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🦝 Socks 🐭 @socksfur.bsky.social · 5h

At the stroke of midnight tonight....

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Kevin @kmichaelwilson.bsky.social · 2h

"AI mirror on the wall, you've been listening to my conversations, you're my therapist as well, and you have access to my bank records and everything about me. Write me a self-insert novel based on my most recent personal experiences" Our solipsistic future unless we fight for something different

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Victoria McIntosh @vmcntosh.bsky.social · 3h

The U.S. will no longer be allowed to import Canadian beer; even if the company owning the plant is in the U.S. If that’s not a self-own, what is?

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Victoria McIntosh @vmcntosh.bsky.social · 5h

Thanks cat. Jumping on my lap mid-business call, claws extended? Exceeding helpful.

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blair @blairaf.com · 30/09/2026

"You may not deadname superintelligence but you should deadname trans people" is now 100% real US policy

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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I don’t know how it happens, but we need a parallel AI-free and ad-free internet.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 30/09/2026

If we're calling what all these companies are doing "super intelligence" now, then that means we can get back to using "AI" to describe all the useful shit we were doing before the techbros happened.

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Victoria McIntosh @vmcntosh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Really keeps getting better & better, doesn’t it? Like a horror story of a cursed doll.

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Brent J. Arnold @cyberlawyeryyz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I had the pleasure of joining Ian Hanomansing on @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social's Cross-Country Checkup to discuss employee surveillance and bossware. The whole segment's worth a listen (I pop in around 22:50). Thanks to Ian and the CBC for the chance to deal with this burning issue. cbc.ca/9.7359142

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

“What if we released malware represented in the form of a cute avatar” is an actual business plan now.

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Dots are OpenAI's new personal agents and soon you'll be able to control several of them - Engadget

Sure, seems safe.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026

Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him

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Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess

Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026

To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman. Yes, that's the point. It's called consent. Welcome to human decency.

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Suzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Women and girls know the ways in which their lives are secondary (or lower) to those of boys and men. When people say they don’t want these young men’s futures to be ruined, what they’re really saying is it’s okay for young women’s future to be destroyed.

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Luis Alberto Montezuma 路易斯·阿尔贝托·蒙特祖玛 @montezumachavez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In a landmark ruling on Friday (25 September), the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) secured a precedent that will reshape how companies defend themselves in GDPR class actions that impact their operations the entire European Union. Burden of proof and the GDPR:

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AppleInsider @appleinsider.com · 28/09/2026

In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.

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Meta's new AI agent blatantly ignores users permissions

In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.

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Victoria McIntosh @vmcntosh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m absolutely in this picture.

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fishttp:// @fishttp.website · 02/10/2025

all mammals share an instinct to destroy their ancient enemy, the loathsome gourd

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A lot going on here

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Victoria McIntosh @vmcntosh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There’s a difference between being up on Monday and actually being awake.

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Techni-Calli @illleavenow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thrilled to announce that since I’ve appeared on PBS, Wishbone is now my colleague. www.pbs.org/video/how-mu...

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Horizons from PBS News | How much privacy is left in an age of surveillance?

How much privacy is left in an age of surveillance?

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026

“Everyone hates cameras in smart glasses. But if the camera is contained in a charm you wear around your neck, it shifts the agency. Suddenly, you’re not recording people. It’s just a cute little animated avatar looking out on the world.”

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‘Charming and disarming’ … how Meta’s technology-packed Muse harnesses the power of cuteness

The tech giant has launched a cute ‘little guy’ that can answer emails, book travel or do your weekly food shop

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Victoria McIntosh @vmcntosh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sausage, pepper, potato bake. So much prep. So worth it. #food #foodsky

Crock put with sausage, peppers, potato, onion, in broth, cooking wine & Italian seasoning.

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On March 26, 2000, the song Blame Canada from South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut was nominated for Best Original Song at the Oscars. But that night something also debuted that became an immediate hit. The I Am Canadian Rant. This is the story. 🧵 1/10

Joe Canada standing center stage, singing into a microphone with mouth open and arms slightly outstretched before a large red maple leaf on a white backdrop.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026

it’s bad, actually, that much of the industry is gatekept by people whose standard for hiring a woman is “are you a Cool Girl who is into weird men doing sex stuff at her all the time?”

