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Kavi …

@geryon.bsky.social
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Writer/teacher/etc [computational rhetoric] in Haldimand Tract/CUPE5524. See titleduntitled.name

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The combined undergraduate and graduate student populations of all Ivy League schools is about 140,000 students. The CUNY system alone is 250,000.
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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm coining a piece of AI safety terminology that I'd like to refer to as the Bond Villain problem. As a field, AI safety heavily leverages sci-fi pretty heavily, so I figure this should be fine.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/09/2026
reading this, it does seem as if “rationalism” is an elaborate intellectual architecture designed primarily to support the idea that if you were born white, male and clever then you are the genetic elite and entitled to rule.
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 26/09/2026
Microsoft's data center subcontractor in New Jersey illegally runs a bunch of gas "backup" generators on site, figuring they won't get caught or will just eat the wrist-slap fines if they do. Regulatory enforcement is so bad that a third party had to take drone images to get the state to act.
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New Jersey datacenter fined $1.1m after visual investigation showed dozens of unpermitted generators
State regulator’s record fine for DataOne facility in Vineland follows Floodlight investigation with the Guardian
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Kavi … @geryon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Media always can, and probably will, get much worse.
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 26/09/2026
there is the story of “lol all these dudes are internet nerds who read a 600k fanfic” but then you peel back the absurdity and it’s “also the community that many are funneled into via this fanfic is one with many allegations of sexual violence from community members that we should take seriously”
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
AI #slopaganda is not so much about fakes or disinformation. It's about aligning the world with your preformulated descriptions of it, making reality disappear behind its formulaic image, rendering visible all your fears at once in order to enjoy them more. It's a technology of fascist daydreaming
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My latest column is out today in @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy, in which I explain how the “new climate denialism” is holding back progress in the fight of our lives, and how PM Mark Carney has become its lead practitioner. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/25/o...
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Is Mark Carney a climate denier?
This new form of denialism has our political leaders assuring us they understand and accept the warnings about climate change — but they are in denial about what this scientific reality means for poli...
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Kavi … @geryon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What a brilliant way to make a system completely impervious to new, critical, or principled ideas
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’m so angry I wrote an article: In Germany, fascist majorities are a real possibility again, but the centrist merger of a revived Red Scare with open racism shows that mainstream media & politics are unable or unwilling to comprehend the seriousness of the crisis tribunemag.co.uk/2026/09/germ...
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Warning from Germany: It’s Socialism or Barbarism
Fascism is at the door, and liberals are ushering it in. Only the left offers hope.
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Kavi … @geryon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I want strong but simple & concise regulation, enforced by power to advocates rather than bureaucratic complexity. It’s so good that Mamdani seems to understand this and a problem to tie left politics to contracts and inscrutable codes that people hate interacting with.
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Nathan Ruser @nrg8000.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This shows the reality of Gaza in shocking resolution. I've scraped and exported all the imagery, totalling around 2.5 billion pixels at 13cm resolution, for safe keeping, in case they decide to take this imagery offline. If this happens, keep an eye out for access.
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Kavi … @geryon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Even accepting their terms, a genuine intelligence would not be genocidal or anti-ecological. Human caused extinctions are quirks of our history, and tendencies as social animals. Most human societies do not pursue ecocide and genocide: it’s telling of their eugenicist origins that EAs naturalize it
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
"In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental right to data protection" noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-mem...
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AI: EU Member States plan “digital expropriation” of Europeans in the interest of AI companies
In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of AI companies to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental rights of Europeans.
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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 21/09/2026
One of the problems with the AI industry being run by apocalyptic millenarian cultists isn’t that their end of the world scenarios are made up; it’s that like other similar millennialists, they think their desired end of the world is a utopia and they’ll do whatever they can to make it real.
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Kavi … @geryon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The problem isn’t Effective Altruism but venture capital and tech entrepreneurship. In Silicon Valley, in Toronto / Waterloo, in Bangalore, Tel Aviv, Paris, Oxford, and (on more of a leash) in Shenzen and Huangzhou. Nerd cults, chud cults, good old fashioned capitalists, all are enemies of society.
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Kavi … @geryon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It really capture the hell we are in that “kill chain” has become a common unremarked phrase to read in the newspaper
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 17/09/2026
“The human becomes the bottleneck.” - former Palantir employee giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
according to politico, since Jan. 2025, Trump admin has deported 170+ people “in violation of court orders,” “in defiance of legally mandated due process protections,” or “to countries from which they had sought or received protection from torture and persecution” ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...
