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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026

If the Democrats win, they have to be ready to bring generational change. Reform the courts, eliminate the filibuster, expand the house, admit DC and Puerto Rico as states, pass a new voting rights act, and prosecute every single corrupt member of the Trump admin.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026

If Democrats think winning back congress this year and the presidency in 2028 is enough, they are sorely mistaken. We'll be right back where we're at in 2032 with an even more fascist and white supremacist Republican party. It's not enough to win power.

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @eliseswords.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

Related petition about machines causing harm, this time algorithms booting people off Aged Care supports. Apparently Labor are blocking reform in the House of Reps. (Not that they're a uniparty with LNP, or anything 🤪.)

act.getup.org.au

Scrap the aged care algorithm!

Audrey has lived in her Perth home for 43 years. She’s now 96 and blind, and needs just a few more hours of help each week to stay there.

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @eliseswords.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

You know how (Aussie) Medicare got hacked by OpenAI and we were saying a human who did (directly) would go to prison? Here's a petition to hold gen ai companies accountable for THEIR gen ai 'agents'.

act.getup.org.au

Tell Albanese: AI crime, CEO time

An OpenAI agent broke into Medicare in June, and if you or I did that, we'd be facing jail time. So why aren't AI CEOs?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Then, if you’re able, try to get your body moving. You’re going to need your senses and movement is good for your brain. If you have kids in your care, protect their developing brains and their image. That’s all I can say about that.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Baddies will destroy liberal order to play chicken with climate disaster. They don’t care about the rest of us. We can build better but the window to get in the fight is closing. We have to stop appealing to moral authority here.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Right, okay everybody, I’ve had a lot of meetings and talks this week and I have to share some top line thoughts. Things are quite a bit worse than i am usually willing to share with people because panic does no good. It’s kinda bad. The baddies have the wind at their back. No denying that.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It’s somehow being sold as both inevitable, the irresistible force, and precarious / in need of constant nurturing. They’re throwing every argument at us, seeing what sticks.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks. Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them. Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game.

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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

that chatbot doing that unsafe/violative thing is not it 'going rogue' or an 'unfortunate incident of unintended consequences,' it’s the logical and devastating consequences of an unsafe product put out by irresponsible companies that have been conditioned to believe consequences dont exist for them

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Mom for Ghoulberty👻 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's ironic because the Trump admin completely vindicated gender studies as a field. Like we're all living through some sort of unethical gender studies experiment.

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Kathryn Salamander: Witches' Road or bust 🎃 @transsalamander.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The biggest Magic channel on YouTube, Tolarian Community College, regularly has trans guests on, and has a trans woman as one of the primary writers. Regardless of what she chooses to do assuming HP comes to MtG, it's not my place to say. But there will be SHOCKWAVES. And not good ones.

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Kathryn Salamander: Witches' Road or bust 🎃 @transsalamander.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you don't play Magic, I really can't overstate how trans players are an accepted, loved, and CORE part of The Gathering. Wizards would be the stupidest corporation on the planet to put Harry Potter in their game. They would be banking on the hope that new players would outnumber the ones leaving

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Kathryn Salamander: Witches' Road or bust 🎃 @transsalamander.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is going to SHATTER the MtG fandom, @magic.wizards.com. One of the few fandoms in the world where I can say with pride that me and my trans siblings are welcomed and uplifted, and y'all think you can callously discard that? We will boycott the game if you do this. And you will feel it.

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

there's a great interview with a developer on Civ where they said, paraphrased, "a feature should never be the computer having fun instead of the player" and I think about this every time I'm working on procgen. It's often a strong argument to expose more of what you're doing.

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Pablo Barría Urenda @pbarriau.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yeah AI is one of those artifacts of modern civilization that present an illusion of sentience as a way to distract from its deleterious effect on the world, much like brand accounts in social media or podcasters.

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Sardar Ji 🇺🇸 & 🇳🇬 & 🇮🇳 @sardarji.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oddly enough I posted this just this afternoon. Anthropomorphizing AI is an easy way to deflect responsibility. (Not an original thought) bsky.app/profile/sard...

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SCP @10-5.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s actually discouraging how much of the discourse gets diverted to “AI good or AI bad” when the obvious and more pressing issue is “AI *companies* are definitely bad”

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

for whatever it's worth: as a political philosopher I fully cosign this message

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Andrea Lathrop @cabernet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's as if they went into the forest, as described here by Helen Toner: x.com/hlntnr/statu... (the linked twitter post, not the guest essay by Cal Newport which is weirdly showing as the thumbnail) as if they went into that forest, didn't find anything, and so tried to build the thing they expected.

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Helen Toner (@hlntnr) on X

Even before Mythos I was getting asked more and more what Anthropic's deal is, and why tf they're acting the way they're acting if they believe what they say they believe. The best answer I can give ...

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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 25/09/2026

yeah it's strange because it seems obvious to me that LLM safety will be a lot more like ecology and politics than engineering away the paperclipper but there is still this continued insistence on trying to produce the perfect single model

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 25/09/2026

here is a succinct thing I can say: "alignment"-style AI safety risks DO NOT EXIST or need remediation with LLMs as such (there are lots of other problems) and OpenAI and Anthropic are in the business of TRYING TO MAKE THEM EXIST so that they can remediate them.

