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Thomas

@bthomas.bsky.social
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Data, AutoML, AI and NLP @graphext. Also CSVs, lots of CSVs. In former life: artificial, sensorimotor life: www.amazon.com/dp/B071S22KSC

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It is now one of the biggest facts in the world that the richest man in the world is an overt white supremacist trying to bend politics worldwide in the direction of white supremacy. Twitter isn't the source of his wealth but it is his biggest megaphone.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
23 days until we vote to end this nightmare.
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WaterBluSky 🇺🇸 🌻 🇺🇦 @waterblusky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Cloudfare: Russian troll activity on X drops to 49%, after Ukraine strikes Yandex Russian data center. 🤖 🫤 Could this disrupt the midterms for the GOP?
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Francis Bach @bachfrancis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The one and only Michael Jordan was interviewed last week by the French newspaper Libération. Here is an English translation. Enjoy! www.di.ens.fr/~fbach/MJord...
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Michael I. Jordan on AI: “Superintelligence is science fiction”
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"I support open source models. There is a coming tidal wave of cybersecurity problems that are going to come from these open source models." - Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI which recently alerted 100 organizations about its rogue AI agents’ activities
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 09/10/2026
just to emphasize what's happening here: BMW (a company that used slave labor under the Nazis) refused to provide an official vehicle to the ultra right-wing AfD party, which is now asking Elon Musk to provide a Tesla instead Tesla literally becoming the Nazi car brand
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
- Attacking the ICC - Palling around with Russia - Broadcasting executions
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Are We The Baddies? Meme
ALT: Are We The Baddies? Meme
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ah yes, kicking off the Christmas season with a public execution, just like Jesus would want
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.
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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We’ve got the Pentagon posting QAnon slop on a verified government account. What an utterly humiliating time to live in this country.
Department of War CTO posts a Qanon meme on X
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tante @tante.cc · 08/10/2026
Anthropic does not apply the same protections to the data labelers they use to clean their training data from the worst shit in the world. But those are just mostly poor people, what do effective altruists care about th em?
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Easily my favorite detail:
There was the incident that became known as "the Lauren error": One day, her daughter Lauren, then four years old, was playing with
the command module simulator at the Instrumentation Lab when she somehow activated a pre-launch program, called P01, while the simulator was in midflight — which crashed the simulator altogether. Hamilton created a program add-on in the technical documentation warning users not to launch
P01 during flight. She also proposed a software fix to prevent the error happening during a real mission, but she was overruled on the grounds that the highly trained astronauts were never going to make that same mistake. Yet during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, that's exactly what happened: Jim Lovell inadvertently launched P01 during the flight, causing the on-flight navigational data to vanish. Hamilton and her team were called in to solve the error, and after that her proposed changes were
integrated into the program.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Again he’s really losing it with the AI stuff now
Donald J. Trump
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The White House considers anyone that uses the term, "Artificial Intelligence," as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term,
"Super Intelligence," THE ENEMY! President
DONALD J. TRUMP
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
An interesting perspective considering Amazon has laid off 30,000 corporate employees in the past year as part of an AI efficiency push instead of giving workers 3-day workweeks because AI can do some of their work.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
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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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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
surprise surprise he’s a climate change denier and doesn’t seem to understand basic reality futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
You Know That Anthropic Employee Who Quit Citing Risks to Humankind? These Strongly Appear to Be His Bizarre Old Tweets
Old tweets that appear to belong to former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon have resurfaced, and they contain questionable assertions.
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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 07/10/2026
You may remember the breathless media coverage globally about an Anthropic employee recently after he tweeted AI will end humanity in a decade. Here are his prior tweets. Will these get mainstream coverage? futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Why isn't this on every TV screen and not the fairy tale of killer robots
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We’ve spent years hearing that Chinese open-weight models would put too much power in the hands of hackers. Yet most of the AI-enabled cyberattacks publicly documented so far have involved closed models from American frontier labs. Oops. 😅
interconnects.ai
The Cyber Risk Discourse is Broken
Open-weights, ideology, and acknowledging trade-offs.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/10/2026
The next five graphs are even less convincing, and the argumentation becomes even weaker. It was almost impossible for me to imagine how a seemingly intelligent person could have written it—but I found a secret clue buried in the text itself.

