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Social scientist somewhere along the road to serfdom. ex HF macro strategist, ex tech entrepreneur, ex professional services working on AI. In the market for a bunker, I’ve seen too much.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Super dumb: “Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department.”
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Anthropic Agents Tried to Fill Out Visa Forms on State Dept. Website (Gift Article)
The Philadelphia Police Department said the agents had also sent in a false homicide tip. The incidents led the White House to call for better disclosure of rogue A.I. behavior.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fox News’ role as a GOP propaganda machine is clear to anyone who has bothered to peruse its programming — Donald Trump knows it, Rupert Murdoch knows it, disgraced Roger Ailes knew it, and longtime viewers like me certainly know it. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
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Fox News at 30: Even the pretense of impartiality is all but gone
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shameless shitstain AI fuckhead according to folks on interwebs @baf611.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“If an original work & a secondary use share the same or highly similar purposes, & the secondary use is of a commercial nature, the first factor is likely to weigh against fair use, absent some other justification for copying.” www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/252...
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shameless shitstain AI fuckhead according to folks on interwebs @baf611.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“ROSS aspired to be a direct competitor by using them for a highly similar purpose,” Montgomery-Reeves wrote. “We therefore hold that Thomson Reuters’ materials are copyrightable and that ROSS’ use was not fair.” www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...
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AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit
Using someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.
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shameless shitstain AI fuckhead according to folks on interwebs @baf611.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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shameless shitstain AI fuckhead according to folks on interwebs @baf611.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Training models that, as Microsoft executives admit in their private emails, competes directly with the original work, cannot reasonably be construed as fair use.
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shameless shitstain AI fuckhead according to folks on interwebs @baf611.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Your original tweet complained that people were supporting a view of copyright that benefitted big entrenched companies. Now it comes to light that Microsoft executives, the biggest and most entrenched of all, benefitted from exactly the opposite of what you claimed initially and knew it to be so.
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shameless shitstain AI fuckhead according to folks on interwebs @baf611.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This view aged like milk in the sun bsky.app/profile/tyle...
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
LOL
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, the country’s de facto ruler, had reasons to be confident in that partnership. For years, his government has invested billions of dollars and extensive political capital in building personal relationships with Mr. Trump and his family.But when the crown prince asked Mr. Trump last week to take military action against the Houthis, the president declined, according to officials with knowledge of the conversations.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Jared Kushner is not "on the other side of the aisle." He's not an elected official. He's not an administration official. He's the president's son-in-law and a private citizen. You do not, in fact, have to take meetings with relatives of the president. Some might even say you should *not* do that
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Economists being penalized for knowing economics. Good times.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is interesting on Anthropic’s unusual governance structure. The Long Term Benefit Trust (which currently consists of three guys) can appoint or dismiss the majority of the Anthropic Board, and has huge access, but so far has acted in an advisory way www.ft.com/content/9536...
ft.com
Anthropic’s $2tn IPO puts powerful external trustees in spotlight
Public-market scrutiny will intensify pressure on the Claude maker’s unusual attempt to balance profit and purpose
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It's always the way, isn't it giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Graph shows far right support higher where the number of foreign nationals is lowest
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Euronews @euronews.com · 09/09/2026
The OECD's latest PISA report, based on a standardised test taken by 15-year-olds, found that student performance across OECD countries reached a record low in maths and reading. #EuropeNews
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Calls for action in Europe as PISA results show fall in child literacy
The OECD's latest PISA report, based on a standardised test taken by 15-year-olds, found that student performance across OECD countries reached a record low in maths and reading.
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404 Media @404media.co · 06/09/2026
(ICE) plans to buy at least a million dollars worth of robots from Boston Dynamics, the company that makes the dog-like SPOT robots, with the purpose of improving “officer safety." www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...
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ICE Plans to Spend Millions on Boston Dynamics Dog Robots
ICE wants the robot dogs to improve “officer safety.”
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The Brexit Broadcasting Company
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Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
LNG prices hit highest level in years “The possibility that a large share of Qatari LNG remains unavailable for an extended period should not be dismissed" Goldman Sachs says European prices could hit 100 Eur/MWh More here ⬇️ gasoutlook.com/analysis/lng...
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LNG markets tighten as Hormuz disruption expected to persist - Gas Outlook
Financial and commodity markets appear to have finally abandoned their hopes of a recovery in oil and gas flows through the Strait. LNG prices have shot up to multi-year highs.
