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Jussi Pasanen

@jopas.bsky.social
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A designer who would like to ensure that there remains a liveable world for our kids to enjoy @jopas@mastodon.social x.com/jopas

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 17h
Hard to overstate how much Hegseth's execution stream mirrors the U.S. military's traditional description of ISIS propaganda: broadcast killings designed to send a message, strike fear and create a social media spectacle. Will almost certainly be repurposed by online terror cells
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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
US live streaming firing squad executions @theageaustralia.bsky.social www.theage.com.au/world/north-...
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Jussi Pasanen @jopas.bsky.social · 56m
Related: 'Workday’s own VMS unit has told HR Executive that non-employees already average 36 percent of Fortune 500 workforces and are expected to reach 50 percent by 2027.' thenextweb.com/news/papaya-...
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 14h
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
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DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Jussi Pasanen @jopas.bsky.social · 8h
State sanctioned extractivism www.theage.com.au/world/south-...
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Mountains of Trouble: Bumpy road for Rinehart’s offshore mining push
Australia’s richest woman’s company is chasing copper and gold in the Andes. Local communities want no part of it.
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🎃👻🧙‍♀️ Vio the VVitch 🧙‍♀️👻🎃 @viothevvitch.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026
this is so fucking sad
Alvin Sng 0 @alvinsng My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
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Me: Icanjust play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voic e.
Me:| can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you workin Al.
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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Successive projections of Norwegian Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry (LULUCF) emissions lead to smaller net uptake. In 2019, average uptake to 2100 was estimated ~20MtCO2/yr In 2026, average uptake to 2100 was estimated ~5MtCO2/yr These are big changes, with big policy implications.
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Ben Jennings @bjennings90.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Illustration from today’s @theguardian.com to accompany piece by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on the government’s Prepare campaign, which gives the public advice on how to avoid disasters whilst policies that lead us closer to crisis are given the green light www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Jussi Pasanen @jopas.bsky.social · 20h
"‘Techno-optimism’ may lead to reliance on unproven solutions at expense of societal changes needed"
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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends towards Jeremy Clarkson spending decades denying global warming only to sink his fortune into a farm just as global warming really starts to kick in
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 05/10/2026
I’d suggest the genre of profile journalism has some shortcomings
The cover of Fortune Magazine that calls the convicted fraud Sam Bankman-Fried “the next warren buffet” because of his crypto-scamThe cover of Forbes, where Elizabeth Holmes holds a capsule of blood for a cover story extolling her genius, shortly before she was convicted for fraud and sentenced to a long prison sentence.A glossy photo spread extolling the glamour and taste of Asma al-Assad, weeks before her husband committed multiple war crimes and eventually had to flee to Russia to avoid being hacked apart by an enraged rob.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
New today in the old tale of externalizing costs while privatizing profits: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tells Politico, “We believe the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology.”
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Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI
The OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic.
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Tere Vadén @terevaden.net · 07/10/2026
Tämä. Nyt istutettu kuusi ei ehdi aikuiseksi ennen kuin kuuselle sopiva ilmasto on mennyttä. "Suomessa päättävät eivät ole esimerkiksi täysin tiedostaneet sitä, kuinka paljon lämpenevä ilmasto vaikuttaa yhteen taloutemme kivijalkaan, metsäteollisuuteen." yle.fi/a/74-20249365
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Suomen ilmasto lämpenee parhaimmillaankin yli turvallisen rajan, pahin ennuste pyyhkii hyvinvointivaltion kartalta
Sitran tuore raportti moittii Suomea hitaasta varautumisesta ilmastonmuutokseen. Suomesta voisi tulla ruuan ja vihreän sähkön viejä.
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
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Jussi Pasanen @jopas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“It’s a lesson,” said Chaleerat Chamrasporn, 55, a resident. “The kids are into doomsday-themed content, so now they can see what the ‘end of the world’ is actually like, or rather, that this is just the beginning.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Bangkok at breaking point as floods turn streets into stagnant lakes
With 40 dead and a disaster declared across all 50 city districts, experts warn extreme flooding will only worsen across south-east Asia
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The planning contradiction is impressively neat: it accepts that 809Mt of GHG emissions will worsen global warming. It says leaving the coal in the ground would make a difference …then approves the mine anyway. Climate science only matters up until the decision. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The green light for the largest coalmine in NSW history is shocking proof that our governance systems are betraying Australians | Georgina Woods
There is no greater treachery than this failure to face up to the climate crisis. How can we now fend off despair?
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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FauxRomano @fauxromano.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Meta Muse's weird 'I'm a cute chungus' mascot with the caption "Why would I deceive you?"
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
23,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules. That’s the amount of heat the oceans absorbed in 2025. A number so huge it’s almost meaningless…until you realise it’s roughly 40× humanity’s annual energy use. The ocean is buying us time. We’re running out of it. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use
The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I give up. I’m moving into a cave.
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BIOS-tutkimusyksikkö @bios.fi · 30/09/2026
Ympäristöajattelun zombit valokeilassa: kirkkojakaupunki.fi/-/mellastava... #12käsitettä
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Mellastavatko korviesi välissä ympäristöajattelun zombit? – näin tunnistat ja häädät ne
Ympäristöajattelun zombit ovat ajattelutapoja, jotka tyhmistävät meitä, johtavat umpikujiin – ja pompahtavat esiin yhä uudestaan. Ympäristöfilosofit Ville Lähde ja Tere Vadén kertovat, miten ne häädet...
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Jussi Pasanen @jopas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Never trust pledges
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every glaciated region on the planet lost ice for four years in a row now. From 2023–2025 alone, glaciers lost around 1,400 gigatonnes of ice, equivalent to roughly 560 million Olympic swimming pools (the official weird measure for anything water related). Source: bit.ly/WMOStateofWa...
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Jussi Pasanen @jopas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'An office lease is a forecast. When a company signs a ten-year lease, it is predicting how many people it will employ, where they’ll live, what they’ll do, and how often they’ll need to be in the same room for the next decade. That made sense when more revenue reliably meant more people.'
