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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14h

This is funny but also truly I think there's a huge number of people who've developed such a serious dependency and driven off such a serious cognitive cliff that I don't think they could get through a normal workday

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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 12h

(2024) How big AI companies exploit data workers in Kenya | DW Documentary www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehkE... What has changed since then?

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How big AI companies exploit data workers in Kenya | DW Documentary

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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If there is one lesson to be learned from a similar battle in the UK, high-profile members of the creative industries make a difference. They get your argument on the front of newspapers, in the news bulletins and on social media. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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British celebrities beat AI companies lobbying to get free use of their work. They have a warning for Australia

‘People care about the songs, books and pictures that influence the critical moments in their lives,’ says the architect of the fightback in the UK

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/09/2026

there are a lot of energy analysts vibe coding night-mode data visualisation sites that have zero actual purpose or utility and are just going to sit unviewed online for six years then dissapear as internet rot At least single-use plastics ostensibly serve a purpose....

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Crucially these contractors are not hired to filter out offensive content. They are hired to report whether Copilot successfully made a good AI image. So if the request is, make this person's breasts larger, they have to review based on whether it did or not. Insane www.404media.co/humans-readi...

These contractors are not being hired to flag or vet offensive or inappropriate content. They are being paid to review the quality of Copilot’s output, including in these cases of sexual imagery.
“Who is writing these prompts and who is deciding that basically generating porn is what Copilot is now focused on? It’s hard to take things seriously when my focus has to be what model generated the appropriate bust size or which middle aged woman was put in the appropriate sexually suggestive position,” one contractor said in the thread.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New from 404 Media: when you upload images to Copilot, they're not private. Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users' prompts/images, according to internal docs we got And they're horrified at what they're seeing. Bombarded with requests to make sexual AI images www.404media.co/humans-readi...

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Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified

Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The machine that removed credit from human beings, but keeps getting attributions it doesn't deserve as part of the hype mill. Why are so many people willing to give up agency, autonomy, passion, self-worth and ability only to be discredited?

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/09/2026

It absolutely sucks, but I am going to have to start building clauses into my freelance contracts about not feeding my draft work into these software systems. Aside from my stuff being plagiarised, it's also just exposing work to potentially millions of other people

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you don't own a radio it's okay. You can still listen to the radio online. I know how lovely it is to just bubble and listen to the music you like, but sometimes it's pretty great to just tune in and listen to what's happening.

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Vivaldi Radio

Listen to the World, One Radio Station at a Time

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The idea of a "tech industry" has always relied on "computer" being a special kind of medium, akin to alchemy. And if tech demands to be king, AI hype has now elevated LLMs to a king of kings. But the solipsism has hit a dead end. The only way forward is to recognize that computers are not special.

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LLMs are just normal technology. But tech is just a normal medium.

The more we focus on a particular technology, the more we lose sight of what normal people actually care about.

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you are in an area where Coyote vs. Acme is still in the movies, when here is a full endorsement to watch it from me. It was nice to have a laugh while watching the little Coyote take on Anti-consumer practices corporation. I know it's a cartoon, but it's what the rest of us need to do.

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COYOTE VS. ACME Official Final Trailer (2026) John Cena

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

can we please all collectively stop saying that "ai is just a tool" it is a meaningless & oft-repeated phrase that justifies nothing & helps no one ai is an industry led by psychos, ai is chatbots, ai is agents, ai is data centers, ai is shitty features in software that doesn't need it

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i made a member vid talking about stop omarchy, dhh's dingbat keynote, and a look at the various stuff i'm coding and working on! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb0v...

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Stop Omarchy, DHH being a dingbat, a Rust HTTP server, & a community for devs rejecting AI

YouTube video by Brett Codes

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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“Employers use AI to intensify work, rationalise redundancies, eliminate junior hiring, increase surveillance, deskill & downskill workers, shift risk onto employees & weaken their agency. Even as models improve, the underlying workplace issues will remain if workers do not gain enforceable rights…”

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United Tech & Allied Workers @utaw.tech · 24/09/2026

Everyone’s talking about AI, but no one’s actually asking workers how it’s affecting us. So we’ve done it ourselves. Today we are launching the AI Workers’ Inquiry, a new study led by workers themselves, into the way AI is changing work. Read it at go.utaw.tech/ai

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AI Workers' Inquiry 2026 | Tech Workers Inquiry

How AI is changing work in the tech sector, from the workers who build, deploy, manage, evaluate and use this technology. A Tech Workers' Inquiry from UTAW.

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

AI #slopaganda is not so much about fakes or disinformation. It's about aligning the world with your preformulated descriptions of it, making reality disappear behind its formulaic image, rendering visible all your fears at once in order to enjoy them more. It's a technology of fascist daydreaming

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I can't... The future is dumb. Like really really dumb. If you don't want it to be dumb, then you need to go adwarefree lowtech and dumbtech, because this kind of dystopian b/s is happening to all the streaming services and futuretech. #microslop #enshittification #adware #spamware #spyware

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Butt teeth! Butt teeth! Butt teeth! @panic.gay · 25/09/2026

THIS. AI isn't "going rogue" any more than those exploding Samsung galaxy phones from 2016 went rogue. Human engineers poorly deployed a technology and there were negative consequences. The responsibility falls entirely on humans.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 25/09/2026

Peter Thiel says the "Antichrist" will preach "peace." Now his cronies in the Trump regime are pushing "Pax Silica" ("Silicon Peace"). It's a grandiose name for AI colonialism and imperialism. 1st target: The Philippines. More from @kieraevebutler.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Tech Bros and the Trump administration are building an AI empire—in the Philippines

Pax Silica aims to lock up rare earths, and hand Silicon Valley the keys.

