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Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The web and mobile apps of major conversational AI engines transmit prompts, titles and conversation permalinks to advertising data firms, alongside device IDs, hashed email and other persistent identifiers. Comprehensive analysis, like always from this team: jorgegarciaherrero.com/wp-content/i...

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Eerke Boiten @eerkeboiten.bsky.social · 16h

If this is true I will avoid Tesco.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 17h

Words cannot express my loathing of Vanity Fair right now. This man can’t see the future, or people. He can only see marks, and wow are you easy pickings

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 05/10/2026

This is also, fwiw, exactly why so many British institutions have fallen to transphobic control. Because the transphobes actually took taking control seriously! They, with actually very small numbers, absolutely dedicated themselves to that aim. Fluffy cis liberals didn't respond at all.

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Eerke Boiten @eerkeboiten.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Would love feedback on this. Thinking in past 20 years about cryptography on IoT devices, the line that "limited resources" of these forced compromises seemed valid. Now, when looking at edge AI / federated learning in IoT, it seems to me it has become less useful to speak of "limited resources".

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Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Exc: Abu Dhabi has held talks with at least one minister since reports of the Man City verdict first surfaced Foreign office minister Stephen Doughty is among those understood to have been called by UAE officials, along with some of the UK's most senior diplomats observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

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Burnham’s former deputy says Manchester City ‘will prove ...

The former deputy mayor of Manchester criticises the Premier League investigation into the football club’s finances, after it was found guilty of numerous breaches

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Eerke Boiten @eerkeboiten.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I was at a @kyivindependent.com event in London on Friday. The panel was asked: "why isn't Ukraine making the "genocide" point?" Response was (paraphrasing) a battle on words would distract from asking for support for the real issues. This is similar, in nature and effect is already noticeable.

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peterkwells @peterkwells.com · 04/10/2026

🚨 This is not a drill, this is a red alert 🚨 An AI agent my wife is experimenting with has suggested we take advantage of a house move to "reset habits" and "cull" 3000 books 🚨 This is not a drill, this is a red alert 🚨

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Eerke Boiten @eerkeboiten.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What revolutionary development in long term solutions for nuclear waste have the @greenparty.org.uk members heard of that I've missed?

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I wish Anthropic had been nowhere near it but now I know exactly why the Encyclical was not corrupted by their efforts.

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Eerke Boiten @eerkeboiten.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

At Kyiv Independent live event in London.

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EmiB71 @emiliab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And rather suspicious that they make this offering for the UN meeting where the complaints raised against them will be discussed. Also, will they every publish who exactly received the funding? Who wants to bet the LGB Alliance and Sex Matters end up with an all expenses paid trip to Geneva?

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EmiB71 @emiliab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#UK #EHRC #TransRights I'm rather curious exactly what the terms and conditions are, because they haven't specified them in the news article. www.equalityhumanrights.com/news/funding...

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Funding available for organisations to give evidence to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) | EHRC

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Eerke Boiten @eerkeboiten.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Glimpse at another part of my life where I bake humongous quantities of Dutch applecake. Familiar to some followers. This goes with our orchard ciderfest.

4 Dutch applecakes with bananas for scale - approx 50 portions.

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Eerke Boiten @eerkeboiten.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Next time the right wingers are on about free speech ...

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Eerke Boiten @eerkeboiten.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"impacts have arisen because people believe that the products are superintelligent, not because they actually are." "error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high-stakes scenarios" These researchers have been saying this for years. When will the world start believing?

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Eerke Boiten @eerkeboiten.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Interesting experiment, unsurprising outcomes, but the Guardian spoils it by credulous reporting of text produced by the chatbots as if it would be explaining their behaviour or principles. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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AI chatbots remove hijabs from images of Muslim women when prompted

Guardian tested chatbots after French far-right politician stripped a Muslim woman of her hijab in a photo

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Chris Stokel-Walker @stokel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

AI training companies aren't looking for low-paid workers to do mundane tasks anymore. They're targeting doctors, lawyers and other professionals to tune up AI knowledge - and demand is outstripping supply. My feature from the latest print @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91587919/tur...

