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Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social · 3h

missed National Coming Out Day. but came across this screenshot of the mass email i sent 12 years ago!

mass email from me when i transitioned. the body of the email reads-
"about 15 years ago i sent out a mass email stating that i had used the Troy Aikman quarterback rating system to decide that the right choice was to switch email providers from Aol to Comcast. using the same system i'm pleased to announce that the Troy Aikman quarterback ratings system has given me the clarity to go ahead and switch genders.
i'm available to anyone by phone that would like to crunch the numbers. thanks eveyrbody and sorry for the mass email! and thanks Troy Aikman!"

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 1h

my child’s math homework has a QR code that leads to a two minute video where a cartoon dog does a sample math problem without actually explaining the concepts at all i hate the future

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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

To those implying that Kremlin-controlled social media bot/troll farms became silent after Ukraine hit a Yandex data center, posting this CloudFare chart ( radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238 ): Hate to disappoint you all ⤵️

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 11/10/2026

Small island kingdom's state-owned propaganda arm censors woman's pro civil rights message

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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

now i lay me down to sleep i'll catch that bird who goes meep meep if i die before i wake, acme co has sent a fake

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singular locus sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

if you want precedents for these may i suggest lynchings + the random murders of venezuelans our gov has been posting. they call the latter their "snuff films" internally, and the president reportedly enjoys them greatly. more "devastating" than 'the US is now at the level of racialized barbarians'

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.

APA Women’s Leadership Institute event flyer with “keynote speaker” crossed out with a red X

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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

study shows water is wet

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walking mirage @wolf.observer · 09/10/2026

does anyone at OpenAI remember what happened the last time a mathematician got really pissed off

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 09/10/2026

honestly this is the worst kind of union busting; @timoflegend.bsky.social acted like a coward and let his managers union bust for him, whether he was aware he was doing this or not, it happened

"Anti-union people seem[ed] to have absolutely no boundaries. They would post multiple pages as Slack comments gushing about Tim and how much Double Fine meant
to them and how hurt they were about the union attempt. This was done by employees that were both eligible and ineligible for the union. They would often also demand specific answers from pro-union people even though those could not reply freely.
"...Seeing how quickly people who supported unions in other companies turned against their colleagues who are pro-union made me think that a union was very much needed at Double Fine, because it was clear that those anti-union people in no way would have the back of their colleagues if anything bad happened and it became an us-versus-them situation."

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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Another article about an *extremely important* topic: AI successionism, a term catching on, is only *one of many forms of pro-extinctionism* in Silicon Valley. Indeed, most SV pro-extinctionists *reject* AI successionism. Focusing just on successionists misses the bigger picture!

realtimetechpocalypse.com

“AI Successionism” Is Dangerously Misleading

(1,200 words.)

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Mare Pan @paarsec.com · 05/10/2026

fuck minimalism, give me these back

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 03/10/2026

to me this reads as fully part of an ongoing rhetorical pattern that continually discounts prior criticism as outdated, calls for constantly evaluating model capabilities as a necessary activity, and invokes the valence of Math = Smart to imply that if they can do this, then surely....?

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 03/10/2026

a lot of people into ai want to talk about how it works, but they either mean the stack inside the software or the things it "can do now" that "can't be explained" but ai is a rhetorical technology. the way to understand how it works is to understand how rhetoric works

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I get that the bit is that he’s doing stupid things like Trump but also that just means he’s doing stupid things

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

Google has retained the old street layouts for neighborhoods in Rafah that no longer exist at all. Not even ruins. Dystopian.

Satellite image of a yellow sandy wasteland in eastern Rafah. A Google Maps overlay shows where the streets of a residential neighborhood used to be, but there are no homes or even ruins of homes visible along them.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just got an email from a former student who took my class a decade ago, asking me for the reading list because she enjoyed the course so much and wants to revisit the texts. And she *apologized* for making the request. Are you kidding me?

static.klipy.com

Sad Old Man Crying

ALT: Sad Old Man Crying

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Over 1,200 sexual assault cases in a six year period at Cornell. The current case involves 7 men gang raping and drugging a student and being assigned essays as punishment. In 6 years, only 7 students have been expelled or dismissed. That’s less than 0.006%. Cornell sides with rapists.

usatoday.com

Cornell rarely expels students in sex assault cases | Exclusive

A third of undergraduate women say they've been sexually assaulted. But on average, Cornell reported expelling just one attacker per year.

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abby (sports) @stabbyabby.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The thing is, the guy who assaulted me had a female best friend. And he was the person she would call when she had to walk to her car in the dark and didn’t feel safe. So even when you think it’s not that man, it might still be that man.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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Atlas Mugged (N95 Duckbill 😷)✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh, this is a disgusting level of negligence: Tompkins County DA Van Houten admitted that his office didn’t “independently investigate” the allegations. "'My client went to the Cornell University Police because a crime was committed. It was the obligation of the police to investigate...

abcnews.com

District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'

Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."

Post from NYT reporter Eric Lipton

"What an odd moment in United States history.

A U.S. president is running an overtly political campaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.

Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit."

