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Peter Barth

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 11/10/2026
⚡️Russia behind Britain's Brexit vote, UK prime minister admits for first time.
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Russia behind Britain's Brexit vote, UK prime minister admits for first time
"These things are important now to put clearly on the record and, I believe, help voters in Germany and France understand that some of this politics is instigated via our enemies, namely Russia," medi...
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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 01/10/2026
just came across this incredible picture of Terry Pratchett
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Peter Barth @barthpeter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yet some people still refuse to see fascism when it's a farce of itself.
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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Amirite tho
White text on yellow-orange ombré background that reads:
Don't let Al ruin your writing.
It's your writing.
Ruin it yourself.

Amirite
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joe @shariauncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
increasingly feels like my Perfectly Fine liberal arts education was an artifact grabbed fleeing a burning temple
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 27/09/2026
Drones airdropping UGVs, the latest development in Ukraine’s defence, and current counter-offensive. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
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Revealed: Secret robot offensive that ‘killed 3,000 Russians’
Carrier drones deploy explosive unmanned vehicles behind enemy lines, recovering 48 square miles of occupied Ukraine
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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Why Was I Programmed To Feel Pain Simpsons Robot
ALT: Why Was I Programmed To Feel Pain Simpsons Robot
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I do think you basically charge a few of them with the cybercrimes they're committing and the "alignment" problem does suddenly start to disappear.
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 24/09/2026
this is my standard response to anyone who is using an unlabeled bot that is replying as them. it's from the Anthropic universal jailbreak bug bounty specification.
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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Somewhere out there is a Danish staffer who should never again have to buy his own drinks 
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Peter Barth @barthpeter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
For #bivisibility day (23.09.) I'd like to acknowledge the economist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) who apart from being one of the greatest minds of the 20th century, was a person uniquely driven by care and compassion for other people.
Painter Duncan Grant (left) with absolute baller John Maynard Keynes. Grant and Keynes were a long term item before Keynes marriage (to a woman, to everyone's surprise)
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
do it for him meme with john maynard keynes
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
AI is ruining cute animals for me
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
weird i have completely opposite takes than sam here
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 14/09/2026
Trump has only declared victory in the Iran war once this month. Concerning.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
So literally "Allahu akbar," only in English
@60Minutes on X:
Bravo, the U.S. Air Force weapon systems officer who was stranded behind enemy lines in Iran for two days, tells 60 Minutes about the first message he was able to send to the U.S.: “God is good.” cbsn.ws/4gOIzjI
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Sicherheitspod @sicherheitspod.de · 14/09/2026
Das… das Hyperschallbaguette ist real?!?! 😳
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
Fixed that for you.
An image of academic fields arranged by purity. in ascending order: sociologists, psychologists, biologists, chemists, physicists, and mathematicians furthest to the right. Underlying all of them are epistemological philosophers who appear to be supporting the whole thing.

While this is technically true, many fields owe their existence to philosophy or draw directly upon philosophy for its theories. The American Psychological Association, for example, used to meet concurrently with philosophy and William James and John Dewey were founding members.

That said, the argument about purity of fields is largely useless as fields developed to engage in inquiry into specific areas. To put them in competition is to fail to realize that we all can learn something from the other and that no one field has a claim to ultimate truth. Not even philosophy.
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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 12/09/2026
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Hmm
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What he doesn't realize is if the yuri writers get replaced, their backup plan is to finish their papers on probabilistic approaches to nonlinear dynamics. So, it should all even out.
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I miss Old Internet a lot, but admittedly a major part of that is that the early internet had a very weird opt-in procedure that you can't recreate, the result of which is that the default user was a curious dorkwad. Plus, there was no money to be made, so no branding/positioning all the time.
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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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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Bayeux Tapestry good but massively upstaged by seeing a cat in a ruff right before
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Kampf mit Kette @kampfmitkette.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
okay hear me out
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 09/09/2026
So, we’re in a race between AI and climate change to see what destroys the world faster?
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Community: Darkest Timeline
ALT: Community: Darkest Timeline
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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We’re delighted to announce we’ve created the Blackshorts from P.G. Wodehouse’s humorous short story “Please, Dear Chap, Don’t Create The Blackshorts”
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
ok, this is a very clever illustration
The Norman Rockwell Freedom of Soeech illustration but all the heads are the tops of wine bottles, by Luke Wohlgemuth. 

Text: Standing Up for Cabernet Sauvignon
It's the most widely planted red grape in the world and the most popular red varietal wine in the U.S., so why has it fallen out of favor?
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It would be wrong to speculate about the political leanings of those men in black shirts.
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Remember five years ago talking about how the Internet was maybe getting a little bad?
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
One thing I haven't seen talked about with AI is the way platformization has, by accident, paved the way for ai to replace more of us. Meaning, in response to algorithms, creators have already started to behave more like content machines, meaning their work hands off to AI more easily.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Say what you want about Trump but his disruption of oil supplies goes far far far beyond the wildest dreams of Extinction Rebellion.
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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 25/08/2026
dolly parton taught me it's ok to be hot and know how to read
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026
This year's admirals are *always* last year's pirates, and they insist that what *they* did to their predecessors was progress, while anyone who tries to do the same thing to *them* is a thief. 18/
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Encephalophatass (Any pronouns) @encephalophatass.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Rest in peace, queen 👑
Tweet by @seanbparsons

Dolly Parton could have written The Communist Manifesto, but Karl Marx could NOT have clacked his acrylic nails together like a washboard and written 9 to 5.

A picture of Dolly in a gorgeous white dress writing on a typewriter. She's radiant
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Proust on AI, 1918. “He imagines a sort of composite of all the good books that he has read, whereas a good book is something special, something unforeseeable…”
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I think we can safely say the history department had the best stickers today
A large circular sticker for the UAA Department of History. It reads "god forbid women have hobbies" and features a reproduction of the famous illustration of The Women's March on Versailles, 1789
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The fact that Trump has reduced the US-Canada relationship to a zero-sum competition in the eyes of his supporters is in itself a catastrophic development. The relationship always thrived because it was seen from a mutually beneficial point of view. That’s now over and it’s a tragedy.
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I think a lot of people don't really understand that the reports of Russian forces looting museums in occupied Ukraine (particularly Kherson prior to liberation) were not just "soldiers being soldiers" but rather an extremely intentional occupation policy meant to steal cultural heritage
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 21/08/2026
Never let a writer help you move
A cardboard moving box with EPHEMERA written on it in Sharpie
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 21/08/2026
Turns out, I don’t need more books. I need more time to read those books.
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
@london.gov.uk
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Quote post of Catbus screengrab showing sigur Rachel's cat Chloe below weeder post saying here's an idea: governwoment, the quote post content is the Norman Rockwell freedom of speech meme with Chloe wearing the guys jacket and telling everyone in the audience what's up
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rmadriz.bsky.social @rmadriz.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I'll raise you this
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Flora Amelie Sophie Hochschild out of context @outofcontextflora.eurosky.social · 03/08/2026
Glaub die Chancen standen noch nie so gut, den Nibelungenschatz im Rhein zu finden
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