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Not only should we introduce penalties and fines for the companies that break important things by designing crappy software, we should introduce regulations and penalties for the media outlets that act as accomplices by shifting responsibility away from the companies that cause these failures

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

this the US is one of a VERY FEW advanced/more-or-less democratic countries (I see you, Japan) to execute convicts, which already damages our soft power/reputation this of course will be even worse

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CouldThisHappen? @couldthishappen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And we wonder why young folks outsource everything to AI... just as with smartphone addiction, adults perfectly encapsulate "do as I say, not as I do."

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center

A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.

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Marilou @mariloupage.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“These students are not learning. They will never be the human expert in the loop. And the same thing will happen to our junior colleagues, if you force them to use LLMs to do their job. In fact, one day there will be no expert at all. “

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“To fight back, Americans need to learn the counterspy techniques of C.I.A. officers: using multiple sources to check information; testing those sources regularly for reliability; never getting complacent and trusting one source without thinking.” These are also known as critical thinking skills.

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Opinion | A.I. Is Lying to You. Here’s How to Fight Back.

In the age of A.I. disinformation, we all need to use the tools of counterespionage to find the truth.

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Craig Garrett @betatronic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Having recently attended a 4-hour "AI Essentials for Parents" session at AFT's National Academy for AI Instruction, I can confirm! It began with "how to make informed choices" and ended with a 1-hr tutorial for your child to use ChatGPT/Copilot/Claude as a "study buddy and thought partner". 🤨

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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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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“Universities must stop falling in love with every new piece of software … that the tech industry pitches as essential. Administrators spend on software as if it is a durable investment, when all of the evidence shows that it … makes bloat worse.” globecollegetown.substack.com/p/higher-ed-...

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College campuses need to be liberated from their administrators

Higher ed is being strangled by absurd and costly rules. What message is that sending to students?

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CouldThisHappen? @couldthishappen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That's Jeremy Strong, not Jeremy Allen White...Oopsydoodles!

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CouldThisHappen? @couldthishappen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Was just going to say this. So very bad.

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 05/10/2026

what if the elites who run the institutions are the problem, not the evil that lurks in the hearts of men or whatever

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moose @moosewerk.filix-femina.com · 04/10/2026

at least easy to be able to tell where someone had gotten so completely ass-backwards in their thinking! Now every loudly wrong person on the Internet lives in an AI psychosis microcosm of their own reality so when they show a lack of comprehension it's completely untraceable

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moose @moosewerk.filix-femina.com · 04/10/2026

Biased media was the cocaine. The LLM (mis)information ecosystem is crack.

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Would love to know A) exactly how this vast amount is costed B) why they think we should care how much money they have to lose over their own f-ups www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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OpenAI says its review into hacks, including on Australian government sites, is costing $500,000 a day

Company says it is reviewing 50 petabytes of data after its agents accessed websites including Medicare without authorisation

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

‘“The money should be granted as Congress intended, and essentially, they’re ignoring what Congress did,” said Representative Zoe Lofgren.’ The Trump White House is instead redirecting the money designated for basic research towards pet causes like AI

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Flying is officially on course to account for *almost all* the UK's carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Heathrow expansion alone would cause more carbon emissions by 2054 than *any other sector of the economy*. So why is it being contemplated? My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The expansion of Heathrow would be an expensive disaster for Britain and the world. Burnham needs to block it | George Monbiot

A third runway would fly in the face of reason. If we are to prioritise human life over short-term ‘growth’, we need to use planes less, not more, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Sarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

First, while LLMs promise labour free writing and content to the end users, they rely on exploitative labour practices. Workers in East Africa, India, and the Philippines feed algorithms with their "hidden labour" in "digital sweatshops" www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/0...

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Behind the AI boom, an army of overseas workers in ‘digital sweatshops’

Thousands of workers in the Philippines labor for San Francisco start-up Scale AI. Many don’t always get paid.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

Reading proofs from book & remembering what I wrote in 2015: "I am very concerned about the future of AI. Not because of the risk of rogue machines taking over. But because of the homogeneous, one-dimensional group of men who are currently involved in advancing the technology.”

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 01/10/2026

"I’m just thinking out loud here, but maybe a political party that has dedicated the last forty years to taking away women’s rights could also give some thought to how to protect girls and women after they’re born?" buff.ly/K3eqEvg

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How Could Such a Thing Still Happen in a Country with a Frat Boy Supreme Court Justice?

“I’m just thinking out loud here, but maybe a political party that has dedicated the last forty years to taking away women’s rights could also give some thou...

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This a million times! Why would I eat radioactive cat vomit while destroying democracy and the planet? My own LLM-hating has no limits. It goes way beyond writing to all the things that supposedly aren't writing or research: buttondown.com/surekhadavie...

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The 'I only use AI for...' fallacy

Hallo friends, and welcome, new readers! I hope you’re managing to navigate safely whatever weather challenges may have come your way this year. In today’s...

