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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 28/09/2026

"acting like it does" is the whole gimmick

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Threads check

An AI picture of a woman in pajamas. Her ass is… not in the right place.
Caption: I'm not perfect, but at least I'm real!

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We’ve now reached the point of “black site” hearings – secret, illegal hearings as part of Trump & Stephen Miller’s wretched crusade to detain & deport our immigrant neighbors. Quite literally: hidden tribunals that disappear people.

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DHS Opens ‘Black Site Docket’ for Immigrants Without Lawyers at 26 Federal Plaza

A reporter from The City Reporter was threatened with arrest while attempting to observe comings and goings from the new courtrooms, which have left advocates mystified and fearing the worst.

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Same-sex bathrooms" is up there with the time I was told that I worked at a bisexual college (I think the person meant co-ed).

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You should have to smell the dead when you disinter them.

A chat request from a late friend
I recognize the pain of thinking if I could only talk to them one more time. It is among the more familiar human laments. But that's just the thing it is a human problem to be endured not a technological problem to be sold. Our capacity for loss – in fact the necessity of losing and having lost – is what makes us who we are. Individually and collectively. There is no workaround. There will be no workaround. And every step toward preventing that or perverting that is an affront to our humanity. Why not just taxidermy nana and prop her up at the Texas Chainsaw Massacre dinner table? At least there's something real and tangible about that. Undeniable in its sacrilege. You should have to smell the dead when you disinter them.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

the fact that so many of these people never had to campaign except on trump's coattails just becoming more apparent every day too

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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

you couldn't struggle session this out of me

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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 23/09/2026

The AI companies are destroying the entire environment. This isn't inevitable. This is specific motherfuckers ruining a thing for their own power and a speculative theory of future profits.

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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 23/09/2026

This is a thread that kinda should end with someone in reindeer skins throwing someone into a volcano while callIng on elder gods.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 23/09/2026

Please note that if you're only hearing about Trump's whites-only refugees policy now, you are roughly nine months late (please click through the Russian doll nested quotes) This is an abject failure of legacy media and why self-censorship of acceptable discourse is so dangerous

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

They have no gods. They work magic, and think they are gods themselves. But they are not. And when they die, they become dust and bone, and their ghosts whine on the wind a little while till the wind blows them away. They do not have immortal souls.

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Andrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com · 21/09/2026

The three news orgs sue the Trump administration today, seeking an injunction immediately. They will surely prevail, given the blatant illegality - which the Trump administration has to have known. Yet no known official refused to enforce the blatantly illegal order- that in fact is the story here.

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

After the Feds escalated to gunfire I asked a Street Medic about treating gunshot wounds. He explained that the Feds won’t allow anyone to treat their victims anyway so the issue was academic.

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R. Fuckminster Buller @uhlume.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

no joke, this one takes a hard left when you least expect it

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

People are actually pressured not to develop political imagination in this country. You are called naive, idealistic, not with it, at best.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Doomerism, properly speaking, is insisting he'll win and it's all futile when there are still many reasons to doubt that. That there's no limit to what he might *try* to do is just cold hard objective reality. After Jan 6, no argument along the lines of "he wouldn't go that far" has any credibility.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I will never miss an opportunity to share this photo of Judge Posner--or to inform students that this is not how one should hold a cat

a federal judge holding a gigantic Maine coon that definitely wants to be unhanded because you should not two-hand a cat's chest, what are you doing

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Recognizing their remarkable capabilities isn’t “AI psychosis.” Attributing human qualities to the technology is. Every output of these models is a result of computation. Because they use language we associate with humans, it’s easy to project human qualities onto them—but they’re still computers.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 19/09/2026

I thought I could safely follow The Account That Makes You Insane, but I was wrong and had to unfollow.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's genuinely fascinating that the US president keeps announcing that he just flat out doesn't know what trade is, he legit doesn't appreciate the concept of exchange and instead views economic activity through the lens of a dragon attempting to maximise its gold hoard to sit upon.

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olive consumer @machete.gay · 18/09/2026

Not to get all Marxist, but one of the jobs of the state and the people running it is to inform the perceptions of the wider society about the society they live in and the state that operates it. The Biden admin did a a bad job. I don't care why, they just did.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’m not even joking; if you work at the fbi you should expect to be polygraphed about horse fucking memes you may or may not have shared lately

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

That's, that's not how crossing an air gap works. Please stop trying to scare people with a scenario involving transmitting a trillion parameter model across an air-gap with a channel that is less than 1 baud. Orders of magnitude less.

Fireside Alpha
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OpenAI's Noam Brown says air-gapping the computers may not stop a misaligned AI, because two air-gapped machines can still talk by running a CPU hot and reading the temperature change

"But I think the major takeaway from the incident is that people underestimated the AI. And we never want to be in a situation again where we underestimate the AI. It's a weird world, because AI progress is so fast that people are consistently underestimating the AI."

