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Daniel @dmessham.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Reminds me of the time I got in an argument with someone about what toppings go on a taco only to learn that they are into this shit

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/10/2026

Going to be honest this might be my favourite headline of the AI bubble

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🦇 Murphy @mjosmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yikes! Hydration processes are taught in chemistry too! I even demo'd a lab as an adjunct chemistry prof where we heated gypsum to produce anhydrite.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sorry, but some people are so bad at sex they are an extinction level event.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026

Cannot insist you listen to this enough, this conversation condenses everything going on with AI and its wider economic effects tightly. One of the best in the show’s history.

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404 Media @404media.co · 23/09/2026

Citizens showed up to the city council meeting with plans to let city leaders know how they felt about the city’s use of Flock. But Springfield mayor Jeff Schrag moved to prevent public comment on Flock. Then, arrests happened, @mjgault.bsky.social reports. Story: www.404media.co/woman-arrest...

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rad uncle @raduncle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"how dare you call us mixed race!!", shout the Anglo-Saxons

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 22/09/2026

Buffer is far and away the best social media tool but it has also completely broken twice in the last month, I really do not know what's happening with modern software but it's genuinely distressing

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Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Not to be all "My Wife" but my wife works in this field on the government side, and every time somebody says that the kids are being taken away for no reason or for some politically charged reason I really challenge you to stop and think about whether that's the whole story

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Nutlick continues to lie, the reason a lot of countries will not take US beef is because of the artificial growth hormones and the feed additives.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It seems very clear that these people are broadly INcurious about the world, they see the edifice of scholarship not as parallel explorations of important topics but as a load of bricks they can dump on the head of anyone who starts asking too many annoying questions

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 19/09/2026

An interesting thing about AI, that we've classified under everything from hallucinations, to slop, psychosis, and unaccountability, is that it is creating a virtual world of appearances without content. The superficial seeming of things, and people acting on them as such, with no there there.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 17/09/2026

being very professional in my latest monologue

Shut the fuck up! You build cloud software! You are in full control of what gets built or not! Just because you don’t fully understand how Large Language Models make their decisions doesn’t mean that they’re “out of control” or “have their own intentions,” and your unwillingness to explain the difference and further fuel anthropomorphism only makes me more certain that you need to shut your fucking mouth.

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 17/09/2026

The thing about the AI doomsday warnings from the various senior execs at OpenAI/Anthropic/Google etc is: Warning about it doesn't redeem you or diminish your responsibility. If the catastrophe actually happens, you will be *more* morally culpable, because you knew the risk and did it anyway.

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Cristian Ramirez @cristianramirez.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Taylor doing the bit, but sincerely

Screen shot of a social media interaction.
OP: Can't wait to gamble today. Literally shaking. That's called dedication.
7:29 AM • 30 Nov 22

Replying to @sloprules
That's called an addiction
8:56 AM • 30 Nov 22

OP: Buddy, I've been gambling everyday for 20+ years. It's all I think about and I still haven't gotten addicted so doubt it's happening.

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WidowsPique 🇨🇦 @widowspique.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

As sad and sick as it is, the Freudian slip is still a wee bit funny. Kash Patel: "I’ve already said hundreds of times that I don’t have sex with animals. Now I feel like I’m beating a dead horse.”

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Blubber @blubberblobber.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I stand corrected

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

We can no longer look away from The Chart if we are to defeat the batshit billionaire rationalist sex cult running the American AI industry. I’m so sorry you all had to find out like this. knowyourmeme.com/sensitive/me...

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Sandy-O @sandy-o.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I wasn't aware of the sex cult part, but this piece by Dr. Emil Torres is eye opening, for anyone who hasn't read it yet.

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The ASI Extinction Debate Is the Opposite of What You Think

The media needs to wake up, fast. (3,100 words.)

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🫶🏻Layla🫶🏻 @laylabelle3.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It’s not 1950 and I hope you get your ass beat. Beyond beat!!!

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

Erin Redwing
@realizingerin
I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 14/09/2026

If I see Trump's poop in a chair, I am blaming you personally and sending you my therapy bills.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's very easy to wear a suit and tie in any major city, even if the aesthetic has mostly disappeared from daily life, because there are people outside wearing pink tutus with Army boots. As usual, your liberation is connected to other people's liberation.

Bobby Mars on Twitter writes: "If you wear a collared shirt and nice shoes out to the bar in the rust belt, multiple people will ask you if you just came from a wedding. Aesthetic standards for men’s attire are horrendously low"

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 13/09/2026

None of the stuff about “AI slowdown” actually explains what that means or what’s being slowed down. Anthropic’s blog about it says they’ll still train new models. I guess if it’s a “slowdown” maybe that’s how hyperscalers could reconcile with letting them out of compute deals?

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It is always a pleasure to get to teach researchers about systems intergration. System 1 and System 2 may both be very well designed, excellent controls, work great. When you put them together to create System 3, you must check everything again because they might argue.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026

Essay from 2023 that I had not seen until now. “Pretending that AI poses an existential threat only elevates the status of the people closest to AI and suggests easier rules they’d love to play by. This is not a mistake society can afford to make.”

undark.org

AI Creators Want Us to Believe AI Is an Existential Threat. Why?

Opinion | A public fixation on extinction from AI could empower industry insiders and distract from AI’s more immediate harms.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"you're gonna get left behind if you don't start using ai" oh thank god, please leave me behind, i'm good over here, i do not want to go to there

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 09/09/2026

I will say it is funny watching OpenAI boast about solving a complex math problem using millions of dollars of compute (and someone else’s work) all while remaining unable to solve the most obvious math problem (how to make their services profitable)

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Felgraf @felgraf.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Even within their own field, where they're intensely qualified, it really feels like "If I were an evil bastard, how would I fuck this up/abuse this/etc" is--genuinely difficult for people?

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

if it took you 5 seconds of contemplation to think of an alternative you should take at least another 5-10 to at least consider the possibility that it at least crossed the minds of 1 or 2 of the people who dedicate their lives and research careers to dealing with the problems we post about on here

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Daniel @dmessham.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The water in the south saskatchwan moves to fast to swim in

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/09/2026

This Jacob Coxon thing is weird. He worked at Anthropic for six weeks and OpenAI for nearly three years. He’s doing a whole media tour without any real statements about what it is he’s scared of other than vague references to recursive self improvement, a theoretical ai that teaches itself.

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Since its foundation in 1824 the bravery of Royal National Lifeboat Institution volunteers has saved more than 146,700 lives at sea. Hundreds of those volunteers have died attempting to save others. They are the best of us.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/09/2026

For a certain kind of white man, there is no fear more primal than the fear that the people they have abused will gain power and treat them the same way.

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