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John Voelcker @johnvoelcker.bsky.social · 8h
Ah, New York, New York. Street-parking a #Tesla Cybertruck in the deep East Village is ... a choice.
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Todd @toddbarnard.bsky.social · 6h
Tough week to be a huge fan of director Alejandro Iñárritu (I'm still going to go see it.) The "violently written bad reviews" appear to be from the Mericafuckyeah crowd who only want endless Top Gun sequels and consider anything else to be "woke." www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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Tom Cruise ‘Digger’ Reviews Are Brutally Split: From “Insufferable” to “Terrific”
Here's a roundup of the top critic reviews for Alejandro G. Iñárritu's bold new movie.
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Todd @toddbarnard.bsky.social · 8h
Déjà vu 🤔
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 11h
A top Republican senator suspects Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) was handed his bad intel directly by the White House before his possibly career-ending Jack Smith slam dunk.
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Eric Schmitt's bad Jack Smith intel came directly from White House: Top GOP senator
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A top Republican senator suspects Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) was handed his bad intel directly by the White House before his possibly career-ending Jack Smith slam dunk.Schmitt was massively humiliated as his gotcha moment — unveiling proof that Donald Trump's prosecutor Smith had s...
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Todd @toddbarnard.bsky.social · 10h
Umm, Elon is obese and doesn't meet your waist/shoulder ratio requirement you've mandated, Pete. Luckey and Newt are morbidly obese. Elon and Luckey are atheists in violation of your Christians only rule. Don't even get me started on their ability to pass your low T test.
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Todd @toddbarnard.bsky.social · 11h
Guys, I was wrong. This appetizing image has changed my mind. A.I. is truly everything anyone has ever promised it to be. It is the future! futurism.com/artificial-i...
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People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It's a Miraculous Cure-All
Urine therapy fans share tactics to bypass AI safeguards in order to reinforce their belief in the medicinal qualities of pee.
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Todd @toddbarnard.bsky.social · 12h
Begun the Slopverse civil war has openai.com/index/disrup...
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Disrupting a coordinated model-distillation campaign
Learn how OpenAI disrupted a campaign to extract protected model reasoning and is strengthening defenses against adversarial distillation.
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Sean O’Kane @okane.fyi · 12h
“As of May, 2.2% of consumers were paying for AI, at an average spend of $31 a month.” techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/t...
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The ugly economics of consumer AI | TechCrunch
There’s a reason frontier labs have gotten gun-shy about consumer AI — and it’s not because the tech isn’t good enough.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 13h
NEW: People who chug their own piss have emerged as MAJOR supporters of AI futurism.com/artificial-i...
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People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It's a Miraculous Cure-All
Urine therapy devotees are sharing ways to break past AI guardrails in order to brainstorm ways to use pee as medicine.
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Todd @toddbarnard.bsky.social · 14h
"full tank" in five minutes
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 17h
Your 'bonus moment of doom' for today: 365 million Hiroshimas. "The explosive addition of thermal energy, which was almost 40 times greater than all the energy humanity used that year, comes amid far-reaching changes to the deep water bodies fundamental to life on Earth."
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World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use
The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20h
In the "Unites States" of "Super Intelligence," "Issues Are Remediated" emptywheel.net/2026/09/30/i...
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In the "Unites States" of "Super Intelligence," "Issues Are Remediated" - emptywheel
Once you realize Trump's morally binding AI code doesn't even spell "United States" properly, the whole sham looks even more ominous.
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Todd @toddbarnard.bsky.social · 15h
lol never say never...
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Todd @toddbarnard.bsky.social · 16h
Speaking of the Thwaites glacier, Harbinger Motors, the commercial EV maker with the best product name ever, entered into a B2B with FedEx. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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EV Truck Maker Harbinger Gets Over $300 Million Order From FedEx
Harbinger Motors Inc. will deliver 2,000 all-electric trucks to FedEx Corp. in a deal worth more than $300 million, deepening the startup’s ties to the parcel company.
