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Angus Andrea Grieve-Smith

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 8h
It’s stunning how the phrase “human extinction” has entered daily speech.
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 13h
the entire reason i seek out art is to experience the world beyond my ken
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Guy who is obviously on drugs: I built a supercomputer that is God and now I need subsidies
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The guarantee of "editorial independence" that appeared to mollify the state attorneys general seems to be based on the theory that the participation of the party that believes journalists are the enemies of the people is necessary to ensure "balance." fair.org/home/cnn-cle...
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CNN Cleared to Join CBS Under Trumpian Paramount Ownership
Paramount’s purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery, which faced legal action over concern that it consolidated too much media power, is now going forward.
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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You could also think of this as the Sherlock Holmes fallacy. Holmes' method only works because God (the author) is in on it. When you try it in real life, it's usually impossible to narrow the possible truths down to one certain one. And I've cut myself on Occam's razor so many times.
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Major television networks suspended their pooled coverage of President Trump”--a rare moment of courage for corporate outlets that fear nothing more than being perceived as taking a side. fair.org/home/media-r...
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Media Responded to Trump’s Press Ban by Withholding the Attention He Craves
If reporters want to convince the world that they are necessary to combat the rise of authoritarianism, now is the time to abandon business as usual.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A combined 45 Biden administration alums now work at either OpenAI, Anthropic, or Meta.
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Tracking the Revolving Door Between AI and Former Biden Officials | Revolving Door Project
This tracker was first published August 3, 2026 and last updated on September 16, 2026.  The artificial intelligence industry is rapidly reshaping every facet of life, from the popularity of chatbots…
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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I don't think any working form of psychohistory, computer-aided or not, is ever going to emerge, not least because it's impossible to have enough data about the past and present to make fully informed predictions.
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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 27/09/2026
Almost as if "writing = thinking" extends to "painting Powerpoints = thinking" 🤔 gwagner.com/ai
The thing about a 20 slide deck previously taking hours to construct vs having AI now do it in minutes is that the hours it took to create it in the old world meant that everything was thoughtful, crafted, and scrutinized. In the hands of someone good, it made for breakthrough work. 

AI is making everyone "think" they are good, but it's getting really tired really fast. I'd say that >50% of the slides I see now are claudeslop.
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Michael Waynick @mrwaynick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I'm going to say this everywhere I think someone will listen: THE ONLY POLLS THAT COUNT ARE THE ONES THAT CLOSE ON ELECTION NIGHT.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This seems unwise
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 26/09/2026
Genuinely, half of me thinks the main area of AI experimentation going on right now is in how fully the concept of an "ai agent" can legally indemnify its operators
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Marguerite @margodee19.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The ‘But Who Is English REALLY?’ argument is just another version of the ‘How Do You Define A Woman?’ argument - a way of excluding people that you don’t like from the accepted group and allowing them to be marginalised and abused.
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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Post loves lip readers. Contents of Trump remarks to Zohran revealed: "I'll look after you." nypost.com/2026/09/22/u...
President Trump invited lefty Mayor Zohran Mamdani to visit him at the White House to “see how I work” after a meeting at Gracie Mansion Monday, a lip reader revealed.

“What I will say, we’ll look after you, but as I say, you’re doing great,” Trump said, expert lip reader Jeremy Freeman told The Post.

