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Lawrence Paulson @lawrpaulson.bsky.social · 20h

EA hits the cover of the Economist. Why are so many philosophers bonkers?

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Right Livelihood @rightlivelihood.org · 30/09/2026

What happens when an AI researcher challenges the direction of the industry from within? Meet @timnitgebru.blacksky.app, one of the 2026 Right Livelihood Laureates — a pioneering researcher confronting concentrated power in artificial intelligence. rightlivelihood.org/the-change-m...

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Ola Spännar @olaspannar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

KOM IGEN RIKSDAN, KOM IGEN! Fantastiska @rebellmammornaswe.bsky.social – Vi släpper inte taget. Vi ger inte upp. Vi kommer fortsätta att kämpa, säger Esther – En realistisk och kraftfull klimatpolitik är det enda vi ber om, vi vill skydda våra barn, säger Marie www.etc.se/klimat-miljo...

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Lars @lawrentium.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ÄNTLIGEN en vvs-teknisk diskussion på bluesky! Det korta svaret är att det finns olika sätt att kyla och vad man väljer beror på var man befinner sig och hur låg temperatur man behöver kyla till. Det Svensson skriver om är att pumpa upp vatten ur en å eller sjö havet och återföra vattnet något>

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They're such self important clowns. It's increasingly clear their weird stop-me-before-I-kill-again message is some kind of weird hype strategy.

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annikafreden.bsky.social @annikafreden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sovra i bruset och ta del av vår analys av AI-frågan i valrörelsen!

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Moa Johansson @moajohansson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

En till vettig artikel om AI i svensk press! 🙌

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Moa Johansson @moajohansson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Medan media var upptagna med ”OMG ROUGE AI!”: In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental right to data protection. noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-mem...

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AI: EU Member States plan “digital expropriation” of Europeans in the interest of AI companies

In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of AI companies to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental rights of Europeans.

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Moa Johansson @moajohansson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

”Nog för att de nordiska länderna toppar en världsranking av ”AI adoption”. Men den mäter bara hur stor andel av företagen i ett land som uppger sig använda AI. Alltså inget mått på ledarskap, utan tvärtom på följsamhet och underordning – så länge själva AI-modellerna kontrolleras av företag i USA.”

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Moa Johansson @moajohansson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Håller helt med @lisaehlin.bsky.social här! Men att det ska vara fan så svårt att få fram det i mediabruset. Nu sitter väl doomers för all del med en stor pengapåse och stora PR firmor som uppbackning, MEN ÄNDÅ!!!

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Jeannette Eggers @jeannetteeggers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Vilken text. "Hur har vi hamnat i en värld som på ett så fundamentalt sätt är till för vissa och inte för andra?" Ja, hur? Och hur skapar vi en bättre värld? En värld som är till för alla?

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’Det fria ordet’ har blivit en helt tom reklamjingel

JOHANNES ANYURU Bokmässan släpper in krigspropaganda

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Moa Johansson @moajohansson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Whoa! That was an exciting race!

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Lisme 🩷💛🌈 @femmilis.me · 26/09/2026

VAI ELISA VAIIIIII

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 26/09/2026

I don’t fault anybody for hating big AI and wanting to fight it; I do too. But I don’t think a lot of the folks who do are familiar with data unions, or collectively-owned/created technologies, and some part of the way out is going to look like that, if we find a way out. Which they won’t hear see.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When Coxon was suddenly ALL OVER the media, it felt to many like that was because his story deserved that much interest i.e. that the media was doing its job informing the public of an important threat. The wall-to-wall media coverage wasn't organic though, it was orchestrated: >>

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Moa Johansson @moajohansson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@annikafreden.bsky.social och jag har bidragit till Snabbtänkts eftervalsrapport. Vi skriver om (avsaknaden av) AI-frågan och byggandet av datacenter, och spekulerar om huruvida detta ändå kommer bli en fråga den kommande mandatperioden, som i USA: www.snabbtankt.se

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Moa Johansson @moajohansson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Making such predictions usually “involves so many untestable claims that you just end up with a conversation that is really more like faith than something scientific or empirical,” says Vermeer. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Will AI really kill us all? The science behind the hype

Nature examines whether the technology might spell the end for humans, and why AI companies are calling for a slowdown.

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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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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I’m sure someone must have issued a warning not to over-rely on AI for critical, high-stakes, decision making. Maybe even more than one.

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Joakim Waern @chozzar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A sane voice in an era of doomsayers and prophets (a.k.a. snake oil salesmen) saves the weekend.

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Just absolutely wild to see so many people discovering the massive influence of the rationalists in real time and say things like "I wish I could unlearn what I've learned in the last 24 hours." I, and others, have been researching these people for YEARS. There is so much I wish I could unlearn.

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

When I visited SF this summer, I stayed at an apartment in Hayes Valley owned by an artist (i.e. not a tech person). When I introduced myself, she said “Oh, well, you chose the right neighborhood! Welcome to AI Valley! The cult lives here!” Context for how weird things are there.

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Nice to see this getting some attention. It's completely true, and I dearly wish more journalists understood where these common narratives about AI actually come from.

