ClockworkCanary
@clockworkcanary.bsky.social
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I repost a lot. I like to amplify.
The flower in my avatar is a cereus, or orchid cactus. The banner is my cat Madmartigan’s paw on a knitting project of mine, red and blue two color brioche.
My media tab is mostly cats and knitting.
I repost a lot. I like to amplify.
The flower in my avatar is a cereus, or orchid cactus. The banner is my cat Madmartigan’s paw on a knitting project of mine, red and blue two color brioche.
My media tab is mostly cats and knitting.
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As an undiagnosed but probably autistic and adhd adult I have always found socializing hard. I don’t get the “understood” stuff that some people were either taught or just pick up somehow, so I had to deliberately learn what I know.
Who wants to talk about socializing and networks?
Who wants to talk about socializing and networks?
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I think one of the biggest hurdles to Healthy Discourse re: AI is that the real groundbreaking uses (mostly in scientific and medical research) are largely invisible outside of specialist circles, and the most infuriating/scammiest ones (customer service chatbots, etc) are super visible to EVERYONE.
October 2, 2026 at 4:39 PM
I think one of the biggest hurdles to Healthy Discourse re: AI is that the real groundbreaking uses (mostly in scientific and medical research) are largely invisible outside of specialist circles, and the most infuriating/scammiest ones (customer service chatbots, etc) are super visible to EVERYONE.
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A substantial part of the problem is that "AI" (which is really better expressed as "machine learning") encompasses a large number of technologies that are completely different than LLMs. But LLMs have sucked the oxygen out of all other discussions.
medium.com/@colin.frase...
medium.com/@colin.frase...
October 2, 2026 at 4:49 PM
A substantial part of the problem is that "AI" (which is really better expressed as "machine learning") encompasses a large number of technologies that are completely different than LLMs. But LLMs have sucked the oxygen out of all other discussions.
medium.com/@colin.frase...
medium.com/@colin.frase...
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Years ago I interviewed Houston Mayor Annise Parker who told me one of the main reasons the city was able to cut homelessness by so much is she forced all the governments and nonprofits into a room and made them use the same data system.
Meanwhile in LA www.latimes.com/california/s...
Meanwhile in LA www.latimes.com/california/s...
October 2, 2026 at 3:18 AM
Years ago I interviewed Houston Mayor Annise Parker who told me one of the main reasons the city was able to cut homelessness by so much is she forced all the governments and nonprofits into a room and made them use the same data system.
Meanwhile in LA www.latimes.com/california/s...
Meanwhile in LA www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Take the time to read this. It’s wonderfully imaginative, evocative, and moving.
I have a new novella out in the 20th Anniversary edition of Clarkesworld this month!
"The Job" is about a woman with serious self-image issues who takes a contract to survey an alien ocean for corporate exploitation, wearing the body of a bioengineered whale.
clarkesworldmagazine.com/bear_10_26/
"The Job" is about a woman with serious self-image issues who takes a contract to survey an alien ocean for corporate exploitation, wearing the body of a bioengineered whale.
clarkesworldmagazine.com/bear_10_26/
The Job by Elizabeth Bear
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
clarkesworldmagazine.com
October 3, 2026 at 3:17 AM
Take the time to read this. It’s wonderfully imaginative, evocative, and moving.
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DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say. www.wired.com/story/ice-ha...
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
www.wired.com
October 2, 2026 at 7:56 PM
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say. www.wired.com/story/ice-ha...
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this is your reminder to go check your junk drawers and boxes shoved away somewhere: those old flip phones and mp3 players and whatever else you've got laying around need to go to the e-waste dump
October 3, 2026 at 5:15 AM
this is your reminder to go check your junk drawers and boxes shoved away somewhere: those old flip phones and mp3 players and whatever else you've got laying around need to go to the e-waste dump
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Fraternities are the ur-old boy network in the US.
Joining one won't guarantee you end up running a fortune 500 company, or sitting on the Supreme Court... but if you don't join one the odds of those things happening are practically zilch.
