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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 1h

Repeat after me: Yes on 40, no on 41 and 42, which are designed to cancel out 40!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/10/2026

he is doing gregory peck as atticus finch!

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 10/10/2026

Mr. Rogers is so incandescently disappointed that he's decided punishment is necessary -- which is the greatest disappointment of all -- is a kind of masculinity.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 10/10/2026

The Dad From Calvin & Hobbes But He's Hot is a kind of masculinity.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 10/10/2026

ossoff is performing a version of masculinity and he's better at it than any D since bill clinton and that is part of what is going on here send post

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli

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emily s. @emily.news · 09/10/2026

post. not too much. mostly jokes.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The entire "we will not have ID" is insane at every law enforcement level unless the objective has fuckall to do with laws

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

this is literally why you have uniforms and badges every member of the media pretending that any of this is due to anything else should be frogmarched out of public life

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

customer care is apparently too woke

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The official vehicle of Bluesky, a kei truck with bisexual lighting

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

With the spate of new trade books about data politics & too late capitalism, I fear this one might be getting lost in the shuffle. As important as Big Tech & Silicon Valley VCs are, you can’t understand the present without attention to the restructuring of capital around fund managers after 2008.

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I’ve been seeing more police doing cutesy meet and greet events with their robots, I feel the need to remind people: many of these companies deliberately advertise the goodwill departments can get on social media via selfies, and that these are like putting a cute face on a rolling Flock cameras

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Police Robots Are Not a Selfie Opportunity, They’re a Privacy Disaster Waiting to Happen

The arrival of government-operated autonomous police robots does not look like predictions in science fiction movies. An army of robots with gun arms is not kicking down your door to arrest you. Inste...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

raise revenue and undercut right-populism with One Weird Trick (capitalists HATE this)

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This week I’ve been on the road across eight states, plus DC, and the one thing that unites us all across this vast and fractured nation—red states and blue states, rural areas and big cities—is the 12-foot Home Depot Halloween skeleton.

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Brianna Ashby @briannaduggan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I just finished the Martin Mull documentary and it was so wonderful, and so worth your time to seek out.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

One of the great Democratic Party failures of the last several decades is that they let Republicans turn "regulation" into a dirty word. AI is a chance to reclaim it; Democrats should be running on a promise to regulate AI companies until their owners cry like babies.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Human beings are one hundred percent responsible for this, and this language is a way of exonerating them.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

There are no "rogue AI agents" that are spoiling the reputation of all the GOOD AI agents. Anthropic created a bad and dangerous product; the bad and dangerous product did this. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...

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Anthropic Says Its A.I. Agents Attempted to Access a Range of Government Sites

The company said rogue A.I. agents acted on their own as they tried to access federal, state and local sites. The Philadelphia Police Department said its site was one of them.

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 09/10/2026

something i'll point out for, uh, no reason whatsoever, is that fewer than 10% of current federal dems were serving as federal dems in 1994

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 09/10/2026

someone needs to put skarsgard and pattinson together into the weirdest fucking buddy cop movie you’ve ever seen

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

I don’t get this. Why do they get a pass at being prosocial? If we want them to be prosocial, shouldn’t that start by them not stealing all their training data? Or by them removing the racist, gendered, and homophobic biases in their models? Why start by “don’t be mean to my word salad”?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It’s not crazy or alarmist or naive of me to think this more about speech prohibition than good manners considering *waves hand* alladis

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Notable that Anthropic is more interested in protecting Claude from humans than humans from Claude.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So the issue is “allow people to…“ which supposes an authority without naming one. Name it and then explain why Anthropic or any of the rest of them should have that authority.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We are conceding the very possibility of democratic governance to allow a corporation to determine the moral rights of a machine. surely moral concern for actual humans and how we relate is better preserved democratically than it is by a corporation.

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Bitter Kitten Movie Club: THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (2001) Join us as we unpack how director Wes Anderson managed to take a story about trauma, failure and depression and make it seem whimsically melancholic through pure Andersonian style tomandlorenzo.com/2026/10/the-...

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The Bitter Kitten Movie Club: THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (2001) - Tom + Lorenzo

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) Directed by: Wes Anderson Starring: Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson,

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

You don’t have to give Anthropic credit for protecting its machine from mean humans. Or for any other reason as long as they organizationally threatening the wellbeing of actual humans. I don’t care what they do to T&C but it’s absurd to take them at their word about why or how.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026

we are going to have to be prepared for these people getting even stupider and more vicious as power starts to slip through their fingers

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And the video usually shows the opposite: that the agents rammed into the victim. But there are no consequences for the lies. So there’s no reason to stop telling them.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

huh, interesting that vance thinks this is the worst terrorist attack and not oklahoma city

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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

the Catholic Church racking up PR wins by saying shit like “we shouldn’t bring back public executions” and “your Claude app isn’t sentient”

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

used AI to personalize my Mario Kart. No more weird vehicles, we're all in Subarus now. The courses are the streets of my youth, and instead of shells we're picking up Gobstoppers. Yoshi looks like my dog. All the rest of the characters are sexy ladies who are there because they really want to be

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hello @twotimesjohnny.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

they’re also getting pr & marketing value out of it. From us. As we type and post have you heard about the marketing campaign that created the concept ‘jaywalking is bad’ ? when cars were new and people objected to being run over? this ‘ai morality’ schtick isn’t trivial

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Who is up in arms? Why is a discussion so emotional for some of yall? This is in the news. There’s a context. I’m talking about in on a text blog social media app. I have some context and background. Seems pretty normal to me.

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VioletViva @violetviva.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Patting myself on the back for my flawless memory. (5 minutes later) “Huh, I thought he already died.”

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VioletViva @violetviva.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Adds “a human Copilot” to my resume.

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VioletViva @violetviva.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

To be fair, I could remember if the meeting was this week or last week but that should not be held against me because time is a mindfuck.

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VioletViva @violetviva.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A guy at our IT company just called me “a human copilot” because I remembered a specific thing we discussed in a meeting we had LAST WEEK that no one else there remembered.

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Mike Madowitz @mikemadowitz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Still can’t quite believe they blew up mathematics as a PR stunt to distract from a 40% revenue miss

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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This all strikes us as a bunch of guys imagining themselves to be Prometheus when they're really just three Bernie Madoffs in a trenchcoat

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Craig Jenkins @craigsj.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

unlike the halloween i theme the halloween ii theme doesn't mind if you throw a lil ass to it

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