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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 6h

Trump going all-in on "AI" self-regulation is no surprise, but please interview ppl from, e.g., @cdt.org, @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social, @dairinstitute.bsky.social, @ainowinstitute.bsky.social, or anyone else with a perspective on regulation not informed by a primarily Rosy relationship w/ big tech

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 5h

Any talk of "independent AI auditors" & FTC enforcement actions is meaningless when the ppl who do not want enforcement have actively captured both a) the people who'll choose the "independents" & b) the *FTC Itself*. Folx who aren't ex-Googlers who left on great terms maybe might tell you that.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 5h

I and others have been warning about the possibility of some version of every shitty "AI" thing this administration did today for over a decade and I am very very extremely nearly completely and utterly just so fucking tired.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 7h

Nothing like your mom wanting to have a detailed conversation about death & burial preferences after you had to deal w/ repair people in your house 1st thing in the morning after you only got 5 hours of sleep. Like, love that we can have that conversation, but whoa damn what a state to have it in 😅

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Bonnicula | Vampire Vtuber ⚧ @bonnicula.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

periodically struck by how many orders of magnitude harder it is to grow an audience as a trans woman than it was as a pre-transition podcaster and comedian It's just a hard fact that cis folks by and large don't support trans creators! If you're one of the Real Ones I'm giving you a shiny star 🌟

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 8h

Thats definitely a kookaburra, but i can 100% see the goat face too, that's great shit

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 10h

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water. I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there? God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 17h

I really just want like… 3/4th of the economy prosecuted for fraud. Is that really so much to ask?

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 17h

I just saw it pointed out that while the price of gas is subject to a lot of factors beyond the control of Congress, promising to hold powerful people accountable is a promise that could be kept.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 17h

I really just want like… 3/4th of the economy prosecuted for fraud. Is that really so much to ask?

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 18h

I want more shows like Parts Unknown and High on the Hog and Taste the Nation; I want fully unscripted documentary shows about food and culture. I'm so sick and tired of faux reality bullshit that I could spit

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 18h

I'm so tired of everything about renting that I think I might scream and i am firmly of a generation in which there is essentially no way that we will ever own homes without losing someone we love and honestly, I think it's starting to get to me.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 20h

Eric Schmitt fucked up so badly today that even The New York Times isn't mincing words on how badly he fucked up.

NYT Headline: As Jack Smith Testifies, a Senator’s Accusation of Perjury Falls Apart

Subhed: A Republican eager to prove the former special counsel was dishonest appeared to instead demonstrate his own confusion over basic facts.

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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 23h

The Eric Schmitt failed rollout as JD Vance's VP, sponsored by Axios, makes everything all the more maddening when you realize HOW MANY LAWYERS had Schmidt's obvious mistake run past them. Social media lawyers would have clocked it in two seconds, just saying. 💅🏻

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a hybrid signal @unknown.garden · 21h

the intermittently clogged upstairs sink is Supposed to get solved tomorrow, however apparently it's happening well before we are usually awake so who can say if it's a good thing

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Bonnicula | Vampire Vtuber ⚧ @bonnicula.bsky.social · 21h

"oh she's a trans creator she's going to lecture me about pronouns" no buddy if you come into my space without the ability to understand a pronoun I'm just going to pull your toenails out

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Bonnicula | Vampire Vtuber ⚧ @bonnicula.bsky.social · 21h

this is so true! I don't WANT to make shit about gender studies, there's WAY more qualified and patient people out there to do that!! But there's this weird expectation that if you're a trans creator you're just making educational shit focused on trans issues and frankly it blows

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

"ohhh noooo it's toooo powerful! it's gonna hack ur dudes!" style fear-hype for the governments, "invite this adorable bastard demon into your home; we super swear it can't and won't steal your true name (PII)" style lies for the plebs

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

I know tech companies don’t think about downstream effects but it’s hard to believe they don’t understand the problems this will create even if it were never used by bad actors (which of course is impossible). It’s just “line go up.”

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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.

engadget.com

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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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 29/09/2026

Soooooooo. As expected, the guy in that story about Muse doing FB Marketplace deals *had* in fact clicked the permission to "always allow" Muse to do things for him. Still very, very poor design by Meta such that the user didn't understand what permission he was giving...

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Update on letting Muse run Facebook Marketplace for me.
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By doing that it granted Muse permission to send messages on my behalf going forwards using a template it put together using information it asked from me. Which also included the pickup address that I did give to Muse (again I didn’t think it would send it out to everyone that gave me an offer so it’s worth checking). I mentioned to the meta team it could be easily overlooked as it was with me and they said they will be making this more clear moving forwards.
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Regarding the lowball offer situation. It accepted an offer of $600 and sent out my address to a buyer to come collect the item after I strictly set a minimum of $700 with Muse. The Meta team informed me this was an error on their end which caused a display issue removing the ‘7’ from the output to the buyer. And with it stating “Sounds good, 00 it is!” after the buyer asked for $600 it made it look to the buyer like his offer was accepted.
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I suggested to Meta that each message sent by Muse should have a little “Sent By Muse” badge underneath so everyone knows it wasn’t sent by a human as there was really no way of knowing who sent what in the chat which is very concerning.
As for the buyer, we made up and he even came by tonight to buy something else. All ended well.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Absolutely everyone using muse is now become Michael Waltz, adder of Jeffrey Goldberg to the war crimes Signal chat. bsky.app/profile/evac...