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The smartest people in the world are automating themselves into obsolescence—and loving it

Elite knowledge workers explain how training AI models for the likes of Turing and Mercor is the most exciting intellectual challenge of their careers, even if they succeed in teaching their AI studen...

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Eerke Boiten @eerkeboiten.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

But the philosophy majors should still resist becoming the paid slaves of anti-humanity pursuits like "AI wellbeing".

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Eerke Boiten @eerkeboiten.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My work phone for which I don't get involved in paying bills insists the My EE app needs an update. It is a front end to account and usage data, so could probably be done in 500 lines of database code with a bit of interface. Except it's 380M. (And needs me to create an EE account.)

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 30/09/2026

Jesus Christ Cornell

What use was it to bring the writer and activist Chanel Miller to campus in the spring just for fraternity brothers to scroll, bored, on their phones as she movingly shared her experience as Emily Doe, the victim of Brock Turner? As I wrote at the time, I was floored and dismayed as I sat in the audience with one of my brilliant undergraduates; we heard Miller’s shattering account of being sexually assaulted by Turner behind a dumpster at Stanford University after a fraternity party. Her talk was riveting, and there was so much to learn from it. And yet many of the male students who hailed predominantly from fraternities — 15 percent of each chapter was required to be in attendance — were so tuned out that Miller commented ruefully: “You know, this has been my hardest gig, because they didn’t turn down the house lights. I’m not sure how you professors do it, because it’s so hard looking out at this sea of mildly disgruntled faces. I mean, I’m sure you’re all very moved, but …,” Miller smiled. The implication being, it didn’t seem like it, from her angle.

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026

'New analysis on UK media: British media is not delivering the news to its readers. They are delivering an agenda. The seven days after Channel 4 filmed James Orr are a damning indictment of the British press. Orr is a Cambridge associate professor.' via @newscord.org

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

being a “team player” 😒

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026

The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.

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Not (A.) I. @aerialeverything.cryptoanarchy.network · 29/09/2026

A great example of the bullshit sales pitch of "AI for everyone." People and populations rendered into data points to benefit corporations.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/09/2026

Remember the random dude who got 49020939 articles of uncritical media coverage in the space of two days because he quit anthropic based on his fears of existential AI risk? Yeah..........he's a climate denier. So is the whole AI industry. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026

It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For all that it's been barely reported in the UK press, it's still hard to understate the importance of the stance @labourunionsuk.bsky.social has taken on trans and non-binary rights this week. Every single trade union affiliated to the party of government has stood up and said we will not comply.

Joint statement from National TULO

Solidarity with the trans and non-binary community

Labour's 11 affiliated trade unions stand in total solidarity with the trans and non-binary community.

Trans rights are human rights, and trans rights are workers' rights.

We in the trade union movement will do all we can to stand up for our trans members and all our trans siblings, to protect them from persecution, harassment and attack.

The government must act now to protect all trans people, to make sure their rights are protected, expanded and upheld in our workplaces and communities.

Labour Unions

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Eerke Boiten @eerkeboiten.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Reminds me of the radio interview about AI based education where they had Euan Blair and a vice chancellor. She kindly declined to slaughter him and gave the interviewer the chance of presenting the outcome as meeting in the middle, when in reality he knew nor understood anything.

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Eerke Boiten @eerkeboiten.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The BBC not showing impartiality. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... "The Orange Order [...] holds thousands of parades [...] many Catholics see the marches as sectarian" Failing to tell us why they hold marches, and that many. Let alone where. Still waiting for Dutch king to go "not in my name".

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Drumcree parade: Police block Orange Order from controversial parade route

They had been unable to make the permitted parade on Sunday morning because protesters had gathered on the mainly-nationalist Garvaghy Road.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NEW: Meet the real AI ‘rogue agent’: Lord Watson of Palantir. I am sick to the teeth of this current AI hype cycle & its perversion of language. The only thing going ‘rogue’ right now are AI boosters, a gullible & compliant press & a Labour Lord 1/ broligarchy.substack.com/p/meet-the-r...

