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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

these headlines casting OpenAI as both a vicim and hero for eventually taking some small actions against isolated incidents of their scam machine being used to scam people and acting shocked are part of the problem

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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

absolutely will never beat the weird pathetic freak allegations

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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

trump can pathetically say to call it SI instead of AI or else you are THE ENEMY! but he'll never sniff peter thiel warning that "Greta Thunberg and critics of technology or artificial intelligence are 'legionnaires of the Antichrist'" lmaooo

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/10/2026

most cucked man alive

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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

more than ever (which is saying something!!!!) the only “innovation” tech has right now is just the most useless collection of 1000s of privacy violations dressed in a see through trench coat and nothing else — jfc mannn this dazzle thing is beyond parody www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...

bloomberg.com

Watch Dazzle Wants to Turn Your Camera Roll Into an AI Assistant - Bloomberg

Dazzle is betting the next generation of personal AI should know more about you before you even ask a question. The startup uses photos and screenshots in a user’s camera roll to understand their inte...

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 06/10/2026

PR game: Tired: Our sloppy cybersecurity practices led to thousands of unintentional malware attacks, please don't sue Wired: Our company's rogue AI agents are so powerful they escaped containment Inspired: Shouldn't it be unethical to keep superintelligent AI beings from accessing the open web?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Look at this, a nation state, nationing and stating.

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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

heck yeah congrats ben!! Ordering now :)

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

Andrew Yeung
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Is that a for or against Paxton ad?

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

ICYMI bsky.app/profile/hype...

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 03/10/2026

Meta has enabled Muse to build extensive and ever-growing profiles on the orbit of people in a user’s life. Based on user input but also “publicly available information.” Whether that means a web search, Facebook’s own extensive data, or buying data broker info…we don’t know? And we can’t opt out.

wired.com

Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family

Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 01/10/2026

good @profferguson.bsky.social quote in this one: “My fear is that there will be a Pyrrhic victory of winning the battle against Flock but losing the war against mass surveillance”

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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

looking back at this awesome video I took on february 3, 2024 at the Warriors-Hawks game - Atlanta is beautiful that time of year

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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this is obviously not within the top 1000 worst things the guy has said or done but the way he operates is like disturbing to my core in a way many others don’t inspire

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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

psychotic disturbing behavior from a rambling homicidal loser - this person is in charge of such a chilling amount of access to people lives and benefits and deaths. it can not be understated how bad it is decision makers (on both sides worldwide) have repeatedly given him contracts/access

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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

that chatbot doing that unsafe/violative thing is not it 'going rogue' or an 'unfortunate incident of unintended consequences,' it’s the logical and devastating consequences of an unsafe product put out by irresponsible companies that have been conditioned to believe consequences dont exist for them

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

appleinsider.com

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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

love the quality of Google search when you search “chiefs” to see what time they were playing and one of the top three main links pushed by google is an obviously scammy illegal streaming website (if you’re lucky) that is routed through a…Czech govt site?) so much innovation, very impressive

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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“I’m afraid that this small clique of all-too-human dorkwads are trying to gain even more mind-boggling wealth and even more political and regulatory control over powerful AI technology, in ways that will allow them to further fracture democracy, privacy, and human flourishing.”

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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have banned the sale of sensitive consumer data -- an unconscionable practice that should've been banned long ago -- which helps with stalking, scamming, law enforcement, and other predatory behavior with no public benefit. Shameful choice of data brokers > ppl

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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Latest 'Eye on Tech' from @consumerfed.bsky.social out now: eyeontech.substack.com/p/a-rogue-su...

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The idea that people want AI oversight to happen "all of a sudden" ignores years of research, warnings, and policy efforts. The delay hasn’t been a lack of awareness; it’s been because of years of industry lobbying against regulation, political resistance, and inaction.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

“People with knowledge of the device, who declined to be named discussing the product, describe it as a ‘holdable’ rather than a wearable. That means it’s a small, dedicated device that people can pick up and talk to throughout the day.” 🙄

bloomberg.com

Meta Debuts a Dedicated, Palm-Sized ‘Charm’ Device to Use Muse On the Go

Meta Platforms Inc. unveiled a palm-sized, dedicated gadget for using Muse, the company’s popular new artificial intelligence assistant, pushing deeper into the AI devices market with a surprise annou...

