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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 7h

I'm very grateful to @aliciastoller.bsky.social for her guest essay this week on reclaiming education. "Love for the world as it is, and as it could be. Our schools, all of our schools, must reclaim and redeem this humane possibility." buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/reclaiming...

Image from Frog and Toad looking in a mirror, Toad is holding a book of fairy tales behind his back.

"We look brave," said Frog.

"Yes, but are we?" asked Toad.

A young child's hand holds down the page.

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Joy🏳️‍⚧️⚢ @joysuperstar01.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I am forever a student of history (REAL history, not made-up history), & this documentary connected a lot of dots for me. This is a MUST WATCH to not only understand the encroachment of AI evils, the mindset, & also about the history of race pseudo-science bullshit. HIGHLY RECOMMEND. #sheshed

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Vol. 3, no. 2 of CO2 Newsletter, is now downloadable. Founded by American geologist William Barbat, each was 8 pages of excerpts from recent reports, editorials & deeply-researched articles. “Accelerating sea level rise is attributed to climate change” allouryesterdays.info/co2-newslett... 1/9

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Latest announcement from Tory shadow chancellor strongly suggests a party stuck in an idealogical rut, unable to learn 1. Scrapping regulations on low carbon home building - was done in 2015 by Tory govt, ended up costing UK many ££ billions in fuel & retrofit www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England

Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth

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Oxford Internet Institute @oii.ox.ac.uk · 02/10/2026

Ghost in the Machine, Valerie Veatch's documentary on the history of AI, comes to Oxford's Ultimate Picture Palace on 22 October. The OII's Dr @anavaldi.bsky.social, who features in the film, joins Valerie for a Q&A after the screening. Screening 6pm, Q&A 8:30pm. uppcinema.com/show/if-oxfo...

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IF Oxford presents: Ghost In the Machine + Director Q&A - The Ultimate Picture Palace

AI's origins lie in power, not technology. This documentary uncovers the fantasies and politics behind Silicon Valley's unchecked growth, and looks at the forces shaping our AI-driven world. Screening...

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Kicking off the @globalvoices.org October Spotlight on Big Tech and Authoritarianism with this insightful reporting about how the extractive, neo-colonial aspects of data centers, cloud computing, and "AI" play out through China's new computing hubs in Xinjiang. globalvoices.org/2026/10/01/w...

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West-to-east energy, east-to-west computing: The Uyghur costs of China’s digital order

Beijing is carrying an older geography of extraction into the AI era, turning Uyghur land, energy and labour into computing power while remaining silent about coercion and surveillance.

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Yoehan Oh @yoehanee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Update: My article "Tech oligarchy meets developmental state" is now officially assigned to Vol. 35, Issue 3 of Science as Culture: Tech Oligarchy Forum - Part 1 (pp. 398-413)! Grab free full-text access via my ePrint link (first 50 downloads): www.tandfonline.com/eprint/GD9NQ... #STS #TechPolicy

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Tech oligarchy meets developmental state: translating developmentalist and regulatory imaginaries to platform capitalism in South Korea

Published in Science as Culture (Vol. 35, No. 3, 2026)

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Oxford Internet Institute @oii.ox.ac.uk · 01/10/2026

Dr Valdivia highlights that alternatives such as chip-level cooling and renewable energy remain at an early stage, while many governments still lack specific legal frameworks to regulate the industry. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

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Oxford Internet Institute @oii.ox.ac.uk · 01/10/2026

As AI fuels a rapid global expansion of data centres, the OII's Dr Ana Valdivia published commentary in Cell Reports Sustainability to discuss how data centres can be built and operated sustainably across environmental, technological & social dimensions. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

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Pablo Bustinduy @pbustinduy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Exacto. www.elconfidencial.com/inmobiliario...

