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drawingtheline.bsky.social @drawingtheline.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Many interesting points raised in this lecture that are still valid in late 2026. For instance: why don’t we talk about “progress" anymore, only about “innovation”? www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iX-...

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The Turing Lectures: Can we live with AI?

YouTube video by The Alan Turing Institute

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drawingtheline.bsky.social @drawingtheline.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Novara Media is unbelievably disappointing on this.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We need to rephrase the whole discussion in terms of hazardous products, instead of "minds". And then we need to make sure that there's liability. A model hacks someone? Put a C-suite guy in jail. A model produces sexual harassment material? Put a C-suite guy in jail. Watch how fast things get safe

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drawingtheline.bsky.social @drawingtheline.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I felt relief when I watched this video. While in the UK and everywhere else states and businesses in all sectors are buying more and more into the AI madness and its propaganda, we desperately need people to explain the political economy of AI. Thank you for talking about it in these terms.

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drawingtheline.bsky.social @drawingtheline.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Congratulations and happy book birthday! 💐 I bought the audiobook this afternoon and I can’t wait to dive into it

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS

A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...

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drawingtheline.bsky.social @drawingtheline.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“The problem is that we have made the human conversation the expensive option and the machine conversation free, and we are surprised at what researchers, responding rationally, then choose.” "What is it that we are all here together to do, again?"

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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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drawingtheline.bsky.social @drawingtheline.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yeah, and this is the future of Snap: "The backlash has grown so much that many owners of the “pervert glasses” have become too afraid to use them in public, a PR disaster for what once was an accessory that was flying off the shelves." futurism.com/future-socie...

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drawingtheline.bsky.social @drawingtheline.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

How to style a pair of pervert glasses so people can see you from a mile.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to “craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."

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New Learning Outcomes Announced | English

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Creators' Rights Alliance @creatorsrights.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Anyone who has loved a film, a book, a portrait or a song knows that if the people working in the creative industries don't earn enough to keep the industry going, the country stands to lose a lot more than income...

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drawingtheline.bsky.social @drawingtheline.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

" What if, instead of relying on notifications and scrolling, we returned to bookmarking our favorite news sites and reading their homepages each morning?" "It wasn’t long ago that these were standard practices… A mass return to longer, slower, more reflective reading is possible"

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drawingtheline.bsky.social @drawingtheline.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Wonderful book, definitely in my top ten for non fiction this year.

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drawingtheline.bsky.social @drawingtheline.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

They were talking about this here on Sunday: www.techpolicy.press/podcast/ one of the panelists seemed to think that caressing Trump’s ego with the prospect of a Nobel price may focus his attention...

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The Podcast

Tech Policy Press is a nonprofit media and community venture intended to provoke new ideas, debate and discussion at the intersection of technology and democracy. We publish opinion and analysis.

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“Please keep betting the global economy on AI, that will surely work just fine for everyone”

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"As the cognitive scientist Hagen Blix and machine learning researcher Ingeborg Glimmer wrote in their 2025 book “Why We Fear AI”: “If the stakes are as high as the very survival of humanity..." theintercept.com/2026/09/14/a...

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Tech CEOs’ Doomsaying Is a Distraction from Real, Existing Harms of AI

The binary between AI apocalypse and AI redemption asks us to ignore data centers and AI war machines — all as tech executives get incredibly rich.

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drawingtheline.bsky.social @drawingtheline.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"It’s some feat to be out-manoeuvred by a party facing multiple parliamentary and police investigations, but Labour has somehow pulled it off." Embarrassing.

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drawingtheline.bsky.social @drawingtheline.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The government betrayed the trust of the British people in ways that will never be forgotten or forgiven. @vickyfoxcroftmp.bsky.social, this is a national embarrassment.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

What I don't understand about Rayner's comments on banning crypto donations is, once more, that these *are not* donations in crypto, they're donations from crypto billionaires The donations aren't in crypto because pretty much nobody does anything in crypto (except money launders, drug dealers etc)

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

But what Dario can't recognize is that his morals and his self-interest are not (and cannot be) aligned. If the risks from the AI labs are that serious, then we cannot rely on the AI developers to solve them. We should take Dario JUST SERIOUSLY ENOUGH to stop entrusting him with so much power.

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 13/09/2026

Any political party which tells you money doesn’t buy influence is either lying to you or has never attended a political fundraiser. Currency is access- and that’s for everyone. My opener to Sunday with Lewis Goodall @lbc.co.uk this morning. youtu.be/uLMuirAe--I?...

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'This is the Americanisation of British politics' | Lewis Goodall

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Foxglove Legal @foxglovelegal.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Yet more evidence that claims about the benefits Palantir provides to the NHS just don't hold water. A former minister who once defended them has now called for a review. Important investigation from @lbc.co.uk www.lbc.co.uk/article/form...

