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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026

Everyone needs to read this. Reality is, in fact, stranger than fiction. Reality is worse than anything we can say about these people in a few words, media appearances, op-eds, or other conversations. Read the whole thing. ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/urbits3/sitf...

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These people shouldn’t make policy.
There has been a great effort over many years to distance AI Safety
discussion from its origin and intellectual center, because its center is
predatory sex cult started by a fan fiction author. Since those involved
to be taken seriously, they have to hide that. Everyone else working in
Safety is, effectively, a smokescreen for this core group and their ideas
We might some day have “AI Safety”, as a science or policy area, that
primarily a sex cult in Berkeley, California, but it does not currently exi

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's not even funny what kind of loss I will absorb if I have to create an account to do business with you. I will walk away from a winning lottery ticket, I promise you.

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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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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/09/2026

Riley Gaines, famous for turning her 5th place tie with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas into a far-right career agianst transgender people, has officially had her lawsuit against the NCAA thrown out by a judge today. The judge found no evidence for her claims. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Riley Gaines' Title IX Lawsuit Against The NCAA Struck Down After Judge Finds "No Evidence" Of Funding Claims

Gaines’ attorneys argued her civil rights were violated because she competed against a transgender athlete.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...

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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street

YouTube video by Musk

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tante @tante.cc · 25/09/2026

"These are – for actual human beings – very embarrassing things to admit. Why would techbros do that? Constantly." The Test

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Goes rogue in the sense that someone's off-leash dog shits on their neighbors yard.

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

At least where I got my PhD, if I wasn't sure what I found, how it worked, if it was useful or significant, nobody pretended I accomplished anything.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

these people will happily whitewash and paraphrase unhinged Trump rants to make them seem grammatically coherent and authoritative, but if a young woman says “like” we must keep it in there to make sure you know she’s a bimbo infuriating actually

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Mike Malecki @malecki.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

These are the people who should be all over media, not those white boy children getting attention.

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Haben Girma @habengirma.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Why did I, a Deafblind person, ask for a print copy of Timnit Gebru's Book? @timnitgebru.blacksky.app I read an early accessible copy and loved it! The signed book will impress my parents — we’re all big fans of Timnit! Preorder your copy of #DeepUnlearning. simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U...

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

Thank you my dear friend ❤️

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Mike Malecki @malecki.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The headline and subheading both lead with a persona, not a name. Only the photo caption presents this in a way that names the person and subordinates the weirdness. Why?

Screenshot from the Philadelphia Inquirer with headline about a troubled and dangerous young man named Braden Peters. It does not mention his name and refers to both his online presence and an absurd term “looksmaxxing” described better below as “an online subculture dedicated to improving male attractiveness”. The subhead also puts his made up persona first but does name him. There is a photo of the guy and only the caption labels the image with his name first.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

When people say “Bluesky is a toxic anti-AI place” I hope they are talking about me 🙏

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kay slater @kslater.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

everyone hates AI. everyone loves the library

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 19/09/2026

This is why I think it's so important to push back against the personification of LLMs. If a person shoots someone while wearing a hand puppet, they can't claim the hand puppet did the murder.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

"For a man whose academic field was built largely on faulty studies to ignore the intellectual fraud in his circle and lash out at people like Arday for bad scholarship – well, psychologists used to call that projection" @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/steven-pin...

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From celebrity intellectual to anti-woke outlaw: how Steven Pinker lost his way

The pop psycholgist’s new book seems to betray a lurking fear of others’ criticism – about his Epstein links, his manosphere admirers and his discredited former field of study, writes Virginia Heffern...

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 18/09/2026

Being a computer scientist who refuses to find anything about LLMs interesting right now is a bit like being a geneticist who refuses to find anything interesting about the recently opened Jurassic Park

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 18/09/2026

a pretty good way to gauge the conversation is whether people are talking about harm or risk harm is about what's happening now already risk is about what could maybe happen in the future and basically the whole ai cult scene is in agreement that possible risks are more important than current harm

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Honza Dvorsky @czechboy0.dev · 17/09/2026

The AI fascists continue to be unapologetically aligned with the GOP fascists, what else is new

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Mike Malecki @malecki.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Just go read a book. Preferably fiction.

