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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Ali Lanier @alilanier.bsky.social · 1d

A corpse reviver? Or a zombie?

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Ali Lanier @alilanier.bsky.social · 1d

Gotta go to New York for that

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Ali Lanier @alilanier.bsky.social · 2d

Somebody did take his shot though 😤

Ali Lanier @alilanier.bsky.social · 2d

Hey respect his privacy

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Ali Lanier @alilanier.bsky.social · 2d

Sure is October in a New England village

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 9d

So great to see this profile of Andrea Bartz in her (and all authors’) fight against Anthropic.

The Thriller Writer Who Took on a Tech Giant

www.nytimes.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 11d

The Sora AI thing is proof of something very important: The technology itself is useless without the ability to use the likenesses of real, living, unpredictable people, and the art they create. And the only way to get those likenesses or that art is to summarily steal it.

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Dia VanGunten / Writer @pinkzombierose.bsky.social · 11d

Mischievous cat image

Me reading what I wrote 2 years ago:
Clearly I was young and immature when I wrote this

Mischievous cat image

Me reading what I wrote 10 minutes ago:
Clearly I was young and immature when I wrote this

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 12d

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

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larrynightdive.bsky.social @larrynightdive.bsky.social · 12d

Every single game that ships is some kind of miracle.

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Jennybreaching @jennygoodwin.bsky.social · 13d

We were supposed to have a Song of the Lioness series and I’m so angry at this timeline 😩

www.cbr.com/tamora-pierc...

This Canceled Fantasy Adaptation Should Have Been the Next Game of Thrones

Despite a TV adaptation announcement, Tamora Pierce's Song of the Lioness quartet never made it onscreen - but it should have.

www.cbr.com

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 13d

not exaggerating to say this show is probably why I'm an author and also part of why I'm a curious person. this is good 💓

Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 13d

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶

🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈

#FollowTheRainbow

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Ali Lanier @alilanier.bsky.social · 13d

My roommate’s cat and I have developed a fun new game:

She fixates on lantern flies through the screen, and I go out and smash them.

A black cat at a screen door, with a sunny porch on the other side.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16d

JUST NOW AT THE UN…

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Ali Lanier @alilanier.bsky.social · 16d

My latest for Pajiba…

www.pajiba.com/tv_reviews/g...

‘Gen V’ Is No Longer a Warning. It's a Mirror

No one has ever accused <I>The Boys</I> and its offshoot, <I>Gen V,</I> of being subtle.

www.pajiba.com

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 17d

this is so lovely

FANGORIA @fangoria.bsky.social · 17d

He may play a CREEP but Mark Duplass is a stand-up guy, as Duplass Brothers Productions is teaming up with the Transgender Film Center to launch the Found Footage Fund for trans filmmakers.

CREEP’s Mark Duplass Launches Found Footage Fund For Trans Filmmakers

He may play a CREEP but Mark Duplass is a stand-up guy, as Duplass Brothers Productions is teaming up with the Transgender Film Center to launch the Found Footage Fund for trans filmmakers.

dlvr.it

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 26d

Call your reps AND senators!
Trans people need to have their healthcare protected. Tell them you support trans people.
Cis people, pick up your phones and do some heavy lifting.

emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 26d

hi, cis folks!

trans people need your help! the FY26 budget gets a vote by 9/30. GOP wants a ban on funds for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. they're trying for other bans, too.

we need you to call senators like chuck who don't get it: reps.fyi

info & script in the🧵⬇️

SEC. 243. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce Executive Order 13988, entitled ‘‘Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation’’, published by the Executive Office of the President on January 25, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 7023).

SEC. 244. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for any social, psychological, behavioral,or medical intervention performed for the purposes of in16 tentionally changing the body of an individual (including by disrupting the body’s development, inhibiting its natural functions, or modifying its appearance) to no longer correspond to the individual’s biological sex.

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · Sep 10

Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction

Text mounted on a screen reads as follows:

WHAT IS SCIENCE FICTION?

1. DOESN'T MATTER
2. WHO CARES
3. MARKETING DEPARTMENT'S PROBLEM
4. NOT YOURS

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · Sep 6

A b&w photo of William Burroughs, with his quote "What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits quantity."

William Burroughs

U N D E R T O W @undertowmusic.bsky.social · Sep 5

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · Sep 3

its deeply funny/a historical tragedy that silicon valley are spending countless billions and boiling oceans chasing an AI fever dream while actual future tech is out there looking cool as hell

Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · Sep 3

More train, FTR:

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · Sep 2

NEWS: A House of Representatives Subcommittee just voted to continue library funding in next year's federal budget. This is thanks to YOUR hard work as library advocates.

The fight to #FundLibraries isn't over yet. Stay tuned for more ways to take action for libraries. #ForOurLibraries

You made your voice heard for libraries. The House listened. A House of Representatives Subcommittee just voted to continue library funding in next year's federal budget.
The fight to #FundLibraries isn't over yet, but this good news is thanks to your hard work.
Stay tuned for more ways to take action for libraries. Show up for our libraries. American Library Associaiton.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Sep 2

This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.

angela yang @angelayang.bsky.social · Sep 2

The AI boom has created a new type of work: fixing botched AI. Designers are being hired to remake wonky AI art. Writers are asked to make ChatGPT’s writing sound more human. Even software developers are tasked with fixing buggy vibe coding.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Humans are being hired to make AI slop look less sloppy

In the age of automation, human workers are being brought in to fix what artificial intelligence gets wrong.

www.nbcnews.com

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · Aug 29

Remember how if a kid choked on a little plastic toy they used to stop selling the toy

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · Aug 29

Something about the two stories about ChatGPT's involvement in suicides/murder that came out this week that really stuck out to me: OpenAI basically has a boilerplate response when their product gets people killed.

"Deeply saddened"

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

WSJ: An OpenAI spokeswoman said the company has reached out to the Greenwich Police Department. “We are deeply saddened by this tragic event,” the spokeswoman said. “Our hearts go out to the family.”

NYT: Ms. Raine started reading the conversations, too. She had a different reaction: “ChatGPT killed my son.”

In an emailed statement, OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, wrote: “We are deeply saddened by Mr. Raine’s passing, and our thoughts are with his family. ChatGPT includes safeguards such as directing people to crisis help lines and referring them to real-world resources. While these safeguards work best in common, short exchanges, we’ve learned over time that they can sometimes become less reliable in long interactions where parts of the model’s safety training may degrade.”

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Jennifer Savran Kelly @jsavrankelly.bsky.social · Aug 24

I’m writing on the inside.

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