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🤩 I had an amazing time yesterday giving my keynote "Leaving Dark Patterns Behind: Moving Toward Bright Patterns" at the #HCID2026 conference "Rage against the machines" yesterday at City St. George's 👩💻 . Loved so many talks at conference but the highlights were ->

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 24/09/2026

guys please stop falling for this, this is not “rogue AI” it’s “environments with lax cybersecurity controls”

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026

There is also worrisome evidence that Effective Altruism's pivot from a core focus on "distributing bed nets to help poor people survive malaria" to a core focus on "funding think-tanks dedicated to worrying about if AI will kill us all" might have been a planned bait-and-switch from the start:

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Effective Altruism’s Bait-and-Switch: From Global Poverty To AI Doomerism

The Effective Altruism movement Effective Altruism (EA) is typically explained as a philosophy that encourages individuals to do the “most good” with their resources (money, skills). Its “effective…

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MJ Lira @mjlira.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Looking forward to this book! 📖

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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I couldn’t agree more. I reviewed the problem of climate hushing in TT#12 www.transitiontimes.net/tt-12-a-fail... but noted research showing that while climate change is not a *top* issue for voters, climate action is actually a *winning* issue for those brave enough to stand up and fight for it 2/

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TT#12: A Failure to Communicate

Most media organizations are still failing to make the critical link between climate change and the wildfires, record heat, and other climate disasters we are witnessing, but a few are getting it righ...

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Mike Thicke @mikethicke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What a great diagram

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

'Instead of asking business leaders what society needs going forwards, political leaders should be doing a better job of stress-testing their claims and making sure that their businesses and products contribute to society-wide success.' giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Stop asking AI CEOs what society needs

Imagine inviting oil companies to design climate policies or car companies to make traffic rules

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

P.S.: This was made entirely by human labour (no AI involved).

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🌻 For my upcoming book, The Ecologies of Algorithmic Machines, I created a diagram that illustrates the different phases (and corresponding chapters) exploring the materiality of AI. Please feel free to share and cite it if you find it useful. I'd also welcome feedback to improve the diagram.

Diagram that illustrates the different phases of algorithmic machines chains (extracting, manufacturing, operating, decomposing)

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carmenlynn.bsky.social @carmenlynn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“As revealed in recently unsealed court documents, top Microsoft figures, including CEO Satya Nadella, admitted that their AI models are basically stealing content from media companies while providing virtually nothing in return, creating a “doom loop” that will swallow the web.”

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Microsoft Director Admitted in Internal Document That AI Is Creating a "Doom Loop" That Destroys the News Media by Stealing Its Content Without Providing Anything in Return, in Turn Making the AI Usel...

A Microsoft executive admitted that AI companies like itself were plundering websites without giving them in return.

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COYOTE @coyotemedia.org · 15/09/2026

Artist Cara Esten Hurtle was angry to learn that SFPD deployed drones to arrest people during Pride Weekend. So she flipped the lens, turning drones on a fixture of our increasingly surveilled world: Flock cameras. Read @rahawahaile.bsky.social's Q&A about Hurtle's latest photo project.

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An Oakland Photographer Surveils the Surveillance State

Cara Esten Hurtle’s drone-based art project shows the difference between being seen and being spotted.

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Diario Público @publico.es · 20/09/2026

Seis familias recuperan en Víznar los restos de sus seres queridos casi 90 años después diario.publico.es/6wr…

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Familiares de seis víctimas exhumadas en el Barranco de Víznar (Granada) reciben sus restos

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EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 20/09/2026

Opinión | "Ignoro cómo vamos a ser capaces de navegar las décadas que vienen, pero sé que el desgarro migratorio va a ser cada día mayor, y que sólo podríamos minimizar los daños trabajando todos juntos en vez de matarnos". Por Rosa Montero

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Pedaleando | Columna

Llueven sobre nosotros horrores inadmisibles que, sin embargo, se admiten de la manera más ciega y natural

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"So, when I hear a tech person say that something's "just a tool", I can't help but read it as an unwillingness to take responsibility, as an industry, for what we put into the world and for what we do to ourselves."

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17/09/2026

More than 330,000 olive ridley sea turtles arrived in Oaxaca, Mexico, for a mass nesting event known as an “arribada.” Experts say climate change threatens the species as heat and reduced rainfall affect hatchling production.

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"To respond, they are establishing volunteer base camps that can serve multiple purposes at once: storing essential supplies, supporting volunteers, and acting as access points to reach remote and harder-hit areas." www.gofundme.com/f/support-ru...

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Donate to Support Flood Relief in Nepal, organized by Konain Niaz

I am raising funds for Rupesh, a friend I met during my artist residency in Kathmandu, Nepal… Konain Niaz needs your support for Support Flood Relief in Nepal

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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 15/09/2026

“We’d do better to take advice on the real benefits and risks of AI (...) from thoughtful commentators like Mitchell, Devlin, (...) Emily Bender (...), and (...) Shannon Vallor and Timnit Gebru. (If you notice something striking about that latter list, I don’t think it’s a coincidence either.)”

