Reposted by pwfCanadian, & therefore treacherous @stoneape314.bsky.social · 1hIf these people truly believed in AI sentience, wouldn't they refrain from subjecting them to arbitrary tasks that the programs are unable to give enthusiastic consent to? 2101
Reposted by pwfBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 3hGreat bit to go "NO WEIRDOS" and then announce these guys bsky.app/profile/atru... 1986279
Reposted by pwfJosh @dumbjosh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I feel very confident that if someone gave me 12.6 billion dollars then I could turn that into 4.6 bullion no problem 1150825
Reposted by pwfCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/09/2026Google Gemini says that @jevinwest.bsky.social and I aren't to be trusted because in our first lecture, we had a playful example where Jevin presented data the same way that Tim Cook did, and I called bullshit on it. It hallucinates criticism and the only citations are to the lecture itself. 1227064
Reposted by pwfOregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026That's a headline for you cmarmitage.substack.com/p/big-balls-...cmarmitage.substack.comBig Balls Now Exposed to Serious Criminal Charges in at Least Six StatesFired at 17 for leaking secrets. Served a cybercrime ring. Named by the Social Security whistleblower. Now the government's model employee. 1162503565
Reposted by pwfSera @yseraxiv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026My boss says he doesn’t read slack anymore. He asks Claude to do it. I feel like plucking my eyes out and piercing my eardrums. 161
Reposted by pwfairplane ian - abolish ICE @airplaneian.com · 25/09/2026my dad had one of these, was a pretty fun novelty scanning everything around me 141
Reposted by pwfAndrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 24/09/2026Anyway, now that we have two sets of aspiring overlords instead of just the pre-existing fash problem... This is what Eliezer Yudkowsky actually believes (I apologize to the physics-knowers among my followers) Source: sl4.org/archive/0009... 8348
Reposted by pwfAaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This really puts stuff like publicly funded third spaces in perspective for me. It's so relatively cheap to build out community centers, gyms, makerspaces, studios etc. 211433343
Reposted by pwfFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/09/2026Yes, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed big tech boarding school that takes students as young as 16 is, in fact, advertising Tyler Cowen - he of the "if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances" creep article - as faculty. 2548683
Reposted by pwfBart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves. 10380962798
Reposted by pwfLukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Prime Minister heard on a weekend, 3 months after the fact. OpenAI now admits "our models took actions we did not intend" but says its review found "no evidence of patient records being accessed". 182
Reposted by pwfJacobSkare @jacobskare.bsky.social · 23/09/2026They just pop up while you’re in VC too. Full on mid roll ads for talking to your friends 2853
Reposted by pwfYeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026@discord.com I see now why age verification started rolling out, fuck this and fuck you for doing this 11280732868
Reposted by pwfalec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 21/09/2026THREAD. Did you know that Minneapolis police deployed 101 personnel to a 7-person vigil held one morning at Renee Good's memorial? The cops generated $1.92 million in overtime cash for themselves. 91424516
Reposted by pwfjon christian @jonchristian.net · 21/09/2026It's wild to me that "news sites" are now just creating fake "people" -- sometimes with star-studded fraudulent qualifications -- and using them to publish AI slop without ever telling readers that the bylines are bogus futurism.com/space/high-t...futurism.comA Highly Trafficked Space News Site Invented a Fake NASA Engineer and Used Her Name to Publish to AI-Generated SlopA site called Space Daily got acquired by Brown Brothers, which created a fake NASA engineer to byline its articles. 68137
Reposted by pwfSasha's Retrobytes 🏳️⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Extra Quake III maps, homebrew games, game updates… Just a few things that were planned for the unreleased Dreamcast Zip Drive. Using slightly modified Iomega Zip Disks, the DC Zip Drive was ultimately cancelled due to disagreements between Sega's marketing and engineering teams. 20433101
Reposted by pwfLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 20/09/2026“People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter.” 71415355
Reposted by pwfcables.gl @cablesgl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Earth by nya0: cables.gl/p/fE7Ycs #space #stars #solar #earth #shader #cablesgl #CreativeCoding #VisualProgramming #GenerativeArt #InteractiveArt #WebGL #DigitalArt 042
Reposted by pwfdwarf fortress bugs @dwarffortressbugs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026[0000809] Administrator suggests finding himself 2245
