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really don't like this next Slop Phase
We’re entering the age of AI slop that people believe en masse.
This post is 100% fake and probably AI generated. All made up. Yet massive number of upvotes, views and shares.
Journalist @caseynewton.bsky.social got in touch with the “whistleblower.” The guy faked all “evidence” with AI…
This post is 100% fake and probably AI generated. All made up. Yet massive number of upvotes, views and shares.
Journalist @caseynewton.bsky.social got in touch with the “whistleblower.” The guy faked all “evidence” with AI…
January 6, 2026 at 10:18 PM
really don't like this next Slop Phase
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Globus was a small rotating globe, approximately five inches wide, displaying the spacecraft's current and projected position above Earth. Instead of digital systems, it operated through a complex network of gears, cams, and mechanical differentials that converted orbital data into globe motion.
January 6, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Globus was a small rotating globe, approximately five inches wide, displaying the spacecraft's current and projected position above Earth. Instead of digital systems, it operated through a complex network of gears, cams, and mechanical differentials that converted orbital data into globe motion.
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“If a woman dares to show herself in public in any way, then she can and will be sexually harassed with the aid of genAI-driven tools that can easily turn her face into highly realistic pornography” is an absolute red-alarm human rights disaster
The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.
January 5, 2026 at 3:02 AM
“If a woman dares to show herself in public in any way, then she can and will be sexually harassed with the aid of genAI-driven tools that can easily turn her face into highly realistic pornography” is an absolute red-alarm human rights disaster
The only way anything is making sense to me at the moment is "every official residence has a major carbon monoxide leak that no one has noticed yet"
January 5, 2026 at 12:34 PM
The only way anything is making sense to me at the moment is "every official residence has a major carbon monoxide leak that no one has noticed yet"
Hey so it turns out that being completely stuck in 1945 might possibly be bad for addressing any of the actual real problems that face the country and the world.
January 5, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Hey so it turns out that being completely stuck in 1945 might possibly be bad for addressing any of the actual real problems that face the country and the world.
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BLADE RUNNER: You're walking in the desert and you see a tortoise on its back
ME: A tortoise? What's that?
BLADE RUNNER: You know what a turtle is?
ME: No
BLADE RUNNER: Oh. Usually, that clarifies it. Uh… hear of an armadillo?
ME: Huh?
BLADE RUNNER: Iguana?
ME: Can we talk about my mother now
ME: A tortoise? What's that?
BLADE RUNNER: You know what a turtle is?
ME: No
BLADE RUNNER: Oh. Usually, that clarifies it. Uh… hear of an armadillo?
ME: Huh?
BLADE RUNNER: Iguana?
ME: Can we talk about my mother now
January 4, 2026 at 10:34 PM
BLADE RUNNER: You're walking in the desert and you see a tortoise on its back
ME: A tortoise? What's that?
BLADE RUNNER: You know what a turtle is?
ME: No
BLADE RUNNER: Oh. Usually, that clarifies it. Uh… hear of an armadillo?
ME: Huh?
BLADE RUNNER: Iguana?
ME: Can we talk about my mother now
ME: A tortoise? What's that?
BLADE RUNNER: You know what a turtle is?
ME: No
BLADE RUNNER: Oh. Usually, that clarifies it. Uh… hear of an armadillo?
ME: Huh?
BLADE RUNNER: Iguana?
ME: Can we talk about my mother now
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I'm not joking and this isn't funny. I have been trying to build distributed agent orchestrators at Google since last year. I was just starting to make progress with Claude Code when security asked me to leave because I “don’t work there” and “nobody knows who I am”
January 4, 2026 at 8:05 PM
I'm not joking and this isn't funny. I have been trying to build distributed agent orchestrators at Google since last year. I was just starting to make progress with Claude Code when security asked me to leave because I “don’t work there” and “nobody knows who I am”
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Found the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994: intertapes.net
Intertapes — Main
Obscure tape finds and their stories
intertapes.net
December 13, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Found the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994: intertapes.net
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Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.
Instead of whatever this is, we should have a government getting lots of new homes and apartments built, lots of clean energy built, lots of high speed rail and transit and bike lanes built, human rights for everyone, economic & healthcare opportunities for all, & innovation that leads the world.
January 4, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.