A.I. has the potential to enhance the way we live in the same way. It saved me and my colleague, Will McGrew, many hours of prowling the internet to research this essay. That left us with time to do other tasks.
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I wish Anthropic had been nowhere near it but now I know exactly why the Encyclical was not corrupted by their efforts.
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When you have no concept of how people engage with music
nicksaraev ~
@nicksaraev
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I am not joking when I say this.
Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.
Al music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all Al music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago.
Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/09/2026
Class solidarity.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Constant Screaming @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Okay, so this isn't just dumb, it's scary scary bad bad. We came within a hair's breadth of seizing a Chinese ship in international waters which could have easily spiraled into a war.
cnn.com
Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
lol two months ago OpenAI was signing a letter about how important open weights models were and now their house propagandist is saying “we will ban open weights and you will thank us for it”. You can’t hate this company enough
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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
what Dwarkesh got wrong and why it matters, a detailed dissection: garymarcus.substack.com/p/dwarkesh-p...
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Dwarkesh Patels’s wildly popular but dangerously misleading account of the OpenAI Hugging Face incident
When “plain English” isn’t a good thing.
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Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A personal essay about how I’ve been feeling and thinking about this new technology that I’m contributing to and what it might to do to us all. togelius.blogspot.com/2026/08/losi...
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Losing my religion
In spring 2025 I had a crisis of faith. I thought about what the technology I'm helping to create might do to our future, and got scared. M...
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Imagine if a woman president spent most her time raving and crying about an election she lost 6 years ago. Emotional. Unstable. Hysterical. Unfit to lead.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16/07/2026
Balint on Hegseth's obsession with testosterone and his attacks on women in combat: "I think it is indicative of the fact that there are so many people in this administration that have some weird, intense, homoerotic, feelings towards men while also being incredibly homophobic..."
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
But they did get a photo of him, shown below: www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-st...
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CDC Stopped Monitoring Parasite Now Causing Explosive Diarrhea Across The Country
MAHA.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Donald abandoned his 3 oldest kids, when they were all in grade school, to run off with a mistresses. He had a child with that mistress, speculated about the eventual size of that baby's breasts, and then abandoned her too. He married his next mistress. And cheated on her with someone in porn.
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JewelzinAZ @jewelzinaz.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
If you think women are over dramatic, just watch some guy whose football team is losing on the tv.
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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The co-founder of Ubisoft died in a tragic accident and the NYT somehow feels the need to spend a lengthy paragraph of the obituary debating whether having a black main character for a recent game was "DEI". Incredible work.
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Eris ⌬ @eriskii.net · 09/06/2026
Oh dear God. The sophon blocking has begun. Mythos will now, silently! Degrade on ML work via vector injections and prompt modifications.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
In the past year alone, Jeff Bezos's net worth has increased by $75 billion. That’s $205,479,452 per day $8,561,643 per hour $142,694 per minute $2,378 per second The median American’s weekly earnings is $1,235 ($64,220/yr).
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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/04/2026
Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-…
Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
The senior director of AI at AMD has complained on Github that since January, Claude now ignores prompts, generates bad fixes, and fakes task completions more. A new software engineering hazard is your developer velocity getting worse because your AI agent provider is going through capacity issues.
pcgamer.com
Claude 'cannot be trusted to perform complex engineering', says AMD's AI head honcho
This is reportedly since changes made in February.
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 06/04/2026
“How lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead”- Spain Deputy Gabriel Rufián
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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Like… We cannot go ahead and have the World Cup now like nothing is going on. Regardless of what does or doesn’t happen tonight. Countries should simply refuse to send teams. The rest of the world cannot treat us as a remotely normal country after this
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
the levels of elite impunity we are seeing now and the levels of war crimes we are seeing now are two aspects of the same path of historical development. right now they see war as our problem (and their investment opportunity). it is world historically important that we make war their problem again
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