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zennie

@zennie.bsky.social
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Writer, Rhetor, Pugilist, Bitch. Self-described flâneur. Lover of cats, argumentation, and fandom friends.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026
It’s really stunning how the USA has so swiftly shifted from being one of the most techno-optimistic and tech-industry-loving countries on earth, to a country where most people seem to assume - not incorrectly, at least in many cases - that tech is out to get them.
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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 7h
If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 5h
A thing I learned not too long ago is that when an LLM selects a token that leads it down an incorrect path (factually), it has no way to back up, or even know that it should back up, it's just on to the next likely bit. Literally every LLM is just posting their way through it. What an image.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 6h
Wait, even assuming that he had been at that game, the train of logic here was supposed to be: - he was at a Hawks game in Atlanta - that's the same state as this other person who had an affair - being in the same state means you know everything ??????????
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 6h
Expand the Supreme Court www.huffpost.com/entry/suprem...
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Supreme Court Lets Trump Continue Third-Country Deportations For Now
The decision allows the administration to continue removing immigrants to countries they’re not from and have never been to.
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 7h
Did I just get back from a viewing at Bonhams auction house in NYC of cat-themed art? Why yes- yes I did. Did I take pictures, including of these Chinese ceramic cats from the Qing Dynasty? Also yes! Will I make a thread of some of them? Indeed I will, which will include...
Two ceramic cats in a vitrine
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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Also follow @angieforfl.bsky.social and get her to 15k!
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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins
Now @AshleyMoodyFL. Why would I want to abolish the police when I want you arrested and in jail for stealing $10 million from sick kids? BFFR
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Senator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Trump’s Republican allies in the Senate BLOCKED my bill with Senator Murkowski to stop the Kennedy Center—or any presidential national memorial—from being demolished without an act of Congress. Just shameful.
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Kerstin Sell @kerstinsell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
2/2 tobacco playbook all over... we're already implementing some voluntary regulation so no need for stricter regulation by gov... sensationalist messaging = marketing
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dylan baker @dylnbkr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As I've said in many interviews recently, the AI industry needs to be regulated the same way we do other industries that make products with potential harms. The sensationalism is a distraction. sfstandard.com/2026/09/21/e...
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So, is AI going to kill us? 11 experts, 11 answers.
Confused by the competing theories about AI’s threat to humanity? We asked accelerationists, doomers, protesters, and a state senator what needs to happen next.
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dylan baker @dylnbkr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
2. "Going rogue" is sensationalistic. Products of ALL kinds do unexpected things that we need safeguards to prevent. Yes, AI agents running amok IS dangerous. So are industrial power tools. Hence OSHA and stringent safety training and protocols to use them.
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dylan baker @dylnbkr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Looking behind the headline: 1. Guardrails = good. But when we let companies build their own guardrails, they are often avoiding the guardrails we NEED: ones imposed by third parties to serve the public interest. 🧵
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
run this as an ad right now
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Post Mo Thóin (Dave) @davebrowne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There's a very famous sketch about an Alexa controlled elevator in Scotland and the vocal contortions folks need to use to get it to work. AI is forcing conformity on more than just the accents though. Structure and syntax must fit its parameters. It forces homogenization.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 27/09/2026
SUPER excited for this, after a year of chasing the angle, 30 minutes of waddling around up and down a parking garage, and over 6 hours of editing: A murder of crows flies towards the camera, in front of the full Moon, set to Blind Guardian's "Nightfall" and the sound of the crows themselves. 🪶 🐦‍⬛
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The biggest life hack and organizing superpower anyone will have is tolerating emotional risk/ discomfort and learning to repair after conflict. Which is why organizing when everyone has AI robots in their pocket validating their every thought and impulse... is... not great.
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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@aoc.bsky.social: The best thing that we can do to rein in runaway costs at private institutions is by having tuition free public colleges and universities. “For anyone who wants to say that that’s pie in the sky and unrealistic… this is literally what baby boomers gave themselves.”
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 28/09/2026
Just in case it wasn’t clear, when they say the U.S. Government’s paying for this, that’s YOUR taxpayer dollars they’re using. I’ll say this as many times as I need to: it is ILLEGAL to use American taxpayer dollars from the government to pay for candidates’ or parties’ political ads.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 27/09/2026
Here’s what’s important for you to know real pastors don’t support you becoming a trad wife… because there has never been a point in history where it has been in the best interest of women to solely depend on the benevolence of men for their wellbeing
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Saffron & Her Majestic Floof @saffronsfloof.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What do you mean I have to get out of bed? #cats #BlueskyCats #gato #adoptdontshop #fosterkittens #DMV #adoptme And yes, you should follow our fosters on the ‘gram @littletailfosters
Color photograph. A tiny black, white and tan tabby kitten looks up in surprise as one of her litter mates wakes her from her nap.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
new research reports that cats vocalize more when greeting male owners. researchers suggest that this is because cats have apparently learned that men require additional explanation when provided with basic communication. I don't like the idea that cats are judging me this accurately.