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Todd @toddbarnard.bsky.social · 17h
They've been nicknamed Thwaites panels," they'll work after the doomsday glacier calves and floods the world's coastal cities. www.euronews.com/2026/09/27/c...
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Scientists generate solar power 10 metres beneath the sea
According to the researchers, perovskite-based solar panels could operate for five and a half years underwater.
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 29/09/2026
‘GPT-6.1 Astra regressed in two areas: The model showed higher levels of deception. It wasn’t always honest about telling users of the actions it did or didn’t take. It would also push ahead on a task without asking for permission even if it might be unsafe.’ www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
wsj.com
Exclusive | OpenAI Scraps Release of New AI Model Over Safety Concerns
The model was due to debut inside ChatGPT and Codex in October.
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Todd @toddbarnard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In this dystopia, a celebrity gossip show does what all the major TV news networks can't/won't.
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Todd @toddbarnard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oh no. Eric has ghosted Fox News.
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Todd @toddbarnard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
All around me are familiar faces Worn-out places, worn-out faces
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Didn’t think this situation could be any funnier but the slow zoom here is Altmanesque
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Todd @toddbarnard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"It's time for the EU and NATO to pay their fair share and stop relying on America for a free ride."
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 29/09/2026
MAGA senator flees to Charlie Kirk show for praise after disastrous Jack Smith attack
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MAGA senator flees to Charlie Kirk show for praise after disastrous Jack Smith attack
Roughly an hour after his attack on former special counsel Jack Smith collapsed during a Senate hearing Tuesday, Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) found a friendlier audience on "The Charlie Kirk Show," where the host praised him for the very accusation that had just blown up in his face.Smith was testifying...
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Todd @toddbarnard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Free campaign ad for @democrats.org
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Mediaite @mediaite.com · 29/09/2026
‘Completely Humiliating!’ GOP Senator’s Unbelievable Hearing Faceplant Stuns Media World
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‘Completely Humiliating!’ GOP Senator’s Unbelievable Hearing Faceplant Stuns Media World
"An absolutely brutal mistake by Sen Eric Schmitt (R-MO) and his staff. 24 years of covering Congressional hearings … I’ve never seen anything like this." The post ‘Completely Humiliating!’ GOP Senator’s Unbelievable Hearing Faceplant Stuns Media World first appeared on Mediaite.
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Diane Ademu-John @junkyardmessiah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sweet fucking shit this thread showing Eric Schmidt’s incredible incompetence is astounding. He and his whole idiot team, from the poster board maker on up should be flushed.
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Todd @toddbarnard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Anybody else getting Four Seasons Total Landscaping press conference vibes?
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Todd @toddbarnard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.rawstory.com/eric-schmitt...
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GOP senator buried in scorn as Jack Smith gotcha moment instantly falls apart
A Republican senator's big "gotcha" moment instantly fell apart in a hearing with former special counsel Jack Smith Tuesday.Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) asked the former prosecutor whether he had attended...
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Todd @toddbarnard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Going with Drudge staffer's aphantasia www.quantamagazine.org/what-happens...
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What Happens in a Mind That Can’t ‘See’ Mental Images | Quanta Magazine
Neuroscience research into people with aphantasia, who don’t experience mental imagery, is revealing how imagination works and demonstrating the sweeping variety in our subjective experiences.
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Todd @toddbarnard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
An interesting photo choice by Drudge, but unclear if it is intentional or ignorance. That's the glitch art aesthetic from the 2010s, not the AI aesthetic of 2022 et postea - two very different things.
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Todd @toddbarnard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Umm... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaparr...
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Todd @toddbarnard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Unsurprising, it's just slop. Novel slop is still slop. Inconsequential, unusable slop. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/s... www.scientificamerican.com/article/did-...
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Davey Wilbury @daveishere.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
oh no, the scam everyone says is a scam may turn out to be a scam
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Todd @toddbarnard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
No more fake, cutesy anthropomorphic responses would just be... search results. Would that be so bad? Maybe going back to 10 blue links is the answer. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
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Florida sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, accusing them of putting profit over safety
Florida seeks to hold Altman personally liable, accusing OpenAI of marketing ChatGPT as safe while concealing that it could drive users toward harm.
