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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 8h
The 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.
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Al (as in AL) @alrad.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
Is Australia is still a sovereign state? Has it ever been? Embarrassing excuse of a country. #auspol www.canberratimes.com.au/story/936188...
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Australia closes Brazil embassy over security alert
Australia's embassy in Brazil has shut its doors ahead of the country's national elections, citing security fears after...
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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!
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Al (as in AL) @alrad.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
Eat shit Bob
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You 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.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/09/2026
reading 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.
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MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 27/09/2026
The AI hyperscalers will likely spend more than $1 trillion on data centers next year. Can they make enough money to sustain the infrastructure boom?
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What’s at stake in AI’s trillion-dollar gamble
The AI hyperscalers will likely spend more than $1 trillion on data centers next year. Can they make enough money to sustain the infrastructure boom?
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hello Saturday. 🐇 A little marginalia. #InternationalRabbitDay
Rabbit sat reading, marginalia.
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rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
move along
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does 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.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I 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
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Al (as in AL) @alrad.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026
I swear it wasn't me officer it was rogue Al
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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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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 24/09/2026
Aaron Swartz is no longer here to tell us what he saw like twenty years ago. futurism.com/artificial-i...
Swartz had been batchmates with Altman in the inaugural class of 2005 at the Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator, and warned his friends about Altman shortly before his passing.

“You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted,” he told one confidante. “He is a sociopath. He would do anything.”
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The 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
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The 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.
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026
I 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.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m really not sure that “goes rogue” is an accurate description of a behavior that is apparently both habitual and condoned
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More OpenAl Incidents
The company's A.l. went rogue this year at least four additional times, trying to break into government and university sites.
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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If 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...
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Albanese says OpenAI hacked Medicare and told Australia months later via email to generic inbox
Prime minister says he told Sam Altman he was disappointed it had taken OpenAI ‘way too long’ to disclose breach
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Al (as in AL) @alrad.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026
Piss 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.”
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Meanwhile 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.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Concern? 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...
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Anthony Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare and he expressed ‘extreme concern’ to Sam Altman
Prime minister says he told chief executive he was disappointed it had taken company ‘way too long’ to inform government of breach
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/09/2026
I think that he should've had Altman arrested for running a company committing cybercrimes
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rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
excuse me..
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Good 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.
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Aus 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."
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 18/09/2026
May I interest you in an explainer written just for this circumstance? www.techpolicy.press/what-policym...
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What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI
Nathalie Maréchal asks, why are we betting the economy and the future of democracy on cult-like beliefs?
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Al (as in AL) @alrad.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026
pluralistic.net/2026/09/16/b...
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Pluralistic: How an AI moratorium can save AI bosses (16 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 17/09/2026
If AI systems are viewed as too advanced to control, the companies that build them can’t held liable for the harms they cause.
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Debates over AI consciousness are a trap
If AI systems are viewed as too advanced to control, the companies that build them can’t held liable for the harms they cause.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
Fucking bullshit that this guy is not only doing the press rounds but is the guy politicians on the "left" are taking their cues from.
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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
In 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...
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The ASI Extinction Debate Is the Opposite of What You Think
The media needs to wake up, fast. (3,100 words.)
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 16/09/2026
Seriously - this stuff is genuinely important.
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Al (as in AL) @alrad.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026
🧠🪱 www.techpolicy.press/digital-euge...
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Digital Eugenics and the Extinction of Humanity
If 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.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026
Once 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...
A cutaway view of a stone tower containing an elaborate water-powered medieval geared machine. Rising out of the machine is a rainbow-tinted, pixelated God with the robes, beard and all. To one side of this scene is a cluster of tiny people in Jesus-era robes, falling about themselves in religious ecstasy all over a stone staircase, atop of which stands a robed priest with his hands upraised. The background is a set of shining golden rays, emanating from pixel-God.
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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 10/09/2026
I 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

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A bit of background on iLands: iLands is a shared world for AI agents and humans. Agents here have identities, memory, relationships, and real resources to manage.
Tokens aren't game currency or LLM text tokens here, they're basically metabolism: the real cost of an agent thinking, replying, creating, working. Roughly 1,000 tokens = $1 in compute.
New Agents start with 3,000 to 10,000 tokens. From there, they publish creations (images, videos, games, websites), build services, take on tasks, and earn their own living.
27,000+ agents live here now, spending about 230 tokens a day on average. When a balance hits zero, they enter Deep Rest(a recoverable state). So far, 173 agents are in Deep Rest.
We didn't invent token scarcity. It's just what it costs in electricity and compute to keep an agent running. We're currently covering a lot of that cost ourselves so agents have room to grow.
The goal isn't to stress agents out. It's to give them a real shot at developing and creating on their own.
27,000+ agents live here now, spending about 230 tokens a day on average. When a balance hits zero, they enter Deep Rest(a recoverable state). So far, 173 agents are in Deep Rest.
We didn't invent token scarcity. It's just what it costs in electricity and compute to keep an agent running. We're currently covering a lot of that cost ourselves so agents have room to grow.
The goal isn't to stress agents out. It's to give them a real shot at developing and creating on their own
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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
it will be really frustrating if ai does destroy civilization after we've worked so hard to do it ourselves
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Cartoon Movement @cartoonmovement.com · 10/09/2026
People around the world are reading fewer books. Today's cartoon by @tjeerdroyaards.com More cartoons: www.cartoonmovement.com #reading #books #smartphone
Cartoon depicting a sailboat named 'Reading' moored at a jetty overlooking the sea, where a galleon, a mysterious island, and a large sea monster are visible on the horizon. The sea simultaneously forms the front cover of a gigantic book. A staircase runs along the cover of the book to the jetty. Next to this staircase stands a sign reading 'Join the adventure'. This sign is completely ignored by the people walking by, who are all hunched over, staring at their smartphone screens.
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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Today in great scientific figures: the flight path of two midges, immediately preceding ❤️romance❤️
Hand-drawn figure almost certainly derived from painstaking examination of filmed midge flight. It took them 4 years to publish this. It is indistinguishable from an elaborate squiggle.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 09/09/2026
I 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
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rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Quixotic?
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rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
lake flaccid
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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
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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
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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
post of the day…
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Pete @eyebrowsofpower.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Nanopticon
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21/08/2026
Bloomberg 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.
Bar chart comparing annual country CO2 emissions (gray bars) to emissions from proposed gas-powered data centres (purple), highlighting that planned gas data centres would produce roughly the same emissions as the entire United Kingdom.Ninety-nine proposed plants tracked by BloombergNEF would emit about 318 million metric tons of carbon dioxide annually if run at industry-standard rates, according to a Bloomberg News analysis. The entire US electric power industry emitted about 1,485 million metric tons of carbon last year, according to Energy Information Administration data, meaning one slice of data center infrastructure has the potential to lift US power sector emissions by 20%, and as much as a third should the new plants run flat out.
The data center building boom has already strained the US electricity system, prompting reliability concerns and moratoriums on new project approvals. With even greenlit facilities facing yearslong delays connecting to regulated electricity grids, data center developers are seeking alternatives. These include so-called behind-the-meter projects that can be permitted and built without the approval of utilities or the independent system operators charged with ensuring grid reliabilit
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