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DBdant @dbdant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This tidbit was in the article. 🎈💥 ? "Goldman Sachs warned Friday that AI hyperscalers, including Meta, need to generate roughly $300 billion a year in AI services revenue just to break even on their capital spending—and $1 trillion annually to earn meaningful profits—spooking investors."

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Mark Zuckerberg Loses $9 Billion In A Day As Goldman Sachs Pours Cold Water On Meta Stock Rally

Zuckerberg’s $9 billion loss was the biggest single-day drop among any billionaire Friday.

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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 25/09/2026

Bluesky has got to be the quietest social network I've ever used. I don't get much engagement here, but I always find something interesting, often intellectually engaging, and occasionally something soulful. Unlearning my social media expectations might be the whole ball game.

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Ajuna Soerjadi 🌸 @ethicsofai.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My representation of some of the discourse about @irisvanrooij.bsky.social her work 🤣🤣🤣

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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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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Honoured to be mentioned by @felienne.bsky.social in her AI newsletter! Riffing off of her vitamin-C phrasing, I may start to refer to this type of work as vitamin-CC, or vitamin-C^2

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

All we can expect when trying to scale up AI systems is diminishing returns and devastating environmental damage. Calls for `slowing down’ can conveniently hide the diminishing returns, while still convincing people that the tech is “all powerful”.

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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 18/09/2026

I agree (and rail against "just a tool" framing all the time). But if people insist, we must ask "for what?". Land mines are a tool for killing children decades after an armed conflict. "AI" is a tool for fraud, for erasing consent, for deflecting liability, for consolidating power.

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Air gapping apparently wouldn't work in alignment tests because, I shit you not according to this OpenAI guy, one computer could run the CPU hot and tell the other airgapped one it is in trouble. I wish I could get paid $10m a year to say the stupidest cybersecurity thing you've ever heard

Tweet by Fireside Alpha, which reads:
OpenAI's Noam Brown says air-gapping the computers may not stop a misaligned AI, because two air-gapped machines can still talk by running a CPU hot and reading the temperature change.

There's a picture of a white guy with glasses, looking very concerned, under this text.

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 17/09/2026

It was confirmed yesterday that the centre left coalition won the election in Sweden As predicted, with the far right performing poorly, coverage has almost entirely vanished from international media

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Nate Silver bodied by John Delaney

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 16/09/2026

I'm fascinated by U.S. tech and business journalism because it doesn't adhere to literally any rules of actual journalism. There's no effort to actually explain objective truth; they can't even so much as hint at the fact there's funny math here and the company isn't worth anything close to this

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OpenAI Considers New Financing at a $1.5 Trillion Valuation (Gift Article)

The funding round would double the value of the start-up behind ChatGPT and establish it as the world’s most valuable private company.

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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 15/09/2026

Ed Sheeran's tour bus.

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank

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Felienne Hermans @felienne.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Grote schoenen om te vullen... Sinds deze maand ben ik Ton van Haperen opgevolgd als columnist voor het Onderwijsblad van @aob.nl Lees m hiero (als je goed kan inzoomen) of op mijn site: www.felienne.nl/2026-09-01/

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You can't blame Ed Sheeran for caving in to American stadium owners I suppose. I mean, take these guys in the 60s, they refused to play to racially-segregated audiences in stadiums in the southern states of the USA and who remembers them now?

bbc.co.uk

The Beatles banned segregated audiences, contract shows

The Beatles refused to play to segregated audiences in the US, a contract for one of the group's concerts shows.

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

the greatest president on climate change in history and all y’all do is complain

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

You know who else returned after a long absence where everyone believed him to be dead

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Every other headline now is "Huge liar who's financially motivated to lie says"

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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Remembering Amy Winehouse on her birthday. 🤍

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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Wow

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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm applying to professorships in both Fairy Tales, and Robotics Innovation.

"Now thats what I call *Interdisciplinarity*" album cover

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Maarten Pronk @evetion.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I made github.com/evetion/Dial..., a small, fun #Julia package to translate Julia keywords (e.g., function , for) to your own language (functie, voor, in Dutch) during the hackathon at #juliacon2026. Inspired by #hedylanguage by @felienne.bsky.social and the recent changes to the Julia parser.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Patrick Chappatte, Neue Zürcher Zeitung

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I see the NYT is still platforming 'dei crushed white men' bullsh*t. Here it's buried in a 'why rural themed pop culture' is so popular in a piece written by a Princeton grad who lives in New York City. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/o...

Today, it’s country music that — for all its commercial success — represents the underdog. As diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives accord advantages to everyone except straight white men; as globalization and an urban, knowledge-based economy have impoverished and emptied out rural communities; and as trust in institutions including higher education and the federal government declines, the culture of rural working-class whites can symbolize an unconstrained way of life that stands apart from the stifling, all-encompassing H.R. bureaucracy that everyone else lives in.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Trump view, and the congressional Republican view, on AI security issues is that the tech bros must have whatever they want, and all discussion or debate about existential issues surrounding AI must be curtailed and concerns ridiculed. After all, the tech bros bought the GOP fair and square.

