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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

like I suspect many of you on This Website, I think a core reason why I find Eliezer Yudkowsky and his rationalist and effective altruist satellites so intensely annoying is because I had a VERY similar “being a super weird, pretentious, hyper-literate kid” experience - I just, you know, grew up.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When Coxon was suddenly ALL OVER the media, it felt to many like that was because his story deserved that much interest i.e. that the media was doing its job informing the public of an important threat. The wall-to-wall media coverage wasn't organic though, it was orchestrated: >>

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/09/2026

I for one am tired of the “all of human existence should be quantified into spreadsheets, and things that cannot be quantified should be viewed as irrelevant and useless” faction running everything

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Esteban Morales @estebanmorales.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Many scientific fields are already drowning in plausible-seeming but unverified papers generated with significant help from a large language model. What’s slop and what’s not? Is there an actual gem amid the gazillion new hypotheses? It’s becoming increasingly impossible to tell."

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Alex T @alexctruelove.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is fucking infuriating, if wholly unsurprising, and worth the read:

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 14/09/2026

One thing not getting as much attention re: Dario's essay. In it, he talks about the need for third party evaluators to review models for safety. But a few days before the essay, Anthropic... refused to submit its latest models to the UK's evaluator: www.ft.com/content/560e...

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Anthropic withheld latest AI model from UK testing agency

Decision to exclude Aisi has prompted fears inside British government of protectionist shift among tech groups

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I think the political left should be the loudest voice calling for an AI model development pause, frontier pacing, and mandatory third party audits right now. Put aside the doomer stuff (though I think it’s plausible), we just found out that OpenAI’s agents committed a pretty major felony!

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

I am far more concerned about the displacement of democratic decision-making under technocratic deference to a language machine — and the surveillance apparatus being built alongside it — than I am about human annihilation.

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I will stop here with a request. Please read the story. Share it. Share this thread. Let the word get out about this gross abomination of an enterprise that somehow, impossibly, is being held up as the future of education. It isn't. I won't let it be. Please help me with that cause.

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We wanted to recognize the harms of the AI industry, acknowledging that using commercial products marketed as "AI" means being complicit in these harms. This is something we haven't seen in other lab policies, and we don't think this can or should be ignored.

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Ethical Costs and Epistemic Risks of LLMs

Ethical Costs and Epistemic Risks of LLMs: A Resource for Psychology Researchers M.J. Crockett, Department of Psychology, Princeton University www.crockettlab.org Last updated: 10/2/25 Psychologists...

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Holy shit. It's hard to explain what a point of pride CHOP is for Pennsylvania and Philly in particular. This is wild. Like this is the equivalent of saying I hope someone runs over Gritty and sets fire to his carcass

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Wearing @postguild.bsky.social red today. I was able to challenge my @washingtonpost.com firing — and win reinstatement plus back pay — all thanks to being a part of the @wbng.org Guild. Binding Arbitration is a part of our contract. This is why unions matter!!!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/08/2026

Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

CDC is no longer surveilling outbreaks caused by campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia. What could go wrong?

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.

A chart showing an immediate spike after the headline hit the front page of Wall Street Bets.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 23/06/2026

you'd think the planet's first trillionaire hijacking a $42.5 billion taxpayer infrastructure program to grab massive chunks of money for substandard satellite broadband he already planned to deploy would have been a bigger news story for outlets like the Washington Post and New York Times

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 12/06/2026

New from me: The cops who AI-enhance blurry photos to try to catch suspects are actually just tampering with evidence, lying to the public and raising the risk of wrongful arrests

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

tell them there’s a sex criminal in the building

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Alex T @alexctruelove.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Is it just me, or have University leaders been unforgivably silent on this development?

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 28/05/2026

Called this back in October

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Alex T @alexctruelove.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

As a sleep-deprived dad of two young kids, I’m increasingly willing to try NA stuff, and the Best Day Mexican Lager with a lime comes admirably close to tasting like the real thing.

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Alex T @alexctruelove.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

As somebody who works in this space, it's important to understand that there is an entire outdated policy framework that's limiting the adoption of these biodegradable alternatives, even outside the influence of fossil industry.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 28/04/2026

Hold on. We the taxpayers are going to pay companies $900 million, which is more than 6x what we spend on wind power R&D, to NOT build wind power at a time when electricity prices are spiking and we need more clean power?