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I find it fascinating that so many estranged parents view the estrangement as an incident, not as a process. So it's forums full of Boomers going "She stopped talking to me because I said her haircut was bad! She's so UNREASONABLE!", when, in reality, they've been shitting on their kid for decades.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Eugenics is the tool of the oppressor. We do not need it. We will not use it. Hate to break it to you, but this means: Mentioning “the gene pool” The concept of IQ and BMI Standardized tests “Gifted” AND “special” education Rawdogging viruses “Social Darwinism” “Effective altruism”

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026

talent is a lie

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 26/09/2026

Thanks to the awesome power of AI, I no longer know my home address

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

no they weren't very close to 0% of the SS were hanged the vast, vast seriously vast majority of people who carried out the Holocaust weren't ever punished.

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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.

apnews.com

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

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justine zhang @tisjune.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

they're saying the AI can do math and science again, so it's time to reread Thurston's On Proof and Progress in Mathematics, a lovely articulation of the social work of assembling understanding, i.e., the best reason to tackle hard problems. www.ams.org/journals/bul...

When I started as a graduate student at Berkeley, I had trouble imagining
how I could "prove" a new and interesting mathematical theorem. I didn't
really understand what a "proof was.
By going to seminars, reading papers, and talking to other graduate students,
I gradually began to catch on. Within any field, there are certain theorems and
certain techniques that are generally known and generally accepted. When you
write a paper, you refer to these without proof. You look at other papers in the
field, and you see what facts they quote without proof, and what they cite in
their bibliography. You learn from other people some idea of the proofs. Then
you're free to quote the same theorem and cite the same citations. You don't
necessarily have to read the full papers or books that are in your bibliography.
Many of the things that are generally known are things for which there may be
no known written source. As long as people in the field are comfortable that
the idea works, it doesn't need to have a formal written source.

At first I was highly suspicious of this process. I would doubt whether a certain idea was really established. But I found that I could ask people, and they
could produce explanations and proofs, or else refer me to other people or to
written sources that would give explanations and proofs. There were published
theorems that were generally known to be false, or where the proofs were generally known to be incomplete. Mathematical knowledge and understanding were
embedded in the minds and in the social fabric of the community of people
thinking about a particular topic. This knowledge was supported by written
documents, but the written documents were not really primary.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's great to see tailoring accommodate such extreme movement today. This level of tailoring was a bit more common in the past, as you can see in old films featuring Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly, but many modern suits will lift off the wearer's neck even when they're just walking.

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The Spectre Of Communism 👻 @cyberstalin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It is that fucking deep! The media has BLOOD on its hands for its support for imperialism, transphobia, ableism, racism etc like lol hurr durr I'm so smart, Trump won the election. Ok asshole, why doesn't that same vibe shift happen when a leftist wins? Eat my shit

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The Spectre Of Communism 👻 @cyberstalin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Lula won three terms and will almost certainly win a fourth, Dilma, two, and yet the leftist vibe shift never came because capital simply REFUSES TO ACCEPT even a social Democratic govt, ESPECIALLY in the third world!

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 21/09/2026

"With this bountiful amount of time, we hope you choose to hydrate, eat, address your rapidly declining mental, emotional, and physical health, repair all relationships with the loved ones you’ve neglected, and progress through any other stages of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs." buff.ly/k2hhGaM

buff.ly

We, Your Gracious Meeting Overlords, Are Giving Fifteen Minutes of Your Time Back to You

“With this bountiful amount of time, we hope you choose to hydrate, eat, catch up on sleep, stand up for the first time in four hours, address your rapidly d...

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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Anyone knows of similar grants which are EU, not UK centered? Asking for a person who doesn't want to move away from family.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026

great art articulates eternal truths

script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read

ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
[They do not log off]

CURTAIN

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“I used to want a software engineering job. That dream for me is dying.”

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Sally Beaumont | BAFTA Breakthrough | Voice Actor & Writer @sallybeaumont.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wearing a mask in 2026 feels like being a walking Memento Mori, as well as a reminder of disability. I.E. bus drivers that have hearing loss and don‘t know they’ve been lipreading passengers for years. But instead they blame my diction/volume which is very funny if you know the roles I play!

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

So this week we've learned: 1) The AI goons CONFESSED they were committing the biggest theft in history. 2) The data centers really are sucking up all the energy during an energy shock. 3) AI almost caused a World War.

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

ideally i would love to support minority rights but in this case the minority in question is a minority of the population, so it just isn't worth it, mathematically speaking

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Quinnie @bittenbovine.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

<adjusts microphone stand> More like <microphone feedback> sorry uh <clears throat> more like "President" Evil

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026

When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.

Google
Sorry...
We're sorry...

... but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now.
See Google Help for more information.

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

i'm also making an AI that's gonna kill everyone. if anyone cares

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Well done to the picture editor who captioned this delightful snap of a black pig swimming off the west coast of Greece “swine-dark sea” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Swine-dark sea ... Mediterranean black pigs swim at a beach on the private island of Atokos, in the lonian Sea off the west coast of Greece. The island, which is uninhabited by humans, is owned by a shipping magnate
Photograph: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

I don't use any streaming music or tv service, I replaced them both with a huge vat of dermestid beetles I can lower myself into as desired

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