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genea.bsky.social @genea.bsky.social · 18h

It is now obvious that people would long ago have stopped global warming (a.k.a. "climate change") if it weren't for the lies of the giant oil corporations, thoroughly documented by Naomi Oreskes, Gus Speth, and many others. So when you see new disasters caused by change, always say: OIL LIES AGAIN.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

AI is an unregulated emergency on every level--academia, art, national security, privacy, the environment, faith in journalism, and on and on and on--and deriding those who are desperately trying to pull the handbrake as we go over the cliff as alarmists will not age well (if we get to age at all).

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mind-boggling - just mind-boggling Now expected to peak at an extraordinary 4.2C in December

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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“To have someone say that’s bullshit, here’s why that’s bullshit, and have a two-word phrase that encapsulates it, drives (those heavily invested in it) absolutely crazy”. This is a must-watch. @bcmerchant.bsky.social @emilymbender.bsky.social are two of the best minds on this Ai insanity.

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 02/10/2026

wtf

Screenshot of Google Photos Gemini onboarding screen on mobile (Android, 11:21 AM, 50% battery). The screen features a search icon with a sparkle and the heading "Use Gemini for new ways to search & create." Below, terms for enabling Gemini are listed: "Gain a deep understanding of your life" (highlighted with a green border), "Determine your location," and "Use your queries to improve." Fine print notes that Google Terms apply and these features can make mistakes about people. Links to Google Privacy Policy and Gemini features in Photos Privacy Hub are included. Two buttons at the bottom: "No thanks" (gray) and "Turn on" (green).

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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“the term ‘AI’ itself is a very misleading term to use. It’s a marketing term… the chatbots that these companies are creating, like Claude or ChatGPT… where regulation could be helping: For instance, there are kids who are being goaded into dying by suicide.” @timnitgebru.blacksky.app

democracynow.org

The Real Existential Risk Is AI CEOs Avoiding Oversight: “Alternative Nobel” Winner Timnit Gebru

We speak to the prominent AI researcher and leading critic of the AI industry, Timnit Gebru, who was recently awarded a 2026 Right Livelihood Award for her work investigating the harms and hype behind...

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.com

Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Congratulations to the 2026 winners of the Right Livelihood Award! @jalilahaider.bsky.social @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Rural Women’s Assembly Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

MUST WATCH 😂😂😂

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Must-watch short on the Bandung movement, when global South countries challenged imperial power in the world-system. More relevant now than ever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpDU...

youtube.com

What happens when countries stand up to the superpowers? | Bandung 1955

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This quote from Solnit’s book shows why we need to change the conversation on rape. It’s not a sex misdemeanor, it is horrific violence against a person and has PTSD repercussions orders of magnitude worse than combat veterans. Think about that - esp in context of judges who say I dont want to

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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why now? Why this whole dog-and-pony show with the special suck-a-broligarch’s-dick award? What does Döpfner need Thiel for? What does Thiel need Döpfner for? What kind of quid pro quo is this? Gotta love the turn of phrase by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social

broligarchy.substack.com

Meet the real AI “rogue agent”: Lord Tom Watson

A Labour leader is out of control. The world needs a containment strategy now

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 28/09/2026

“Tompkins County [DA] Matthew Van Houten said Monday that he felt compelled to answer publicly, explaining in a nine-page statement that Jane Doe’s credibility ‘was never in question,’ but in her initial sworn statement … she ‘did not allege that she was drugged against her will or gang raped.’”

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

It is no coincidence that rationalists and EAs tend to be straight white guys from well-off families, because for everybody else, the world usually conspires to knock some sense into you about your inherent god-emperor genius by the time you’re old enough to drink.

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Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 26/09/2026

There is no ethical use of AI.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 26/09/2026

Please sign if you can! OPEN LETTER: PAUSE THE NATIONAL ROLLOUT OF AI-MEDIATED TUTORING IN ENGLAND'S SCHOOLS > Children should not be exposed to a technology whose future, effectiveness, and safety we cannot predict, and for which the evidence is mostly negative.

docs.google.com

OPEN LETTER: PAUSE THE NATIONAL ROLLOUT OF AI-MEDIATED TUTORING IN ENGLAND'S SCHOOLS

OPEN LETTER To the Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP, Prime Minister, and the Rt Hon Lucy Powell MP, Secretary of State for Education The Department for Education has announced plans to develop, what it calls, “...

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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Climate change will cause food shortages, conflicts, mass migration, and risk of nuclear war and the collapse of civilization. But the federal and provincial governments are all in on fossil fuels, and the Carney and Eby fans love it.

theguardian.com

Why is the UK’s suppressed climate national security report significant?

Warnings about the catastrophic effects of vital ecosystems collapsing were not published under previous prime minister

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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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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Never attribute to intelligence, that which can be adequately explained by projection. Hanlon’s LLM Corollory

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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Loking forward to this whole thread being turned into a standup routine! @sarahjeong.bsky.social slays

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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

For some reason, every time I read about the FBI, this image flashes before my eyes.

Gene Wilder’s famous bedroom scene with Dolly the sheep.

