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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Happy October 3 to everyone celebrating

Lady in Mean Girls saying, “it’s October 3rd.

A screen cap of Fullmetal Achemist. Someone’s hand holding an open pockets watch. On the inside of the watch is the crudely done engraving, “don’t forget 3, Oct. 10”

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 23h

One of the real problems in AI discourse right now is that one major use case seems to be a worse version of what Google used to do, but doesn't anymore. (Note: I AM NOT TRYING TO PUT OP ON BLAST! PLS BE COOL!)

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending

a graph of roadway and mass transit lights

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is an incredibly important decision, and the judge is requiring the court to throw out all evidence obtained against her. Judge wrote Flock’s network is “a type of indiscriminate mass surveillance” and that courts must update their understanding of the technology

“The Fourth Amendment requires courts to draw a line when the cost is too great. Alaniz’s search in just the ALPR system provided him with more than 50 individual records of Kyle’s whereabouts across the country for an entire month,” Hill wrote. “The Court finds that because the ALPR systems Alaniz used to search Kyle’s historical location information intruded on her reasonable expectation of privacy in the whole of her physical movements, it was a search under the Fourth Amendment. Based on the information in the record, the only reason Alaniz conducted that search was because he saw her license plate was from California.”

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This was only a matter of time. In a very real way, the net effect of networked license plate readers is more like putting a GPS device on a car than it is like driving past individual security cameras. And if police wanted to track you over time w/ GPS device or your phone---they'd need a warrant.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 02/10/2026

Gavin Newsom Is An Asshole Example #18,729

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

goes back to this quote from the story below: “The fact that they didn’t take the cameras down shows that we are the product. What they are doing is selling to much bigger agencies the ability to spy on a ton of people.”

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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 01/10/2026

I absolutely know who needs to hear this, though I won’t name names. Progressive orgs need to stop pretending that “AGI” and “x-risk” are ideas to take seriously. No one is building a computer god that could go rogue and turn us into paper clips.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

Sounds great.

According to experts I interviewed, the internet is about to get more frustrating. These agents may cause a cascading chain of problems that shake the foundations of digital infrastructure. Chances are good that you're about to live through an era of online chaos.
The internet was built for humans with limited time and patience. AIs don't have those restraints. You'll probably have to fight with robots over concert tickets and booking appointments. Small businesses could drown in machine-made pestering. AIs don't look at ads, and websites that rely on them are already crumbling. You'll be buried in endless loops of proving you're human. And if you use these AI tools, some may betray you.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The other thing that Gov. Cox “expanded” is the Utah Supreme Court, adding two seats after his political party lost a big redistricting case.

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It should alarm us that the civilian head of the military gathers together troops to give them a political speech in which he calls the free press treasonous. He should be removed from office for doing so.

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Superhero Knitter Krysten Ritter @knitindustrie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

To be clear: these people want to destroy truth itself.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So glad that this quote can be added to my forthcoming article on AI and Epistemic Dispossession because I had to say that they will absolutely be using AI to erase science and history but I didn’t yet have the ‘he admit it’ smoking gun

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David Hart @hartdp2000.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A direct response to a First Amendment loss earlier:

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Gary Alexander @garyalexander.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Greek life is so cool because, even if they aren't cooking meth in the basement and some are, they create similar disincentives to blow the whistle or confront other members as the mafia: doing the right thing risks blowing up your housing situation, current social life, and future networks.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Opus Dei Court is all in for the idea of an archipelago of concentration camps set up by Trump in the most violent dictatorships in the world, so that the internees are beyond the reach of US courts. It follows from the overarching ratio decidendi: what would Generalissimo Francisco Franco do?

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

see recent thread on helping students graduate more slowly if they want to even as everything tells them to hurry

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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 29/09/2026

Narrator: Trump is bragging about "taking in hundreds of billions of dollars" from the Americans who pay his tariffs.

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Superhero Knitter Krysten Ritter @knitindustrie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“The students have their headsets on, they are watching the computers” is a description of a situation Linda McMahon probably would’ve beaten kids for 20 years ago.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Always funny when ostensible liberals are like "You see, this postcolonial conflict is actually very nuanced and complex, because what makes it so very unique is that the majority ethnic group doesn't want to share power with the minority ethnic groups." Oh wow, I didn't know that, that's wild man.

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ancestral sigh. As I have said repeatedly — including in the comment thread responded to here — most people don’t work in white collar work and there are few good cases for them to build an agent in their personal lives. But also? It’s not even exactly true of most white collar work.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/09/2026

I laid it all out in a @motherjones.com in late January. Thank you, @h-lev.bsky.social for taking this story on, and thank you to the person (who asked to remain anonymous but who I know is on here) who got me the list of the PE firm's investors. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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ICE deportation flights are getting longer and crueler

A private equity–owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I keep encountering people describing text generators being used to "review" research proposals and papers submitted to journals. There is no way to do that and simultaneously fulfill the obligation to keep the contents of proposals and papers confidential.

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ceej @ceej.online · 27/09/2026

the tech titan backlash to “woke dei hr ladies” makes a lot more sense now huh

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

That being said, I really hope this is the last lesson people'll need to to stop purchasing or at all trusting meta's or other "AI" companies' products. bsky.app/profile/wolv...

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Noel Healy @drnoelhealy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The assault on US universities didn't start in 2025. Our new paper traces the decades of corporate capture that made it possible, and why climate research is a primary target. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Superhero Knitter Krysten Ritter @knitindustrie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

He has, in fact, been a victim of fair, objective, and well-sourced reporting.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 26/09/2026

what in the fuck is going on

display of cinnamon toast crunch with a grotesque new Mascot

close up of the monstrosity, a leering piece of cereal pulling a vile, bug eyed face

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

personally I think making your side of any dispute think worse for the tasty mcvibes of putting down an out group is rarely a good trade off, unless you have extremely powerful propaganda tech at your disposal or don't need your side's brains for anything later

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026

peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

4/ But over the next 10 weeks, I’d mimic the patterns of a problem gambler with the help of a panel of gambling experts and learn just how much DraftKings would encourage my recklessness — and just how little pushback I’d get as I spiraled downward.

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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.

Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

just a quick reminder that this fuckhead was the proximate trigger for thousands of National Guardsmen being deployed to DC

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026

Imagine if instead of regulating drone risks the normal way (which we did), we instead paid weird bloggers lots of money to worry about superintelligent dogs sprouting thumbs and using drones to kill us. This is pretty much how the US is approaching AI risks and regulations. My latest:

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Why We Can't Let Enormous Weirdos Regulate AI

Imagine if instead of regulating drones via the standard lengthy, boring, and bureaucratic process - which we did - we instead decided, in the name of fostering all-important American drone innovation...

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

BREAKING: A POLITICO reporter was denied access to the White House Thursday and his press credentials confiscated after a judge ordered the Trump admin to immediately restore access for news organizations that Trump banned.

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POLITICO barred from White House after court ruling restoring access

The Secret Service confiscated a POLITICO reporter's press pass Thursday morning despite a federal judge’s decision hours earlier that a media ban appeared to violate the constitutional due process ri...

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

They’re getting ready to pull a “everyone was against the Iraq war” but with ICE. Democrats let them get away with it on the war. We’re dumb if we do that again.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 23/09/2026

Impeach all the liars who said they had conversations with him, after you impeach his propped-up corpse.

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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"First as tragedy, then as farce" doesn't quite capture the distinction between "L'Etat, c'est moi" and "I am the [fire] code"

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