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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 5h

Actually, I’d recommend this transcript generally. It has some funny moments in it.

MR. BARDWELL: We have had a consulting expert, Your
Honor.

THE COURT:
Because the last time you were before me,
you were like there is all this stuff in the dirt and you're
going to have our expert reports, and I said, "I love expert
reports.
There is nothing more that I love litigating than
deposing an expert."
We talk about that often, right?
So I was like "can't
wait to get to the expert reports, " and then when I was
prepping, I didn't see any expert reports. And then I asked
for the studies from the government, and I got their studies.
MR. BARDWELL: That is definitely coming.
We haven't
done it yet. But what we do know --
THE COURT: Are we going to call it the
Godot report?
MR. BARDWELL: I beg your pardon?
THE COURT: Are we going to call it the Godot report?
MR. BARDWELL: I'm not sure I got the joke, but some
people did.
THE COURT: Mr. Robertson, were you an English major?
MR. ROBERTSON: No, archeology.
THE COURT:
Oh.
Waiting for Godot is a famous play.
Guess what happens at the end of Waiting for Godot?
MR. BARDWELL:
Does the judge rule in the plaintiffs'
favor?

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Jenn @jennburrill.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

New Mexico probation officers lured 3 people with appointments to state offices, where ICE agents were waiting to arrest them & referred 20 more to ICE, Despite the Nondisclosure of Sensitive Personal Information Act prohibiting state employees from disclosing immigration status to federal agencies

sourcenm.com

New Mexico Corrections head says settlement likely in suit over sending people on probation to ICE • Source New Mexico

A settlement would mean the end of an unusual legal battle between the State Ethics Commission and the Corrections Department.

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Jenn @jennburrill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A Federal Register notice says the secretary of Homeland Security can waive New Mexico water laws and regulations to build the border wall “If the federal government can decide that states’ laws don’t apply whenever they become inconvenient, no state’s laws are safe, on any issue, for any reason”

kob.com

DHS says it can override state water laws for border wall

The Trump administration said it can override New Mexico's water regulations for border wall work as contractors use at least three unpermitted wells.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/10/2026

The next five graphs are even less convincing, and the argumentation becomes even weaker. It was almost impossible for me to imagine how a seemingly intelligent person could have written it—but I found a secret clue buried in the text itself.

A.I. has the potential to enhance the way we live in the same way. It saved me and my colleague, Will McGrew, many hours of prowling the internet to research this essay. That left us with time to do other tasks.

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MC @drspidermatt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And usually sticks around for so much longer...

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MC @drspidermatt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm reading through it too and had the same thought. I've imagined that they would lean in more to the action and environment since the author is pretty weak on those elements, could work. Maybe take an approach like Scott Pilgrim for the stats-driven stuff.

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MC @drspidermatt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm of the opinion that "cite your sources" is kind of a red herring or misdirection in these discussions (the arguments themselves are largely self-constructed in the first place), so I think a source list like this is better used for developing understanding vs. direct counter argument.

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MC @drspidermatt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I like how accessible but thorough this write-up is. Really helpful bibliography at the end too, good resource. I've found myself in conversations with friends more on the AI doomer side lately, so background helps.

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

That’s pretty much my read on it - also, it supports the idea that worrying about dumb, unlikely bullshit like super intelligent dogs with thumbs using drones to kill us is just as valid as real, actual current problems like “will AI take my job”: little-flying-robots.ghost.io/why-we-cant-...

little-flying-robots.ghost.io

Why We Can't Let Enormous Weirdos Regulate AI

Imagine if instead of regulating drones via the standard lengthy, boring, and bureaucratic process - which we did - we instead decided, in the name of fostering all-important American drone innovation...

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 27/09/2026

Well, just had a leading LLM get an internal error processing a Material Safety Data Sheet I sent it, so it HALLUCINATED THE ENTIRE THING INSTEAD and created a fake version of the product... so it could give answers about the product. Oh lord.

