Kyle Lukoff
@kylelukoff.bsky.social
"Kyle Lukoff? Isn't he, like, the trans Maurice Sendak?"
"No, Maurice Sendak is the cis Kyle Lukoff."
"No, Maurice Sendak is the cis Kyle Lukoff."
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Also, chatbots should be regulated as medical devices. If they’re not fit for purpose, they should be removed from the market.
Unless our government simply doesn’t care about actually doing their job. Which increasingly seems to be the case.
Unless our government simply doesn’t care about actually doing their job. Which increasingly seems to be the case.
Best line in a story highlighting the prevalence of false health info from AI: “In Google’s response to the Guardian piece, it said the vast majority of its AI Overviews were factual and helpful, and it was continuously making improvements.”
So only some of Google’s advice is harmful. Got it.
So only some of Google’s advice is harmful. Got it.
About half of Canadians are turning to AI for health information, survey says
People who use technology are five times more likely to report harms to their health compared to those who don’t
www.theglobeandmail.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:59 AM
Also, chatbots should be regulated as medical devices. If they’re not fit for purpose, they should be removed from the market.
Unless our government simply doesn’t care about actually doing their job. Which increasingly seems to be the case.
Unless our government simply doesn’t care about actually doing their job. Which increasingly seems to be the case.
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Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.
An immigration court dropped its case against Turkish graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, a little less than a year after federal agents arrested her on a street near Tufts University
Immigration Court Drops Case Against Tufts Student Rumeysa Ozturk
The Turkish national had been arrested by plainclothes federal officers outside her apartment.
on.wsj.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.
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jesus christ!!!!! stop wtf!!!!
When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured”
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts
Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...
www.reuters.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:45 AM
jesus christ!!!!! stop wtf!!!!
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🎵 If they ask you to pay money it's a scam 👏👏
🎵 If they ask you to pay money it's a scam 👏👏
🎵 that is not your favorite author or a stunning book club offer
🎵 They are asking you for money=it's a scam 👏👏
🎵 If they ask you to pay money it's a scam 👏👏
🎵 that is not your favorite author or a stunning book club offer
🎵 They are asking you for money=it's a scam 👏👏
February 9, 2026 at 4:47 AM
🎵 If they ask you to pay money it's a scam 👏👏
🎵 If they ask you to pay money it's a scam 👏👏
🎵 that is not your favorite author or a stunning book club offer
🎵 They are asking you for money=it's a scam 👏👏
🎵 If they ask you to pay money it's a scam 👏👏
🎵 that is not your favorite author or a stunning book club offer
🎵 They are asking you for money=it's a scam 👏👏
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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
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This is the ur-grift: it’s not the get-rich-quick scheme that makes you rich, it’s teaching other people how to sell it to someone else.
To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
February 8, 2026 at 10:15 PM
This is the ur-grift: it’s not the get-rich-quick scheme that makes you rich, it’s teaching other people how to sell it to someone else.
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if I can use this clogged toilet to make you a meal in 5 seconds, and you are going to use an entire kitchen and take all day on making a meal by hand, whose meal do you think people will want to eat, checkmate luddite
“If I can generate a book in a day, and you need six months to write a book, who’s going to win the race?” God this is bleak
The New Fabio Is Claude
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 10:03 PM
if I can use this clogged toilet to make you a meal in 5 seconds, and you are going to use an entire kitchen and take all day on making a meal by hand, whose meal do you think people will want to eat, checkmate luddite
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I can think of other people whose success is arbitrary.
February 8, 2026 at 1:05 AM
I can think of other people whose success is arbitrary.
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Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams
February 6, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams
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Add to your calendar: @raulthethird.bsky.social and @kylelukoff.bsky.social in conversation on Feb. 11 for Library Lovers Week!
Readers, Librarians, Educators, and Book Clubs, Library Lovers Week 2026 is for you. Join @everylibrary Live! for 3 live conversations each evening next week, celebrating discovery, imagination, and the power of libraries to keep stories alive across generations. RSVP at www.libraryloversweek.org
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February 6, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Add to your calendar: @raulthethird.bsky.social and @kylelukoff.bsky.social in conversation on Feb. 11 for Library Lovers Week!
we've got puns, folks!
February 6, 2026 at 3:16 PM
we've got puns, folks!
