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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Why parents make great scientists: Because they recognize that "Lauren errors" happen all the time.

There was the incident that became known as “the Lauren error”: One day, her daughter Lauren, then four years old, was playing with the command module simulator at the Instrumentation Lab when she somehow activated a pre-launch program, called P01, while the simulator was in midflight — which crashed the simulator altogether. Hamilton created a program add-on in the technical documentation warning users not to launch P01 during flight.

She also proposed a software fix to prevent the error happening during a real mission, but she was overruled on the grounds that the highly trained astronauts were never going to make that same mistake. Yet during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, that’s exactly what happened: Jim Lovell inadvertently launched P01 during the flight, causing the on-flight navigational data to vanish. Hamilton and her team were called in to solve the error, and after that her proposed changes were integrated into the program. This was an early example of “defensive” programming, the practice of building software that could anticipate or fix errors on its own.

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Pete Woods @thatpetewoods.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The reason people love the Ea-nāṣir story is less the vitriol and more the fact that we couldn’t be more culturally different from a 4000 years dead Sumerian but we can totally relate. It shows us that no matter our superficial differences people are just people.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm categorized as an AI subscriber, because I'm subscribed to the 3 TB tier of Google Drive and and they literally just changed the name of the plan to "Google AI Plus." Those "AI subscriber" numbers are 100 percent juiced and phony, and you're a sucker if you believe otherwise.

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

once again there is a huge overlap in the rhetorical tropes of ableism and the rhetorical tropes of old-school homophobia and the rhetorical tropes of anti-transness-- i think it's interesting how these all echo and feed off one other

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

God this shit was cool as fuck

Still from the movie Jurassic Park showing a raptor with genetic code projected onto it

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 14/09/2026

One of the more insidious phrasings I've seen with the Dems/trans rights discourse lately is the idea that trans people are being greedy and demanding a "maximalist" approach to trans rights. No, you cannot call the state of rights American trans people had as recently as 2023 "maximalist," sorry.

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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Many people don't understand probability very well and many of them are resistant to having it explained to them. This leads some designers to creating mechanics that work like the player's instinctive (read: fucking wrong) understanding of probability, further confusing everyone.

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Privaty Business @wanwanattack.qtbrewer.moe · 28/09/2026

Genuinely, this completely rules

－Recently, the game has been going viral on X for its beautiful undressing animations. I’ve even read in one of your previous interviews that the development team practiced stripping themselves as reference for the undressing animations. What was the process behind making the animations actually like?

Matsui:

I’d love to know how far that story has spread. It’s true.

First, we write a plot for each undressing scene, then draw storyboards, exactly as the original team did. Then the real work begins, because the animation is essentially all keyed by hand. A designer moves the clothing’s 3D model, frame by frame, manually. It really is pretty much like the claymation method I mentioned.

We did try automating it with physics simulation first, but it was a total failure. The cloth moved in a physically correct way, but had absolutely no allure. We learned a profound lesson: accuracy and sensuality are two unrelated properties. In the end, we accepted that humans would have to do all of it.

Then VR adds its own weight. In a normal game, if something becomes awkward, you can cut away or swap models between scenes. In VR, the player can look from any angle at any time, so none of those tricks are available. The same model has to undress convincingly no matter where you’re standing. When I described this to a designer at another studio, he said, “I would never do that.” I’ve chosen to take it as a compliment.

And then, yes, the part you’ve read about. The undressing motions themselves use motion capture, but the deeper problem was that nobody actually knew the correct rhythm and order in which a person takes off clothes. So, the directors gathered and undressed themselves as reference. “That zipper is coming down too fast.” “She’d pause once before slipping her shoulder out.” These were serious, sober discussions. For compliance reasons, the Super Real Mahjong Venus Returns team works in a walled-off section of our office – and that was the moment those walls truly earned their keep.

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Rabbi Ariel Stone @rabbiariel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“We have built a world with flawless logistics for war and broken logistics for food.”