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Meet the real AI “rogue agent”: Lord Tom Watson

A Labour leader is out of control. The world needs a containment strategy now

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 28/09/2026

Almost all of Meta's PR about Muse was about how careful they had been to set it up not to do things like this, how they delayed the launch by months to carefully design it so it could be trusted. And then...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

This whole article is so bleak. Maybe try accepting your kid for who they are?

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Reuben Binns @rdbinns.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My space ships and gliders are so intelligent they have broken containment and are collaborating and self replicating in the wild. I urgently need a trillion dollars to align them with humanity or there's a 10% chance all our pixels will be killed.

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conways game of life space ship generator

Alt: conways game of life space ship generator

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026

This piece touches on an extremely important and terrible trend: AI-false-balance among polite centre-left politicians. Every critique HAS to begin with something like "AI is here to stay. With the right rules, it can be a force for good. But........." www.techpolicy.press/the-life-and...

Information integrity is one of seven critical issues in the Preliminary Report of the UN’s Independent Scientific Panel on AI released in July at the Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence. It warns that AI can erode shared reality and civic participation through “epistemic erosion,” the gradual wearing away of society’s ability to distinguish truth from falsehood. Opening the Dialogue, the UN’s secretary-general, António Guterres, tied that erosion directly to the viral and exponential nature of advanced data driven technologies: “A machine-enabled lie can now persuade as effectively as the truth, and authentic evidence can be dismissed as fake.”“A society that cannot agree on what is real cannot defend itself,” Guterres said.

And yet he did not reference the threat of AI to amplify inequality, unless governed effectively. Instead, Guterres casts AI as “the great equaliser of the 21st century ” achievable by developing countries on the technology fast-track through safe systems that honor human rights, with real transparency about labor and planetary impacts. Getting this right, he said, is “at the heart of our common future.”

Yet the Panel’s Report, subtitled as an “evidence-based assessment of the opportunities, risks and impacts of AI” provides no evidence that AI will be a ‘great equaliser’. On the contrary, despite its curious ‘balancing’ of every claim with a counter claim, the heavily referenced report actually demonstrates far more evidence of the negative consequences of AI, while doing very little to support claims that AI will help in the achievement of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Regardless, this did not stop the ‘great equaliser’ mantra from being repeated by numerous member states and heads of multilateral bodies who subsequently addressed the forum.

In fact the report highlights the lack of — and unevenness of — evidence, including on some of the big ticket items: productivity gains, labor market effects, value-chain impacts, and …

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026

Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.

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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

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Eerke Boiten @eerkeboiten.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I already despised Times Higher for the amount of space they have been giving to the right-wing political attacks on UKHE ("free speech" and anti-trans activism such as Stock, Sullivan and (FFS! HE?!) Forstater). This link to Orban's Hungary is just sick.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Evan Davis on PM asked if ‘Danny Tommo’ “had any kind of point” by puncturing a dinghy with a knife because “the [authorities] should be doing that themselves”. He went on to describe it as “vigilante action”.

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Eerke Boiten @eerkeboiten.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Very interesting thread. My perspective is technical (a computer science prof with core expertise in software correctness and cyber security) as well as sociotechnical (technology is political: how you use and hype it impacts society and people, often harmfully). Critical view of AI is broad.

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Eerke Boiten @eerkeboiten.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Burnham body language is promising, obviously not quite at Zelensky level but away from the Starmer/Rutte approach ...

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Eerke Boiten @eerkeboiten.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Rightly described with analogy of using "6th bottle of wine free" to get a bottle of champagne free alongside 5 paid bottles of plonk.

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Will keep boringly saying this (no disrespect to OP): it's not a health surcharge. It's not hypothecated to the NHS; you can't choose not to pay it and thereby eschew healthcare. You could equally call it an education or roads surcharge. It's using the NHS's sanctified status to rip off immigrants.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

They were always being used that way, and many of us called them out for it. It’s all over Chapter 5 of my 2018 book.

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