I forgot to credit the brilliant illustrator Priscilla Tey. This book is such a work of art thanks to her.
February 6, 2026 at 3:10 PM
I forgot to credit the brilliant illustrator Priscilla Tey. This book is such a work of art thanks to her.
A little peek at my next picture book, THE VICIOUS CYCLE. I feel like this describes a lot of us right now, but I promise it gets out <3
(out on 10/6; pre-order here, or wherever you like to get your books bookshop.org/p/books/the-...)
(out on 10/6; pre-order here, or wherever you like to get your books bookshop.org/p/books/the-...)
February 6, 2026 at 2:46 PM
A little peek at my next picture book, THE VICIOUS CYCLE. I feel like this describes a lot of us right now, but I promise it gets out <3
(out on 10/6; pre-order here, or wherever you like to get your books bookshop.org/p/books/the-...)
(out on 10/6; pre-order here, or wherever you like to get your books bookshop.org/p/books/the-...)
When will the media develop object permanence
Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left.
It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too
It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too
February 6, 2026 at 1:12 PM
When will the media develop object permanence
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Sure, a wide array of American elites were palling around with a pedophile and eugenicist but did you know that a Pedro Pascal fan account on bluesky is being slightly hyperbolic when posting about it
February 5, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Sure, a wide array of American elites were palling around with a pedophile and eugenicist but did you know that a Pedro Pascal fan account on bluesky is being slightly hyperbolic when posting about it
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“I do not think that 50 year old men should be having sex with 16 year old girls. But “
This level of apologia (from Megan McArdle in a podcast with Josh Barro and Ross Douthat) is fucking appalling. Idk what else there is to say.
February 5, 2026 at 11:31 PM
“I do not think that 50 year old men should be having sex with 16 year old girls. But “
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Remember, sneering works. It’s working now. That’s why the lowliest AI fan and the CEO of Microsoft are trying to get us to stop saying “slop.”
AI art is supposed to be its flashy flagship and treating it as disposable rubbish (which it is) ruins everything
AI art is supposed to be its flashy flagship and treating it as disposable rubbish (which it is) ruins everything
February 6, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Remember, sneering works. It’s working now. That’s why the lowliest AI fan and the CEO of Microsoft are trying to get us to stop saying “slop.”
AI art is supposed to be its flashy flagship and treating it as disposable rubbish (which it is) ruins everything
AI art is supposed to be its flashy flagship and treating it as disposable rubbish (which it is) ruins everything
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”You liked this $20 until you learned it was counterfeit!” they chirp, confident that they have won the argument
February 6, 2026 at 1:57 AM
”You liked this $20 until you learned it was counterfeit!” they chirp, confident that they have won the argument
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They say “But you LIKED this art when you didn’t know it was AI!” like it’s some kind of gotcha.
We liked the original artist upon whose stolen work the machine was trained. Kindly point us in their direction.
We liked the original artist upon whose stolen work the machine was trained. Kindly point us in their direction.
February 6, 2026 at 1:56 AM
They say “But you LIKED this art when you didn’t know it was AI!” like it’s some kind of gotcha.
We liked the original artist upon whose stolen work the machine was trained. Kindly point us in their direction.
We liked the original artist upon whose stolen work the machine was trained. Kindly point us in their direction.
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This is only related in a sideways manner, but: the story of any small slice of humanity is the story of humanity, just boiled down and distilled. So:
In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.
In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.
the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
February 5, 2026 at 8:58 PM
This is only related in a sideways manner, but: the story of any small slice of humanity is the story of humanity, just boiled down and distilled. So:
In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.
In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.
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some people truly are of no value to society
This level of apologia (from Megan McArdle in a podcast with Josh Barro and Ross Douthat) is fucking appalling. Idk what else there is to say.
February 5, 2026 at 9:52 PM
some people truly are of no value to society
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Stunning.
Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
February 5, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Stunning.
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In addition to all this, Fobazi was funny. Really funny. She wasn’t just vocational awe. She would have hated that. RIP.
February 5, 2026 at 1:14 AM
In addition to all this, Fobazi was funny. Really funny. She wasn’t just vocational awe. She would have hated that. RIP.
What's every two weeks besides "extremely annoying"?
February 3, 2026 at 8:07 PM
What's every two weeks besides "extremely annoying"?