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The Trump Justice Department Is Way Too Comfortable Violating Court Orders
Judges have tools for responding to noncompliance. They just have to use them.
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James A. Hodges @jameshodges.net · 15/09/2026
A “computer glitch” at this data center dumped 5,500 gallons of diesel into local waterways. The company responsible is 11% owned by BlackRock btw newjersey.news12.com/2026/09/14/d...
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Secaucus mayor says 'computer glitch' cause of thousands of gallons of diesel to spill from Secaucus data center
The fuel entered Anderson Creek, which flows into the Hackensack River.
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 12/09/2026
We have power in numbers, and we'll continue to fight for a better Starbucks. Support us by BOYCOTTING STARBUCKS until the company finalizes fair union contracts with workers! boycottstarbucks.net
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BOYCOTT STARBUCKS
Starbucks is the biggest violator of U.S. labor law in modern history. Join the movement - Boycott Starbucks!
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The professors and instructors who turn classrooms back into spaces for reading and discussion, are going to leave the biggest legacies in this world. Everyone one else will disappear into LLM wallpaper proxies and derivatives. 
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Kavi … @geryon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It’s all so predictable and exhausted. The EU and settler commonwealth champions of “human rights, liberal democracy, and multilateralism” in their calls for peace and statements of condemnation never bother to condemn those who carpet bomb civilian towns or engineer famines that starve 100,000s.
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Kavi … @geryon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Must support Anthropic or else the robots will be CCP, apparently! The essence of Amodei/Anthropicism is to say a bunch of anodyne things about regulation, tech & democracy, then admit actually there are no standards or rules as it’s an all out race with commies (who must be worse than our fascists)
Post by Anthropic ceo Dario Almodei where he declares he agrees with Secretary Bessent. Text at: https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
you can, if your library has books or subscriptions, have research labs for humanities courses, the way STEM courses have labs you can make communal spaces for writing you can emphasize process over productivity the choice to learn is always the student’s; that’s life. but you can make it easier
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Kavi … @geryon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
There’s such a gap between developers’ perceptions of the power of LLMs for coding (real, if specific) and consumers sense of the actual quality, reliability, and cost of consumer software. People use the chatbots, but apps are getting more bloated not more reliable, “computer says no” more often
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Kavi … @geryon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“safe and responsible AI”
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Kavi … @geryon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
LLM capabilities at various mathematical tasks seem to clearly be significant: there is no reason to dismiss the experts with integrity saying so. It‘s also clear OpenAI and others are pouring resources and intervening in many ways to get proofs, including by quietly hiring human mathematicians
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 01/09/2026
This essay talks about the left's vision for technology, the "alliance" between left and right-wing anti-data center movements, politics of refusal, democratic control over the AI infrastructure buildout, China, industrial policy, and more. www.thetechbubble.info/p/the-future...
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The Future Is Not Tech-Forward
On artificial intelligence, data centers, technological politics, and who gets to build the future.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
7/ What socio-political or geo-economic forces can contain the AI Kings of Silicon Valley driving catastrophe? @katemac.bsky.social In order: (1) US democracy (2) Fragility of their finances (3) 'China Scale' & 'China price' of AI frontier models (Itself a function of immense Chinese tech talent)
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/09/2026
We keep discussing ”strategies” for teaching in the age of AI to avoid talking about resources. It’s so boring!! The strategy is invest $ to hire people, lower class size, support research-engaged learning & stop measuring the worth of disciplines in relation to # of enrollments and majors.
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Thank you @gilltav.bsky.social for reminding us all of the Police response in 2021 👇 when some 40 environmental activists of Insulate Britain blocked the Port of Dover: 39 arrests. Compare that to yesterday when 200-400 fascist paramilitaries intimidated Dover town and blocked the Port: 0 arrests.
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Port of Dover: Arrests made as Insulate Britain blocks port
Queues form at Europe's busiest ferry terminal as Insulate Britain shift their protest from the M25.
