Reposted by Corbie 🐦⬛Pieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Writing an anti-AI booklet with a colleague/friend and we use the asbestos comparison, which works nicely because there was a "put asbestos in everything, don't ask why" period (toothpaste, cigarette filters, ...) which is illuminating when compared to AI propaganda 1184
Reposted by Corbie 🐦⬛Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 06/09/2026If you've cared for loved ones with dementia, you will recognize this disinhibition phase that we are currently witnessing with the fascist in chief. And much like what sometimes happens in families, there seems to be a deep sense of denial/averting the gaze happening across the country. 635776
Reposted by Corbie 🐦⬛Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Everything is just impossibly dumb 2153028500
Reposted by Corbie 🐦⬛Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/09/2026Not beating the nazi allegations. 2443776641
Reposted by Corbie 🐦⬛Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 06/09/2026And if you're ever wondering "Hey, how did Premee The Giant Bug become a writer?" the answer is: I picked up a book entitled SO YOU WANT TO BE A WIZARD in St. Albert Library and was like that's it this is me I want to be a wizard AND a writer 1238671
Corbie 🐦⬛ @corbieailin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026As a labor day baby, I just like to remind folks that if you don't know why the holiday exists, it's worth reading up about! 030
Reposted by Corbie 🐦⬛Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Extremely fun life event alert. @hasanminhaj.com asked me to come on his excellent podcast to...uh...discuss what is basically my life's work. Our info hellscape, the blurring of reality, psy-op panic, AI. Humbling and a thrill to get a chance to talk about it all this way youtu.be/z7lQdkiQfo4?...youtu.beThe Internet Is Fake - with Charlie WarzelYouTube video by Hasan Minhaj 510014
Reposted by Corbie 🐦⬛Long Lead @longlead.com · 02/09/202625 years after the September 11 terror attacks, national security journalist @vermontgmg.bsky.social shares that the U.S. should break up the Department of Homeland Security — a bureau that was once consolidated to protect the country, but has "been turned against ordinary Americans" in our streets.depthperception.longlead.com“We got almost everything wrong.” Garrett Graff on 9/11's shocking legacyAt the 25th anniversary of September 11, the history podcast “Long Shadow” explores how the government's response led to the rise of authoritarianism in the U.S. 314741
Reposted by Corbie 🐦⬛Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This is The Thread on this. 25417
Reposted by Corbie 🐦⬛Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026My very controversial opinion is that nobody should be allowed to do this in a democracy and in fact if people are allowed to do this you don't actually live in a democracy 141030264
Reposted by Corbie 🐦⬛King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Sobering, insightful essay on how chatbots mangle historical primary sources. 🗃 www.hnn.us/article/ai-i...hnn.usAI Is an Anti-Primary Source MachineReal voices from the past are threatened by chatbots designed to amplify — and ultimately become — the loudest voices in the room. 9421182
Reposted by Corbie 🐦⬛Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 03/09/2026Also! This is the first sentence of the report! NYT has always been bad at giving credit for who broke news — a standard practice literally everywhere else in journalism going back decades — but I genuinely think it is getting worse. 435581
Reposted by Corbie 🐦⬛The Verge @theverge.com · 03/09/2026It emphasized stronger guardrails for GPT-5.6 Astra after the company's models hacked Hugging Face. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...theverge.comOpenAI’s next big AI model has ‘entered the AGI era’According to OpenAI president Greg Brockman, we’ve likely entered the AGI era. 15243
Corbie 🐦⬛ @corbieailin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026... I mean. I guess it's uncomplicated in that we now know that letting models train on copyrighted work will absolutely NOT preserve American prosperity and will, in fact, do the opposite. I'm so tired. 020
Reposted by Corbie 🐦⬛steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 02/09/2026This measure is far short of what some of the leading Nordic countries do in terms of supporting and sustaining journalism, which is necessary for a functioning democracy, but it's a fantastic start. 08823
Reposted by Corbie 🐦⬛Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 02/09/2026The seeds of 2016 and 2024 were planted long before in state and municipal elections. Emanuel burnt the 50 state strategy to the ground after 2008 and the consequences have been catastrophic. 031
Reposted by Corbie 🐦⬛vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 02/09/2026It is interesting how if you spend even a little amount of time using an LLM how easy it becomes to clock (most) LLM generated text and, especially, website designs. These things are caught in stylistic attractor basins and the homogeneity is telling once you see it. 1121114
