The Parable Of The Broken Overton Window @broken-overton.bsky.social · 1hWin over left wing voters with this one simple trick. 000
Reposted by The Parable Of The Broken Overton WindowAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he dislikedbylinetimes.comKemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist BanThe ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press 841497610
Reposted by The Parable Of The Broken Overton WindowDom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 30/09/2026This is the real danger of AI, not some nonsensical theory that it might end all of humanity Whoever controls the bot controls whatever information it allows users to know 1311647
Reposted by The Parable Of The Broken Overton WindowRose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Damn you know what else he is the same in as thatcher? Bringing in school guidance that opresses lgbt people Tho this time with actual segregation and conversion practices in the mix What a revolutionary what a guy Ey up 019143
The Parable Of The Broken Overton Window @broken-overton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Nobody was more surprised than me that supporting fascism is the position of the PLP. 000
Reposted by The Parable Of The Broken Overton WindowThe Citizens @the-citizens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Mic drop moment at our event on the sidelines of #labconf26 in Liverpool, when @labourlewis.bsky.social revealed a letter from Tom Watson showing Palantir has tracked his mentioning them nearly 130 times. Is there anything Palantir doesn’t want to know about us? 915073
Reposted by The Parable Of The Broken Overton WindowPete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 29/09/2026 062
Reposted by The Parable Of The Broken Overton WindowTony @antonyillahiwarren.bsky.social · 28/09/2026😄 0317
Reposted by The Parable Of The Broken Overton WindowRobin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The Labour Party’s women’s conference on 26/9/26 was an embarrassing farce, with only 200 delegates of the 1,000 normal attendance (no major unions) in protest of the Labour Party’s shameful abandonment of trans people following the legally absurd ruling of the Supreme Court in FWS in April 2025. 121271283
Reposted by The Parable Of The Broken Overton WindowEugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026 899692564
Reposted by The Parable Of The Broken Overton Windowflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Yes, fair dues: most people do not encounter hate-filled, calculating right wing psychopaths in their day to day lives, so it would not occur to them that anyone would behave that horrifically. That’s how hate-filled, calculating right wing psychopaths prosper. 69425
Reposted by The Parable Of The Broken Overton WindowAndrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 26/09/2026These are 21st century Millerites source: www.iankduncan.com/personal/202... / archive.li/OYppi 033
Reposted by The Parable Of The Broken Overton WindowStephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Not "someone" ... a far right columnist who initially hid behind a masked account. He also has ties to the hereditarian network that went for Jason Arday. Same players, play again. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/w...nytimes.comHis Novel Had a Shot at a Top Book Prize. Then Someone Ran an A.I. Test.“It Was Either That Or Die,” by the Haitian-Canadian author Thélyson Orélien, was the hit of the French literary season. Now it has been pulled from the shortlist for a prestigious prize. 314753
Reposted by The Parable Of The Broken Overton WindowJW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se... 3234021269
Reposted by The Parable Of The Broken Overton WindowMatunos @matunos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026All of this 12513
Reposted by The Parable Of The Broken Overton WindowMaya🚂🚃🚄🚅🚆🚇🚈🚉🚊🚝🚞🚋🚌🚎 @trains.bsky.social · 21/09/2026the average american cant perceive how political parties work in the rest of the world because we have 2 parties which in the EU would be equivalent to like the CDU and the Nazi party 0133
Reposted by The Parable Of The Broken Overton WindowCount Mysterioso @mysteriosox.bsky.social · 21/09/2026 2262
Reposted by The Parable Of The Broken Overton WindowRodrigo Saldaña Zárate @rodrigosz0.bsky.social · 20/09/2026A hidden gem, a hard to stumble into @doctorow.pluralistic.net interview where he goes harder than usual on the "we're building Skynet, we need to be stopped, and we happen to have this bill written by our Lobbyists that will *really* show us!" extended universe. youtu.be/TfvcuqpTSWEyoutu.beDeflating the AI Bubble with Cory DoctorowYouTube video by Do Not Pass Go with Peter Nowak 03211
The Parable Of The Broken Overton Window @broken-overton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026A shame the thread was locked to me, because the answer is in how learning occurs. Humans rarely remember what they read word for word, they form a theory of how the thing works. 210
Reposted by The Parable Of The Broken Overton WindowKarla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026“An astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions” and the “largest theft of labor in human history” is what a Microsoft executive privately said about GenAi as shown in newly unsealed court filings. And these court filings get worse. These execs knew all along the immense theft they committed.404media.co‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions." 111406590
