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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's quite hard for Americans to understand that our instinct with anything other than genuinely tragic stories is to take the piss.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...

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• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.

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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Never sell anyone out. In fact, if you're asked about banning 12-year-olds from softball, just say, "You're asking me to sell out kids for my political career. I'm not going to do that. Let's stop demonizing people in tougher circumstances than you or I will ever experience. They have guts."

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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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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026

Trump: Sleepy Joe Biden, have you heard of him? *a few moments later* Trump: 😴😴😴

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taber @kvetch.gay · 28/09/2026

Here's a map of how iron ore mined in Minnesota moves (the red lines). Note the markers for where steel facilities are located, they're where they are because you have to move the stuff on ships. There are no steel mills in Iowa of any size because you can't get the fucking stuff it's made of there

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/09/2026

Oil giant BP not only funded the research behind an influential climate science paper, but company execs even tried to revise versions of it. “Chaps, I have had a go at rewriting the paper,” a BP climate adviser wrote the researchers at one point. (Published June w/ @drilledmedia.bsky.social)

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How BP Execs Influenced a Climate Study That Shaped a Generation of Global Policy

BP sponsored an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” guided climate discourse for a generation.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 23/09/2026

Thanks to those who came out last night to the Middleton Library to learn about Why Rich People Cheat (And Why We Let Them Get Away With It). It was great to have a packed house and such an engaged audience! And thanks to @uwmadison.bsky.social's @uwbadgertalks.bsky.social for supporting the event!

Me presenting a slide summarizing evidence from research showing the various types of unethical behavior that are disproportionately common among economic elites

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 23/09/2026

Regulators should shut this down before it leads to a wave of predictable, preventable deaths by suicide.

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Mark Tolman (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈 🖖 @mtolman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is true, that's what makes it both funny and sad.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 21/09/2026

This is my take on almost every single pending copyright case: settling for a few billion is what we will have to do because the alternative is probably that Congress rewrites copyright law so that we have to give it over for free.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

She has a degree in economics (and int'l relations). The Right hates her for a lot of reasons, but one big one is that she runs circles around them intellectually and they know it

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 20/09/2026

Fully electric aviation has some major challenges (mostly: batteries are heavy and don't get lighter as they get used up) but I love the idea of decreasing aircraft emissions through a hybrid approach, perhaps as a step toward new, clever solutions for fully electric air transport in the future.

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The driver’s behavior before and after the crash is sociopathic. But also, no car operated on public roads should be able to go 100 mph, much less 142 mph.

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Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The weather excuse is just bollocks. When we lived in Beijing, it hit below -10C (10F) in winter & over 40C (105F) in summer & we cycled all year round. I don't know if it still is but transport cycling was very common in HCMC/Saigon relatively recently. Cold snowy Nordics. Wet windy Low Countries.

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 19/09/2026

this tweet is NINE years old and is still the best trans rights policy advice out there

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Hazel Southwell @hazelsouthwell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

if I was the CEO of a racing series I would simply not say my favourite Marvel character is fucking THANOS of all people what in hell man

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

But speaking of staying in one's lane, can we PLEASE switch the default position from "It's fine to use 'AI' for this thing I'm not an expert in" to "Yeah, I'd be really skeptical of any use cases and need to see strong evidence that it's okay, but I'm not the one who can produce that evidence"?

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Adam Tranter @adamtranter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It is wild to think that most cities used to have extensive electric tram systems, capable of efficiently transporting people and producing zero emissions at street level. And they were persuaded it was a good idea to rip them out. Now cities are spending billions putting them back in.

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I think AI has already exceeded the intelligence of the type of person that believes AGI is imminent, which is why they believe AGI is imminent.

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 19/09/2026

I am very rarely in favour of outright banning things, but slot machines really have absolutely nothing to recommend them. If we must have them in the world, we should tax the living fuck out of them so that at least they contribute *something*.

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Hazel Southwell @hazelsouthwell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

really don't want to never watch Formula E again especially cus Gen4 looks sick but ...I do not want to subscribe to this shite

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Interesting thread about FAKE Natalie Harp photo.

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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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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 17/09/2026

Comforting.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

All day Piddington's womminfolk have been telling news how they will be terrified of "hundreds of young men nearby, free to come and go as they please." NOT ONE JOURNALIST has asked: "How did you cope when it was an army base? Who came and went then? Nuns?" Soon as you ask that, all becomes clear.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I can't believe Trump is letting Vance attack his family like this

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

honestly didn't expect the new fascist militia to make the Daily Mail their first media target.

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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Many of you would be shocked to learn that Jewish Americans are much further to the left on Israel and Gaza than Christian Americans or Jewish Israelis.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

An underrated way to secure leverage over many in the billionaire class would genuinely just be to search their yachts and private jets for illegal drugs and firearms.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie

Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Man in glasses that partook in the assault of young women at a Reform conference identified as Stephen Cooling of Sutton, a Reform member who previously stood as a UKIP candidate in Erdington.

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 05/09/2026

Good news: he lost.

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Farage has been telling us for years about his successful City career and how he took a huge financial hit from giving it up. Now he’s telling us he doesn’t understand all this money stuff.

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The investigation will focus on avoiding getting caught next time.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 04/09/2026

yeah, and every Tesla built since 2016 is capable of "Full Self-Driving," got it

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Constantine @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is the most "Good Germans" story I've ever read. A quiet, kind, bootlicker family did their duty to the state by turning a terrified teenager over to the gestapo and can't figure out why everyone's mad at them.

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Death threats flood auto shop where immigrant girl hid after escaping detention center

Gonzalez Auto Center in Homestead has been flooded with death threats after police apprehended an immigrant girl who escaped the Florida detention center and then hid in the auto shop.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

yeah gotta get off 1Password, sorry

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Emyr Derfel @emyrderfel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Which comedian wrote this script?

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Trump says he doesn't want to deal with Canadians because we are the "worst abusers". In this video I read FBI and court reports of allegations he beat up and raped 13-year-olds. I guess the abuser in chief isn't used to someone standing up to him We see you Trump. youtube.com/shorts/GGbIl...

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TRUMP THE ABUSER ACCUSES CANADA

YouTube video by Charlie Angus

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

its funny how rayban took a brand whose single biggest association was "cool" and changed it to "pervert"

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is incredibly weird. My publisher grilled me for months about Hooligans of Kandahar. They asked for paperwork regarding literally every claim made in the book from my military records, and spoke to several people that I wrote about.

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The Pub-Liking Universal Friend @johnb78.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Yup - I've never understood the "champagne socialist" critique, surely having more to lose and going against your own selfish interests just makes your position more laudable?

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Abstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

As someone with more data engineering experience than I wish I had, it is my unfortunate obligation to inform you that if somebody tells you that they are doing this, you are going to need to meticulously check all their work from now on, because they are doing their job badly and cannot be trusted

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People are using open models trained on consensual data to do things like convert PDFs to spreadsheets instead of having to manually copy and paste all the data. It’s taking mundane, rote tasks and making them simpler. Not exciting, but useful.

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