Reposted by Corbie 🐦⬛Bob @definitelyjustbob.bsky.social · 02/09/2026"I didn't care about the human cost of my politics until they came for me." Yiannopoulos gets no credit for having no empathy from me. He is a handmaiden to fascism and his name should be in history books as such, if anyone remembers him at all. 1102
Reposted by Corbie 🐦⬛Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 02/09/2026jesus that's fucked up 2353
Reposted by Corbie 🐦⬛marshmele @michelegoo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026omg fr?? so fucking disappointing! thanks to hrt i’m able to sleep most nights instead of waking up every 5min either too hot or too cold. wired can suck my buzzword! 0186
Reposted by Corbie 🐦⬛Bea Eli 🏳️⚧️ @msbeaeli.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I have no words. Bex is a Black unhoused CANCER PATIENT, waiting to fundraise enough to pay half the security deposit +1 month’s rent so they can move into a room. They’ve been sitting at the park all day bc they have nowhere to go. They only need $480. 24 x $20??? paypal.me/thelongestroadpaypal.mePay RMM Creative using PayPal.MeGo to paypal.me/thelongestroad and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries. 174119
Reposted by Corbie 🐦⬛Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Everyone's talking about Pangram and other AI-detection software like GPTZero. They promise impressive accuracy at spotting AI-written text. Science journals are starting to use them. How good are they? @miryamnaddaf.bsky.social and I take a look for @nature.com 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comAI-detection tools have made huge leaps forward — how good are they?Scientists and publishers are testing a new breed of software that promises impressive accuracy at spotting AI-written text. 12615
Reposted by Corbie 🐦⬛Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The average person thinks social security is in trouble when the actual solution is very easy, but rich people don’t want to pay more taxes 4187
Reposted by Corbie 🐦⬛Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Twelve states now have "companion bot" laws aimed at reducing risks, particularly for minors. Danny Tobey, Ashley Carr, and Michael Atleson of DLA Piper analyze the substantive provisions and identify four overarching principles for AI providers. buff.ly/qturQKBtechpolicy.pressWhat 12 State ‘Companion Bot’ Laws Demand of AI ProvidersAn analysis of substantive provisions in 12 state companion bot laws reveals four overarching principles, write Danny Tobey, Ashley Carr, and Michael Atleson. 034
Reposted by Corbie 🐦⬛404 Media @404media.co · 01/09/2026I watched Simon Weckert's 'digital camouflage' in action.404media.coThis 'Digital Camouflage' Shirt Confuses AI-Powered Surveillance CamerasI watched Simon Weckert's 'digital camouflage' in action. 512039
Reposted by Corbie 🐦⬛__________ @jenbren.bsky.social · 01/09/2026*applause* well done Ireland. Isn't the Celtic Tiger grate? Shoving down ordinary people & letting obnoxious privileged classes thrive. 1112
Reposted by Corbie 🐦⬛Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Perimenopause is *so* hot right now. Read @knibbs.bsky.social on the VC-backed, telehealth push to put millions of women on hormones--whether they need them or not:wired.comInside the Perimenopause Industrial ComplexHow an alliance of tech startups, MAHA operatives, and actual medical experts made millennial women the new face of hormone therapy. 2211934
Reposted by Corbie 🐦⬛NPR @npr.org · 01/09/2026A whistleblower says the U.S. Postal Service is rushing out an online system for President Trump's push to restrict mail voting that could "derail" the midterm election if courts allow it to proceed. n.pr/4xvMl7fn.prWhistleblower claims USPS plan for Trump's mail voting order could 'derail' midtermsA whistleblower says the U.S. Postal Service is rushing out an online system for President Trump's push to restrict mail voting that could "derail" the midterm election if courts allow it to proceed. 59883492
Reposted by Corbie 🐦⬛Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026What's the point of handing over TikTok to your tech billionaire crony if you're still worried that Chinese propaganda is shaping U.S. opinion? 34963142
Reposted by Corbie 🐦⬛Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I get there are lots of reasons for pessimism, but a lot of desperately poor nations are developing, global child mortality has tanked since I was a kid, malaria deaths are way down, extreme poverty is *way* down, access to water and power are widespread, solar power is booming... 929833
Reposted by Corbie 🐦⬛ Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 01/09/2026Reading articles about how various map services - Google, Apple, MapQuest etc. react to Trump renaming lake Ontario, and nobody, even in passing, mentions Bing maps lol. 12872
