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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 22h

Can’t make it up: Anthropic warns of ‘existential risks to humanity’ in IPO prospectus as.ft.com/r/21e300e9-e...

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Anthropic warns of ‘existential risks to humanity’ in IPO prospectus

Long-awaited S1 filing reports Claude maker lost $8bn last year on $4.6bn in revenue

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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There are more Cornell frat boys accused of raping one woman than there are trans athletes competing in all of NCAA sports.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Once again, I gotta say: you cannot treat anything you’re feeding into an AI as anonymous. There are enormous ethics implications for, e.g. referees who are clearly uploading others’ unpublished papers without consent, let alone health care professionals or law enforcement

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Well, well, well - if it isn’t the consequences of our own actions. It would appear that migrants are not, in fact, the fiscal drain we’ve been told they are by years if we go by the £4bn to £6.5bn shortfall that’s been caused by the precipitous drop in numbers under this government. Funny that.

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Noel Healy @drnoelhealy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The assault on US universities didn't start in 2025. Our new paper traces the decades of corporate capture that made it possible, and why climate research is a primary target. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 28/09/2026

really nice FT Big Read today on the biggest shake-up in financial markets that not enough people know about: www.ft.com/content/00f9...

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AI hyperscalers are transforming debt

The sector’s huge capital needs are forcing companies and countries to rethink how they borrow money

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yeah, about that "giant wave of accountability stories about the Trump era." Either you can get angry that everyone criticizes you for endlessly normalizing the authoritarianism & corruption, or you can do "the fascists & their techbro collaborators are dapper dressers." But you have to choose.

Eric Lipton post 1/12/2025 about the "giant wave of accountability stories about the new Trump era" that the NYT was going to write

1/14/25: "He may be a far right authoritarian, a rapist, and white supremacist, and soon he'll be in charge of the largest bureaucracy and military in the world, but you have to admit, he's very dapper and ties a nice half Windsor" (in re: NYT Hegseth fashion puff piece)

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Prof Maja Korica @drkorica.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

These people cater solely and exclusively to the already rich and actively work against anyone else's wellbeing. Classist cruelty is the point.

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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 22/09/2026

A Kremlin-backed fintech company used old-fashioned money laundering to bypass western sanctions and funnel almost $7bn through major international banks, including Standard Chartered, Citigroup and Deutsche Bank. Read today's excusive investigation 👉 ft.trib.al/POYpdNe

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.

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Prof Maja Korica @drkorica.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is the current weather forecast to the end of the month in Paris. We are in September. I’ve been wearing summer clothes all month. This is absolutely NOT normal

Shows screenshot of weather forecast for Paris with highs of 24-27 degrees Celsius on average

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is what a rigged economy looks like.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"According to B'Tselem, the assault on Palestinians is 'governed by a coherent organising logic' and comprises five 'interwoven domains of action': violence and intimidation, movement restrictions, economic strangulation, social and political destruction, and ethnic cleansing."

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Israel accused of trying to ‘eliminate’ living conditions for Palestinians in West Bank

Report by Israeli human rights group says systematic and broad assault being waged on conditions required for Palestinians’ existence

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Prof Maja Korica @drkorica.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Absolute classic. Also gave us one of the best covers, so double bonus of joy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPU8...

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Ben Howard covers Call Me Maybe in the Live Lounge

YouTube video by BBC Radio 1

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 19/09/2026

Fascinating and sad. Tech capital enables the type of self-actualization and cultural knowledge for elites at the very same time as it destroys the possibility of achieving any of that for the masses. www.wsj.com/business/spa...

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The SpaceX IPO Gave This Couple License to Chase Their Dreams

They quit their jobs and budgeted $25,000 a month for a year of fun.

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I really hate the framing of these stories as "an AI agent broke out and hacked something." No, an inadequate sandbox meant that a powerful and unpredictable computer program was set loose on the open internet by the company that designed it. The agency isn't with the "AI agent", it's with the firm

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...

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Prof Maja Korica @drkorica.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Profits for me, costs for thee…

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Prof Maja Korica @drkorica.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Because of their isolationist exceptionalism: business elites work to loosen all ties with societies, minimising any obligations, while ALSO believing that only they can make societies better, and their views inevitably count more. Dangerous delusions furthered by dangerous amounts of wealth.

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

God I hate this 'people who create wealth' nonsense. Let's see how much wealth we have in a society without teachers, nurses etc......

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

I have not seen NAZA, but the facts outlined here have been verified and in the public record for over 2 years: Initial reporting from April 2024: www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-... @nytimes.com re-reporting from December: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/w...

