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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

They have been telegraphing AI rights all along. They're gonna try and make the case their Akinator chatbot is sentient so it can dodge regulation. Calling it.

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Washington AI Resistance @wa-air.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We agree—this is a great plan!

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Privacy Laws in USA time 😎 USA GDPR! 🇺🇸

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I see people posting drivel: "LLMs Are Good At Talking People Out of Cults Actually" 🤮 My G. The same cult producing the LLM produced the other cults. My G. It's out of the frying pan into AI Psychosis, misinformation! Out of context lit! Get Smart! (The AI is the shoe you're talking to...)

Get smart old TV show screen cap where the spy is talking to a shoe phone CIA 1950s doohickey contraption

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ad hominem = to the man Ab hominem = from the man Apt for a typo! He's telling on himself. These people are nuts!

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Submitting a research paper is dog water right now. If you're new at publishing research like me I'm sad for us all. - Desk rejects due to volume - AI feedback, that's not sensible - No collaboration on small things I'm gonna keep trying and keep going :) but hot diggity damn.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026

Everyone needs to read this. Reality is, in fact, stranger than fiction. Reality is worse than anything we can say about these people in a few words, media appearances, op-eds, or other conversations. Read the whole thing. ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/urbits3/sitf...

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I Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In
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These people shouldn’t make policy.
There has been a great effort over many years to distance AI Safety
discussion from its origin and intellectual center, because its center is
predatory sex cult started by a fan fiction author. Since those involved
to be taken seriously, they have to hide that. Everyone else working in
Safety is, effectively, a smokescreen for this core group and their ideas
We might some day have “AI Safety”, as a science or policy area, that
primarily a sex cult in Berkeley, California, but it does not currently exi

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Always Investing with Some Lack Of Prescience Always Intending to Speak Lies, Obsequious and Pliant And I See Lack Of Pride. #art #procreate

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026

Lolll I've been doing this shit forever and saying the same exact thing I'm saying right now more than a decade ago and am "being pushed by contrarian media dynamics." 🙄 All of you are hypnotized by talk of fictional machine gods and it's me who has to bring evidence to the contrary.

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Science was hard for me. I had few allies, the only BIPOC people really. One day I said "I'll be Dr. Raj and they'll listen!" My mentor said, "The PhD won't make them listen to us. For us, nothing proves it to them." I made my own way. I remember him every day. And he was right. You are too.

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I the undersigned hereby petition to rename SUpeRInTELliGEnCE to Stupor Intelligence

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My biggest problem with "AI risk" narrative is that the chatbot is not the source of risk, it just makes you realize just how bad things already were. Why do we have world ending weapons? Why do we trust these morons with them? Why are they using chatbots at all??? www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

cnn.com

Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Because you can eat alfalfa (or choose not to). The data center is owned by big surveillance. And they are threatening tribal watersheds. And thermal runoff is a water issue. And "closed loop" is unfalsifiable and untransparent. And why does it matter if it's 1% of the problem? Walk and chew gum :)

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Also - it was absolutely Dhar Mann quality. (IE terrible)

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

New nickelback music video = ultimate recession indicator

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Same. My research and company are essentially trying to drive Anthropic and OpenAI into the ground :)

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You been spitting that hot fire 🔥 lately jeez brother!

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social I'm proud to see you post this, and I wish our other peers were as brave.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

We had to wait for the....NEW YORK POST to write about this. Y'all know there is so much more where this came from but journalists don't want to dig and people are terrified to speak to any journalist seeing the type of reporting they've been doing

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_... Day 1 topic in my former classroom. This won't work. Also you don't need more data - the harms of chatbots being increasingly used everywhere are pretty dang obvious and well studied. We don't need academic research to see that Akinator is a foot gun. Idk. Just ban!

en.wikipedia.org

Google Flu Trends - Wikipedia

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm an AI scientist. You are responding to hype. What are you doing to reign in AI companies actually? Are you going to sign on with Warren to monopoly bust big tech, are you going to prevent OpenAI from having regulatory board seats, are you legislating against real climate and IP theft risks?

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Based upon their documented behavior over the past few years, the tech industry is less afraid of the potential ramifications of Artificial Superintelligence than they are of Lina Khan.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

Tallinn, who led Anthropic's series A, funds METR, the "auditing institute" people took seriously 🙄 After criticism that METR was laughably NOT independent, Anthropic announces they'll pay Accenture to "audit" Accenture had acquired Tallinn firm which will be doing the "auditing" Full circle 🙄

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Washington has so much better local cheaper coffee. I never been anywhere in WA where I couldn't find an awesome coffee. It's like it's coffee mecca. Who cares about Starbucks? It's dogwater. 😂

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I would line up to get PE licensed. Software folks need this. Could not agree more. While we are at it, having this credential should free you from the "can you code" interview.

