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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 16h

The kicker is *chef's kiss*

“You think we’re getting a little too close to Meta?” [John Georges, co-owner of Georges Media Group, the state’s largest media organization and parent company of the state’s largest newspaper, The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate], asked. “I’m not afraid of the sun. You know — Icarus? I’ll get as close to the sun as I can.”

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 16h

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 9h

*Sobs* the really fast code is either extremely expensive, really bad, or both

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 10h

AI bros: I just don’t get why people are so resistant to trying ideologically repugnant technology its biggest fans say will end the world but not before destroying the economy, the arts, our ability to discern right and wrong, truth or lie, the very boundaries of reality My coding is so fast now!

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 11h

God this shit was cool as fuck

Still from the movie Jurassic Park showing a raptor with genetic code projected onto it

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 9h

Exactly. We still have no idea how the victim feels about this and without that information (which we have no right to) I have no idea how we're meant to be receiving it all. People who seem really certain make no sense to me tbh.

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 15h

OpenAI sacks safety researchers for sharing too much information with other safety researchers, after OpenAI has been displayed to be deliberately dishonest and secretive about the illegal hacks they committed? Ok then. gizmodo.com/openai-ousts...

gizmodo.com

OpenAI Ousts Three Safety Researchers for Allegedly Mishandling 'Sensitive Information'

They're accused of “breaking the trust essential to our work,” according to a company spokesperson.

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 16h

I hate the fact that "Skydance" is just a really good name for a media company

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 16h

Struggling how to feel about this other than gutted, as someone I looked up to. So, so, different to stories like Neil Gaiman, who continued to deny and use his power to inflict suffering and try and silence his victim. But still.

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 16h

Calling it "allegations" in the headline when Jacob has himself admitted that they were true and that he also believes the sentence of a semester suspension was too light is not a great choice.

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 16h

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 19h

Google is just the most obvious case of the trend of this year - GenAI tech peaked in Jan/Feb and ever since has been fighting a game of price and efficiency. And none of the profit numbers make sense regardless. gizmodo.com/google-is-al...

gizmodo.com

Google Is Already Having Problems With Its Latest AI Model

Benchmark scores can be misleading.

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 20h

Devastated for the Ninja Theory team. XBox have shown themselves to be the most destructive company in the medium. Buying up promising indie studios only to destroy them. All whilst Microsoft rolls in cash and throws money at AI with abandon. www.rockpapershotgun.com/im-still-blo...

rockpapershotgun.com

"I'm still blown away by the amount of talent": Hellblade devs Ninja Theory face closure after Microsoft fail to reach a deal with buyers

Hellblade devs Ninja Theory now face closure after the failure of agreements with potential buyers, but Microsoft are "continuing to explore other paths".

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 01/10/2026

so that’s where children of dune come from

A very penis-like abstraction on the poster for dune 3: dong

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a lot of "oh dear" to go around in the results of this very thorough Pew study on the issues with synthetic samples, but this strikes me as particularly "oh dear" www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

AI polling results can lean on racial or partisan stereotypes

In many cases, our AI poll took beliefs or attitudes that are reasonably common among a particular subgroup and portrayed them as nearly ubiquitous. For example, our AI poll would indicate that:

97% of Hispanic adults are at least somewhat likely to follow the World Cup (while the actual share is 43%).

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 01/10/2026

Got plenty covering the industry finances etc. More interested in the culture and workers

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 01/10/2026

Anyone know a podcast that covers silicon valley and especially AI tech culture? Reading @faineg.com's work and its been really informative, but I appreciate having audio coverage that I can listen to on the move now my "read in peace and quiet in the evenings" time is limited.

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 01/10/2026

100% Real risk that teams end up with codebases they can't maintain because they can't understand them, making spotting mistakes in agentic code-generation simply impossible

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 01/10/2026

Fully agentic software workflows are what you have instead of software engineering expertise. So you shouldn't be surprised when the quality turns out not to be up to the standard of expertise and suddenly no one in your company understands the code.

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Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Holy shit

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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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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 30/09/2026

This was a long time coming. I hope someone scoops up the game workers left unemployed by this collapse, and I hope the deluded narcissist Leslie Benzies never gets given a dime of investment again. theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2026/09/vide...

theedinburghreporter.co.uk

Video game company Build a Rocket Boy in administration

The company which former Rockstar North director, Leslie Benzies, established in 2018, is now in administration.

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Jessica the Bestica 🏳️‍🌈Thought Bubble TM Hall A5 ☕Trying My Best @anireal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🎉🌱🍄 Poison Ivy cover 50 🍄🌱🎉 A new era~ We made it y'all ♥️ Thank you so much for the support and sharing stories of how art has connected with and inspired you~ 🌱

Character Poison Ivy holding a needle filled with green liquid in front of her face.

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 29/09/2026

Let's be honest - she's a billionaire and therefore has no real problems, relatable concerns, or connection to her fans anymore, so there's simply nothing left to inspire good music

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 28/09/2026

Obsession is the best Silent Hill movie

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 28/09/2026

Well Slipknot can get absolutely fucked. Platform a rapist? Go to hell, and not the fun kind.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New from 404 Media: when you upload images to Copilot, they're not private. Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users' prompts/images, according to internal docs we got And they're horrified at what they're seeing. Bombarded with requests to make sexual AI images www.404media.co/humans-readi...

