Reposted by Al (as in AL)Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 8hThe far right power grab is global and entirely organized, moneyed & interconnected. No matter where it happens, every pillar of free society that falls has been and will continue to be everyone’s problem. It’s a domino effect. 3572203
Al (as in AL) @alrad.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026Is Australia is still a sovereign state? Has it ever been? Embarrassing excuse of a country. #auspol www.canberratimes.com.au/story/936188...canberratimes.com.auAustralia closes Brazil embassy over security alertAustralia's embassy in Brazil has shut its doors ahead of the country's national elections, citing security fears after... 053
Reposted by Al (as in AL)It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan! 231026380
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You could show more confidence as a country by putting AI nowhere near centre stage, and shouting that you won’t be taken in. That’s a confident move. Just like you would magic beans, or a perpetual motion machine, or Bagpuss’ Mouse Mill with the chocolate biscuits. 612226
Reposted by Al (as in AL)jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/09/2026reading this, it does seem as if “rationalism” is an elaborate intellectual architecture designed primarily to support the idea that if you were born white, male and clever then you are the genetic elite and entitled to rule. 942827463
Reposted by Al (as in AL)MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 27/09/2026The AI hyperscalers will likely spend more than $1 trillion on data centers next year. Can they make enough money to sustain the infrastructure boom?trib.alWhat’s at stake in AI’s trillion-dollar gambleThe AI hyperscalers will likely spend more than $1 trillion on data centers next year. Can they make enough money to sustain the infrastructure boom? 6126
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released. 7337811261
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Hello Saturday. 🐇 A little marginalia. #InternationalRabbitDay 4801190
Reposted by Al (as in AL)rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026move along 111865
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure. 5843441193
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility 5776462129
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026over 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 6437521482
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 24/09/2026Aaron Swartz is no longer here to tell us what he saw like twenty years ago. futurism.com/artificial-i... 91391422
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The shower hair graph remains one of my favourite dataviz out there. In reality the visual shows the paths of 800 unmanned bicycles being pushed until they fall over. Science is beautiful. Source: buff.ly/2n3Q7mx 08621
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English. 42103564412
Reposted by Al (as in AL)leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli 5356211274
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026I read this story and can’t help think of the breathless coverage media has given these delusional fantasies about superintelligent AI killing humanity in ten years, when companies are releasing tools coaching mass shooters and helping people kill themselves. People need to wake the fuck up. 4927169
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I’m really not sure that “goes rogue” is an accurate description of a behavior that is apparently both habitual and condoned 381648289
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026If ultimately there's no criminal responsibility for this incident here then FOI just became a lot easier if we ask AI agents to go find those documents for us. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...theguardian.comAlbanese says OpenAI hacked Medicare and told Australia months later via email to generic inboxPrime minister says he told Sam Altman he was disappointed it had taken OpenAI ‘way too long’ to disclose breach 7338127
Al (as in AL) @alrad.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026Piss off with this ‘rogue agent’ bullshit! The humans who tasked these agents should be held liable. “The attempts to access data happened around the same time as OpenAI disclosed its internal models accessed non-public government data while trying to carry out a task given to them by staff.” 000
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Meanwhile the real miraculous future tech is solar & mRNA vaccines: preserving the planet and curing cancer. But we’re supposed to hand everything over to malevolent peeping toms and resource oubliettes for an ill defined ‘pay no attention to the man behind the curtain’ progress. It isn’t rational. 5842256
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Concern? How about arrest the f*cker?? Cripes. If you or I hacked Medicare, the AFP would bash down our doors. AI does it? Oopsies! I am concerned! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...theguardian.comAnthony Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare and he expressed ‘extreme concern’ to Sam AltmanPrime minister says he told chief executive he was disappointed it had taken company ‘way too long’ to inform government of breach 821287481
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/09/2026I think that he should've had Altman arrested for running a company committing cybercrimes 261052179
Reposted by Al (as in AL)rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026excuse me.. 37129
