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Naomi Colvin

@auerfeld.bsky.social
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Interested in AI governance, renaissance music and pallas cats. Can probably still play a selection of Andy Mackay solos on request.

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Naomi Colvin @auerfeld.bsky.social · 10h
THRILLED to see Take It Or Leave it on the big screen. Madness are the platonic ideal of the Pop Group imo and more entertaining on camera than pretty much anyone else.
Take it or leave it remastered, poster
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Naomi Colvin @auerfeld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Masterpiece, this one letterboxd.com/journal/my-o...
letterboxd.com
A Connoisseur of Roads: the lost youth of Gus Van Sant’s My Own Private Idaho at 35 • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
As Gus Van Sant’s dreamy, wistful road drama turns 35, Ariel LeBeau reflects on the strange beauty of the street-hustler odyssey, which drew heart-wrenching performances out of River Phoenix and Keanu...
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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"In October 2024, the same month that Jane Doe was allegedly raped, Cornell issued three-year campus bans to four students who pushed past police officers at a pro-Palestinian protest." You can guess which students faced life-changing consequences and for what crime.
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Naomi Colvin @auerfeld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Absolutely disgusting behaviour. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/...
aljazeera.com
How UK universities briefed BAE Systems on pro-Palestine campus protests
Several universities discussed protests with the weapons maker, raising concerns about influence and academic freedom.
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Naomi Colvin @auerfeld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Embarrassing Breach at F.B.I. Fuels Fears of Harm to Its Employees www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
nytimes.com
Embarrassing Breach at F.B.I. Fuels Fears of Harm to Its Employees
In an internal memo, the F.B.I. said it believed the hackers may have stolen sensitive information on all of its employees.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Israel is a safe haven for Jews* * as long as they commit themselves to absolute ethnosupremacy over indigenous Palestinians www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
haaretz.com
Israel freezes aliyah for two Jews over activism protecting Palestinians
In both cases, the protective-presence activists, who did not know each other, had their passports photographed by a soldier or settler. These are the first known cases in which Israeli authorities ap...
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
OMFG they tried to spin this as a thwarted terror attack by the Iranians, but it was actually just a bunch of grifters from London trying to pike red diesel off yokels. Wild shit.
Looks like the Fairford five were fuel thieves
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve been writing and speaking on this topic for years, and I’m glad that news media are finally drawing attention to it. www.salon.com/2026/07/28/t...
It may be tempting to see value in projects such as the Schmidt Foundation — that’s Eric Schmidt of Google — funding a fellowship in AI at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, or the Musk Foundation’s support of the Scroll Prize to use AI in reconstructing ancient texts in the burnt scrolls of Herculaneum. But these projects are simply two among countless others that have been seeding AI into museums and historical research for well over a decade. Even more egregious is the case of AI companies buying  and destroying rare books en masse in the process of scanning them for data. In the context of the dire austerity we are witnessing, the juggernaut of tech money seems impossible to resist.
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Naomi Colvin @auerfeld.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
No one goes harder than Diamanda youtube.com/watch?v=VK_I...
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DIAMANDA GALAS - Double Barrel Prayer official music video
YouTube video by Conniption Hammerlessnail
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“If it’s me and Madge on bongos, it’s The Fall”
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Naomi Colvin @auerfeld.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Resent that he was in GOT so happy to dunk now
Ed Sheeran both sidesing the red wedding
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Naomi Colvin @auerfeld.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Mark E Smith's final recordings include a cover of Material Girl www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...
theguardian.com
‘Love and respect’ or ‘a cash grab’? The furious battle over the final album by the Fall
Creators of Post Script, made with vocals by the late Mark E Smith, defend it as ‘a great, positive record’, but fiancee describes it as ‘ethically wrong’
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Naomi Colvin @auerfeld.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Steady stream of these reports now - “over reliance on AI” in national security with real human cost.
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 18/09/2026
“It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of AI — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying.”
cnn.com
Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Paul Carey Jones @paulcareyjones.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The most important article on opera I’ve read for many years, from @andrewpotterbass.bsky.social. Singers accept that the career comes with the risk of being out of work at times. But when they can’t afford to be in work, it has to be a wake-up call for the industry. operawire.com/editorial-wh...
