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Edward Taylor @equilibrium.bike · 03/10/2026

You need to use the app Oh fantastic.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Pricing El Niño is not the same as preventing its loss of life. Yet, many of those acting on its forecasts are using them to move money, not people, out of harm’s way," writes Justin S. Mankin in a new #ScienceEditorial. scim.ag/3TpFtd3

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Hedging El Niño isn’t the same as adapting to it

Record-setting warm waters slosh eastward across the tropical Pacific, forming El Niño. This recurrent climate pattern reconfigures severe weather worldwide, and with it, the global economy. Scientist...

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Carney showing up with a coffee

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One simple way that you know the United States is not a full democracy & has experienced significant democratic backsliding is that, in actual democracies, it does not matter "which party runs elections" heading into the next one. "Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections"

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Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections

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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Now that Andy Burnham has reopened the Europe question, free movement will be at the centre of debate. For @arguablymag.bsky.social I argue that it's a big benefit, not a price to be paid for a better trade relationship. www.arguably.uk/p/eu-free-mo...

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EU free movement is an opportunity, not a threat

Progressives need to rediscover the positive case for immigration

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Every segregationist ever thinks they will forever be in the club they’re trying to kick other people out of. And every segregationist ever, if they manage to kick one group out of the club, immediately begins looking for another group to kick out of the club. It’s a cannibal ideology.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing

Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.

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Edward Taylor @equilibrium.bike · 30/09/2026

Aligns perfectly with "we need to slow down"

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Emaldrien de Argutus @emaldrien.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Amazon, das Unternehmen, das bereits Haushaltsgeräte mit Spionagefunktionen verkauft, will ihre Lieferfahrer zukünftig mit Brillen ausstatten, die auch noch permanent Bilder von jedem Kunden, Haus und Wohnsituation machen. 📸 Der Data Center und KI Konzern wird schon wissen, wofür sich das lohnt. 🤔

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Amazon Drivers’ Smart Glasses Are Going to Be an Image Problem

Coming soon up a garden path near you: an Amazon.com Inc. driver wearing smart glasses, almost constantly taking pictures and sending them back to the company to be analyzed by humans and fed into an ...

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Edward Taylor @equilibrium.bike · 30/09/2026

Chilling out by going for a spin in my Rafale jet fighter over Zurich.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You can just do things

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Macron: “Brexit is the biggest lie of the last 30 years. “Those who said, "We will be richer" - eight points of GDP less ten years later. "”We will solve the problem of immigration" - it is more complicated than before. "”We are going to crush it in international trade" - it is worse.”

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026

Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him

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Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess

Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable

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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 29/09/2026

SNAP POLL / By 48% to 28%, Britons support Andy Burnham's proposal to change the triple lock in order to help fund part of a national care service yougov.com/en-gb/daily-... yougov.com/en-gb/daily-... yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Technology enthusiasts severely overestimate the average person’s desire or willingness or capacity to build and use AI agents. I understand some work roles that could mandate or encourage it but that is no way a tech revolution. Agents are best for structured, clearly delineated tasks.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Drop the triple lock/create a national care service is a proper policy offer. But I am slightly confused about setting out a manifesto for 2028/29 in late 2026 with years of governing still to go.

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Notable that the speech ended with a call to action, “we all need to get behind this” moment. Reminded me of Mamdani’s comms, which always position him as just one of many in a community capable of making change.

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Edward Taylor @equilibrium.bike · 29/09/2026

I’ve read a lot of pieces about how corporations have tried to get people back to working in the office, but not so many written from the perspective of the ordinary worker who, when working from home out of necessity in the COVID pandemic, had the scales fall from their eyes.

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Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 29/09/2026

Yup. And Picasso did the Sherbet Fountain.

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Luca Tiratelli @lucatiratelli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I await the first time a politician proposing some nuts new immigration restriction is asked what is otherwise the media’s favourite question: how are you going to pay for it??

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Seán MacGabhann @seanmacgabhann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Because it's a consumer product specifically designed to woo Jo and Josephine public, I'm begging people not to use Muse, or any of its likely competitors

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Meta’s AI agent Muse gives out user’s home address without permission, sending buyer to his house

The new AI agent, Muse, was released last week and has been downloaded by 3 million users

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 29/09/2026

Either this is true, in which case *what are we doing here*? Shut it down. Or it's bullshit, in which case these are truly silly people unworthy of our money

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grace @gracemachine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For obvious reasons, I haven't talked much about it on here, but my father died suddenly while cycling. Grateful to @sltrib.com for letting me eulogize him and write about the absolute moral necessity of making roads safer for pedestrians and bikers.

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Voices: Deaths like my father’s are not anomalies. They are the bloody cost of our car-obsessed world.

“We can, we must, take action now, before some new senseless death proves the need for change all over again,” Grace Benfell writes in an op-ed.

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Simon (funny scary name here) @theordinaryone.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You can't impose logic on the English language. It's as though you haven't thought it through thoroughly enough.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Horrifying murder investigation on Channel 4 with another example of ai chat being used to plan multiple scenarios and weapons. No alarms or notifications sent to the police mentioned. I really don't understand how or why people use it and more importantly why it's not been shut down.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

something has gone very, very wrong with the UK

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Superb and fascinating chart.

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

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you got this far and wonder WTF is up with #AI, this thread - esp. first article - will be illuminating, since we're not dealing with normal corporate entities simply selling IT products, but something much weirder. I also suggest following @emilymbender.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/fain...

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Edward Taylor @equilibrium.bike · 26/09/2026

"Totalitarian regimes produce conditions of thoughtlessness." youtu.be/2LjAESuTW-U?...

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Hannah Arendt Eichmann in Jerusalem

YouTube video by Great Books Prof

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Greatest trick AI leaders have pulled is convincing many people—especially influential people in govt, media, and business—that their software is intelligent, independent, yet never culpable. Humans build it, humans deploy it, but no one bears responsibility for the things that happen when they do.

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hi @evansolomon.bsky.social , does your job as Minister of AI involve responding to this enormous scandal within any meaningful time frame

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ffs the invite SPECIFICALLY said all black dress code

Supporters of anti-migrant activist Daniel Thomas gather outside Basingstoke Police Station on September 24, 2026 in Basingstoke, England.

A man in camo gear holds a Union flag

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Edward Taylor @equilibrium.bike · 24/09/2026

Guilty of this category error.

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Brian Peterson @drbrianpet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Brown Pelican flyby Crescent City Harbor Keeps a wary eye on the photographer

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Edward Taylor @equilibrium.bike · 23/09/2026

We had a meeting about it and at the end the outcome was that we will discuss it with stakeholders and have another meeting about it later. You'll go far, mark my words.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“"My whole youth was lost in the hole,"”

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Edward Taylor @equilibrium.bike · 23/09/2026

The "4th power of weight - road damage relationship" is a glonzo belief, based on a chain of reasoning that is overstretched. There is a weight-damage relationship in there but it needs context.

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Edward Taylor @equilibrium.bike · 23/09/2026

I love the way people just expect doordash or Uber Eats to serve everywhere on Earth, no matter where you are. As if geography has been conquered by an app.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One of the basic points in Mills' The Racial Contract (originally published in 1997!) was that, if nothing else, White Supremacy deserves to be taken seriously as one of the great motivating ideologies of modernity and it's bizarre that political philosophers are so disinclined to treat it as such.

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