"So to be in a situation where you don't underestimate it again, when it comes to safety and alignment, you have to have a very, very, very high bar."

"You could even go as far as to say, "Well, we should air gap the computers." And I'm not convinced that that would be sufficient."

"There are studies, and this is mostly academic, where you can have two computers next to each other that are air-gapped and they're still able to communicate with each other because they have temperature sensors."

"One of them is able to run their CPU really hot, and then the other one can actually detect the temperature change, and then that actually gives them a mechanism to communicate."

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You do not need to explain, to Queer or Black or Disabled people in America, that you can't always have a perfect thing. That is not news to us. You are not providing new information. It is the height of arrogance to assume that's not already part of our understanding of the world.

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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yuval Abraham's excellent articles about the AI-assisted bombing of entire apartment buildings have been online since 2023. Here is one from 2024 that describes "Where's Daddy?," an algorithm designed to locate and bomb targets when they were at home.

972mag.com

‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza

The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local C...

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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

dang, new cat all pissed. this is not the face of an animal who is pleased to have been discovered.

Close-up of a small wild cat with brown striped fur, large rounded ears, amber eyes, and a dark nose, staring directly at the camera with an intense, slightly irritated expression.

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 18/09/2026

I wish I could quotepost or reply to this, but, I can confirm that 2006 is the exact year I discovered some of these *exact same people* talking about how they wanted to bring about the rise of machine jesus. This is multiple decades of these people explicitly angling for exactly this. Rumor my ass.

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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"And what do you call this act?" "The Rationalists!"

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

the fact that the Trump admin keeps deporting people in violation of court orders suggests that it requires a stronger incentive to abide by court orders and judges *have options* for punishing noncompliance and compelling the admin to follow the law use them! ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...

ballsandstrikes.org

The Trump Justice Department Is Way Too Comfortable Violating Court Orders

Judges have tools for responding to noncompliance. They just have to use them.

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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Never seen a fried egg bollard? YOU HAVE NOW. #WorldBollardAssociation 🍳

A bollard painted to look like a fried egg.

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Cliff Pervocracy @pervocracy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I wonder if this thing has a safeword. if it doesn't, it's either scripted or they're going to get their pants sued off if it does, then the experiment is really "how far can a roleplay scene go before someone safewords," which is a very different question (and still a legal risk if you push it)

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I sympathize. The industry relies on these anthropocentric projections, and they have paid off -- until they don't, at which point it spawns an ontological panic in the industry that can't figure out what just happened to the thing they are designing while believing it has designed itself.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

With oil prices expected to significantly go up, I would book any Christmas flights now; keep an eye out for sales on imported clothes, electronics, and toys; as well as get travel insurance for any trips planned for the next year.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Judge doesn't explicitly say he agrees with it but sometimes you can just tell.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Kash Patel defended his new policy before the Senate Judiciary Committee which allows the FBI to hire agents who have engaged in bestiality and it barely gets noticed because there are 50 other things happening from these clowns each day that are worse.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 16/09/2026

One thing you can say about Todd Blanche is that he doesn’t bother with the pretense.

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Adso @scasey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

LLMs have no idea how they came to the results they got, several researchers have shown this. They give an answer and if you ask how they got the results, the answer is detached from the previous question. The reason is they go back through their prediction tree, they don't use previous results.

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R. Fuckminster Buller @uhlume.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

this post somehow manages to get exponentially sillier with each added sentence. i don't know how he does it.

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 15/09/2026

Nine Inch Nails' debut single "Down In It" was released on this day in 1989. If you've never seen it, this 1991 "Hard Copy" segment is a hilarious piece of lore about a camera lost during the filming of the music video that resulted in the FBI launching a murder investigation:

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NIN "Down In It" report on "Hard Copy," March 3rd 1991

"Hard Copy" report on how a mishap during the filming of Nine Inch Nails' "Down In It" video became an FBI murder investigation.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15/09/2026

Never forget that maintaining the status quo is, and always will be, a political act.

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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 15/09/2026

With Macklemore, you've really gotta separate the art from the artist. But ... like ... Not in the normal direction. The other way.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 15/09/2026

"cut jobs to manage debt from AI investments" will be put on 2026 headstone.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

May I remind everyone that there is currently NO cure for rabies. May I also remind everyone there is absolutely NO scientific proof connecting ANY vaccine that we produce today with autism. This is true regarding vaccination in both humans AND in dogs. Vaccinate your pets please.

Worries about vaccination rates in dogs
As rabies seems to be spreading more in wildlife, veterinarians are especially worried about vaccine hesitancy spreading among pet owners, a dangerous trend that could lead to more dogs - and their owners
- becoming infected. A 2023 study published in the journal Vaccine found in nationally representative
sample of Americans that nearly 40% believed canine vaccines were unsafe and 37% believed that vaccines could lead their dogs to develop cognitive issues, such as autism.

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