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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 5h

modi has spent the last 12 years being the guy that Trump wishes he could be and gets about 1/300th as much attention as Orban who was lording it over a country maybe 1/35th the size

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Wresting Trans-Face @oxmounter.bsky.social · 17h

Ruin a book by adding a word. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Thatcher

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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 6h

I had this idea of doing a cut of Blade Runner where Gaff is just really shit at origami. Don’t change anything except the insert shots of his creations, and they’re just crumpled garbage.

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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 5h

Seriously—her hair, eyebrows, and eye makeup are just wrong for her face. It looks like stage makeup for a pantomime. I’m curious what she thinks she looks like.

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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 8h

“I’M not the one shouting ‘YOU SHOT ME YOU SHOT ME’…”

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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 8h

Every month is a round of “last month’s rules don’t apply to the newest frontier models. I demand you prove a negative to my satisfaction or you forfeit the argument.”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

Weird that Donald Trump's message is that people who are being assaulted can stop it all by giving up and submitting to the aggressor, so weird, so so weird

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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

new rule: if a university denied someone tenure, or let them go because it canceled their classes, or has shut down the department or program they used to teach in, that university's PR department forfeits the right to put out a celebratory statement when that person wins a Nobel

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 18h

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

To wit. They're already doing it. "Acting on their own". Nope, that's not a thing

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Feature not a bug. A big piece of the "AI thinks for itself" is getting morons (apparently a lot of them already here, more than I expected) to believe this is true so when the Musk/Altman/Amodei put their thumb on the scale to get the results they (or whomever is paying) want, their hands are clean

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 10/10/2026

“despite no explicit sexual content or even nudity, the show is rated nc-17 for flusteringly beautiful people immaculately dressed and lit and tension that makes you aware of your body again.”

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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I appreciate that the 2013 fixed that by casting the totally homely and not-at-all anime-gorgeous Chloe Grace Moretz.

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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It doesn’t help that every performer to play her has been gorgeous; luminous like Spacek, or an anime-waif like Moretz. As I saw someone post, “cast a novel-accurate fat girl, you cowards—why do you think they call her ‘piggy’?”

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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Creating a railway/highway around the top of (whatever’s left of) Alberta would likely be a non-starter. But the separatists not realizing that there might be competition for a BC-Canada transportation corridor is pretty on-point for them. They want to leave Canada, while also making demands of it.

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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Part of that is that vector drawing and photo editing programs didn’t do the work for you—they were digital tools that you manually operate, making every decision in the process. They were literally empowering, not substituting for your own skill and judgement.

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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I think the reason why I find some current genre films kind of… inert, is because they’re trying to codify the supernatural, and bind it into structures that “make sense.” It’s usually imposing cliche rules on what should be unexplainable.

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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I haven’t read a lot of King, so the back half of Dr. Sleep being a recreation of Kubrick’s The Shining caught me by surprise

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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“She needs to retain agency.” Nah, she needs to just fuckin’ lose it.

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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I feel like there’s this impulse to make her “Jean Grey goes too far”, when I think “inhuman vessel of pure anguish and rage” would be more effective.

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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

As someone who was around in the ‘80s: no.

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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Chloë Grace Moretz is decent, but her Carrie is basically Scarlet Witch, complete with hand gestures. They got her emoting HARD during the supernatural scenes.

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

You don't have to be confident that "artificial consciousness" is impossible to be confident that LLMs cannot possibly gain consciousness. You don't have to be confident that starfish are impossible to be confident that a dog will not give birth to a starfish.

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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Caught the back half of the 2013 Carrie on TV last week. Felt a little too “superhero”-ish rather than horror-ish.

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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Like, if goods are going to be crossing a national border *anyway*, there’s no rule saying it has to be Alberta’s.

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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Of course, that assumes that the nation of Alberta keeps the same borders as the province, which isn’t a given. Or that Canada doesn’t negotiate a better deal with the other country that would be bordering BC…

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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Neighbour has set the precedent for offensive acoustic actions

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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My brother used to make jokes about possessed Teddy Ruxpin, and now that’s becoming the basis of our economy

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In other words, it is the job of scientists to devise experiments that can test their claims, to always be cautious abt what they are claiming, and to critically evaluate the claims of other scientists. By these well-established standards, no serious science is happening behind Anthropic's claims.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

2. But Anthropic researchers say they see patterns that suggest that Claude can. The employees at Anthropic are telling themselves stories based on the words they input into the software and the words that come back out. >>

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

No, but really, outsourcing our own moral discernment to the talking word toaster is not reasonable or ultimately positive for humans so it’s okay. It is a machine. There’s no mortality to it being used as a machine. You don’t remote lock a guy for cussing out his tractor. What are we doing here?

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 09/10/2026

David Climenhaga: “It’s no surprise the Most Hated Man on Earth thinks that Canada should be busted up and sold for scrap. But it does clear the air to have it right out there, don’t you think?” thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

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Good to know. Add his separatist urgings to all the other horse manure he extrudes.

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More like I-ACK @mumbly-joe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

reducing Black and Brown children and families to dots on a screen of zero consequence while also saying that some other dots on the screen, the ones that are powering the murders of the aforementioned, might have souls and feelings meaning the real crime against humanity would mean not using them

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More like I-ACK @mumbly-joe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"What if the computer has feelings" ask the people who write the code used to blow up Palestinian families and Iranian school children, to strip millions of people of their health care, to help the modern-day Gestapo put our immigrant neighbors in concentration camps. Yeah, what if.

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Sydney @amadeaur.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's also fun seeing them say "public executions make us like Taliban or Iranians" but I'm just standing here like... hasn't the US subjected the entire world to 25 years of their revolting "combat/air/drone strike footage" snuff films set to jingoistic music for the entirety of the "War on Terror"?

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It’s notable to me that TWO of the most recent women who have won a NoBel Prize were denied tenure from their institutions: Anne Carson and Katalin Karikó

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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Not one-to-one, but “USS Callister” has the antagonist digitally clone his coworkers so he can use them as NPCs in his game, where forces them to play their roles under pain of torture.

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AbracaDeborah Merriam @debmerriam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Regarding my last two reposts: it's worth noting, once again, that authoritarian overreach by provincial/state governments to overturn any municipal government policies they dislike is happening all over North America, because these assholes all compare notes. Let's not silo our responses.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.

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Andy Grabia @agrabia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In 2024 it took the U of C president less than 24 hours to call in police to remove peaceful pro-Palestinian protestors in 2024. The police attacked the protestors with clubs, shields and pepper balls. So let’s be clear: only some free speech is allowed on that campus.

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Matt Blair @mjmbca.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I think that one of the most important messages that candidates like Ossoff communicate when they openly condemn neo-Nazis and white supremacists is “I’m confident that I can win without the support of people who think I’m out of line here.”

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