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"This was not a commitment to make AI safe for humanity. Rather, it was a commitment to collectively tell the public that the Masters of the Universe can take care of this themselves, without regulation." @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/09/30/i...

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In the "Unites States" of "Super Intelligence," "Issues Are Remediated" - emptywheel

Once you realize Trump's morally binding AI code doesn't even spell "United States" properly, the whole sham looks even more ominous.

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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 20h

"This interviewee has already said that he found the work to be fun, because staying up late with your buddies, working toward a common goal, is fun. Now he agrees calmly, indeed casually, that yes, he has been taking part in a genocide." @mashagessen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/o...

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Opinion | There Is a Word So Powerful It Need Be Spoken Only Once (Gift Article)

The film that makes a powerful statement without ever raising its voice.

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Kristin Du Mez @kkdumez.bsky.social · 23h

Oh yes, I’m curious about U2’s possible early connections to the Shepherding Movement too. Have you come across any rung on that?

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Leah Payne @drleahpayne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Also got to catch with w/ @daviddark.bsky.social & @jewlyhight.bsky.social & @chrishauser and the Ashworth fam ❤️

Molly Nicholas, Andi Ashworth, Charlie Peacock, Mark Nicholas

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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026

Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And I raise that bc it LOOKS like someone tried to put electoral considerations above fascist ravenous for a few weeks and the fascists made clear they would not stand by it. We REALLY underestimate the extent to which Trump is terrified of his own fascists.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think this head fake deserves more interest, not least for the way it followed meat packers' concerns abt staffing. The working hypothesis is: GOP candidates: Call off the dogs!! Markwayne: Okay Daily Wire: The fascism has been slowed!! Fascists: MOAR FASCISM!!! Markwayne: Just kidding

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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"The illusion of speed and urgency promulgated by the tech companies is also a ploy to misdirect both policymakers and the public. Unfortunately, it sometimes works." @timnitgebru.blacksky.app & @emilymbender.bsky.social www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1...

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Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype

Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.

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gurschecomedy.bsky.social @gurschecomedy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Generally, technical fields, mostly computer related, anywhere people are trying to “build solutions” Eg wind farm turbine blades are notoriously difficult to recycle == we’ll fix it in the next iteration Eg 2 Nuclear waste dumped in the ocean, now the barrels are leaking Eg 3 AI hacks govt sites

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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“In tech,” is doing some interesting work here. There is no tech world anymore than there’s a business world. There’s just one world which includes our tools (tech) & our trades (business).

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm afraid the Doomer discourse has persisted for another week (UN "AI" briefing, etc) so in case you missed this when we first put it out earlier in this bananas news cycle, I'm reposting it: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social and @deccamuldowney.bsky.social

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What To Read To Stay Grounded Amidst AI Doomerism

Our recommendations for the anxious and perplexed By: Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna and Decca Muldowney There’s a subculture within the “AI” industry that...

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Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype

Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.

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Gerardo Martí @gerardomarti.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ricoeur also speaks of "the capacity of language to open up new worlds" & "a disclosure of unprecedented worlds, an opening on to other possible worlds which transcend the established limits of our actual world." Application is LLMs, masked as ordinary speech, creating "new worlds," drawing us in.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In any attempt to say, “this is my best approximation of the real,” we’re responsible for that arrangement. *We’re* responsible. Not AI. If we give that responsibility—in its fullest, most transparent sense—up… well, why would anyone want to? That responsibility is the gift we’ve been given.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My friend Jeff Allred turned me toward Marianne Moore’s poem “Poetry,” in which she defines it as “imaginary gardens with real toads in them.” I use that in my nonfiction classes. “Real toads”: facts; “imaginary gardens” speaks to the way we arrange them, in an essay or a scientific article.

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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"There are people...whose accounts show a Blue Check who are not paying for a Premium membership...This fine has nothing to do with censorship. It has to do with fraud & transparency...DOJ has joined Xitter to defend Elon’s fraudulent ways." @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/09/27/d...

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DOJ Intervenes in EU to Help Elon Musk Defraud Users - emptywheel

DOJ is now colluding with Elon Musk in fraud, all to export far right extremism into the EU.

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lone gunman #3 - smallerdemon @smallerdemon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A double holy shit was that I just remembered Christine's friend's name was Tamsen. Damn. I met another Tamsen later in my life who was a close friend (RIP - lost in 2020 to cancer). It never dawned on me until just today that I knew another Tamsen.

