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

All of this coverage of AI Doomerism making you anxious? It's nonsense and you can go back to your more pressing concerns. If you want to learn more: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

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What To Read To Stay Grounded Amidst AI Doomerism

Our recommendations for the anxious and perplexed By: Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna and Decca Muldowney There’s a subculture within the “AI” industry that...

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Do you notice how these people have never calmed down and said thanks, no matter how extreme the crackdowns and self-destruction get? Because they don’t care, every concession is only ever a new opportunity. And we’ve been conceding to the fuckers relentlessly for *decades* at this point.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

As it is Skynet Day, it seems as good a time as any to share that data center based LLM Ai is caught in a death spiral which is going largely unreported in the media. In short, major insurers are creating carve outs for Ai, refusing to insure it, causing corporations to abandon its front facing use.

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Abi Stevens - comms open @abistevensart.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Getting really bloody sick of saying NO to cookie data then having to scroll through sometimes mile-long mazes to untick 'legitimate interest' boxes because I ACTUALLY MEANT NO. 😑 Ticking no cookies shouldn't mean they still sell my data to 82+ mystery vendors unless I put more time into my no.

A screenshot of a data preference pop up. First box reads 'measure advertising performance'. Tick boxes I've turned off for 'consent (83 vendors)' and 'legitimate interest (62 vendors)'. Second box for 'content performance' has 'consent (35 vendors)' and 'legitimate interest (20 vendors)'.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

It should be clear that there will never be any pleasing people who, amongst other things, live in a state of perpetual terror and outrage at the possibility that somewhere, somebody might be eating a free cheese sandwich.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

It is great that AISI is doing and publishing this work, but also I think it's worth saying that this is the inevitable outcome of agentic AI and I v much doubt if this outcome is a surprise to any of the AI development labs

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Reminder - this consultation closes on Tues 4th August! It's really important as many freelance/self-employed folk submit a response as possible I've just done mine - took about 2 hours as I did have a think about my comments (changing them from 'you stupid idiots' to something more palatable)

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 19/07/2026

UK friends. Time to fill in yet another skewed and pre-loaded government "consultation". HMRC really hates creatives, eh? Short version: UKG wants writers etc. to pay tax monthly and change our "projections" online every time we ... don't get paid regularly. BECAUSE WE ARE FREELANCERS.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Another example of political perceptions of the world not matching reality. Freelancing is becoming more important to the economy as there are fewer large employers, but governments treat this as an aberration to be squashed.

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Will @willjslater.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

They can't even argue it's for jobs, there's a report out that the Jackdaw Gas Field would only create 27 full time jobs. Why not create tens of thousands of jobs in the Green Economy instead?

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism

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BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) on X

Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The announcement will form part of a flurry of policy m...

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Boxo McFoxo @boxobark.ing · 06/07/2026

The protein folding problem is one of simulation. To fully understand why proteins fold in a certain way, we would need to fully simulate their dynamics.

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kenny 🙋🏻‍♂️ @itskenny.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

hitting CTRL+S on a sharepoint spreadsheet that already saves as I go because I have trust issues

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Anyway, we've seen this before. Please enjoy my one and only article in an academic journal, on the topic of tech billionaires forced to weep salty tears by their unstoppable personal potency hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/wz35dvpo...

As such, the ability to understand AI, or indeed any technology, is not essential to interrogate this chain of events, which has been exercises in narrative framing and control. The
project of Altman and his merry band of doomsayers appears to be to capture power and create obfuscation by making new myths and legends-equating the role of computer scientists and technology executives with Superman, weeping over Lois Lane before he turns back the world, or Oedipus, distraught after murdering his father. If there has been a teachable
moment, then the lesson has not been one about the potential of technologies but about the importance of media literacy.

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

“In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers” medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

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Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia

TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire…

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Chas The Verruca Gnome🇺🇦 @chassmith.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The secret is: you can always read them again. In my case, while I've read them all at least once, I listen to almost all of them at least once a year while I'm at work.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

This by @naomialderman.bsky.social on AI therapy is vg (& includes a snippet of conversation with me). Particularly like, "We’re creating AI models out of 'everyone who’s ever typed their thoughts, in proportion to how much internet typing they’ve done'" naomialderman.substack.com/p/6795dc06-3...

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Whatever Works

unapologetically intellectual, infectiously enthusiastic and painfully sincere (but: funny). expect: considered positions, close readings, heartfelt recommendations and unstoppable blurtings-out of ...

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Dr J @j7son.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

After reading and re-reading pTerry’s Diskworld books for most of my life, I’m still finding things both cunningly hidden and blazingly obvious. Only just seen the pun in Mistress Tick (doh!) #diskworld #pTerry

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

This is good and worth reading.

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badly drawn boo! 🎃👻🧛🏼‍♀️ @soapachu.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Nerds assemble! I need recommendations for a speaker who can talk not only about the growth in awareness of ADHD/autism in the UK, and the importance of accommodations etc., but also the sociological aspects of underdiagnosis/stigma in women/minority communities etc. Pls repost for wider reach, ta.

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✨John Carpenter’s BOObies✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Folks, I’m seeing a lot of people saying “well, company x has my biometrics/PII why should I care if company y does?” You should care about *every* company that has your data because they will eventually be compromised, and your data will be sold and exploited.