And that's a problem.
Joining one won't guarantee you end up running a fortune 500 company, or sitting on the Supreme Court... but if you don't join one the odds of those things happening are practically zilch.
And that's a problem.
A core part of the problem is that parents want their sons to be able to access male privilege more than they want to stop sexual violence.
You have to let go of the fraternities. And the men’s only athletic teams. And any other boys clubs.
You have to let go of the fraternities. And the men’s only athletic teams. And any other boys clubs.
October 3, 2026 at 5:16 AM
Fraternities are the ur-old boy network in the US.
Joining one won't guarantee you end up running a fortune 500 company, or sitting on the Supreme Court... but if you don't join one the odds of those things happening are practically zilch.
And that's a problem.
Joining one won't guarantee you end up running a fortune 500 company, or sitting on the Supreme Court... but if you don't join one the odds of those things happening are practically zilch.
And that's a problem.
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Directing DOJ to slow-walk politically damaging decisions until after people vote would be a major scandal under any normal administration. Here, it’s just Friday.
The White House is coordinating with the Justice Department to hide its abortion agenda from voters until after they've voted in order to try to influence the results of the election.
October 2, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Directing DOJ to slow-walk politically damaging decisions until after people vote would be a major scandal under any normal administration. Here, it’s just Friday.
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Also do the honest work of eliminating any trace of plagiarism in your beloved product. How? Not my fucking problem! If you can’t run your business / technology without stealing other people’s work, it deserves to die. Personally I’m happy to see it die, so don’t try to make it my responsibility.
October 2, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Also do the honest work of eliminating any trace of plagiarism in your beloved product. How? Not my fucking problem! If you can’t run your business / technology without stealing other people’s work, it deserves to die. Personally I’m happy to see it die, so don’t try to make it my responsibility.
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The BEST thing that true believers in AI could do is stop evangelizing to people, like me, who think it sucks.
Do the hard, years-long work of detaching your beloved technology from the worst people in the world right now: shameless fascists driven by greed and domination. They’re YOUR partners.
Do the hard, years-long work of detaching your beloved technology from the worst people in the world right now: shameless fascists driven by greed and domination. They’re YOUR partners.
October 2, 2026 at 9:42 PM
The BEST thing that true believers in AI could do is stop evangelizing to people, like me, who think it sucks.
Do the hard, years-long work of detaching your beloved technology from the worst people in the world right now: shameless fascists driven by greed and domination. They’re YOUR partners.
Do the hard, years-long work of detaching your beloved technology from the worst people in the world right now: shameless fascists driven by greed and domination. They’re YOUR partners.
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::laughs in Clippy::
‘The aim is to make the AI assistants a little more approachable, distinct and trustworthy. If the Jolly Green Giant could get kids to eat their vegetables, perhaps a sweet anthropomorphic triangle can win over AI skeptics.‘ www.wsj.com/tech/ai/tech...
Tech Companies Roll Out Cuddly Mascots to Ease AI Anxiety
Meta, OpenAI and others are associating their AI agents and tools with cute characters to win over skeptics.
www.wsj.com
October 2, 2026 at 8:21 PM
::laughs in Clippy::
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It's not psychosis. It's that a technology has been rapidly developed & pushed by some of the worst people to ever exist, far too many of whom are completely immune from any/all consequences, all while the average person has no real use for the technology. 22/
October 3, 2026 at 2:43 AM
It's not psychosis. It's that a technology has been rapidly developed & pushed by some of the worst people to ever exist, far too many of whom are completely immune from any/all consequences, all while the average person has no real use for the technology. 22/
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As Paracelsus said, "The dose makes the poison".
It's not that "social media" is destructive, any more than beer is.
Use it without moderation and it can destroy you.
Establish a healthy relationship and you get mellow with your friends.
It's not that "social media" is destructive, any more than beer is.
Use it without moderation and it can destroy you.
