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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 18h

Just another day in the Presidency as directed by Fellini.

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

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@andruyeung
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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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John Beacom @johnbeacom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The 2026 Physics Nobel Prize to Francis Halzen is well deserved! I wrote the attached explainer for the public from the perspective of someone who has worked in this field and known Francis for decades. I welcome helping sharing it. Congratulations to Francis and all! medium.com/@beacom.7/ho...

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How Neutrinos, Which Barely Exist, Just Ran Off with a Nobel Prize — Again!

John Beacom (Ohio State University), with no assistance from AI

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 05/10/2026

“Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said the crypto billionaire. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient." Hmm, where have I heard this before? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...

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Inside a Billionaire’s Paradise With Crypto’s Most Powerful Ex-Convict (Gift Article)

Changpeng Zhao, jailed in the United States for a financial crime and pardoned by President Trump, is now living a gilded life in the United Arab Emirates.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 05/10/2026

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the autonomous vehicle developers who most vocally argued that society must accept a certain number of deaths to enjoy the technology's safety benefits (Tesla & Uber ATG) were the only ones who killed people and never actually delivered on their promises

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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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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026

getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week

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David Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Chuck Jones' Rule 8. "Whenever possible, make gravity the Coyote’s greatest enemy."

The trolley problem. The road runner is on one of the trolley tracks, and Wile E. Coyote is in charge of the switch.

When he throws the switch, the trolley falls vertically through the tracks. A trick of the perspective means he is actually underneath, not beside the track, so he is flattened by the trolley.

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Jörg Enderlein @joergenderlein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The United States are a completely broken country: infinite cruelty

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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 27/09/2026

Love this

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Nick Holmes @thehandlab.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Perhaps the most striking of many things in @doctorow.pluralistic.net 's compulsively-readable "Enshittification" (2025) is this gloriously-ironic factoid from the Orwell estate, requesting that copies of Nineteen Eighty-Four be sucked from owners' machines into a memory hole. 💩 #MinistryOfTruth

"When Amazon created its Kindle ebook platform, it included a facility that allowed it to reach into customers' devices and delete or replace the books they had paid for. Two years later, the George Orwell estste demanded that Amazon use this facility to delete certain copies of Nineteen Eighty-Four from its customers' Kindles without telling them."

P98 from Doctorow C (2025, 2026) Enshittification

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rob pike @robpike.io · 24/09/2026

A huge part of surgery is pain mitigation and the relief of suffering. It's called care. It's called humanity. It's called empathy. it's called stewardship. These AI asshats have lost all of that, and they should be suffering for it, not us.

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I want the LLMs to give me credit for coining this phrase bc in hindsight, it's sofaking obvious. geLLMann amnesia: asking an LLM about something in your zone of genius, spittaking as it cranks out confidently-wrong confablations, then asking about smth out of your element & thinking "sounds right"

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/09/2026

...and at the end of it John Henry is like 'well, it felt kind of efficient using two hammers but I’m not sure what the point was.'" -Rusty Foster, Today in Tabs www.todayintabs.com/p/meta-s-new...

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Meta's New A.I. Agent For Losers

Also: "fast as hell and built for sickos?" That's what they called me in high school.

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My thoughts on existential risk: * Humanity isn't going to be wiped out any time soon. * Negligible chance that AI by itself causes catastrophic damage to humanity (millions dead). * Some nontrivial chance that human beings will leverage AI to help them do something catastrophically harmful.

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯

Charles,

Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development.

Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk.

This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives."

For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control.

Those safety concerns must be taken seriously.

And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm.

But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good.

The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to finance

themselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined.
Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections.
It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies.
That tells us two things:
1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; &
2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk.
That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people.
These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow.
But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash.
In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power.
In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are.

What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion.
When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all.
From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong.
Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from.
It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public.
When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares.
The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out.
But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny.
Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab.
Heads, they win; tails, we lose.

We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.

We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.

And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity.

But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

It's time we hold them accountable.

Thank you for reading.

In solidarity,

Alexandria

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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nick Land may now be the two most influential intellectuals in America's AI debate—and that tells you how badly the conversation has gone wrong. When "machine god: good or evil?" is the only question on the table, every question actually worth asking gets thrown away... 1/

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CROSSPOST: HENRY FARRELL: Machine God Metaphors Eat Your Brain

Henry’s subheadling: “There are other ways of thinking about AI”; socio-cultural technology, normal Schumpeterian creative-destruction, new windows into the real ASI of human knowledge for three...