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We can learn from our queer elders 🫶🏻

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when my masc lesbian aunt died, women just kept coming, screaming, crying, and saying they were her wives. Eventually we just had to start telling them to join the others. They were all devastated to learn about each other. Except for one who came in, kissed her dead mouth and showed us all that they had matching tattoos. She actually won all the mourning wives over and they all agreed she was the wife. It was so weird.

Did not expect more than a few people to see this but yes it really happened, yes it was insane

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They also ALL read love letters at the podium. It was painful and awkward but the final gift my aunt gave the family

from my mom

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How many crying wives were at
Aunt Chrissy's funeral
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I think 5 maybe 7 why

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And a couple girlfriends she was a popular and very liked lol

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Rhea @ladyrheanon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Considering that one of the themes of the Warrior Cats series is how human activity destroys the environment they live in, using the environmental-destroying slop machine for development in this game feels like a slap in the face.

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Absolutely wild to hear "is computer human" from dickheads who treat large groups of people as if they're not

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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The thing about trying to appeal to right wing bigots is that right wing bigots are all stupid idiots who get 100% of their news from propagandists so they will never actually find out that you were trying to appeal to them in the first place

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 26/09/2026

this is so real and anyone with more than 5k followers on this website can attest to it

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

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Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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The Mask of the Red Jeph @ass.golf · 22/09/2026

I must once again emphasize that if you are putting art on the internet, you need your own website in case some fucking management ghoul decides the platform they paid too much money for isn't worth how much they paid for it

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21/09/2026

The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_...

Jailors were forbidden to move prisoners from one prison to another or out of the country to evade the writ. In case of disobedience jailers would be punished with severe fines which had to be paid to the prisoner.[5][6]

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

She’s not subtle about it either!

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of
considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.
This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of
pain. If you can't lick 'em, join 'em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn
delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. We have almost
lost hold; we can no longer describe happy man, nor make any celebration of joy. How can I tell
you about the people of Omelas?

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I feel like a lot of people missed that Omelas is about how we think about utopia and ethical dilemmas and not really a metaphor for real societies because real societies suck ass and still have Omelas children for the love of the game.

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bran 👽 @pupnik.moe · 19/09/2026

have you ever noticed that cishet male artists are allowed to draw whatever they want with minimal pushback? flavor of the month teenage girls being sexually abused with no moral objections in the replies? but the second it's a trans or otherwise queer person, it's dangerous? ever notice that?

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Mika Fae Queen of Night 🏳️‍⚧️ @msmaxwellmusic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Liberals: YOU CAN'T GET EVERYTHING YOU WANT YOU'RE LIKE A CHILD SCREAMING BECAUSE THEY WANT A PONY Liberals when trans people say we will not vote for anyone who aids the fascists killing us: [constant screaming like a child who wants a pony]

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Remember: Telling lies that everyone knows are lies is a classic tactic of dictators to force their followers to side with them over the truth itself. But the public will not be gaslit. We will continue to spread the truth to our communities. Ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

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steviebaby🫡 @steviebaby.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

i have no problem agreeing with hasan on anything, or anyone else, if they are saying what is correct and speaking out about why it needs to change. i don't understand this desire to couch it all in terms of "this guy (WHOM I DO NOT SUPPORT) is correct". unforced error. very good thread otherwise!

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Freyja Valentine, Girl IRL Cat URL @freyjavalentine.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

if the game industry is going to keep using the slop machine to make slop for us, I will simply cease buying games. I have a library of non-slopmade games stretching back decades.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 17/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: The United Nations’ top human rights body reported that it found “reasonable grounds” to believe that the U.S. committed war crimes in Iran.

