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Eoin Higgins

@eoinhiggins.bsky.social
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 20h
[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never met a journalist who legally pantsed Matt Taibbi [JACK SMITH]: No [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Eoin Higgins! [SMITH]: That is Eliot Higgins sir
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Julia Grant Reed @juliareedwa.bsky.social · 3h
No, you’re providing concentration camps that hold people against the law in horrific conditions without access to counsel.
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Catbus @catbus.phd · 8h
Quick reminder that Ralph Nader had zero impact on the electoral outcome of the 2000 election, which Bush didn't win anyway He was gifted the presidency by the supreme court, a decision Al Gore immediately accepted for some reason
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 16h
🎶 Start spreading the news, you're leaving today 🎶
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 19h
Let's go Yankees
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 19h
Let's go Yankees
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Michael Tracey is actively attempting to dox Jane Doe in the Cornell 7 rape case
Michael Tracey : If you happen to know who this Cornell "Jane Doe" is, get in touch and I would be happy to publish her name and identifying information. And yes -- this is 100% permitted under the First Amendment, whatever threats or emotional blackmail people might want to deploy"Report" me for what, exactly? Save your breath, scumbag. Sorry you hate the First Amendment so much. Her identity is obviously newsworthy at this point, and I will take extreme pleasure in reporting it. (Not "doxing" -- that's a total canard)
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My pick
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The powerful generally do not want a free press to exist. This is not a matter of political partisanship so much as it is an observation of reality. And a more urgent one to acknowledge today, because they are closer to winning. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-free-a...
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The Free and Unfree Press
Journalism, and its adversaries.
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I would like everyone to read this, from @eoinhiggins.bsky.social eoinhiggins.substack.com/p/there-are-...
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There are no “rogue” AI agents
Identifying them as such only lets companies like OpenAI off the hook.
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
By giving AI agency it can’t claim, we’ve turned it into a sentient being made of code, one that has hopes, desires, and the capability of deceit.
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There are no “rogue” AI agents
Identifying them as such only lets companies like OpenAI off the hook.
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Emoji Caresser @lizrummy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Good piece, if even just to serve as a honeypot for replies of slop merchants you may have missed a blocking before.
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Carapanã @carapanarana.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Quem quiser entender porque teve gente que virou a casaca, basta ler o livro do @eoinhiggins.bsky.social . www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/eoin-...
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Owned
A “devastating” (Nation) examination of how a cabal of tech-billionaires is colluding with once-idealistic journalists to create an entirely new media ...
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Shaleen Title @shaleen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you have said or written the words “rogue agents” in the past few weeks you must read this important clarification by the excellent @eoinhiggins.bsky.social eoinhiggins.substack.com/p/there-are-...
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There are no “rogue” AI agents
Identifying them as such only lets companies like OpenAI off the hook.
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
it's important we get this right
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Eoin’s piece is worth reading in full. The point is that it’s critical to hold the responsible parties to account and certain types of language obfuscate that responsibility. That said, I fear we’re already trying to close the barn door after the fact when it comes to precision of language.
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
illegal protest: peaceful defense of community legal protest: sectarian march meant to spark violence
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Troubles in NI arose at least partly because people saw that protests against injustice were not working. In this respect, state-sanctioned unwelcome sectarian marches into a neighborhood is a reminder about which communities have been empowered to impose their values over others.
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
AI isn't going "rogue" because it can't—and we won't get a grip on how companies like OpenAI are playing with fire until we have the language right
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There are no “rogue” AI agents
Identifying them as such only lets companies like OpenAI off the hook.
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
this strikes me as particularly important when working out severity and risk
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 26/09/2026
Ireland v Israel: Day of infamy exposes serious lack of leadership in FAI
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Ireland v Israel: Day of infamy exposes serious lack of leadership in FAI
Gavin Bazunu has been left brutally isolated as any semblance of squad unity has been utterly sundered
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
better than the weird deleted version
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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Every few months we get people extrapolating from a sports clip to determine some guy in the stands needs to get dumped and his wife/girlfriend to upgrade, and every time there's a post-din reveal that says quite a few of you need to touch grass
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Bernie Sanders listens to Yudkowsky btw
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 24/09/2026
I wrote about the press' irresponsible AI doomsday coverage:
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Lazy Journalism At The 'End Of The World'
U.S. corporate media long ago gave up on accurately describing abject reality.
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
the long awaited antiwar left-right coalition is gonna happen this time I can feel it
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
this doesn't read as "rogue" it reads as no guardrails restricting these actions were in place so the agents completed their task by accessing the information
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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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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
brutal
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Gaza’s disabled left behind: 'All our dreams are gone'
Champion athletes Rabab Nawfal and Suha Maqat, two of Gaza's disabled people now in broken wheelchairs, on famine, displacement, and being forgotten by the world.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Israel can call itself the "only democracy in the Middle East," but this is not how any legitimate democracy behaves. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Israel's elections committee votes to bar all Arab parties
The decision to ban the UAL, the Joint List and Balad's party leader Sami Abu Shehadeh and Jewish MK Ofer Cassif from Hadash is expected to reach the Israel High Court for review
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.
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A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
campaign reportedly told volunteers that Jackson will not do any more town halls—if so, it will further restrict his off-the-cuff appeal and continue to reduce visibility
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Kevin Thurston @del-boy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In a supporter FB group, Jackson calls the reporting here “inaccurate and full of misconceptions” but declines to address the claims
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Horatio Pornviewer @stuntbirdarmy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A video of Catherine Liu popped up on my IG and I thought “oh I bet this is gonna be some shit about how the most powerful people on earth are liberal arts professors” and yeah it was that, again
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
majorities of libs also want justice for the actions of the Trump administration (and, for the Gaza genocide, the Biden WH) but I have some bad news, the vehicle for that would be the Democratic Party
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
31% of libs surveyed publicly told a pollster they would feel positive if Trump was popped during a speech lol
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
think I figured it out from the first line
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Mobland: Fun show but Helen Mirren's "Irish accent" is almost so awful as to make you not want to watch at all
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
me and AI
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Some thoughts on AI risk and AI politics
Recent writing on the technology and how I’m approaching it in this pivotal moment.
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
One of the reasons I'm so pedantic anthropomorphizing about AI "thinking" and acting independently is that when you do that, you end up with what Ezra Klein is saying in one part of his lengthy essay today on the technology.
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Opinion | This Is What I Fear Most About A.I.
Letting A.I. patrol its own frontier is like asking Jesse James to patrol the Wild West.
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Gary Grills @communitymartyr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Imagine how powerful he’d be if he read literally any book on the topics he Talks about
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
tbh JFK and Trump have a lot in common, why not name it for both of them
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm committed to AI safety, and that's why I'm encouraging loosening antitrust laws to allow the corporations in charge of the models I'm scared of to collude
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James Grebey @jgrebes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I had a blast watching Resident Evil; it’s wild how it’s the complete opposite of one of my favorite movies of the year, The Bone Temple www.avclub.com/sympathy-for...
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Our sympathy for the zombie has run dry
Zombie fans swarming to the theater prefer the comic mayhem of Resident Evil to the empathy of 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
this is true and it's what some liberal voices are outright advocating for—including saying we should suspend antitrust laws to allow these corporations to collude on model development
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
this is a 🚨 indicator, to me
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Freight Market Alert: Why US Tender Rejections Are Skyrocketing
The freight market is showing an unusual tightening with widespread increases in tender rejection rates across the United States. Join us as we dive into
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