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

the far right is arguing we should ban brown people from being MPs and the girl guides and the WI are banning trans women from being members. the consensus opinion from those with power seems to be that offering any opposition would threaten their own position and so is, regrettably, not worth it.

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Deceiver @dmitrydeceiver.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I would love to play Carcassonne with tiles like these

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people. How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?

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Dr J @j7son.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Manchester Metrolink marketing by, it seems, Phil Dunphy …

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

www.worldofmoose.com/products/por...

Cartoon drawing of a vertical rectangle containing a pig and a horizontal rectangle containing a lamb - the captions read Porktrait and Lambscape

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

OK, by this logic...the surveillance of every facet of life--from comms to movement to social relationships to etc--which has become the norm over the last decades c/o the surveillance biz model, makes LE surveillance MORE possible than it's ever been in history. But somehow e2ee is the problem?

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

🔔 freelance researcher call At @carefultrouble.bsky.social we're looking for freelance researchers to deliver a literature search on the impacts of AI adoption, looking at worker safety, infrastructure resilience, and environmental safety www.careful.industries/blog/2025-9-...

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Freelance Researchers: Safe Adoption of AI — Careful Industries

We are looking for freelance researchers to conduct literature searches on the impacts of AI on worker safety, infrastructural safety, and environmental safety.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Everyone should sign up to Holly's newsletter because this is an absolute delight. Everything about it is excellent.

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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 16/09/2025

Hi guys, did you already know there are competitions for window tinting? With better commentators than most of the tennis matches I’ve watched on ESPN? (Low bar I know) Anyway if you need to procrastinate harder than you’ve ever procrastinated before, I got you

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Dr J @j7son.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

You mean, create things from whole cloth without any guaranteed market or ROI? What do you think this is? Art?

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

This is a really great thread on generative AI use.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Aside from how on earth this will play out in the three countries that aren't England, what I find quite weird about this is how quickly senior politicians seem to forget what everyday life is like and how to use everyday words.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Women's appearance and behaviour is about to get even more highly policed in the UK, with a few people doubtless being emboldened to "take action". This whole billionaire-funded enterprise dials back gender equity by decades.

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

The UK paperback of "The Husbands" is out! Today!! May I buy your momentary attention for it with a beautiful cat (yellow is the US/Canada edition, out last week; blue is UK, turquoise is a UK indie bookshop special edition)

A garden with daffodils and blue bulbs, and various paperback copies of the Husbands, and a fluffy cat

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IndiaWilloughby @indiawilloughby.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

6ft 4 cis woman loses her job at Walmart because of trans witch-hunt. Woman was followed into the staff bathroom by an anti-trans male, who called her names and threatened violence. When Wal-Mart found out, they fired HER.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Thinking about why public services should not be designed in the same way as private-sector ones. I've 5 points so far: (1) CHOICE: with v few exceptions, we get to choose the private-sector digital services we use but most public services need to be universal at the point of access (1/n)

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Yesterday a group of us put our heads together to think about the questions that should be asked of Starmer's plans for AI in government - you might have seen this nod to it in Politico this morning. These are for journalists, politicians, and anyone with an interest in pro-democracy tech (1/3)

Labour’s escalating claims around the potential use of AI in government are borne out of relatable constraints and welcome ambition for Britain but

We are deeply concerned that in an effort to increase efficiency and find savings, the UK could end up wasting £100s of millions of public money in failed projects. This risks damaging public services - and ultimately holding Britain back - rather than taking the opportunity to make them fit for the future.

It might sound like a silver bullet but we can’t just shoehorn AI into existing services.

Here are 10 questions that we believe the Government needs to demonstrate it has answers to before signing away millions of pounds of taxpayer’s money with no break clause on the contracts if things go wrong

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Adrian Hon @adrianhon.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Going through the National Museum in Oslo, I came across this doorway in the modern art galleries. It stood out from the classic “white cube” gallery and hinted at some kind of immersive installation piece. When I got closer, I saw it was by an artist I’d wanted to see for a long time: Ilya Kabakov

Doorway in art gallery leading into old-looking corridor

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 13/03/2025

I really liked this guy noticing that Dua Lipa is great at interviewing authors. youtu.be/QN1rULxGHCA

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Why Dua Lipa is so good at asking questions

YouTube video by Below the Fray

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Adrian Hon @adrianhon.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Great piece, and I love to see it covered on a video game site!

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Dr J @j7son.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Choose 20 plays that have stayed with you or influenced you. One play per day for 20 days, in no particular order No explanations, no reviews, just a cover or poster. #TheatreSky Day 1

The Riot Group in
Pugilist Specialist
By Adriano Shaplin

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Elizabeth @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

🌈☎️🩷THANK YOU FOR CALLING THE LESBIAN LINE cover reveal!🌈☎️🩷 I can’t wait for readers to meet the women who worked & called the Lesbian Line, & discover the brilliant, ordinary queer women who found community & joy in its service & who helped me figure out what being a lesbian means to me 🩷 #booksky

image show the cover of Elizabeth Lovatt’s debut book Thank You For Calling the Lesbian Line, our 6th Feb 25. The cover features a pink triangle on a green background and a black and white picture of a hand holding a phone

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