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

you just know that posting "i'm just trying to start a polite conversation about who deserves human rights" will not be marked 'toxic,' but anyone responding 'hey fuck off with that' will earn +5 toxic points

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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

wild that the head of trust and safety just posted a whole thread explaining that the rules pretaining to harassment and threatening/wishing/glorifying violence are intentionally vague so they can be arbitrarily enforced against people they don't like and relaxed or ignored against people they do

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Freyja Valentine, Girl IRL Cat URL @freyjavalentine.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

To wit: it's a well known logical axiom that an argument that cannot be disproven is not automatically correct. Making an argument impossible to disprove is not proof it's correct. This basic idea apparently blows their minds.

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Mollz (ballz) @dopestatistics.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Lmao the stanford prison experiment is like THE experiment mentioned in every research ethics training. Doesnt matter your field. It became the gold standard of "dont do this"

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Macklemore thing is more proof that pro-Israel activists have just lost the ability to persuade. All it can do is browbeat anyone opposed to them. That doesn't work when you're -25 in public opinion.

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ThemBOO! @thembo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

To be clear: this slogan had never earned the GOP a single vote they weren't already getting. What these ads are very effective at, however, is convincing dunce liberals and coward centrists that the ads are converting 1000000s of votes and require Dem candidates to abandon lgbtq people.

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Bolt thunder @boltthunder.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Y'all in nyc please be careful. Fishtank is trying to bait y'all.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“Abolish ICE” was immediately met with eye rolling condescension and after events proved that policy correct, and support *among Democrats* for it exploded to like 80%, it didn’t move party leaders at all. How is this tenable

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

There’s a bizarre contrarianism in the Democratic Party, where, if an idea catches on with the base it’s treated as presumptively unreasonable forever. Not even an effort to *appear* to be supportive. Politicians used to pander!

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Every other headline now is "Huge liar who's financially motivated to lie says"

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

why is it not enough that vulnerable people must give up their rights for the greater good? why must they also accept their own sacrifice quietly and graciously? ask yourself if you would be so forgiving if you were the one expected to suffer for the greater good

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 14/09/2026

science fiction in general loves doing "the transsexually constructed woman as a newtype of synthesis 🤬" or "the transsexually constructed woman as a newtype of synthesis 😍"

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Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 13/09/2026

People like to point at the xkcd comic with the block tower held up by a tiny project maintained by one guy but I actually think this one explains far more about the state of digital infrastructure

Xkcd “Voting Software”

ASKING AIRCRAFT DESIGNERS ABOUT AIRPLANE SAFETY: “NOTHING IS EVER FOOLPROOF, BUT MODERN AIRLINERS ARE INCREDIBLY RESILIENT. FLYING IS THE SAFEST WAY TO TRAVEL.”

ASKING BUILDING ENGINEERS
ABOUT ELEVATOR SAFETY: “ELEVATORS ARE PROTECTED BY MULTIPLE TRIED-AND-TESTED FAILSAFE MECHANISMS. THEY'RE NEARLY INCAPABLE OF FALLING.”

ASKING SOFTWARE ENGINEERS ABOUT COMPUTERIZED VOTING: “THAT'S TERRIFYING.”

“WAIT, REALLY?”
“DON'T TRUST VOTING SOFTWARE AND DON'T LISTEN TO ANYONE WHO TELLS YOU IT'S SAFE.”
“WHY?”
“I DON'T QUITE KNOW HOW TO PUT THIS, BUT OUR ENTRE FIELD IS BAD AT WHAT WE DO, AND IF YOU RELY ON US, EVERYONE WILL DIE.”

“THEY SAY THEY'VE FIXED IT WITH SOMETHING CALLED ‘BLOCKCHAIN.’”
“AAAAA!!!”
“WHATEVER THEY SOLD YOU, DON'T TOUCH IT.”
“BURY IT IN THE DESERT.”
“WEAR GLOVES.”

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

i call this "neoteny of the oppressed" btw. because children are the archetypal objects of legitimate coercion (violence, authority, control, etc) any vulnerable group can have their autonomy stripped by first linking them to children & childlikeness. the comparison legitimizes any act of coercion

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