Establish a healthy relationship and you get mellow with your friends.
I feel like there's a cohort of us who got on the internet before "social media" and made all sorts of healthy friendships through forums or livejournal or what have you and thus, while everyone's like SOCIAL MEDIA FUELS COMPARISON AND MISERY we're like, but that's just where my friends live.
Without the online friends I’ve made over the years, some of whom have become offline friends (even recently!), I would be a much, much lonelier person.
Social media feels evil sometimes, but it makes some miracles too.
Social media feels evil sometimes, but it makes some miracles too.
October 3, 2026 at 5:10 AM
As Paracelsus said, "The dose makes the poison".
It's not that "social media" is destructive, any more than beer is.
Use it without moderation and it can destroy you.
Establish a healthy relationship and you get mellow with your friends.
It's not that "social media" is destructive, any more than beer is.
Use it without moderation and it can destroy you.
Establish a healthy relationship and you get mellow with your friends.
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If you're using genAi thumbnails and feature images for your supposedly progressive articles, I ain't reading your shit. You are not a progressive. You're just another cog in the machine stealing our work for capitalist ends.
October 3, 2026 at 4:57 AM
If you're using genAi thumbnails and feature images for your supposedly progressive articles, I ain't reading your shit. You are not a progressive. You're just another cog in the machine stealing our work for capitalist ends.
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You can't build a massive, multi-billion-dollar network of private detention camps and state-contracted prisons without a projected market that justifies the investment.
Bodies in cells. They plan to fill every single bed and cot.
Bodies in cells. They plan to fill every single bed and cot.
October 3, 2026 at 1:26 AM
You can't build a massive, multi-billion-dollar network of private detention camps and state-contracted prisons without a projected market that justifies the investment.
Bodies in cells. They plan to fill every single bed and cot.
Bodies in cells. They plan to fill every single bed and cot.
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ICE builds more prisons because the goal is explicitly to warehouse surplus labor, criminalize poverty, and assert total control over all of society.
When Stephen Miller claims there are 25, 30, or even 50 million "illegal immigrants" in the US, he's betting on how many of us he'll need to imprison
When Stephen Miller claims there are 25, 30, or even 50 million "illegal immigrants" in the US, he's betting on how many of us he'll need to imprison
October 3, 2026 at 1:23 AM
ICE builds more prisons because the goal is explicitly to warehouse surplus labor, criminalize poverty, and assert total control over all of society.
When Stephen Miller claims there are 25, 30, or even 50 million "illegal immigrants" in the US, he's betting on how many of us he'll need to imprison
When Stephen Miller claims there are 25, 30, or even 50 million "illegal immigrants" in the US, he's betting on how many of us he'll need to imprison
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incredible that this movie came out in 1980 and offices are still like “ummmmm actually it’s terrible for productivity if we just let you all have childcare and potted plants”
October 1, 2026 at 6:12 AM
incredible that this movie came out in 1980 and offices are still like “ummmmm actually it’s terrible for productivity if we just let you all have childcare and potted plants”
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the only personality test that matters is the Violet / Judy / Doralee index
I gave it a great deal of thought and I think I’m a Judy with Violet aspirations
I gave it a great deal of thought and I think I’m a Judy with Violet aspirations
October 1, 2026 at 6:15 AM
the only personality test that matters is the Violet / Judy / Doralee index
I gave it a great deal of thought and I think I’m a Judy with Violet aspirations
I gave it a great deal of thought and I think I’m a Judy with Violet aspirations
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I mean yeah, a decade of no one holding Trump accountable for his much more obvious crimes, combined with both Nazi and Confederate rehabilitation projects on the right, was always going to lead to “actually we’ve never done ANYTHING wrong and you guys owe us apologies for every check on our power”
The DOJ is reviewing "whether the special prosecutor’s office that investigated the famed Watergate break-in committed misconduct, according to people familiar with the matter, more than half a century after that scandal led to Nixon’s resignation."
