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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 17h
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I work for a major insurer. Much of my industry is fudging the numbers in the face of the climate crisis | Anonymous
Insurers are taking on more risk than they should. If – or when – a major disaster hits, the catastrophe will have far-reaching consequences, says an anonymous modeller and whistleblower
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
An important essay for understanding where we find ourselves.
darioamodei.com
Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Post Hugging Face, careful examination of AI-agent log files has showed that collaborations of independent agents had been extensive, with communication and coordinated action between, what have been called, large swarms. This is a natural evolutionary phase, with no kill switch.
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
arxiv.org/html/2412.12...
arxiv.org
Frontier AI systems have surpassed the self-replicating red line
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This seems like an old story, but it’s one of the most telling. I just shared this with someone, and it was in my copy buffer, so: allaboutlawyer.com/trump-pardon...
allaboutlawyer.com
Trump Pardons Drug Lord Juan Orlando Hernández, 400 TONS Of Cocaine
Trump announced Friday he will grant a "full and complete pardon" to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who is serving 45 years for running
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
You have been gifted free access to this article by a New York Magazine subscriber. nymag.com/intelligence... Epstein wouldn’t have been surprised, but might even have blushed.
nymag.com
Trump’s Shameless Collaborators
The cronies of his second term are heading for a harsher comeuppance.
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
That Daily Brain Rot Break Is Taking Us Back to the Dark Ages www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/o... The rates will vary, but most literate societies are falling into a post-literate state. Why did this collapse happen, what distinguished pre-literate from literate cultures, and what about our future?
nytimes.com
Opinion | That Daily Brain Rot Break Is Taking Us Back to the Dark Ages (Gift Article)
Welcome to the postliterate era.
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
America Feels Trapped in the Twilight Zone. This Man Can Help. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o... The Twilight Zone was a product of post-war American culture, the very early years of television. It’s aged well. A comment about the article is also included. www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...
nytimes.com
Opinion | ‘The Twilight Zone’ Was a Warning America Ignored
With “The Twilight Zone,” Rod Serling created a durable blueprint for understanding our surreal reality.
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A Supreme Court Battle Over Climate Change Begins www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/c...
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A Supreme Court Battle Over Climate Change Begins
The justices are about to hear a lawsuit that could determine whether the oil industry faces billions of dollars in liability for damages caused by global warming.
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
www.facebook.com/share/p/17py... “During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” George Orwell
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Very good.
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The west is in freefall – and the worst part is that we were warned, but chose not to listen | Owen Jones
Endless pursuit of wealth and power by western leaders led us here. What strikes me most is how many saw what was coming, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/... Starmer didn’t hide this to protect the public, and the corporate media are also hiding quite a number of things from the public. As the situation deteriorates, how volatile will an unprepared public become?
theguardian.com
UK shares findings of damning climate crisis national security report suppressed under Starmer
El Niño poses critical threat to nations’ defences, says Ed Miliband in presentation to global foreign ministers
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You received a gift article from Haaretz. This Yom Kippur, the Whole World Must Apologize to Israel - Opinion
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We’re Not Losing Control of A.I. We’re Giving It Away. www.nytimes.com/video/opinio.... Re the current state of AI, this seems like a good distillation of an important, but complex debate. It’s quite enough, as a beginning, for understanding risks, and then making decisions.
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Video: Opinion | We’re Not Losing Control of A.I. We’re Giving It Away.
Artificial intelligence labs are on the verge of handing over the training of A.I. to A.I. We should stop them.
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
-Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian ... — newrepublic.com/.../jd-vance.... -Curtis Yarvin: 10 things to know about 'mad philosopher' behind ... — timesofindia.indiatimes.com/.../art.../1... Yarvin was a guest of honor at Trump's inauguration ball in January 2025.
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Do buy the book. Others are “The Nerd Reich”, “The Sovereign Individual”, and “The Contrarian”. DOGE was a realization of Curtis Yarvin, a special guest at the Inaugural gala. In a 2008 blog post, he suggested that the homeless, in SanFran, those lacking "utility", be turned into biodiesel.
theguardian.com
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor: the future according to end times fascism – video
In a new video, Klein and Taylor outline a ominous evolution taking shape on the far right – and how to stay loyal to this planet and each other
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
People are more open to change when pushed to the edge of an abyss. They have been, and hopefully the chaos will be controlled.