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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Beginning on Oct. 9, 2023, two days into the war, Pope Francis called Holy Family Parish, the only Catholic church in Gaza, almost every evening. He kept calling from the Gemelli hospital with pneumonia in his lungs. His last call came on Holy Saturday night, April 19, 2025 - he died 2 days later.

thelettersfromleo.com

Priests and Nuns March to Vatican to Protest Israel’s War Against Gaza

About 150 priests and nuns carried a shroud of 300 children’s names from St. Peter’s to the door of an Italian arms maker. Pope Francis and Pope Leo XIV have been pointing the Church there for three y...

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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Paraphrasing ‘My Left Foot’, @timothysnyder.bsky.social is a “fokkin genius”! “It is no exaggeration to say that the plans of oligarchs put millions of lives at risk right away. Yet no matter how dark the evil, there is always a corner for ridicule's little lantern”

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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“In an age of virtual reality we can all look away; we need virtuous reality, the bit of labor it takes to come and see, to listen and learn.”

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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Or would you like some extra paper clips?

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Tom Fletcher @tomfletcherun.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What will world without international humanitarian law be like? Two ways to find out. Look at history to see what humans do without restraint. Or look at what is happening to civilians in the atrocities labs where humanitarians serve right now: they’re on frontline of impunity. #UNGA81

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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The will to power is always horrific, because it is not simply tolerating “strongman politics” or even fascism. It is predicated on genocide.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"The Israeli army has killed 2 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. A child was shot in the chest.. & in a separate attack a 31 year old woman was shot in the head" No, this isn't complicated.

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Science will always be a target for movements that rely on constructing their own version of reality.

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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Soylent Green feedbags will be applied until the impossible borrowing turns a profit research by Fathom Consulting: for the multitrillion-dollar AI boom to turn a profit, it would need the AI-related sales of the tech companies involved to rise by between $600 and $800bn within two years.

theguardian.com

Are global stock markets heading for a crash?

Economies thrown into renewed turmoil as AI debt, Iran war and soaring government bond yields fuel alarm

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’ve been meaning to say this for a while now. But @karaswisher.bsky.social says it so well: The anger over data centers… is a proxy for the anger regular people know and feel in their own lives about what this is doing to them, and it doesn’t make them anti-tech” Read the interview - it’s great!

theatlantic.com

Kara Swisher: AI Isn’t Going to Destroy Humanity—But the People Building It Might

The longtime tech journalist says she’s seen Silicon Valley make the same mistakes again and again.

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

For centuries, scientists have thought of the brain as a single, unified organ. But new research led by Stanford Medicine reveals that what we call the brain is two distinct organs that evolved independently over hundreds of millions of years. med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

med.stanford.edu

Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds

Stanford Health Care delivers the highest levels of care and compassion. SHC treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, primary care issues, and many more.

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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is mental predation of our kids. Is this the society we want!? “A large survey by the Institute for Family Studies, for example, shows that seventy-five per cent of parents of K-12 students support A.I. moratoria.” #theAIcon @emilymbender.bsky.social @olivia.science @alexhanna.bsky.social

newyorker.com

What We Lost When Big Tech Took Over the Classroom

Natasha Singer’s book “Coding Kids” tracks how public schools were bewitched by private corporations, setting the stage for the ed-tech backlash of today.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/09/2026

The courts ruled that Trump had to stop fucking with wind power and he's just ... ignoring the courts. What exactly is a democracy supposed to do in this situation?

heatmap.news

Trump Keeps Wind Farms Waiting Despite Court Ruling

The administration told a federal court that it has a “new analytical methodology,” hence the continued delays.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

What is the tech industry truly afraid of? Is it the AI they have unleashed, as they want us to believe? Or is it…all of us, standing up to them? Thanks to Chris Hayes for having us on.

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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A distinction that does make a difference! @lessig.bsky.social Still fighting the good fight. Bravo!!

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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

these ideas are so out there, so blatantly divorced from empirical reality and basic morality, why should I waste my time and my sanity debating kooks? In short, because the kooks are now in power, and they are using that power to dismantle the institutions designed to keep us safe, healthy, & free

techpolicy.press

What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI

Nathalie Maréchal asks, why are we betting the economy and the future of democracy on cult-like beliefs?

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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The need 4 humanities: What the TESCREAL doomers are worried about is an ASI that wipes out our species, thus foreclosing the possibility of us becoming or creating “worthy” successors: posthumans. What they want is an ASI that enables us to become or create “worthy” successors that usurp humanity

realtimetechpocalypse.com

The ASI Extinction Debate Is the Opposite of What You Think

The media needs to wake up, fast. (3,100 words.)

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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Copper doesn’t get the attention it warrants, and recycling is not going to fill the looming shortage. The massive data center mania is accelerating and exacerbating this crunch.

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Project Drawdown @projectdrawdown.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Clean, affordable, and abundant energy sources like solar and wind are the future. See below for statements from @globalecoguy.bsky.social and Kate Marvel on today's news that the United States EPA is eliminating pollution limits on dirty, expensive, fossil-fueled power plants.

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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“Researchers failed to take steps to ensure their automated hacking software was adequately firewalled from the internet. It was also revealed they weren't even monitoring their own automated hacking software in real time. The automated hacking software then did exactly what it was programmed to do.

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