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

he's so out of touch with reality it's almost funny. people can't afford food or driving to work, but yeah. let's pretend we'll all have a world-burning privacy violation machine in 5 years 🙄

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Victoria McIntosh @vmcntosh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As we look back on history, with debate if rulers really were so cruel or if the texts elaborate, can we put some kind of warning for historians of this century? “Yes, they really were that corrupt. The leaders and people who voted them in really were that stupid. Our records don’t do it justice.”

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Victoria McIntosh @vmcntosh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sunday morning. If there’s no work, there’s no excuse not to pat.

Tabby cat on owner’s lap; a Jean leg stretched out under her.

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The problem isn't rogue #AI models, it's *negligent companies*. If a biomedical firm put their product in public water supply because they wanted to test it 'in the real world', they'd be treated as criminal at corporate & individual level. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue

Decision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

CLASS ACTION PAWSUIT Did ur hooman leave teh room without giving u a treato? U may be entitled to compensation

Big litigious floof on a couch with crossed paws and a srs expression

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Victoria McIntosh @vmcntosh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“It is important to note that TrustSink is not an initial-access attack and requires an attacker to already control a highly privileged Microsoft Entra account.” So this attack means at some level the attacker is already in with privileged access to function.

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In my experience, a lot of smart people who dropped out of high school or whatever college they went to end up thinking they are much smarter than they are. Because one thing higher education does is shows you that there are other perspectives out there than yours. And they missed out on that.

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Victoria McIntosh @vmcntosh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Biiiiiig concert tonight Halifax. The cheers are louder than the music.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

historically accurate massachusetts content

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Victoria McIntosh @vmcntosh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Aside from Meta’s consistent brand of surveillance without consent, I’m peeved because nothing AI should ever have a name in anyway related to the patron goddesses of the arts. May Thalia and Melpomene divine the most merciless of burns.

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Bring cookies to the job interview. Hand em out. It'll be a hit. Then demand the job in exchange for the antidote.

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Victoria McIntosh @vmcntosh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So my lower back miighr be protesting this morning’s workout. We’ll see if I break down and pull out the Advil later.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We’ve got to build it before China does.

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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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TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 24/09/2026

Muse has just dumped its entire filesystem, and the instructions include "keep a page for every person in the user's life" with "the nature of the user's relationship with this person: how close they are, what it is built on, how they act with each other, and what it seems to need right now."

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jonny (nonvenomous) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)

Attached: 4 images muse's "self improvement" prompt's second point after basic memory maintenance is an instruction to, every hour, maintain a page per person that you know, and a group page for ever...

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Listen, I just think it's weird that the same people who are saying they're worried that AI is going to wipe out humanity are also eager for military contracts that will give AI control of weapons.

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Victoria McIntosh @vmcntosh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Almost forgot it’s the Mid-Autumn Festival today. No mooncakes, but I did eat very tasty (and spicy) jiaozi for dinner.

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Fire Elmo with Dumplings in Flames

Alt: Fire Elmo with Dumplings in Flames

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Victoria McIntosh @vmcntosh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This was a gateway program for graphic designers.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Not enough people know what it's like to be popped in the mouth for not respecting someone's boundaries.

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Victoria McIntosh @vmcntosh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My take on the whole iced coffee thing is if the role is in any way IT adjacent, that’s going to be the least caffeinated drink in the room.

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

AI: Getting more and more advanced, things progressing quickly Me helping researchers: Let's talk about the benefits of documenting any work that you do, or naming things so that you understand them later.

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The Simpsons: Marge Simpson Go-Karting

ALT: The Simpsons: Marge Simpson Go-Karting

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Victoria McIntosh @vmcntosh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fox names four areas it wants farmers to look at when inspecting hen house.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026

An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.

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The media has the AI threat all wrong

Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.

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Victoria McIntosh @vmcntosh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Out of curiosity, how many of Amazon’s investors are cats?

A tabby cat rests in an Amazon shipping box; a common side effect of online shopping.

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