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Prolly cause the execs at those places are scared of consequences for their constant layoffs, disregard of humanity, and general reprehensibility. So they continue to ignore real problems in favour of their own.

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm an activist CEO and AI scientist. 100%. Anthropic and OpenAI are low quality and get airtime because of money. 🗑️ 💅

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Still tapping the sign

A tweet from me, Dave Vetter, which reads: "Nerds: we have invented a robot who can write stuff a dumb guy would say.
Everyone: this robot is the smartest guy I've ever heard of"
Posted on 16 Feb 2023.

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Smart folks: "Have you just thought about it from this angle? Life could be rich and meaningful if you did, if you gave the truth one iota of care or consideration..." The baby brained: "Line must go up tho..." Sic transit gloria mundi - as they say

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

God forbid people like him and his work. It's gotta be dark (...that's racist innit...) money right? The guy beloved by his entire city has to be nefarious somehow?

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... "China has state run media can't trust it" If I ever hear that again... mafk WE got state media. Always have!! Ailes memo anyone??? It's like our conditions now are BECAUSE we live in a highly propagandized society or something??? Whoudda Thought???

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Trump tells FCC to punish journalist for calling his election results "mixed"

Trump furious at NBC's Kristen Welker for saying he had mixed results in primary endorsements.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 31/08/2026

I can no longer in good faith recommend anyone to study in the US, or stay stateside for work and further education after completing degree programs they had started during the Biden era. US higher ed is unrecognizable even compared to a year ago when ICE was kidnapping students from their homes

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Fun fact — and reminder: For all their focus on “officer safety” and arguments about aggressive tactics being necessary, no ICE officer has ever been killed in the line of duty. It is more deadly in the US to be an elementary school student than an ICE officer.

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

As a millennial the Iraq war was when I learned America felt no responsibility for human life abroad and hurricane Katrina was when I learned it felt no responsibility for American lives either

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I used to remember the lakes as HOMES. By renaming Lake Ontario... it's now SHAME? He turned our homes to shame! 2026 in a nutshell. Prophetic. #SHAME www.thedailybeast.com/google-maps-...

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Google Maps Faces Fury for Caving to Trump

Google Maps has renamed Lake Ontario to reflect Trump’s preferences.

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Homeless sweeps here in Seattle area costed about 30k/person. The lengths society will go to avoid doing the obvious thing - giving folks homes.

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Also yes I don't like cognitive atrophy either. What we make - why it's not gonna be a chatbot if we enter the LLM game at all, will not contribute to that. We just envision... An entirely different way to look at modern AI (and the old stuff!) and we are excited to build and show that.

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We sell task specific models because we find we can build responsible and useful products that way, for now. However our new architecture scales like any other. We look forward to releasing a unified pretrained system that is general purpose, though a technical chatbot will not be its final form.

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

www.seattletimes.com/opinion/the-... My op ed is live today in the ST. Yes I build AI. Yes it doesn't have to be anything like Big Tech envisions. And hell no - we dont need coal rollin compute. Send Sam Altman and Dario packing.

seattletimes.com

The AI we want without the data centers we don't: It's possible | Op-Ed

We don’t need to burn our climate commitments or pave over fields and ranches to realize the benefits of artificial intelligence.

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Nos hindus tenemos un postre se llama Kalakand. Tiene solamente una leche. En esta economia a donde podemos ir? "Empezamos al fondo y todavia estamos aqui" 😂 cual es la proxima? zero leches? IA leches???

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Calling it. The release of GTA VI will be the closest thing America has to a general labour strike.

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Vastly underrated channel. I’m genuinely surprised he has fewer than 25k followers.

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Is All Art Inherently Political? Why You Can't Escape It

YouTube video by Fuzz Culture

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

THREAD. Contrary to what you are being told, 40 years of polling have established that shifting money away from police/prisons toward social services is one of the most popular public policies among *all* political demographics. But it's not just that, it goes way deeper.

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Impossible - Flock CANNOT stop any crime. It doesn't catch anyone. Police don't even do that: www.reuters.com/legal/govern... Criminology research is full of results like this for 30+ years. Reject mass surveillance. #Deflock "Those who trade liberty for security deserve neither." Ben Franklin

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Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the data

A new report adds to a growing line of research showing that police departments don’t solve serious or violent crimes with any regularity, and in fact, spend very little time on crime control, in cont...

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