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‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza

The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local C...

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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Oh, the @nytimes.com is writing about the class ceiling! Surely they will have cited and talked to Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison who wrote about this, oh, 8 ish years ago, and not an economist who rediscovered the now obvious but published it in Journal of Econowhatever! Oh, wait.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026

What on earth is happening?

This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 18/09/2026

Damn. @tobyn.bsky.social has produced the most detailed map of Big AI’s incestuous relationships I’ve seen so far. And it’s interactive! www.ft.com/content/8475...

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I have been summoned by the offshore finance Bat Signal! You say POTUS is squirreling away his illegal spoils from pillaging Venezuela in a Qatar account? Perfect time for an Offshore Fun Fact o' the Day: The biggest users of "tax havens" come from countries that don't impose tax on individuals.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

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Robert Armstrong @robarmstrong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

High valuations are sustained by trust; trust is built on accountabulity; but AI companies won't hold themselves accountable as.ft.com/r/b63376a8-1...

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 17/09/2026

🇨🇦PM Carney's speech to the 🇪🇺Parliament starting now, with an intro by speaker Metsola pointing out that both 🇨🇦&🇪🇺 are unions. "Our friendship is built on the same udnerstandig that united Canadians in 1867 and Europeans in 1951 – that we are always stronger when we work together" Two confederations

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026

More than any higher ed development in recent memory, institutional subsidies for AI at R1 universities prove that austerity is a choice. It is not “too expensive” to invest in a humanities research infrastructure; rather, it is a choice that R1 universities make not to & subsidize AI instead.

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Prof Maja Korica @drkorica.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

As I discuss in my book, to the extent business elites are aligned today as a “class”, it is chiefly around minimising demands or constraints placed on them by rest of society, which they want to fully enjoy but only on their terms. A lethal combo of exceptionalism & control. That’s why we’re here.

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 17/09/2026

It was confirmed yesterday that the centre left coalition won the election in Sweden As predicted, with the far right performing poorly, coverage has almost entirely vanished from international media

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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Microsoft just got $18.7 BILLION in federal tax breaks. A RECORD for one company in one year. Yet they’re laying off workers and investing stock buybacks. The system is rigged for THEM not us.

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Prof Maja Korica @drkorica.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In beautiful Ireland, listening to the beautiful music of Beoga, Sheeran’s former backing band. As I write in my book, a defining characteristic of elites is isolation, including from societal norms and other people’s lived realities. A useful explainer for that man’s “both sides” spinelessness.

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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🇺🇸 Sixteen of America's 20 biggest political donors are backing Republicans this midterm cycle, an FT analysis finds -- even as the GOP trails in the polls The outlier: George Soros, still the top Democratic money man FT www.ft.com/content/2285...

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US billionaires line up to bankroll Republicans’ election push

Ultra-wealthy overwhelmingly back Donald Trump’s party over Democrats as money floods into midterms race

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Prof Maja Korica @drkorica.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“Labs face significant liability if their models cause harm, so they have a strong incentive to prevent this as well” So says Mark Zuckerberg, after many billions of dollars in fines for harm caused by his products. How he can say this with a straight face is beyond me. www.ft.com/content/2e20...

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Nvidia and Meta bosses reject efforts to co-ordinate AI slowdown

Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg distance themselves from safety proposals from leaders of OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceX

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

80% of Reform’s funding comes from two crypto billionaires. Reform has received £123.6m since 2019. £61m from Christopher Harborne living in Thailand, mentioned several times in Panama Papers. £44m from Ben Delo, recent returnee from Hong Kong, criminal conviction in the US.

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BREAKING: 80% of Reform’s funding comes from two crypto billionaires

“If that isn't a massive corruption risk I don't know what is.”

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A reminder that Delo previously pled guilty in the US to violating money laundering protections and agreed to pay a $10 million fine for "willfully” breaking the law with his BitMex platform, which was described as "in effect a money laundering platform.” This is who owns Farage now

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Prof Maja Korica @drkorica.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Indeed. Want to do free labour for OpenAi, Anthropic, Microsoft and the gang because AI skills are important to you? Please go right ahead! That’s not the role of universities.

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...

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LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby

Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 05/09/2026

Not just men TBF, looks like a woman pulling her hair. Dreadful people.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Uber just announced it will lay off 10% of its workforce, or around 3,300 workers. Last year, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi made $35M — 360 times his median employee's pay — and announced a $20B stock buyback program to further enrich shareholders and himself. Textbook corporate greed.

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