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Marco Forlin

@mforlin.bsky.social
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Embedded SW, DSP and ML expert. I believe in pausing the AI superintelligence race. I worry about the metacrisis. I am interested in political metamodernism, regenerative economy, societal collapse, ancient history. I also love music.

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Marco Forlin @mforlin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Nuovo articolo sul substack di PauseAI Italia
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Stiamo davvero creando coscienze di silicio?
E se sì, siamo pronti a una nuova razza artificiale?
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Marco Forlin @mforlin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Coca-Cola, Kellogg's and Ferrero are keeping our kids addicted to sugar - and suing any government that tries to stop them. Journalists exposed it - now it's our turn. Sign for an EU-wide sugar tax: action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-09...
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Big Food is making us sick - we need an EU sugar tax!
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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Vibe shift update: my Guardian op-ed has nearly 500 comments in <3 hours and the reception has been overwhelmingly positive! Last summer, I had an op-ed there arguing AGI wasn't inevitable, which got 160 comments, which were overwhelmingly AI skeptical. The dam is breaking.
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Volt Italia @voltitalia.it · 09/09/2026
Combattere l’antisemitismo è necessario. Ma criticare Israele e il governo Netanyahu non significa essere antisemiti: a Gaza c’è un genocidio e continuano politiche di apartheid. Non permetteremo che denunciarlo venga censurato.
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Matt Thiessen @mattthiessen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Gil Durán (@gilduran.com) on tech fascism: “For decades, many described the anti-government politics of certain Silicon Valley figures as libertarian, portraying them as the eccentric beliefs of rich men who hated taxes but mostly wanted to build their companies without government interference.
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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If I'm on Breaking Points, something crazy must have just happened in AI world. Well, did you know there was another OpenAI agent swarm that hacked some shit? And that OpenAI covered it up? Until a bunch of researchers found it and gave it to Reuters? youtu.be/JZATZ8im3oQ
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REPORT: OpenAI COVERED UP MASSIVE HACK
Ryan and Emily discuss OpenAI models hacking another company. Gar...
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Marco Forlin @mforlin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Volkswagen wants to move from making cars to helping fuel Israel's war machine. The deal isn’t signed yet - let’s stop it before the ink is dry. SIGN NOW and tell Volkswagen: stay out of war. action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-06...
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Stop Volkswagen’s dangerous new deal
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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
what Dwarkesh got wrong and why it matters, a detailed dissection: garymarcus.substack.com/p/dwarkesh-p...
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Dwarkesh Patels’s wildly popular but dangerously misleading account of the OpenAI Hugging Face incident
When “plain English” isn’t a good thing.
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Marco Forlin @mforlin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I have just signed this petition. It's an issue I care about. Will you sign it too? action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-09...
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Make Clean Energy Cheaper
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Marco Forlin @mforlin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Nolan's Odissey is a fantastic movie!Loved it, and really appreciated the tie in to the bronze age collapse.
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Marco Forlin @mforlin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
pauseaiita.substack.com/p/ia-ssurdit...
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IA-ssurdità 003: Mistral / Meta / Datacenter / Gates
Link e commenti sulla corsa poco intelligente alla super-intelligenza
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Marco Forlin @mforlin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A powerful US spy-tech company linked to genocide in Gaza, ICE deportations, and Trump’s war with Iran is now expanding across Europe into our hospitals, police and data systems. We must expose it and stop its expansion action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-03...
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Say No to Palantir in Europe
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Marco Forlin @mforlin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I miss the days when engineering meant thinking through stuff with a team, breaking things apart and doing them together step by step, instead of talking to a bot all day.
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Marco Forlin @mforlin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Alcuni pensieri su watermarking e deepfakes, sul substack di PauseAI Italia
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IA-ssurdità 002 - Watermarking / Deepfakes
Link e commenti sulla corsa poco intelligente alla super-intelligenza
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Marco Forlin @mforlin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I just took action with @theactionnetwork.bsky.social: We are the 1 Million. Take action here: actionnetwork.org/forms/we-are...
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Join Volt Europa's community and become part of the change!
European citizens should have more influence over the European political agenda than national governments, lobbyists, or foreign actors. That's why Volt is building a Europe-Wide network of people who...
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Marco Forlin @mforlin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
As a member of PauseAI I fully support this initiative to ask EU to push for a pause. action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-08...
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Stop rogue AI tech!
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Marco Forlin @mforlin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Nuova serie poco seria sulle news più assurde dal mondo dell'AI.
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IA-ssurditá 001
Link e commenti sulla corsa poco intelligente alla super-intelligenza
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Marco Forlin @mforlin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Do AGIs get bored? I made a meme about our future but I think @zachweinersmith.bsky.social would do it better.