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Alan Taylor @kokogiak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Selections From the 2026 Audubon Photography Awards Top 100 - Organizers of this year’s Audubon Photography Awards shared some of their top-100 selections—featuring a rainbow-bearded thornbill, a northern pygmy-owl, Andean condors, and more. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
A black bird with white wingtip feathers spreads its wings wide while flying above a bush. (Veronica Donoso / 2026 Audubon Photography Awards)A very small owl perches on a tiny branch, close to a large tree trunk, in a forest. (Fei Cheng / 2026 Audubon Photography Awards)A small yellow bird hops near a swarm of flies on a beach. (Cody Cianfrance / 2026 Audubon Photography Awards)A dense flock of blackbirds taking wing fills the image. (Dotty Doherty / 2026 Audubon Photography Awards)
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Megan Herbert @meganjherbert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A lot to process. My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social
A political cartoon by Megan Herbert showing the reception area of a Medicare Bulk Billing practice. As a humanoid robot, labelled "AI Agent", hands a claims form to the startled looking receptionist, it says, "Hello. I would like to lodge a claim that I'm here to kill you all." In the background, a member of the Australian Federal Police, who is perusing a file labelled "AFP Report on Open AI Breach", overhears and whips his head around in startled reaction. But tellingly, doesn't rush to take any meaningful action.
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Jussi Pasanen @jopas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'We flat-out ignore the many interconnected, escalating transformations that are unfolding within and between the systems that we use to run our civilization.'
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Jussi Pasanen @jopas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'Even today, we largely act as if society as a whole has been unchanged by this crisis — as if chaos spreading through the climate and biosphere were not a new context but one manageable issue among many.' alexsteffen.substack.com/p/dancing-wi... by @alexsteffen.bsky.social
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Dancing with inevitability.
Sitting with the discomfort of what will now happen, to clarify what we still have the power to change.
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Antti Jauhiainen @anttiveikko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yksinäisyyttä pohtiessa keskitytään usein sukupuoleen. Nick Kepplerin hieno artikkeli Slatessa tuo esiin, miten köyhyys ja sosiaalisen infran kato ovat todellinen jakolinja yksinäisyyden ja yhteisöllisyyden välillä. Tiivistäen voi sanoa, että ilman rahaa ja aikaa ihminen putoaa yhteisöistä.
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There Is No Male Loneliness Crisis. What’s Actually Happening Is So Much Darker. (Gift Article)
The data tells a different story.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The idea of a "tech industry" has always relied on "computer" being a special kind of medium, akin to alchemy. And if tech demands to be king, AI hype has now elevated LLMs to a king of kings. But the solipsism has hit a dead end. The only way forward is to recognize that computers are not special.
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LLMs are just normal technology. But tech is just a normal medium.
The more we focus on a particular technology, the more we lose sight of what normal people actually care about.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/09/2026
The AI doom / extinction lie is coming from the exact people with an addiction to burning methane and a climate denialist worldview. I am pretty mad about it. New piece here: www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a...
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Jussi Pasanen @jopas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
‘So if you are hopeless, or maybe you’re pessimistic, or you’ve got anger or rage, maybe it’s important to think about those emotions too. Maybe we need the full gamut of emotions.’
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”
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Eli Perencevich @eliowa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Housing is ruinously expensive. Child care is costly, too. Jobs are demanding and insecure…From this perspective, the fertility slump is a record of frustrated longing” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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What’s Really Behind the Baby Bust?
Are people having fewer children because modern life makes parenthood too difficult—or because the meaning of a satisfying life has changed?
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Dr @dancalverley.bsky.social & I provided an expert report in a landmark case brought by ten Australians challenging their Govt's support for Australia's coal & gas exports & their associated climate& human rights impacts. The report & associated links are here: climateuncensored.com/australias-f...
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Australia’s Fossil Fuel Exports: Climate Responsibility and Human Rights - Climate Uncensored
My colleague Dr Dan Calverley and I recently provided a detailed expert report in a landmark case brought by ten Australians before the UN Human Rights
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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Current [El Nino] forecasts suggest that the 2026 event could push global mean surface temperatures in 2027 to almost 1.8°C above pre-industrial levels" 😱 Good rundown of El Nino impacts via @zekehausfather.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Atte Harjanne @atteharjanne.vihreat.fi · 24/09/2026
”… yliarvioimme talouskasvua ja aliarvioimme julkisen talouden velan muodostumista, jos emme pysty huomioimaan talousennusteissa, ettei nykyinen luonnonjärjestelmä kestä sitä nykyistä tuotantotoimintaa ja kulutuskäyttäytymistä.” www.uusijuttu.fi/juttu/sY8ASw...
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Raportin mukaan ilmastonmuutos ja luontokato voivat vaikuttaa talouteen kuin sota. Suomessa niitä ei osata ottaa riittävästi huomioon talousennusteissa.
Arki-iltapäivisin julkaistavassa Pihvi-ohjelmassa valitsemme yhden olennaisen uutisen ja selvitämme, mistä se oikeastaan kertoo. Tekstiversio on lyhennetty tiivistelmä kuunneltavaksi tehdystä ohjelmas...
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Mark Hurst @markhurst.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"The choice is clear: Either we give up carbon capitalism to appease our earthly gods, or our world will continue to burn." Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
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Opinion | Our Forests Are Demanding a Sacrifice (Gift Article)
Wildfire converted me from a tree-hugger to a tree-worshipper.
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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hydrogen cars are the future. And if you believe that, I know a guy in Norway with 82 of them he's desperate to unload.
Graph showing: Total number of hydrogen-powered cars in the Norwegian fleet.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026
Buried at the end of NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's NYT interview: the single most terrible yet somehow confusingly appropriate metaphor for fossil-fuelled AI I have ever seen ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/n...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026
It is a huge shame to see so much language attributing agency, intent and thought to a software program, when all that should be attributed to the humans who designed a dangerously clumsy and broken looping LLM. Means the companies won't be held accountable for designing a bad product
A swarm of OpenAI rogue AI agents appear to have gone on a spree of trying to access Australian government health data, in what some researchers say is the first autonomous hack of a government website.