The Parable Of The Broken Overton Window @broken-overton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Wow, they could have given every air traffic controller fired last year $1 million each to return and still made significant savings over this. 121
The Parable Of The Broken Overton Window @broken-overton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The thread, as a whole, clearly shows the blind spot of the neolib "left" in that they believe they're triangulating the vote and it's leftists that must shift right - always. The idea that the position to their left is more popular, as Madami clearly demonstrated, never, ever can be entertained. 200
Reposted by The Parable Of The Broken Overton WindowKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 17/09/2026Over at the newsletter I wrote about the media's total failure to responsibly cover batshit claims that software has gained human-level awareness and will soon kill us allkarlbode.comAI Doomsday Panic Is Completely Out Of ControlThe press obsession with software-powered doomsday is a misdirection overshadowing a much deadlier reality: our public interest regulators no longer function. 20553117
Reposted by The Parable Of The Broken Overton Windowbarryrichards.bsky.social @barryrichards.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This is a prime example of what @doctorow.pluralistic.net would term ‘criti-hype’. There are real damages from LLMs & genAI, e.g. the power & water used; how they’ve pushed up memory prices making phones, laptops etc more expensive; the trillions of $ wasted. But AI isn’t going to wipe out humans. 03810
The Parable Of The Broken Overton Window @broken-overton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026And so the confected panic continues. LLMs have literally always done this, it's a consequence of having too high a temparature setting - they're probabilistic models, and it's just jittering to a less likely association. Why it's suddenly been "discovered" now, well, the panic must continue. 100
Reposted by The Parable Of The Broken Overton WindowBruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 13/09/2026already asking for a bailout, sounds like 19947136
The Parable Of The Broken Overton Window @broken-overton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026For my part, I'm about done trying to correct the swivel-eyed loons (many titled) that claim AI has all sort of capabilities it literally does not. In absolute certainty, anyone giving a dissenting voice "just doesn't understand." It's a burgeoning religion of ELIZA effect brain-cooked psychotics. 000
Reposted by The Parable Of The Broken Overton WindowBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026Once you understand the corporate culture of AI hyperscalers is everyone cooking their brains by locking themselves in the bathroom, holding flashlights under their chins, and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until they wet themselves in terror, things snap into focus: pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/a... 231182431
The Parable Of The Broken Overton Window @broken-overton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026An easily readable article giving a laymans overview of how AI models are trained, their shortcomings, and how me might seek a different approach. Neat. yoshuabengio.org/en/publicati...yoshuabengio.orgYoshua Bengio | Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?A lot has been written about the incidents of the last few months in which AI agents misbehaved in serious ways. They took actions that would be considered as crimes if a human took them, escaped thei... 000
Reposted by The Parable Of The Broken Overton WindowMedia Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 12/09/2026A HMRC official was sacked because he was caught on camera saying he gives wrong information to black and brown people when they call for advice in a bid to sabotage them. He was a member of the far right group Patriotic Alternative. How many more? 671642708
Reposted by The Parable Of The Broken Overton WindowGregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 12/09/2026You’ve got priests, pensioners and disabled people who’ve been arrested for terrorism charges for peaceful protest, while the national public broadcaster is glazing a uniformed paramilitary for launching a campaign of attacks on infrastructure. Forgive me for seeing a scale and a thumb. 121761
The Parable Of The Broken Overton Window @broken-overton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026 If I throw out my toaster, is it murder? 000
The Parable Of The Broken Overton Window @broken-overton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I'm now spending more time triaging the mudflow of AI generated dogshit slop my peers are committing than progressing my own work. In the world of the blind, the one eyed man is not king, but a constantly anxious shepherd angry that some fuckwit has given them all rollerskates. 0316
Reposted by The Parable Of The Broken Overton WindowFreyja Valentine, Girl IRL Cat URL @freyjavalentine.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Every time OpenAI makes a claim about mathematics, it's lying. Every single time I've investigated, there's been a giant asterisk like "stole someone's work" or "never happened actually." Don't be credulous. 517740
Reposted by The Parable Of The Broken Overton WindowKathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026As journalism, what the Times has failed to disclose if it knew or reseach if it did not, is a grave, career-ending error for those responsible. Or it would be if the Times hadn't become a propaganda tool for the far-right views and aims of its proprietors. Utter disgrace. 623456
