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This right here. The whole idea behind this software is to hide the costs - financial, environmental, moral. People get stunned like animals in the night if you make those real

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“There is the uncomfortable reality that neither has any experience running data centres or a background in technology.” Don’t you just love capitalism. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

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Data centre operator Firmus about to float as its owner tries to shed jailbird image

He went to prison for insider trading but Oliver Curtis is about to be the source of one of Australia's largest share market floats.

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Sofie Hagen @sofiehagen.bsky.social · 23h

Oh, in 2026? You’ll be typing out ‘Please let me speak to a human’ several times a week and robots won’t let you.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22h

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don’t think I’m ever going to get the appeal of pivoting to video for podcasts. I’ve been listening to podcasts for 20 years, and never once have I thought, my God, I need to SEE these people! I’m on a walk or doing the dishes, I don’t need video.

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Wolfcat 🥄 @wolfcat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Well it turns out the doomsayers saying that the Covid Vax would be around the $100 mark were wrong. They were wrong by 69.99 dollars. Yes... Chemist Warehouse are charging $169.99 to get a Covid shot.

BOOK YOUR COVID-19 Vaccination NOW
Bentleigh East VIC 3165
Please select the suitable vaccination you wish to book
COVID-19 Vaccination

Available for people aged 12 years and older.

$169.99

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Digital Rights Watch @drwaus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There is no need for Basketball Australia to roll out this kind of invasive system, which lacks any consent mechanism or privacy controls. No one should have to choose between their safety and participating in sport.

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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I loathe AI and will personally never use it, in my work or otherwise. Even if it wasn't hideous in almost every way, why would I cede ground to something with precisely zero creative spirit? rick-morton.ghost.io/the-boast-in...

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The Boast in the Machine

While browsing the Australian Government's contract notices portal AusTender a few days ago – regular readers of this august publication will know that this is one of my principal meditative outlets –...

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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s not nearly as advanced as they want you to think….

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Please, for the love of God, leave me behind with all the books because you don’t read. I want to be left behind!

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hot take: I don't think social media made people dumber. We've been dumb this whole time. It's just that you used to have to have a job that people sent their dumb letters to, to notice. This made "Engaging with fools" an occupational hazard rather than the 24/7 experience it is presently.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 12/03/2026

every quantitative measure is actually a stack of qualitative assumptions in a trenchcoat

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Yan Basque @yanbasque.com · 03/10/2026

Not gonna QT, because I don't want to add to the pile on this person is currently experiencing (even if deserved to some extent). But that argument drives me crazy. Just because *you* don't understand how LLMs work doesn't mean nobody understands how they work. This is a fiction.

We're currently growing intelligent machines. Nobody really understands how they actually work internally. That includes Gebru.
They have become demonstrably smart regarding general knowledge and programming in the last year or so.
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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If we can't hold rich people accountable, then we need to abolish rich people

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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

All totally cool and normal, what could go wrong? #politas

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 03/10/2026

but really, this post is just me reaffirming that I am not interested in whether they can do math because the primary function of LLMs is to help centralize, justify, and validate power, and they are doing that successfully already

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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Progressives' position on this shit is perfectly consistent: it is built on theft, destroys the mind, and exists only to swindle the unwary and replace the unwilling. It a hamfisted attempt to replace labor with capital, from people who cannot or will not consider who buys their shit. Smash it.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I feel like the debate about what parts of AI are good and what parts are bad should wait until we solve the worldwide crisis caused by the fact that almost of all of its evangelists in both tech and govt are morally, intellectually, and ethically unequipped to oversee it, when not downright evil.

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tante @tante.cc · 02/10/2026

Yes, because the "AI" folks mostly agree with right wing talking points because that's what the whole idea of "AI" is build upon. That's a bad argument for relegitimizing X.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I see some discussion here about the days of stochastic parrots being over, and I think there is an in-ter-est-ing thing to note that *one's own* conversations a chatbot can seem quite plausible and useful but the minute someone else sends you some AI-generated text, it is clearly no good at all

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 02/10/2026

This is like I was saying the other day how it is a norm in the VC world to hire college dropouts (and encourage people to dropout) so that tech workers are easily malleable and not curious or knowledgable of the harms they are participating in.

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Anno Dominaysayer @annodominaysayer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In a related phenomenon I now have a dishwasher that won’t tell me when it is finished or if it needs rinse agent, and can’t be cancelled mid-cycle, because I would have to get the app for those features to be functional and: not today, Satan.

