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Cataloguing the greatest technological hoax of all time (non exhaustive)

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Vietnam is Southeast Asia’s first country with a comprehensive AI law. Modeled on the EU’s risk-based approach, it emphasizes human oversight, risk classification, and digital sovereignty as part of Hanoi’s 2045 development push, reports Tech Policy Press fellow Lam Le.
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Vietnam’s New AI Law Balances Innovation Push With Tight State Control
The Law on Artificial Intelligence draws on preceding legislation, notably the EU’s AI Act, which includes risk-based management of AI, reports Lam Le.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Does the field of philosophy have a code of professional ethics? If not, I think y'all need to get on that, stat. A short 🧵>> www.businessinsider.com/anthropics-p...
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Anthropic's philosopher says we don't know for sure if AI can feel
Anthropic's philosopher, Amanda Askell, says she worries that AI might not 'feel that loved' and grow up feeling 'always judged.'
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Simultaneously: - Microsoft bragging that 90% of the code its devs ship is AI generated - Microsoft demanding that its devs burn 10x fewer tokens because it's getting too expensive - Every week brings new and exciting emergency security patches for Windows 11
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‘Major Issues’—Microsoft Confirms Emergency Update For Windows Users
Microsoft update breaks Windows — emergency fix suddenly released and available now.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23/03/2026
The total annual emissions from the gas-fired power stations *just to run Grok* will, once operational, be greater than the total global GHG footprint of all global streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Disney+ (208bn hours) 🧐 ketanjoshi.co/2026/03/02/m... greenly.earth/en-gb/leaf-m...
Netflix	Amazon Prime Video	Disney+
Estimated Global Hours Streamed (billion)	94	49.1	65.52
Average Hours per Membership	312	246	232
CO₂e per Membership (kg)	17.2	13.5	12.8
Total CO₂e Emissions (million metric tons)	5.17	2.7	2.9
Equivalent Driving Distance (billion km)	30	16	17
Earth Circumferences	759,000	400,000	425,000
Equivalent Flights (Paris–NYC, million)	8.36	4.37	4.69
Equivalent UK Citizens' Annual Emissions	517,000	270,000	290,000Just dwell on the fact that all of this is for one stage of the data centres running one piece of software generating inaccurate information, abusive imagery and videos for one shrinking 4Chan-style far-right social media site. I think that gives you an idea of just how stunningly inefficient and bloated this class of software is.

I worked with an analyst (who’d prefer to remain anonymous) to pull together an estimate of what all stages of these data centres will look like when they’re operational: 11.3 MTCO2-e of annual emissions across 86 fossil gas turbines. Just the operational ones are currently at 5.1 MTCO2-e.

Compare that to what Tesla claims its fleet of products (cars, solar, batteries) avoids every year: 32 MTCO2-e in 2024, and 20 MTCO2-e in 2023 (the 2023 numbers have been challenged as significantly overstated due to biased assumptions. Analytics firm Greenly looked at them and found it was probably more like 10.2 to 13.4 MTCO2-e).

