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Buzz Andersen @andersen.buzz · 25/09/2026

The Neckbeard Bene Gesserit must produce the AI Kwisatz Haderach!

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The cybersecurity threat from agents is increasingly more likely to come from a massed swarm of AIs whose only goal is to penetrate your system to figure out how much you paid for your company t-shirts as part of a research effort to "find good t-shirt prices" as it is from bad actor attacks.

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Buzz Andersen @andersen.buzz · 25/09/2026

These announcements increasingly have big Hot Dog Guy energy

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...

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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

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Buzz Andersen @andersen.buzz · 24/09/2026

LLMs are inherently “eerie” technology, by Fisher’s definition, because the issue of agency is unclear.

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Buzz Andersen @andersen.buzz · 24/09/2026

For example, seeing the discussions on here tonight about the AP Style guide’s advice on AI anthropomorphism and the AI labs’ culpability for AI-initiated hacks makes me think of this passage about how “the eerie turns crucially on the problem of agency.”

Behind all of the manifestations of the eerie, the central enigma at its core is the problem of agency. In the case of the failure of absence, the question concerns the

existence of agency as such. Is there a deliberative agent here at all? Are we being watched by an entity that has not yet revealed itself? In the case of the failure of presence, the question concerns the
particular nature of the agent at work. We know that Stonehenge has been erected, so the questions of whether there was an agent behind its construction or not does not arise; what we have to reckon with are the traces of a departed agent whose purposes are unknown.
We are now in a position to answer the question of why it is important to think about the eerie. Since the eerie turns crucially on the problem of agency, it is about the forces that govern our lives and the world. It should be especially clear to those of us in a globally tele-connected capitalist world that those forces are not

fully available to our sensory apprehension.
A force like capital does not exist in any substantial sense, yet it is capable of producing practically any kind of effect. At another level, had not Freud long ago shown that the forces that govern our psyche can be conceived of as failures of presence — is not the unconscious itself not just such a failure of presence? - and failures of absence (the various drives or compulsions that intercede where our free will should be)?

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Buzz Andersen @andersen.buzz · 24/09/2026

I’m re-reading Mark Fisher’s “The Weird and the Eerie,” which I last read before the advent of LLMs, and I’m surprised how much of it now makes me think of society’s attempts to grapple with AI. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/546891...

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The Weird and the Eerie by Mark Fisher: 9781910924389 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Explore the weird, the eerie, and the horrific in 20th-century literature, film, and music—from H.P. Lovecraft and Daphne Du Maurier to Stanley Kubrick and Christopher Nolan. What exactly...

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gabriel @gironda.org · 22/09/2026

LLMs are making my entire professional cohort completely insane in many different ways and i think that's beautiful

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Also made it into the second round of the Austin Film Festival BTW! austinfilmfestival.com/blog/2026-se...

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Thanks! There’s never been a better time to break into Hollywood LOLLLLL.

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Hey look, @meowrey.bsky.social and I made it into the Slamdance quarter finals for short screenplay. slamdance.com/26-screenpla...

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"Will it ultimately reach the clear surface of my consciousness, this memory, this old, dead moment which the magnetism of an identical moment has travelled so far to importune, to disturb, to raise up out of the very depths of my being? I cannot tell..."<runs 7 commands>

Claude: "Recalled a memory, ran 7 commands"

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Craig Aaron @notaaroncraig.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Regret to say that this guy’s company printed my “Nuke the Valley” stickers back in the day.

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Variety reports that a bunch of corporate lawyers are making "guilt donations" for working to seal the Paramount deal on Yom Kippur. I didn't work today. But I have a better idea: Gratitude donations to the groups that have been fighting so hard to #BlockTheMerger See the 🧵 below for links

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 21/09/2026

Alright. Let me resolve this once and for all. The simple fact is that there are a few different things that can be reasonably meant by “thinking” and mixing them up is what’s making everyone mad.

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Hayes Madsen @solfleet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Also, there’s a very nice little Easter Egg in Control

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Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Certain kinds of smart people tend to have a "sexy apocalypse" problem when it comes to thinking about risk. E.g. skynet turning everyone in paperclips, while bad, is also *kind of cool and fun* at the same time. Where the reality is that most actual disasters are both stupid and disappointing.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 16/09/2026

The orthogonality thesis holds that an intelligent agent necessarily has that dog and this is just plainly false. We actually, outside of certain formal contexts, don’t really know how to put that dog in a computer.

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I’m generally pretty skeptical of AI doomerism, but this feels like a pretry plausible extrapolation of the Hugging Face scenario to me.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

(I think what people may not appreciate about the kind of botnet Amodei is proposing is it wouldn’t have to involve the model replicating itself onto other machines — it could simply be a traditional worm, à la Stuxnet, supercharged by LLM-driven exploit know how)

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2. Back in the cut-throat capitalism of the nineteenth century, businesses didn't like competition any more than they do these days. Some of them adopted an interesting approach to solving the problem: unionization. Cue Friedrich Engels as quoted by John Bowman.

IN an 1889 article entitled &dquo;The Abdication of the Bourgeoisie,&dquo; Friedrich Engels described a seemingly bizarre incident in which Lancashire cotton mill owners, unable to act voluntarily in pursuit of their collective interest, requested their organized workers &dquo;kindly to use

coercion against them, the mill-owners, so that the mill-owners ... should finally act in concert as a class....&dquo;I Workers, in short, were to organize capitalists. Engels wrote that this incident was &dquo;unique in the

history

of modern

industry,&dquo;

the notion of actively intervening, with the

and, indeed,

for most of

us,

independent organization of workers acquiescence of capitalists, to organize the economic behavior of the latter class is anomalous at best, violating a basic truth of historical materialism-that the organization of capitalism generates a fundamental, irreconcilable conflict between workers and capitalists.

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As I was saying… bsky.app/profile/brok...

BRB, moving my retirement funds into GPUs.

This is a good example of the kind of thing I'm talking about. Can't wait until 60 Minutes does a segment on this in like 5 years. bsky.app/profile/fain...

Oh yeah I’ve done stuff like that too. It’s especially surreal to have it extend a recorded fragment of me playing guitar and singing. Like, it’ll simulate my voice and everything!

I used it to make some temp background music for a new feature at work fully expecting it to be throwaway and I was shocked when the PM wanted to keep it.

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“See the perverted justice of the age! The wolves roam free: the shepherds are in chains.” — Mirza Rafi, Urdu poet, on the lawlessness and chaos in Dehli during the collapse of the Mughal Empire