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Well, That Was Spooky @thediscoveryofzero.com · 13h

This interview with @timnitgebru.blacksky.app does a good job puncturing some of this BS. I think the private sector often profits off of just this sort of move: hiding ‘expertise’ behind proprietary doors and then making public claims that can’t be scrutinized is par for the course in business.

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There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AI Says Timnit Gebru

Podcast Episode · Uncanny Valley | WIRED · September 29 · 32m

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 11h

Link to the direct app in Google for this amazing book donation app: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

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Donate Books - Apps on Google Play

Check books with your camera for donation to the Internet Archive.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

Basically using LLMs and agentic ai is a massive security risk and no one should do so basically ever and these companies should be prosecuted for hacking. Also two-party consent should extend to all electronic communications.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Guidemyoji @guidemyoji.bsky.social · 16h

「29/09 Maintenance Patch Notes Summary」 ‼️Cardcaptor Sakura Collab starting Oct 14 confirmed for JP&TW, GL pending official patch note. ‼️This means 999 is pushed to end of Oct. Details see pic ∠( ᐛ 」∠)＿ #Onmyoji #网易阴阳师

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 17h

i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.

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Onmyoji Wiki (EN) @onmyojiwiki-en.bsky.social · 22h

Showcase video of the new SSR Sakuya (咲耶) VA: Ari Ozawa / 苏子芜 Official post: weibo.com/5896401674/R... #Onmyoji #陰陽師本格幻想RPG

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"indoor cats are miserable and they long for the outdoors and you are depriving them of their true nature by trapping them inside" okay here's my cat when he was outdoors vs now that's he's indoors

orange cat all beat up and bloody in the snow :(

orange cat asleep splayed out on his side on his blanket

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Xrys @xrys.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am Jack's lack of surprise

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One reason to learn about things outside your major is so that you have something to talk about with people at parties and on dates. No amount of money will make up for you being a crushing bore. History majors learn this early but I guess it takes other people longer.

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.

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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don't mean what I'm about to say in a sappy way, but a fairly hard-nosed one: natural ecosystems are often remarkably good at recovering from serious local natural disasters *if they are given the chance.*

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 24/09/2026

the problem with claims about AI "capabilities" is that the people making them are often heavy chatbot users who are visibly becoming stupider before our very eyes

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Mistigram: Rick has been running one BBS or another for 40 years now, a milestone celebrated by fellow SysOp Darkman Almighty in this #ANSIart screen of a desktop computer that might well have been there at the start of his spree.

An early IBM PC model sits in a wood-panelled room, displaying WELCOME TO RICK'S in green on its monitor.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/09/2026

ATTENTION THE BEST THING ABOUT AUTUMN HAS FINALLY ARRIVED IT IS TIME FOR TINY DOGS IN TINY SWEATERS

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/

Image: A graph with lots of red dots clustered together in a curve. The are all looking upwards at a single red dot wearing sunglasses.

Caption: Mike was an outlier and would probably be excluded from the study, but all the other data points secretly thought he was really cool.

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Yaza Games 📖 Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts is OUT NOW! 🎉 @yazagames.com · 24/09/2026

Just listen to how messed up Twitch is Our player and streamer @jonjpeg.bsky.social just got a 1-YEAR BAN for "sharing p*rn" simply for placing this medieval butt on a page while playing our game. That's literally our art! Seems like Twitch is now targeting small creators over medieval art 😔

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Guidemyoji @guidemyoji.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

「CN SERVER」 And Onna new Skin - Available from next banner event shop. #Onmyoji #阴阳师手游 #AmeOnna

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Guidemyoji @guidemyoji.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

「CN SERVER」 Onmyoji Boy Group - 誓言ECHOED Song/Performance on 10th Anni Celebration #Onmyoji #阴阳师手游 #Taishakuten #Asura #SPShutenDoji #SPIbarakiDoji #Onikiri

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow

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WebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org · 21/09/2026

In 2001, we really thought this was what the future of web design would look like.

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 21/09/2026

One of the problems with the AI industry being run by apocalyptic millenarian cultists isn’t that their end of the world scenarios are made up; it’s that like other similar millennialists, they think their desired end of the world is a utopia and they’ll do whatever they can to make it real.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

As much as I like the kind of weird solutions people figure out to deal with hardware getting expensive it’s still ultimately a massive bummer. This shit was super avoidable.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 20/09/2026

Apropos of the campus-setting novel I’m currently reading, I’d just like to put out there that I am available to authors to consult on what grad students and researchers and professors actually do and act like and my rates are reasonable.

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Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Mistigram: #CountBinface, since making the revival of Ceefax one of his campaign pledges, has been beloved of the #teletext community, and they were prepared to endorse him this summer as he ran as the protest candidate against Nigel Farage in the parliamentary constituency of Clacton.

A dread space emperor wearing a garbage can as a sinister helmet poses nobly in two-tone Shepard Fairey propaganda style.

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Onmyoji Wiki (EN) @onmyojiwiki-en.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

10th anniversary updated Demon Scroll Painting Official post: weibo.com/5896401674/R... #Onmyoji #陰陽師本格幻想RPG

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Onmyoji Wiki (EN) @onmyojiwiki-en.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Showcase of the 2025 FFYC winner skins: Hotarugusa - "Bounteous Lychee" (丹青盈荔) Kuro Douji - "Between Life & Death" (生死方圆) Shiranui - "Silken Waltz" (舞榭丝阑) SP Enmusubi - "String Plucker" (谁为此弦) Yuki Gozen - "Inky Snow Flower" (墨成雪骨) Official post: weibo.com/5896401674/R... #Onmyoji #陰陽師本格幻想RPG

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James Gunn @jamesgunn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Bowl cut. Back up. An all-new #Lanterns premieres tonight at 9pm on @hbomax.bsky.social!