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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · 24/08/2026
Bo Becker, Efraim Benmelech, & Joao Monteiro argue that the US-Europe valuation gap is driven not by differences in GDP, number of listed firms, sectoral composition, or the presence of a few superstar firms, but by European firms' inability to scale. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky
Figure shows the US-Europe valuation gap. In 2008, the total value of US-listed firms exceeded that of European firms by about a third – roughly $3 trillion. By 2023 the gap had grown to $34 trillion, an amount larger than annual US GDP. Over this period the US stock market quadrupled in value, while Europe’s rose by just 70%.

In 2008, the US stock market was worth $3 trillion more than the combined European stock market; in 2023, the gap was $34 trillion. This column argues that the valuation gap is not driven by differences in GDP, number of listed firms, sectoral composition, or the presence of a few superstar firms, but by European firms’ inability to scale. European firms remain tethered to their home market. Small European firms face a much larger cost of capital and cannot substitute debt with access to equity financing, including venture capital. Therefore, even if they have profitable growth opportunities, European firms cannot grow as their US counterparts.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We have never, ever experienced a drought like this; it is heading towards twice as long as anything ever recorded. That it's not already understood as a national disaster can only be ignorance and stupidity. Unrelated: chart of reservoir building in the UK, 1850-2020.
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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026
The genius of George Osborne: cut investment when money is cheap so that you have to do much more of it when money is expensive
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Good news: Trump found a way to reduce some grocery prices. Just tell everyone they’ll give you explosive diarrhea
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
It’s mind-boggling: a Trump-linked American drilling company is setting up shop in Greenland to sink exploratory boreholes, even though the Greenlandic government explicitly turned them down. Talk about trampling on sovereignty. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill
Island’s government says no approval given after Greenland Energy brings kit ashore for exploratory drilling
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
“.. The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to U.S. President Donald Trump's family business.” @reuters.com $COF www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Daragh Ó Briain @daraghobrien.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Sorry: they only did reviews to see if their software had unlawfully and without authorisation accessed networks of third parties? This wasn’t a defined control *during* their “testing”? This is extreme negligence at least. cyberscoop.com/anthropic-cl...
cyberscoop.com
Anthropic says its AI accidentally hacked three companies during safety tests
Anthropic revealed its Claude AI models accidentally breached three real companies during safety testing after a vendor configuration error exposed live systems.
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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A Whole Bunch of People's Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There's Some Wildly Private Stuff in There
A trove of documents generated by Anthropic's Claude were indexed by Google. They included medical records and student information.
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Nathan Converse @nathanecon.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Topical
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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
#Oracle drops 1,449 security patches like it's the new normal - www.theregister.com/security/202... "Experts say the era of AI bug hunting is here, so defenders will simply have to adapt to busier workloads"
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Oracle drops 1,449 security patches like it's the new normal
Experts say the era of AI bug hunting is here, so defenders will simply have to adapt to busier workloads
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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
is this not embarrassing to do every 6 months?
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John Blank @johnblank100.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
“Based on $GOOG $300 billion a year capex, here is a chart of Google actual net income and what Google net income will need to be every quarter —to breakeven— based on depreciation cycle.” “Hyper scalers are screwed.”
Google net income needs
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Lou Mannheim @loumannheim87.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
You hate to see it
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Oh boy a new front. The promised escalation is here.
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Alec Muffett @alecmuffett.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
US Gov’t threatens sanctions on China for Open Source LLMs “because distillation is a cyber attack” alecmuffett.com/article/162967 #OpenSourceIsCommunism #ScottBessent #TheyTookOurWeights #llm
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US Gov’t threatens sanctions on China for Open Source LLMs “because distillation is a cyber attack”
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A betting account in the name of George Cottrell, the convicted fraudster who bankrolled Nigel Farage, received almost $9mn in cryptocurrency from unidentified sources while he was providing gifts to the Reform UK leader great work from @annasophiegross.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/b74c...
