from a standard household outlet is part of the plan
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Mexico unveils $8,500 Olinia EV to challenge market dominated by Chinese-made cars — The Cool Down
"The demand was there. What changed was the supply." Aug 03, 2026 Mexico is aiming to carve out a place in one of the fastest-growing segments of its auto market with a tiny, low-cost electric vehicle...
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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Data centers are the cotton spinners and threshing machines of today.
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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Guys, we are losing the “fewer/less” battle. The amount of people using it is staggering.
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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
www.reddit.com/r/aiwars/s/p... Snap.
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insane
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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhES... This kid is incredible.
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Genius 10 Year Old's Research Shocks Scientists Around the World
YouTube video by A Curious Birb
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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
youtu.be/dECE7285GxU?... A city-state architected by a single collective intelligence.
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Secret Megalopolis of Ants Uncovered - Truly a Wonder of the World !
YouTube video by wocomoWILDLIFE
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tmonkey718 @tmonkey718.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
pudding.cool/2026/07/esse... Some absolutely fascinating work done by Jasmine Nackash for The Pudding, looking at how the words we teach as most useful have become less concrete and more abstract, about processes and systems. There’s so much here.
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How the Words We Teach English Language Learners Changed
Differences between “essential vocabulary” lists, 1953 vs. 2023
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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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