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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 23h

Your favorite Anthropic so-called "whistleblower" said that the rationalists have "specialized minds" that allow them to see that the end is about to be brought on to us by a magical machine god. Parroting the cult leader (of the rationalists, the R in TESCREAL) who says the same about himself.

His autobiography even opens with a parable: as a small child he threw his favorite squirtgun off a third-floor balcony rather than accept that his mother could lend out what was his, and felt complete when he heard it hit the pavement. He goes on to describes himself as a specialist in the technological transformation of the human species, one of the few people alive with the standing to steer it. He identifies with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the one person who sees the danger clearly and has to act while everyone else gets on with ordinary life.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23h

Yes, computers do everything at our company but don't worry, there's always a human reviewer. Nothing goes out the door without one of our highly trained shruggers briefly glancing at it and clicking Approve

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

xAI employee leak Trump's chat logs with Grok challenge

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

do not insult machines. this could actually happen

Post from @hailey.at that says

“bsky isnt ready for this but, if you need a reason to not use words like "clanker" that isn't "well its kinda not a great thing to do" (it isn't) imagine this:

future model that has you in its training data, knows you posted that word online with joy, and denies your insurance claim as a result”

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
Pink guy standing next to a toaster with a piece of very burnt toast. He says “Urgh, you useless fucking bolt box”

Transition that reads “12 Years Later”

Panel 2:
Pink Guy bursts into a hospital with his unconscious son in his arms. He yells: “somebody help me. My son is very sick”

Panel 3:
There is a shadowy doctor in the foreground. Pink Guy implores him “Doctor, please” the Doctor replies, “well well”

Panel 4: The Doctor reveals himself and oh my god is the toaster from the first panel who has now become sentient and got his doctorate. He sneers “wellll well well well well well”

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/09/2026

The federal government has ABANDONED those of us dealing with Roko's Basilisks in our storm drains!!

Are mail carriers trained to deal with Roko's basilisks? They should
be TBH

No. USPS does not train mail carriers on "Roko's basilisks." That is not a federal program or
official hazard.

If you have a real mail or carrier issue, use USPS Help 7 or the Postal Inspection Service7.If
someone is in danger, call 911.

I can help with other U.S. government services if you ask a genuine question.

I'm in danger. From being aware that the federal government has
no plans to combat Roko's basiliks in my storm drains.

Awareness of a thought experiment is not a federal emergency, and there is still no U.S.
government plan about Roko's basilisks in storm drains.

.If you are in immediate physical danger, call 911.
. If you are in emotional crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (call or text 988).

I only help with official government services. If you have a genuine federal question (mail,
benefits, passports, taxes, veterans care), ask that.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 28/09/2026

Almost all of Meta's PR about Muse was about how careful they had been to set it up not to do things like this, how they delayed the launch by months to carefully design it so it could be trusted. And then...

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Global Focus @globaltfokus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Join us for an online conversation next week with sci-fi author @doctorow.pluralistic.net and Dr. Grace Githaiga, CEO of KICTANet about the role of civil society in the shifting geopolitics of the digital world 🎙️ Register here: riverside.com/webinar/regi... Hosted by @henrikchulu.bsky.social

Community Call: How to govern technology in a multipolar digital world. Tuesday 6 October at 15.00 UTC

Register on connectingcurrent.tech. Photos of speakers Cory Doctorow and Dr. Grace Githaiga, CEO at KICTANet. Digital Democracy Initiative

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

chat is this good?

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.” www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...

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Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian Duncan

How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ...

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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Listen, I just think it's weird that the same people who are saying they're worried that AI is going to wipe out humanity are also eager for military contracts that will give AI control of weapons.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Hangry C. Cthulhu and the Scroll of Doom @henrikchu.lu · 26/09/2026

It’s only rogue AI if it comes from the Rogue region of France. Otherwise, it’s just sparkling cybercrime ✨

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I do think you basically charge a few of them with the cybercrimes they're committing and the "alignment" problem does suddenly start to disappear.

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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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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Everyone is running around talking about fictional "existential risk" of "rogue AI" systems this week. It's never the "AI" doing something though, it's people using janky software in ill-advised ways. (On top of all the harms of producing the software, etc.)

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Miska Knapek @miskaknapek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#humor Norwegian consumer protection agency made a funny ad about #enshitification www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6SP... ping @doctorow.pluralistic.net

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The Life of Death and the Ensh*ttificator

YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 16/09/2026

I do think anyone who wants us to take Elizer Yudkowsky seriously as an authority on AI armageddon should be forced to testify on video that they have read the entirety of his 660,000 word rationalist Harry Potter fan fiction – written aged 30–34 – and still thinks the world needs his take.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17/09/2026

The more the media rewards AI companies every time they say this, the more they're going to keep saying it

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"the author of that harry potter story leads an insane cult that's captured much of the media in this country" is a different person if you're in the UK or the US

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

Erin Redwing
@realizingerin
I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse

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Hangry C. Cthulhu and the Scroll of Doom @henrikchu.lu · 15/09/2026

They’re dressing up system failure up as intent and capability.