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Apocalyptic AI fantasies are a stupid, annoying distraction from its real problems

The people who work in AI are not gurus and most of their predictions have been wrong. Working in the industry makes them less reliable commentators, not more

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The AI industry is living beyond its means.

Screenshot of "Is AI profitable yet?" illustrating that AI is not profitable as the total industry has spent almost 2 trillion dollars.

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Ghost in the Machine @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

GHOST IN THE MACHINE is coming to @pbs.org and YouTube September 14th at 10pm ET / 7pm PT! Visit notaidoc.com for details on where to watch and stream!

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

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Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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liz @bookjanitor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

fuck yes!!!!!

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

🌱 "The Ecologies of Algorithmic Machines" is almost ready. This book draws on over three years of research into the supply chains of AI, offering a historical analysis of its materiality and environmental-making regimes while challenging the dichotomy between nature and algorithmic machines.

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Since January I’ve been publishing issues of the astonishing “CO2 Newsletter”. They were produced from 1979 by American geologist William Barbat who thought that carbon dioxide build-up was an existential threat to our civilisation. allouryesterdays.info/co2-newslett... 1/12

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CO2 Newsletter - All Our Yesterdays

The CO2 Newsletter was an eight-page round up of current knowledge about carbon dioxide build-up and policy developments. It was published bi-monthly from September 1979 to July 1982 by William N. Bar...

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Paula Villa Braslavsky @paulita.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Es gibt sie schon noch, manch gute Nachricht, selbst diesen Sommer 🤩 GOOD NEWS 🤓 Our paper on „Academic cancel Culture in Germany“ almost out with prestigious BJS!

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 08/09/2026

Si no se hace algo con esta gente por restringir “de forma cautelar” un derecho fundamental no se les va a parar nunca.

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

amazing!! Very glad to see that my supply chains mapping is relevant for 1st year students. I would be curious to see what they say about it.

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Island of Reil @islandofreil.northsky.social · 01/09/2026

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Exceeding human heat tolerance in a warming, ageing world: a global projection modelling study

Qinqin Kong, Daniel J Vecellio, Matthew Huber, Rachel M Cottle, S Tony Wolf, Olivia K Leach, Kat G Fisher, Eran Bendavid, W Larry Kenney

Summary

Background

In a warming world, understanding where, when, and to what extent human heat tolerance limits will be breached has become increasingly important. Previous projections applied heat limits for healthy young adults to all age groups, overlooking greater vulnerability in older ages. With global ageing, this oversight could seriously underestimate future heat risks. In this study, we aimed to examine the extent to which accounting for age-specific heat tolerance alters global projections of heat limit exceedances.

Methods

We integrated experimentally derived heat limits for young (18–39 years), middle-aged (40–59 years), and older adults (≥60 years) with climate projections and age-stratified population projections to assess where and to what extent these limits could be breached across age groups under 1–4°C of global warming above preindustrial levels. The climate projections include bias-corrected projections of dry-bulb temperature and wet-bulb temperature from 14 Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 climate models under the shared socioeconomic pathway 5-8·5 scenario. We also highlighted countries with high exposure risk and low adaptive capacity.

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

🚨New publication out now in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Science, Technology & Society with @ibalilebali.bsky.social: "The Technopolitics of Data Centers in the Age of AI: Concepts, Methodologies, and Challenges" 👉 Link: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

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The Technopolitics of Data Centers in the Age of AI: Concepts, Methodologies, and Challenges

Abstract. Data centers are infrastructure facilities that house computing machines used to store data and process digital applications. They form the mater

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 27/08/2026

"Listening back over Jason’s last messages to me, it is clear that the media abuse drove him to his death. I feared this would be the outcome at the time." — Corinne Fowler www.hackedoff.org/blog-posts/w...

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When media abuse of academics becomes the norm in HE

Following the death of Jason Arday, Corinne Fowler writes on the toll of media abuse on academics and what universities must do to protect their staff.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 23/08/2026

> In all the media frenzy surrounding Professor Arday – which has exposed [...] the double standards in the treatment of people of colour and their white counterparts within academia – little has been heard about his abilities as a tutor, which was called into question in some reports. 1/n

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