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Stefscribbles @stefscribbles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

IT'S COZY SEASON

a drawing of a cat asleep in front of a fireplace in a cozy room

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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I knew advertising would start to catch up to anti-AI sentiment but did not expect it before like late 2027 tbh

A painted wall ad with the text “ talk to real live humans about hiring live humans. You don’t have to worry when it just works”

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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

hey qq for product people is it good or bad when you develop a feature and it's so useful you have to disable hiding it.

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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ugh

North Branch of the Chicago River shot from Lawrence looking north. An almost perfect gradient from deep indigo up to bright azure defined the sky and the water reflecting it, with the gradation interrupted only by distant clouds just in the horizon. And this big swathe of blue is cut into from either side by rough edges of bankside greenery converging at a point in the center.

North Branch of the Chicago River shot from Lawrence looking south. Same ridiculous nonsense as the previous except the trees are different, there are some high, diaphanous clouds in the sky and reflected in the water, and the sun has become stuck in one of the taller branches on the left.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026

"china is charging their cars in less time than it takes you to fill up your F-150" is the kind of banal jingoism i always assumed would get us finally kicking it up a notch on serious infrastructure buildout but we were a lot more directly addicted to gasoline in addition to racism than i thought

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 24/09/2026

Fully agree. I've been on a 🎢 coaster: ititial "good" LLMs made me worried, but revenue has increased 20% in the past year and we don't do AI. Good LLMs create business chaos, and I am a chaos enjoyer. Happy to talk agentic with clients, but the "expert" work is always that: talking. With humans.

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(Wes)tern democracy👨🏻🗳️🌐 @midwestache.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This part also seems pertinent:

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Joe Hanly @hanliconius.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I hate to do this with real data, but this is a persistent data vis issue in chromosome synteny riparian plots that we Need to get better at. Left, a synteny plot published today. Right, a rearranged version with exactly the same gross arrangement but with reordered chromosomes:

chromosome synteny riparian plot in which every chromosome has crossing lines

chromosome synteny plot in which no chromosomes have crossing lines. The underlying structure is identical.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“Briefly detained” = beat half to death

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Are you selling me a solution or a dependency?" is a question I think more people should ask.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"My department has also dispatched three of our finest schooners to explore the part of our maps that say 'here be dragons.' We vow to get to the bottom of this mystery."

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Joel Fleming @joel-fleming.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You’re absolutely right. There was another plane already on that runway. That’s on me and it won’t happen again.

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I think AI has already exceeded the intelligence of the type of person that believes AGI is imminent, which is why they believe AGI is imminent.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 16/09/2026

Usenet-Rewind: search over 1 billion Usenet text posts from 1981 to the present. [usenet-rewind.com]

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Usenet-Rewind

Search Usenet news text-message archives from 1981 to present across hundreds of thousands of newsgroups.

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NullVoxPopuli @nullvoxpopuli.com · 16/09/2026

new tool: ~ nollm lint against LLMisms in your codebase . . wip, ofc, open to any and all feedback / PRs.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory self-regulated.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A friend of mine works in AI and thinks bad things are about to happen. He sold his home and moved his family out the country. He said that if you own a home in a walkable San Francisco neighborhood near a taqueria with good veggie options, you should sell your home for super cheap right now.

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is just a spectacular unintentional self-own

Dude on Threads: If you hate on ai, you better be pretty damn good at whatever you're doing

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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 11/09/2026

You don't hate the "Friends of the Park" enough...

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine has SUCCEEDED in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. Phase III trial results in MORE THAN 1,100 patients shows the vaccine SIGNIFICANTLY extended the time patients lived without their melanoma returning AND reduced the risk of metastasis.

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Moderna and Merck say mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in late-stage melanoma trial

A personalized mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in a late-stage melanoma study, results that could herald a new, powerful approach in oncology.

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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"Customers don't care about clean code" in a software business is true in the same way "customers don't care how clean the kitchen is" in a restaurant business.

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.

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kepano @stephango.com · 10/09/2026

This is Knap. It's a new language I created that turns data into Markdown. Knap should feel familiar and comes with a wonderfully pleasant syntax to modify and format plain text.

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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

THE PREMISE IS THAT THE MUPPETS ARE PUTTING ON A SHOW CALLED THE MUPPET SHOW

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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"The Transformers do not endorse the views of the President" okay, great, yeah, it's very normal that you had to say that. This is an ordinary world where things make sense. It's normal that I'd wake up to an official statement from cartoon robots denouncing the man who has the nuclear codes.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/09/2026

as a fish and chips enjoyer i'm prepared to declare this a curing polio level scientific breakthrough

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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I want to thank Based Green Donald for imposing the world's stupidest carbon tax.

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please be nice to patrick @nicetopatrick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Had no idea the Democrats were releasing a game

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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Once retail pricing hits Agent-driven coding it really will finally solve the "faster, better, cheaper: pick two" conundrum with true out-of-the-box thinking: what if we only picked ONE?

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...

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LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby

Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.

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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 08/09/2026

Now & then

A photograph of two black modernist, Mies van de Rohe designed high-rise buildings frame a view of Lake Michigan, with turquoise water, a lakeside path, beachgoers, and cars visible below. Boats and jet skis traverse the water visible between the buildings on a gorgeous late-summer afternoon. Text is laid over the image that says Chicago United Air Lines

1955 United Air Lines travel poster for Chicago by Stan Galli, showing the dark gridded facades of Mies van der Rohe’s Lake Shore Drive towers framing a narrow view of Lake Michigan, with a sunny beach, tiny figures, sailboats, and mid-century cars below. Large yellow “CHICAGO” lettering and white “UNITED AIR LINES” text stretch across the upper half.

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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It’s always a good reminder that this is *within* the city limits! People think Chicago’s a concrete canyon but there are so many spots that are full-on pockets of nature

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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I've always found it so difficult to read "business writing". They eyes just want to slide right off it and onto something more compelling. And now LLMs are making every damn thing I read have this oil and slime quality.

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Ham @drrehaminator.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"I'm too talented to need shortcuts" goes so fucking hard.

youtube community post from Huggbees that discusses why he does not and will not ever use AI in his art

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Audrey Farnsworth @audipenny.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

(me strangling my own pain like it's a cartoon character who is annoying me) turn into art you piece of shit

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Colin Kennedy @ck3po.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is a gut-punch. Tommy was a great guy. May his memory be a blessing.

York
It is with heavy, shattered hearts that we share the news that beloved partner, friend, father, and community pillar Tommy York has passed away at home. May his memory be a source of love and comfort for all of us who knew him. He gave with his entire self - always, with no exceptions. He loved others and supported his community selflessly for more than four decades. He will be deeply missed
and has left us all feeling determined to make the most of the time we all have and to live like Tommy: caring for others, giving generously, being authentic, and smiling daily. Please respect the York family's privacy at this time and know that further updates will be shared as appropriate. We are all better off for knowing Tommy. We hope you have support around you today as you grieve the loss of this legend. Rest in peace, beautiful soul.
yorkannarbor We love you, Tommy.

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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.

A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.

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Dan Klyn @danklyn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"To the museum, tell them thus [name redacted] speaks so. I am a young/apprentice scribe. I ask for a sumerian teacher From the sumerian teacher I ask for understanding."

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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Procreate confirms it has NO plans to add generative AI features to its apps. The company continues to stand firmly against integrating generative AI into its creative tools.

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NullVoxPopuli @nullvoxpopuli.com · 03/09/2026

I'm declaring TypeScript 7 for Ember: ready At work, on the 3 million line monolithic package, I'm seeing ~ 4m40s -> 12s a ✨ 23x ✨ speed boost

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