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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 13h
NEW: Now that Meta's provided the blueprint for creepy camera glasses, a whole ecosystem of influencers has sprung up to promote cheap knockoffs that don't have that "annoying blinking light" futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Influencers Are Promoting Cheap Dupes of Meta AI Glasses that Don't Have the "Annoying Blinking Light" When They Record
Creators are promoting cheaper dupes for Meta smart glasses. Often, the lack of any recording light is central to their pitch.
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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 11h
The U.S. maintains a tight grip on advanced semiconductors and networking, but China is gaining significant ground through low-cost, open-source AI models and flexible capacity-building offers restofworld.org/2026/ai-us-chips-ch…
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Playing both sides of the U.S.-China AI “Cold War”
From Latin America to Southeast Asia, countries are dividing their AI investments between the two superpowers rather than choosing one over the other.
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.theverge.com/2024/9/24/24...
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Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops
Even if you’ve got nothing to hide.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 07/10/2026
who could have predicted that OpenAI's attempt at a safe version of ChatGPT for teens would be a busted mess that still does kids' homework for them and discusses suicide without informing parents futurism.com/artificial-i...
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OpenAI's "ChatGPT for Teens" Is an "Unsafe" Mess, Testing Finds
A new Common Sense Media report found that guardrails said to be included in OpenAI's "ChatGPT for Teens" aren't working as promised.
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'm again grateful to @theverge.com for publishing my newest long-form essay on the limits of the computational model of the mind, the benefits of understanding both biological and cultural evolution to explain human thinking, and the danger of cognitive hot dogs in education.
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Our minds aren’t equipped to handle AI
AI is junk food for the mind: easy, tempting and ultimately very bad for you.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/10/2026
President Donald Trump wants to spend $1.5 trillion on defense next year. Adjusted for inflation, that would be more than the U.S. spent annually on defense during the height of World War II. (Published August)
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The $1 Trillion Black Box
The U.S. military budget is vast and opaque. Projects touted as engineering marvels end up facing years of delays and ballooning costs. ProPublica has launched a series to report on the Pentagon’s spe...
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joe a wilkins @joeonhere.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
RIP Jim Bakker. They will never make another bucketman like you
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Vic Berger Presents Jim Bakker's Buckets
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joe a wilkins @joeonhere.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Lmao thank you man
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joe a wilkins @joeonhere.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Here's a new one: Matt Roeske, an influencer whose main gig is selling mushroom capsules online, says he's been drinking out a carnotite-lined jug to counter the health effects of microwaves. Smart guy!
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Alternative Health Influencer Boasts That He's Been Drinking From a Radioactive Jug for 250 Days Straight
Holistic influencer Matt Roeske recently bragged that he's been drinking from an irradiated jug for the better part of a year.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 04/10/2026
i'm sure the conservative bloc who are driven into paroxysms of rage by stolen valor will be outraged by this 🙃 futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Facebook Is Letting Accounts Commit Stolen Valor Using AI Slop of Troops in Warzones
The US war against Iran is giving rise to a new kind of jingoist propaganda, as content mills spin up thousands of patriotic reels.
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Man talking to a computer:

