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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Calling AI bots "agents" like me laying the showerhead down in the bath, turning on the shower full-blast and then crying "THE SHOWERHEAD IS A ROGUE AGENT!" to explain why the entire bathroom is now soaking wet and everything got knocked over.

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Katya Dreyer-Oren @kdreyeroren.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My robot vacuum has been exiled because ever since I moved it four feet away from its original location, it gets confused and stalls a foot from its base. But its name is Jackie McClean. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_...)

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parliaments for our cigarette king @emchap.com · 28/09/2026

Personifying AI is bad. Personifying my robot vacuum who wishes to live amongst the dining chairs, despite the fact that it absolutely cannot, however, is funny.

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Katya Dreyer-Oren @kdreyeroren.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I assume everyone has a punny name for their robot vacuum?

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I also invoked @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social in response to the latest AI hysteria.

I must plug, once more, The Al Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna. I kept thinking about the book this week as more and more tech moguls and futurists or whatever are getting a new round of attention for saying that Al could very likely turn against us and destroy the world. Bender and Hanna advise us to ignore the hype over Al as some future weapon of mass destruction and to look at how it's already ruining the world: spiritually and intellectually and environmentally.
They urge us to stop thinking about Al as an inevitability, as so many institutions and organizations are doing (I see you, Publishers Weekly). Just as people are mobilizing across the country to protest the building of data centers, we can still come together and show the technofascists who currently run the world that we're not buying what they're selling. And that's what they're doing even now: selling.

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

this is so fucking crazy. huge huge huge scoop www.404media.co/inside-proje...

In a dashboard available to the workers, human reviewers are able to select which “task” they want to take on. Once they click that, they are presented with the real ChatGPT user’s prompt. 404 Media has seen multiple real prompts but is not quoting any of them for source protection reasons. Some of the prompts indicate the ChatGPT user does not expect that a human may end up reading their conversation, because they ask ChatGPT to keep the content to themselves.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 03/09/2026

As someone who has been tweeted about personally by Rowling. And who spends my whole life trying to fight the damage caused by the litigation she funds. I think, personally, I would be less harmed by you giving me an actual kick in the ribs than watching the new Harry Potter & trying to justify it.

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The reality is that just like every other industry AI has touched, AI is showing us that yes, even software engineers are a little lazy sometimes and make silly mistakes that would have been caught if someone just slowed down and wrote some fucking unit tests.

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

And of course OpenAI and Anthropic are running with it too. Rogue AI narratives easily let them off the hook for their sloppy (and embarrassing) development decisions. While also making it look to their eager investors like they're inventing god...

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Meanwhile, the media and these wannabe whistleblowing ex-Anthropic / OpenAI script kiddies are running with "rogue AI" because, well, blade runner sells. Panic sells. And because the general public doesn't understand how modern software development works, we run with it too.

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

In recent cases, it's not that AI somehow "escaped containment" or "went rogue." That's anthropomorphizing at best. It's more like if a Boston Dynamics robot dog nudged open an already open door and walked in.

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"Slowing down," then, doesn't necessarily mean literally slowing down AI production. It means making sure your testing environments are actually secure, that your agents have fail safes built in, and that admin access to critical systems isn't guarded by a plain text 4 letter password.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 08/09/2026

A new version of ChatGPT is about to drop. Academics like @alexhanna.bsky.social and Emily Bender have been pointing out for literal years that these scare tactics about how powerful and scary AI is actually work as marketing. At this point, being this gullible is a choice.

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rm [-r] lininger @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

All the scary AI breaking containment stuff my dude it was never contained. You have no network segregation no logging no alerts no response no egress filtering. The AI surprised me, a little baby who has never seen a security review.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 06/09/2026

make bad art

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 01/09/2026

A fundamental problem with "oh it's useful for coding" is that "generating more software faster" has, if anything, negative marginal utility in itself. The world is not suffering from a software shortage. The world is suffering from a software quality crisis, which LLMs seem more likely to worsen.

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Katya Dreyer-Oren @kdreyeroren.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

speechless at this (only alive because a few people in my family escaped actual pogroms)

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boonque שאלוט משאול @kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Being anti-data center is not akshually akin to pogroming Jews

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 31/08/2026

feels like it’s inevitable these days that every tool you rely on is one garbage founder or funder away from their app’s version of this post

alilleybrinker.com

1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe — Andrew Lilley Brinker

1Password has committed $300,000 to Omarchy. This is unacceptable and must be rescinded.

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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

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Katya Dreyer-Oren @kdreyeroren.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Ughhh I've been a paying 1Password customer for over a decade now, what password managers a) aren't racist and b) haven't been hacked?

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Working on a piece for the newsletter, this is a data point - smart people keep shrugging and saying “communities don’t like data centers because of ‘vibes’” etc when it’s really that people are in fact smart enough to know they are bad faith neighbors. It is *entirely rational* not to trust them.

