If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

kate conger@kateconger.com · yesterday

Anthropic is the latest lab to report 'rogue' agent activity, which sources said included applying for visas with the State Department www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...

Pathfinder character patreon bust commission for @nilun.bsky.social ! A timelapse edit will be available for patrons soon! #digitalart #illustration #pathfinder #fantasyart

monkey c / monkey e / monkey v

William Eaken

Wow! Texts are super rare for the Hittites, basically there’s just one archive and it’s 95% lists of prayer sacrifices to mountain gods, so this is really, really exciting!

Sarah E. Bond@sarahebond.bsky.social · 2d ago

184 new cuneiform tablets ✍️ (total), dating to c.1400 BCE. “Preliminary examination of the texts has revealed references to military activities, epidemics, the death of an infant princess & requests for assistance sent to the king by Hittite military commanders” www.heritagedaily.com/2026/10/184-...

Highly, HIGHLY recommend Clip Studio! Very worth the price, and it's a one time purchase ✨

Anjin Anhut / available for freelance@anjinanhut.bsky.social · 3d ago

CSP is again 50% off, 1 time purchase. Literally the best dump-photoshop-now-app for digital illustration, concept art ect. (i can also do animation) I use it in freelance and in studio settings as an art team. Offer will end in less then 7 days. Try the free trial. GO! DUMP PHOTOSHOP NOW!

Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, ICJ judge, ex-UN human rights chief & anti-apartheid lawyer, has won the Nobel Peace Prize. "The committee wants to remind the world that the rule of law, national & international, underpins the system we have set up to ensure peace and resolve conflicts non-violently. "

Navanethem ‘Navi’ Pillay wins Nobel peace prize

Committee recognises efforts of 85-year-old former UN human rights chief for efforts to promote international law

theguardian.com

South African judge Navi Pillay won the Nobel Peace Prize 'for her efforts to promote ‌peace and international law,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said reut.rs/4hUSHXz

South Africa's Navanethem 'Navi' Pillay wins 2026 Nobel Peace Prize

Pillay, 85, won "for her efforts to promote peace and international law", the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.

reut.rs

I do not need a "coming up" section at the start of every youtube video 💀💀

Six Flags has installed California’s largest solar carport. It’s expected to generate enough electricity each year to offset the annual power use of both the amusement park and neighboring Hurricane Harbor Los Angeles.

Six Flags has installed one of the largest solar carports in the US

Six Flags Magic Mountain's new solar carports will offset both parks' annual electricity usage, shade cars, and offer EV charging.

electrek.co

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

Gianmarco Soresi@gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 3d ago

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

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Stephanie Lamy@stephlamy.bsky.social · 4d ago

For my ENG speaking followers Unprecedented High School blockades began in the outskirts of Paris in Créteil on the 21st of Sept. National mobilisations followed on the 29th of September, the 1st and the 6th of October. The movement is ongoing and has spread both in scope and scale. #tippingpoint

Gala, Joya and Fuji 🍎

Laura Helmuth@laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 3d ago

Lots of things are bad right now but apples are *good*. What's your favorite variety? Mine is Ever Crisp. www.scientificamerican.com/article/appl...

Also in this household we do not touch Inktober; I don’t know how everybody forgot, but I’m willing to hold that grudge tight enough for all of us.

So sad to hear that the iconic, trailblazing, Apollo 11 moon landing software engineering lead, Margaret Hamilton, is no longer with us. Love this image of her, standing next to a print out of the software that landed Buzz Aldrin and Neil Amstrong on the moon! 👩‍🔬🔭🛰️🧪 ℹ️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

my bad guys, we had a bundle go out on the 10th and just didn't say anything Shroom and Gloom is a double deckbuilder which makes this bundle a triple deckbuilder and three times cooler then most bundles i will be glazing this bundle for a bit i promise 🙏 store.steampowered.com/app/3271280/...

Shroom and Gloom on Steam

Gather and grow cards in Shroom & Gloom, a moody first-person, roguelike double-deckbuilder bursting with fungal foes and mountains of mega-combos!

store.steampowered.com

3 more days to sign up! I have 3 more spots left for the mystery sticker

Nicole Dornsife | Thornwolf@thornwolf.com · 5d ago

There's still time to get in on this month's Mail Club! Cutoff is October 10. More info here! www.patreon.com/Thornwolf/po...

Hemingway eat your heart out

I'm screen printing the strings so they're not there yet, for now enjoy him just belting some tunes out ❤️

Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch

Micah@rincewind.run · 6d ago

Discworld QOTD, from Jingo “It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country," he read. "This means that both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind.”

The Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering teams at Wizards of the Coast have just announced they're unionizing. In a letter of demands, the union has urged Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast leaders to stop pushing generative AI. https://bit.ly/4hMhPzG

💀 DOL GULDUR 💀 For Tolktober days 1, 2 & 3. #Tolktober #Tolktober26 Moon | Forest | Necromancer

[memories, ~ Nov. 2020] Fanart of @thebeardlyben.bsky.social s Abott for Gnollvember :)

A burly bard for @thebeardlyben.art 's birthday - it's his DnD character, the gnoll with soul, Abott!

Annihilation always makes Halloween lists, so I thought I'd do a thread of creepy reads. Starting today with a flat-out modern masterpiece, Max Lury's No Ghosts. Thoroughly contemporary and disturbing grounded in deep characterization, and, in part, outdoing Back Rooms while also its own thing. 1

I'm coaching a local gal through revising her art on an iPad rather than using AI and the running narration is amazing. "Lips are hard, too??? This is all hard. I'm gaining so much appreciation for what artists go through. But also I'm having fun?????"

Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately

"Lord of the Divine Writing" A digital piece featuring Thoth, the Egyptian God of writing, wisdom, magic, the moon, and many other things. :> I'm super excited and happy about how this turned out. I'm feeling more and more comfortable with my digital art style. #art #digitalart #egyptiangod #thoth

Get a jump on holiday shopping, perhaps? A picture book for your littlest wolf or dog lover, and for any kid who needs some reassurance that being different can lead to wonderful things. #KidLit bookshop.org/p/books/this...

Bookshop.org@bookshop.org · 5d ago

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.