Thank goodness they were acting on their own and no one could be held accountable🥸

Yonette Joseph@sugarcane99.bsky.social · 7h ago

Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, lfilled 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...

🧵 The Wehrmacht was a CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION responsible for mass crimes against humanity and genocide.🧵 🔥The mother of threads.🔥 Click below for an exhaustive discussion of the criminality of the German Army during WWII as I try to once again kill the cockroach that is the Clean Wehrmacht Myth!

coroner: it appears the subject died of multiple tab wounds

It's Abby. Yep@itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 4d ago

Can you die of too many open computer tabs

average bluesky politics-knower: horseshoe theory isn’t really a thing german political parties: we would like to announce the horseshoe initiative

Meduza in English@meduza.io · 2d ago

Germany's right-wing AfD and left-wing BSW are preparing their first joint resolution in Saxony-Anhalt, calling for an end to military aid to Ukraine, the removal of sanctions on Russia, and the restoration of economic ties. meduza.io/en/news/2026...

Book 5 drops on Saturday. You caught up?

Blaze Ward@blazeward.bsky.social · last mo.

Series complete in October. You ready? www.knottedroadpress.com/collections/...

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

From NASA 📍Gale Crater, Aug. 11, 2026, 8:30 a.m. local Mars time. The Curiosity rover captures the Sun rising on crags known as yardangs, a scene that scientists have long been waiting to see up close.

never the wrong time for this classic

Science Magazine@science.org · 5d ago

Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. https://scim.ag/4rTKck8

I love this set up where he goes state to state and tells voters how much the Republicans there are losers that suck shit

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 4d ago

Trump: Pete Ricketts, I don't wanna talk to him, he's always asking for money for Nebraska. I said we won here 3 times, give them the money

I understand that paywalls are annoying, but the grim reality for everything right now, is if you want something to exist, you have to put money towards it. Every creative person is having their life's work hoovered up by AI companies. Layoffs never end. Private equity keeps making things worse.

Have GenAI run your hobbies. Your passions. Your family. Then you can focus on what matters most: maximizing shareholder value.

Mike Drucker@mikedrucker.bsky.social · 5d ago

Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

Random find in the unpublished data: A pretty little unnamed crater on Mars filled with sand ripples, about half a kilometer across, seen by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in July.

I’m watching in real time what damage AI can do to a vulnerable person with poor mental health who struggles with relationships and seeks solace in the illusion of a meaningful connection with spicy autocorrect (please don’t ask me for details). I don’t know what to do to help them.

Nicholas Slayton@nslayton.bsky.social · 6d ago

What. What?! WHAT?!?! futurism.com/artificial-i...

Fascinating world of ancient #glass! #Roman dove-shaped vessels were used as perfume bottles. The liquid was sealed inside and the tip of the tail or the beak had to be broken to remove the perfume. This particular example, discovered in a first-century burial at Rovasenda, Italy, is...🧵1/2 🏺

2077 years ago, on the 3rd of October 52 BCE, Vercingetorix, the leader of an alliance of Gallic tribes, surrendered to Julius Caesar, ending the Siege of Alesia. It was the culmination of Caesar’s Gallic campaign and the last major confrontation between Romans and Gallic tribes. #otd #history 🗃️

just came across this incredible picture of Terry Pratchett

Mystery saint! I've got a mystery saint on a hand reliquary that is supposedly 16th century and Spanish. Can't share the image, but the inscription says: SANTA RATLRINA MARTIRIS So who is St Ratlrina the Martyr? Any ideas?

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Jesus fucking motorboating Christ, NO. Fuck off, right to the edge of fucking off, fuck off over that edge, hit the very fucking bottom of fucking off, and then fucking crawl away to die in a fucking corner.

Miranda Dickinson@wurdsmyth.bsky.social · last wk.

Oh HELL no, #Audible. So you're going to not only steal my characters, infringing my copyright and IP, but you're also going to steal the voices of my brilliant audiobook narrators for your utterly crap AI chatbot? Get - and I say this with my whole heart - IN THE SEA! #NoAI

Thanks Steve :) Phengaris available at payhip.com/b/58paC Parch Marks, SF that did sneak in some folk horror (marginalised and spiritually radicalised rural settlers in creepy masks in the Pennines) available here: www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p... #SFFChat Image courtesy of @marywyrd.bsky.social

This is a cool photo of Venus! Photographed through the rings of Saturn.

My third novel, HERO COME HOME, officially has a cover! Preorderable from the usual places us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Did you know “Trumpery” is a real English word that has fallen out of use? We really need to bring it back because it is astonishingly accurate.

Reading this I feel compelled to remind everyone that back in the 1970s, respected scientists became convinced telekinesis was real after they met with "psychic" Uri Geller and even published an article in Nature about it. It took a stage magician to debunk them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...

Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models

In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.

nytimes.com

If this is your first time hearing about Uri Geller, the Stanford Research Institute, and most importantly, James "the Amazing" Randi, you're welcome. I hope his work inspires a lifelong skepticism in you. time.com/archive/6712...

James Randi : Fighting Against Flimflam

James Randi Uses His Skill As a Professional Magician to Expose Psychics, Astrologers, Spiritualists, Channelers, Faith Healers and a Host of Mystics and Charlatans

time.com

There's a long discussion going on in my mentions about whether or not "LLMs" (quotes explained in a sec) apparently getting mostly* correct answers to arithmetic questions is "inconsistent" with the stochastic parrots metaphor. >>

Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’ https://theonion.com/creatively-tapped-out-peter-thiel-launches-startup-called-frodo-but-evil/

I remember a really frustrating conversation with a generally decent cishet white guy about a news story where a woman was roofied. he went off about wishing he could beat that guy up to avenge her, and I was like "how about start with calling out your friends' sexist tweets?" and he was like 😳

Andrew Schreck @andrewschreck.bsky.social · 2w ago

In practice, AI literacy doesn’t start with building the tool for your personal use. It starts with understanding yourself as a collection of tasks who should subcontract those out to a machine. Almost no regular person’s life currently exists as such.

Bryn on the Streets; Bryn in the Sheets, too 🏳️‍⚧️@brynstone.bsky.social · 2w ago

Truly, the first time I've read an AI critique that ties into cultural competency, and I'm honestly embarrassed I never considered that angle (mostly because I find using it to be morally radioactive to begin with).