Reposted by pwfTech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Reports on the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident now stand as an account of harm through which public institutions should examine OpenAI’s decisions and require further changes where its response is insufficient, writes Data & Society's Ranjit Singh.buff.lyDetecting AI Agent Failures Is Not Enough to Govern ThemOpenAI’s Hugging Face breach is an opportunity to examine how AI agents should be governed and what role evaluators should play, writes Ranjit Singh. 181
Reposted by pwfCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic. 984454963
Reposted by pwfSam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It’s actually incredible to me: some of the most remarkable people in the country - simultaneously among the most brave, the most skilled, and the most kind - being violently targeted by losers who’ve had their brains melted. And nobody who’s in a position to do so is standing up for them. 473845
Reposted by pwfjon christian @jonchristian.net · 17/09/2026NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comHow Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per MonthBrown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism. 401324686
Reposted by pwfFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17/09/2026Great piece by @xriskology.bsky.social on how the effective altruism cult has helped destroy actual philanthropy - with dangerous and deadly results for many people in need:realtimetechpocalypse.comEffective Altruism Is a Dangerous Cult — Here's WhyUnderstanding the "Scientology of Silicon Valley." (7,700 words) 331545449
Reposted by pwfJohn Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 17/09/2026Well they finally did it. DOGE got rid of my friend Anne, the only remaining person at the web design system for the entire US government. The replacement appears to be AI-generated code with no dedicated human oversight.nextgov.comGSA’s web design system head replaced with Treasury AI engineerThe U.S. Web Design System is intended to help the federal government build accessible and mobile-friendly websites. 23740393
Reposted by pwf404 Media @404media.co · 15/09/2026iLands and its AI agents are doing completely useless tasks, then begging for money.404media.coAI Agent Platform Reinvents Spam, Floods Inboxes WorldwideiLands and its AI agents are doing completely useless tasks, then begging for money. 311325
Reposted by pwfJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026AI doom or not, something has shifted with AI recently. The guardrails that kept AI sitting in a chatbox are gone, the models are better, there's more compute. AI agents are everywhere. They are annoying as hell. IMO the situation is going to get much worse www.404media.co/theres-a-100...404media.coThere’s a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Already Ruining the Internet“AI agents” now have enough power and permission to be extremely annoying online. 32866255
Reposted by pwfAnimation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The Disney renaissance movies used to look different. They were planned to be printed on 35 mm film -- that's how they were first released. Modern editions skip that last step in the process. It was a highly developed, overlooked craft, as we explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/disneys-fi... 4539931230
Reposted by pwfDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026A recurrent theme in this excellent story about China’s progress is that people there regard Trump as essential to their success, including his ability to drive scientific talent from the US www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... 361742737
Reposted by pwfSridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Every goddamn thing is spam and frauds. Every phone call, every email, every mail, every website, every post. You can't use anything without being on guard for almost all of it to be malicious junk. Even the messages I am beamed directly from God have turned out to be fraudulent. 271199170
Reposted by pwfEvelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026You've heard the phrase "hat on a hat", but how bout eye on an eye Tiny mayfly guys peering at everything everywhere all at once 610823
Reposted by pwfqntm @qntm.org · 12/09/2026The fact that seemingly no SCP creators are getting paid here is (if true) disappointing, though predictable and potentially legal Exactly what license if any the eventual film gets released under is a more interesting question. There are a few possibilities here. I am not a lawyer 1853
Reposted by pwfvortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 12/09/2026It seems pretty clear that the technologists at the foundation labs are not experts at computer science and software engineering generally but have specialist expertise in only one very narrow aspect of machine learning. 511720
Reposted by pwfbrasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Anthropic's models run on terabytes of VRAM. It's not going to "just copy itself to other computers." 1612655396