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Matthew R Francis (see pinned) @matthewrfrancis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Michael Tracey is actively attempting to dox Jane Doe in the Cornell 7 rape case

Michael Tracey : If you happen to know who this Cornell "Jane Doe" is, get in touch and I would be happy to publish her name and identifying information. And yes -- this is 100% permitted under the First Amendment, whatever threats or emotional blackmail people might want to deploy

"Report" me for what, exactly? Save your breath, scumbag. Sorry you hate the First Amendment so much. Her identity is obviously newsworthy at this point, and I will take extreme pleasure in reporting it. (Not "doxing" -- that's a total canard)

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.

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Matthew R Francis (see pinned) @matthewrfrancis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

this is the part that fucks me up. I don't use any Meta products, but many people I know do. So if we message, Meta has access to my messages. Which I did not consent to. ZUCK IS RAPE CULTURE.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am convinced they are arguing for regulatory capture because most of their products if exposed would show that the worst breeches were just vibe coding and human malfeasance

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Hal Duncan @halduncan.com · 29/09/2026

A correction to my previous post, sorry: CSAMagotchi gonna romance scam your fourteen year old kid, *upload their nudes to the cloud*, and then tell them to kill themselves

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Hal Duncan @halduncan.com · 29/09/2026

Heraclitus: the original poster, pure honed perfect nuggets of weirdness & memes. Socrates: quote-posts every bad take and demolishes it in an umpteen-post thread. Plato: umpteen-post threads of his own bad takes, a gazillion followers who all suck. Diogenes: total shitposter, troll par excellence.

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isaac @sevier.io · 29/09/2026

I'm walking into the woods forever brb

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Yeah that part affects EVERYONE YOU'VE EVER MESSAGED WITH, WHETHER THEY HAVE MUSE OR NOT. Seriously: do not use muse. Ever.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

This part of the muse privacy and security debacle manages to be worse than it agreeing to lowball offers in your name on marketplace, giving the buyer your address, and then telling them you're home when you're not; because this part? The "it reading messages you explicitly told it not to" part?…

appleinsider.com

Meta Muse AI reportedly read Mac Messages without consent

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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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One of my pirmary objections to GenAI- beyond the concerns about labor, environmental justice, and intellectual property rights- is that I understand privacy to be NETWORKED and contingent. My information is only as secure as the weakest link in my social circle.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Seriously, just do not use muse

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

New Mexico shuts the door on new uranium mines. Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard signed an executive order banning new uranium mining across 52,609 km² of state trust land, although 2 leases running into the 2030s will be allowed to keep operating. buff.ly/v6fkl9b #ShareGoodNewsToo

buff.ly

New Mexico bans new uranium mining on state trust lands

The ban covers 13 million acres of state trust lands and directs cleanup of approximately 50 abandoned uranium sites that pose contamination risks.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 28/09/2026

Last month, we refurbished 10 tennis courts in Crotona Park — the only public tennis courts in the Bronx with lights for night play. We stopped by recently to see how things were going. Thank you to NYJTL, USTA and Yonex for helping us deliver high-quality public spaces that New Yorkers deserve.

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Center for Large Landscape Conservation @largelandscapes.org · 28/09/2026

The largest wildlife overpass in North America was completed in 2025 spanning I-25 in CO. According to Colorado Governor Jared Polis, the crossing, and nearby crossing infrastructure, has reduced wildlife-vehicle collisions on the stretch of I-25 by 91%. www.denvergazette.com/outtherecolo...

denvergazette.com

Massive wildlife overpass has helped reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions by 91% in Colorado

In December 2025, it was announced that the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) had completed the construction of the I-25 wildlife overpass in the area of Greenland, between Denver and Color...

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Garrett Wollman @gwollman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ISO New England eetimates that in calendar year 2025, behind-the-meter solar accounted for about 8% of all power consumed in the region. (That's inherently only an estimate because by definition the ISO can't see how much is actually generated, only the reduction in system demand.) #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is important, not because many regular people read SCOTUSblog, but because media outlets still treat it as a good resource

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

no one should use this thing but I just cannot stress enough that you have to stay away from it if you’re a practicing attorney

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it's kinda funny the way this article describes how a model being unsafe -- ignoring guardrails, pretending to have done things it didn't, not following user instructions -- also makes a model a shitty consumer product

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

The "call her daddy" lady out here shilling for Google Gemini? Oof.

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manewt.bsky.social @manewt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Friend who works at meta: “Do not use the muse agent, it’s like inviting a Vampire inside”

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Andrew @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you don't actually say "Fuck You," then it's not "Fuck You Money" you're just a sparkling sell-out

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

The "call her daddy" lady out here shilling for Google Gemini? Oof.

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Meta PR person: "That's okay, but you better know that, due to a lack of high quality personalized data, your artificial friends will be of lower quality when you turn to the computer to briefly forget about the apocalypse"

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