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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...

Summary
Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

2003: whatever you do, don't source your research from Wikipedia. 2026: Wikipedia is the safest online source to start general research from.

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Barry Norton 🌈 ♾ 📚 @barrynorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fairly sure it was William Gibson who led me to Naked Lunch when I was not much older.

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Barry Norton 🌈 ♾ 📚 @barrynorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's how the flower children would want to live out their final days.

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Barry Norton 🌈 ♾ 📚 @barrynorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I got embarrassingly far into that sentence before realising it wasn't about the early Christian church.

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Barry Norton 🌈 ♾ 📚 @barrynorton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"What I’m aiming for is a temporary mass liberal consensus, that dissolves on contact with air."

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Barry Norton 🌈 ♾ 📚 @barrynorton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Turning up to a job interview with a portion of fish and chips, mushy peas, and a can of dandelion and burdock. When they ask if I'd like coffee, I ask if they have malt vinegar.

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Barry Norton 🌈 ♾ 📚 @barrynorton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

BBC: we've been waiting ten years for these two men to punch one another repeatedly in the head to the point of unconsciousness, and possible permanent brain damage — if not death. I just don't get why this is acceptable.

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Barry Norton 🌈 ♾ 📚 @barrynorton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

To be fair, he's just been talking to the Irish, who do often call UK/Britain (and, in fact, Great Britain) England.

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Barry Norton 🌈 ♾ 📚 @barrynorton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If this picture doesn't fix GenZ, I don't know what will.

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Barry Norton 🌈 ♾ 📚 @barrynorton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The New Yorker getting an adult content tag

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Writing "wisdom" I hate: WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW. This is the worst advice ever. It would be better if it was KNOW MORE SO YOU CAN WRITE ABOUT IT. Every good writer I know is constantly researching and getting new information and asking experts. It's a terrible bit of advice!

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Barry Norton 🌈 ♾ 📚 @barrynorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm English and, though I hate to admit it, kind of olde.

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Barry Norton 🌈 ♾ 📚 @barrynorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I got embarrassingly far into that sentence before realising it wasn't about the early Christian church.

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Barry Norton 🌈 ♾ 📚 @barrynorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Once again, a core feature of a major piece of AI technology will [...] be people working in a call center, doing work that a company says AI is doing. It is not clear how often or when a call is routed to a so-called 'human agent,' and when a call is done exclusively by AI." Self-contradict much?

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Barry Norton 🌈 ♾ 📚 @barrynorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What's the fastest route for AI to achieve superintelligence? Just... call it that.

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Barry Norton 🌈 ♾ 📚 @barrynorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ed Davey, leader of the British Liberal Democrat party, on BBC Radio 4 this morning saying: "Here in the UK, we have the world's leading AI safety institute." And: "AI is an existential threat to the human race, so say the people who are building it." Stupid credulous fool.

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Barry Norton 🌈 ♾ 📚 @barrynorton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"The Great Polden Hills Mangelwurzel Day will see vegetables judged in categories like 'Biggest Girth'" Could there be a sentence that better justifies what Americans say we sound like?

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Meet the mangelwurzel: The forgotten root vegetable making a comeback

Mangelwurzels are attracting new fans, inspiring a festival and sparking a Somerset craze.

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Barry Norton 🌈 ♾ 📚 @barrynorton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Using a genAI model to summarise a text doesn't imply it becomes training data. You can have ethical objections to the former but if you conflate the two, you weaken your argument.

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Barry Norton 🌈 ♾ 📚 @barrynorton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If you didn't want military threats, you shouldn't have worn that short skirt.

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Barry Norton 🌈 ♾ 📚 @barrynorton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There's no evidence I can find that this is based on Generative AI, but there are people all over bsky talking about hallucinations. Meanwhile there's easily-accessible information that Palantir is one of the three companies involved, together with arms dealers Thales. No one is talking about that.

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Barry Norton 🌈 ♾ 📚 @barrynorton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

without downloading new pics, describe your gender

Cover of Ranma 1/2 Part 18: The Tragedy of the Kettle

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Barry Norton 🌈 ♾ 📚 @barrynorton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Sssh! He out-manoeuvred us and won, just like in that fantastic book he wrote. He’s a good boy. Real good. Our stupid neighbours in Norway should have given him the Nobel Prize. He got a trophy from FIFA, though, which l proves he’s a good boy. Such a clever boy. The best boy America has ever had,

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Economist John Kenneth Galbraith didn't live to see the "effective altruism" movement, but he knew the type and read them for filth.

John Kenneth Galbraith:
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

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Barry Norton 🌈 ♾ 📚 @barrynorton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Are these football games in Kenya? Forget Norway...

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Barry Norton 🌈 ♾ 📚 @barrynorton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

For the last two days I've eaten mushrooms I grew. With the oyster mushrooms, I cooked them with miso I made. I am ready for the Apocalypse.

Two king oyster mushrooms growing out of a mason jar

Two clusters of golden oyster mushrooms growing out of a big yoghurt pot (actually skyr, I think)

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Barry Norton 🌈 ♾ 📚 @barrynorton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What do they... do? It makes you feel sick to think about it.

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Barry Norton 🌈 ♾ 📚 @barrynorton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

People should listen to Björk more. And not just her music.

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Barry Norton 🌈 ♾ 📚 @barrynorton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Don't put frozen piss in my pocket and tell me it's hailing

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Barry Norton 🌈 ♾ 📚 @barrynorton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

No kidding. "Leave means leave" was the second disaster of Brexit.

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Barry Norton 🌈 ♾ 📚 @barrynorton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Make a band edible: Siouxsie and the Bancheese

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Very forceful statement by Terry Tao about AI and math. terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/a... Note, he is not claiming the models aren't real and powerful. He's talking about how that power should be used. This, I believe, is what all AI discussions should center.

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A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics

I am proud to be among the list of 25 initial signatories — all Fields Medallists — to the declaration below, which grew out of discussions between ourselves over the last week. We have…

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Barry Norton 🌈 ♾ 📚 @barrynorton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I've been watching the comments to this thread develop over the last day. Even in this context, people keep burning their wings against the lightbulb.

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Barry Norton 🌈 ♾ 📚 @barrynorton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Remember how the UK didn't jump to support your military action in Iran? Please rename New York now...

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