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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 04/10/2026

We need to rephrase the whole discussion in terms of hazardous products, instead of "minds". And then we need to make sure that there's liability. A model hacks someone? Put a C-suite guy in jail. A model produces sexual harassment material? Put a C-suite guy in jail. Watch how fast things get safe

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What's accountability for war crimes?

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We should stop indulging the weird god complex at the heart of the "broken culture" at the AI companies, and start treating them like the mundane criminally negligent narcissists they are

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If we can't hold rich people accountable, then we need to abolish rich people

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If we can't hold rich people accountable, then we need to abolish rich people

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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Little "will to power" take: Maybe they want it to be conscious, because they want to feel power over it. 🤷 (Like, if they *were* right, and Claude *had* moral standing, this whole thing would come down to "we're trying to build slaves for ourselves" - surely, a God complex if there ever was one)

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

AI is the use of commensurability for the production of its opposite, incommensurability

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I see some discussion here about the days of stochastic parrots being over, and I think there is an in-ter-est-ing thing to note that *one's own* conversations a chatbot can seem quite plausible and useful but the minute someone else sends you some AI-generated text, it is clearly no good at all

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The better AI gets, the more (and more subtle) AI psychoses we're gonna see, especially among intellectually inclined people. Not because the machines make you insane, but because it's becoming painfully obvious that sanity isn't just an individual-level property, but something social, ...

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's insane how many ppl even entertain the idea of data fabrication as being good for research.

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I guess this is one of my many "wait, nobody knows about this thing that I thought everyone knew about" moments (I think most German leftists heard of it because one of the cases in which the "phantom" was involved was a cop murdered by a far right terrorist group that mostly murdered immigrants)

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And if they don't, it doesn't really matter either

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

AI is certainly supercharging the "morbid symptoms of the interregnum"

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victor @notnaughtknot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I tire of explaining eacc/doomers/groypers to my superiors

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Loll Yudkowsky, Soares and such AREN'T SHILLS? The Yudkowsky who founded the eugenicist, rationalist cult? The one who predected singularity to be 2025? The one in the sex parties that women have to attend to "network? The rape orgies with dubious consent mechanisms that Soares coorganizes?

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

AI is reified anti-intellectualism In chapter 4 of 'Why We Fear AI', we argue that this results quite directly from its political economy as a tool to devalue skills and knowledge

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Looking for a post doc? Come join us at the Machine Visual Culture Research Group, which “combines digital and computational art history, critical AI studies, and the history of art and visual culture.” www.biblhertz.it/3815269/2909...

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Call for Postdoctoral Research Fellows in Digital Art History

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As a German speaker, who has trouble keeping Schmitt and Smith apart (they're the same word?!), being online has been confusing lately

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 30/09/2026

shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight.

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

AI is reified anti-intellectualism In chapter 4 of 'Why We Fear AI', we argue that this results quite directly from its political economy as a tool to devalue skills and knowledge

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The problem that we need to solve isn't rogue AI, it's that companies increasingly think they can just price crime into the business model and get away with it

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Boy, I'm so glad we've got this problem out of the way, huh?

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strongly agreed. fines and criminal penalties should not merely communicate a finger wag but actually change the strategic situation of a would-be white collar criminal

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OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models

Look, the solution is obvious. Hold the execs accountable for the crime that the committed by their greedy negligence. Who cares about "superintelligence", what's rogue here is a number of companies with unsafe business practices which knowingly endanger the public

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Employees and security researchers said they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but OpenAI did not listen.

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OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models

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Employees and security researchers said they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but OpenAI did not listen.

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That is, the results were already known, the researchers who discovered them put them into Claude, and hence the model "discovered" the results later I don't think this is a sustainable business model, going from stealing all data to stealing your paying customers' data?

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The Cornell rape story and the Silicon Valley professional orgy culture story are the same story.

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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

so BOTh of the two latest “ai” “breakthroughs” came from training on the user data of the people who actually did the work, themselves, and made the fatal error of putting novel research into their claude chats? amazing stuff. they invented auto-cannibalization of their users

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

As a man who knows other men, and teaches young men, this is absolutely true. I’m gonna go further: there are a wide variety of everyday acts, acts that a majority of men commit, maintain the threat of sexual violence as a condition of women’s being in the world.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/09/2026

Remember the random dude who got 49020939 articles of uncritical media coverage in the space of two days because he quit anthropic based on his fears of existential AI risk? Yeah..........he's a climate denier. So is the whole AI industry. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a...

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Can't understand the AI doomer shit without understanding that it is a way of **not dealing with climate change**

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Understanding Capital @ucapital.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Episode 4 A! The Fetish Character of the Commodity: Social relations between people? Quantitative relations between things? What's going on with society in capitalism?!

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Episode 4 A - Chapter 1.4: The Fetish Character of the Commodity [p. 47-59]

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Descartes thought the only thing you can take for granted is you. Pretty sure you can also take for granted that you and your experience are finite. Aka, you're in a bubble

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 26/09/2026

For the wealthiest people, crime is simply something they price into their business calculations, and then keep on doing. Crime is now normal for the ruling class.

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Does anyone know of a good “why and how to leave Substack” FAQ that has some element discussing the political issues related to what it means to use it as well as logistics? Having a hard time finding such a thing. @anildash.com

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/09/2026

For the wealthiest people, crime is simply something they price into their business calculations, and then keep on doing. Crime is now normal for the ruling class.

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A massive Microsoft data centre was fined after a drone investigation revealed the use of illegally operating gas turbines -->> www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In what world is it the purview of the President/Executive branch “to force conservative cultural changes on academia‘? And why end the paragraph without noting that there is no legal justification whatsoever for Trump and his minions to “force cultural change” on institutions of higher education.

Inside the White House, some of Mr. Trump’s top lieutenants have expressed frustration about a perceive slowdown in the adminstration’s attempts to force conservative cultural changes on academia.

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Breaking news: "Model of human behavior models human behavior" Hey, look, I'm creating life right now: while pain = 1: print("Aaaah") Should we torture it? pain = 1

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I think we could try to falsify that premise (Thankfully, logic tells us that doesn't necessarily invalidate the conclusion)

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