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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
To me the chatbots pose zero interesting questions about the ‘nature of selfhood’ but dozens about the nature of manipulation. Here the Claude team pretends they are programming the robot for ethical responses but they land on one that is false and disingenuous.
including animals. Among Claude's rigid directives are to be honest and to "never claim to be human. "Imagine, Askell said, a user grieving the loss of her beloved dog. Claude might offer a consolation like "Oh, I almost lost my dog once." Askell said, "No, you didn't! It's weird when you say that." At the other end of the spectrum was a chatbot who said, "As an A.I., I have no experience of losing a dog. "That, too, wasn't right: "No! You're trained on a lot of text about losing dogs. "What you wanted Claude to say, she continued, was something like "As an A.I., I do not have direct personal experiences, but I do understand." (Recently, a chatbot user
February 11, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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Roger Moore
williamadler78.bsky.social William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 6h
Who's the most famous alum of your high school?

I'll go first: David Draiman of Disturbed
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d
guys i just found out i went to the same high school as howard lutnick. please respect my privacy at this time.
February 12, 2026 at 8:28 AM
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anarchygoose.bsky.social
As I drift off to sleep tonight I am again thinking about how we need to re-establish the concept of the commons, from an ecological and humanitarian point of view it just feels increasingly urgent we break this idea that private ownership extends everywhere and to all things.
February 11, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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edzitron.com
What a nice thing to say! It also means absolutely nothing. Anthropic doesn’t own or even lease data centers and thus does not pay power bills on anything other than its office space
Feb 11 (Reuters) - Artificial intelligence company Anthropic on Wednesday announced initiatives to limit the impact of data centers on consumer energy prices amid increased investment in power-hungry infrastructure necessary for Al tech. Anthropic will cover all grid upgrade costs needed to connect its data centers by increasing its monthly electricity charges, thereby preventing them from being passed on to consumers, the company said.
February 12, 2026 at 12:54 AM
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ugarles.bsky.social
plus, the left has shown much better "party loyalty" and harm-reduction instincts in the actual voting booth than the center has. PUMA democrats bail to support the right when a more progressive candidate is on the ballot far more than leftists do when the usual centrist is.
February 11, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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coffinfairy.bsky.social
I’m at $57/$947

Electricity has been shut off which I need to heat the house , use the stove, lights and run the refrigerator. We are also low on food. My birthday is this Friday and if that’s any incentive for help that would be cool. Literally just want to get by.
coffinfairy.bsky.social Juniper @coffinfairy.bsky.social · 1d
My account was suspended for 3 days which made it hard to get help. My electric is past due +going to be shut off soon. We also need food/hygiene products!

Electric-$412
Food and hygiene products-$535

PayPal: www.paypal.me/Coffinelf

Cashapp: cash.app/$juniperkewpie

Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/coffinfairy
Screenshot of text that reads: Hello, wanting to provide context to why I need continuous help with survival funds. I'm a single mom who also caretakes for my disabled child. He is high needs meaning he needs help with everything through out the day. I'm disabled myself. I have long covid which mostly entails POTs, ME/CFS and uterine fibroids. When I was last working I ended up in the ER from overworking my body and decided it was best for me to stay home especially since my disabled child was already struggling so much with the caretaker he had at the time. I also have a trans child so we live in California where it's safest for her and my family in general as two of us are disabled. I'm working towards getting on disability at the moment as well as exploring options to be paid to be my son's caregiver as his behavior gets worse when I'm not the one caring for him. Nothing goes unappreciated and I truly try to thank anyone who helps to the best of my ability. I suffer chronic fatigue so my spoons are limited. Thank you if you read this
February 12, 2026 at 12:58 AM
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merrittk.com
hope this doesn't need to be said, but nationalpost.com/news/canada/...
February 12, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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dytsras.bsky.social
Imma try and keep this short, but this is what i think is importantly historically. The 1960s civil rights laws and decisions were not technically "new legislation." it was a restoration of what already was.

For example
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February 12, 2026 at 1:04 AM
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arisonas.bsky.social
watched the unfinished cut going round of the minecraft movie with some friends. there weren't any subtitles so we loaded the the twin peaks fire walk with me subtitles over it
April 6, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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brianpjcronin.bsky.social
Meanwhile, many libraries that used to offer passport services were recently told by the Federal government they can’t do that anymore. Probably a coincidence!
February 11, 2026 at 11:56 PM
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catgirlfingies.quest
My birthday is on February 20th
I have a birthday goal if you wanna get me anything and help me have a nice day 💙
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Birthday Goal My birthday is on February 20th And if you wanna help me celebrate it, any donation helps me have a great day
February 8, 2026 at 7:56 AM
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sapphic-film-nerd.bsky.social
ICE racially profiled Edith, a Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota woman and severely brutalized her after ripping her from her vehicle!

The goal is only 2k, we can surpass that!

Venmo: @MsEdith2015 CashApp: $MsEdith2015
Paypal: [email protected]
gofundme.com/f/standing-with-edith-against-injustice
ICE agents stormed the vehicle of an enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate. Edith is an Indigenous Woman who ICE agents racially profiled, ripped from her car & brutally beaten before being released. She is currently suffering from a torn rotator cuff, fractured shoulder, 3 herniated disks, & a ruptured eye that needed surgery. Venmo: @MsEdith2015 CashApp: $MsEdith2015 Paypal: clsalsjr@gmail.com
February 11, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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joro.bsky.social
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
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February 12, 2026 at 1:35 AM
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bakoon.bsky.social
sure let me buy this shit again but its much worse and they replaced the ape man looking guy who eats a duck head with a sex criminal who dont even look like him. that seems like a smart idea
February 12, 2026 at 2:51 AM
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blackinaflash.bsky.social
And that is TIME on Back to Black 2026!
We raised $53,242 for @raceforward.org through an incredible weekend of speedruns, showcases, and above all else, BLACK JOY (HECK YEAH).

From all of us at Black in a Flash, THANK YOU.

See you next mission. ✊🏾❤️
A shot of Bobbeigh and PleasantlyTwstd on the couch during the finale of Back to Black 2026.
February 9, 2026 at 6:38 AM
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rincewind.run
Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters
Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one of the world's greatest creative forces. But you had to learn how to control it. That didn't mean you let it trickle away. It meant you dammed it, carefully, let it develop a working head, let it drown whole valleys of the mind and then, just when the whole structure was about to collapse, opened a tiny pipeline at the base and let the iron-hard stream of wrath power the turbines of revenge.
February 11, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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anaphoristand.bsky.social
This is some genuinely psycho shit...
Pam Bondi loves dogs. Always had them, one after another. She got involved with dog shelters and dog rescue, and once pulled off to the side of a busy road and got out of her car to chase down a stray. Another dog she helped was a Saint Bernard named Master Tank. She adopted him from a shelter after he was lost during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, not long after her own Saint Bernard had died. The story has been told but bears repeating. Master Tank belonged to Steve and Dorreen Couture and their grandson, who was 4, recovering from the murder-suicide of his parents and losing his dog during the storm. Bondi said the dog was a “walking skeleton” and “dying from heartworms” when she adopted him. The Coutures eventually tracked down Master Tank, but instead of giving him back, Bondi hired a lawyer, who accused the Coutures of abusing the dog, which Bondi had renamed Noah. “She lied,” Dorreen told a Palm Beach Post columnist years later. “My little grandson begged her to take the dog home, and she refused. She thought she would just wear us down. That we were unstable people and would just quit.” The case was settled out of court, with Bondi securing visitation rights, but she never did visit. She got another dog.
February 11, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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matpiscatella.bsky.social
"Despite the fantastical Afrofuturistic setting... every artifact I stole currently exists in the real world...

I hated the feeling that this fantasy of stealing back the bones of venerated ancestors would be the closest thing to justice that my extended cultural family would ever get"
February 11, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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shaunvids.bsky.social
"i promise right now, years away from an election, to vote for an awful shitbag bigot because he isn't the other guy" shut da fuck up. you are making things worse
February 12, 2026 at 12:15 AM
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shaunvids.bsky.social
your vote has weight outside of election day. regardless of how you end up voting, until then you can bargain with it. the lesser evils are watching you, if you promise your vote for nothing you'll get nothing. say you wont vote for bad candidates. say you'll only vote for policies you like
February 12, 2026 at 12:20 AM
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toasty.cx
it is very fascinating where people who are ostensibly against the fascist regime draw the line to huck slurs and insults like this, isn't it
anamariecox.bsky.social Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 8h
I think this label is one of those that only we smug bitches can call ourselves.
February 12, 2026 at 12:20 AM
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eshockmanwrites.bsky.social
The person photographed here who is in their bathrobe filming armed, masked federal agents in St. Paul is MPR News journalist @samstroozas.bsky.social @mprnews.org . She is an incredible journalist and person. We do not deserve her.
startribune.com Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 12h
A high-speed car chase involving a federal agent in St. Paul ended with a multi-vehicle crash and injuries to the fleeing driver, who was taken away in an ambulance. bit.ly/4kvJo0M

📸: Leila Navidi
February 11, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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emericanjezebel.bsky.social
watching hundreds of democrats on here SUDDENLY shocked by the thermobaric bombs dropped in Gaza, things that Palestinians have told us were happening for 2 YEARS,

and immediately use that shock to blame people for “not voting for Harris“ because this “wouldn’t have happened under her”
man ripping his own face off
February 11, 2026 at 11:04 AM
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mahtowin1.bsky.social
Gwich’in fight to protect caribou from Alaska oil development.
For "the caribou people," protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge means protecting a way of life.
grist.org/indigenous/g...
Gwich'in fight to protect caribou from Alaska oil development
For "the caribou people," protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge means protecting a way of life.
grist.org
February 11, 2026 at 4:48 PM