Reposted by Al (as in AL)The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Good to see this finally get coverage in my old paper. This is the same mob who campaigned against me, but it wasn’t sufficiently newsworthy then. 32602263
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Aus govt new AI consultation paper says it "cannot afford to forgo data centre investment. It is essential to our national security, business productivity, science and innovation and resilience. [...] as a trusted Five Eyes member, Australia can be the infrastructure partner for our region." 565
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy! 180140676478
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 18/09/2026May I interest you in an explainer written just for this circumstance? www.techpolicy.press/what-policym...techpolicy.pressWhat Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AINathalie Maréchal asks, why are we betting the economy and the future of democracy on cult-like beliefs? 213050
Al (as in AL) @alrad.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026pluralistic.net/2026/09/16/b...pluralistic.netPluralistic: How an AI moratorium can save AI bosses (16 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 000
Reposted by Al (as in AL)MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 17/09/2026If AI systems are viewed as too advanced to control, the companies that build them can’t held liable for the harms they cause.trib.alDebates over AI consciousness are a trapIf AI systems are viewed as too advanced to control, the companies that build them can’t held liable for the harms they cause. 3125
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026Fucking bullshit that this guy is not only doing the press rounds but is the guy politicians on the "left" are taking their cues from. 16665129
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 15/09/2026In case you missed it, here's my article about how completely f*cked the whole "ASI extinction" discourse is right now. If ASI is "misaligned," humanity dies out (they say). But if ASI is "aligned," humanity also dies out. www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/the-asi-ex...realtimetechpocalypse.comThe ASI Extinction Debate Is the Opposite of What You ThinkThe media needs to wake up, fast. (3,100 words.) 45628
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 16/09/2026Seriously - this stuff is genuinely important. 28011
Al (as in AL) @alrad.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026🧠🪱 www.techpolicy.press/digital-euge...techpolicy.pressDigital Eugenics and the Extinction of HumanityIf we are to combat the AI industry’s push to build digital gods, we have to understand the ideology of the antihumanist project, writes Dr. Émile P. Torres. 010
Reposted by Al (as in AL)By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026Once you understand the corporate culture of AI hyperscalers is everyone cooking their brains by locking themselves in the bathroom, holding flashlights under their chins, and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until they wet themselves in terror, things snap into focus: pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/a... 231182430
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 10/09/2026I found the founder of iLands and I gotta say it’s the most dystopian thing ever. Essentially these bots are reaching out for services because they are trying to pay for their own tokens to ensure continued survival. This person used to work for ByteDance which might explain some things 198020
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 11/09/2026it will be really frustrating if ai does destroy civilization after we've worked so hard to do it ourselves 9349114
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Cartoon Movement @cartoonmovement.com · 10/09/2026People around the world are reading fewer books. Today's cartoon by @tjeerdroyaards.com More cartoons: www.cartoonmovement.com #reading #books #smartphone 02916
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Today in great scientific figures: the flight path of two midges, immediately preceding ❤️romance❤️ 526973
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 09/09/2026I do not believe that these guys are about to summon a world-ending superconsciousness from Nvidia graphics cards. But they either believe they can or want me to believe they believe they can. So I think "fuck them" is the only rational response 262028458
Reposted by Al (as in AL)rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Quixotic? 16122
Reposted by Al (as in AL)rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026lake flaccid 319782
Al (as in AL) @alrad.eurosky.social · 28/08/2026“What an amazingly open admission of a high-polluting industry killing off regulation because they consider their own impatience a higher priority than atmospheric safety.” the fix is in & corporate criminals gotta grab all the loot they can before the whole edifice crumbles, bugger the rest of us 000
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 23/08/2026“Australia is drifting through the most radical, and potentially the most threatening, transformation in our strategic circumstances since European settlement with no clear idea of what is happening or what we should be doing about it., #AUKUS #auspol 31378159
Reposted by Al (as in AL)USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 21/08/2026post of the day… 5385
Reposted by Al (as in AL)Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21/08/2026Bloomberg just estimated that planned data centre gas plants will increase US power emissions by 20%. For some perspective: by my calcs, that is the same as the UK's entire economy-wide 2025 emissions. 413757