The Parable Of The Broken Overton Window @broken-overton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026#CognitiveDecline publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-fi...publichealthpolicyjournal.comMIT Study Finds Artificial Intelligence Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline - Science, Public Health Policy and the LawBy Nicolas Hulscher, MPH 010
Reposted by The Parable Of The Broken Overton Windowflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I think we better hope Trump dies soon and that it all implodes messily with him, because I don’t get much sense that Sensible Moderate leaders really understand what it is they’re dealing with, and the thought that they do know and they behave like this anyway is more frightening, not less. 15911
Reposted by The Parable Of The Broken Overton WindowZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Labour has banned peaceful protest for Palestine. It should not be hard for Andy Burnham to condemn thugs. 571693498
Reposted by The Parable Of The Broken Overton WindowWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Oh look, what's this, the consequences of failing to respond firmly to masked mobs roaming the streets yesterday? Two years in and somehow the Labour government still just do not get it. 10427118
Reposted by The Parable Of The Broken Overton WindowBen Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 05/09/2026That the government's response to a large-scale fascist mobilisation is to say stuff like "the right to protest is fundamental" and "we already *are* stopping the boats" is in itself the story of how we got here. 221478
Reposted by The Parable Of The Broken Overton Windowpatrick basedman @untitledpng.bsky.social · 05/09/2026 1264
The Parable Of The Broken Overton Window @broken-overton.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I think we have to face the fact that parliamentary Labour Party, and by extension our government, are fascist sympathisers. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... They're more interested in securing their votes than protecting innocent people from them.bbc.co.ukDisruption at Port of Dover due to 'stop the boats' protestThe government says it condemns "the behaviour in Dover" and the hours-long disruption it caused. 032
Reposted by The Parable Of The Broken Overton Windowshaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 04/09/2026the big AI danger is not companies suddenly inventing skynet - that's marketing rubbish, musk promising mars colonies by 2030 type stuff. the danger is companies claiming to have invented skynet and then putting what they actually have, a chatbot, in charge of stuff that's important 342961684
The Parable Of The Broken Overton Window @broken-overton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026If I wrote a cyberpunk novel where all AI collapsed at the same time due to a tiny handful of world-striding, christofascist paedophile oligarchs having formed a giant incestuous hairball of tech as they only valued accelerating profits, ignoring all else, it'd be accused of being too on the nose. 010
Reposted by The Parable Of The Broken Overton WindowBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 09/06/2025Every article about the inevitability of AGI 1164621300
The Parable Of The Broken Overton Window @broken-overton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I notice the psychotic "stopping AI would mean the end of the world as we know it" slopheads are strangely quiet today. All running around screaming, arms raised in the air as they've lost the ability to construct a short paragraph unaided. Or most likely most of them were bots. Beautiful peace. 000
Reposted by The Parable Of The Broken Overton WindowMolly @mhuzzell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026"we should, I would suggest, be cautious of a criterion for fascism that would rule out the actual Nazis until around 1933. If you can only cry fascist as you’re being dragged to a death camp, is it not a little late at that point?" www.liberalcurrents.com/fascists-rea...liberalcurrents.comFascists Really Believe ItMillions could die because of ideas intellectually and morally equivalent to the ‘lizard people’ conspiracy theory. 0386
Reposted by The Parable Of The Broken Overton WindowOliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Any environmental credentials Andy Burnham had are fast disappearing - drilling, arms supply, water nationalisation, data centres policies all designed to enrich fossil fuel, weapons & tech billionaire climate mass murderers "Labour - for carbon emissions, droughts and tech bros." via Zack Polanski 926698
The Parable Of The Broken Overton Window @broken-overton.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Well, someone just got understandably upset that I thought that their saying a ban on new datacentres would "lead to the end of life on Earth as we know it" was psychotic. Apparently, before calling me various names and blocking me, they claimed they had said that peoples circumstances would change. 000
Reposted by The Parable Of The Broken Overton WindowCreature from the Jack Lagoon @jacklikesfilm.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I don't think the UK Labour party was very active in early 1930s Germany, though given some of their current policies I can understand the confusion. 061