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This has only become worse, and it seems like a last chance. Very powerful people want to kill liberal democracy. It does need to evolve, but not to be replaced by an oligarchy. The likes of Thiel are unfit to face challenges such as climate change and AI, and are even responsible for inaction.
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning’ A.I. Behavior www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/t...
nytimes.com
OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning' A.I. Behavior
The artificial intelligence company also released a framework for reporting when its systems go wrong.
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
JD Vance, Here’s a Catholic Politician You Should Get to Know www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/o... when I think of JD’s Catholicism, shadowy religious brotherhoods come to mind. Andy seems simpler.
nytimes.com
Opinion | JD Vance, Here’s a Catholic Politician You Should Get to Know
Andy Burnham is in some ways a throwback to U.S. Catholic politicians of past decades. He might be a signpost for the future.
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
What It Took to Dismantle the Most Powerful Company in the World www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/o... Well worth reading.
nytimes.com
Opinion | What It Took to Dismantle the Most Powerful Company in the World (Gift Article)
A playbook to curb the growing power of Big Tech.
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
How Trump Is Wielding Power to Stifle Speech www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/u... The degradation of press freedom is an important piece of Trump’s project to destroy American culture. However, many of his deep pocketed supporters share his desire, and he’s just a tool.
nytimes.com
How Trump Is Wielding Power to Stifle Speech (Gift Article)
President Trump has harnessed agencies across the government to curtail press freedoms, a sweeping campaign that free speech advocates say will have lasting effects.
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
www.bloomberg.com/news/article... He’s deeply invested in AI, so it might be might be surprising that he wants strong government regulation, something like an income tax for its work, and criminal liability for Co.s whose AIs commit crimes. But no one takes it seriously, yet, until a disaster.
bloomberg.com
Bridgewater’s Jensen Says AI Will Kill People Before It’s Curbed
Greg Jensen, the co-chief investment officer of one of the world’s largest hedge funds, issued a dire warning about the risks and consequences of the artificial intelligence boom Friday on Bloomberg’s...
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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In Times of Political Upheaval, British Cinema Turns to Class War
The new Andrew Garfield movie The Uprising is the latest sign of popular discontent.
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’d never thought about a “knowledge collapse” like this.
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Hinton says that “he does not trust Musk to weigh up the risks and benefits of AI responsibly,”and “If you wanted to corrupt those midterm elections and you wanted to use AI, all you needed to do was get detailed information on US citizens. And what Doge did looked like just what you would do.”
theguardian.com
State handouts, 10,000 lasers – and Trump’s election: six things we learned from the Elon Musk film
Alex Gibney’s marathon documentary delivers numerous eye-raising insights into the broligarch’s business deals, early idealism and apocalyptic appetite for fathering children
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Why the Hugging Face Hack Should Make You Worry More About A.I. Another article I’d posted about this issue was more informative, but this is more concise.
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Why the Hugging Face Hack Should Make You Worry More About A.I. (Gift Article)
The attack by an aggressive “collective” of OpenAI agents shows the danger of artificial intelligence systems that organize themselves.
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
There’s a real risk posed by powerful AI agents, even so great that academics, safety researchers, and others ‘growing’ frontier models should call for government intervention? He is frantic aboutOpenAI failing, the safety team has imploded. Is it safe to leave this in his hands?
bloomberg.com
Altman's Opaque AI Is Creating a New Security Dilemma
Artificial-intelligence researchers have spent the last year toying with a compelling proposition: AI models could be more powerful and cheaper to run if they disclosed less about how they worked. The...
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
What are you talking about?
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Riviting, but not short. www.youtube.com/live/p3dAkhi...
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Jack Smith Testifies to Congress on Trump Crimes | Part 2
YouTube video by Legal AF
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This especially accessible to non-experts, and the issues raised raised are very important to understand.
open.substack.com
The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations
The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Good luck with that.
