Large language models are not the sorts of entities that can be held responsible. This lede should read "Using AI agents, Anthropic tried to gain access to a range of government websites...."

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d ago

(NYT) - Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...

A lot of what’s happening doesn’t seem to be spreading anymore by mainstream media. A tree that stood for an estimated 150–250 years was destroyed today to make way for Trump’s border wall.

one thing you learn from making a lot of things is that the nitty gritty details, the millions of tiny invisible decisions, ARE the art. The "higher level ideas" are not nearly as important or interesting

Freya Holmér@freya.bsky.social · last wk.

"AI lets you focus on the higher level ideas!!" because we all grew up dreaming of becoming managers and CEOs we all know the real artists at the very highest level are the shareholders, famously full of amazing ideas

It’s the art classic where you take your precious piece and delete half of it because it was too complicated to be a pin and you knew that from pretty early on and still spent days on it.

I launched my plush woodcock bags in my online shop this weekend!

Today is the fifth day of the public losing access to The Academy of Natural Sciences. We can change that. save-the-academy.org youtu.be/v-R1t4YlYJ8?...

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Don't mourn — organize. The museum's last public day is Sunday, Sept 27. Ten things you can do today.

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Merlin Sound ID is a form of AI called a convolutional neural network that lives on your phone. It's amazing & an incredibly useful tool.

Anil Dash@anildash.com · last wk.

I can’t emphasize this enough — “AI” wasn’t born corrupt and toxic. For ~75 years, it was mathematicians and scientists doing interesting, thoughtful work and trying to solve problems, making only the usual human mistakes. What “AI” did to machine learning is as tragic as what it did to artists.

without any doubt:

Cat Manning@catacalypto.bsky.social · last wk.

this is my favorite genre of social media post and I am soliciting links or screenshots to your favorites

Water strider pin progress. Orange is the initial sketch in illustrator, and then the black and white is the final design until the metal cutter tells me that the lines are too fine and I have to simplify it. Inspired by Charley Harper’s water strider with a minute homage to it on the pronotum.

Replace ducks with whirligig beetles and we are in business.

Litbowl@litbowl.bsky.social · 3w ago

From Ha Jin's book, Facing Shadows. #poem #booksky #writing

It’s holding up quite well. I’m impressed and pleased!

Dylan Hadfield-Menell@dhadfieldmenell.bsky.social · 4w ago

Try out this feed! It’s the result of a massive amount of research on how to build beneficial recommendations. It’s the first real workable implementation of a choose your algorithm system and it will be good for you and the broader ecosystem. Courtesy of the great @jonathanstray.com

these didnt pop off back when I made them but some people seem to like my 3d prints here

I'm home for the next 20 hours. Order a snail facts advent calendar right nowwwwww and I'll ship it out tomorrow morning! Get a snail fact every day for 24 days straight by scratching off a shell! It's like a big lottery ticket but everyone's a winner because you learn about snails. SquidFacts.net

I’ve now done so much genAI slopspotting that my husband convinced me to start offering it as a service from my studio. Businesses and even massive institutions frequently don’t even seem to know they’re using it. They think they’re buying real art with contracts and reproduction rights!

I’m not the first person to make this observation but the prevalence of nauseating ai-generated business logos means stuff like this hits CRAZY for me now

So who is building the dual streaming to open source platform software because you’ll make baaaank

Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg · last mo.

Twitch is testing an AI Stream Coach. Stream Coach will give you personalized feedback after every stream on what you did well and what you can improve. It will also recommend ways to better engage your community, learn Twitch culture, and use monetization tools.

Help me, bsky! You know how there are resin dice with little figures in them? I have some with bees, and I've seen lots of others. I'm looking for some with beetles. Ladybugs are fine, but all I need is a couple D6's, and I can only find big full sets of them.

This purple and blue isn’t a trick of the light or a reflection. It’s an oxide that forms when heating steel red hot for a quarter second and then cooling it on a rock. The components come flat, but I spend an inordinate amount of time smoothly bending them into curved so they’re flashier.

I did a small neighborhood event with some of my steel pins I’ve been working on. The first pic is them right after welding on the backs. The second pic is a display I made.

*cough cough* comicfury.com is aggressively anti-ai and indie run *cough cough* very customizable website & use your own domain

Kenny Meyers@kennym.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Webtoons going all in on AI.

So I’ve been working on some pins for a while. Here’s a couple examples of the most recent three. Theyre solid stainless steel, each unique. The rainbow patina is called flame painting and it’s one of my favorite things about stainless steel. Downside: photographs badly. Upside: durable and nontoxic

Spartan Mosquito of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, is 10 years old! Scamming hundreds of thousands of Americans each year with its yeast-and-sugar tubes that kill ants. Innocent ants. 🐍🛢️🎂 #mosquitoes #mississippi colinpurrington.com/2020/04/spar...

Spartan Mosquito Pro Tech review

This post is a review of the Spartan Mosquito Pro Tech, a tube containing sugar, yeast, and boric acid that you fill with warm water and position around the perimeter of your property. The cap has a s...

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"Most people just want someone to talk to" 🥹 bug people are pretty neat

The Ommatidium Project@entofacet.org · 3mo ago

What an amazing launch it's been! In a relatively short period of time the Ommatidium Project has helped people in #acarology and #entomology, and now we even have a crustacean expert! Thank you to everyone who has made this project successful. #bugsky

We’ve had male wasps hanging out around this bee house here for the past couple of weeks waiting for someone. Today she emerged. #wasps #nativeplants

Good news is that museums are not letting go of their rare books and you can often go and photograph them yourself. This is from a very strange treatise on conchology of a single county in PA that has its own custom shell themed ornaments. I was charmed by the quotes the authors chose.

Not sure what kind of bee this is - maybe a carder bee? Is there a bee expert or entomologist who can identify it? 🐝 🌿 #bees #switzerland

look at them, look at how silly they fly too, they are so slow because of the flamboyant leggies! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXdI...

Flamboyant mosquito hovering inside a mosquito net (Sabethes)

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