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Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

He might've been. This was before the time that I knew Jim, but we may have talked about it later. I'm pretty sure he was at MTSU around then. But I can't say for sure, alas.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My foreign policy views are simple. I think we should be the first among equals to enforce the international law we helped build. Thanks, @ezraklein.bsky.social, for having me on the show.

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Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I was at that show!

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Toby Leonard @tntoby.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I camped overnight at the green hills Sound Shop for that ticket! wish i still had it.

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lone gunman #3 - smallerdemon @smallerdemon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I do not know of Heather's movements through time. Holy shit, my mind was blocking that I managed the Capri. In my head I went from Plaza to the Brentwood.

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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is the age! daviddark.substack.com/p/i-will-alw...

Ticket stub from November 1987. U2 playing Middle Tennessee State University

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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yes. I of course thought of you when I mentioned the Capri Twin (where we met). Do you know what's become of Heather Brown? I found her wonderful.

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lone gunman #3 - smallerdemon @smallerdemon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Damn. I had to look up the time period context based on the movies released that year (Beverly Hills Cop II, Moonstruck, The Untouchables). I was definitely in Nashville during this period, and saw Untouchables at the theater in Murfreesboro with a big gathering including Ray and Heather Brown.

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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is the age! daviddark.substack.com/p/i-will-alw...

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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hammurabi, the only guy in history who could credibly say "I am the code"

A stele containing the text of the Code of Hammurabi in the Louvre

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m not religious myself but I think of my friend @daviddark.bsky.social, who has written: “there are so many ways to hate god.” Sending students mixed messages in an age of AI about originality, giving credit, the joy of finding one’s own words—that seems to me at odds with any spirit of creations.

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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"We’re at a moment of Trump’s own making where both the bases of US power — its empire’s roots in the Middle East — and his own family — with Crown Prince Bonesaw’s enormous investments in Trump’s family, may collapse." @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/09/22/a...

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A Player To Be Named Later - emptywheel

It turns out Maggie Haberman is not the only storyteller who tells Trump what he wants to hear; so does Gary Player's caddy!

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

federal immigration agents beat up a US citizen in Evanston on Sunday morning and left him lying in the street or as Kavanaugh would put it, he experienced as "brief investigative stop" ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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Brett Kavanaugh’s Imaginary Immigration Stops Opinion Gets More Embarrassing Every Day

The fact that ICE officers do not allow wrongfully detained people to “promptly go free” is a surprise to only one man in America.

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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Triangle Shirtwaist factory of White Houses. bsky.app/profile/carl...

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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Right-wing proponents of school vouchers are very upset that Republican Texas State Rep. Gary VanDeaver, who opposed vouchers and recently resigned from the lege, is now executive director of the Texas Association of School Boards. Among them is Monty Bennett, who helped create a TASB alternative.

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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"This is not just a scandalous failure on Donny’s part...It’s a scandalous lack of vetting at DOD, to entrust a key national security investment with a guy being bribed by Putin’s closest cronies." @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/09/19/p...

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Putin's Bagman Bought a Party for DOD Drone Contractor Don Jr - emptywheel

At the same time Don Jr was hitting it off with his benefactor Umar Kremlev. DOD was awarding a company partially owned by him a big natsec critical contract.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I really feel like refusing to honor commitments made to Crown Prince Bonesaw will have repercussions that are different, in kind, from refusing to honor commitments to Europe. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...

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Trump Gets Caught in a Dilemma Over a Saudi Plea for Military Help

The president vacillated but decided on Sunday not to join Saudi Arabia, for now, in joint strikes against the Houthis in Yemen. But he also needs the kingdom’s cooperation in his war against Iran.

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jaypea @jaypea.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As @daviddark.bsky.social tells us, there are so many ways to love God.

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brewcityeric.bsky.social @brewcityeric.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Well is sound bad when you say it like THAT

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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Harmeet’s people literally responded to that denial of an arrest warrant, first, by riling up a violent mob, then lying about what the Eighth Circuit said, then by making shit up, and during it all, by illegally spying on journalists." @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/09/17/h...

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Harmeet Dhillon Dialed Up Threats against Douglas Micko - emptywheel

Harmeet Dhillon's attacks on Magistrate Judge Douglas Micko led directly to the predictable far right mob which led to the predictable death threats.

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