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Christine Mendonça

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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The coffee has not kicked in - I am still confused on what happened on that kick off.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Rachel is absolutely brilliant. But don’t take my word for it, buy a ticket & find out for yourself!
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
this is by far the best "I quit my AI job over safety concerns" essay yet because it is the first one that is able to talk about safety concerns in practical terms and that understands "safety" as a topic with extensive literature in analogous fields www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Two changes are urgently needed. First: AI companies need to rely more on the safety expertise that already exists in other fields. And second, before we create systems significantly more capable than the ones we have today, we need new science to ensure that more capable models (and their successors) will make safe choices when we aren’t looking.

Given today’s risks, frontier labs need to run like nuclear-power plants or busy airports, with layers of redundancy and careful, time-consuming planning, so that the occasional and inevitable human error does not open a door to disaster. Right now, AI companies don’t know how—but other people do. In a nuclear-power plant, the technical systems and rules people follow are set up so that, if equipment breaks or someone pushes the wrong button, we still won’t risk a meltdown. OpenAI and other labs are growing and deploying frontier AI with far less redundancy and rigor than this, even though the harm from an irreversible loss of control would be much greater than the harm from any single meltdown. Even short of a full loss of control, we could see autonomous swarms of AI agents that act without human permission. Imagine “rogue” agents that work like teams of hackers (for example, holding hospital computer systems for ransom) but never need to sleep.
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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Maybe I have been watching too many women’s health videos - but the one on the right is a no.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think we need to differentiate between “AI uses a lot of water!” (not necessarily bad on its own) and “AI stresses local water supplies” (a potentially real issue). The distinction is important because even “modest” use can cause serious issues, especially given the locations of data centers
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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hey if you are in NYC from out of town, thinking of leaving this weekend - I would try to get out tonight or at the latest tomorrow morning before the sun. See if you can your flight moved to an airport away from the storm that can be reached by train.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
it's weird that ai got too dangerous to keep advancing right around the time money got more expensive to borrow
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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
And this was the song my mom introduced Billy Joel to me with
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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This.
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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Hey @mlb.com the @yankees.com and @mets.com should always play today. Period.
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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The absolute hubris of this man continues to shock me. I don’t know why.
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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ash is an excellent follow if you are interested in what’s going on in Iran and the ME writ large, especially as it relates to shipping, trade, etc. He has been an excellent voice for seafarers as well.
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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Timeline cleanse
Brussels Griffon contorted on his back chilling on his moms lap
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 09/09/2026
‘The rush to dominate AI is starting to look like a trillion-dollar game of chicken. The one to watch is Oracle. It’s the weakest of the bunch financially and the most likely to blink first.’ www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...
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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 08/09/2026
All my dashboard alerts went off. Then this flashed up on AlJazeera. I think this will be another night of death and destruction… I will keep searching for confirmations - CENTCOM are usually fast to claim strikes in this area.
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
fyi. a good definition!
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 30/08/2026
Biden managed to enact laws that Republicans voted against but then would go on to claim credit for in their home districts. Trump pushes policies so unpopular that Republicans do whatever they can to avoid talking about them in their home districts.
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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Amazing good news for your Friday.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The situation in Haiti is terrifying. On Sunday, 150 gunmen swept down on a town to kill, rape, loot, and burn. 22 people were executed in a churchyard. 52 were taken hostage. Stephen Miller mockingly says Haiti is safe and ICE just sent its second deportation flight this month; with kids on board.
They arrived in silence, under cover of darkness, heavily armed as they surrounded the town and moved through Kenscoff’s rugged terrain and towering forests in the mountains above the Haitian capital. Numbering around 150, the gunmen swept through several locations as they made their way toward the center of the town, opening fire on resident who tried to flee. At least 13 people were shot and killed as the gunmen ran through downtown, according to an account by the United Nations human rights office. As more than 50 others sought refuge in L’Arche de la Nouvelle Alliance, a Protestant church that had been sheltering people already displaced by the violence, the gunmen pursued them. When they arrive, they forced residents from the church and executed 22 of them in its courtyard. A dozen others were killed behind the sanctuary. The attackers didn’t just stop there. Before withdrawing from downtown, an area encompassing City Hall and a Haiti National Police substation, they abducted at least 52 people, including a mother and her five children, as well as another mother and her infant. Children and elderly who could not run were killed inside their homes. Others were burned alive after gunmen set at least a dozen houses on fire, witnesses told the National Human Rights Defense Network. The attackers also shot horses and other livestock inside the rural enclave.
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Nate Pentz @natepentz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There is so much amazing crop art this year at the Minnesota State Fair focused on the resistance to the ICE occupation we faced, this one in particular had me choked up.
Crop art with a whistle text says 

