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404 Media @404media.co · 28/09/2026

Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: LLms are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...

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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft

"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 28/09/2026

This sums up my own experience in recent years. My theory is that there are so many genuine existential crises right now that people's instinct is to treat even low-stakes issues (movies! fandoms! personal preferences!) like existential crises. Makes having a normal conversation almost impossible.

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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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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

With regard to the overt and jaw-dropping use of public money to manufacture and broadcast Trump politicals ads, I'm just spitballing here, but maybe, perhaps, if the U.S. Supreme Court didn't give the president blanket immunity from prosecution for crimes he wouldn't feel so comfortable criming.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here they are! The Cornell R@pists!

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I hope that young woman bankrupts Cornell University.

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I am very often now in rooms with a lot of senior robotics or ML folks and it’s always just men. Men men men. A sea of men. It sucks! We should be very ashamed.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.

Screenshot of a tweet from Ray Wong @raywongy:
Deleted Muse after seeing this post on Threads about how it told some Facebook Marketplace sellers the guy’s address and they showed up at his door

Dangerous and creepy

This would have been 1000x worse if the person was a woman
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

The before and after it's even more haunting.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The U.S. owes $40 trillion in debt. Everyone has an opinion about why. But there’s one question you almost never hear asked: Who’s actually getting paid?

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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Pay attention Dems. Gov Beshear won twice, in a deep red state, and never threw trans people under the bus. He led with compassion rather than the fear and cowardice we've seen from some of our Ohio candidates and party leadership.

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NPR @npr.org · 28/09/2026

President Trump announced plans to cancel $810 million in Congressionally approved spending, a move that some in his own party are calling illegal. n.pr/4iMlJdT

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What to know about the $810 million in spending canceled by President Trump

President Trump announced plans to cancel $810 million in Congressionally approved spending, a move that some in his own party are calling illegal.

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Emily J. Edwards @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i was on my college conduct board. i do t think anyone can get mad at me for telling you: 20 years ago, a student threatened his female friend, took her by the shoulders, and shook her. you know what we did? we expelled him. that was "all" it took. he laid hands on a girl, so we kicked him out.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren calls for the removal of climate denier Matthew Wielicki as head of the US govt's climate research office. Wielicki has no training in climate science, and regularly uses AI to invent non-existent sources to support his claims.

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."

Post from NYT reporter Eric Lipton

"What an odd moment in United States history.

A U.S. president is running an overtly political campaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.

Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit."

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A great illustration of the way social media has essentially shredded society’s informational immune system: The USSR spent a fortune trying to spread conspiracy theories, without success because they couldn’t crack newsrooms. Today, you can reach the globe with a post that costs $20 to make.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Everyone say it with me: AI companies are ✨extraction machines at scale✨. They are DESIGNED to sift through a million stupid ideas per second to find the next golden egg they can monetize. And they are destroying our Earth, at scale, to do this.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On average*, men tolerate women just enough to fulfill their own needs. But to know, support, celebrate, and think of a woman outside the context of their needs? Nope. *this is not all men! Have a look at the men on the SUFS team who actively support, celebrate, and engage in a matriarchal system.

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Maddie Stone @themadstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Withdrawing federal funding…deepens [universities’] dependence on private donors who operate outside public oversight. Climate and energy research are primary targets because evidence-based climate policy threatens the fossil-fuel interests historically at the center of this capture.”

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River Ranch Dog @riverranchdog.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We saw a record two-mile-long line of cars at our food bank in rural Oklahoma last week.

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 28/09/2026

Excellent column from @doctorow.pluralistic.net - includes a run down of the tech sector’s history of cartel-adjacent behaviour including THIS three decade agreement btw 40 companies not to poach engineers. chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/law_and_econ...

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The Silicon Valley No-Poach Conspiracy

The Silicon Valley no-poach conspiracy is the most important cartel no one has heard of. It is rarely discussed in the cartel literature and is lost to public memory. More than forty tech firms, inclu...

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 28/09/2026

“Same goes for the claims that these companies are already profitable… [essentially] the companies are claiming that they are so cool that their profitability can only be measured using a novel, secret form of mathematics.” www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

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Cory Doctorow: AI’s big beasts aren’t really scared of their products. They’re scared of their competition

The US giants would love to stop battling each other and be protected from China – and they might have hit on just the narrative to make that possible, writes our tech columnist

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Atlas Mugged (N95 Duckbill 😷)✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Why have the world's wealthiest investors been so eager to hand over *trillions* to finance this bubble?" —Cory Doctorow

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Noel Healy @drnoelhealy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The assault on US universities didn't start in 2025. Our new paper traces the decades of corporate capture that made it possible, and why climate research is a primary target. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When people think about humanitarianism, they usually think of the aftermath of a natural disaster and the relief and aid that follow. humanitarianism is too often thought of within the bounds of the NGO industrial complex. But those systems are being targeted and dismantled right now.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Haven't thought this out all the way through, but now would be a good time for an aggressive humanitarian movement to combat the death cults, the rise of AI, and otherwise anti-life impulses coursing through our politics and society.

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404 Media @404media.co · 28/09/2026

Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI images.

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Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 28/09/2026

🚨 FACT: There is a federal criminal law that prohibits any armed agent of the federal government from being at the polls. There is only one exception. Marc Elias explains. Stay in the know: demdock.com/3T3Owjg

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La Bodega Baddie 🇵🇷 @zeenthecity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Growing old is a blessing denied to many.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Communist China’s state-controlled media traipsing around the White House while American media is suing for access

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I must emphasize that I, an extremely online and politically active person, had barely heard of this man before this year. The outrage about him is entirely manufactured by a right wing that needs enemies to foam at the mouth about

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In the rainforest, even a fallen dead twig brings life.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Can't make it? NO PROBLEM: www.youtube.com/live/R6tFJiz... We will be live streaming and the event will live on the @standupforscience.net youtube page!

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Stand Up for Science presents: Science, Democracy, and Climate

YouTube video by Stand Up for Science!

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What. A. Day. NIH grant-making was paused for several hours today. Not sure who gave the order. But in light of the Friday night Bhattacharya-Vought feud & threatened EO to implement #ScienceDeathPanels, my money is on Russell Vought. I learned of the pause from a colleague around 11:30. 🧵

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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Normalize saying “although I legally cannot arrest Bibi Netanyahu myself, the U.S. will once it signs the Rome Statute in 2029”

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 24/09/2026

📊 Americans, particularly conservatives, are growing increasingly critical of U.S. democratic institutions and processes, a new poll suggests. But the survey also suggests that Republicans are internalizing Trump’s baseless voting fraud claims: demdock.com/3SYvZp1

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'll be in Manorhamilton, Leitrim, on Tuesday the 13th of October to discuss An Irish Atlantic Rainforest following a special film screening. If you're up in that direction, do come along! climateactionweek.ie/events/speci...

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Special Screening: An Irish Atlantic Rainforest, part of Leitrim Climate Week - Climate Action Week

Join Special Screening: An Irish Atlantic Rainforest, part of Leitrim Climate Week during Climate Action Week. Discover inspiring talks, workshops, and activities to support climate action.

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