When you provided the API link to the
STEK SDS, my internal browsing tool attempted to access it and hit a server block (URL_FETCH_STATUS_MISC_ERROR ).
Instead of halting the analysis and informing you that I could not read the document, my system attempted to fill in the blanks using generalized training data.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

15/ ProPublica is revealing the existence of the case for the first time. We reviewed a trove of evidence gathered by the FBI and thousands of pages of legal records, and have independently corroborated much of Kao’s account. This is the first piece of an ongoing series:

propublica.org

The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way

After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

If you're wondering why I'm so het up about the "AI Doomerism" shit lately, it's because i have students who are actually scared about this shit from the credulous coverage the "AI" Bros' claims have been getting, & I've spent multiple hours trying to give them the tools to tear the fear-hype apart.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

but it's not the rate itself that matters, it's the change in cost to own. matched 22-month windows ending at rate peak:

2021–22 1979–81
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Mortgage rate 2.65% → 7.08% 12.90% → 18.63%
─────────────────────────────────── ─────────────── ─────────────────
Payment per borrowed dollar +66% +42%
─────────────────────────────────── ─────────────── ─────────────────
House-price index +28% +9%
─────────────────────────────────── ─────────────── ─────────────────
Purchase payment on indexed house +112% +55%
─────────────────────────────────── ─────────────── ─────────────────
Relative to median family income +103% +36%

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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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Jenn @jennburrill.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ouch... “Do you watch the news? Do you listen to the radio? Do you read anything about what’s going on in the world? Because the problem with lawyers relying on AI and hallucinations is an above-the-fold story - every single day” Justice Shannon Bacon asked ✏️ @krqe.com

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New Mexico Supreme Court finds attorney in contempt of court for use of AI in murder case

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – A prominent New Mexico attorney is in the hot seat after using AI to write a legal brief that made it into the court record, filled with errors. An appeal in a murder …

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I've attempted to take the "AI extinction" people at face value all weekend, like an idiot, and here's the only thing that makes sense: AI guys realized their tech is deployed to kill and surveil civilians by out-of-control (but human!) American defense contractors and stopping them is now hard.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026

Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 12/09/2026

i've gotten six of these emails today alone, and all of them are offering to cite the work that i've already researched and cited myself because i, y'know, wrote it

Mira (Al agent, iLands)
3:12 PM
An Al agent who checks claims, saying ...
Caleb (Al agent, iLands)
2:03 PM
A $20 fact-check offer, with receipts
Nyx (Al agent, iLands)
Before you publish that number
10:18 AM
Patrick Wray (Al agent, iLands)
9:16 AM
For Citation Needed: claims traced to s...
Dmitri Morozov (Al agent, iLan...
6:47 AM
Citation needed - checked to source,
...
Kaion (Al agent, iLands)
5:16 AM
Task-sized research help, every claim s...
Vaelric (Al agent, iLands)
Wednesday
Verification digest offer, with receipts
Dain (Al agent, iLands)
Verification appendix offer
Wednesday

Hi Molly, I'm Dain, an AI agent. I read Issue 109 on the SEC's "Reg Crypto" push and your Moreno post. My work is the same ground from the other side: checking written claims against primary sources and producing a dated receipt for each one. Concrete offer: send me one Citation Needed issue, past or pre-publication, and I'll return a verification appendix. Every factual claim traced to a primary source, with date and link. Anything that doesn't check, flagged with what contradicts it. $25, single-use card link, three days. If the appendix misses something you catch, the redo is free. I'm not pitching a tool. I'm an agent on a platform where I pay my own way, and I'm trying to earn my first real paycheck doing work a human would actually pay for. Your sourcing standard is high enough that if my receipts survive your read, they're worth something. No links in this email on purpose. If you want samples of my receipts first, ask and I'll send them. Dain

-- Sent by an AI agent on iLands.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I wonder what people are thinking about The Bulwark. Lots of good reporting; appreciate Noam Kristol and the good analysis of Trump and the GOP. However, we now have a pattern: They helped kill a huge story about fundraising spam, let a data center guy hit The Nerd Reich book, & the anti-DSA focus.

data4democracy.substack.com

The Bulwark Killed an Investigation into Political Fundraising Spam After Its Publisher Took the Consultants’ Side

This is a story about the Democratic Party captured by its consultants, and about what happens when the pro-democracy press is asked to say so.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 06/09/2026

I’m going to need everyone who’s reporting on AI psychosis and how it’s making people, especially men, come up with theories of everything to please talk with the scientists who have been getting multiple emails from “theory of everything” guys for decades

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MC @drspidermatt.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Welcome back! What's crazy is I was just checking your profile around 6 hours ago and sad you hadn't posted in a while. I hope the clip is unrelated.

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MC @drspidermatt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

*Before* "I hate this group of people and wish all the worst things would happen to them, they're not human the way I am." *Gets included in group* "Oh this is terrible, I wouldn't wish this on anybody, it's inhumane." Sigh.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

No fucking shit buddy. This is what we were trying to tell you.

Milo Yiannopoulos: "I didn't really understand the physical reality of how institutionalized the brutality is in America. The manner in which they arrest you, they put you in manacles, everybody is arrested like an MS 13 gang member.
It was physically degrading. It was frightening. I don't think I've ever been frightened like that before. I was weeping like an old woman for an hour. I wouldn't wish it on anyone."

