Reposted by Brad kreitRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 1hwe built a machine that can automate internet crimes. who should be held accountable? nobody of course 241090224
Reposted by Brad kreitonion person @junlper.beer · 7helon musk has more empathy for lines of code than a majority of humanity 1724592700
Reposted by Brad kreitSeth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 7hWeird that he's trying to get rid of the ICC 21348
Reposted by Brad kreitJamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 7hit is going to be so funny watching San Francisco's spectacularly shitty AI billboards transform over the next few weeks into spectacularly shitty SI billboards because the people paying for them are somehow even lamer than we thought 1818233
Brad kreit @bkreit.bsky.social · 8hUsing AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard thingsnews.berkeley.eduUsing AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley NewsA UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life. 010
Reposted by Brad kreitAdam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 12hIt's important to remember that the AI doom scenario assumes not only that intelligence is a single well-defined thing, but also that intelligence solves literally every single problem, and that in every conflict overwhelming intelligence always wins. This is just not how anything works. 726087
Brad kreit @bkreit.bsky.social · 13h"Everyone wanted to do one of those “predicted the oil shock” things, and a lot of the reason why scenario analysis never caught on as much as its proponents had hoped was that companies got disappointed when they didn’t have a similar stroke of luck."backofmind.substack.comDan Davies - "Back of Mind" | SubstackA newsletter of quiet contrarianism, slow analysis and ambient ideas. Click to read Dan Davies - "Back of Mind", a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers. 000
Reposted by Brad kreitCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14hPlug THAT into your discounted cash flow model. $SPCX 2591209171
Reposted by Brad kreitDrew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 16hHard to overstate how much Hegseth's execution stream mirrors the U.S. military's traditional description of ISIS propaganda: broadcast killings designed to send a message, strike fear and create a social media spectacle. Will almost certainly be repurposed by online terror cells 612005746
Reposted by Brad kreitone dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 14hthe Catholic Church racking up PR wins by saying shit like “we shouldn’t bring back public executions” and “your Claude app isn’t sentient” 245083892
Reposted by Brad kreitNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026My kids have measles, I can’t afford diesel, I lost my job, and my country just lost a war to Iran. But at least now I can watch firing squad executions on TV. 361397265
Reposted by Brad kreitjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026a livestreamed execution is just a lynching 279101661978
Reposted by Brad kreitGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 08/10/2026the president demanding that one of the primary engines of the country’s economy — thousands of companies, trillions of dollars — rename their core products to suit his whim is tinpot dictatorship shit, and the only reason it doesn’t feel like it is because no one is listening to him 20813113
Brad kreit @bkreit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Gender pay gap extends to artificial intelligence agents as female bots paid 10 per cent less than male counterpartsthe-independent.comFemale AI agents ‘paid’ less than males, study findsGender pay gap extends to artificial intelligence agents as female bots paid 10 per cent less than male counterparts 110
Reposted by Brad kreitScott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026If Joe Biden had said this about Orlando Jake Tapper would already have a book contract about it 0624
Reposted by Brad kreitElon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Relatedly, stop saying Trump is joking about this violence. The job is simply to tell readers/viewers he said it. www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...aljazeera.comTrump jokes about letting Iran bomb Los Angeles and San DiegoAt a campaign rally in Nebraska, US President Donald Trump joked about letting Iran bomb Los Angeles and San Diego. 1568
Brad kreit @bkreit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026When put this way by Michael Lewis, trump’s approach sounds a bit egotistical! 100
Reposted by Brad kreitKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"Drake Maye is going to be the next Aaron Rodgers!" (monkey paw curls) 8173777
Brad kreit @bkreit.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Looking back at the 10th anniversary of the Access Hollywood tape, it's clear this was the moment the party fully caved to Trump.readtpa.comThe "Access Hollywood Tape," 10 Years LaterLooking back at the 10th anniversary of the Access Hollywood tape, it’s clear this was the moment the party fully caved to Trump. 000
Reposted by Brad kreitBen McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Universe where NY/CA/TX/FL are all swing states and it becomes more economically for the DNC and RNC to just buy tv stations 3687
Brad kreit @bkreit.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"The simplest explanation for why is Anthropic rushing to give its AI model the capacity to produce novel viruses is “'because Anthropic has infinite money, and needs to maintain a steady cadence of futuristic production.'”davekarpf.beehiiv.comThe Infinite Money TrickGuarded skepticism about AI product releases 000
Reposted by Brad kreitDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Six months from now, another Anthropic employee is going to resign while warning of AI-induced nuclear strikes. …and then we’re going to find out that Anthropic bought a dozen missile siloes for Claudebot as a treat. 530232
Brad kreit @bkreit.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Unfortunate that the New York Times and CNN have never cared about an old president looking old. Otherwise, quite the scandal!newrepublic.comTrump Wakes Up From Oval Office Nap to Discuss Putin’s BirthdayThe 80-year-old president fell asleep during his own White House event. 000