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Todd @toddbarnard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
2013 m.youtube.com/watch?v=Joug...
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Her - TV Spot 4 [HD]
YouTube video by Warner Bros.
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Todd @toddbarnard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dang, really taking that AP stylebook update to heart.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We should expect a lot more of this 'i was wrong about trump' bullsh*t especially after the midterms. Sarah is completely correct: don't fall for it.
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Sarah Longwell
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Watching people who propped up this corrupt disaster of an administration for their own enrichment start to slowly back away with their hands up will be good for short term dunks, but thats not good enough. It should be a reputational nuke from which these people never recover.
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Thiel on Trump:

“There are a lot of things I got wrong... was crazier than I thought. It was more dangerous than I thought.”
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Todd @toddbarnard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
7,000 confirmed deaths, more than 20,000 people still unaccounted for underneath the ruins. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Venezuela: Three months after the two earthquakes, a human rights-centred response remains absent
Three months after the earthquakes in Venezuela, Amnesty International calls for recovery efforts to place the human rights and dignity of those affected at the centre.
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Todd @toddbarnard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yes, won't someone please think of the refineries? Those innocent, precious adorable things that bring so much joy to the world...
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Todd @toddbarnard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I watched it for ten minutes. It wasn't Tay or the eighty-one year old material girl's fault. It was a completely sanitized, joyless, contrived non-event. www.showbiz411.com/2026/09/28/m...
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MTV VMAs Ratings Dropped 50 PERCENT from Last Year, Lowest Numbers Ever, Fans Accuse Show Being Staged: Has Taylor Jumped the Shark? - Showbiz411
You can fool some of the people, but not all the time. Ratings for the MTV Video Music Awards were just 2.1 million, down FIFTY percent from last year,
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Todd @toddbarnard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Only two use cases for the Slopverse: this and reformulating kratom to be unique by one molecule.
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McJulie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is probably a point in the bubble inflation where the fact that a lot of really key people involved in AI companies are, no exaggeration, in a cult centered around AI.
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Todd @toddbarnard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Update www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Concern mounts over slow-moving, planetary-scale ‘Kelvin’ wave heading for California
The ocean phenomenon could raise sea levels by up to a foot as El Niño keeps warm water trapped along the coast
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Todd @toddbarnard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
EMP? More lost in translation-lack of due diligence-overreliance on ChatGPT 🤦 www.autoblog.com/news/meet-em...
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Meet eMP: Hyundai Motor Group's New Flagship EV Platform Explained
The new eMP platform debuts in the Genesis GV90, which is coming to the U.S. in early 2027.
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Todd @toddbarnard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Rebel scum" 🤓✊ www.news-herald.com/2026/09/27/a...
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American Solar Energy Society tour returns to Northeast Ohio
The American Solar Energy Society’s National Solar Tour is once again rolling through Northeast Ohio, with visits to multiple locations from Oct. 2-4. Now in its 33rd year, the tour will feature vari...
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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Georgia audited its own data center tax breaks and found that the state gave up $474 million in sales taxes in one year—and got back just $41 million from the industry. At least 38 states have deals like this. #AI #News #US
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Futurism @futurism.com · 27/09/2026
"Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand."
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AI Bros Are Having a Meltdown Because the Associated Press Stylebook Clarifies That AIs Don't Have Feelings
The Associated Press Stylebook posted a reminder not to anthropomorphize AIs because they can't think, trigger a meltdown among AI bros.
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Time for a rewatch! Crazy that this is set in November 2027. 😬
Children of Men poster
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The Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed." ~ Mahatma Gandhi @bagleycartoons.bsky.social
Pat Bagley
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Todd @toddbarnard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
1. A good "problem" to have 2. They just built an airport on an artificial island. Floating solar farms don't need that much engineering (no land) just that much area, permitting and planning. Eighty square kilometers 👇 m.youtube.com/watch?v=qKpY...
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World's largest floating solar farm in E China
YouTube video by New China TV
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