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i’m doing my part (funding another yacht for gabe newell) (i received my steam frame last week and have now ordered a steam machine) seems the 512gb + controller bundle is almost in stock in the eu, i was on a day 1 lottery waitlist for 2tb, switched and got the reservation email almost immediately

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is the vice president's guy, no? This should be every headline, it should lead every newscast and EVERY REPUBLICAN SHOULD BE ASKED ABOUT IT.

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universally boo-loved @ziva.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the rainbow honor walk in sf lol

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 06/10/2026

sorry. unfollowing now. i just wanted to support queer poc authors. i didn't know he committed seppuku after a failed coup to restore the emperor of japan.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

to me a social obligation is like, a wedding that's kind of far but still within reasonable travel distance. attending a friend's play even though i don't really 'get' live theater. not low stakes crap like this that's so clearly meant to be an excuse to shoot the shit with the boys

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Jussi Ahokas @ahokasjaj.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Jeesus Kristus auta.

EK haluaa perustuslakitien auki tekoälylle.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026

the reason these people need to be stripped of almost all of their money is so that they stop thinking that it gives them the right to nominate themselves for the "benevolent dictator" position

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much like your ghosting @mlyp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

can those AI guys hurry up and decomp premiere pro or something useful instead of putting tony hawk in every ps1 game

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

You know. I don’t think that there is any more crucial component to contextualizing & meeting our current set of problems than understanding this.

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asa @zekink.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

still stuck on the waitlist since day 1 for the steam machine though, which i actually would’ve preferred to get first

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asa @zekink.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

i got mine this week, actually not too bad to have to wait a bit imo. e.g. the wifi dongle seems to have some issues on linux for me and many others, so after a few updates it’s probably going to be better

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Halloween Henrique @kelzor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Akira Yamaoka (with his daughter cosplaying "Silent Hill f" Hinako) and John Romero. Video games rock.

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Dmitry Gurbanov @dimmu141.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Näin siitä takki kääntyy.

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

(confused) I believe LLMs are conscious, but only Deepseek LLMs, because of the Chinese Room theory

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Mikko Tuomi @mustapipa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tässä on se raadollinen ideologia, joka kannattelee huipputuloisia heidän tukiessaan oikeistopuolueita suomalaisessa politiikassa. Ihmisillä on vain se arvo, joka mitataan heidän lompakkonsa paksuudella. Millään muulla ei ole mitään väliä.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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

effective altruism is when one of the train tracks has a guy tied to it, and the other one might have five guys tied to it, in some distant point you can't see

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.

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asa @zekink.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

it’s definitely one of the best (mine is version 4). i’ve actually finished quite many games on mine compared to other devices with which it feels like about half of your time is spent on tinkering and tweaking retroarch settings, shaders etc.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That's because the anti-intellectualism of the populists and Far Right is in direct contradiction to the basic foundations of any civilisation

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

GenAI evangelists: there is no deskilling. You become as a god, a machine god, you- Every GenAI CEO: no one needs to know how to read and also I don't know how to put my pants on anymore

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's funny that for years now people have been saying that using generative AI very obviously deskills you, and people kept going no no you're wrong you Luddite And now all the genAI CEO's keep coming out in public to announce they forgot how to read and do math and can't remember their address etc

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

all these people sound like this:

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The Onion @theonion.com · 23/09/2026

Vacationing Man Excited To Try Fast Food Franchise Not Found In Hometown theonion.com/vacationing-man-excite…

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assbutt @nasboat.org · 23/09/2026

(extreme Chris Cornell voice) asshole son

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asa @zekink.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

yeah and if you actually use the trem a lot, they’re very solid. i have a friend who plays in a power metal band and has somehow managed to snap a couple of tremolo arms in half on his j custom ibanez going hard on it, yet the bridge itself is still fine for me though, fixed bridges are perfect

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asa @zekink.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

esp does some of the coolest production models that aren’t just boring old superstrat variations (especially the japan only artist signatures). personally i can’t be bothered with floyds anymore though, my next guitar will have an evertune so that i don’t have to touch it much once i’ve set it up

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

“People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter.”

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I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company.
Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code.
Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow?

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asa @zekink.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

muuten hyvä mutta en saanut lutriksen kautta ääniä toimimaan. pitää ehkä kokeilla steamin kautta myöhemmin

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Software developers think "if AI automates coding, I will be able to spend less time on producing widgets, and more time on strategy and architecture." Bosses think "if AI automates coding, I can get my devs to produce 100x more widgets."

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asa @zekink.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

i got my reservation email on thursday and the purchase email almost exactly 24 hours later. eu though so it’s probably a different stock/warehouse etc.

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Julius Karlsson @palloholisti.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Sellasta vaan lähin kyseleen, että mitäs vittua sellasella tasapainosella valtiontaloudella tekee millä ei saa sosiaaliturvaa, terveydenhuoltoa ja koulutusta?

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asa @zekink.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

jälleen näköjään sellainen aika että mietin starcraft 2 wings of libertyn läpipeluuta. kai se on testattava kuinka helposti se lähtee toimimaan linuxilla

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Dmitry Gurbanov @dimmu141.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Eli sen sijaan, että Suomessa luotaisiin työpaikkoja, joiden palkalla ihmiset voisivat elää, hallitus haluaa luoda työpaikkoja, joissa ihmisille ei käytännössä pitäisi maksaa juuri mitään.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 19/09/2026

This is why I think it's so important to push back against the personification of LLMs. If a person shoots someone while wearing a hand puppet, they can't claim the hand puppet did the murder.

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Lmao zionists on Threads leaving their ChatGPT response headers in their slop revealing they asked it to make them sound like Andrew Tate, scum attracts scum

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I can make it more swagger-heavy, cutting, and confrontational without copying Tate's exact voice.
Ed Sheeran didn't build a $400 million career by hijacking somebody else's stage.
He is the headliner.
His tour.
His audience.
His crew.
His production.
His risk.
Macklemore was invited into a machine Ed spent years building.
That invitation was not ownership.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's vastly more comforting to believe in an imminent robot apocalypse than the truth: the things that will destroy us are extensions of the unsexy but obvious problems all around us. We are not doomed in one grand way, but a thousand petty small ways.

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asa @zekink.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

reservation queued for steam frame 1tb, so got luckier than with the machine it seems. wonder if i’ll even get it first since i’m still just waitlisted for the machine

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 17/09/2026

i have had multiple "oh you haven't heard about cumming in the fluffer?" conversations in the past few weeks which is not great for myself or for others

the xkcd average familiarity comic of two people talking, edited to read: "ai doomsday religions are second nature to us very online folk, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows about the harry potter sex cult and one or two aella cognitohazards" "and sankeys, of course" "of course" captioned below "even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field

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alexis nedd @alexisthenedd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

congrats to ed sheeran on his achievement

screenshot of an achievement from the game Disco Elysium. The achievement is titled "the world's most laughable centrist" for defending the political centre 7 times. 23.6% of players achieved this.

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