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Johnson Calls for Meeting With AI Leaders Before Any Legislation

House Speaker Mike Johnson says any federal legislation on artificial intelligence shouldn’t be rushed and “we need to summon” AI industry leaders to “one big meeting” first.

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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

trying to make new friends as an adult

Amy Adams in Arrival holding the white board that says HUMAN while she's trying to communicate with aliens

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tante @tante.cc · 09/09/2026

One for EU citizens: The EU is asking for feedback on "strategic vision for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the cultural and creative sectors and industries" You can tell them not to fund more slop in the arts!

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Have your say

European Commission - Have your say

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her school

Norman Rockwell’s painting depicting the event, “The Problem We All Live With,” originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964 issue of Look magazine.

Ruby Bridges talking with President Obama as they look at Rockwell’s painting while it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is basically a push poll and Zohran still beat it.

12. Mayor Mamdani has faced intense scrutiny from critics regarding his political circle and
statements. Do you feel his administration represents the core values of the average New Yorker
or is his platform out of step with average New Yorkers?
(N=500) n %
Represents core values of average New Yorkers-------301 60.20
Platform is too out of step with average New
Yorkers -----------------------------------------------------------140 28.00
Undecided --------------------------------------------------------- 56 11.20
Refused--------------------------------------------------------------- 3 0.60

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

🎯🎯🎯🎯 Every study initiated on the subject makes it clear that the most effective, cheapest (yes, CHEAPEST, most inexpensive, highest return on investment) forms of aid are direct cash payments with zero means testing, and on-request right-to-housing. These are just facts.

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ceej @ceej.online · 05/09/2026

so I’m “under arrest.” interesting. perhaps you didn’t realize I’m one of bluesky’s 38 most influential posters

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The Onion @theonion.com · 04/09/2026

Smoke Alarm Sick Of Being Yelled At For Doing Its Job theonion.com/smoke-alarm-sick-of-be…

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

fun part if you ask me: higher ed institutions in secular democracies are the closest approximation of a 'marketplace of ideas' as you are likely to find this side of a global revolution and a lot of people who claim to like that idea do not seem to love its results

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

To think that we live among idiots who think that "elite institutions" have been "captured by leftist ideologues" lmao

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/09/2026

It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it.

The mayor’s office says that it does not pay the influencers. Still, their proximity and access to a figure as popular as Mr. Mamdani can help increase their own social media following and, by extension, potentially put them in a position to attract paid content sponsorships from commercial brands. Some influencers said that when they feature Mr. Mamdani, the videos get more likes and viewers watch longer.

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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026

I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 01/09/2026

For one thing, "software engineers" as a group are not experts. They don't have some form of accreditation, there's no standard of knowledge required to be a software engineer. "Listen to software engineers" isn't the same category of statement as "listen to climatologists".

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 01/09/2026

Thank you, macOS.

macOS suggesting a grammar edit, to turn "I know this is a small part" to "I this [am | are] a small part."

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Nolen Gertz @ethicistforhire.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Updating my Philosophy of Technology syllabus (or at least the recommended movies part)...

Week 1: Terminator 2 event
Week 2: Playtime Philofilm
Week 3: Desk Set
Week 4: Modern Times
Week 5: Ghost in the Shell 2
Week 6: Silent Running
Week 7: Colossus: The Forbin Project
Week 8: The Matrix

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

He should un-delete this tweet because he was spitting

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Felienne Hermans @felienne.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

De Weg bij Big Tech tip van deze week: kies een andere zoekmachine dan Google! Want de oprichters van Google begonnen dan wel idealistisch, in 2004 schreven ze nog: "We believe it is very important that the results users get from our search engine are produced with only their interests in mind...

Tekst in deze afbeelding:

Stap over op een andere zoekmachine. Ik gebruik zelf sinds een tijdje zoekmachine Kagi.

Kagi kost 10 euro per maand, en ja, betalen voor search is, geef ik toe, even wennen. Maar zoals ze zelf zeggen: "Our customers pay for a service and we provide them with a service." Zo simpel kan het zijn.

Het is wel even wennen, de zoekresultaten gewoon weer onder elkaar, zonder suggesties en zijbalken, maar het is ook een stuk rustiger, na een tijdje wil je echt niet meer terug, dan wordt het "Google that looks bizarre and unfamiliar every time I open it".

Kagi trackt je niet, ook een rustig gevoel! Ze hebben wel een AI modus (Quick Answer) maar die moet je zelf aanklikken, en je kan 'm als je wilt ook helemaal uitschakelen.

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