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Look, I'm not trying to dunk on this guy, but I think more people need to understand that AI is functioning as a religion right now. "There would be actual counterarguments against Jesus" is a thing you see logicians arguing in medieval times.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 5h

From a discussion of updating a department website...

A photo with baby Yoda and adult Yoda with the caption "Could it be time for a new photo?"

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Melissa Caruso @melissacaruso.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Discoverability for new SFF books seems way down these days, especially outside of bestsellers and certain subgenres. I'm noticing this as both a reader and a writer. Great stuff is in danger of sinking without a trace. Please post about new/recent books you love or are excited for!!! I'll start:

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Kevin Moore @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.

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Gerard @groverxv.bsky.social · 22h

Always always read a @sarahkendzior.bsky.social post … otherwise you’ll miss out on the wisdom of things like this ⬇️ sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/a-public-f...

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wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 22h

I adored this movie when I was like 10.

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Dina Strasser @dinaeliz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I worry that Dr. Cottom is understating the case so as not to freak us out (see her opinion piece on panic). Tech bros behavior-- bunkers, data centers, drones, AI replacement-- shows us that not only do they not care about users, they think only a select few of them deserve *to exist.*

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

that fraternities serve any but the most anti-social purposes, providing sanctuary for entitled young men, whose criminal behavior is often excused, & whose later ascendancy to powerful & prestigious positions is all but guaranteed. Meanwhile, their victims are doxxed and left to carry the scars. 3/

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 29/09/2026

bold and wildly inexplicable photo choice here

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There are lots of ways to answer this and one of them is that studying history makes you a better citizen and our public universities have an obligation to produce good citizens. History education is essential to a republican model of government. Engineering is not.

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Texas as sci fi novel setting. On Amazon’s delivery drones “raining boxes” in a Dallas suburb: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/u...

Screenshot of text: "Before the drones arrived, Richardson was a suburb known as a hub for tech and telecom, and its residents were already living with technology’s intrusions. A massive new A.I. data center sits across the street from one neighborhood, and as recently as last month, 20 Flock cameras, which read license plates and track vehicles, were used at 14 major intersections.

But for those people living closest to the Amazon flight paths, the ever-droning deliveries pose the most serious threat to their private and peaceful life."

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This has really cracked open something for me. I had been thinking about free speech discourse in terms of hypocrisy, but this illuminates a much more consistent throughline (derogatory).

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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 25/09/2026

I think we all know that iced coffee will be a total outrage for anyone they want to say “doesn’t fit the culture” and not a big deal for anyone else

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wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My take on the coffee interview is that it is a sign that the way we interview is broken. Because, yeah, way too many jobs have dozens of qualified candidates, and letting people invent arbitrary criteria to sort through them is the worst possible solution.

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Helen Kyriakoudes @hkyria.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Did you know Nina Simone and Langston Hughes first met in Asheville? Check out this excerpt from DON'T LET ME BE MISUNDERSTOOD: Nina Simone, Langston Hughes, and the Birth of Black Power by @wjasonmiller.bsky.social (out next week 9/29) in @indyweek.bsky.social 🎶 indyweek.com/news/culture...

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The Day the Priestess and the Poet Met in Asheville

Langston Hughes first met Nina Simone in 1949, when he visited her high school NAACP chapter. Their friendship would go on to make history.

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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

that time when black men from greensville sc enlisted for ww1 & their wives wanted to stay home & take care of their kids & other community folk in need but white officials "no, no, no!" & called them "loafers" and said they had to do domestic work for white folks or be fined or jailed.

newspaper headline saying "negro women to be put to work" or face severe punishment.

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wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Two out of three on that chart caused multiple economic depressions during their build out. The only one that didn’t - the federal highway system - was a government-run infrastructure and development project.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

whenever i see ads for online gambling i get the same feeling as when you realize all the water is slowly pulling away from the shore at the beach

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M H Ayinde 🍉 A DANCE OF BURNING BLADES out now! @mhayinde.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

By successfully ignoring all of humanity for its entire existence, this cat has proved itself to be the most cat-like cat ever. (It comes to bestow its intergenerational knowledge of peak indifference upon all other cats.)

