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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026

as a hater let me acknowledge something ai is good at: producing irritating discourse at scale this is usually because, like "ai" itself, people are talking about different things like they are one thing so let me disentangle, with statements numbered for easy disagreement

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Jeanine Thweatt @jjthweatt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

All right this is absolute blasphemy now, stay away from my sacred canon

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Jeanine Thweatt @jjthweatt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh that feeling when you have to flatly contradict a man who’s said a demonstrably false thing in a meeting in front of peers

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Do we teach skills that are useful in the workplace? Fuck yes we do. Did I become a history professor because I'm passionate about vocational training? Fuck no i did not

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026

I am now reading @poisonivy.bsky.social's account which starts with "I’ve dropped a few articles about my experiences at Vibecamp, and interactions in the Rationalist / Effective Altruist corner of the TESCREAL diaspora." Because nothing seems to take these people out 😡

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026

An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.

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The media has the AI threat all wrong

Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It is a profound indictment of most media coverage of Big Tech that your best bet for getting an informed understanding of AI and its dangers is following a decently curated list of Bluesky shitposters

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think of the climate harm AI poses the same way: the threats are not theoretical or in the future, but unfolding all around us now.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026

I read this story and can’t help think of the breathless coverage media has given these delusional fantasies about superintelligent AI killing humanity in ten years, when companies are releasing tools coaching mass shooters and helping people kill themselves. People need to wake the fuck up.

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MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 22/09/2026

Timnit Gebru and Emily Bender say the latest AI breakthroughs and hacking scares aren’t what they seem.

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Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype

Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Claims of incipient, dangerous superintelligence are not based in good scientific or engineering practice. Rather, they are narratives based in ideologies of transhumanism, eugenics, and wishful thinking about imagined future digital humans." - @timnitgebru.blacksky.app + @emilymbender.bsky.social

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Jeanine Thweatt @jjthweatt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Working my way toward making a real move toward transforming my liminal institutional space into an ironic cyborg agential space and I wouldn’t say I’m optimistic about this move but I am trying to be hopeful

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They Might Be Giants @tmbg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

People ask “Do you still play Don’t Let’s Start?” And the answer is YES.

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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You do understand that everything he's doing to Washington DC is about fortifying the city when he decides he's not leaving office

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"It's just machinery (and just like any machinery, it turns people into its appendages)" would be much more appropriate

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This framing is everywhere in higher ed

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

In the philosophy game, we call this "Begging The Question," the real version: The Premise of your argument Assumes that the Conclusion of your argument is already proven. It's circular reasoning, and every sungle argument about "How Dangerous Superintelligent AI Is" depends on it.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

You know how I keep saying that "AI" people since the 90s & 2000s all have the same metaphysical commitments & that the best way to understand them is through the lenses of comparative religious studies in new religious movements, mythmaking, & occult studies? I am not now & nor have I been kidding

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 14/09/2026

I'm honestly so sick of constantly saying it's not an algorithmic system really because it's got human-in-the-loop and people being like "but it's automated"

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This conversation with @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social couldn't be more timely. With the AI industry talking about *its own products' potential to cause human extinction* we drill into who might still want to build such technology, and why. Hint: it's in the title of their new book.

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The End Times Fascists of AI, ft. Naomi Klein + Astra Taylor

Listen now (64 mins) | A conversation with Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor about “end times fascism” in the tech industry.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026

A short thread on "Rogue AI." About 5 yrs ago, just before "gen AI" hit the public didcourse, i wrote "I’m Not Afraid of AI Overlords— I’m Afraid of Whoever’s Training Them To Think That Way." It's mostly about how corporations seek to offload culpability for the harms of systemic prejudicial bias…

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I’m Not Afraid of AI Overlords— I’m Afraid of Whoever’s Training Them To Think That Way

I’m Not Afraid of AI Overlords— I’m Afraid of Whoever’s Training Them To Think That Way by Damien P. Williams I want to let you in on a secret: According to Silicon Valley’s AI’s, I’m n…

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

Toby Ord, Cofounder of the Effective Altruism movement, longtermist who believes humanity's goal is to create vast amounts of digital beings to colonize the cosmos, is the one advising your lawmakers on "AI".