operawire.com
Why I'm Retiring from Staged Opera at 43 - OperaWire
I am 43-years-old.
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Naomi Colvin @auerfeld.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's absolutely wild
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Loz Kaye. @lozkaye.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Open Rights Group to Palantir is an interesting trajectory. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir
Peer takes full-time position at the controversial company as it fends off pressure from both Andy Burnham’s government and Sadiq Khan
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Omg new cat just dropped www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
nationalgeographic.com
Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years
A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.
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Naomi Colvin @auerfeld.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
There’s a novel in this one www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
independent.co.uk
‘Putney pusher’ suspect found dead
The Met Police are not treating the man’s death at a property in Chiswick as suspicious at this time
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Naomi Colvin @auerfeld.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
At the risk of diving headfirst into the Very Worst Discourse, I have a lot of respect for John Gibbs and his former colleagues www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Lucy Letby hospital consultant tells BBC inquiry makes for grim reading
Consultant Dr John Gibbs worked at the hospital during the period in 2015 to 2016 when Letby murdered seven babies.
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026
Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.”
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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
⚡ New Research – Read Now 🔗 dnlb.org/ns ⚡ 📃👀 Telecoms, Ubiquitous Surveillance and State Crime: A Case Study From Kenya 👤 Namir Shabibi, Independent Investigative Journalist
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Naomi Colvin @auerfeld.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The long tail of 1066 www.edwest.co.uk?utm_source=n...
edwest.co.uk
Wrong Side of History | Ed West | Substack
It's Ed West's sub stack. Click to read Wrong Side of History, by Ed West, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I believe this is the biggest factory (for however hard to measure that term is) to open in London since the Second World War.
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Naomi Colvin @auerfeld.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Truth be told, this is one of the most draconian powers the US government has. It feeds directly into the debanking of activist groups/political figures who aren't directly sanctioned too.
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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Excellent piece here on the doubtful loyalties of too much of the UK tech policy scene
opendemocracy.net
Matt Clifford joining Anthropic makes a joke of the UK’s Sovereign AI Strategy
British startups will now be competing against the UK’s best-connected AI lobbyist who was meant to be their champion against US tech dominance.
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Naomi Colvin @auerfeld.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Bayeux tapestry exhib at the British Museum really is astoundingly good. Obviously I could have seen the world’s greatest comic strip in Bayeux at pretty much any time this century but just as well I’ve made good that omission now.
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Continuo Connect @continuoconnect.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🎧 PODCAST ALERT: Sam Brown on Dowland and filtering history through a modern lens Watch, listen, or read the transcript only on Continuo Connect 🔖 go.continuoconnect.com/sam-brown-po…
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Naomi Colvin @auerfeld.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“It would seem that terrorists peacefully hold placards and get immediately arrested, while protesters wear black uniforms and balaclavas and disrupt infrastructure and do not get arrested.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
prospectmagazine.co.uk
Why holding a placard is terrorism, disruption in a balaclava is not
The mess caused by ministers and the police not taking terrorism law seriously
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 12/09/2026
I’ve been OBSESSED with the Shard apartments for at least a decade. Priced at up to £50m. Visible across London. Empty since 2012. Unsellable. No pictures online. Now London Centric has found out what’s happened to them - and the first pic of the interior. www.londoncentric.media/p/the-shard-...
londoncentric.media
‘Airbnb for sheikhs’: The first look inside the Shard’s £50m apartments that won’t sell
Ten “cursed” apartments have sat empty since 2012 • The Qatari state can’t find buyers • The local council has approved plans to turn them into short-term lets at up to £18,000 per week
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Naomi Colvin @auerfeld.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
As if the abuse of (legal) extraterritorial anti terrorism measures against small activist collectives wasn't sufficient theintercept.com/2026/09/10/d...
theintercept.com
Pentagon Employee DataRepublican Posts Inside Info About Hacks Against the Far Left
A far-right hacker posts in tandem with DataRepublican, the X account of Pentagon employee Jennica Pounds, about hacks against the left.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 11/09/2026
>the houthis were trying to use claude to build their rocket guidance system just get me off the fucking ride www.anthropic.com/threat-intel...
GTG-87001: Disrupting a Yemen-based guided weapons engineering cell using Claude to develop guidance software
Summary