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

Makes me wonder if voters might be associating basic competence and “fightiness” with the DSA. Because Cooper was a good governor primarily because he came into office at war with the GOP and never stopped.

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

Updating Miracleman by giving him a boob window is a fascinating design choice.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you are so extraordinarily stupid that you fall for a standard Republican trans panic ruse, I cannot trust you to represent me in office. This is like media literacy 101. Your colleagues are going to run circles around you. Dupe you into anything. I'd be safer running and representing myself.

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wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

When I lived in coastal NC, I met a bunch of these folks. They don’t care. These places aren’t insured, but the owners are very wealthy. The value for them is the beachside property. Putting down another million every few years to rebuild is something they expect.

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Catherine 🌷 @catebridget.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

NEW CAT NEW CAT NEW CAT

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wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We genuinely need to return to the practice of doctors prescribing rest and forcing employers to honor it.

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 17/09/2026

NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News futurism.com/artificial-i...

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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month

Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Between shit like this, the entire GOP loving AI, Linda McMahon trying to force it into schools, Musk making Mechahitler, and data centers being built in predominantly black communities, there's a very obvious theme here and yet the AI stans on "our side" pretend it isn't there. Funny that.

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wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is the one that nearly got me. Caller ID said it was the local PD. They told me I was registered for jury duty in the next county over, where I used to live, and had an arrest warrant.

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Woman loses nearly $2K to fake Durham jury scam. 5 On Your Side has the red flags to look for

Under a fraudulent "Mobile Escort Order," scammers convinced a victim that she needed to pay multiple installments for her safe release.

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wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

They are reinventing "Antebellum/Jim Crow Southern Civility" from first principles.

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A photograph by Félix Thiollier (c. 1899)

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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time. I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

There has been a great effort over many years to distance AI Safety discussion and policy from its origins and intellectual center, because its center is a sex cult started by a fan fiction author. If you want to be taken seriously you have to hide that.

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mr. cannoli @boner.ink · 17/09/2026

let's all have some civil discourse, i'll start. fuck you

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 16/09/2026

way to go, you fucking morons. I hope you're happy with how things are going

Going beyond the necessary cost cutting, tech’s newly radicalized billionaires used this moment to wage class war and enforce discipline on what they saw as an unruly workforce. Gone were the days of coddling tech workers and viewing them as the industry’s most valuable assets. Instead, the progressivism and idealism that had come, in part, from the techno-utopianism of the 2000s and 2010s was now seen by Silicon Valley’s executives and investors as an explicit threat. And so, these billionaires set their sights on winning the culture war and dismantling the left-liberal foundations they believed had turned their own workers against them. To do so, and to avoid another bout of Biden-esque regulation, they threw in their support with Trump, laying the foundations of what would soon be known as the tech oligarchy—a power bloc uniting capital and politics under a shared project of restoring control.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Who else put down a Polymarket bet on “Erick Erickson and Jamelle Bouie offer the same interpretation of the GOP on the same day “?

By Jamelle Bouie
Opinion Columnist
The Republican Party has a neo-Nazi problem.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

When I say I've been working on this debunking for *years* that includes academic publications. Here's a quick thread:

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Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Have been following this corporate trend of using fiction to market science for close to 2 decades...remember the scam robot Sophia (at the UN!!! or Hanson on the tonight show saying "she's alive") or the robot Nadia and claims "she's conscious"...can we stop the scam now?

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

Going through the Dungeon Crawler Carl books to see what I think about the whole thing, and I've come down to that they aren't very good but they are good enough at what they are trying to do. The Carl books are for people who aren't on the right but are extremely angry about all of this shit.

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 15/09/2026

another piece from me today, one I'm quite proud of and happy (as always) to publish with the almighty POW Mag

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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 15/09/2026

+ 25 for Ruaa, thank you! She only gets about 3–4 supporters a week now…

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