Exclusive | Decades After Watergate, Justice Department Reviews Whether Nixon Got a Raw Deal
A revisionist historian went to the DOJ headquarters to present his case that the former president and his associates weren’t treated fairly.
www.wsj.com
October 1, 2026 at 5:31 PM
I mean yeah, a decade of no one holding Trump accountable for his much more obvious crimes, combined with both Nazi and Confederate rehabilitation projects on the right, was always going to lead to “actually we’ve never done ANYTHING wrong and you guys owe us apologies for every check on our power”
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the three genders
September 3, 2024 at 1:41 PM
the three genders
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some very exciting personal news . . .
as of last week, I am now a proud client of @lizadawsonassoc.bsky.social and the absolutely fantastic @hannahnpbowman.com is now my literary agent! we are working together on a medieval Slavic fantasy about a witch who solves crime and her queer found family
as of last week, I am now a proud client of @lizadawsonassoc.bsky.social and the absolutely fantastic @hannahnpbowman.com is now my literary agent! we are working together on a medieval Slavic fantasy about a witch who solves crime and her queer found family
October 2, 2026 at 7:44 PM
some very exciting personal news . . .
as of last week, I am now a proud client of @lizadawsonassoc.bsky.social and the absolutely fantastic @hannahnpbowman.com is now my literary agent! we are working together on a medieval Slavic fantasy about a witch who solves crime and her queer found family
as of last week, I am now a proud client of @lizadawsonassoc.bsky.social and the absolutely fantastic @hannahnpbowman.com is now my literary agent! we are working together on a medieval Slavic fantasy about a witch who solves crime and her queer found family
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it also has
—misandrist Rusalky
—Slavic harvest festivals
—grumpy hot priest
—pagan/Jewish solidarity against asshole monks
—what if your grandma was how the Baba Jaga myths kinda got started
—a wolf who eats bad dreams
—crossroads magic
—tfw your high school bully comes crawling to you for help
—misandrist Rusalky
—Slavic harvest festivals
—grumpy hot priest
—pagan/Jewish solidarity against asshole monks
—what if your grandma was how the Baba Jaga myths kinda got started
—a wolf who eats bad dreams
—crossroads magic
—tfw your high school bully comes crawling to you for help
October 2, 2026 at 8:29 PM
it also has
—misandrist Rusalky
—Slavic harvest festivals
—grumpy hot priest
—pagan/Jewish solidarity against asshole monks
—what if your grandma was how the Baba Jaga myths kinda got started
—a wolf who eats bad dreams
—crossroads magic
—tfw your high school bully comes crawling to you for help
—misandrist Rusalky
—Slavic harvest festivals
—grumpy hot priest
—pagan/Jewish solidarity against asshole monks
—what if your grandma was how the Baba Jaga myths kinda got started
—a wolf who eats bad dreams
—crossroads magic
—tfw your high school bully comes crawling to you for help
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I have never heard of any newsrooms with alarming practices like those described in this thread. If you have, I’d like to hear from you. Contact in bio.
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of.
What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
October 3, 2026 at 2:21 AM
I have never heard of any newsrooms with alarming practices like those described in this thread. If you have, I’d like to hear from you. Contact in bio.
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Even more so given reports that engineers and decision makers at both of the public companies have found elaborate ways of working around him when he occasionally helicopters in
October 3, 2026 at 2:25 AM
Even more so given reports that engineers and decision makers at both of the public companies have found elaborate ways of working around him when he occasionally helicopters in
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Luine is....not great at figuring out where Binx is 🤣
I see many jump scares in her future. *cat with claws in ceiling* GIF
#cats #becurious
I see many jump scares in her future. *cat with claws in ceiling* GIF
#cats #becurious
October 2, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Luine is....not great at figuring out where Binx is 🤣
I see many jump scares in her future. *cat with claws in ceiling* GIF
#cats #becurious
I see many jump scares in her future. *cat with claws in ceiling* GIF
#cats #becurious