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026

Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng

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Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A man commented “F you and your Flock cameras" on a South Carolina police department's Facebook post. And then the police department — reportedly the Police Chief himself — messaged the man threatening to have "U.S. Marshals" arrest him for “unlawful communications.” www.wrdw.com/2026/09/23/r...

The situation stems from a comment McClellan made on a public post the department made about Flock cameras being cut down across town. McClellan said something along the lines of, “F you and your Flock cameras.”

“I just said something and it really, it upset that police chief obviously and he messaged me roughly a week later. Not happy with what I said,” McClellan said.

In screenshots McClellan provided, the Facebook account labeled Ridge Spring Police Department responded to him, saying it is unlawful to use profanity electronically and stated, “I will be obtaining a warrant” for “unlawful communications.” The message also stated, “I will send the U.S. Marshals to pick you up.”

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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

that stack of hundred dollar bills is dangerous, lemme hold it - i know how to handle it safely

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Scoop: Meta's Muse AI can make phone calls. Internally, Meta has told employees that many of these calls will be made by human beings in a call center: www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...

404media.co

Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center

"This has potential for so much negative PR. It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch."

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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

hoping this moment of attention on AI can lead to lawmakers focusing on data abuse, scams, surveillance pricing, deepfakes, creepywearables, and accountability - not voluntary standards or frontier model study reports we have the playbook (in the form of a rambly but still non-exhaustive blog) ⬇️

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Remember this? 7 months ago. Now they're announcing "voluntary" layoffs. Activists have been speedrunning abolishing Flock and you love to see it.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.

apnews.com

AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...

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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

thrilled that rep @foushee.house.gov + rep. moyan released the SAFE platform act today -- a strong bill addressing the lack of action and responsibility of social media platforms to protect their users from scams we @consumerfed.bsky.social are proud to support foushee.house.gov/media/press-...

foushee.house.gov

Foushee, Moylan Introduce Bipartisan SAFE Platforms Act to Protect Consumers from Online Scams | U.S. Congresswoman Valerie Foushee

The Official U.S. Congressional website of Congresswoman Valerie Foushee

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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

for as long as i live, i will only think of Kelly Loeffler in the context of when she had owned the Atlanta Dream, got furious about the league honoring BLM in 2020, and then her own team wore Vote Warnock shirts pre-game then she lost the election then sold the team 2 months later - legendary FAFO

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

been thinkin about how robots are gonna kill us

Scratchy drawing of a two panel comic.
Panel 1:
Titled:“How we thought robots would kill us”
A robot shoots a human to death with a gun. It screams “Die flesh sack”

Panel 2:
Titled “How robots will actually kill us”
A MediBot is injecting something into a humans arm. The bot says “Whooops. I injected you with cancer instead of insulin. That’s on me”

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

On by default

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

Some folks will claim that this is hyperbolic, but what I wish people would understand is that tech initiatives like this serve as a means of eroding consent and lower the barrier for the persistent capture of people’s image, voice, data, or whatever else a gadget can glean.

pcmag.com

Apple's New Siri Recap Turns Every Apple Watch Into a Mass Surveillance Nightmare

Apple's always-listening AI feature promises neat summaries of your daily conversations, but it forces everyone around you into a nonconsensual recording experiment.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Third Way politics get you a third place finish.

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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

i know this op-ed is just ragebait like many WSJ op-eds, but the use of the word "produce" in here is hilarious and illustrative...a few paragraphs in to this tiny op-ed, the point is clear -- dont let other countries enforce their laws -- an expansion of a dangerous practice from the trump admin

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 24/08/2026

Lot of city-level reporting on this be like: bsky.app/profile/hype...

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Ally Sammarco @allysammarco.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Using a children’s book to make fun of children being detained, neglected and isolated from their parents is next level fucked up

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