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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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Dr J @j7son.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Ha! Yes, I think I can. Still find it crazy that even with petrol, uelz, parking & tolls - it’s often cheaper to drive to London for a weekend than get the train.

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Dr J @j7son.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Slow contented sigh …. ❤️

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Dr J @j7son.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Way to remind me there’s no more Academy :-(

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Dr J @j7son.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This truly frightens me. No matter how often the flaws in age verification softwares are stated and how much evidence is produced - this is still seen as the only method to “protect the children”. This desire for easily stated ‘solutions’ that can be enacted in a single term is a shitty way to go.

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Abi Stevens MCM Ldn R-12 @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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Dr J @j7son.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Omg so much this. I cannot even begin to understand why modification of basic styles has gotten worse year on year. And boy that bar was low even a decade ago. There are more different ways to indent or sort out bullets over multiple apps and OSs than there are types of microwave controls

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Dr J @j7son.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Absolutely. Quite shocking with three of us in a room. Cooking too, lucky it wasn’t me holding a pan is all I can say!

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Dr J @j7son.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I’ve only done a few and find it difficult. Especially if sharing screen or in a webinar mode when it literally feels like you’re talking to no-one. That’s when the “what am I doing, talking like I know stuff” anxiety kicks in the most.

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Dr J @j7son.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Although some neighbours did set off fireworks earlier today, so I’m secretly happy

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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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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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Dr J @j7son.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Finding it quite annoying how much work requires WiFi now. Oh you forgot to offline those files? Your software needs a critical update before it can start? Oh, you can’t play your favourite sudoku game because it has to update the leaderboard before it can start? Pah.

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Dr J @j7son.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Not surprised, but saddened. Seems whilst some pols are looking at what citizens actually need, the majority of the body politic are doing whatever they need to hold tight to their power. Believing whatever technological flim flam suits this purpose - whether real (rarely) or hyped magical thinking

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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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Dr J @j7son.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Honestly read this as PayPal infrastructure and couldn’t quite work out if it was a bit

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Dr J @j7son.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

That’s just cray cray

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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 · 30/03/2026

And now listening to the audiobook of the Wee Free Men, I’d clearly forgotten the great pains he went to describing the pun. Doh. Rob Anybody, tho …

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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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Dr J @j7son.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I went through such a loop looking up references, then references of reference, then references of references of references - in the hope I’d find some ur-reference document which would explain everything. Only took me a year to get out of that. But yea, most rewarding thing I’ve ever done

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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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Dr J @j7son.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

We went Reolink for doorbell. We do have unifi for wifi, but (as stated) the cameras are spenny

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Dr J @j7son.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Out of scope or collateral damage :-(

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Dr J @j7son.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Perfumed to a dead Chanel

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Dr J @j7son.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Worth reading the internet for this absolute gem. Ty!

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Dr J @j7son.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

I watched a dodgy recording of Spinal Tap on VHS at least once a week in 1988 … Tbh in the last few years the shows I’ve seen again and again (and almost accidentally so) are on tv channels with infinite Columbo and Murder She Wrote reruns.

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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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