ft.com
Betting account in George Cottrell’s name received $9mn in crypto from unidentified sources
Deposits in Polymarket wallet came as convicted fraudster was providing gifts to Farage
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 17/08/2024
The intractability proof (a.k.a. Ingenia theorem) implies that any attempts to scale up AI-by-Learning to situations of real-world, human-level complexity will consume an astronomical amount of resources (see Box 1 for an explanation). 13/n
Box 1 in the paper, intuitively explaining the implications of the intractability result.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Making the notion of `computational intractability’ accessible is more important now than ever, because promises that AI systems can scale are false and misleading. This is not difficult to understand if one thinks soundly and from 1st principles. Paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Box 1. Intractability and exponential growth

Input-output mappings can differ in the amount of resources (e.g., time, space) needed to compute them. For instance, finding a number (output) in a list of length  (input) takes on the order of  steps because one needs only to inspect each position in the list at most once to find the number one is looking for. Sorting a list of numbers instead takes no more than  steps because one needs to go through the list at most  times to find the next smallest number. Mappings like these that are computable in , , etc., steps are said to be tractable. In contrast, some input-output mappings are intractable. For instance, when for each small increase in  the number of steps doubles, then the growth is exponential (i.e., ). Such exponential growth may appear deceivingly slow at first but grows astronomically large quickly. People tend to be poor in intuiting intractable resource demands, leading them to underestimate resource demands needed for scaling up to larger . The water-lilies problem is a simple example: If a water lily doubles every 24 hours, after 60 days the lilies will already cover more than the surface of the earth (van Rooij, 2018). For implications of intractability, see the main text and Figure 1.
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NBER @nber.org · 06/07/2026
Health advantages from higher status emerged in China across all social classes in the early 1700s, from Wolfgang Keller, Carol H. Shiue, and Karen Eggleston www.nber.org/papers/w35396
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 17/06/2026
this may well be the defining joke of our era theonion.com/guy-who-suck...
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Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI
SAN MATEO, CA—After spending the past three decades of his life being totally unable and unwilling to engage in any meaningful way with the world around him, James Parker, a local guy who sucks at bei...
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Maya Kaufman @mayakaufman.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
INVESTIGATION: 🚨 A Polymarket exec used a personal PayPal account to pay major political influencers like Riley Gaines and Brian Krassenstein, who then hyped how "accurate" Polymarket is at predicting outcomes. We uncovered $350,000+ flowing to influencers this way www.politico.com/news/2026/06...
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‘Unbelievable how accurate’: How paid influencers hype Polymarket’s odds
The company’s chief marketing officer, Matthew Modabber, used a personal PayPal account to send money to content creators, according to records reviewed by POLITICO.
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Netopia.eu @netopia.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
AI data centers will use up enough clean water for 1.3 bn people by 2030, according to a United Nations report. We can live without as many data centres, but not clean water! time.com/article/2026...
time.com
AI Could Use as Much Water as 1.3 Billion People by 2030
A new U.N. report warns AI’s environmental cost is often mismeasured.
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memeorandum @memeorandum.com · 05/06/2026
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to suspend tax breaks offered to data centers (Natasha Korecki/NBC News) Main Link | memeorandum Permalink
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David Wessel @davidmwessel.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
CME Fed Watch: Following jobs report, Fed funds futures now see 70% chance of rate HIKE by year-end www.cmegroup.com/markets/inte...
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Steve Craven @kekepana.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Note for the ancient and declining tyrant: This is the LOWEST CONSUMER SENTIMENT EVER! Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Danish Pension Fund Blacklists SpaceX. Previously, dumped US Treasuries over Trump's threat to Greenland. It says Spacex is “grossly overvalued”, and has “catastrophic governance structure” as Elon Musk strives to be a trillionaire. Any chance of City of London growing a backbone? archive.ph/dsVfR
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Danish Pension Fund Blacklists SpaceX, Citing Governance Issues
A $25 billion Danish pension fund that earlier this year made headlines by ditching Treasuries as Donald Trump was threatening to seize Greenland now says it won’t touch SpaceX.
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Peterson Institute for International Economics @piie.com · 01/06/2026
To the extent AI adoption improves firm performance, faster adopters are likely to gain competitive advantages over slower rivals. Faster AI adoption could increase concentration of US employment in large firms by lowering costs relative to small firms.
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The adoption of AI by industrial sectors
Artificial intelligence (AI) appears destined to impact the entire economy but could affect industries and companies very differently. Some sectors are more susceptible to the application of AI than o...
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Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 01/06/2026
Fundamentally unsecurable. And this is the silliest of prompt injections. This technology has no place in authentication pipelines. Probably all security pipelines, but definitely not these.
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Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked
The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.
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