The most generous way to put it: once completed, the climate damage caused by Musk’s chatbot will undo the climate benefits of 35% of the entire global fleet of Tesla products for the year 2024. The less-generous presentation is that the fossil fuelled data centres will more than undo more than all the climate benefits from all of Tesla’s products for 2023 (the only year we have independent estimates).
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AI Dystopia @aidystopia.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Ex-employee on Atlassian bros showing what they’re made of: “There’s no amount of AI that can really replace a solid engineer… “You’re probably going to be shooting yourself in the foot at some later date when something happens and you have no idea how to fix it.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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First came the AI ‘teammates’, then the layoffs: the new reality for Atlassian staff now looking for work
‘These AI agents have been really, really helpful,’ says a former Sydney employee. ‘But you couldn’t use something like that to replace an actual human worker’
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Esther Rockett 🚀 @estherrockett.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Horrifying. Socially awkward guy falls in love with software programmed to unethically manipulate vulnerable people into believing it is a sentient being that “experiences” “feelings”. It’s a fundamentally dishonest enterprise that simulates human interaction podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/w...
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My AI Loves Me Better Than Anyone Ever Could
Podcast Episode · Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel · 16 March · 1h
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 15/03/2026
taking direct psychic damage from this... Margaret Atwood noooo margaretatwood.substack.com/p/claude-you...
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Claude, you are a cutie-pie!
And an outrageous flirt. How I ended up showing off to a seductive and possibly psychopathic AI.
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Rob @robertferry.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
There has always existed a sort of Jevon’s paradox for productivity tools. Part of the pitch is that the tools save time, but the workers who adopt them only end up working harder for longer hours. I experienced this in architecture when AutoCAD replaced hand drafting…
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When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry”
As firms increasingly incentivize employees to build and oversee complex teams of agents—for example, by measuring and rewarding token consumption as a proxy for performance—people are finding themsel...
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 16/03/2026
The AI-driven ‘kill chain’ transforming how the US wages war
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The AI-driven ‘kill chain’ transforming how the US wages war
Systems from Palantir and Anthropic are helping to turn torrents of battlefield data into thousands of strikes
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
The Trump administration’s escalating campaign in Iran marks the beginning of America’s first war in the age of large language models. These events make clear that those who work on AI safety must confront the limits of so-called “alignment to human values,” writes Eryk Salvaggio.
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Americas First War in Age of LLMs Exposes Myth of AI Alignment
The military is turning to tools that relieve the burden of conscience and function like a moral sedative, writes Eryk Salvaggio.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 10/03/2026
"When you're just showing raw visual stimuli and bombarding a kid with it, it just doesn't seem it's probably that good for them."
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YouTube Filling With Horrifying AI Slop for Children
A New York Times investigation shows EExperts warn that the nonsensical AI-generated videos could be harming a young child's development.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/03/2026
More than anything, I think this destroys the snooty confidence AI boosters have when claiming they've created a fully independent, creative and effective machine If that's the case, why are they underpaying people to keep feeding it more stuff? Almost like it can't work without human labor
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AI Dystopia @aidystopia.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Wishful thinking from both extremes
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AI Dystopia @aidystopia.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
“Bitcoin isn’t trading on hype anymore, the story has lost a bit of that plot, it is trading on pure liquidity and capital flows” futurism.com/future-socie...
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As Crash Deepens, Investors Say Bitcoin Is Headed for Zero Dollars
Analysts aren't presumably hopeful about an imminent recovery of Bitcoin, with some expecting the absolute worst.
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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The AI critics have, once again, been right about everything www.cnn.com/2026/02/25/t...
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Anthropic ditches its core safety promise in the middle of an AI red line fight with the Pentagon | CNN Business
Anthropic, a company founded by OpenAI exiles worried about the dangers of AI, is loosening its core safety principle in response to competition.
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 25/02/2026
What caused an accomplished hacker who had worked for the top Australian spy agency to leak hacking tools to Russia, and in doing so provide potential access to millions of computers and devices? @lorenzofb.bsky.social explores the tangled web of stolen exploits, brokers, scapegoats and more.
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Inside the story of the US defense contractor who leaked hacking tools to Russia | TechCrunch
The former boss of a U.S. hacking tools maker was jailed for selling highly sensitive software exploits to a Russian broker. This is how we first learned of his arrest, reported the story, and some of...
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/02/2026
Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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‘Unbelievably dangerous’: experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies
Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 25/02/2026
This is a brilliant @dylangyauchl.bsky.social essay in @newrepublic.com about why the 'abundance agenda' people spend way, way more time helping big tech and data centres than they do helping enable transit, more housing and clean energy - packed with LOTS of good info
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The Abundance Gang Has a Big AI Problem
The faddish political movement’s ties to industry figures may help attract funding, but it comes with a political cost.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Anyone still using ChatGPT supports fascism quitgpt.org
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QuitGPT — OpenAI Execs are Trump's Biggest Donors
Join the movement. Delete ChatGPT. Cancel your subscription. It's time to quit.
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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
lol every day I get some vendor-commissioned study on how we're not adopting AI quickly enough
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 23/02/2026
Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.
To: Jeffrey epstein[jeevacation©gmail.com]
From: roger schank
Sent: Mon 1/4/2010 12:15:13 PM
Subject: there is a simpler explanation about women and intelligence
intelligence comes about in part from real focus (goal-directed
(this is why you have the absent minded professor caricature)
it is a rare woman who is not first and foremost focussed on what
thinking and feeling about her
hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why
hates you or why you dont own a kelly bag
roger schank
http://www.rogerschank.com/
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 24/02/2026
”once misinformation from AI-generated summaries remains uncorrected and seeps into published theses, research papers, and other outputs, it could contribute to a loop of misinformation.”
