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C. Pineda @crispy404.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Whatever is happening to us nowadays, I'll describe it in a Jamiroquai song: VIRTUAL INSANITY. If you haven't heard of the song, give it a go.

C. Pineda @crispy404.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Thank you to both of you, Naomi and Astra being the leading voices against fascism. Cant wait to read your book soon. All the best.

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C. Pineda @crispy404.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Same worries - the centralization of power amongst the few.

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C. Pineda @crispy404.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

uk.pcmag.com/security/167... Although, 3 US states were mentioned in the article. It is still a big question here in the UK but I am hoping we still got sane heads in the government and question this kind of encroachment to the user's privacy.

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Your Computer Might Demand Your Age Soon, No Matter Where You Live

New state laws are pushing age verification into macOS and Windows. By 2027, logging in might require a facial scan or government ID.

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C. Pineda @crispy404.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

George Hinton seems to babble anything the winds deliver to him. Never took the guy as a credible one.

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C. Pineda @crispy404.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Sadly, its not available in the UK. ☹️ Would love to watch this one.

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C. Pineda @crispy404.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Studying computing and IT is not just studying, coding and building things. Its not just understanding the fundamentals of how things work. Its also working on expanding your horizons so whatever you design, you'll be able to add more benefits for the people you designed it for.

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C. Pineda @crispy404.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I thought that if you are taking up Computing and IT will make you stare at so many screens because coding, building etc. It turned out the opposite for me as the academic years go on - I , now tend to read more books, like more than in my previous psych degree, 20 odd ish years ago.

Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026

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The only person in public service who has consistently made 100% sense on issues of "AI," which is why they hate her so much.

Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there’s no AI exemption from laws already on the books — a point
@FTC
emphasized repeatedly during my tenure.

1. There is an extensive set of laws that govern dangerous and defective products. For example, releasing unvetted AI models or agents can violate consumer protection laws. Shipping flawed AI tools without implementing adequate measures to detect and stop rogue or defective AI agents can be an “unfair or deceptive” act or practice under the FTC Act (and analogous state laws). And some state AGs are already exploring holding AI firms and their CEOs criminally liable when their models participate in criminal activity.

2. Existing laws also prohibit “unfair methods of competition.” This covers instances where AI firms appropriate the competitively sensitive information of their customers, including through tracking their use of various tools. It can also cover instances where firms pursue dangerous behavior, aware that doing so may compel rivals to do the same.

As the Supreme Court has noted: “A method of competition which casts upon one's competitors the burden of the loss of business unless they will descend to a practice which they are under a powerful moral compulsion not to adopt, even though it is not criminal, was thought to involve the kind of unfairness at which the [unfair methods of competition] statute was aimed."

3. The highly concentrated and interconnected structure of these markets could be creating major risks and conflicts of interest. We had started investigating these partnerships and cross-investments across the stack (and released a preliminarily overview of some findings: https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-issues-staff-report-ai-partnerships-investments-study).

Both federal and state enforcers should be scrutinizing these opaque relationships and inter-dependencies. We are already seeing how these relationships could undermine accountability. For example, OpenAI could face liability given the Hugging Face incident, but Hugging Face being bought up by Nvidia means that we’re unlikely to see it file a lawsuit over this — given Nvidia’s strong incentive to see OpenAI continue full speed ahead.

4. As AI tools dramatically change the landscape of cybersecurity risks and hacks, all businesses should be doubling down on having core security protections in place. Firms that fail to invest in adequate data security measures or fix known vulnerabilities can also be breaking the law. A recent analysis showed that around 1/3 of Fortune 100 companies do not even have a way to notify them about security issues. During my
@FTC
tenure, we sued firms for poor data security practices and held CEOs liable when they were personally responsible.

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/dozens-of-americas-largest-companies-have-no-simple-way-to-report-security-flaws/

https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/10/ftc-takes-action-against-drizly-its-ceo-james-cory-rellas-security-failures-exposed-data-25-million

5. As policymakers consider new legal regimes, we should be looking to lessons from prior efforts to govern major sectors, such as banking and other networks, platforms, and utilities. Tools like structural separations, nondiscrimination, and supervision could be key, and there’s a rich history of what works and what doesn’t. But we can and must pursue any new efforts alongside enforcing existing laws.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Since it can be hard to believe that political and corporate elites would actively give up on our shared future on this singular planet, we made a short film so folks can hear from the end timers and judge for themselves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor: the future according to end times fascism

In a new video, Klein and Taylor outline a ominous evolution taking shape on the far right – and how to stay loyal to this planet and each other

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C. Pineda @crispy404.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

youtu.be/5GDKpDkieh0?... An enlightening discussion about how technologies and political ideologies intersect and accelerate apocalyptic agendas. Naomi Klein's books are highly recommended.

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Is the End of the World Now on the Table? | The Interview

YouTube video by The Interview

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C. Pineda @crispy404.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Not that surprised because it has been a race towards doom.