Freya, a fluffy gray cat, sits on a light blue table, staring downward with a serious, slightly concerned expression.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
These people make Marie Antoinette look connected to the people and empathetic by comparison. They laugh at what their own voters are going through as they continue to mock them as they enrich themselves and have a great time.
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ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected @adelpreore.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🤔 www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
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Testosterone-obsessed Pete Hegseth has a bank account that jumped from under $50,000 to over $1 million
Plus, he might also be a crypto bro.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 27/09/2026
lol www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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YouTube and Meta Reverse Course, Will Accept ‘Musk’ Trailer Ad
The Google unit says the ad was "temporarily restricted" while Meta calls it "an error." TikTok and X remain silent.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An 87-year-old woman lived in the same Madrid apartment for 70 years. Then a real estate firm bought it and forced her out. The housing crisis is global because the underlying logic is the same: your home is someone else's investment vehicle.
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87-Year-Old Evicted From Her Home Tells Spaniards to ‘Fight’ to Avoid Same Fate
María del Carmen Abascal, whose case has become a symbol of Spain’s housing crisis, appeared in a video from her hospital bed after police officers removed her from her apartment.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 26/09/2026
My top 4 Crow Full Moon shots tonight. P L E N T Y of video to edit someday! 🪶 🐦‍⬛
a crow flies in front of the moon, greyish sky, the crow is flapping their wings downtwo crows fly in front and near the moon, in the middle and the bottom left, a snowy egret is out of focus below the moon, greyish skya crow flies in front of the moon, dark sky, the crow is flapping their wings up but not fully extendeda crow flies in front of the moon, dark purple sky, the crow is in full cruise mode
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Worst Movies Ever @worstmovies.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No point driving traffic to YouTube. Here’s the MUSK trailer without boosting YouTube.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We've got to do something about fascism-funding white supremacist Elon Musk. Boycott X. Boycott Tesla. Pressure the U.S. government to disinvest from Musk's businesses. He's trying to ruin the world's democracies. We must stop him.
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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
Just a bunch of guys getting together on a Saturday night to be like yeah, we’re unfuckable
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wild. This should create a Streisand effect, which Dem ranking members can enhance by sending the companies document preservation demands. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/09/2026
“Test-takers will be expected to safely merge onto the highway and then successfully weave their getaway vehicle through traffic while being tailed at high speeds by the police.” — William Deiboldt, California DMV spokesperson
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California DMV Adds Highway Chase To Road Test
SACRAMENTO, CA—Saying the newly instituted changes better reflected the realities of modern driving, officials at the California Department of Motor Vehicles announced Friday that they had added a hig...
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 25/09/2026
I guess that the best argument, for me, against AI is that everyone advocating it seems to be a psychopath.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...
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Arthur Mensch, CEO of French start-up Mistral AI: 'AI is software. It can be controlled'
Mistral AI's co-founder believes the sector's American giants are manipulating the discourse around the technology's risks. He also defended his strategy, as critics are accusing his company of fallin...
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve been surprised by how much capital has been willing to sell out the labor it needs to operate but I guess everyone has a limit
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
SOCIALIZE TO ORGANIZE the party must throw parties, daily joy is for everybody "a Sing in Solidarity choir, soccer and softball leagues, picnics and potlucks, “Coffee with Comrades,” a running club, dance parties, singles mixers, game nights and birding outings." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
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Opinion | Young Democrats Are Putting the Party Back in Politics. It’s Working.
Fun, free events communicate a larger goal: that everyday people should be able to afford a joyful life.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected @adelpreore.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"[T]he China scare is the perfect pretext for his own meddling in the midterms, a threat to be invoked when useful and forgotten when not. How else do you explain that his answer to the supposed attack on our elections from China is to roll out the red carpet at Joint Base Andrews and grovel?”
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is the trailer that all the major platforms refuse to run as a paid ad:
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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here's another last minute entry for #FakeBookTitleFriday!
Cover shows a ghostly woman choking another woman to death

Fake title: Shut the Fuck Up About Your AI Bullshit Already

fake subtitle: If I want to write a book I'll write it myself
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Drives Like a Dream @urban-achiever.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i wonder if the people at flock see the irony in this.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 24/09/2026
Filmmaker Alex Gibney has shared the first trailer for 'Musk,' a two-part, four-hour deep dive into Elon Musk that Rolling Stone called “a nonfiction horror movie” following its film festival debut earlier this month. Watch ↓
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Elon Musk Is in the Business of Selling Dreams in Trailer for New Doc
Filmmaker Alex Gibney has shared the first trailer for 'Musk,' a two-part, four-hour deep dive into Elon Musk.
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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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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 25/09/2026
“I used to think everyone opposed war. Then I realized some people actually want it — especially those who don’t have to go.” Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970), German novelist
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yeah, where are all of your stupid truck caravans NOW, MAGA? Hmmmm???
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