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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

you don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 1h

Genuine question: How is what a government does in another country under the purview of the U.S. government? And if Maduro can be charged for this, does this not make a case for doing the same to Netanyahu or Putin?

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tannara @tyllnd.bsky.social · 1h

whole reason to do the survey is to find out what people say??? why on earth would it make sense to do a “survey” with AI-generated “answers”?? that this is even an idea feels extremely perverse and revealing of the anti-human tendencies of current AI use

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tannara @tyllnd.bsky.social · 1h

never wondered something less in my life actually

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 2h

Quite a glass house for a country globally famous for torturing people that has an entire culture industry built around watching an action TV or movie star throw a ream of laws in the garbage can before waterboarding someone with an accent.

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Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 21h

The Association for Human Mathematics (AHM) statement on OpenAI’s October 6 release of mathematical documents just dropped! www.ahmath.org/statements

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jourdain searles @judysquirrels.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I had a panic attack writing this and setting it up because I have a million things on my plate, and it never stops. I really really need money to move and sign a new lease. www.gofundme.com/f/a-fresh-st...

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I desperately need money to move and sign a lease on a new apartment. My … Jourdain Searles needs your support for A Fresh Start: Help Jourdain Move

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tannara @tyllnd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

last time i was posted up in the library someone sitting beside me was on hold on speakerphone. in the library!!!! a library that’s in a civic centre where you could easily find a corner to listen to hold music on speakerphone, if that’s your heart’s bizarre desire. bring back shame!!

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tannara @tyllnd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

the good news is based on precedent we’ll only have to wait a decade or two for season 4

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026

feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them

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404 Media @404media.co · 03/10/2026

The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare." www.404media.co/someone-tort...

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Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet

The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare."

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tannara @tyllnd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

three best friends a gal can have when sick

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'this AI agent can do all your tasks for you' so now i gotta sit here and write a list of all my tasks for a robot to fuck up. why. why wouldn't i just keep to the current system where i fuck up my own tasks

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Put another way, to be legible enough for AI to be useful to most families, they would have to stop communicating as the family they have known, never had to overtly think about, and become something stranger and coarser that has no cultural foundation. Why would I do that?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yes, the precondition for regular AI agent use is changing your culture to speak in middle America white bureaucratic language to make it work. You can’t put “the good collards“ on an optimized shopping list, much less account for what some call familect: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/m...

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Every Family Has Its Own Private Language. What Does That Tell Us About Ourselves? (Gift Article)

“Familects” emerge out of in-jokes and mispronunciations, but they reveal something about how all language evolves.

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❄︎ ☃︎ @moxiest.art · 05/09/2026

we have strayed so far from god's light

an image of an RCA cassette to 3.5mm jack audio adapter

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026

We’re witnessing the result of normalization in real time just like we have with the increasing escalations in authoritarianism & force since the start of the 21st century that today’s horrors are downstream from and as this becomes normal there will be increased space for new horrors born from this

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tannara @tyllnd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

tim curry you will always be famous

hexxus the evil oil demon from ‘fern gully’ who, due to being voiced by tim curry, is also kind of hot??? but definitely evil no doubt about that

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

from the Comments section of @nymag.com (link below)

screenshot of text reading:

"Some objected to the magazine’s use of the term genocide to describe Israel’s actions in Gaza. Close readers will recognize that this was not a decision specific to this series. This past fall, after an extensive review of genocide scholarship and interviews with multiple experts in the field of genocide studies, the magazine’s editors decided the term was an accurate description of the atrocities in Gaza, that accusations of antisemitic intent were in fact obfuscating an overwhelming scholarly consensus, and that its use would be allowed in our pages."

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

and i think it's worth interrogating why the thing that would increase safety while putting a significant burden on cyclists is considered common-sense while the thing that would do the same for drivers is considered an absurd non-starter. way more motorists die every year than cyclists!

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

anti-helmet case is basically 1) helmet wearing reduces injury but in similar degree to wearing *while walking* does, which we would all agree is absurd 2) helmet mandates provably reduce cycling 3) safety-in-numbers is best cycling safety strategy so anything that reduces cycling increases danger

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Landlord tech — from digital keys to intercoms — are a crucial part of the surveillance state.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

IMO @stevesalaita.bsky.social does *really* well in a Chronicle interview that feels very gotcha ("Confessions of a Campus Radical"). Below, facing a question designed to make him 'endorse' violence, he carefully indexes who is allowed to commit violence (Israel) and who isn't ("Hamas").