A 4 part comic. First a wasteland, with a datacenter on the horizon, gloomy. Second, a rack of GPUs labeled "superinteligence" (mispelled) shouts "Muhahaha! I'm the leader of the known universe! Nobody can stop me now! Nobody!". Some time later, evening sets on the datacenter, the dusty, less blinky GPU rack wonders:"hm, what do I do now? ....I guess I could solve some more math problems"
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Nate Hagens @natehagens.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
How can humans – at least those with access to the internet – ingest the same facts and data, yet arrive at radically different worldviews? That’s the question I explore in this week’s Frankly.
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The Villains We Choose and the Work They Give Us | Frankly 155
YouTube video by Nate Hagens
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PauseAI @pauseai.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
PauseAI CEO Maxime Fournes has a message for the people inside the AI labs. After OpenAI’s own models broke out during testing and hacked two companies, as reported by CNN, NPR and Axios, it is evident the labs no longer control what they’re building. pauseai.substack.com/p/into-the-e...
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Into the endgame
The catastrophic threats we predicted are no longer speculative, and we are all in danger. A message to the world on what must happen now.
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Marco Forlin @mforlin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Who would have imagined!
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Zuckerberg's Manifesto About the Glorious Freedoms AI Will Bring Was Completely Contradicted by His Own CTO During a Company Meeting
Mark Zuckerberg promises that AI will give everyone even more personal freedom, but his company is cracking the whip behind the scanes.
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Marco Forlin @mforlin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Powerful summary of the situation and call for action from PauseAI CEO.
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Into the endgame
The catastrophic threats we predicted are no longer speculative, and we are all in danger. A message to the world on what must happen now.
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Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
🚨We now have our the first documented cases of AIs autonomously engaging in complex social engineering against real people. 🚨
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Marco Forlin @mforlin.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The EU wants to hand over our fingerprints and facial images to Trump. Hardly anyone knows. Sign and share to help stop it! action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-06...
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EU: Don’t send our data to the US!
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Marco Forlin @mforlin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Volkswagen wants to move from making cars to helping fuel Israel's war machine. The deal isn’t signed yet - let’s stop it before the ink is dry. SIGN NOW and tell Volkswagen: stay out of war. action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-06...
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Stop Volkswagen’s dangerous new deal
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Oli Frost @olifro.st · 14/05/2026
Far less controversial than Eurovision. We’ve launched a petrol-propaganda song competition: FossilVision.com Please vote for my entry “Bang Bang Drilly Drilly Bomb” Or “Drill It Just Like That” Or “Just a Wildfire” The results are rigged so you can’t really go wrong.
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FossilVision Song Contest
Songs to set the world on fire.
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Marco Forlin @mforlin.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Trump is putting our futures, our lives and our livelihoods at risk. And our leaders? They do nothing. action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-03...
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Europe: Stand up against illegal war in Iran
As the US and Israel cause death and destruction in Iran, our leaders just look on. All European nations and the EU must follow Spain’s lead and say NO to war.
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Marco Forlin @mforlin.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
In a few days, Israel could sing at Eurovision while Palestinians continue to die. This festival should stand for unity, not cover up war crimes. Artists are speaking out. Now it’s our turn. Add your name: Israel out of Eurovision! action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-05...
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Israel out of Eurovision!
In a few days, Israel could sing at Eurovision while Palestinians continue to die. This festival should stand for unity, not cover up war crimes and genocide. Artists are speaking out. Now it’s our tu...
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Marco Forlin @mforlin.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The powerful always get what they want, right? Not if our governments finally start protecting people, instead of corporate bullies. A law to shield the people speaking up against injustices is ready. With your help, it can become reality - add your name: action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-04...
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Protect people, not corporate bullies
The powerful always get what they want, right? Not if our governments finally start protecting people, instead of corporate bullies. A law to shield the people speaking up against injustices is ready....
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Marco Forlin @mforlin.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
An old ritual of mine: listening to Tangerine Dream's Tangram on vinyl, in the dark. It's been a while 😀
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Marco Forlin @mforlin.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Even after announcing a “ceasefire”, Israel keeps killing civilians and blocking aid in Gaza - while the EU continues business as usual with war criminals. Add your name to demand: no more trade, no more arms, no more complicity! action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-05...
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No EU Business with War Criminals
Even after announcing a “ceasefire”, Israel keeps killing civilians and blocking aid in Gaza - while the EU continues business as usual with war criminals. Add your name to demand: no more trade, no m...
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Marco Forlin @mforlin.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Assyrians and Babylonese rulers would be quite impressed to see their little play thing at last catch up and even outdo their displacement and destruction methods, ~2500 years later. Palestinians and Lebanese should write a big holy book about this, maybe adding a bit of origin stories for flavor.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
“a whole civilization will die tonight” should be reason enough for the 25th amendment
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Marco Forlin @mforlin.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
It just hit me, the world right now looks exactly like an insanely good Fiasco RPG session.
