"And when push comes to shove, seems the people down below have power over those they place above, but only if they vote!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayWi...

2026: Time for the Midterms

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Didn't know that all the climate scientists cheetoh fired launched a new website and put back all the information. www.climate.us

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independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics

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Forward-Thinking CEO Hoping Company Can Capture New Audience By Making Product Worse In Every Conceivable Way https://theonion.com/forward-thinking-ceo-hoping-company-can-capture-new-aud-1846058985/

Time for 2026 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread, now with storage. If you like these, you might like edition 2 of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website til end of Nov 2026. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...

Timeline cleanse! Also of relevance to me in particular because I'm working on a cozy fantasy that features BOTH bobcats AND Canadian lynxes, but no hybrids (yet)!

c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 2d ago

This video of a Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) was taken by Sondre Eriksen Hensema (@itseriksen on IG). There are 4 species in genus Lynx & what's striking is that 2 of them are in North America, 2 in Eurasia... but the lynx line originates in Africa. Let's learn more about these right-sized kitties.

In light of some magazines pulling scummy things on creators lately, I’m doing a little thread on short story rights. I don't want anybody getting taken advantage of. Also, if you're new, this stuff can be confusing!

Saturday at #ASBMR2026 brings another exciting day of science, discovery, and connection. Today features the Louis V. Avioli Lecture, Late Breaking Poster Session, International Meetups, emerging research from across the field, and tonight's ASBMR Extra Innings event.

I would be EXTREMELY annoyed to discover my PR is "AI"-generated, and as someone bombarded with dozens of "AI"-generated emails daily, I assure you the stink of "AI" is immediately noticable and immediately dismissible. Publishers are not doing their new books any favors in using it.

Adam Morgan@adamm0rgan.bsky.social · yesterday

For @wired.com, I spoke with workers about the quiet push to experiment with AI tools from book publishing executives at the Big Five. www.wired.com/story/book-p...

Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>

by all means, AI evangelists: leave me behind, off with you, godspeed, don’t let the door hit you news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...

Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News

A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.

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What did the Russian whisper in your ear?

In case you missed it last night: we are seeing reports all over the country of immigration surges and state violence. If you need whistles for your community, we will send you 100-3000 3d printed for free, and we will love doing it. 3dwhistles.com

Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.

Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting

Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.

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New #WriterBeware blog post: Two artists' decisions to go public this week reveal new concerns at Must Read Magazines, which was the subject of controversy last year over its unfriendly contract terms writerbeware.blog/2026/10/09/m...

More Rights Grabs from Must Read Magazines - Writer Beware

In early 2025, a group called Must Read Magazines acquired a suite of six well-known genre fiction magazines: Asimov’s Science Fiction, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, The Magazine of Fantasy & Scien...

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For moderates worrying dem socialists are drag on party image, in NY STATEWIDE, Mamdani is more popular than Hochul and more popular than Schumer by 17 POINTS I think us socialists are the ones to complain corporate centrists are hurting the Dem image emersoncollegepolling.com/new-york-202...

So the AI titans worry about bad PR the “day after” and are gaming out scenarios? They should hire criminal defense attorneys too. Revisit my @theatlantic.com and Early Warning on culpability after a “rogue” AI event. earlywarningwithjuliette.substack.com/p/they-are-t...

They are titans. They may also be criminals.

There is nothing “rogue” about what the AI titans have built. It is all by design.

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this actually gets at what is at the root of a lot of this- these are people with creative dreams and no creative talent so they have turned their holy grail into the ability to vampire other ppls work into a thing they can take home to mommy and claim credit for

Bugs, Yaoist@bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 2d ago

maybe i'm old fashion but the coolest thing about video games is being taken to new worlds that i hadn't thought up and experiencing something exciting that the artists behind the game want to show me

Productivity as an adult is just an endless process of applying new psychological tricks and operant conditioning to yourself until an acceptable number of tasks are completed.

Adding to this: it’s not just that the Constitution allows for impeachment; it COMMANDS it upon the commission of treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors by federal office holders. The word “shall” is a command, not a plea.

David Rothkopf@djrothkopf.bsky.social · 2d ago

If Donald Trump, with his record of corruption and law-breaking, is not impeached, we might as well strike impeachment provisions from the Constitution. He is the reason they exist and must be implemented.

If you are excited to watch a livestream execution, then brother, you’re a piece of shit.

The storm is up, and all is on the hazard.

Hark, by the sound of drum you may perceive Their powers are marching unto Paris-ward.

I plan to be the biggest "A.i." hater at the NYCC.

This is not a real person! There are THIRTY TWO books here that 'Andrew V. Smith' has shat out in the last year alone, all of which have AI-generated covers and most borrow or straight up rip off titles from other more popular (and more importantly: human) works like my own

I can’t tell you as a dad how much this tweet breaks my heart. I do all the work I do to have the freedom and time that I can read to my kids whenever they want. That’s the far better part of my dad than the work, and—to be clear—I love my work!

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 3d ago

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

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

FUCKING THIS. The process of inquiry is almost the WHOLE POINT. It's why we keep fucking going when the experiment fails, the hypothesis doesn't work out, the chords are discordant, or the words don't come together.

猫好きな人@valoisdubins.bsky.social · 4d ago

I was really struck by this comment today, about how using AI to solve maths problems is not only missing the point of these problems but damaging maths as a human activity in the process. bsky.app/profile/carl...

In the presidential immunity case, the court considered a hypothetical of a president ordering Navy Seals to assassinate an American political rival. Trump's lawyer argued unambiguously yes, since it'd be an "official act." The Roberts Court ruled in his favor, 6-3. Why wouldn't Trump believe this?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Trump: "I could've done very bad things to Hillary Clinton. I could've done very very bad things to Joe Biden. I could've done very bad things to Barack Hussein Obama ... I can do whatever I want, if I want."

Canada is refusing to issue ISBNs to books primarily generated with AI. This illustrates both the urgency of the problem of the growing flood of slop books, and also the toothlessness of addressing it on the honor system without there also being consequences for lying

This is really interesting. I knew AI use can mess with people's heads, but hadn't thought about how a therapist might be able to intervene.

Martha Crawford@whatashrinkthinks.com · 4d ago

I really think that if a therapist has a client who is presenting with new symptoms- grandiose/paranoid/agitated or with sudden loss of self-esteem, increased isolation Or with increased conflict/argumentativeness in their relationships or social transactions Assess their AI/LLM use: