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Siara Biuk
@siara-biuk.bsky.social
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(she/her) I'm a science fiction author and a hobbyist of many things! GenAI is poison. Read my story here: https://www.unchartedmag.com/stories/how-to-curse-in-thirty-seven-languages/
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twiggles.bsky.social
I do my research by asking all my questions to a 4 year old who drinks thousands of gallons of water a day and loves to tell me to kill myself both accidentally and on purpose
January 13, 2026 at 11:45 PM
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angeloslh.bsky.social
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
January 13, 2026 at 8:45 PM
siara-biuk.bsky.social
@merriam-webster.com How could you 😭 not even an option to toggle or hide the worse than useless AI feature

What is a "custom synonym"?? I've been a writer my whole life, I love a good thesaurus, synonym lists are fun to browse. This adds nothing. Does "custom" just mean "based on your mined data"?
Screenshot of Merriam-Webster dictionary website with new generative AI feature to "get custom synonyms"
January 14, 2026 at 10:52 AM
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machete.gay
As I am often saying, the central pillar of Cantor Thought is Tarpeian Socialism, the idea that in a society of significant size, the occasional slob is going to rob a 7-11 and that's not great, but whatever, but if you're given power by society and abuse it, we push you off a big rock.
hyunsuinseoul.bsky.social Hyunsu Yim @hyunsuinseoul.bsky.social · 1d
SEOUL, Jan 13 (Reuters) - South Korea's special prosecutor on Tuesday requested the death penalty for former president Yoon Suk Yeol on charges of insurrection over his brief imposition of martial law in December 2024.
January 13, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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adambonica.bsky.social
Survival and safety: Americans would live 4 years longer. 10,000 fewer babies would die each year from reduced infant mortality rates. Maternal deaths would drop by three-quarters. 85,000 fewer people would die from opioid overdoses.
Screenshot of a data visualization section titled “Survival & Safety,” showing how outcomes would change if the United States matched the OECD average. Eight cards compare U.S. figures to peer democracies. They indicate: life expectancy at birth would increase by 4.1 years (U.S. 78.4 vs OECD 82.5); about 10,000 fewer infant deaths per year (roughly a 45% reduction); maternal deaths in childbirth would fall by 76%; opioid overdose deaths would drop by about 85,000 per year; gun deaths would fall by roughly 35,000 annually (an 81% reduction); school shooting incidents would decline by 99%, effectively disappearing compared to peers; traffic fatalities would decrease by about 25,000 per year; and deaths from police use of force would drop by about 1,000 annually. Each card shows the U.S. rate alongside the OECD average.
January 12, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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adambonica.bsky.social
Family and work: Parents would get 25 weeks of paid parental leave. Workers would get 27 days of guaranteed paid time off per year. We'd work 231 fewer hours per year—nearly six fewer weeks. Net childcare costs would fall by 60%.
Screenshot of a data visualization section titled “Family & Livelihood,” showing what would change if the United States matched the OECD average. Eight cards compare U.S. outcomes to OECD norms. They show: +25 weeks of guaranteed paid parental leave (U.S. 0 vs OECD ~25); +27 days of guaranteed paid time off (U.S. 0 vs OECD 27); 231 fewer annual hours worked per worker (U.S. 1811 vs OECD 1580); childcare costs 60% lower as a share of wages (U.S. 32% vs OECD 13%); 5 million fewer children living in poverty; 15 million fewer workers in poverty-wage jobs; 180,000 fewer unsheltered homeless people; and 500,000 fewer medical bankruptcies per year (common in the U.S., effectively zero in peer countries). Each card lists the U.S. figure alongside the OECD average.
January 12, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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adambonica.bsky.social
If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:

America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.

What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
Screenshot of a data visualization titled “The Cost of American Exceptionalism,” subtitled “What would change if the U.S. matched the OECD average?” The page explains that each card shows how outcomes would change if the U.S. matched the average of 31 peer democracies. Below, a section labeled “Economy & Inequality” displays eight cards comparing U.S. figures to OECD averages. Highlights include: +$19K per household per year in redistributed income and +$96K in redistributed wealth if the top 1% matched OECD shares; a 71% lower CEO-to-worker pay ratio (from 354× to 101×); 50 million more workers with union coverage; 26 million more people with health insurance; $2.1 trillion saved annually in healthcare spending; $691 less per person per year in prescription drug costs; and intergenerational economic mobility being twice as high. Each card shows the U.S. value alongside the OECD average.
January 12, 2026 at 9:36 PM
siara-biuk.bsky.social
Had a brief dream in which one of the podcast hosts I follow here quoted my post and literally gave me the gold star emoji ⭐ which I am now awarding to myself for real because I'm a good noodle and I deserve it.

And here's some for you too! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
spongebob and patrick are standing in front of a chalkboard with good noodles written on it
Alt: spongebob and patrick are standing in front of a chalkboard with good noodles written on it
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January 12, 2026 at 9:52 PM
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ryanhatesthis.bsky.social
ICE agents are, simply put, fucking clowns. Some observations from four days on the ground in Minneapolis.
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ICE agents are, simply put, fucking clowns. According to The Atlantic, they receive 47 days of training — in honor of Trump, the 47th president, naturally. Many of them, also, can barely read or write, apparently. The ones I spent the weekend following around didn’t even have proper uniforms, with some wearing sneakers. In Minnesota. In January. These dipshits are also wearing camo in the snow. They clearly do not have any training when it comes to their own weapons either. Multiple times over the last few days, I watched officers fire pepper spray balls at the feet of protestors barely a few inches away from them. These weapons are basically paintball guns full of concentrated pepper spray. So when they hit a target, they explode into the air. Which meant ICE agents regularly ended up poisoning themselves with their own weapons. I also watched two agents ask each other if a canister they were about to fire at the crowd was tear gas or a stun grenade. (It ended up being a stun grenade that then ignited the tear gas they had already shot at us, which started a fire in the street that a protestor had to help them put out.)
January 12, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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marc-fischer.bsky.social
From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.
January 12, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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robinmarty.com
I'm going to post the link to the video but not the actual video which autoplays and is utterly brutal. Instead I'm posting the photo of the man before ICE assaulted him.

bsky.app/profile/dmbm...
Photo of young man in car who has literally just had his driver side window busted out by ICE, captured by a photographer and posted to Getty images. This was likely the beginning of the video that ends with him surrounded by agents who choked him out, eventually dragged his limp body face first across the pavement as they cuffed him and took him away.
January 12, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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cethanleahy.com
Perhaps the surest sign of AI not being super intelligent is the amount of tailored scams targeting the finances of authors, which is as rewarding as trying to mug a seagull.
January 12, 2026 at 11:51 AM
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manucleardevice.bsky.social
I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time
John Booth, a 19-year-old apprentice who joined a Luddite attack on a textile mill in April 1812. He was injured, detained and died after being allegedly tortured to give up the identity of his fellow Luddites. Booth's last words became a legend: "Can you keep a secret?" he whispered to the local priest, who attested that he could. The dying Booth replied, "So can I."
January 11, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.
From the minnesota community on Reddit: ST. PAUL, MN: A sobbing resident calls 911 as federal agents force their way into her home to chase down a DoorDash driver who was just trying to deliver food.
Explore this post and more from the minnesota community
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January 10, 2026 at 8:42 PM
siara-biuk.bsky.social
My fellow Type 1s get it 🤣 😭
January 10, 2026 at 11:48 PM
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teamcanadaforever.bsky.social
N.I.C.E.
Be more like Canada 🇨🇦
January 9, 2026 at 12:29 PM
siara-biuk.bsky.social
ChatGPT actually did make me smarter. Because I spent so much time researching all of the different reasons to hate it.

Never touch the stuff myself.
January 10, 2026 at 7:47 PM
siara-biuk.bsky.social
I just started a Substack where I'll post about culture and technology! It would mean a lot of you checked out my first post, where I argue that consumers don't really want to automate their home if it means working more.
January 10, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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January 10, 2026 at 12:53 AM
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magicmooshka.bsky.social
it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI
recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.
January 9, 2026 at 5:07 PM
siara-biuk.bsky.social
One of those things you make that you hate by the end and then look at it a few days later and go, maybe it's okay?? #art
Art of a magical blue and purple lake with flying manta-ray creatures and a woman dipping her toe into glowing water.
January 10, 2026 at 11:43 AM
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indigosu73.bsky.social
Good morning ☀️
January 9, 2026 at 7:56 AM
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jeffontherock.bsky.social
Cladonia #lichen (several species). NWT, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends
Photo of a Cladonia lichen podetium. The top/cup of the podetium is ringed with bright red, tiny spheres (the apothecia).
January 9, 2026 at 12:28 AM
siara-biuk.bsky.social
I was inspired by @iwriteok.bsky.social 's reporting on CES and @edzitron.com 's podcast to create a substack and write something very dumb. A better title might be "In Defense of Laundry".
We don't want your laundry-folding robot that can't fold laundry. Hope this helps.
CES used to stand for “Consumer Electronics Show”. This year showed more AI slop and useless robots than ever. Maybe we've come to the end of consumer tech innovation.
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January 9, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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edzitron.com
Bringing Cory Doctorow to the Amazon ces exhibit is like summoning Bahamut in FF7 against a single enemy with 1 hp
January 9, 2026 at 6:11 PM