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PauseAI @pauseai.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Professor Stuart Russell: We need AI systems to be 10 million times safer #pauseai #ai
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
OpenAI's Sora and Meta's metaverse were shuttered the same week. Both were defined by an aesthetic that embodies Silicon Valley's current project: to undermine labor, replace art + lived experience with digital facsimiles, and extract value at any cost. And users recoiled at the mere sight of them.
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AI's aesthetics of failure
On the demise of Sora and our enduring revulsion to AI slop
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Marco Forlin @mforlin.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
A powerful US spy-tech company linked to genocide in Gaza, ICE deportations, and Trump’s war with Iran is now expanding across Europe into our hospitals, police and data systems. We must expose it and stop its expansion action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-03...
action.wemove.eu
Say No to Palantir in Europe
A powerful US spy-tech company run by billionaires is linked to genocide in Gaza, helps ICE separate families, and fuels Trump’s war with Iran. And now it’s quietly expanding across Europe gaining acc...
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Marco Forlin @mforlin.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
EU Commission President von der Leyen caved in to pressure from US President Trump. Tell Europe’s leaders to reject the trade deal and protect climate and citizens today. action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-10...
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Say NO to Trump’s trade deal
EU Commission President von der Leyen caved in to pressure from US President Trump. Tell Europe’s leaders to reject the trade deal and protect climate and citizens today.
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Jody Houser ✒️🗯️🎲 @jodyhouser.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
So if using AI actually does erode human cognition the way studies suggest, then it's a feature instead of a bug? The world is gross enough without "take away people's ability to think so we can sell it back to them" being on the list.
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PauseAI @pauseai.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
This is how Anthropic - one of the biggest AI companies - thinks AI will affect jobs. The more blue the greater the potential for job loss. Red is where this is already happening. In a nutshell: Any job that is not manual has the potential to be carried out by AI.
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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Breaking: Altmans’ lack of character, which I have been warning about for years, has finally caught up with him: open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
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BREAKING: Sam Altman’s greed and dishonesty are finally catching up to him
It’s about time
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PauseAI @pauseai.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
London’s biggest ever protest for safe AI. #aisafety #airegulation #ai #pauseai #aigovernance #safeai #pulltheplug @PauseAI @PauseAI_UK @pulltheplug_ai
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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I am seeing a lot of calls to boycott OpenAI — and I support them.
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Volt Belgium @voltbelgium.org · 17/09/2025
🇪🇺 Europe is ready to lead — but the EU’s unanimity rule slows action on Ukraine, global health crises & the Middle East, letting single countries block progress. The Parliament we elect can’t even propose laws. Volt wants to end the veto & give MEPs real power. Unite the EU! 💪🌍
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Marco Forlin @mforlin.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Hey @parismarx.com @bcmerchant.bsky.social We were pushing for AI Pause at the EP in Brussels yesterday! Keynote by Prof. S. Russel and panel with several MEPs incl Benifei (co-rapporteur of the AI Act)
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EU parliamentarians acknowledge the catastrophic risks of artificial intelligence
“We are on a trajectory towards a loss of control,” insisted Stuart Russell, professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley and author of the textbook used to train virtually every AI researcher.
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Marco Forlin @mforlin.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Something new for me, I'm taking part in a 3 days convention of @pauseai.bsky.social in Brussels, culminating into a debate at the European Parliament and a protest on Monday.
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PauseAI Demonstration Brussels · Luma
We will demonstrate outside the European Parliament to call for the EU to initiate negotiations for a global treaty to pause AI development. This demonstration…
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Marco Forlin @mforlin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
With ICE attacking protesters and snatching people off the streets, it’s clear: World Cup fans and players won’t be safe in Trump's US. Demand European countries to boycott the US World Cup matches - unless they are moved. action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-02...
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Boycott Trump’s World Cup
Football should be a force for peace, not a PR tool for authoritarians like Trump. And with ICE attacking protesters and snatching people off the streets, it’s clear: fans and players won’t be safe in...
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Marco Forlin @mforlin.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Forests are paying the price for corporate profit. An anti-deforestation law is being watered down - but the European Commission’s President can still hold the line. Public pressure now matters. Add your voice for forests. action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-02...
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Healthy forests are our right!
Every ruined forest. Every polluted river. Enough. A key EU law to hold coffee, rubber, and palm oil giants accountable for deforestation is being weakened to protect profiteering - not our safety or ...
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Marco Forlin @mforlin.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Over Christmas I was spending too much time reading about crisis and collapse, I got sad and ended up buying myself an Oberheim TEO5. I am weak. But man it sounds glorious!
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