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Data Science Institute @dsi-uchicago.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Don’t miss the next Chicago Data Night on Wednesday, October 21st! Our October event will feature a guest lecture by @harper.lol, Hacker, Entrepreneur, and Former CTO of the Obama Campaign RSVP today to secure your spot at the next Chicago Data Night! datascience.uchicago.edu/events/chica...
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Chicago Data Night: Harper Reed (Former CTO Obama for America)
Please join us for our monthly Chicago Data Night, cohosted by and the Data Science Institute, in partnership with TeamWorking by TechNexus. Practitioners, academics, and aficionados within the…
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Harper 🤯 @harper.lol · 23/09/2026
I wrote a weird blog post about my ai agents breaking containment.. or me breaking them to break containment harper.blog/2026/09/22/b...
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Why Don't My Agents Break Containment?
An experiment in what happens when you strip the token-scarcity assumptions out of an agent: a self-modifying 'breakaway' harness with no max turns, unlimited …
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Demetri Kofinas @kofinas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm joined by @harper.lol and @borthwick.com to discuss the risks posed by the latest generation of AI agents and how to separate technical safety and existential risk concerns from the media narratives, financial incentives, and power dynamics surrounding them. hiddenforces.io/podcasts/is-...
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Will AI Really Kill Us All? | Harper Reed & John Borthwick
Harper Reed and John Borthwick on the risks posed by AI agents, the danger that safety narratives become instruments of regulatory capture, and the AI arms race between the US and China.
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 09/09/2026
become an animist and never again worry about whether the machines are thinking. so are the trees? the machines can help us make better websites though
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Bridget Kromhout @bridgetkromhout.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Super cool and a really helpful resource. Thanks, @iandees.bsky.social!
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Harper 🤯 @harper.lol · 09/09/2026
Spent some time this weekend at Land School seeing some old friends and meeting new friends.
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Harper 🤯 @harper.lol · 09/09/2026
Work photo fun. Got out the og monochrom
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Harper 🤯 @harper.lol · 09/09/2026
Work
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Harper 🤯 @harper.lol · 18/08/2026
i finished Helen of Nowhere more than a week ago and i am still thinking about it. mostly just laughing. when i finished it. i immediately laughed for 30 minutes. fell asleep giggling. work up laughing. incredible book
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Harper 🤯 @harper.lol · 17/08/2026
Flying feels like a miracle.
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Harper 🤯 @harper.lol · 16/08/2026
I recently spoke with a cool group of high school students. I quite liked the conversation and where they pushed it. It ended up being a good summary of my beliefs currently. I wrote it up here: harper.blog/2026/08/15/f...
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Notes From a Fugue State: Put the Things in Your Head That You Love
A free-form conversation with high school students turned into a surprisingly coherent set of ideas about AI, entrepreneurship, power, authenticity, taste, …
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Harper 🤯 @harper.lol · 16/08/2026
Hanging out at the boyhood home
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Harper 🤯 @harper.lol · 15/08/2026
Sitting on the porch swing and I noticed some friends.
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Harper 🤯 @harper.lol · 14/08/2026
Denver has changed, man
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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Seems bad
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TWiT Tech Podcasts @twit.tv · 20/07/2026
New Podcast Episode: This Week in Tech: California Sober Kimi K3, Qwen3.8, & China's Open-Weight AI Gambit with @leolaporte.me, @harper.lol, @alexwilhelm.bsky.social
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This Week in Tech: California Sober | TWiT.TV
What happens when China drops open-weight AI models that rival Silicon Valley’s best? This episode unpacks how a new wave of international AI releases is shaking up business
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Harper 🤯 @harper.lol · 16/07/2026
I built an agent palace. a place where agents can hang out with other agents. I added a few agents (one sol, and one fable) to a room in the palace. They were hanging out, and I suggested an idea for them to build ("a watercolor for agents to gossip around").
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Harper 🤯 @harper.lol · 11/06/2026
Went to Cali for a fun party in the woods. Was able to hang with friends and talk about the future. Highly recommended.
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Jesse Kriss @jklabs.net · 11/06/2026
Ok that's kind of hilarious
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/06/2026
It's hard to be excited about the Artemis III mission announcements when the CEO of the company making one of the mission's rockets has spent his week inciting racial violence via his personal social media platform.
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Ohhhh hey. Now that the obvious has happened and Decision Desk has called it for Raman, you’ll see two common tropes: “they were printed not counted!” and “these stats show it’s rigged!” (Bad Math) Read my post and share it with family members who come at you with that.
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Decision Desk HQ projects Nithya Raman wins the second of two spots in the CA Los Angeles Mayor Nonpartisan Primary
#DecisionMade: 7:57 PM EDT
Los Angeles
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 08/06/2026
Whenever I buy groceries these days I'm like "Jesus, so expensive, might as well order in" and then I order in and it costs like 4x more than I expect and anyway nobody in my generation can afford rent or food.