404media.co

Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified

Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...

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Doc Vivi Leandra【 VTC 】- Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Forcing everyone who thinks Hard Magic Systems™ are important to watch Irregular at Magic High School so they understand my hatred for the idea

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 27/09/2026

Yeah this is GamerGate superpowered by both incel culture and corpo bro culture - the worst of all three manifested into an awful new whole bsky.app/profile/vele...

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Veleda_k @veleda-k.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

YIKES YIKES YIKES YIKES YIKES YIKES YIKES YIKES

Inverting Feminism

SlutCon's vision
paints women into a corner in having an ethos that is an inversion of
feminism. In Aella's own words:

Most women don't know what they want
and if they do they are pretty bad at and so their sexual advice tends to be ineffective at best and actively
communicating it, damaging at worst.

Heavy focus on safety and deference are there for good reasons
and they need to be
respected, but often are
deeply unsexy, no matter how much people insist otherwise.

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

Let’s also remember that this is the same group of organizers in the Silicon Valley AI scene who are also involved with throwing “consensual non-consent” events - IE, simulated rape. Which whistleblowers like Sonia Joseph have cited as creating a “coercive climate” for female AI researchers.

Sonia Joseph
@soniajoseph_
To the journalists contacting me about the AGI consensual non-consensual (cnc)
sex parties-
During my twenties in Silicon Valley, I ran among elite tech/Al circles through the community house scene. I have seen some troubling things around social circles of early OpenAl employees, their friends, and adjacent entrepreneurs, which I have not previously spoken about publicly.
It is not my place to speak as to why Jan Leike and the superalignment team resigned. I have no idea why and cannot make any claims. However, I do believe my cultural observations of the SF Al scene are more broadly relevant to the Al industry.
I don't think events like the consensual non-consensual (cnc) sex parties and heavy LSD use of some elite Al researchers have been good for women. They create a climate that can be very bad for female Al researchers, with broader implications relevant to X-risk and AGI safety. I believe they are somewhat emblematic of broader problems: a coercive climate that normalizes recklessness and crossing boundaries, which we are seeing playing out more broadly in the industry today. Move fast and break things, applied to people.
There is nothing wrong imo with sex parties and heavy LSD use in theory, but combined with the shadow of 100B+ interest groups, leads to some of the most coercive and fucked up social dynamics that I have ever seen. The climate was like a fratty LSD version of 2008 Wall Street bankers, which bodes ill for Al safety.
Women are like canaries in the coal mine. They are often the first to realize that something has gone horribly wrong, and to smell the cultural carbon monoxide in the air. For many women, Silicon Valley can be like Westworld, where violence

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 27/09/2026

This culture might actually be worse than 00's tech and gaming bro culture

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/09/2026

Big names in AI and Silicon Valley tech announced yesterday that they're launching a boarding academy for 16 to 22 year olds. (Would you trust the people in this scene with keeping an eye on minors?) theacademysf.com

Thrilled to announce our latest incubation: Horowitz Andreessen Academy.

Horowitz Andreessen Academy will be a two-year residential program in San Francisco for 16 to 22 year olds.

My biggest regret from my college experience is how divorced it was from the real world (both practically but also intellectually)

HAA is the opposite. Students will learn from real-world practitioners and intellectuals; including founders (Sam Altman, Brian Armstrong, Jensen Huang), investors (Elad Gil, Daniel Gross), and professors (Agnes Callard, Tyler Cowen), among hundreds of others. The Academy is the educational experience I wish I had.

In 1984, the educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom published a paper about how the average student who received one-on-one tutoring focused on mastery techniques performed better than 98% of the control group. For generations, this was viewed as unrealistic to implement even if it produced the best outcomes.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026

The Effective Altruism movement, which is an offshoot of the Rationalist movement and remains very linked to them - and is hugely popular amongst many Silicon Valley AI executives - has a sexual harassment problem, per this 2023 article.

time.com

Effective Altruism Has a Hostile Culture for Women, Critics Say

Seven women connected to effective altruism tell TIME they experienced harassment and worse within the community

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Oh no Gen Z is going to learn how fucked up tv was. They’re going to learn that we had psychics on the news like they were legitimate sources of information

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 27/09/2026

Because what we see on social media is driven by survivorship bias - we lose track of what "doing well" actually means on book sales.

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“It’s not pervert glasses, it’s a tiny fuzzy pervert you wear around your neck because you trapped him in a tiny pervert cage. It’s not weird. He likes the cage, if you know what I mean. Now come over here and let him have a good look at you.”

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I can't believe I have to keep doing this, but time to tap the sign again. Emily Bell, who also edits Atthis Arts under the name E.D.E. Bell, is still harassing me and others. Read my original report for details. New details in following thread. 1/ www.patreon.com/jasonsanford...

Emily Bell, who also edits Atthis Arts under the name E.D.E. Bell, is still harassing Jason Sanford. Read Jason's original report for more details. https://www.patreon.com/jasonsanford/posts/genre-grapevine-161758874

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 26/09/2026

(with obviously many exceptions)

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 26/09/2026

In fairness age drives that as well. There's something about people's 20s that seem to hone teenage angst into powerful music in a way that's hard to recapture.

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