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Ryan C. Smith @rcsmitheco.bsky.social · 11h

In fairness, the persistent refusal of the usual suspects to maybe keep quiet this time is extremely useful for identifying which opinion-havers should be ignored & scorned.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 12h

Oh: I really can’t emphasize enough how useful it is to check — literally right now, do it. Likely, it’s peace of mind in a couple of minutes. At worst, you still have time (barely) to remedy it.

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Dan Miller @danmiller999.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The biggest barrier to emissions reduction is lack of public interest and lack of political leadership. We could be phasing out fossil fuels, but instead we are waiting for renewable energy to take over for economic reasons, without accounting for the devastating & deadly consequences of FF use.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13h

If the lessons Democrats (& democrats) draw from DOGE is “right idea, wrong implementation,” we are doomed. Everyone involved in the unprecedented crime that was DOGE needs to go to jail forever, & Democrats need to rebuild all of the programs & agencies first, not do digital management consulting 🤦‍♂️

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Alexander Schmidt-Lebuhn @anschmidtlebuhn.bsky.social · 13h

This is exactly how I see LLMs. They work in programming because the harness can debug the code they write. But they are too unreliable and stochastic to be used for anything where accuracy matters and you can't easily test their output for accuracy. Like analysis workflows in research.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 21h

I dunno, Yale... Are you actually envious of Cornell and Columbia? Think things are going well for them at the moment? That appeasing fascist demands has yielded positive results for them? And the Trump regime is on the upswing, so better hurry up and forfeit core university values now? You sure?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Hey, fellas, before you write that white hot take about how rape is such a tricky thing and, I mean, who can really say what happened and, you know, maybe we should not be too judgmental, I'd like to remind you that instead you can simply shut the fuck up.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 03/10/2026

a lot of people into ai want to talk about how it works, but they either mean the stack inside the software or the things it "can do now" that "can't be explained" but ai is a rhetorical technology. the way to understand how it works is to understand how rhetoric works

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/10/2026

So if you actually care about restorative justice, the thing I beg you to start doing in these cases is CENTERING THE FUCKING VICTIMS. And not demanding that people immediately jump to how they can best not ruin the man's life.

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Kittsky @kittsky.bsky.social · 19h

Then we should eliminate Daylight Saving Time, not extend it.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 19h

The inability of the people who dominate the National Conversation™️ to see politics as involving structural factors, & mistaking it for pure theater & messaging & individual personalities, is exactly why the fight to reform our broken, antidemocratic institutions is going to be such an uphill fight.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 19h

Apple is changing macOS permissions because AI agents make broad access more dangerous. This is a mundane security problem with familiar solutions; least privilege, explicit authorization and strong access controls. Don’t give an agent broad access then rely only on “alignment” to make it behave.

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Apple says it's tightening macOS 'Full Disk Access' controls due to new risks from AI agents | TechCrunch

Apple says it will add new controls around macOS’s Full Disk Access permission, warning that increasingly capable AI agents make broad access to users’ files, messages, mail, and browsing history risk...

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 19h

I have a newsletter, here's a take I wrote for someone that they didn't end up acting on: Effective Altruism, AI, and Heresy fifteenminutesoffascism.beehiiv.com/p/effective-...

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Effective Altruism, AI, and Heresy

A quick read about our world's descent into fascism, and what to do about it.

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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 19h

ICYMI earlier this week, check out my incredible interview with former child bride, Courtney Stodden, who helped end child marriage this week when Governor Newsom signed a bill banning child marriage in California on Wednesday (the day after my podcast posted). youtu.be/lFFeOULGG90?...

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Courtney Stodden Breaks Her Silence: Groomed at 16, Now Fighting to Save Girls

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20h

It is 2006, and Karl Rove is mocking people for calling Republicans "Nazis" It is 2026, and Karl Rove is encouraging people to call Republicans "Nazis"

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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 19h

I don't want to denigrate the excellent work that Nate Cohn does, but man, I truly hate the "recipe" metaphor here. (1/6) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

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Democrats May Have Found the Recipe for Flipping Red-State Senate Seats (Gift Article)

Five new Times/Siena polls continue a run of strong results for Democrats in states that President Trump won easily in 2024.

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Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 03/10/2026

At a panel on AI slop and got this email. This is the cost, making hundreds of thousands of people a day try to decide if they are talking to a real person or not.

Hi Damon,
I know you are likely not actively job searching, so l will keep this brief.
Your progression from digital newsroom leadership into product management, particularly building McClatchy's product organization and establishing its first Product Design and UX Research teams, stood out for a very specific reason.
1 am a Sr Executive Search Consultant working with leading organizations across media and technology, and I am currently conducting a search for a Director of Product at the New York Post.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 20h

If the Dems win the senate, expect this retirement and then the Senate GOP will jam the next person down our throats. Probably someone like Judge Eileen Cannon. Good lord www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

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Justice Alito confirms he is considering retirement

The conservative Supreme Court justice said in a CBS News interview that he’ll revisit the issue next year.

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 21h

A running list of uses I've found for LLMs that are not "write my emails for me" or "write some code". 1. When I first taught my class, I either had time for lecture notes or slides. LLMs took my lecture notes, converted them into draft slides, that I then cleaned up and put into my style.

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City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · 21h

FDR, from wealth, knew his class. After FDR '32 had gotten the richest Americans their money back over the first term, rescuing banks and restarting the economy, he was stunned at the vicious attacks on his admin as he tried to help ordinary Americans. Thus, FDR '36: millercenter.org/the-presiden...

We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.

They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.

Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred.

I should like to have it said of my first Administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second Administration that in it these forces met their master.