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Ajuna Soerjadi 🌸 @ethicsofai.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm cracking up 🤣 read the axis labels. Excellent example of why critical AI literacy should also include basic data literacy. The marketing machine behind AI depends on us being oblivious to the ways numbers and statistics are used to mislead us

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's not even funny what kind of loss I will absorb if I have to create an account to do business with you. I will walk away from a winning lottery ticket, I promise you.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 01/10/2026

People need to understand the people leading the AI industry, transhumanist/longtermist/EA movements, and tech broadly, as died-in-the-wool pseudoscientists, denialists (climate change, the holocaust), and crank purveyors of conspiritualist woo of the highest order. The height of Rationalism.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

whenever we get close to seeing a systemic problem with policing, media rushes to frame it as a training problem. however, police culture is at the core of its mistreatment of victims and rape cases. policing is a tool of white supremacy AND *male* supremacy

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Indigenous languages are often hidden to LLMs, for good reason. We speak with Keoni Mahelona about his work on Indigenous data sovereignty, and why it’s worth being skeptical when the “AI" industry says it cares about preserving Indigenous languages. (with @emilymbender.bsky.social)

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Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

AI will never be able to make art. Thanks.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

Who is this technology "protecting"? Who is surveilling and who is paying the cost? There is still not enough research about refugees and technology. The research is being discussed at conferences, universities etc. "The human touch" is missing. There are human beings on the other side.

Smart Borders. And other text that is not legible.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing

Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One of the best questions we can all ask these days is, “How?” It’s simple and smart and a non-answer tells you as much as an answer. Skynet is going to kill is? How? We are moving to the moon? How? Build a big net around earth? How??

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Loll Yudkowsky, Soares and such AREN'T SHILLS? The Yudkowsky who founded the eugenicist, rationalist cult? The one who predected singularity to be 2025? The one in the sex parties that women have to attend to "network? The rape orgies with dubious consent mechanisms that Soares coorganizes?

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why doesn't Labor work with the Greens to tax gas? Why doesn't Labor work with the Greens to build public housing? Why doesn't Labor work with the Greens to end AUKUS? Greens are happy to be constructive about things that materially benefit the public. We are not a rubber stamp.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

She's a 94 year old Jewish human rights lawyer. She's been arrested under terrorism legislation for opposing genocide. The least we can do is to listen.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"he came straight out of the blocks with over-the-top rhetoric...and a strident left-wing economic agenda." Shoebridge is labelled "over-the-top", "strident" and "radical" because he's a challenge to the cosy toxic centrist neoliberal consensus of Australia's political and media class. #auspol

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

No idea if the Greens can replace Labor but it’s good to hear them say they want to try. A principled and progressive alternative is so desperately needed in this country. If the MSM could start reporting more on the real opposition that would be helpful too. Evolve or become irrelevant. #auspol

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This further muddies the discourse. "Stochastic parrots" remains a good description of what a language model does, when run to extrude synthetic text. It was never meant as a description of all algorithms that process language data. /fin

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 30/09/2026

shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight.

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fairweathersurfer.bsky.social @fairweathersurfer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Australians, go check out the 74 entities watching a single Australian target.

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Reading, and writing, are holy. I love reading novels because they tell me something. They say: "this is what someone believed enough to dedicate months or years of their life to say." This is just as true for the trashiest pulp as it is for the highest literature.

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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Lines of computer code can't be scared, or angry, or amused, or indignant, or hopeful, or awestruck, or devastated, or horny, or disgusted, or fascinated, or sad, or horrified, or delighted, or enamored, or disappointed, or curious, so why the fuck would I want to read anything it writes?

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Oktobermoz @obermoz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Why should I read an AI book? There are SO MANY books I want to read. Even if tomorrow there would be no new books published, I could read (for me) new books until I die. There is NO NEED for AI books 🤷‍♂️

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~B~ @blovessummer.blog · 30/09/2026

Yes! Was genuinely shocked that this wasn’t the universal opinion in my book club. Reading a book written by a machine is not something I ever want to do.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Additionally, be aware of responsibility washing. See e.g. 📝 Amnesty International (2026). Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI. www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

Cover image of Amnesty International (2026). Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI. https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/pol40/0996/2026/en/

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Friends, while they're trying to talk about fictional machine gods, don't lose sight into what they're all actually powering in real life. You can browse the the entities on the website and use the API, and learn more about it on the DAIR project site: dair-institute.org/projects/sur....

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Surveillance Watch

This interactive map reveals the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.

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