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Oh, sorry, I had just wondered if there were such groups on Substack, and then to understand how it had come to pass.
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A journalist is interviewed about, what seems to be, a tremendously important plan that's evolving. The video, and his book, are each worth seeing, and these are links to two videos, 1:https://youtu.be/v_NWH2vue3M?si=rQ6SRBOKRaeyoVDM, and part 2:https://youtu.be/v_NWH2vue3M?si=nfvhwVOehq9CStdd.
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Anatomy of an Autonomous Attack: 5 Alarming A.I. Capabilities. This is a fascinating story, not new, but this is a good account of it. The events should be jaw dropping, but few are likely to remember it, let alone appreciate the implications.
nytimes.com
Anatomy of an Autonomous Attack: 5 Alarming A.I. Capabilities
When OpenAI’s agents went rogue in July, they demonstrated ingenuity and drive beyond what many experts imagined — a dangerous harbinger of what such bots could do in the future.
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
He may be pushing us to the end of the world, but at least it will be America;).
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Everything Is Called America Now
Every lake is Lake America, and every gulf is the Gulf of America.
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It would have cost so much less to transition from fossil fuels early on. And it just gets worse: short term interests, even when they're relatively so minuscule, win. Insurers have a responsibility to keep a longer term perspective, and we'd profit by paying more attention to them.
bloomberg.com
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This has aged reasonably well, so I’m sharing it again, the situation only worsens. It’s a deadly threat to liberal democratic society;Opus Dei comes to mind. Frankly, liberalism as it is, has failed, so a renewed form is needed, and the voting public very much needs to believe in it.
theguardian.com
Revealed: US conservative thinktank’s links to extremist fraternal order
Claremont Institute officials closely involved with Society for American Civic Renewal, which experts say is rooted in Christian nationalism
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
If you understand a domain at a high enough level, then a “conversation” with an AI can actually be rewarding. Unfortunately, people will be increasingly unlikely to reach such a level.
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Disinformation, which part in particular? At this late date, it’s clear that the midterms will be far less secure with Trump as president. However, could you be specific here, to get on the same page?
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
There is other information on irregularities, and I need to check this. Unfortunately, Bsky limitations prevent long posts. And, finding links and notes I’ve saved would be too time consuming. Thank you for the telling me that I should check this.
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Could you share links to the neo-nazi substacks? What does it mean to say it promotes neo-Nazis?
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
In a following article, there was talk about the UK government applying sanctions to settlements, but that seems rather pointless. Of course the sanctions should be on Israel, but instead, membership in a group supporting Palestinian rights made one a member of a terrorist organization.
bloomberg.com
Israeli Settler Siege Highlights ‘Grave’ West Bank Reality
When Loui Ridi hugged his young daughter goodbye at Detroit Metro Airport, she clung to his arm and refused to let go. The 46-year-old businessman said she then asked the question he wanted to avoid: ...
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A very grumpy book.
theguardian.com
The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State by Jill Lepore review – an ominous warning of tech takeover
A historian charts the emergence of a democracy-crushing dystopia that is – in some ways – already with us
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Is supporting Trump treason, when someone understands what has been happening?
theatlantic.com
Trump’s Last Loyal Constituency
The administration delivers a win for financial crooks at the expense of honest businesses.
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Good interview.
theguardian.com
What went wrong in Israel? A genocide scholar examines ‘what Zionism became’
In his new book, Omer Bartov tracks how a liberatory strand of Zionism transformed into an extremist ideology that he sees as responsible for genocide in Gaza
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lescl.bsky.social @lescl.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
If You Weren’t Worried About A.I., You Should Be After the Past Few Weeks The corporate media has failed to enlighten its audience about this, and while Trump was never cognitively or temperamentally fit for his office, he’s now rapidly deteriorating, but completely unbound.
nytimes.com
Opinion | If You Weren’t Worried About A.I., You Should Be After the Past Few Weeks (Gift Article)
If there was ever a time to consider halting development of A.I., it’s now.
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