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Kavi … @geryon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Nvidia buys Hugging Face: Yeah ok @davidthewid.bsky.social @meredithmeredith.bsky.social & @smw.bsky.social had the full story in “Open (For Business)” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Under the at least US-led political economy “open” projects WILL be tools of big SV tech & (the DOD) by default
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Open (For Business): Big Tech, Concentrated Power, and the Political Economy of Open AI
This paper examines ‘open’ AI in the context of recent attention to open and open source AI systems. We find that the terms ‘open’ and ‘open source’ are used in
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Kavi … @geryon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Harry Potter is so powerful because it’s the last book a lot of people ever read (meanwhile the Hunger Games kids are off battling the Tatmadaw instead of trans healthcare)
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 01/09/2026
A fundamental problem with "oh it's useful for coding" is that "generating more software faster" has, if anything, negative marginal utility in itself. The world is not suffering from a software shortage. The world is suffering from a software quality crisis, which LLMs seem more likely to worsen.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/09/2026
Who would like to guess why UK, US and European media outlets are not publishing 3,000 articles per minute about this www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
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‘Insane data’: Duke professor Dan Ariely accused of additional research fraud
New evidence released Monday shows that Dan Ariely, professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business, likely tampered with or fabricated data in an influential research paper from ...
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
what's fascinating to me is that basically most of the radical right populists who oppose the war in Iran are fine with operations against us (Tucker and people further to the right of him)
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is very possibly one of the most important moments in climate politics in our lifetimes. What happens now could range from “difficult UNFCCC conversation starter” to “one thousand op-eds about how loss and damage was always going to fail in this moment, and total loss of trust in UNFCCC”
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 01/09/2026
Casual conservative bigotry fused with US foreign policy consensus results in funny situations like this where a Republican candidate will attack his opponent for being of an inferior race while that Republican candidate stands on a platform of giving said inferior race's dictator weapons forever.
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Shocking abdication of scholarly ethics by the American Historical Association which hired a Washington DC lobbying firm to ensure anticipatory obedience and quash a popular movement to condemn Israeli scholasticide in Gaza: www.chronicle.com/article/a-sc...
In the past, AHA executives have been quite content to let members pass popular resolutions against such events as the Iraq war, and to make official statements opposing events like Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Regarding Palestine, though, they have decided that the AHA cannot take “institutional positions on an active geopolitical conflict,” lest the Trump administration take notice and find some way to revoke its congressional charter. Over the last 20 months or so, they have taken a series of what they have called “unusual steps” to quash every effort by the AHA membership to pass a resolution against the mass atrocities in Gaza, including vetoes of three separate popular resolutions acknowledging those atrocities as a genocide.
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 31/08/2026
Big tech giants reported more than $160bn last quarter in "other income". The source? Equity stakes in other AI companies ... Read the story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/ostEx9j
Bar chart showing quarterly “other income” reported by Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft and Nvidia from 2016 to 2026. The figure remained relatively small until surging dramatically in 2025 and 2026, reaching more than $160bn in the latest quarter.
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Kavi … @geryon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
So can have the digital platforms tax, news, digital content, and AI acts back please (or do we make some strongly worded statements then return to surrendering infrastructural power to US oligarchs, as the Liberals/Conservatives-and a faction of the NDP-always do)
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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 02/08/2026
One should think about “robot servants” as a kind of ostentatious display of extraneous capital, like rolling coal for the labor disciplinarian set. They don’t and can’t replace human labor as much as they enable showing off the waste of resources that requires extra human work to imply the opposite
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
In case people don't know, this is the size of a data center that runs in-house AI. This is a publicly-funded scientifically-backed climate modelling supercomputer. (human for scale) So when they tell you they need to build hyperscalers the size of Manhattan, you have to ask: what are those for?
Derecho supercomputer in Cheyenne, WY, taken in 2024.
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Kavi … @geryon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Part of the fertility rate panic is straightforward gutter racism, for sure. But also they‘re sophisticated enough to be fighting to have surplus populations. Overflowing slums, desperate workers, refugees. The world‘s big & “overpopulation” isn’t a threat either. But coerced-birth thinking’s dark..
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/08/2026
Historic opioid settlements were supposed to be a lifeline for underserved communities. But much of that money is flowing to law enforcement.
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Police are spending opioid settlement funds on Flock cameras
Historic opioid settlements were supposed to be a lifeline for underserved communities. But much of that money is flowing to law enforcement.
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Kavi … @geryon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
So now that we’re acting tough again when is the federal government going to block Thompson Reuters’ ICE surveillance contract?
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Kavi … @geryon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Pretty smart advertising to hire away a few top US academics while ceasing to fund and closing the doors to your own education system (in Ontario especially). This appeal to liberalism while capping and restricting international students (including Americans!) is another rank hypocrisy
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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Striking that, after decades of attacks on the humanities as too P.C., woke, etc, the U.S. public stil rates English departments as the most essential for a university to have.
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