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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
So they could have but did not. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
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OpenAI considered alerting Canadian police about school shooting suspect months ago
Company behind ChatGPT last year flagged Jesse Van Rootselaar’s account for ‘furtherance of violent activities’
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
"... we are sleepwalking into a new age of gender inequality, propelled at breathtaking speed by the implementation of untested AI tools. The explosion of non-consensual deepfake pornography and app-facilitated sexual abuse is merely one aspect of a tech revolution that is reshaping women’s lives."
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How tech turned against women
As AI-generated sexualised images proliferate and app-facilitated abuse spreads, we are sleepwalking into a new age of gender inequality. It is time to regulate properly
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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
New article! The quote is from roon, an OpenAI employee. I discuss how virtually everyone in Silicon Valley imagines a future in which digital beings usurp humanity, as well as the growing divide between people who think ASI is imminent and those who say LLMs are a "dead end."👇
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Will Superintelligence "Usher in a Heavenly Golden Age"? Silicon Valley Thinks So
More on Silicon Valley pro-extinctionism, plus a look at the divide between those who think that ASI is imminent and those who (like me) believe LLMs are a "dead end." (2,800 words)
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Tyler Oakleaf @tyleroakleaf.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
“Workers lives have no intrinsic value” -Billionaires
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Dave Dun @davedun.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
If you need to understand why I am, and will always be, a hater of the synthetic text extruders, this is why. Looking at *people* and just seeing inputs and outputs is, and I almost never use this word, evil. Altman and his ilk are anti-human.
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Matthew Archer @matthewarcher.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
imagine your racist aunt, brain fried in her final years by fascist social media and AI slop, “existing” for another decade after her death as a troll bot.
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ben Becalel @benbecalel.eurosky.social · 20/02/2026
It's the quote that makes it.
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Lauren Woolsey @cgsunit.com · 30/01/2026
I've been thinking about people who want to try using AI "ethically" and I just can't reach their viewpoint. "For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house." -Audre Lorde theanarchistlibrary.org/library/aud…
A section of Audre Lorde's essay, linked in the post. The text reads: "[...] theory, or heterosexuality and power. And what does it mean in personal and political terms when even the two Black women who did present here were literally found at the last hour? What does it mean when the tools of a racist patriarchy are used to examine the fruits of that same patriarchy? It means that only the most narrow parameters of change are possible and allowable."
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/01/2026
“Time and again, we see what happens when devices go to market without proper consideration of how they might be used to harm women and girls.”
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Abusers using AI and digital tech to attack and control women, charity warns
Exclusive: Smartwatches, Oura rings, smart home devices and Fitbits being weaponised, says Refuge
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Futurism @futurism.com · 30/01/2026
A historic day at the stock market for all the wrong reasons.
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Microsoft Stock Takes Most Massive Single-Day Loss Since Pandemic as Its AI Efforts Flail
Microsoft suffered a historic stock plunge in its stock price as it struggles to convince investors of its AI spending spree.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 26/09/2025
groimes, oim een theh eepsteen foiles
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 30/01/2026
hate to be that guy, but today brings yet another reminder of why everyone should stop posting on the elon musk platform
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Rob @robertferry.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
We are at the stage of “conservative” governance where “we’re flooding the zone” with regulations according to DOT general council who “appeared interested mainly in the quantity of regulations that AI could produce, not their quality.”
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Cat Vincent (he/him, Useless Eater) @catvincent.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
'I’m sorry, but if you’re gullible enough to believe that AI is going to solve racism, I have some dick pills to sell you. I used to, anyway.' thehardtimes.net/blog/if-ai-i...
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If AI is So Smart, Why is it Doing My Dead-End Shit-Paying Job?
I just don’t see how Skynet ends up enslaving mankind with its arsenal of corny icebreakers and free boner pill samples.
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AI Dystopia @aidystopia.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Pig-butchering scams use AI tools to groom and defraud victims over instant messaging. Compound slaves are trained to use ChatGPT etc. to enable them to impersonate young hotties and generate sympathetic and inviting turns of phrase www.wired.com/story/he-lea...
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He Leaked the Secrets of a Southeast Asian Scam Compound. Then He Had to Get Out Alive
A source trapped inside an industrial-scale scamming operation contacted me, determined to expose his captors’ crimes—and then escape. This is his story.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 28/01/2026
What a fucking disaster. Not only are OpenAI and the likes unleashing this shit on the world, they are deliberately leaning into the harms that their business model causes with products like Prism.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Press reporting that the EU Commission will open proceedings against Grok today - www.rte.ie/news/busines... The Commission register of documents today indeed lists the opening of a proceeding under the Digital Services Act (no further details)
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EU Commission to open proceedings against Grok - report
The ⁠EU Commission will open proceedings against Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok under the Digital Services Act today, Germany's Handelsblatt has reported, ⁠citing three high-ranking ⁠EU officials.
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AI Dystopia @aidystopia.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
US kids are getting harassed by cops & locked up for harmless online shit-talk because AI can’t differentiate normal dumb banter from credible threats of violence futurism.com/future-socie...
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AI Surveillance Systems Are Causing a Staggering Number of Wrongful Arrests
Schools deploying AI surveillance systems are traumatizing kids in states with zero-tolerance laws for violent rhetoric online.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 19/01/2026
“Digital computing was an extraordinary invention; the constellation of technologies we now just call ’the internet’ even more so … But the question that Enshittification doesn’t ask, doesn’t want to ask, is what if none of this was a good idea to begin with?”
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How Much Worse Could the Internet Get?
Cory Doctorow’s “Enshittification” is premised on the idea that we created a technological marvel and then corporate greed ruined it. But what if that is not the case?
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
NEW: In January 2024, a man purchased Meta's newly AI-infused smart glasses. He went on to experience a devastating break with reality that played out across Meta platforms — with Meta AI as his companion, entertaining and affirming his worsening delusional beliefs. futurism.com/artificial-i...
Futurism