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Sprite_Star0 aka Spar @spritestar0.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You'd never believe that when I said I told y'all so i actually told y'all so. You don't hate AI enough if you still play this game

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Democracy Now! heard a fox crying wolf, so they let it into the henhouse. MIRI is a tech funded organization that helps the industry launder its accountability. See @olivia.science on “Entryism” olivia.science/entryism/

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Entryism

AI entryism subverts anti AI critique.

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Benjamin @benjami.no · 25/09/2026

Another great example of a developer writing from their own experience how mind numbing AI can be (I am using mind-numbing quite literally here). Don't use LLMs to write your code for you. Your brain will thank you.

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Benjamin @benjami.no · 25/09/2026

If we allow these parasitic ghouls like Amazon pretend they are part of the solution to the climate crisis (while building more gas plants), then we are just signing off on our own death sentence.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 25/09/2026

As an academic, it feels like some colleagues have lost the ability to engage deeply: they don't want to read an article unless it directly answers a question they already have... basically like using a chatbot they only want an answer to a current issue & not to actually learn anything or explore.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

More mechanical turk bullshit 🤷

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404 Media @404media.co · 25/09/2026

Meta announced that its new AI agent, Muse could call businesses for you to do things like make reservations. But in reality, Meta is testing having these calls being made by human beings in call centers, 404 Media @jasonkoebler.bsky.social learned. www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Treat AI like we treat other software. Hold the companies and people responsible for their malfeasance and the harm they inflict on others. #zuzai

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Easy Way to Stop Dangerous AI - No, Really

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Human incompetence and lying about capabilities to hype their product. It doesn't mean it can't be dangerous, it's just not the singularity or dangerous in the way they say. They have been calling AGI for years and it's not even the first time this has happened in recent history either.

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Gen AI's two FATAL FLAWS that even human babies can do & the industry knows it

YouTube video by Internet of Bugs

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 25/09/2026

Climate defiance are legends. Amazon are a fossil fuel company. Why are do they get climate week invites??

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm begging AI skeptics and people who are highly critical of the "existential risk" frame to think like organizers and approach this moment as an opportunity for power building rather than an opportunity for correcting and scolding people you think are wrong. Try to meet people where they're at.

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Cartoonists United @cartoonist.coop · 22/09/2026

Need info ASAP on making a website? We've got resources for you! Intro to HTML/CSS w @newbabyfly.schism.org: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMuK... Making a Webcomic Site w Ren Taylor: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPbE... ComicFury 101 w @jpawlik.com & @beefsen.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ0M...

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Intro to HTML & CSS w/ Newbabyfly

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Lars • Iskotaa @lars.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've updated my tutorial to help folks out who might want a static site they can take anywhere (free, too!). Here's a link to the original post: bsky.app/profile/lars...

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 23/09/2026

It's like everyone who came on board to AI because "they can write code now!" thinks the primary argument the rest of us have is "no it can't" So I'll say it: yes AI can write code. I believe you. They can write code. It compiles. It even passes the tests that the AI also wrote. UNFORTUNATELY...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/09/2026

A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive. One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy. Another collapsed and had seizures during labor. (Published Dec. 2025)

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What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid

Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.

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tante @tante.cc · 24/09/2026

That is Longtermist thinking in a nutshell. Just the legitimation of monstrous brutality. Based on science fiction narratives imagined by a diletante.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 24/09/2026

“Move fast and break Infrastructure — cobbles” dotart.blog/cobbles/move-fast-and-b… > It's all becoming a little tainted by the fascism, our politics does inform our tech. You cannot separate tech from the Politics of the people who create that tech.

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Move fast and break Infrastructure

How to devalue a project and it's community. Ancient History At the turn of the century, I was in the middle of an industrial placement...

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Jellybox Studio @jellybox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

YOU READ THAT RIGHT! If you missed you chance to get Umbert merch during the Kickstarter, WEDNESDAY 9/30 is your chance! jellybox.bigcartel.com

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Sylessae @sylessae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just draw. Be curious, be open to drawing new things, be self-forgiving when you make mistakes, draw everything that excites you. Getting good doesn't have to be that hard or serious. You just gotta keep drawing.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026

I had a great conversation with @adamconover.net covering so many aspects of the data center debate. Don’t miss it, and make sure to preorder my new book HYPERSCALE!

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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 24/09/2026

Stop Omarchy Omarchy is a political movement disguised as a Linux distro. Over $21 million dollars from powerful men and companies are funding it. stopomarchy.org

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STOP OMARCHY: Boycott Tech's Far-Right Backers

Protest against the Omarchy/Omacom Foundation and the tech companies and executives funding far-right open source.

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