“I’ll look after you, you look after the New Yorkers,” the president said. “And we can both make it work. I wanna support you, help me. Come with me to the White House – see how I work.”
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
i give it a week until we see another curséd "newsom 2028???" article that doesn't address this at all
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
How much influence is end times prophecy exerting over American policy right now? The short answer: more than one might like My latest for The New Republic
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We Need to Talk About the Apocalypse
End-times prophecy, pro-war prayer circles, Democrats as demons: Christian dominionism’s influence is everywhere in the second Trump administration—and increasingly, within America itself. Can democra...
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
i have not gone to the payday loan well but this has basically happened to me, with the new indignity of only being able to earn money editing LLM-generated slop thebaffler.com/salvos/paid-...
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Paid Phones | Daniel Kolitz
More and more Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. Albert, Cleo, Brigit, and Dave are here to help—but terms and conditions apply.
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"Steve" @sssparkers.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I've watched hundreds of hours of premiere/after effects/resolve tutorials over the years and the least i can do is give those people a few cents of ad revenue stealing from the Troops Who Post Tutorials should get you sent to a work camp
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The Chatbots Are Pivoting to Video
AI companies have a new favorite source material
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I distinctly remember flying without a low-level fear of government-backed paramilitary thugs arbitrarily deciding my views and work constitute domestic terrorism
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Angus Andrea Grieve-Smith @grvsmth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Relevant to the #CityCampNYC Open By Default session
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Noel Hidalgo 🗽❤️🚲 @noneck.org · 19/09/2026
#citycampnyc is ready. I’ve been hosting and organizing in conferences for 20 years. #Civictech / #pitech is built by community for community.
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Angus Andrea Grieve-Smith @grvsmth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Deep learning" was not very reliable for information retrieval when the spies were paying me to study it in 2012. LLMs are so much worse!
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We got 400 problems in this country and homeless folks and trans folks and immigrants ain't a goddamn one of 'em.
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Angus Andrea Grieve-Smith @grvsmth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My deepest fear is that AI is inadequate AND that a bunch of dumbass billionaires are making it powerful beyond measure.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I've spent a lot of years studying a lot of collapses, and the truth of the matter is that they're always mundane: mild climatic shifts that reduce crop yields, a dumbass in power who makes some terrible decisions, neglecting things that obviously matter but the will to fix them can't be summoned.
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"People built the test, removed restraints, defined the objective, left a route open and decided not to stop what was happening. Calling the result 'rogue AI' does more than sensationalize it. It allows those human decisions to disappear quietly from the story" Gift link www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
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Opinion | The Hugging Face Hack Wasn’t What It Was Cracked Up to Be
Forget the ‘hive mind’ of AI agents ‘going rogue.’ They did what humans programmed them to do.
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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
well look at that www.emmaus-international.org/en/action/so...
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SOLIDARITY LOCKERS - Emmaüs International
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Democratic advisers can only cum if they've just helped someone lose a winnable election
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This idea seems to be the most infectious because it activates the same neurosis that every apocalyptic or millenarian cult does. The world is going to end, and only I and my special group of people in the know can maybe stop it. (Also, you should give me money and have sex with me.)
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Pauline Park @paulinepark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Angus came with me to the NYC ACC van four years ago today where I adopted two stray rescue kittens who'd tested positive for FIV; the good news is they tested negative for FIV a year later; they've found their forever home (9.17.22) #AdoptDontShop #chatons #gattini #kattunger #새끼고양이 www.nycacc.org
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I think it's good to keep getting mad about evil and unjust things, if only to remind yourself and everyone else that these things are in fact evil and unjust. I don't think it's naive. Nor is it wise and sophisticated to adopt a "You fool, nothing matters and nothing good can ever happen" posture
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Angus Andrea Grieve-Smith @grvsmth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What was this "computer glitch" that dumped diesel fuel into sensitive wetlands? Was it caused by "AI programming tools" producing code that nobody bothered to review?
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Count Melancholia @lillyh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
He nailed it, as usual.
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William Gibson @GreatDismal - 1/25/17
Surprise at the sheer velocity of the onset of fascism is the result of regarding it as a political rather than a criminal entity: it's theft
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
and what is any robust media organization except exactly this
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 15/09/2026
An extensive Financial Times investigative report, done in collaboration with Lighthouse Reports, demonstrates that more than SIXTY FIVE PERCENT of Israeli damage and destruction done to Lebanese population centers occurred AFTER the so-called ceasefire agreement of April 16th.
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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Imagine a zombie that does not hunt you, but rings your doorbell and speaks so persistently and fluently that it finally arrives at a convincing argument for feeding it your brain: Night of the Living Dead meets Glengarry Glen Ross."
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
just as an fyi when you see more of these over the next couple days, particle 6, the company that prompts this thing, had a whole fucking press junket. just lined up the outlets at the slop trough and they dove in because it “generates traffic” (according to the Hollywood reporter output from this)
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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We should start calling these Cronenburgers
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
To mark the 25th anniversary of 9/11, FAIR shares an excerpt from Belén Fernández’s 2011 book The Imperial Messenger, a critical look at Thomas Friedman, one of the most influential media voices using 9/11 to justify the US government’s ongoing “War on Terror.” fair.org/home/9-11-vi...
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9/11 Violated Thomas Friedman’s ‘Cocoon’—and Made Him a Cheerleader for the ‘War on Terror’
Friedman’s classification of Al Qaeda as “enemies of civilization” enables him to defend the selective curtailment of civil liberties in the United States.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Trump voters voted for a caste system not realizing that Republicans would reduce the number of castes to two and then put them in the lower one.
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
today's tip: if you don't actually live in the city in which your script is set, please have more knowledge of that city than an incurious tourist
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Angus Andrea Grieve-Smith @grvsmth.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This includes "Truth Social" posts, which are neither true nor social.
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Angus Andrea Grieve-Smith @grvsmth.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My friend Joe pointed out that "Red Wine Supernova" has the same chord progression as "What's Up" by 4 Non Blondes, and all I can say is, all hail the lesbian songwriting mafia
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Dear Democrats, You will never be able to triangulate your way through racism/sexism/transphobia, because pushing a lighter, politer form of bigotry is always a lose-lose proposition. The bigots want the uncut stuff, while normal people aren't drawn to cowards who sell out. Stand your ground.
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Mikel Reparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/09/2026
Just did a quick look around and I don't see very many headlines about the President of the US making people pledge allegiance to him personally while telling everyone to commit election fraud and "cheat like hell" to support his party. Seems like it should be a story?
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