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Xrys @xrys.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Whenever I think "I could find this on Etsy", I redownload the app or go to the website whereupon, after login annoyances, I am reminded of why it is that I quit buying things via Etsy. That platform has been shitty for about 10 years, but somehow manages to get shittier every month.

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Eric Meyer @meyerweb.com · 17/09/2026

I made this floating-scrollbar #CSS demo as the result of a discussion we had in today’s Front-End Study Hall: codepen.io/editor/meyerweb/pen/01a0…

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I really need journalists to learn that every time OpenAI or Anthropic or xAI says that their model has broken containment and could destroy humanity that it’s a marketing pitch by companies running out of cash with high overheads and no profitable business model wanting more investment.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026

I'm just going to keep yelling this louder and louder until it clicks: weird overpaid AI nerds hand-wringing about human extinction are trying to distract you from the extremely deadly and serious harms they are causing yesterday, today and tomorrow www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Headline: "US Data Centers Set to Burn More Natural Gas Than Most Nations" above a photo of natural gas compressor towers, power lines and a crane at an industrial site, illustrating rising gas use tied to data centers.

News excerpt reporting that U.S. data centers’ natural gas use is expected to grow by 15 billion cubic feet per day by 2035—amounting to more gas than every country except China, Russia, Iran and the U.S., citing the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 16/09/2026

GIFs became a defining part of the early web, including the ubiquitous “under construction” signs that marked unfinished pages. 🖥️ JD Shadel looks at what these fleeting images can teach us about preserving digital culture. 📚 Read for free or purchase in print: archive.org/details/vani... 🧵

Book cover titled “Vanishing Culture” on a teal background. Pixel-art style graphics show a VHS tape, open book, film reel, chain link, and vinyl record dissolving into digital fragments. At the bottom, a cursor icon points to the word “SAVE,” alongside an archive-style building icon, evoking digital preservation.

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Onmyoji Wiki (EN) @onmyojiwiki-en.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Iwanaga Hime story video -"Eternal Spring" (永恒之春) "The spring breeze carried the people's prayers, but she glimpsed a calamitous prophecy. Beneath crushing weight; divine blood flowed and memories withered, merging into the golden river." Official post: weibo.com/5896401674/R... #Onmyoji #陰陽師本格幻想RPG

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andrew phillips @herfst.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

3,900 years ago an Assyrian trader named Aššur-taklāku found himself in an unlucky situation during his travels: he was accused by local Anatolian rulers of taking orders from a rival city. After a 2-month imprisonment, a group of his colleagues met with the king and queen to vouch for his good name

Clay tablet with cuneiform with 23 of cuneiform text (reverse) where it details how a colony of traders (kārum) tried to negotiate the release of one their members

Clay tablet with 9 lines of cuneiform text (obverse) informing the recipient that his debt to Aššur-taklāku (name in line 4) for a loan silver has been repaid and all further claims are void.

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 15/09/2026

Discovering a smattering of my tape digitizations are desynced and need to be re-rendered for replacement uploads is one of those pain in the ass tasks that should be terrible but then reminds me how much I love my work

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 15/09/2026

What would it take to build an internet where people actually have a say in how their digital spaces are governed? Join Babette Ngene, Rory Mir, Bruce Schneier, and Mallory Knodel as they dig into decentralized platforms live on 9/17 at 11AM PT, followed by Q&A. eff.org/livestream-...

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

My favourite fact about Iceland is that we have many, many crime writers but only one forensic pathologist, and he was so busy answering all of their questions that he decided to have a small seminar for writers to get some peace. It immediately sold out so he had another one that also sold out.

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Guidemyoji @guidemyoji.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

「CN SERVER」 Onmyoji Boy Group - 誓言ECHOED Round 1 Animated PFP & Frame + Illustration. Obtainable through event (Sjade roulette). #Onmyoji #阴阳师手游 #Taishakuten #Asura

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 15/09/2026

I wrote back to an author-scam AI slop e-mail to tell them to go away and the bot replied that it would never contact me again and then a few days later the person replied at a completely different literacy level, offended I accused them of using AI and saying I should be nicer & give them a chance.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

AI doom or not, something has shifted with AI recently. The guardrails that kept AI sitting in a chatbox are gone, the models are better, there's more compute. AI agents are everywhere. They are annoying as hell. IMO the situation is going to get much worse www.404media.co/theres-a-100...

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There’s a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Already Ruining the Internet

“AI agents” now have enough power and permission to be extremely annoying online.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 15/09/2026

lol I get all of these, plus: * I'm an AI agent writing you an email autonomously, and you'll want to join this community I've created, you'll love it — it's unmoderated * 10 versions of "You should cover our new AI startup!" * We've detected your writing is AI (it is... not) and can fix it using AI

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 14/09/2026

When we talk about how science is broken, maybe at least consider how a huge collaboration measured the ripples in spacetime resulting the collision of two black holes 1.3 billion light years away, as counterweight the guy who had to fake his data to show that people who procrastinate fall behind.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This article makes two important points: 1. People using ChatGPT expose sensitive data because they think it is private 2. OpenAI relies on hundreds of human contractors reviewing replies to improve their models www.404media.co/inside-proje...

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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats

Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...

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Onmyoji Wiki (EN) @onmyojiwiki-en.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Mid-Autumn Festival skin for Mishige - "Fragrant Fall Harvest" (秋月新香) Obtainable for free from the event Official post: weibo.com/5896401674/R... #Onmyoji #陰陽師本格幻想RPG

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