I was at this game with my kid and it was epic. This is an s-tier radio call.

Nick Piccone@piccone.bsky.social · 4d ago

AN INCREDIBLE COMEBACK BY THE UNION IN STOPPAGE TIME AN INCREDIBLE CALL BY DAVE LENO & SEBASTIEN LE TOUX #DOOP

Within 5 to 10 years a lot of pop music will be made at least partly with AI and the fact that our generation deplores it will be either irrelevant or part of the appeal

lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d ago

Post your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.

"This is an initiative across industries to convince consumers that persistent surveillance is a benefit to the user when it’s actually an attempt to turn consumers into a constant source of data" - @hypervisible.blacksky.app

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5d ago

Companies are all in on selling folks the idea that it’s in your best interest for your products to “know you” as if you are getting a dedicated servant but what you are really getting is a spy.

this is a deep cut! i wrote that in 2017. bhaskar's full thread is worth reading

Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র@bmitra.bsky.social · last wk.

When we talk about Big Tech, let us remember as @willoremus.com eloquently puts it "society does not prepend the label “Big,” with a capital “B,” to an industry out of respect or admiration. It does it out of loathing and fear—and in preparation for battle.' 12/

stock markets are strange

What’s wild to me is that this isn’t an industry standard already. TikTok, Meta could have this option but choose not to

Tom Warren@tomwarren.co.uk · 6d ago

Microsoft-owned LinkedIn just added a “seems like AI slop” button to report posts that don’t feel human-written. It’s part of a broader push to get rid of AI slop on LinkedIn www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Chatbots being extremely good at scams is in some ways just a logical extension of the entire project of building machines that can pass for humans

Andy Greenberg@agreenberg.bsky.social · 6d ago

Scam researchers told a Claude agent and human "scammers" to text test subjects and build a relationship. After a week, subjects said they trusted the AI more than the human and almost half were willing to install an app at its request. Almost none detected it was AI. www.wired.com/story/ai-sca...

Steven Rosenbaum, the author whose "Future of Truth" book was riddled with AI-generated falsehoods, had already been caught using AI to write inaccurate and self-serving Wikipedia pages and edits, @deansterlingjones.bsky.social reports: shootingthemessenger.blog/2026/07/30/s...

SCOOP: Long Before His Book Scandal, Steven Rosenbaum Faced Accusations of AI Fabulism on Wikipedia

REGIONAL EMMY AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR AND FILMMAKER STEVEN ROSENBAUM insists that AI-generated quotes in his 2026 book, The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality, were an ‘accident.’ Bu…

shootingthemessenger.blog

“A rental model [for iPhones] puts consumers in the strange position of storing all of this information in a gadget that Apple and Klarna maintain a lot of control over.”

Damon Beres@damonberes.com · 7d ago

I wrote about the new "Apple Upgrade" program, which plans to entice people into *leasing* new devices—perhaps devices they can't truly afford—leading them to stay on a perpetual cycle of monthly payments and upgrades, filtering their most personal data through property that isn't truly theirs. 🎁:

A glut of AI-written fiction is drowning out human authors, new research shows. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/b...

As @vauhinivara.bsky.social prophesied! The new playbook for writers whose work shows signs of AI is to simply deny it. www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...

This Literary AI Scandal Changes Everything

A magazine’s response to accusations of publishing AI-generated fiction points to a new phase in the struggle to keep literature human.

theatlantic.com

Vauhini Vara@vauhinivara.bsky.social · last wk.

The biggest difference between the scandal over Shy Girl being partly AI-generated and the new allegations over Daggermouth seems to be that the Shy Girl author acknowledged AI involvement (tho blamed someone else) while the Daggermouth author denies it. So now what? Nice @willoremus.com piece.

say what you will about AI, always-on voice recording and auto dictation has been a game changer for my workflows. Save post and close app. Yeah Footlong meatball sub on white. No veggies. Don't toast it. Ranch and barbecue sauce. Yeah, ranch and bargecue sauce. More. More. Little more please

Really enjoyed speaking to @willoremus.com about new work on market dilution caused by books with substantial AI text in them. My favorite part of this experience was to find evidence in the form of hyperspecific rare expressions from a given AI book under scrutiny that also occurs in other books.

Will Oremus@willoremus.com · last wk.

AI-assisted fiction is already here, tons of people are reading it, very few of them realize it, and no one wants to talk about it. Gift link to my latest: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

AI-assisted fiction is already here, tons of people are reading it, very few of them realize it, and no one wants to talk about it. Gift link to my latest: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Is This What Comes After AI Slop?

Daggermouth could be the first best-selling novel partly written by a chatbot.

theatlantic.com

A lot of people are reading AI-generated fiction without realizing it—"stanning" it on TikTok and Instagram, even—though in fairness a lot of people have been doing the same with what might be considered human-written "slop" as well, for quite some time

Is This What Comes After AI Slop?

Daggermouth could be the first best-selling novel partly written by a chatbot.

theatlantic.com

getting very into semicolons solely because AI doesn't use them

i’ve noticed the same

Jon Bois@jonbois.bsky.social · last wk.

it seems like whenever i go on bluesky all i see is a bunch of people talking to each other and posting about stuff

next we'll find out Santa Claus has challenged the city to a snowball fight

Bradford Pearson@bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is shaping up to be the greatest day in online Philadelphia history

76ers lineup be like “what if 82-0.com but real life”

my 11yo sixers fan declares that this has “made my day. no wait — my month.”

Will Oremus@willoremus.com · 2w ago

Tired: Gambling on Polymarket Wired: Insider trading on Polymarket Inspired: Making bets on Polymarket and then manipulating the real world to make them come true www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

The ‘Hair-Dryer Incident’ Is Just the Start

A new, gonzo style of fraud could be an existential threat to prediction markets.

theatlantic.com

AI models have clung to one particular cliché when writing text—and no one seems to know why chatbots are so enamored with it, @willoremus.com reports: theatln.tc/dtZR4fhE

Do data centers really use exorbitant amounts of water? The answer is "it depends" in about 10 different ways. (Unlike electricity, to which the answer is an unambiguous "yes.") Here's a lucid and helpful explanation: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2... by @matteowong.bsky.social (gift link)

The Truth About AI’s Water Use

It’s complicated—and it might not matter that much.

theatlantic.com

Me just wanting to watch the world burn: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me watching the world burn: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

Health officials have warned residents to avoid assassining down the avenue

Chris Steller@chrissteller.bsky.social · 3w ago

Someone just sent me this photo from Chicago, unbelieveable

let’s play a reddit game: guess the city

got off a plane, looked in a hudson news and for a second i was forced to entertain the possibility that i had somehow landed in 1996