Goldstein: Let’s zero in on October 7. Are you saying you wish that more pro-Palestinian voices would not disavow the kinds of violence we saw on that day? That to disavow such violence reflects a failure to understand what decolonization requires?

Salaita: Yes, and no. I want to choose my words carefully. What I object to most is how the demand to disavow violence does not exist for those on the pro-Israel side. They can discuss Israeli politics and policies and Palestinian society without having to disavow Israeli violence. The constant demand for disavowal speaks to a particular marginalization of Palestinian realities. It suggests a moral hierarchy in which Palestinians have to account for themselves in ways that the more powerful party does not.

Gutkin: Much of what became very controversial in campus politics was protests by students and faculty that seemed to endorse Hamas violence, to celebrate it with things like the Students for Justice in Palestine fliers featuring stylized images of hang gliders. That stuff incited a strong condemnatory response from critics who saw not just a failure to disavow violence but a kind of embrace of violence. Is that an example of the dynamic you’re talking about, in which the failure to disavow triggered a repressive response?

Salaita: What I want to focus on is how the pro-Palestine protesters are always being asked to account for themselves in ways that completely ignore their relationship with Israeli violence. Some of these students have seen the worst forms of violence. Some have experienced it firsthand. I don’t think it’s fair to saddle those students with a moral responsibility to distance themselves from violence that doesn’t exist for anybody else on campus.

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tannara @tyllnd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

we need a robust set of public shaming practices for people doing this and we need it NOW and customers should start doing it when they notice workers being harassed like this

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tannara @tyllnd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

numbers 1, 6, and 7 are all perfection

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tannara @tyllnd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

take it all back i tracked down the perfect midnight struggle meal: two plain crackers and two jaffa cakes

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tannara @tyllnd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

i’ve made a huge mistake and i don’t know how to fix it (stayed up too late, too hungry to go to sleep, no easy snack foods)

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 20/08/2026

The problem with innovation as a reader is that the perfect technology has already been invented (book) and every subsequent innovation has the defect of being Not Book.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 06/08/2026

Aaron Swartz deserves more justice and reconsideration than almost anybody in this century

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tannara @tyllnd.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

i’d love that! not done reading yet but really enjoying it and finding it very useful

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026

I have previously written about one reason that billionaires find the AI story so compelling: at root, many billionaires just don't believe most other people are actually, fully real. How could they? Achieving billionairehood requires that you inflict pain on vast numbers of people. 13/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026

To make things worse, AI *can't do the jobs* it's replacing: AI is predicated on the premise that monopolies, duopolies and cartels that control the global economy can deliberately worsen their products without suffering economic or regulatory consequences, because they're the only game in town. 4/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026

As an economic pathology, AI is *extraordinary*. AI boosters have spent a baffling and terrifying sum of money - over $1.4T, most of that in the past year - on the promise of making as many workers unemployed as possible, while lowering the wages of the meager survivors of this jobspocalypse. 3/

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max asher miller @maxashermiller.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

My great-grandfather was among the first Jews sent to Dachau, but it had operated for 8 years prior. He arrived to find a concentration camp already full of communists and other leftist dissidents. The public's acceptance of their incarceration paved the road for his own.

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theo @tboyblues.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

if you say this in canada they kill you

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tannara @tyllnd.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

being religious but not being the least bit perturbed by something basically straight out of the bible… these people need to check in with themselves

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tannara @tyllnd.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

i have faith in jonathan chait and full confidence he’s capable of being wrong in many different, overlapping, even contradictory ways

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.

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To the Trans Girl Who Just Lost at the Supreme Court: So Did I 26 Years Ago

A letter to Becky Pepper Jackson about her trans sports case defeat at SCOTUS yesterday

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

This is bone-chilling. A conservative hedge fund manager wants to require little girls to pass genital inspections for their “safety.” And it’s only for girls’ sports. There’s a clear link between transphobia and child sexual abuse.

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