Reposted by Corbie 🐦⬛Jen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social · 01/09/20261/ Just in: An anonymous federal worker has filed a whistleblower disclosure warning that the U.S. Postal Service's attempt to create a system to regulate mail voting for the midterms has been "rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed." @propublica.org has the details 👇 15262452643
Corbie 🐦⬛ @corbieailin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026techcrunch.com/2026/08/28/a... Training AI models with other AI models? Researchers at Anthropic have released a new study.techcrunch.comAn Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI | TechCrunchGiven 10 benchmarks for specific misaligned behaviors, the automated systems were able to improve performance on every single one without degrading overall performance. 010
Corbie 🐦⬛ @corbieailin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/o... This is funny, too. The rogue AIs. Oh no. Having been working in server management the last couple years, I am SO TIRED.techcrunch.comOpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 other companies call for action to defend against rogue AI | TechCrunchSome of the world's largest tech companies and AI startups have come together to decry the current state of cybersecurity and to advertise a new solution that they say can ward off a new generation of... 000
Corbie 🐦⬛ @corbieailin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Good news for Anthropic. Trend continues in court of the White House doing some nonsense & wreaking some havoc that doesn't stand up in court but by the time that happens the news cycle has already moved on. Anthropic will be fine, though, I'm sure. No harm, no foul. www.axios.com/2026/08/28/j...axios.comJudge blocks Pentagon's Anthropic blacklistA federal judge struck down the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk. 000
Corbie 🐦⬛ @corbieailin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026startupfortune.com/us-startups-... I'm fascinated with how there was a HUGE push towards AI adoption for everything but also now AI is too expensive. Also, not actually reliable. Like frontier models are too expensive and not efficient/ accurate/effective enough to justify the costs.startupfortune.comUS Startups Are Quietly Replacing OpenAI and Anthropic With Chinese AI - Startup FortuneChinese AI models like Qwen and DeepSeek now beat OpenAI and Anthropic on cost, and US firms from Airbnb to Nvidia are quietly switching over. 162
Corbie 🐦⬛ @corbieailin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026www.techspot.com/news/113580-... I haven't been on LinkedIn for a bit but this is funny.techspot.comPeople have clicked the "Seems like AI slop" button on LinkedIn over a million times alreadyThe tool lets members flag posts they believe were generated with AI or appear to be low-effort automated content, and it's available through the three-dot menu on... 000
Corbie 🐦⬛ @corbieailin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Today is my birthday. Imagine my surprise... And delight! Discovering it was also a whole other holiday, too. 😍❤️ 110
Reposted by Corbie 🐦⬛Drea @dreaboston.bsky.social · 01/09/2026BTW, DOGE folks never left the gov. They are still floating around. “DOGE affiliate Kyle Schutt has been named acting DHS CIO. Schutt has been working in various roles across DHS and other agencies as a DOGE team member since early 2025.” federalnewsnetwork.com/cio-news/202...federalnewsnetwork.comDHS names DOGE staffer as next CIO | Federal News NetworkDHS's next CIO is expected to be Kyle Schutt, a DOGE team member who was detailed to multiple agencies, including CISA and FEMA. 7177101
Reposted by Corbie 🐦⬛Karen Sue Waters @karensuew.bsky.social · 31/08/2026This.... The revolution doesn't have to be bloody. But there must be a revolution. We are the many and they are the few. The very few. 39142801452
Reposted by Corbie 🐦⬛Liz, a queen of sharks- @thesharkqueen.com · 29/08/2026I’ve read 1984 a few times. I can’t get over the horror & embarrassment I constantly feel as shitheads flip the scripts for profit or control & I’m forced to watch folks lunge for the new carrot or parrot the new idea, no matter how antithetical it is to the beliefs they vehemently espoused before. 1323
Reposted by Corbie 🐦⬛Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Just witnessed a scream metal performance for the ages 3988
Reposted by Corbie 🐦⬛tierney cyren @bnb.im · 29/08/2026it’s been years that I’ve been telling software companies to make keycaps as swag. Nobody needs another t shirt. that’s how the Twilio keycaps came about, and I also know several others came at my suggestion. 6455
Reposted by Corbie 🐦⬛Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Oh, cool Schools had to close and many residents went without water because of this. kfor.com/news/local/m...kfor.comMassive El Reno water leak traced to Bitcoin mining data center facilityEl Reno officials say a leak that lost the city more than three million gallons of water originated from a private fire hydrant on a Bitcoin mining facility’s property—and neither the company nor t… 8317197
Reposted by Corbie 🐦⬛Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today. 227395167143