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Moa Johansson @moajohansson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Nån svensk media som vill vara först med en mer nyanserad bild som denna?

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James MacGlashan @jmac-ai.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Rogue all-powerful AI predictions are not scientific and should not be trusted. People struggle to accept that because this prediction comes from some AI scientists. Sadly, scientists often make bogus unscientific predictions that should be ignored. Let's use another AI prediction as an example.

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Jonas Gustafsson @jonasgus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

INVESTERINGSBOLAGSSTYRELSELEDAMOT: Vinstförbud i skolan skulle "inte uppskattas av folket". FOLKET: Vi vill så JÄVLA mycket förbjuda vinster i skolan! Vi vill det nu mer än någonsin (71%), och vi har velat det varje år (som lägst ca 60%) sedan forskare började följa opinionen för 15 år sedan.

Diagram från SOM-institutet som visar hur svenska folkets inställningar till privatisering av den offentliga sektorn. I diagrammet finns en pil som pekar på att 71% av svenska folket inte tycker att vinstutdelning ska tillåtas inom skattefinansierad vård, skola och omsorg.

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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sweden's Social Democrats on target to get 99 seats in parliament (out of 349). That's their worst result since 1928. In March, Denmark's Social Democrats had their worst election result since 1903. What to they have in common? Mimicking "hard line" right-wing policies. It's a recipe for disaster.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).

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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 12/09/2026

The Prime Minister of Sweden 🇸🇪 Ulf Kristersson just dismissed my colleague Åsa Wikforss – Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at Stockholm University, Member of the Swedish Academy and the Royal Academy of the Sciences, and celebrated author of numerous books – as "princess" 🧵

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

AI Doomerism has been in the news lately, especially with the loud, viral resignation of Jacob Coxon from Anthropic. Maybe I've missed it, but I haven't seen any statements from CEOs and other execs who are more on the AI Booster side of the ledger. >>

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Moa Johansson @moajohansson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Trillade in på slutet av statsministerdebatten, då Ulf och Magda får en fråga om hur Sveriges ska styra upp det här med AI och beroendet av BigTech. Ulf: ”det finns en anledning till att jag inte tillsatte nån AI-nörd att leda AI kommissionen, utan en känd industriledare” 1/3

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

What, an Anthropic researcher states (without evidence) that there is a 10% chance that AI will cause human extinction? Incredible, we have never before heard such a claim!

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Hey @ericlipton.nytimes.com 👋 AI is not “evolving” on its own. *People* are choosing how to build it. *People* are choosing how to train it. *People* are choosing how to run it. Maybe the problem is that they are the *wrong people* to make these choices.

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Klimatgranskaren @handle.invalid · 07/09/2026

Statsminister Ulf Kristersson hävdar att inget land är i närheten av Sveriges klimatbidrag. Nu får han hård kritik av klimatforskaren Johan Rockström: ”Statsministern har fel.”

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Rockström sågar Kristerssons klimatpåstående: ”Statsministern har fel”

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026

Guys, this is Bernie Sanders' guy for all things AI. Max Tegmark of the Future of Life Institute, funded to the tune of $665m by crypto billionaires, that's of course, after all the Muskrat + friends' money. Their "seed funding" was from Musk. 🧵 www.politico.com/news/2024/03...

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The little-known AI group that got $660 million

Powered by a massive cash infusion from a cryptocurrency mogul, the Future of Life Institute is building a network to fixate governments on the AI apocalypse.

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Gertrud Ingelman @gertrudingelman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Det var 10 500 som gick från Slottskogen och mängder av folk hoppade in under vägen. Arrangörerna och polisen uppskattar att det var minst 12 000 som deltog. #klimat www.gp.se/nyheter/gote...

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Tusentals slöt upp i stor klimatdemonstration

Klimatmarsch inför valet • Arrangören: "Fyra bortkastade år".

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Andréas Hagström @andreashagstrom.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Vad vill vi ha? Klimaträttvisa!

Demonstranter runt Gustav Adolfs-statyn.

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Moa Johansson @moajohansson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Idag har vi demonstrerat för fred och klimat!

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Jeannette Eggers @jeannetteeggers.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Här är mitt tal.

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Kjell Rautio @kjellrautio.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Vinden har vänt. Även bland unga män. Nu ”ger vi järnet” för ett hållbarare Sverige som håller ihop! ♥️💚

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Kjell Rautio @kjellrautio.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Pajalas ekonomi är i fritt fall och kommunalrådet gråter av uppgivenhet. Man önskar att andra partier var lika tydliga som Vänsterpartiet och Birger Lahti när det gäller kravet på gruvskatt och stopp för den koloniala utsugningen av naturresurserna i norr…👇🏼 www.dn.se/sverige/komm...

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Jeannette Eggers @jeannetteeggers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Ur en ledare i GP: "Bland talarna finns bland annat representanter för Scientist Rebellion, en grupp vars medlemmar inte tvekar att begå brott för att uppnå politiska målsättningar." Kul ändå att få känna sig som en farlig brottsling. 😅

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