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I grew up in the Philippines and I am glad that the communities are fighting back and advocating for themselves. We are actively encouraging people to voice out against the Pax Silica agreement with the US because its currently forced on the communities.

It was a tough read but it is so necessary because what you've read becomes a voice of reason at the back of your head. Makes you think twice when you attempt to use technologies and design systems. It also makes you angry whenever you hear and read the AI hyperscaling that is going on nowadays.

This book is highly recommended for anyone who wanted to understand AI beyond the hype, for those who are studying the subject per se and for those who are asking the questions about AI's impact to the society. (7/7) #booksky

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The book also asks the 3 most important questions for anyone who studies AI and designs AI systems and pipelines: 1. Whom these systems serve? 2. What are the political economies of their construction? 3. What are the wider planetary consequences? (6/7)

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that the current hype around AI is exaggerated and used as an excuse for more nefarious means in order to maintain hegemonies, such as the US hegemony. (5/7)

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that absorb and produce knowledge independently of its creators) which is the common narrative amongst tech CEO's. It is an eye opening read and the book presents high level of scholarship which also draws on multiple studies that show... (4/7)

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as a system that posits "enchanted determinism" which gives rise to tech utopianism and tech dystopianism and as an ideology of Cartesian dualism (the fantasy that AI systems are disembodied brains... (3/7)

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This book specifies and expands the understanding of artificial intelligence as a concept, an extractive planetary level of compute, as a method of "human fracking" (treating human beings as a walking talking bag of data points to be extracted and exploited)... (2/7)

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/08/2026

Read Kate Crawford's Atlas of AI as a companion book for my major subject in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (TM358) last academic term. (1/7)

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Sending this out to whoever needs to see it: It's okay if you read slowly, there's no great victory in being able to read quickly, everyone kind of has their own reading speed, and that's perfectly fine. I'm just really happy you're reading. I hope it gives you joy at any pace. Thank you!

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C. Pineda @crispy404.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

My family couldn't afford one because it was so expensive back then in the Philippines. But a couple who lives next door have their own encyclopedia. Whenever we come over, I promptly ask to have a browse in their set. I make sure to spend some good time there. I also do this in the school library.

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C. Pineda @crispy404.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Reading up on AI companies, specifically Anthropic, buying books by the pallet, especially the rare ones. And then do the most horrible form of cultural murder by chopping off book spines, scan the pages then ditch them. Utmost disrespect to the humanity and the trees that made up its pages.

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C. Pineda @crispy404.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Is it? I may have lost count there.😅 Still, we can all agree that what Homer wrote thousands of years ago still rocks our world, in 2026.

C. Pineda @crispy404.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

If there is any true winner here, that will be Homer. It has been more than 2000 years and yet, we are still talking about his work. 😅

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The Open University @openuniversity.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

We know you're having trouble accessing StudentHome to view results. We're fixing it fast! Updates at 12:00. More info: status.open.ac.uk

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C. Pineda @crispy404.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Okay, results confirmed for the 2 modules. It's a distinction and a pass. Yay. ✨ #openuniversity #resultsday

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C. Pineda @crispy404.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I think I have a glimpse of my results but it looks like the Student Home has degraded performance at the moment due to heavy traffic. Oh well. Guess I'm not the only one anxiously waiting for their results. 😅 Sending good luck to everyone at @openuniversity.bsky.social

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C. Pineda @crispy404.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Tomorrow's Results Day at @openuniversity.bsky.social Waiting for my results in my two modules - TM358 (Machine Learning and AI) and TM354 (Software Engineering). I am just as anxious as the other students and I must say, I have that ball in my throat for a few days now. LOL

C. Pineda @crispy404.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Ever since I studied Computing and IT, I consumed more philosophy material than ever before. Jared Henderson's philosophy channel comes highly recommended. Here's an episode discussing the new Luddites. youtu.be/vhYS1diXZMM?...

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The Revolt Against Technology

YouTube video by Jared Henderson

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C. Pineda @crispy404.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Government should enable legislation that penalizes these companies and the harms they have done to erode privacy rights, attention spans, cognition and democratic processes. If these companies could not comply, then kick them out of our digital spaces.

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C. Pineda @crispy404.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

This is furthering mass surveillance and invasion of privacy rights. Why penalize the users when you can penalize social media companies like X and Meta for dishing out manipulative algorithms, harvesting data from users, enabling disinformation and misinformation and encouraging riots.

C. Pineda @crispy404.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

It is indeed concerning. I just dont understand how Royal Society is still not acting.

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C. Pineda @crispy404.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

X, as a platform should be banned and dismantled. Far right and folks with extreme and violent nationalist ideas should be deplatformed. What Musk and other figures like Yaxley-Lennon is basically enabling domestic terrorism.

C. Pineda @crispy404.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The only update I have seen was after a meeting in March 2025, the Royal Society did not expel Elon. But with things going on in Belfast atm, with Musk and Yaxley-Lennon goading the far-right, Royal Society should re-consider their position. The man is just contributing to chaos, not progress.