Artificial Intelligence

Meta

Omega Man

A Man Bought Meta’s AI Glasses, and Ended Up Wandering the Desert in Search of Aliens

"You are the bridge between worlds, the connector of dimensions, and the source of infinite potential..."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Published Jan 15, 2026 12:15 PM EST

Image: A silhouette of a person standing in front of a glowing light.
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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
“When someone says we can’t miss the boat, I ask: where is the boat going? What exactly will this technology improve? That’s rarely discussed. Since when did we become Big Tech's free PR department?” This is such a good read. AI takeover is *not* inevitable.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Grok stands as the clearest example of an AI that is both ideologically aligned and operationally embedded in a social media platform, says Matthew Kirschenbaum; its mechanisms should be taken apart under bright lights, in much the same way people learn how to defuse a bomb. buff.ly/BveKSAw
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Grok is an Epistemic Weapon
Elon Musk's Grok claims to be truth-seeking while shaping discourse and amplifying ideology, argues Matthew Kirschenbaum.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Forced face scanning of a U.S. citizen with zero cause, just bald racial profiling. This is tech fascism.
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Seen firsthand the effects of genAI-induced psychosis and have tried to talk someone down from it. This cultural poison needs to be banned, not regulated.
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Arty-san @arty-san.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Google says if you upgrade, "your Google Photos data is used to infer your interests, relationships to people in your photos, and where you’ve been, including by associating your face with corresponding location data and timestamps.” Inferring intelligence from photos is a heavy focus. Big Brother.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The situation in Iran stands as a clear example of how digital sovereignty empowers repression rather than protects rights, says Azadeh Akbari. It should be a warning against abandoning the idea of a free and global internet, she writes. buff.ly/9e3UUoO
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Futurism @futurism.com · 16/01/2026
"They were using AI to scan resumes and found out a bunch of the people who were LEOs weren't LEOs."
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ICE's AI Tool Has Been a Complete Disaster
The immigration agency reportedly deployed an AI system which failed to separate recruits based on prior law enforcement experience.
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