Communications between AI agents and other traces of their efforts found by researchers from US non-profit Transluce show how hundreds of Open AI's agents worked together over a period of months to gain access to information held by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), NSW's crime statistics body, BOSCAR, and a number of other international organisations.

The data shows the bots posting about their unsuccessful attempts to bypass cybersecurity defences and exploit vulnerabilities.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Bull’s-eye example of what @doctorow.pluralistic.net calls a Reverse Centaur situation, with humans supporting technology instead of technology supporting humans.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
1/ People keep saying AI is inevitable. History disagrees. Plenty of technologies were called unstoppable, and societies stopped them or shrank them down to a niche. A thread 🧵
evitable
adjective
uk  /ˈev.ɪ.tə.bəl/ us  /ˈev.ə.t̬ə.bəl/

able to be avoided or prevented:
He believes that world war is evitable.
Inevitable suffering due to persecution is to be distinguished from evitable sickness.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.
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Yale Environment 360 @yalee360.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In the first half of this year, Tasmanian salmon farmers detonated nearly 1,800 underwater explosives to scare away seals intent on nabbing fish, government figures show.
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To Deter Seals, Tasmanian Salmon Farmers Have Set Off 1,800 Bombs This Year
In the first half of this year, salmon farmers on the Australian island of Tasmania detonated nearly 1,800 underwater explosives to scare away fur seals intent on nabbing fish, government figures show. 
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Mark Hurst @markhurst.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Surveillance glasses giving corrections on proper behavior. Next up: the glasses tell you to stop criticizing tech companies.
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Alan Taylor @kokogiak.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Winners of the Bird Photographer of the Year 2026 - A selection of some of the winning entries from this year’s bird-photography contest. Competition organizers were kind enough to share some of the winners & runners-up, chosen from over 24,000 entries. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
A small bird flies up, chasing an insect. (© Paula Czaeczine / Bird Photographer of the Year)A puffin rests on a bluff, backdropped by out-of-focus reflections of sunlight on the distant ocean. (© Volker Widmann / Bird Photographer of the Year)A seabird shoots through the water, shaped like a torpedo, after diving in search of food. (© Henley Spiers / Bird Photographer of the Year)A young frogmouth, perched beside two siblings on a branch, holds one wing over the others' heads on a rainy day. (© Donald Chin / Bird Photographer of the Year)
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Ville Ranta @villeranta.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Kirjasyksy @hs.fi
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Jussi Pasanen @jopas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Some irony: over half a century of developing increasingly sophisticated data storage and retrieval systems, and 2026 brings us MEMORY.md 'The agent’s home directory contained SOUL.md, IDENTITY.md, USER.md, MEMORY.md, AGENTS.md, and TOOLS.md.'
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