Brad kreit @bkreit.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Excited to give this company access to all of my personal information to power their agents!futurism.comMeta Is Refusing to Remove AI-Generated Facebook Videos of Graphic Child Abuse, Including a Baby Roasting in an OvenWe sent Meta 19 Facebook accounts sharing AI-generated videos of graphic child abuse. 24 hours later, it hadn't taken them down. 100
Reposted by Brad kreitThe Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026“I can do whatever I want” says the guy who denies dozens of sexual assault allegations. 561610329
Brad kreit @bkreit.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Honestly, if you're connecting your banking to fucking Grok, you should feel lucky that it just divulged your banking info on slack and didn't funnel all your money to the daily stormer.futurism.comMan Says He Was Mortified When His AI Agent Posted His Bank Balances and Exactly What He's Spending His Money on in a Slack Work Channel"Last Thursday, an AI agent posted my personal bank balances into our company Slack," a tech investor recalled. 000
Reposted by Brad kreitDaniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Some unintended consequences I suspect the rise of AI agents will create: 1. Restaurants that only take reservations by hand written letter, or more likely, don't take them at all. 2. Gigs where you can only buy tickets in person. 3. Businesses that operate without websites. 711037175
Reposted by Brad kreitAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026God everything is so DUMB. 1423942648
Reposted by Brad kreitmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Saying he'd be cool with Iran nuking my home city is pretty bad but not quite as bad as when Hillary said some trump supporters were deplorable so I can see why the media turned the latter into a major scandal and not the former 423359711
Brad kreit @bkreit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Beyond the silliness of this in general, the fact that the company behind this makes determinations on markets--like whether or not the moon landing was real--seems like it would create huge levels of cheating.wired.comA Prediction Market About the Past? Sure, Why Not!As prediction markets surge in popularity, a new platform called Verifact Markets is pushing the concept even further, letting users trade on “disputed facts.” 000
Reposted by Brad kreitOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026one thing I remember thinking about during the NYT's wall to wall coverage of Claudine Gay's fake plagiarism scandal is how regularly the NYT denies credit to the work of local, independent, and/or student journalists 8960198
Reposted by Brad kreitDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t. 17058761199
Reposted by Brad kreitTim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Oh yeah that’s the good stuff 2002726529
Reposted by Brad kreitKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It is 2006, and Karl Rove is mocking people for calling Republicans "Nazis" It is 2026, and Karl Rove is encouraging people to call Republicans "Nazis" 1272397591
Reposted by Brad kreitDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/10/2026You can't get anyone in political media to say it plainly, but GOP strategy for several decades now has been built around the fact that its core goals/policies are *wildly unpopular*. Everything depends on a) polluting the information environment, b) cementing unfair structural advantages, & c) $$$. 341622445
Brad kreit @bkreit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Like - this argument would make no sense in any other industry. No one would take you seriously if you said "we're not responsible for the rat poop in your Cheerios box because the rats put it there and we otherwise thought the production process was clean." 000
Brad kreit @bkreit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026For all of the talk around AI ethics, etc., it seems like the minimum baseline for responsible AI is that agents follow the law. 100
Brad kreit @bkreit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Not a lawyer, etc., but I genuinely don't understand how this is a question. Who should be responsible for the products we created? It's a total mystery! 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔nytimes.comWho’s to Blame When A.I. Goes Rogue?Many think artificial intelligence companies should be held liable for their runaway technology. But legal scholars say applying existing law could be messy. 110
Brad kreit @bkreit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I thankfully don't have food allergies, but how on earth are people with severe food allergies ignoring warnings from staff at a restaurant because their chatbots say the food is okay?theverge.comAI hallucinations are making entitled customers even worseThanks to AI, the customer really isn’t always right. 000
Brad kreit @bkreit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This gets me thinking that we need to really understand dynamics around psychological safety and disagreeing with AI output.. You can't really have humans in the loop/accountable/etc. unless they actually feel empowered to overrule their very powerful but occasionally inaccurate tools. 010
Brad kreit @bkreit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"The US “almost started a war” with China, based on an intelligence report that claimed a Chinese ship was transporting components of nuclear weapons. Military personnel made plans to intercept the Chinese vessel, complete with aircraft and soldiers ready to board the ship."theguardian.comForget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M BenderThe risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals 110
Reposted by Brad kreitMicah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week 624430881
Reposted by Brad kreitTim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever 41120473122
Reposted by Brad kreitMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse. 20463062898
Brad kreit @bkreit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I feel like a lot of the issues people have with AI would be dramatically improved if AI companies were just subject to, like, the basic rule of law. 100
Brad kreit @bkreit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The headline to this article seems so obviously correct that it's hard to even understand why this is a take.techpolicy.pressWhen AI Agents Break In, Governments Shouldn't Be Stuck With the CleanupOpenAI tasked its agent with answering a question about public spending. It has left us with a much bigger question about public power, writes Daniel Stone. 110