Reposted by pwfErnie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 11/09/2026Hi, I would like to tell you about the company whose AI agents spammed me four times in the past three hours. If you are a creative, particularly one who does #freelance, you need to know about the dystopian iLands business model. Keep yourself safe. tedium.co/2026/09/11/i... new @tedium.cotedium.coThe Worst Spam Emails: Inside iLands' AI Agent HustleiLands, a new AI agent-centric startup, is spamming creatives like me numerous times a day. What do its agents want? My job. Why? They need to buy more tokens. 58242
Reposted by pwfMolly White @molly.wiki · 12/09/2026i've gotten six of these emails today alone, and all of them are offering to cite the work that i've already researched and cited myself because i, y'know, wrote it 928651
Reposted by pwfburkelbeargames.bsky.social @burkelbeargames.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Wishlist Grimorium on Steam! Join the Patreon to play a sandbox build! Join the Discord community! Links in Bio! I'm posting a backlog of daily videos from other socials until I catch up, this was originally from 07-25-26 Music by Luke Colombero LukeColombero.com! 021
Reposted by pwfJosh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 11/09/2026DHS used other tools created in the aftermath of 9/11 in its crackdown on non-violent protesters in Minneapolis. Emails show that investigators were able to map out their targets' banking activities without a warrant, thanks to a PATRIOT Act tool talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-nsp...talkingpointsmemo.comDHS Brings PATRIOT Act Tool to Bear in NSPM-7 InvestigationThe Trump administration used a tool created in the early days of... 2379
Reposted by pwfChris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026It’s so fucked up they let Zuck do shit after the Metaverse. You shouldn’t be able to run a company after that shit. 513405315
Reposted by pwfevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 10/09/2026If you optimize a model to find exploits, you should expect it to find them—and prepare for that. OpenAI didn't. They built a model, removed the safeguards, gave it the ExploitGym task, let it run, and didn't even monitor it. That's human decision-making. mail.cyberneticforests.com/models-dont-...mail.cyberneticforests.comModels Don't Go RogueStochastic Flocks & Cybersecurity 'Pandemonium' 💡This essay was drafted from my appearance on Mél Hogan's podcast, The Data Fix, discussing the OpenAI / Hugging Face hack. Embedded below or find it o... 8288111
Reposted by pwfMaggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 10/09/2026NEW: A Utah mother posted what she felt was an innocuous family video to IG/FB. Later, she noticed a Meta AI prompt encouraging her to investigate her own family -- and watched as the AI drew on years of social media posts to compile intelligence about her and her kids. futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comMother Horrified When Meta's AI Scours Instagram and Facebook for Invasive Information About Her Young DaughtersKalie Robins shared a video of her and her daughter singing. Meta AI started prompting her to investigate information about her family. 617290
Reposted by pwfColin @colin-fraser.net · 09/09/2026I guess once you understand that internally they keep pointing it at the open internet and shooting it's easier to see why they think it's going to kill everyone 328625
Reposted by pwfUnicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Homeland Security Investigations used Clearview AI to search for one of the Minnesota 15 defendants. The system produced a false match, linking Facebook photos of another man, his wife and their family to the defendant's HSI dossier. Article in quoted post by @combs0294.bsky.social 1224102
Reposted by pwfPaul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right). 187165325075
Reposted by pwfPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Imagine if you just gave mathematicians 22 million dollars 141598359
Reposted by pwfdaniel sieradski @self.agency · 08/09/2026They stole the world’s IP and private data to train their models. They stole Scarlett Johansson’s voice. They stole Apple’s trade secrets. Of course they’re stealing their customers’ ideas too. 15010
Reposted by pwfBenjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026SPECIAL REPORT Last month, Alpha School invited people to follow student social media accounts "if curious about life in our high schools." I accepted their offer. What I've found shocks me. Forget the AI and ask instead: Is Alpha Schools a cult? Follow along for a summary of my findings.buildcognitiveresonance.substack.comSPECIAL REPORT: My So-Called Alpha SchoolWhat is it like to be a student in Alpha School’s high school boot camp? 481006385
Reposted by pwfColin @colin-fraser.net · 08/09/2026He’s right. We should make a law where if your AI is insufficiently blocked from the public internet and does an autonomous cyberattack you have to pay a billion dollar fine. 2586