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 28/08/2026

Once upon a time this would get executives jailed under the Clean Air Act.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 27/08/2026

There's a trend across platforms - here, Threads, elsewhere - developing in response to the genocide in Occupied Palestine that I actually think is not just counterproductive, it's actually dangerous. (This one is going to get everyone angry with me, but I've been noodling on it for a while,

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Tim Wade @imtayadeway.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

John Oliver can clearly be heard saying "anti-abortion movement". Why did HBO Max transcribe this as "pro-life movement"? Honestly this is the exact kind of dystopian censorship I'd expect John Oliver to be losing his shit over @lastweektonight.com

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 16/08/2026

"Why do the kids hate the filterless sociopaths who are destroying the environment and the economy and who monologue like James Bond villains?"

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Micah @rincewind.run · 12/08/2026

that’s fucking right

Peggy Flanagan wearing a protect trans kids shirt

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 06/08/2026

it's important that we not only end these companies, but that they are widely understood to be evil, and that choosing to be associated with them in any way should be a mark of great shame

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Katya Dreyer-Oren @kdreyeroren.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

GI specialist told me I should eat fewer beans and complain less about "women problems" -- I had an undiagnosed stomach ulcer.

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Katya Dreyer-Oren @kdreyeroren.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This is, by the way, a very Jewish way of looking at things. "Every life, a universe" leads directly do "every kid is my kid."

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 05/08/2026

There. Are. No. Trans. Women. In. The. WNBA. This whole conversation is a racist trap and long circuitous argument that always comes back to insulting cisgender Black women by calling them not women. In particular it attacks: Brittany Griner, Liz Cambage, and A'Ja Wilson.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 27/07/2026

The Hugging Face incident was “both notable and alarming,” EFF’s @evacide.bsky.social told @sfexaminer.bsky.social, “not because ‘ooh, the model’s so powerful,’ but because it demonstrates a colossal failure on the part of OpenAI to secure the sandbox in which it was testing its model.”

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OpenAI hacking incident highlights AI cyberrisks

Experts take company to task for safety efforts

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 27/07/2026

Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.

DHH tweet saying “This is why we need competition and open weights in Al. Imagine a world where only Anthropic sat as the moral arbiter of acceptable speech. Fucking ridiculous. (Grok of course did it no problem, same too with Kimi K).” when presented with his blog post using a slur about the Roma people.

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Katya Dreyer-Oren @kdreyeroren.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Most of your interviewees are like “well that’s not for me to adjudicate” which leads me, as a consumer, to wonder who is adjudicating it 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

This is horrible.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 23/06/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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Katya Dreyer-Oren @kdreyeroren.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Yes, apologies, I've turned this into a bit of a rant about my own personal experience, which does align with that of many other devs I know. Obviously there are better ways to roll out this mandate, and I'll be really curious to see how Honeycomb (whose culture/dev attitude I admire) handles it!

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Katya Dreyer-Oren @kdreyeroren.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I know we've always had an issue calculating "developer productivity," and I wish we focused on better global metrics, like uptime, incident rates, actual revenue... and the moving goalposts of our particular mandate are a mix of impossible and unrealistic.

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Katya Dreyer-Oren @kdreyeroren.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Working at an enterprise level, where we're rarely greenfielding and our primary job is stability and reliability, it feels absolutely insane to me to push these tools at this speed without doing it any sort of circumspect way and without allowing for any pushback.

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Katya Dreyer-Oren @kdreyeroren.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

We've also not really seen much in the way of relaxed deadlines, or valuable comparison between AI and non-AI driven work. Instead, we're told to "estimate" how long work would take without AI and compare it to how long it took with AI.

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Katya Dreyer-Oren @kdreyeroren.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I wasn't as opposed to it before the metrics became totally unhinged - rewarding people on longer PRs, more PRs, more tickets completed - all measures that we've agreed, as an industry, are useless.

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Katya Dreyer-Oren @kdreyeroren.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

AI hype is like cloud hype on steroids. It has all of the cloud issues and more. Third, and this might be a bad reason, but it doesn't affect me emotionally in the same way. Other than working on the cloud platform itself, nobody told me what text editor to use or told me how to write my code.

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Katya Dreyer-Oren @kdreyeroren.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The tradeoff seems more reasonable. I don't love it, but I see the benefits clearly for both engineers and customers. Second, maybe I came to the industry too late but the AI hype feels like it's on a whole new level. I truly can't stand hype.

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Katya Dreyer-Oren @kdreyeroren.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This is a really good question. (I have also given a talk on cloud sustainability so this is a topic near and dear to my heart!) I think there are three differences. First, unlike this AI push, I can see much more clearly the benefits of using the cloud. (I work at Heroku so the cloud is my life.)

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Katya Dreyer-Oren @kdreyeroren.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I came to tech because I wanted a job that was interesting, reliable, paid well, and allowed me to work in lots of different fields, and up until recently, it's been pretty great. But I don't know if I will be able to make it in this industry for much longer. /fin

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