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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 2h

So it was the US State Department all along! Maybe Shellenberger should be emailing them about censorship instead of conference participants. #disinfo26 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request

Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website

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MB @sugarcubedog.bsky.social · 2h

wtf. The EU is filled with cowards.

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Grape Cush Core @grapecrush.bsky.social · 1h

Elbows down Carney, at it again.

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suhail @suhails.bsky.social · 1h

@kajakallas.bsky.social hybrid bites the dust, it does.

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Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social · 2h

If you want to prove you're not doing a foreign influence campaign campaigning to get a bunch of foreign nations to drop out of/defund a conference on foreign influence is certainly one way to go...

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Figure Falling on Endless Escher Stairs

ALT: Figure Falling on Endless Escher Stairs

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 13h

It would be great to get clarity on why so many state level supporters pulled out of #Disinfo2026. There's a stink of US meddling about it. I guess US FIMI is the acceptable version of FIMI. bsky.app/profile/robi...

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Tiffany⸆⸉ @tiffanyclay.dev · 4h

Oh god oh fuck is Alf hog still ok, @faineg.com?

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 06/10/2026

lmfao Andrew Tate looks like a raccoon that all the other raccoons have exiled to live alone and haunted in a failing açaí place’s recycling bin

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Bobby Williams @bobbywilliams.bsky.social · 3h

Remember when the centrists got mad at the left for using the phrase "toxic masculinity" as if they didn't understand perfectly well what it meant? I think about that a lot.

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EU DisinfoLab @disinfo.eu · 8h

What a first day at #Disinfo2026! 🤯 A big thank you to all our speakers and participants for sharing their insights. The formal programme may be over, but the fun continues this evening with a film screening, a walking tour, and a social event 🎬🚶🥂 See you tomorrow for 𝗗𝗮𝘆 2️⃣ 💡🤝

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Anthea but blue ☂🚲 @inamellowwood.bsky.social · 7h

I feel like some journalist on the Rationalist beat (@edzitron.com? @faineg.com? @iwriteok.bsky.social?) should be paying attention to what Eneasz and Steven are chatting about on The Bayesian Conspiracy, if you want a view on how recent events are being characterized within the community.

A bunch of Rationalist gossip and updates, and a meta discussion about the podcast.

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Caroline Ellison has joined Manifund
TracingWoodgrains on Austin + WBE
OpenAI Scraps Release of New AI Model Over Safety Concerns
Clause stopped cheating
Anthropic gave their AI a biolab
Department of War going after Effective Altruism
The Economist calls EA “the 21st century’s most important social movement”
Our Episode #28 – Effective Altruism
AI Pain Vector found🙁
AI Torture Chamber built🙁🙁🙁
The Curve impressions
The first anti-slutcon tweet :/
SFF announcing they are defunding Wentworth
Habryka re Wentworth
HPMOR is a Tomione ship!
The “Hard Problem” in a nutshell
BayesWatch

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Gregory Koblentz @gregkoblentz.bsky.social · 7h

When Syrian officials responsible for the attack are put on trial in Damascus, I will pay for Aaron's airplane ticket to attend the trial and listen to the testimony of the survivors and first responders. www.cbc.ca/news/world/s...

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Syrian gas attack witnesses coerced into false testimony face new threats at home | CBC News

After the Syrian government launched a chemical attack on the rebel-held area of Douma, Syria, in 2018, some of the survivors were forced to falsely testify it never happened. Now, some of those peopl...

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 7h

Obviously Aaron has to spend the rest of his life denying a horrific war crime otherwise he'll have to reflect on the awful things he's done and he'll lose his entire audience.

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 10h

Yeah, I'm Gender Critical. The scientists say if I take on any more gender, it could trigger a meltdown for the entire system

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 7h

Oh god this fucking guy again

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Mike Wendling @wendling.bsky.social · 9h

Yes - a number of attendees have received the same email thedayofreckoning.substack.com/p/a-note-fro...

thedayofreckoning.substack.com

A note from the anti-anti-disinformation lobby

And what exactly is censorship, anyway?