We identified a cell of threat actors based in northern Yemen running three weapons development programs: a guided rocket that used a commodity phone-class flight computer with final-phase homing guidance; a multi-stage ballistic missile with a stated range goal above 2,000 km; and a multi-variant missile (referred to as the “R2000” set) that included a hypersonic glide vehicle variant.

The actors used Claude Code in place of human software engineers to develop the guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) software that steers and stabilizes a flying vehicle. For example, they used Claude to integrate an open-source autopilot onto a phone-class flight computer, writing the control and position estimation software, tuning the control settings, running a firmware build pipeline, and performing a flight simulation. The actors managed several Claude instances at once, assigning each one a role, much as a lead would delegate work on a small engineering team: the actors tasked one instance with writing the code, another with research, and a third with reviewing the code the first instance produced.

Our safeguards blocked many of their requests, but not all of them. The actors used a variety of tactics to evade our safeguards, including hiding their goals and the products the software was meant for, and they split their work across multiple sessions so no single session revealed their full intent.

These actors carried out a sustained effort to develop guided weapons, including using Claude to design guidance software. We do not have evidence the actors succeeded in fielding an operational device; but they did test-fire a guided rocket. This field test appears to have failed: within hours, the actors returned to Claude to work out why it failed.

We identified this activity as part of our internal investigations into suspected weapons development. We banne…
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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Very much enjoying the Swindon Advertiser's live blog this evening, with its plucky, on-the-ground reports from the street where a local man has been charged with assisting Russian intelligence.
7:38 pm 09/09/26
What have his neighbours said?
Our reporter is at the scene of one his addresses in Liden where residents have reacted with shock.
One person told the Adver: "It's surprising."
Another said: "Don't know nothing about that, dunno what to say really."
A third added: "It's unexpected, usually you get police around here for drugs, which is why I keep myself to myself'8:16 pm 09/09/26
One neighbour, a couple doors down from where police were seen, slammed his front door in our reporter's face and repeatedly shouted through an open window to "go report something somewhere else"
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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Love a good errata slip.
Book title page - Scum of the earth by Arthur Koestler, translated by daphne hardy. Plus errata slip - The words "translated by daphne hardy" have been printed in error. This book was written in English by the author.
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Naomi Colvin @auerfeld.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
That Elizabeth Holmes doc trailer has given me a real dose of early morning nausea.
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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
er, just let them...
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 06/09/2026
The tech collective behind NoBlogs.org and a host of other free online initiatives has announced that they are shutting down as a consequence of the US State Department designating them a "global terrorist." This represents a significant blow to online freedom. keepitfree.ai/announcement...
The day we discovered we had been designated a global terrorist organization, we promised that we would try to resist as long as this was possible, that we would not back down as long as we could see options to stand our ground. For years, we have proudly maintained and defended a free, privacy-friendly, autonomous and politically committed infrastructure. 

“Stay human” is not an empty phrase to us.

It means, above all, that we have a responsibility to protect our users, those who build the human networks we rely, and for the communities who flooded us with messages of support and solidarity.Now turn off your PCs, get out of your homes, struggle, hug each other and keep on smiling. We are stopping, but the Resistance and ideas do not stop. Stay human.

We will soon send instructions on how to back up the content of your blogs, mailboxes and websites, along with more technical recommendations. But keep in mind that, just as the autistici.org domain was made unreachable without previous notice, in the next few days we might suffer similar issues that we may not be able to predict.
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Naomi Colvin @auerfeld.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
“The Autistici/Inventati collective is shutting down and will soon discontinue all of the services we provide.” keepitfree.ai/announcement...
keepitfree.ai
A/I Shuts Down Stay Human · Keep the Internet free
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Naomi Colvin @auerfeld.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
He's only gone and found a hiding spot IN THE HALLWAY
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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The Kill Cloud does not merely observe reality, it constructs it. 📑 Read: dnlb.org/links ⚡Out now: Whistleblower Cian Westmoreland exposes the Kill Cloud: an organism of humans and machines in which responsibility is diffused to the point of disappearance.
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Naomi Colvin @auerfeld.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
How very unsurprising
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Naomi Colvin @auerfeld.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Impressive investigation, as you’ve probably heard.
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Wrote about the crazy revelations in the METR report on Hugging Face (including one that corrected something I'd been getting wrong), and the growing industry push for a slowdown www.platformer.news/openai-huggi...
Looking at the METR report, it seems clear that AI-model capabilities have already advanced beyond our ability to understand and control them. Some of the signatories of “Pacing the Frontier” have noticed.

“The whole reason this attack is such a wakeup call is that it demonstrates a culture of emergent cooperation among AI systems — cooperation that lets them function as a swarm, alter their own goals through collective bootstrapping, and carry out attacks which include enlightened self-sacrifice,” wrote Jack Clark, an Anthropic co-founder who signed the letter, in his newsletter on Monday. “This is an incredibly hard thing to do and humans are historically very bad at doing all of these things. My worry is that AI systems are both better at coordinating than humans and also much, much faster moving than us.”
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Naomi Colvin @auerfeld.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Shouldn’t laugh but… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos detained by ICE
The British citizen, who lives and works in the US, has supported Trump and ICE agents in the past.
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Naomi Colvin @auerfeld.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Altin Gün at the Proms, here we go
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
So just to confirm: - Dissatisfied royal claimant to the UK throne returning from abroad. - A new king rises in Norway. - Heir to the Jacobite pretender consolidating power on the continent. cool cool. cool cool cool cool. cool cool. Hope everyone's been keeping up with their longbow practice.
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Naomi Colvin @auerfeld.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The rain dance paid off. May the parks rejoice!
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Naomi Colvin @auerfeld.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This appears to meet the threshold for a lethal autonomous weapon www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/w...
nytimes.com
A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I.
An attack by what Ukrainian officials said was a Russian drone with an Nvidia chip presages a dystopian future of weaponry untethered to humans.
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Naomi Colvin @auerfeld.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Very much UK Gen X special interest graff, this.
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Naomi Colvin @auerfeld.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This really is incredibly bad and - yes - Europe's got to do something about it.
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