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Mike Malecki @malecki.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

And still we need to keep laughing at these losers! The hype is exhausting.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I interviewed my air fryer and asked if he ever got tired of chicken wings

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El Brento @andbrent.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"AI wins not when it becomes more human, but when humans become more like AI: disengaged and devoid of original thought.” As I battle daily with our new AI reality, can't help but want to join @sarahkendzior.bsky.social in the righteous crusade against it. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/i-wandered...

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I Wandered Lonely in The Cloud

How AI is destroying the life of the mind.

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Ghost in the Machine @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The wait is finally over! Ghosties get involved @pbs.org Also airing tonight on your local PBS station 7PM PT, 10PM ET! "The one documentary with the power to burst the AI bubble" - The Wrap www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLQz...

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Ghost in the Machine | What is Artificial Intelligence? | Full Documentary

YouTube video by PBS Documentaries

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Mike Malecki @malecki.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

That guy is so obviously unserious

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

"When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who built this bridge to be so flimsy? There are permits you have to acquire [& supposed] tests. When you ask about the bridge collapsing itself, you’ve lost the thread"

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

People in AI labs need to go outside and touch grass. Climate change is literally killing people. More than 1,300 are dead and 5,000 missing after a climate-linked glacier collapse devastated Nepal. Claude running in a loop trying to hack a website is just another Tuesday.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Protect trans kids.

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Mike Malecki @malecki.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Have you touched a foldy fone? Feels off. Nah.

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tante @tante.cc · 09/09/2026

I am willing to take AnthrOpenAI's warnings abut "the AI might kill us" seriously and not laugh at these people when they actually stop building these systems that supposedly endanger humanity. Those folks are members of a doomsday cult and need therapy and help, not space in tech reporting.

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Scott Riley @scott.is · 09/09/2026

pls join me in reclaiming the sparkle icon/emoji to be campy fabulousness again instead of ’this thing was made with no forethought by asking several gpus in a trenchcoat to smuggle it into existence’

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

But we don't have to surrender to that. We can keep nurturing our relationships and our communities (and our families ffs) and it is ever more meaningful to do so.

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Jennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"it’s wrong to compare generative AI refusal to an authoritarian, anti-science, anti-LGBTQ+, sexist framework for teaching young people about sex" If you haven't read this already, I highly recommend doing so!

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

while milo gets to chit chat on TV with clear access to safety and basic needs, the US is flying untold numbers of immigrants to unsafe countries of origin or other countries where they don't speak the language or know anyone.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

if only there had been clues

Republicans convention delegates holding “mass deportation now!” signs

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Mike Malecki @malecki.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Outlook first inflicted “recall” on email, now this horseshit. I laugh derisively every time I see “would like to recall” — sorry buddy that’s not how email works!

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The latest from YouGov (n ~ 7.8k) -- Good morning to everyone whose job involves communicating about probability: Just under half of Americans can correctly interpret a weather forecast! yougov.com/en-us/daily-...

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 21/08/2026

The most crucial part in each "AI Winter," & the thing that I genuinely think cannot come soon enough, is when we as a culture remember that we're able to disambiguate the term "AI" & we go back to actually descriptively naming the process(es) we mean. Really can't wait for that to come around again

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Sen. Ossoff mentions Natalie Harp, it got some social media buzz, then professional media jumped on it. Two theories of politics that are wrong: 1) Do economic policy, act above the fray, media will do the rest on its own 2) Public opinion is static, politicians’ job is to measure then follow it

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ncnvrgnt @inconvergent.net · 15/08/2026

cybercrime should probably be illegal regardless of how much linear algebra was involved

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 29/03/2026

"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate any thing. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It [cannot] anticipat[e] any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with." — Ada Lovelace, 1843

From Note G, p. 722

It is desirable to guard against the possibility of exag-
gerated ideas that might arise as to the powers of the Ana-
lytical Engine. In considering any new subject, there is
frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be
already interesting or remarkable; and, secondly, by a sort
of natural reaction, to undervalue the true state of the case,
when we do discover that our notions have surpassed those
that were really tenable.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Better things are possible.

Nixon's resignation later, dated Aug 9 1974

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

not to be confused with quesadilla

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Honza Dvorsky @honzadvorsky.com · 22/01/2025

I miss the liberalism of the 1940s when we still knew how to deal with Nazis. Those liberals never would have just stood around and watched this shit unfold quietly. We need to bring back that energy.

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