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 23h

I'm writing something about this but a major flaw of the right-wing movement is the clear and obvious belief that racism, homophobia and misogyny are *correct*, but unpopular. so the most "forbidden" voices are obviously *right*, but voters aren't ready for it yet. This whole thing is an example.

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WildPartyInviteDecliner @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 8h

All these posts are like "wow we decompiled a popular piece of software" and now anyone can use it and then they use and they're like "woah it's buggy and some stuff doesn't work."

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 8h

Great to see @euractiv.com's @elisabraun.bsky.social covering European diplomacy's weakness in dealing with US pressure. We have the means to resist pressure and would benefit from doing so, but lack political leaders. www.rapporteur.com/news/eeas-ru...

rapporteur.com

EEAS runs scared of US 'disinformation' debate | Rapporteur

Europe is ready to talk about foreign interference provided it does not have to identify the US as a possible source

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vanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 8h

every time i see some liberal fruitlessly try to appeal to donald trump's morality i just think of this

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 14h

It appears that the US government pressured the Canadian and Lithuanian governments (as well as the EEAS) to pull their support and representives from the @disinfo.eu conference in Vilnius. This decision happened at the absolute last minute.

The EU disinfo lab 2026 sponsors. Three names have been tapped over

CU you can see the Canada sign has been tapped over.

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 03/10/2026

I studied of perception of social dominance and trustworthiness from face images, something people do reliably & had previously been held to be a product of physiogonomy and problematic; I found that a HUGE amount of the variance in real images was aspects of grooming, pose, or the photograph

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

while i am commenting on this: i have reached the end of my rope with this sort of thing and my current point of view is that the weird monks should not be allowed to disavow their satanist wing, and also that their satanist wing appears to mostly rule them and tell them what to do

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

i substantively agree with basically this narrative; i pay attention to the space and had (previously!) said i did not like holly's advocacy but it seemed pretty clear to me that SFF decisionmaking hinged on her falling out with core rationalists and not her conduct as an activist

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 05/10/2026

new newsletter, laying out in probably far, far, far too much detail how yudkowsky and the weird ideological commitments of ai safety eventually led to OpenAI and Anthropic massively overtraining their models on cybersecurity and being shocked at them "going rogue"

buttondown.com

Tracing the rogue ideology of the frontier labs to their product choices

A drawing of Eliezer Yudkowsky as the Paperclip Optimizer that I commissioned back in 2016 and have an alarming number of chances to use since This is a...

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 9h

We’re at #Disinfo2026, and this is Some Strange Nonsense.

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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 10h

Robin just gave the best pitch for the atmosphere that I’ve heard to date and put it in very understandable terms. Also the suit is even more incredible in person

Robin in a red suit, in front of a light blue slide mentioning mu.social, oso, flashes, roomy, twinkl, gander, tangled, and an unnamed Norwegian project.

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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 9h

Skywatch got another email from Shellenberger. He’s a crank yes, but Canada, Lithuania, and the EEAS pulling their sponsorship definitely speaks to some some sort of political pressure campaign targeting #Disinfo2026 and now I’m worried about if I’ll be able to get home without harassment.

I wrote to you on October 3 about #Disinfo2026 and have not had a reply.
Since then the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote to me: "Upon becoming aware of the above-mentioned discussion topics, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania withdrew from any participation in the conference. The Ministry has also formally dissociated itself from the conference content and requested that the organisers remove all references to the Ministry from conference materials, communications, and promotional activitiesiỊại
Andrius Katinas of the Radio and Television
Commission of Lithuania wrote to me that he has withdrawn as a speaker "in light of the differences of opinion that have arisen with the organisers of the
'Disinfo 2026' conference regarding the assessment of the role of the United States."
The conference's sponsors page no longer lists the Lithuanian ministry, Global Affairs Canada or the European External Action Service.
Do you still plan to take part, and what is your response to the ministry's statement and to Mr.
Katinas's?
What have the organizers told you about these withdrawals?
The questions in my October 3 letter stand. I would be glad to talk by phone at 415-710-1042. Please reply by 11 am Eastern today, Tuesday, October 6.