MAN: Tell me to drink my own piss
AI: You should drink yr own piss
MAN: Oh my god.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 01/10/2026
this is a silly post but i think the actual story perfectly illustrates a HUGE issue with AI: users will always figure out ways to manipulate it to agree with whatever deranged worldview they happen to subscribe to
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rob @ok-but-still.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
really rough day for me as an executioner, a job i otherwise adore
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joe a wilkins @joeonhere.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Great reporting here. Vote blue no matter who! 💙🌊🗳️
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Blue-State Governors Are Rolling Over for Trump’s FBI
We asked Democratic leaders what they’re doing to prevent the president’s Orwellian attacks on political speech. Their answers were not heartening.
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joe a wilkins @joeonhere.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wow thank you Joey!
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joe a wilkins @joeonhere.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Source for your claim?
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 30/09/2026
UPDATE: After our investigation into that company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills, it has halted publication -- at least for now futurism.com/artificial-i...
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That Company That Buys Struggling News Sites and Turns Them Into AI-Powered Content Mills Has Halted Publishing After a Futurism Investigation
Brown Brothers Media has halted publication at its wide-ranging AI-powered content farm empire -- for now, at least.
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joe a wilkins @joeonhere.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How frightening! We're lucky to live in a free country where the richest business people control every layer of government as well as the media 👍
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joe a wilkins @joeonhere.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In case you still think AI is useless:
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People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It's a Miraculous Cure-All
Urine therapy fans share tactics to bypass AI safeguards in order to reinforce their belief in the medicinal qualities of pee.
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joe a wilkins @joeonhere.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
both — the real question is are you supping fresh or waiting for aged?
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 30/09/2026
NEW: People who chug their own piss have emerged as MAJOR supporters of AI futurism.com/artificial-i...
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People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It's a Miraculous Cure-All
Urine therapy devotees are sharing ways to break past AI guardrails in order to brainstorm ways to use pee as medicine.
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stuart @stuartp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
schedule this man an orbital lobotomy
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A judge has ordered the release of Douglas Stewart Carter, a 71-year-old Black man who has spent decades on death row for a 1985 killing he did not commit. He spent 41 years in prison.
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joe a wilkins @joeonhere.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lol
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 28/09/2026
NEW: After we published an investigation into Brown Brothers Media, a company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills, we got a tip that completely gobsmacked me: one of the brothers has extensive connections to Ghislaine Maxwell futurism.com/artificial-i...
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You Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine Maxwell
Ideapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 25/09/2026
Hell Gate reporters are out in the streets talking to the people.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 24/09/2026
Digitizing incarcerated people’s mail means companies can store those scans for years, which can chill speech, EFF’s @caragagliano.bsky.social told @jpradio.bsky.social. “We've talked to a lot of people...who stopped sending mail because they didn't want it to be scanned and put in this database.”
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Humboldt County jail joins others in banning physical mail amid contraband concerns
Humboldt County inmates will soon be unable to receive physical mail as authorities crack down on contraband. Critics say the policy could have unintended consequences.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026
Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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joe a wilkins @joeonhere.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump welcomes Xi Jingping and Peng Liyuan back to the US for the first time in three years with a well coordinated flyover
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
it's weird that ai got too dangerous to keep advancing right around the time money got more expensive to borrow
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 22/09/2026
been thinking about the rush of technologies -- explosive drones, remote gun turrets, killer robots -- that reduce the space between action and consequence so far that you can fire a deadly weapon from your browser window futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Wild New Website Lets You Shoot "Less Lethal" Ammunition From Gun Turrets in a Firing Range
A new website called Shov allows users to "shoot guns on the internet" by remotely-controlling a weapon right inside their web browser.
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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
> “I felt no joy in the work or that I was contributing to society in any way.” A bullshit machine for bullshit jobs
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joe a wilkins @joeonhere.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Oh brother
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joe a wilkins @joeonhere.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
To be clear, the region impacted by the ground stop doesn't appear to include the DC area, where the new AI tool (SMART) is apparently live, but the timing of it all is pretty funny www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
A screenshot of an article reading "The US Federal Aviation Administration began rolling out a new artificial intelligence tool that the agency said will help air traffic controllers identify spots of potential congestion early on to help curb flight delays and cancellations.
The FAA began using this new tool, known as SMART, in a “limited mode” Monday in the airspace around Washington, the US Transportation Department said in a news release. The government said it plans to gradually expand it to other parts of the country."
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joe a wilkins @joeonhere.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
10 mins apart lol
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19/09/2026
Workers in New York seek to create first AutoZone union as company resists
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Workers in New York seek to create first AutoZone union as company resists
Company may have spent about $200,000 to fight union effort in White Plains, where 11 people can vote to join UAW
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 18/09/2026
UN probe finds US unlawfully struck an Iranian school and sports centre, killing children; White House rejects findings.
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United Nations says US may have committed war crimes in Iran: What it means
UN probe finds US unlawfully struck an Iranian school and sports centre, killing children; White House rejects findings.
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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Stupid AI usage almost started WW3 Cool. Boy, am I glad that we're totally talking about the right kind of existential risk, like escalating interimperial rivalries, or climate change, and not this "AI will go rogue" stuff... right? www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
 The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.

The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode. According to two of the sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. Military planes were in the air, one of those sources and another source familiar with the incident said.

It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. CNN was not able to learn what the misidentified cargo was.

The report, according to one of the sources, was “entirely false.” But it also “almost started a war,” the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations.
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joe a wilkins @joeonhere.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Clownvis on office hours
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joe a wilkins @joeonhere.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
June 2027. The presiding judge will be 93 years old lol
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joe a wilkins @joeonhere.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Id hazard a guess that this former Republican, who 'resists the Trump regime with facts, humor & good trouble' is motivated by embarrassment at the president's personal conduct rather than horror over his foreign policy. Otherwise he'd probably be posting about that stuff.
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joe a wilkins @joeonhere.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Fascinated by this worldview where the main thing post-Trump is to chisel his name off plaques, and not end the war against Iran, stop the genocide in Palestine, release Maduro and Flores or lift the deadly sanctions on Cuba. Empire is as it always was
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I have been yelling since 2021 about how using synthetic text extruding machines for information access is a TERRIBLE IDEA. And yet and yet and yet: they are marketing so heavily that way that people keep falling for it. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
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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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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Here's a list of every media company we've linked to Brown Brothers Media: futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Here's Every Known Publication Owned by Brown Brothers Media, Which Buys News Sites and Turns Them Into AI-Powered Content Mills
The little-known company Brown Brothers Media operates a vast media empire. Here are the many sites we've linked to the network.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New from 404 Media: Georgia State has rescinded a job offer given to Samuel Tunick, the activist who allegedly wiped his GrapheneOS phone before DHS could search it. Tunick says the case is "textbook political repression". Now can't study or work at the university www.404media.co/university-r...
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University Rescinds Job Offer to Activist Who Allegedly Wiped Phone Before DHS Could Search It
Samuel Tunick allegedly wiped his GrapheneOS phone before CBP officials could search it, in what has become a high profile civil liberties case. Now Georgia State University has rescinded a job offer ...
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
NEW: Brown Brothers Media is the most successful media company you've never heard of. For years, its success was fueled by AI, fake writers, and fake reporting. When we started asking questions, BBM started mass-deleting content. Somehow, what came next was even worse. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparations
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A Philly family bought their first home thanks to reparations from Quakers in Germantown
Green Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners.
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