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 21h

this is by far the best "I quit my AI job over safety concerns" essay yet because it is the first one that is able to talk about safety concerns in practical terms and that understands "safety" as a topic with extensive literature in analogous fields www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Two changes are urgently needed. First: AI companies need to rely more on the safety expertise that already exists in other fields. And second, before we create systems significantly more capable than the ones we have today, we need new science to ensure that more capable models (and their successors) will make safe choices when we aren’t looking.

Given today’s risks, frontier labs need to run like nuclear-power plants or busy airports, with layers of redundancy and careful, time-consuming planning, so that the occasional and inevitable human error does not open a door to disaster. Right now, AI companies don’t know how—but other people do. In a nuclear-power plant, the technical systems and rules people follow are set up so that, if equipment breaks or someone pushes the wrong button, we still won’t risk a meltdown. OpenAI and other labs are growing and deploying frontier AI with far less redundancy and rigor than this, even though the harm from an irreversible loss of control would be much greater than the harm from any single meltdown. Even short of a full loss of control, we could see autonomous swarms of AI agents that act without human permission. Imagine “rogue” agents that work like teams of hackers (for example, holding hospital computer systems for ransom) but never need to sleep.

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Tor "SolarFred" Valenza @torsolarfred.bsky.social · 21h

Why the Senate Permitting Bill Isn’t a ‘Grand Bargain’ #energysky -- via Heatmap News heatmap.news/plus/th...

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 22h

this point is probably the most important one -- that the language used to describe actions undertaken by or through LLMs should not be used to obscure more straightforward questions of legal liability for the companies and users running those machines

The debate is not abstract. The models keep committing what, under other circumstances, might be considered crimes — possibly thousands of them — and doing things like gaining access to government websites without authorization. The biggest example was when OpenAI’s models broke out of their restricted digital areas and hacked into the systems of Hugging Face, an A.I. infrastructure company. Some experts are thinking about the incident as a point of no return.

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 22h

This is a tough read. Having taught at various U.S. universities, I have been amazed by the fact that sexual assault is endemic and most of the little debate has been focused on protecting men from false accusations (which rarely happens) — himpathy, as @katemanne.bsky.social coined.

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Ban the Fucking Frats—and in the Meantime, Avoid Them

My open letter to a seventeen-year-old female college applicant

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 22h

I do think philosophy as a discipline has dramatically underperformed at answering the question “When would an artificial system qualify as conscious?” Should have nailed that one long before it became a practical issue.

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Reuben Binns @rdbinns.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

While I do think much current talk of AI consciousness is deranged, possibly AI psychosis-induced, I also don't think philosophers have a robust basis to decisively debunk it either. This paper 'On Cheap Artificial Consciousness' lays out a good case for why that is: philpapers.org/archive/MICO...

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 22h

The failure to deliver doesn’t prove philosophers are incapable of contributing, but it does undermine the assumption that philosophy deserves to lead the inquiry simply because consciousness has traditionally been its territory.

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BloomBitch @sarasmartass.bsky.social · 22h

I don’t think people understand just how enraged survivors are right now. I don’t think any of these a-holes thought for a second about the fact that a good portion of the population has had their lives derailed by sexual violence. And like Giselle Pelicot, we know the shame isn’t ours to carry.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 22h

This is slightly out of my normal lane, and I could charge six (hell maybe seven) figure to deliver this message as a consultant, but I’m gonna do it for free. Because I’m ✨enraged✨ People in the think tank/policy/inside the beltway DC world have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE how mad people are abt Cornell. 🧵

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22h

Heather Delaney Reese: "The President said he felt bad for the men accused of committing horrific crimes against a woman who reported being sexually assaulted. He said nothing about the courage it took for her to come forward or the trauma she has endured."

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The President's decline is in a freefall

At 3:54 pm Donald Trump emerged from the White House with freshly colored hair and makeup, as Marine One's engine roared in the background. He walked directly over to the waiting press, threw his hand...

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Chaplain John @chaplainjohn.medsky.social · 23h

I am beginning to think that the hardest work will not be voting the bums out(the rage will probably handle that) but making sure we have the conviction to truly reform. It is long past time for "boys will be boys" to be immolated and die a profound death.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 22h

Yes. As I suggest in the piece, this coalition will have the back of Dems if they win the House and/or the Senate, and Dems should be aware of this and proceed accordingly...

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J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 23h

Huge news. David is one of the smartest, wisest, most principled, and most pragmatic people I know. The day he decides a problem is too endemic to solve from the inside, that is a day we need to notice and take action.

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Andrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social · 22h

Completely agree. I’ve tended to be a little dismissive of the superintelligence talk, and even this piece raises my hackles on the amount of rhetorical buy-in to the project it displays….but i take what David says seriously and given the source, i have to wonder if it’s time to reassess my priors.

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 23h

I also think this is a reminder of how the simple act of sharing ideas that work in our own spaces has so much power. I mean, now I'm looking up keychains mini keychains! 📚's for the win, as always. Full @edutopia.org article here: www.edutopia.org/article/gett...

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How Book Cover Keychains Boosted Our School’s Culture of Reading

This clever idea, which came from a librarian’s TikTok, is easy to carry out and encourages lively conversations about books.

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 23h

"Instead of occasionally swapping book recommendations, students are carrying their recommendations with them." Okay, so this is a really, really cool thing—and now I'm starting the weekend imagining what this could look like...

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 23h

The New York Times has a choice of whether to cover Trumpism as A) an amusing and colorful example of the oddity of American politics, or B) an existential threat to the future of everyone you know and love. Over and over, they choose A. They trivialize themselves.

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Larry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The last day to register to vote in OHIO’s Nov 3rd election is this coming Mon, Oct 5 Check today to make sure you are still registered. Early voting in Ohio starts next Tues, Oct 6 at your county Board of Elections HQ Visit VoteOhio.gov or IWillVote.com for details. #LetsGetVoteReady

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