Toby Ord tweet: 72 lawmakers in the UK have sent a letter to the Prime Minister, calling for an immediate ban on the development of superintelligence and the championing of an international treaty to do the same worldwide.

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Alex Sobel MP for Leeds Central and Headingley
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With 71 colleagues I am calling on the Govt to work with us on my bill to prohibit the development of superintelligent AI and champion an international agreement

We can then lead on preventing the extinction risk posed by superintelligence

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Jeanine Thweatt @jjthweatt.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Watching this US Open men’s semifinal and gosh I’d forgotten how much I really love tennis, and watching tennis

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I’m actually really invested in good insult habits, particularly because a whole lot of us were trained into reaching for words like “stupid” and “dumb”, and will still go there immediately as a knee-jerk response. The best thing you can be with your language is intentional.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10/09/2026

You know, when you find out that the art you like is made by people you've learned hold views you find wholly repugnant, I don't think you need to disavow ever having enjoyed the art. It's okay to acknowledge you liked or loved that art, but are now putting it aside. That was then, this is now.

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 09/09/2026

Personally of the opinion that AI techbros come in two flavors--Rokko's Basilisk Cultist, and Grifter. Since categories are fake, there is of course a third category, Grifting Rokko's Basilisk Cultist.

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Jeanine Thweatt @jjthweatt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Leaning hard into trusting students to accept my extended invitation to learn collaboratively this semester. So far: this room is loud with reading groups processing chapter 1 of their environmental ethics text.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There’s a convenient snowball effect to the process whereby the hollowing out of a department and the shift towards teaching nothing but the core leaves departments less able to attract or support majors in the subject, which can then feed back into the “not enough majors” rationale

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Your daily reminder that the fact that AGI is not a thing does *not* mean that GenAI is safe or benign. The people panicking and sounding alarm bells have one thing right: we are not prepared for every dingus with a computer and a God-complex to be able to cause untold damage in a thousand ways

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Jeanine Thweatt @jjthweatt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Defunding has apparently hit all the NPR proofreaders. My god, what have we all come to? Is this what we’re doomed to henceforth?

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 07/09/2026

Big news for HYPERSCALE less than two months out from release: It’s longlisted for the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, got some great reviews, and I’m narrating the audiobook! Plus, get great tech reads you might have missed in the Disconnect monthly recap.

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Hyperscale is longlisted for an FT award!

Plus, good reads you might have missed in August 2026

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Jeanine Thweatt @jjthweatt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

She was our kitty and the best kitty in the whole world. We miss her.

Beautiful longhaired fluffy kitty with blue eyes

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Jeanine Thweatt @jjthweatt.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My sweet kitty has not been herself for the last few days so we took her into the vet. They are recommending an overnight hospital stay and some more tests to figure out what’s going on.

Picture of me petting my magnificent cat

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026

I dunno i guess i just think it's bad that, instead of rebuilding cultures of trust & shared consensus knowledgemaking which are fundamental to our society, we're just increasingly handing over decision- & sense-making authority to tools which a) we can't trust & b) further degrade trust foundations

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Jeanine Thweatt @jjthweatt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If this chatbot is not named Eliza then this is folly compounded by tragedy

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Jeanine Thweatt @jjthweatt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I assume the target audience is the same guys who manage to misread Tolkien and miss the whole point of Star Trek

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026

macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.

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Jeanine Thweatt @jjthweatt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Wait, “you can’t scale good teaching” is supposed to be a coherent & acceptable reason for scaling non-teaching?

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Jeanine Thweatt @jjthweatt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Ugh when your kid guilt trips you into going to Target and you throw on whatever is on the top of the clothes pile and then of course run into that one colleague who looks effortlessly beautiful 100% of the time and have to say hi

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Ajuna Soerjadi 🌸 @ethicsofai.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

What a great illustration of the scam of technosolutionism! 👏 @ahoyuniverse.bsky.social

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/08/2026

Proud to announce that New York City has registered a record 4,200 New Yorkers in our doula care program. Pregnancy and childbirth are life-changing moments. No one should be forced to navigate them alone.

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Mayor Mamdani Expands Access to Doula Care Across NYC as Citywide Initiative Surpasses 4,000 People Served

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

It's that simple. Make sure you're registered to vote by October 5. ➡️ angie4us.com/register #AngieForFlorida

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