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I promise, no matter what they say they are doing, Meta is using this to scrape everything they can find on your devices and recording everything you do or say. It is what they’ve done with every product they’ve ever released. Nothing of yours is safe if you use this, no matter how careful you are.

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Meta’s New Muse AI Agent Read My Private Messages. I Never Asked It To

Permission isn't the same and what a user actually expects your AI product will do with their personal information.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

Every time. Every single time.

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ned 'n Friends plotting their next tactical sabotage in my office ❤️

A photograph of two illustrations on the windowsill at my office. The first is an image Ned Ludd plus the text, "luddites didn't 'fear technology' they refused immiseration as justified by profit" and "Heck yes, I'm 'AI Ready'" and "I'm sticking with the union: I'm sticking with the Human". The second illustration is a child's drawing of one large, human-like figure next to a small, human-like figure. Above the figures are the words, "He loves me."

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

Again: "Tilly Norwood" is not a person; it is a shoddy, and also pretty gross puppet. Stop referring to it as "she," and start asking whether there might be something a bit off about wanting to promote a sexualized but also childlike "actor" that can never tell its creators or users "no."

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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 21/09/2026

🎯 "What makes it possible for a [..] dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer." -- Hannah Arendt

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Two state elections in Germany today, guess which one will be written up as representative of Germany/Europe and which one will be portrayed as unique to that specific state?

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It’s funny how no one writes about the genuine concerns of people who live in cities, like concerns about their country turning into a far right hell hole

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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A technology that destroys the foundations — which just happens to be the world’s information ecosystem — that allow it to function. Yeah, this is definitely something that should be allowed to exist. It’s not at all a dead-end technology. Anyway, let’s build those AI data centres!

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 18/09/2026

I really feel like I’m going crazy because of this. It’s like how Talarico is still getting “He’s for THEY/THEM“ ads despite his offering to throw trans kids under the bus. It’s never enough, they can never placate the bigots, and they never seem to learn this.

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GenXJamerican🇯🇲🇺🇸 @genxjamerican.com · 18/09/2026

The other reason following this advice from Democratic consultants is dumb is that billionaires have already cast their lot with Trump and the GOP this cycle. They’re not suddenly going to pause ad buys against Democrats who “moderate” on AI. It’s go big or go home time.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 18/09/2026

Again, there is clear evidence a data center moratorium would peel far more votes away from the GOP than the 10-15 (not thousand, literally 10-15 total) who might switch over this same crowd’s demand to betray queer people. It’s malpractice that the party won’t ditch these professional losers.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026

look we are too corrupt and ignorant to regulate so it's up to a collection of foppish, pasty sociopaths in overpriced sneakers to hold themselves accountable for killing everyone with monopolized cloud computing

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

open.substack.com/pub/mattstol... Let’s not kick this can any further down the road. The “geniuses” who own these AI giants are not people with humanity’s interests in mind.

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AI Is an Elite Crime Spree

Documents show a Microsoft exec called AI the "largest theft of labor in human history.” New AI regulations are besides the point, the problem is we don’t apply existing laws to the powerful.

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Humanity Must Win @humanitymustwin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The best guardrail is to just class action them to bankruptcy. They should have considered all the risks before investing trillions in a humanity destruction machine.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This has come out thanks to the suit the NYT and other news orgs—including us—have filed against OpenAI.

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 18/09/2026

"The largest theft of labor in human history." We done knew it. (www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...)

Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: Large language models are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said generative AI products have created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.”

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/09/2026

This is why I hate "just a tool" so so so much. You can make a calculator without access to every calculation. You can make photoshop without access to all photos. Someone show me a genai tool that didn't require all of our labour in its production. It's plagiarism software.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 18/09/2026

Total unscientific nonsense spread via the media as a means of pretending they are doing some bastardized form of recursive self-improvement. Takes a lot to make me dislike a company more than OpenAI but Dario truly has taken the lead

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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

It's truly strange to see this (logical?) fallacy so widespread and relentlessly repeated by so many people from various center-left or left-wing factions. I genuinely wonder what causes folks to believe that one can separate current technologies from capitalism.

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Yan Basque @yanbasque.com · 10/09/2026

It's like saying, "In a vacuum, Elon Musk wouldn't be such a bad guy." Well, yeah, cause he wouldn't be an obscenely rich man full of petty grievances, surrounded by sycophantic enablers, and with the power to cause immeasurable harm to millions of people worldwide. But that's what "Elon Musk" is.

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Yan Basque @yanbasque.com · 10/09/2026

A meaningless assertion. The technology doesn’t and cannot exist in a vacuum. It is what it is because of the context in which it was created. Outside of Capitalism, no one would build it, because it’s literally built on extraction. Separating things from their context is never helpful.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yes, this is what I think too, and likely the reason for the abrupt coordinated messaging

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

they spent millions in the primary trying to make the progressive lose precisely because they might go off-script and start answering questions clearly & well. they want obfuscating time-wasters who say nothing concrete

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