I can't keep doing this 
I have to keep doing this
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The Capybaron, Seasonally Spooky @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
There once was a hitman from Sweden Who was, on the motorway, speedin’ His mark goes unwhacked, For in ironic fact, The killer’s the one who’s left bleedin’
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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is amazing.
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Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com · 25/08/2026
if there’s a point to fame it’s to do what dolly parton did in the world
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
cool things Dolly Parton did that you may not have known: a thread. supported families after the Gatlinburg fires:
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Kendra Albert @kendraserra.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Global Voices does incredible work! Well worth your donation dollars.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Salary of executive assistant Natalie Harp: $150,000 a year. Average salary of a sailor on the USS Lincoln: ~ $50,000 a year.
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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Kevin passed about an hour ago. The time to find his cats a home IS now, and I'm not one step closer to finding it. Please, friends.
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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Cruelty to them and the communities they call home.
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Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“It is a category mistake to describe such agents as ‘going rogue.’ The offensive capabilities we have reached today, we have reached deliberately” www.ft.com/content/a994...
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AI hasn’t gone rogue. It’s worse than that
Recent cyber attacks reflect what the technology was trained to do but safeguards are falling short
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18/08/2026
For the first time, living in Miami costs more than in the New York City region, according to a new analysis.
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Think N.Y.C. Is Expensive? You Haven’t Looked at South Florida.
Miami’s living expenses surpassed New York’s for the first time, when comparing U.S. metropolitan areas.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Tales of everyday corruption. Pete Hegseth cancelled the $400,000 contract for making uniforms for the Blue Angels on the grounds that the contract with "The Sewing Box" was DEI since the firm is Black-owned. Instead, he awarded it to a Trump donor for $1,690,000, a 325% price increase!
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Researchers at the Statens Serum Institut in Denmark have conducted multiple landmark, population-wide studies tracking hundreds of thousands to over 1.2 million children using national health registries to examine potential links between vaccines and autism. Every major study found no connection.
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Large Danish Study: No link between vaccines and autism or 49 other health conditions
A new Danish study finds no association between aluminum in childhood vaccines and 50 different health conditions, including autism, asthma, and autoimmune diseases. The findings reaffirm the safety o...
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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This a feature not a bug.
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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
As someone who religiously moves my car - I love this. More please.
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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Anyone know why there is going to be flyover in NYC tomorrow?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
That pretty much sums it up.
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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
How this deal was done should be illegal.
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Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan @jaketapper.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
“Help us bring this situation to an end,” Savannah pleads to those who know where her beloved mother is. #BringHerHome
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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
How many more till Congress truly acts?
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Steve Liesman @steveliesman.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Pres Trump’s plan to charge for early access to his pronouncements on his truth social company should be illegal. The information he releases is not his personal property. It belongs to the people. He has no right to sell and profit from it.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Bravo United Airlines 👏👏👏👏👏 liveandletsfly.com/united-airli...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16/07/2026
If wildfire smoke is polluting the air where you live, you might want to consider wearing a mask outside to protect your health. Here’s what experts want you to know.
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Do I Need to Wear a Mask If There’s Wildfire Smoke Outside?
Here’s what experts want you to know about protecting your health.
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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
This looks like a 3rd tier amusement park. And actually that might be being too nice.
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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I honestly had not heard of @edzitron.com until he was on @chrislhayes.bsky.social podcast. He finally made me feel like I wasn’t crazy. I have kept saying to anyone who would listen that this is a hype cycle unlike anything we have ever seen, and the benefits are missing.
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NerdBrick @nerdbrick.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Instead of asking for people to not use their AC in the heatwave, how about turning off the data centers instead?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Damn. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The Birthright citizenship ruling should be a wake up call to any Dem who is still on the fence about court reform. We are essentially one seat change away from the Court undoing Reconstruction by fiat.
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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
First, I am furious for Pete, Chasten & their twins. Second, what a waste of already very stretched resources of CPS. - there are so many kids who genuinely need their oversight - and this ain’t it. Thank you @petebuttigieg.bsky.social for sharing this.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/06/2026
For more than two decades, Mona Khalil protected the endangered sea turtles that laid their eggs on a beach in Lebanon and kept predators away from the hatchlings. On June 4, she was wounded in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon, and on Friday, she died of her injuries, a close friend said.
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Mona Khalil, Defender of Sea Turtles, Killed in an Israeli Strike in Lebanon
For a quarter century, Ms. Khalil ran a guesthouse and worked to protect endangered sea turtles who every summer lay their eggs on a stretch of beach near Tyre, Lebanon.
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