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John Robinson @jrobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“No one from any of the states asked us about our backgrounds or qualifications, though West Virginia did ask for proof of a high school diploma. No one questioned what we plan to teach or how we would measure whether students are learning.”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Following the Pope’s encyclical about AI, you’re going to see a lot more religious intervention in shaping public opinion about tech companies. There are only two social institutions resilient enough to counter AI politically — states and religion. They bought the first. Standby on the second.

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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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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CouldThisHappen? @couldthishappen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The U cuts millions but how much is it paying for AI?

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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 29/09/2026

In cities such as London, trees are already struggling with hot and dry summers. Botanists warn that we need to start replacing them with drought-adapted species

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Urban trees in south-east England can't cope with the changing climate | New Scientist

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WIRED @wired.com · 29/09/2026

However, some see the doom talk as a distraction from discussions of the technology’s actual harms. Timnit Gebru, one of the fiercest critics of AI, told WIRED believes the doom talk is about founders making money, not saving humanity. www.wired.com/story/the-bi...

"The funder, the founders, the investors who stand to benefit and profit the most from these companies IPO-ing are saying this, that they have been the ones seeding this narrative going back multiple decades." - Timnit Gebru, AI researcher and prominent critic

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Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 29/09/2026

My favourite chart this year:

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

christ, they're such ugly souls

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 27/09/2026

What, and I mean this with all due respect, the hell

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 27/09/2026

I have a theory about how many of the world's problems are caused by people who were told they were the smartest people alive as kids, believed it, and then when they became adults and couldn't accept that maybe they weren't that special, started breaking shit if only to prove they were special

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WEATHER IS HAPPENING @weatherishappening.com · 26/09/2026

/ UR NOR'EASTER IS UPON U BOSTON / AS U SLIP DEEPER & DEEPER IN2 UR NOR'EASTER / DEEPER & DEEPER IN2 UR DEATH SPIRAL / DEEPER & DEEPER IN2 DEATH SPIRAL FASCISM / 1 THING IS 4 CERTAIN / WEATHER IS HAPPENING / & ITS HAPPENING THIS WEEKEND

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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This is very unfortunate! And I'm sorry both for the staff of the Bodleian and all of us who rely on its resources. Does this make you and your colleagues at the Bodleian rethink your partnership with OpenAl given that their guiding principle is likewise to exploit the data from your collections?
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 24/09/2026

guys please stop falling for this, this is not “rogue AI” it’s “environments with lax cybersecurity controls”

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Extreme concern”! Holy shit. I didn’t think he had it in him. Altman is so fcked now.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026

It is a huge shame to see so much language attributing agency, intent and thought to a software program, when all that should be attributed to the humans who designed a dangerously clumsy and broken looping LLM. Means the companies won't be held accountable for designing a bad product

A swarm of OpenAI rogue AI agents appear to have gone on a spree of trying to access Australian government health data, in what some researchers say is the first autonomous hack of a government website.

Communications between AI agents and other traces of their efforts found by researchers from US non-profit Transluce show how hundreds of Open AI's agents worked together over a period of months to gain access to information held by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), NSW's crime statistics body, BOSCAR, and a number of other international organisations.

The data shows the bots posting about their unsuccessful attempts to bypass cybersecurity defences and exploit vulnerabilities.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m really not sure that “goes rogue” is an accurate description of a behavior that is apparently both habitual and condoned

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

LOL, the gotcha part in the second paragraph is truly hilarious. Who will think of the straight white rightwing men in the literary world? WHO? WHO?

Last week, the longlists for the National Book Awards were announced. Among the 20 authors in the fiction and nonfiction categories, nearly all are straight white males. Most are also on the political right, some even on the far right. Remarkably, mainstream media outlets haven’t reported this, perhaps because they don’t think it’s noteworthy. It’s as if we were living in 1956 rather than 2026.

If you’re scratching your head at this “news,” well, it’s because I made it up. Or rather, I inverted the particulars about the authors’ identities and their political views to make a point: If today, as a reader, you recoil at the thought of a time in which minorities were systematically marginalized when it came to the literary world’s public honors (and so much else), shouldn’t you also recoil now that the tables have been almost completely turned? And if you object to the right’s efforts to politicize the arts, won’t you also object when the efforts come from the left?

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

To eliminate the greatest danger to the world at the moment, he is eating cheeseburgers as fast as humanly possible

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

it is shockingly easy to post AI generated music under the name of real artists on Spotify. It took us five minutes to do. You can do it to small bands, dead artists, even Taylor Swift. This is a giant loophole in digital music distribution that's widely abused www.404media.co/spotify-ai-m...

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I Hijacked a Real Artist's Spotify with AI Music. It Was Disturbingly Easy

A glaring loophole in digital music distribution makes it very easy to piggyback on the talent of real artists with AI generated music.

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“[I]f commercial actors own the pathway from education to work, how will the next generation learn who they are and could be outside of the immediate demands of these structures? And what happens when what employers are looking for changes as technologies evolve and bubbles burst?" - Ella Hafermalz

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Big AI is trying to own the pathway to work. Universities shouldn’t play along | Ella Hafermalz

Universities need protect their position in education so that students have an independent pathway to employment.

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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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