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Mellow Lugosi’s Dead 🧛🏻‍♂️ @flyingtrilobite.com · 3h

Both DC and Marvel have expressed that gen AI has no place in their comic books.

That’s significant.

I hope they go further and enshroud that in contracts if they haven’t already. #CreateDontScrape

DC:
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Marvel:
bleedingcool.com/comics/nycc-...

Jim Lee Says DC Comics Will Never Support Generative AI

So long as Lee is president of DC Studios, the company will not have its heroes drawn or written by AI.

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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 5h

apparently billionaire-built digital slop machine output is being posted to billionaire-built digital platforms in an effort to create and spread misinformation as widely and harmfully as possible ikr.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

AI-generated misinformation about 4yo Gus prompts tech and legal concerns

The thought of a missing boy lost in the outback is indescribably harrowing — but what's almost as disturbing is the realisation that some on social media have seized on the disappearance of four-year...

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John Dupuis @dupuisj.bsky.social · 5h

It’s arrived! Enshittification by @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy!

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 11h

I've seen this movie. It doesn't end well.

Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 17h

“In September, scientists at Stanford reported they had used A.I. to design a virus for the first time.”

Opinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World

www.nytimes.com

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

Just bone chilling. And when the imprisonment of critics is combined with his offer to enrich and immunize his loyalists, this is how democracies die fast.

But it's still our choice. Don't let him silence you.

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John Dupuis @dupuisj.bsky.social · 4d

Children are our future, and we’re letting them down by letting Covid run rampant.

Covid reinfection doubles Long Covid risk in kids, Damages their brains & hearts, Hurts their futures, and more

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Covid reinfection doubles Long Covid risk in kids, Damages their brains & hearts, Hurts their futures, and more

Bonus Hidden damage to human organs

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John Dupuis @dupuisj.bsky.social · 12h

Immunosupremacy, Everyone’s got a little brain damage these days, Long Covid is here to stay, and more

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Immunosupremacy, Everyone’s got a little brain damage these days, Long Covid is here to stay, and more

Bonus One mutation away from the next global pandemic

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John Dupuis @dupuisj.bsky.social · 1d

Read the latest from the Covid-Is-Not-Over newsletter:

Immunosupremacy, Everyone’s got a little brain damage these days, Long Covid is here to stay, and more

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Immunosupremacy, Everyone’s got a little brain damage these days, Long Covid is here to stay, and more

Bonus One mutation away from the next global pandemic

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John Dupuis @dupuisj.bsky.social · 1d

Read the latest from the Covid-Is-Not-Over newsletter:

Immunosupremacy, Everyone’s got a little brain damage these days, Long Covid is here to stay, and more

johndupuis.substack.com/p/immunosupr...

Immunosupremacy, Everyone’s got a little brain damage these days, Long Covid is here to stay, and more

Bonus One mutation away from the next global pandemic

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data (was @anarchodelphis). @ratnegative.bsky.social · 1d

UPDATED: #Ontario #SARSCoV2 variants.

Of 31 samples from 9/28 - 10/1 (vs. 388, 9/21 - 9/27; 432, 9/14 - 9/20):
NB.1.8.1.* (incl. PQ.*): <4% (⬇️ 9%; ⬇️ 20.6%)
XFG.*: 90.3% (⬆️ 79.6%; ⬆️ 69.9%)
→ XFG.3.* (incl. QK.2): 48.4% (⬆️ 40.2%; ⬆️ 33.3%)

ratnegative.tumblr.com/ONVariants #COVID19

Of the samples collected in Ontario on these weeks, the prevalence of each of these significant variants/lineages are as follows:

- 9/28 - 10/1 -
• NB.1.8.1: <4%
• XFG.* (incl. XFG.1.1, ".3.*): 90.3%
→ XFG.3.* (incl. XFG.3.4.*): 48.4%
→ XFG.3.4.* (incl. XFG.3.4.1, ".3.4.3): 16.1%
• PY.1.1.1: 0%

- 9/21 - 9/27 -
• NB.1.8.1 (incl. PQ.1, ".2): 9%
• XFG.* (incl. XFG.1.* - ".3.*): 79.6%
→ XFG.3.* (incl. XFG.3.1.*, ".3.3.*, ".3.4.*, QK.2): 40.2%
→ XFG.3.4.* (incl. XFG.3.4.1 - ".3.4.3): 14.2%
• PY.1.1.1: 6.2%

X.X.* in text = X.X & descendants.

X.X.* in graph = all descendants of X.X, except for ones with own segment of week’s bar.

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John Dupuis @dupuisj.bsky.social · 2d

Montreal. Now Toronto.

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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 2d

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 2d

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 3d

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onion person @junlper.beer · 4d

taylor swift put out ai generated videos and has been being called out by her own fans for it and twitter is currently not letting you search “taylor swift ai” lmfao

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Montreal Gazette @mtlgazette.bsky.social · 4d

Obituary: Former CBC Montreal newscaster Dennis Trudeau was 'a wonderful storyteller'

“He was someone who always strove for accuracy and fairness ... a wonderful storyteller who continued to tell stories after he retired from the CBC."

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 4d

Robin Williams daughter Zelda is pleading with people to stop creating AI videos of her Dad.

I’m pleading with you to stop using generative AI.

It’s destructive to the environment.

It’s destructive to artists.

It’s destructive to humanity.

It steals from us and churns out slop.

Just stop.

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Vickie O'Goblin 👻🎃 😷 🇨🇦 @vickietorious.bsky.social · 4d

No joke... Someone needs to do it...or a whole generation will be ruined.

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The Dax Symbiont 🏴🏳️‍🌈🌲🇸🇩 @thedaxsymbiont.bsky.social · 4d

As a long time anti school anarchist it brings me no joy to say that American schools are essentially a killing field for children at this point. Whether it’s a bullet carved with a swastika or a third infection in as many months leading to permanent and potentially fatal health outcomes

John Dupuis @dupuisj.bsky.social · 4d

Children are our future, and we’re letting them down by letting Covid run rampant.

Covid reinfection doubles Long Covid risk in kids, Damages their brains & hearts, Hurts their futures, and more

open.substack.com/pub/johndupu...

Covid reinfection doubles Long Covid risk in kids, Damages their brains & hearts, Hurts their futures, and more

Bonus Hidden damage to human organs

open.substack.com

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John Dupuis @dupuisj.bsky.social · 4d

Children are our future, and we’re letting them down by letting Covid run rampant.

Covid reinfection doubles Long Covid risk in kids, Damages their brains & hearts, Hurts their futures, and more

open.substack.com/pub/johndupu...

Covid reinfection doubles Long Covid risk in kids, Damages their brains & hearts, Hurts their futures, and more

Bonus Hidden damage to human organs

open.substack.com

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John Dupuis @dupuisj.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks!

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natimmunol.nature.com @natimmunol.nature.com · 4d

Congratulations to Fred Ramsdell, Mary Brunkow and Shimon Sakaguchi - the 2025 Winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. #Treg_cells #Foxp3 #Immune_regulation