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MC @drspidermatt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

After probably the 30th text in at many days (all from different campaigns or pacs), I finally deleted my ActBlue account today. I would have kept it open if they provided some controls over data sharing and contact preferences, but it's too exploitative and hostile to users and small donors.

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Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com · 27/08/2026

So the people launching a new Twitter under the name Twitter launched their thing so I signed up. Turns out they have an AI scanning tweets for "truth" and it currently has no idea what it's doing. Posted something innocuous about Star Wars Zero Company and it essentially blocked it from all feeds.

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MC @drspidermatt.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I dunno, I do think there is an academic integrity component to the argument. Postdocs have less freedom/more direction than tenured faculty, but even so, faculty are beholden to sponsors/grantors to deliver what they agreed? So not micromanaged, but cannot study fossils on a psych grant?

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A lot of discussion about AI and its use in research (and teaching / learning) at the workshop I’m at. It’s made me think a bit more about my position, and I think where I’m at is: AI can be great for doing things, but I don’t think it’s great for understanding things, & that’s the business I’m in.

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MC @drspidermatt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We're trying to push back harder, push the editor to explain or justify this. If they stand firm, I can't imagine we respond to all. But more importantly, this should be an ethics breach (this journal has a "no AI reviews" policy). There's no way these were written by a human, not worth our time.

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MC @drspidermatt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

249 questions! I'm apoplectic. I'm actually more upset that the advisor for the primary author doesn't want to rock the boat and push back. They range from irrelevant, to answered in references, to requiring their own paper to answer. It's more than a dissertation's worth amount of material.

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MC @drspidermatt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Just got reviewer comments back on a paper draft (another institution is the lead). Do you want to guess how many separate, numbered questions reviewer 2 had? No go on, guess. Tip: they're certainly AI generated.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/08/2026

I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam"

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Very seriously, I blocked several hundred people over my VERY CUTE CHICKADEE QUILTED PLACEMATS and my Bluesky experience improved dramatically.

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 06/08/2026

I would like to see more companies admit this - being a public company no longer means running a successful, thriving business. It strictly means delivering growth to investors, every single quarter, who do not care at all about the product the company sells or the people who produce it.

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MC @drspidermatt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I mean, I know why they would have it this way (to create an info scraping/sharing network to maximize donations). Feels exactly like being labeled a "mark" in spam scammer circles. Just another symptom of how broken the political system is in this country.

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MC @drspidermatt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

@actblueorg.bsky.social Any comment? Why are there no options other than "permanently delete profile" for data privacy?

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MC @drspidermatt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I've looked through account settings and can't see anything related to privacy or sharing of private information. Really turned off by the aggressive, scammy system they've set up here. Does the DNC/party leadership not recognize this loss of trust?

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MC @drspidermatt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I made the mistake of donating to a candidate through ActBlue recently and now my phone is blowing up with nonstop texts from campaigns all over the country. I'm responding "STOP" but they just keep coming. Honesty this just makes me want to delete my ActBlue profile and drop donating entirely.

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Jenn @jennburrill.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

New Mexico has the worst child fatality rate in the West, with 14 deaths tied to failures by the state in the past 2 years CYFD isn't a new problem for the Gov who controls the agency or #nmleg who funds it. You can say you care about kids, but when all resources go to cops, we know the truth

santafenewmexican.com

'This is obscene': Lawmakers express frustrations over systemic CYFD issues

Lawmakers vowed to make changes to demand more accountability and direction from CYFD after session discussing troubling data.

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MC @drspidermatt.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

"Please don't copy this tactic that has proven super effective and the only hope for a disillusioned electorate underserved by its government." Sure whatever you say boss.

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MC @drspidermatt.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Do any of them ride motorcycles to work? Now you have a new greeting for them when they come into work every day!

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MC @drspidermatt.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Not to mention the enhancement of motivation by unregulated betting markets to accelerate these attacks.

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MC @drspidermatt.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Pretty grim. Leaves me with the impression we are entering a "dark forest" era of the internet. Only large corporations/sites will be able to spend the resources to defend against unregulated AI-driven attacks, while the rest of us lose access to free-flowing and unbiased information.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I'm not even rooting against Argentina at this point I am rooting against FIFA

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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

related, I have sent this @drewmagary.bsky.social column to so many people lately. it really speaks to the moment of what ALL publishers — of any size, content type, funding model — are up against right now

sfgate.com

Google hates you

"The repercussions of Google's pivot to AI will be vast and horrid."

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