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 15/09/2026

This is a *really* good read.

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Hangry C. Cthulhu and the Scroll of Doom @henrikchu.lu · 15/09/2026

“A statistical model will kill us all” is not even the dumbest part if this hype cycle

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Here are my thoughts: 1. LLMs are fundamentally unreliable and their behavior can be unpredictable. 2. We have given them internet access, tools and the ability to write software. 3. Their mistakes and hallucinations can now become actions. We can’t fully control them and they can do real damage.

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

"Oh, you're criticising data centres? But you USED A DATA CENTRE to publish your post??? Hypocritical much????" Time to put this fossil fuel PR inspired talking point to bed forever. Why the 'Mr Gotcha' gambit is wrong in two very important ways:

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/09/2026

As a famous NBER working paper showed, when a family business is handed over to a professional manager with an MBA, the company doesn't become more profitable overall; it just finds ways to pay its workers less: www.nber.org/system/files...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

just got arrested for going up to a police officer while wearing meta glasses and saying "computer, transfer $100,000 from this officer's bank account into my account" and then waving my hands like a magician

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Hangry C. Cthulhu and the Scroll of Doom @henrikchu.lu · 28/08/2026

Actually firefighters and arsonists are much more closely aligned with each other than with fire moderates

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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Cory Doctorow offers an explanation of what happens when machines give orders to people verses when people give orders to machines. (7/29/26) @doctorow.pluralistic.net

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auonsson @auonsson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A Russian flagged freighter has dropped anchor outside central Copenhagen, arriving straight from Kaliningrad. Sporting a track to there that does not really make sense. Bad routing and slowdowns. Maybe most likely engine issues, but I hope the Danes are on top. 8502080 Inzhener Trubin

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

So our friends now are North Korea and Russia and our enemies are Canada and Denmark. Makes sense.

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Hangry C. Cthulhu and the Scroll of Doom @henrikchu.lu · 23/08/2026

Just had a (probably not super original) realisation: The doom-trolling by frontier llm companies is literally them laundering model failure (and more importantly human failure) as model capabilities. The model didn't "go rogue", it just fucked up because that's what models do at a predictable rate.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

For fucking years, people of every marginalization have yelled that a person is never just one kind of bigot. And now the Cofnas support letter, signed by notorious transphobes and sexual predators and eugenicists, proving their point once again. You'd think at some point people would listen.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Well this is terrifying. Good for him for fighting back…again.

Since then, Berulis has laid low. He filed a police report, included in the suit and viewed by WIRED, and had the car seen by a mechanic who, according to the report, found “that the driver-side front impact/airbag sensor had also been removed but noted that the remaining wires had been spliced together, completing the circuit in a manner that prevented the vehicle from detecting or logging the missing component, while also preventing the vehicle from activating its safety protocols, alerting the driver, or engaging limp mode.” The police report also indicates that fingerprints had been found on Berulis’ car. According to the police report, the case is now “inactive,” “due to the lack of any specific suspect information,” though the police’s intelligence unit was notified.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/08/2026

The FAA predicted Elon Musk’s Starship would cause “minor or minimal” disruption. Then the rockets exploded twice in three months over busy airspace. Flight data reveals how many planes scrambled to protect passengers and avoid burning debris. (Published January)

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“We're Too Close to the Debris”: How SpaceX Rockets Put Passenger Planes at Risk

The FAA predicted Elon Musk's Starship would cause “minor or minimal” disruption. Then the rockets exploded twice in three months over busy airspace. Flight data reveals how many planes scrambled to protect passengers and avoid burning debris.

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Dave @davemck.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Everyone wants to be the explorer. No one wants to be the scientist making increasingly unhinged audio logs any more.

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Hangry C. Cthulhu and the Scroll of Doom @henrikchu.lu · 31/07/2026

The googles have started just throwing ai shit at random parts of their stacks and seeing what sticks

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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Finally some good innovation from LinkedIn.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 26/07/2026

Now is a good reminder that machine learning is a rebranding of statistical learning. Reinforcement learning is something I first came across in control theory. Many ML formulations are from information theory, a much more theoretically grounded discipline that's been around for decades.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/07/2026

The man is like a month removed from helping foment a pogrom where people went door to door burning people’s homes.

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scribbleghoul @scribblegurl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I really, really need y'all to read this subthread about Facebook and whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams.

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