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Former Labour health minister calls for 'forensic' review of £330m NHS contract with American tech giant Palantir | LBC

LBC found that half of the 16 NHS trusts in England using Palantir’s Outpatient Care Co-ordination Solution saw their backlogs rise between the national rollout of the technology in April 2024 and Jun...

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

British democracy is being bought by crypto billionaires We need to do something to stop it - urgently www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

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Pull The Plug @pulltheplug-ai.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We’re joining the People vs Palantir England day of action! ✊ On Thursday 1st October NHS patients, health workers and activists across England are taking action to demand that Palantir’s NHS contract is scrapped. Find your nearest local protest here: www.amnesty.org.uk/people-vs-pa...

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People vs Palantir - International Day of Action

On Thursday 1st October, patients, NHS workers and activists across England are taking action to say NO to Palantir in our NHS. Join a local action near you!

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tante @tante.cc · 09/09/2026

Apple couldn't leave the stalkerware market to Meta with their Pervert Glasses. Gonna be fun to see the fanboys twist into knots arguing that this is good akschually.

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drawingtheline.bsky.social @drawingtheline.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Their watch is always listening, but they are not. The hate towards intrusive spy-ware is growing at pace, fuelled by the hate towards data centres, internet slop and the simple presence of the stupid AI icon popping up everywhere. They have no idea what we want and stopped caring a long time ago.

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drawingtheline.bsky.social @drawingtheline.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

farage, johnson, rees-mogg and many acompanying profanities colour the mental images of any time spent dealing with a parcel stuck at custom.

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drawingtheline.bsky.social @drawingtheline.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Reading @gilduran.com’s book, it's notable that all the men he describes have in common a childhood without warmth. Intellectual achievements are the only tools to break through parental neglect and a narcissistic hideout from peer’s bulling. Alpha Schools want everyone’s childhood to be like that.

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drawingtheline.bsky.social @drawingtheline.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I knew you’d love it! I hope many more people will pick it up, there aren’t many books on AI that look at it quite through the same material/capitalist angle.

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drawingtheline.bsky.social @drawingtheline.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I thought the way you tell this story was incredibly interesting. Not my type of music, but I loved listening to it. I hope you’re considering publishing more podcasts where you discuss your research. PS: I couldn’t bring myself to sing along — sorry! But it hit home nonetheless.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

BREAKING: The union of Starbucks workers is officially calling for a boycott of the chain. @sbworkersunited.org has over 12,000 unionized baristas, and they're calling on customers to stop visiting Starbucks until they get a fair union contract.

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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz @ostrichson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My current retirement plant is to wait a few years, pray for climate change to cause day-long internet outages, and charge people thousands of dollars for... thinking. I'll be like the village elder. People will come to me and ask what to eat, what movies to watch, where to travel. I'm gonna be rich

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drawingtheline.bsky.social @drawingtheline.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Oh, Look at that cover! Very beautiful, now I wish I had this edition 🥲 Anyway, a brilliant read - no matter the packaging!

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

There it is. While you struggle to afford groceries, or find any that are edible, and pay thousands more every year in gas, rent, utilities, childcare, and healthcare, they are laughing all the way to the bank.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

is always good for the newsroom when a business exec at a publication insists on blogging

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Dependency is the goal.

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drawingtheline.bsky.social @drawingtheline.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

“The reality of data centres is imminent." This sort of determinism has had its day.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The craziest thing about all this is that U.K. universities are being ripped to shreds by cuts and *this* is the hill these academics are keen to die on democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...

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Inside Britain's university crisis

As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

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drawingtheline.bsky.social @drawingtheline.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Yes, @metoffice.gov.uk, people hate AI. If some new algorithm proves to predict the weather more accurately, great, go for it. If you’re just following government's directives to use “AI" at all costs, disguising that as innovation, it's not gonna go down well. www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

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UK public confidence in AI weather forecasts lags behind existing methods, Met Office study finds

New Met Office research, thought to be the first of its kind, identifies a confidence gap between existing forecasting methods and emerging AI techniques, helping inform how future innovations are int...

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drawingtheline.bsky.social @drawingtheline.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

From a brilliant review of "The Rulers", by @ceciliarikap.bsky.social I'm halfway through the book now and love it. Also an invaluable read for anyone who’s trying to explain what role a rhetoric of inevitability plays in the success of intellectual monopolies. blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The better AI gets, the more (and more subtle) AI psychoses we're gonna see, especially among intellectually inclined people. Not because the machines make you insane, but because it's becoming painfully obvious that sanity isn't just an individual-level property, but something social, ...

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