Trump looks and sounds so very sick I'm half wondering if things are specifically happening Now because he doesn't have a lot of time left.
January 3, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Trump looks and sounds so very sick I'm half wondering if things are specifically happening Now because he doesn't have a lot of time left.
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Aberdeenshire Golf Club Owner Kidnaps Foreign Head Of State.
January 3, 2026 at 10:20 AM
Aberdeenshire Golf Club Owner Kidnaps Foreign Head Of State.
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Thresh wheat by hand
It's 2026.
Things many American school kids probably don't know how to do:
* Dial a rotary telephone
* Tell time from an analog clock
* Read or write cursive
* Decipher Roman numerals
* Navigate with a paper map or use a compass
* Balance a checkbook
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Things many American school kids probably don't know how to do:
* Dial a rotary telephone
* Tell time from an analog clock
* Read or write cursive
* Decipher Roman numerals
* Navigate with a paper map or use a compass
* Balance a checkbook
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January 2, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Thresh wheat by hand
Introduce yourself as what almost killed you :
Hello! I am my own hand squeezing my umbilical cord, followed closely by my own intestine trying to make a break for it.
Hello! I am my own hand squeezing my umbilical cord, followed closely by my own intestine trying to make a break for it.
Introduce yourself as what almost killed you:
Greetings! I am a very, very dusty lamp with no bulb in my socket and I am turned on. Dust me?
Greetings! I am a very, very dusty lamp with no bulb in my socket and I am turned on. Dust me?
Introduce yourself as what almost killed you:
Hi, I'm the fireball from the kitchen oven
Hi, I'm the fireball from the kitchen oven
January 2, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Introduce yourself as what almost killed you :
Hello! I am my own hand squeezing my umbilical cord, followed closely by my own intestine trying to make a break for it.
Hello! I am my own hand squeezing my umbilical cord, followed closely by my own intestine trying to make a break for it.
God he's going to write an article about how mean Bluesky users are isn't he. Fuck.
January 2, 2026 at 3:12 PM
God he's going to write an article about how mean Bluesky users are isn't he. Fuck.
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This is quite an important point; if you are a UK citizen with Twitter on your phone, opening it up is like playing Russian roulette that the algorithm might commit a strict liability offence on your behalf.
Has everyone whose scroll the illegal image appeared on also committed an offence by downloading it? This is one of those AI worst case scenarios that ought to make everyone aware of the current direction of travel.
January 2, 2026 at 12:03 PM
This is quite an important point; if you are a UK citizen with Twitter on your phone, opening it up is like playing Russian roulette that the algorithm might commit a strict liability offence on your behalf.
Turns out being a Senior Political Editor doesn't give you the smarts to avoiding being the first (?) Bluesky main character of 2026
January 2, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Turns out being a Senior Political Editor doesn't give you the smarts to avoiding being the first (?) Bluesky main character of 2026
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This Upton Sinclair quote never misses
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
But can anyone tell me what this bit means? “For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty.”
January 2, 2026 at 1:56 PM
This Upton Sinclair quote never misses
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
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The "frigidity of rugged individualism" (great phrase) also masks that those who preach this gospel are neither rugged nor - through connections, corporate government handouts or nepo connections - "individualists." They are "collectivists" for a decaying ruling class.
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 8:12 PM
The "frigidity of rugged individualism" (great phrase) also masks that those who preach this gospel are neither rugged nor - through connections, corporate government handouts or nepo connections - "individualists." They are "collectivists" for a decaying ruling class.
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orcas have the chance to do the funniest thing
December 31, 2025 at 5:25 PM
orcas have the chance to do the funniest thing
America, I am not trying to cause an international incident but I've seen what passes for your driver training and I'm honestly more shocked more of you aren't upside down, covered in petrol, on fire.
Interesting data (from Waymo) showing that robotaxis are significantly safer than the average human driver. This is likely because they respect traffic rules. An NYT op-ed by a neurosurgeon calls for a broader adoption as a public health measure. Thoughts? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...
December 31, 2025 at 3:21 PM
America, I am not trying to cause an international incident but I've seen what passes for your driver training and I'm honestly more shocked more of you aren't upside down, covered in petrol, on fire.
Let's try this again
December 30, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Let's try this again
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so many greats, I think about this one a lot
December 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
so many greats, I think about this one a lot