A poster with withdrawn sponsors covered up by printer paper

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Nathalie Van Raemdonck @nathalievanraemdonck.com · 14h

Also important to note there are only Americans speaking in this panel 👀 #disinfo2026

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Nathalie Van Raemdonck @nathalievanraemdonck.com · 10h

also a wild @laurenshof.online skeet appears 🤭

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Nathalie Van Raemdonck @nathalievanraemdonck.com · 10h

Just sharing the piece I wrote in 2024 when I was untangling how power could consolidate in Bluesky's stacked moderation middleware model www.techpolicy.press/where-does-p... a lot has moved in the meantime with way more platforms and servers that people can move around to!

techpolicy.press

Where Does Power Consolidate on Bluesky?

Nathalie Van Raemdonck says only time will tell how the pieces fit together and how they interact to create a new "public square."

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Nathalie Van Raemdonck @nathalievanraemdonck.com · 10h

Rivetting talk by @robin.berjon.com introducing the ATmosphere to a room full of people fed up with the state of the web at #disinfo2026 "A private foundation should not be the one providing public infrastructure, it's time for the absentee states to step up"

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Bluesky Status @status.bsky.app · 19h

We are making infrastructure updates that may impact a limited number of users. status.bsky.app

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Journalists keep wanting the story to be "normal working class centrist has questions," not "our country is currently dominated by stupid people in a right wing echo chamber."

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

i think this is often the case. there's often a need to believe the story is much more complicated below the surface, but sometimes it's not.

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🎃🎃🎃Michael Scare-anicolas🎃🎃🎃 @karanicolas.bsky.social · 10h

Early reports suggest Global Affairs Canada has withdrawn sponsorship of a disinformation conference over a panel discussing the U.S. as a threat vector. If true, this is utterly embarrassing, and a sign Global Affairs is woefully unprepared to engage with the geopolitical context we are in.

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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 11h

On the surface, this looks very bad. We need a clear explanation from @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social.

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 10h

This time, France stands on the right side! 🇫🇷🥖

Roll up at Disinfo2026. French MFA last 'main supporter' remaining.

Tweet by @FrenchResponse
Enable free press ❌
Harass civil society ✅
Screenshot of a tweet on Shellengerber's manoeuvers to disrupt the conference.

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Evelyn @kandake.africa · 12h

Who invited the trickster demon to @disinfo.eu

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 10h

An update on sponsors pulling out of #Disinfo2026 at the last minute. Michael Shellenberger has followed up his earlier email to panelists participating in the event with another email, that include the following statements:

Since then the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote to me: "Upon becoming aware of the above-mentioned discussion topics, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania withdrew from any participation in the conference. The Ministry has also formally dissociated itself from the conference content and requested that the organisers remove all references to the Ministry from conference materials, communications, and promotional activities."
Andrius Katinas of the Radio and Television
Commission of Lithuania wrote to me that he has withdrawn as a speaker "in light of the differences of opinion that have arisen with the organisers of the
'Disinfo 2026' conference regarding the assessment of the role of the United States."

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Maarten Schenk @mschenk.bsky.social · 14h

Good points...

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Cathleen Berger @cathleen.eurosky.social · 11h

It’s shocking to hear that @eudiplomacy.bsky.social, the governments of Canada & Lithuania withdrew their #Disinfo2026 sponsorship on such short notice that the banners couldn’t be replaced. And: I love how the organizers made sure everyone knew that intimidation was not going to go unnoticed. #FIMI

Disinfo2026 banner of sponsors wi the three of them taped over by white stickers.

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