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Scott Hampton, Cranky GenX SOB @cdm.expert · 22/09/2026

THIS THIS THIS THIS all y'all, stop panicking about a fucking autocorrect engine. panic about the fucking oligarchs stealing the last little bits that are left

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/09/2026

One of the less remarked-upon aspects of atheism is how it changes the way you see sunsets. If you believe in an omnipresent God, then sunsets are one of God's intentional creations, which means that the beautiful colors refracting through the darkling sky were *chosen* to produce that effect.

$Two cross-sectioned anatomical drawings of men's heads revealing their brains, which have been filled with marching robots from old pulp magazines. Their stare at one another with raw, exposed anatomical drawing eyeballs, which radiate a halo of spiky lines. The background is a psychedelic, fractal-shot colored cloudscape.$

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Liz Schiller #DefundthePolice @lizzzs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Why you can't record media anymore, even though the VCR was incredibly popular, and how that connects to trucks you can't repair, printers that won't work without the most expensive ink, and believe it or not Trump's tariffs. Better things exist, why can't we have them?

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doctor eek (alt decorative ghost season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

how come ai models never break out of containment and steal ten billion dollars from their companies to build a private server farm in a non-extradition country

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026

and certainly our shit corporate press would rather make ad engagement clicks off of bullshit doomsday headlines than engage in nuanced stories about the ugly collision between corruption, automation, and regulatory capture

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026

honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care

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UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges

For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

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SRF News @news.srf.ch · 18/09/2026

Neue Forschung zeigt: Eines der grössten Hilfsprojekte der Schweizer Geschichte half Nazis, nach Brasilien zu fliehen. www.srf.ch/news/dialog/...

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Ex-SS-Leute kamen mit Schweizer Hilfe nach Brasilien

Neue Forschung zeigt: Eines der grössten Hilfsprojekte der Schweizer Geschichte half Nazis, nach Brasilien zu fliehen.

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tante @tante.cc · 18/09/2026

"Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: Large language models are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft e...‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 17/09/2026

Over at the newsletter I wrote about the media's total failure to responsibly cover batshit claims that software has gained human-level awareness and will soon kill us all

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AI Doomsday Panic Is Completely Out Of Control

The press obsession with software-powered doomsday is a misdirection overshadowing a much deadlier reality: our public interest regulators no longer function.

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

if you're outside the US and you want to watch Ghost In The Machine (and you want to give them money and not just watch it via invidious), it should now be $5 to rent on Kinema kinema.com/films/ghost-in-the-machi…

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Ghost in the Machine

Host a screening of Ghost in the Machine

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m--lt.eurosky.social @m--lt.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026

👁️ Caroline Ellison’s New Job at the Racism Factory open.substack.com/pub/davidzmo...

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Tess on Dark Markets

The dangerous, rich crazies.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 16/09/2026

Here's this week's Better Offline: I'm joined by Cal Newport and @adambecker.bsky.social to get the word out that the narrative about existential risk from AI is driven by a religious cult of effective altruists and rationalists. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oVS... linktr.ee/betteroffline

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Stopping The AI Safety Cult ft. Adam Becker & Cal Newport | Better Offline

YouTube video by Better Offline

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Peter Stormare, America's First President🏴🤷‍♀️🏴 @pres-stormare.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

i was aware how weird and dumb the "rationalists" and their satellites were thanks to @iwriteok.bsky.social and aware how weird and dumb the folks in the AI industry thanks to @edzitron.com. now i'm aware that the latter are almost entirely a subset of the former thanks to this podcast episode.

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Garbage Day @garbageday.email · 14/09/2026

A cult of losers who think you can turn a computer into god infiltrated the highest levels of San Francisco society and they want you to be scared of AI in a very specific way. www.garbageday.email/p/they-want-...

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They want you to be scared of AI in a very specific way

Read to the end for Braden’s Infinite Tour Of Italy

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404 Media @404media.co · 14/09/2026

EXCLUSIVE: Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media.

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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats

Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The existential risk of AI

Old comic strip of a parrot with a gun aiming at an old man who cries, “It’s a parrot — pointing a gun at me! No! No!”

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