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

STOP PUTTING AI IN ALL MY STUFF www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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The Tyranny of AI Everywhere

Sneakers? Why stop there?

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

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Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This is so, so well-articulated.

People call this friction "grunt work." Schwartz uses exactly that phrase, and he's right that LLMs can remove it. What he doesn't say, because he already has decades of hard-won intuition and doesn't need the grunt work anymore, is that for someone who doesn't yet have that intuition, the grunt work is the work. The boring parts and the important parts are tangled together in a way that you can't separate in advance. You don't know which afternoon of debugging was the one that taught you something fundamental about your data until three years later, when you're working on a completely different problem and the insight surfaces. Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.

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Nolan Void @wolter.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Oh so now copyright matters.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Only one Florida team has won a Super Bowl in the last 20 years (the Bucs in 2021) and it was the only team in the NFL with three Black coordinators and the first team in the NFL with multiple female coaches

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Rachel Navarre @rnavarre.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

The old world is not just dying- we were all fundamentally wrong about the world. Even if you never trusted the system, you probably didn’t believe that the CIA would just let themselves be gutted or capital would be willing to destroy the world economy but here we are. And it broke us.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21/03/2026

To everyone out there who defends and encourages reliance on generative AI: I want you to explain to me how software systems that do this is not just defensible but something good and to be encouraged. Go on. Explain it to me, right now. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Seeing the same burial image on social media, others turned to X’s AI assistant Grok to check its veracity. Like Gemini, Grok will breezily assure you the photo is not from Iran at all – although it lands on a different date, disaster and location. The image is “from Rorotan Cemetery in Jakarta, Indonesia – a July 2021 stock photo of Covid mass burials. Not Minab,” it says.

In both cases, the AI answers sound sure: they don’t equivocate, and even provide “sources” for the original image, should you choose to check them. Follow the thread to examine those, however, and you’ll begin to hit dead ends: either the image doesn’t appear at all, or the link provided is to a news report that doesn’t exist. For all their impression of clarity and precision, the AIs are simply wrong.

The cemetery image, it turns out, is authentic. Researchers have cross referenced the photo of the site with satellite images that confirm its location, and it can be cross-referenced again with dozens more images taken of the same site from slightly different angles, and again with video footage – none of which experts say show signs of tampering or digital manipulation. The “factchecks” by Gemini and Grok are just one example of a tidal wave of AI-generated slop – hallucinated facts, nonsense analysis and faked images – that are engulfing coverage of the Iran war. Experts say it is wasting investigative time and risks atrocities being denied – as well as heralding alarming weaknesses as people increasingly rely on AI summaries for news and information.

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Here is what the money spent on this war could be used for instead: ➡️ 💻 data.groundtruthsolutions.org/war.html

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I mentioned this to somebody earlier today, but this has real "assume a spherical cow" energy.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

The thing is, I think these are all fundamentally correct & completely reconcilable political economies of the contemporary.

Technofeudalism (Varoufakis, Durand)
Too Late Capitalism (Kornbluh)
Muskism (Slobodian & Tarnoff)
End Times Fascism (Klein & Taylor)
Vectoralism (Wark)
Gutenberg Parenthesis (Sauerberg, Jarvis)
TESCREAL (Gebru & Torres)
Neofeudalism (Dean)
Tech Fascism (Duran)
Platform Capitalism (Srnicek)
Surveillance Capitalism (Zuboff)
Klepto-Keynesianism (Seybold)

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

This is the last post in a good thread, but the one I feel LLM boosters most ignore: Business leaders are openly slathering to replace their human workers with tools that do something like their jobs, but at a level of quality they would never be allowed to produce.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 05/03/2026

Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy. We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

this fucking piece of shit

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Last weekend. This weekend. @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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tante @tante.cc · 20/02/2026

Yesterday Cory Doctorow argued that refusal to use LLMs was mere "neoliberal purity culture". I think his argument is a strawman, doesn't align with his own actions and delegitimizes important political actions we need to make in order to build a better cyberphysical world.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 16/02/2026

The successful effort to force Biden out signaled to elite media that they had a veto over Democratic Party primary voters. Whether they successfully exercise it or simply try to in 2028 is an open question but bet your sweet nippy they’re going to try.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/02/2026

What an awful way to live.

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allison.tar.gz @allisonturner.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

It is so abominably irresponsible to let characterizations like "objective" and "deterministic" go un-interrogated when considering an application as societally consequential as COURT MEDIATED DISPUTE ARBITRATION

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