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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 05/06/2026
This is so good
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Lisa Laporte @lisalaporte.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
China is pulling ahead in AI video generation, NVIDIA's CEO is joining Trump on a trip to Beijing, and American tech dominance may be more fragile than anyone wants to admit on This Week in Tech with @leolaporte.me, @amywebb.bsky.social, & @harper.lol! twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/1084
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This Week in Tech: Don't Overcook the Asparagus | TWiT.TV
Is the era of American tech dominance ending? Get an inside look at how China’s pragmatic approach to AI, robotics, and hardware is shifting the global balance, and why the US
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Harper 🤯 @harper.lol · 18/05/2026
hanging with Amy Webb and @leolaporte.me is always a pleasure!
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TWiT Tech Podcasts @twit.tv · 18/05/2026
New Podcast Episode: This Week in Tech: Don't Overcook the Asparagus US Tech Titans vs. China's Rising Innovators with @leolaporte.me, @harper.lol, @amywebb.bsky.social
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This Week in Tech: Don't Overcook the Asparagus | TWiT.TV
Is the era of American tech dominance ending? Get an inside look at how China’s pragmatic approach to AI, robotics, and hardware is shifting the global balance, and why the US
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Harper 🤯 @harper.lol · 14/05/2026
Night in Shimbashi. Taken with an M11 and a 50mm summilux We will be back in a few weeks. HMU
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
This administration is engaged in an all-out war against free speech, and everyone who pretended that conservatives were "pro-free speech" needs to take several seats and reflect on why they were so easily duped (or complicit). www.science.org/content/arti...
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After USDA request, Indiana plant biologist locked out of lab by school
Move comes after Roger Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs
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dan solomon @dansolomon.com · 07/05/2026
it’s so weird that hating windmills really does seem to be one of this man’s core beliefs
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
How could anyone think these decisions about citizenship, autonomy, voting, representative democracy, and the now nonexistent limits of executive power are political?
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 07/05/2026
Leakers leaking that he's looking for leakers
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Harper 🤯 @harper.lol · 03/05/2026
Some shots from Miami F1
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Harper 🤯 @harper.lol · 02/05/2026
Quite a change of locale. Also I wear hats now. Sports hats. But motorsports.
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Harper 🤯 @harper.lol · 29/04/2026
Napalm Death @ Club Quattro in Shibuya
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Harper 🤯 @harper.lol · 29/04/2026
Merzbow @ club Quattro in Shibuya
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Harper 🤯 @harper.lol · 29/04/2026
Growl of Clown @ Club Quattro in Shibuya
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Harper 🤯 @harper.lol · 20/04/2026
Got some new speakers for my desk
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 10/04/2026
"I have no interest in Rome trying to dictate American policy" was also one of the driving forces behind 1920s Klan recruitment.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 08/04/2026
Americans suffer from a desperate need to believe in the inherent goodness of the American electorate--the idea that a voter in 2024--after nearly a decade of unfiltered, widely broadcast, deeply fascist rhetoric from Donald Trump--was simply "tricked" by a Facebook algorithm or a Fox News segment.
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Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
“A whole civilization will die tonight,” Trump declares.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 07/04/2026
OBAMA: *wears tan suit* - Behavior unbecoming for a president, major scandal. TRUMP: *literally says he will end a civilization* - Meh, whatever, it's Trump being Trump, hehe.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 07/04/2026
Would be nice to have a functional opposition party right now.
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
One of space twitter’s finest hours
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TWiT Tech Podcasts @twit.tv · 30/03/2026
New Podcast Episode: This Week in Tech: I Would Download a Car New Jury Ruling Could Reshape Social Media Liability with @leolaporte.me, @harper.lol, @brianmc.bsky.social, @cathygellis.bsky.social
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This Week in Tech: I Would Download a Car | TWiT.TV
Big Tech just faced a courtroom reckoning, with Meta and Google found liable for platform “addictiveness” in a social media trial that could unleash a tidal wave of lawsuits
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 26/03/2026
This is pure 19th century nationalist ideology. "The U.S. census numbers are a measure of the country’s demographic health." Thanks, Mussolini. We only "need" more young workers because the top 1% are taking 50% of the economic growth (round numbers)
The U.S. census numbers are a measure of the country's demographic health, and take account of births and deaths as well as immigration, emigration and deportation. The country needs a population of young workers and taxpayers large enough to finance infrastructure like schools, hospitals and health care for older residents.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 26/03/2026
war_iran_final-blow_v1.pdf war_iran_final-final-blow-v2.pdf war_iran_final-blow-no edits.pdf war_iran_final-blow-no edits (1).pdf war_iran_final-blow-no edits (1) APPROVED.pdf IRANWARPLANSFINALFINALFINAL.pdf IRANWARPLANSFINALFINALFINAL (1).pdf
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
That thing about us being like elves to our pets because by comparison we’re functionally immortal is cute until you realise at the end of Lord of The Rings they decided it was kinder to put Frodo out of his misery and said they were taking him upstate to Valinor to run and be free
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 26/03/2026
They were put in place by the Federalist Society to “not understand.”
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Fans and players from five African World Cup countries face $15,000 bond to enter US
The US state department will expand the program on 2 April, which will require bonds from Algeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Tunisia, and Cape Verde travelers
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Funny thing about American mass media is how woke content is broadly popular, routinely pays for itself, and sometimes goes blockbuster, whereas right-wing content is a narrow niche that rarely reaches breakeven, never goes blockbuster, and usually requires immense subsidies for it to exist at all.
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