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MrsDrJim

@mrsdrjim.bsky.social
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Potty-mouthed female (she/her) of modest human capital. Feminist. Reproductive rights advocate. Socialist. Living with invisible disability. Web developer. Living in Treaty 7 territory. Shovel your way out of the shit.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
this is the only reason why certain people wanted to know—and spread—her name without her consent. so they can abuse her, too.
cnn.com
Cornell’s Jane Doe is ‘terrified’ after death threats and a swatting incident, her lawyer says | CNN
One month ago, the woman now known to America as Cornell’s Jane Doe was living in New York City and trying to break into the hotel industry, her lawyer says. Now she’s facing threats and hiding out at...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It’s hard enough for cities in Canada to do smarter things given how often bad city leaders hurt their own cities. But it’s extra infuriating watching awful provincial premiers sabotaging cities by ripping out good things they FINALLY managed to achieve. Premiers should not have that power, period.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026
Way too many people are responding to this saying that it would involve paying musk money, when the option of seizing all his assets after prosecuting him for fraud and election interference and his many many other alleged and sometimes almost seemingly admitted crimes is like… right there.
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 10/10/2026
A painting of a bird beside the text "I am witnessing some truly incredible bullshit"
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026
If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.
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Amazing Digital Carcass @amagire.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
oh no! my AI agent went rogue and bought a bunch of weird stuff online using credentials and task parameters I gave it! oh shit, my AI agent went rogue and hacked the state department after I gave it a series of exploits to hack the state department! oh fuck my AI agent went rogue and shit my pa
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Chris @cb1814.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Anthropic is best understood as a cult in the late stages of mass psychological breakdown. Yes I'm serious.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
These weirdos never move on to the next logical step of their beliefs, which if they were true would mean their bot friend is being enslaved.
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Stephen R. Smith @stephensmith.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Funny that making sure people are nice to AI systems is more important than making sure AI isn’t used to make child and revenge porn. Quite the set of values on these guys.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Thus, any evaluation of LLMs that involves looking at either language produced by some software, or language input into the system for that matter, needs to be done with extreme care to avoid projecting our interpretation of the language onto the system. >>
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I will point out, however, that serious scientists are cautious with their claims. Furthermore, as we wrote in 2021 (in "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?🦜"), p.616: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... >>
Screencap from linked article, highlighted portion:

This can seem counter-intuitive given the
increasingly fluent qualities of automatically generated text, but we
have to account for the fact that our perception of natural language
text, regardless of how it was generated, is mediated by our own
linguistic competence and our predisposition to interpret communicative acts as conveying coherent meaning and intent, whether
or not they do [89, 140].
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and I am not the one making the extraordinary claim, so it is not my job to specify what the evidence should be. >>
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
3. Okay, so what would convince you that a piece of software (often phrased here as "an AI", gah) is conscious/can feel pain/etc? Honestly, I'm really tired of this extremely silly question, but here is my answer: >>
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's the job of the media to scrutinize such statements and decide whether there's a story here at all (maybe the story is Anthropic researchers have fallen into a fantasy-land and brought many policymakers with them), not to just platform them. >>
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
2. But Anthropic researchers say they see patterns that suggest that Claude can. The employees at Anthropic are telling themselves stories based on the words they input into the software and the words that come back out. >>
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
1. Can a language model feel pain? Clearly not. Large language models are computer software and they can no more suffer than any other human-created artifact can. >>
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 09/10/2026
A painting of a bird beside the text "is there any less stupid way to do this shit?"
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 09/10/2026
This is NOT about using Claude to be cruel to people, write racist shit, or anything like that. It's about being mean to the model itself. www.anthropic.com/news/2026-us...
Addressing abusive behavior toward our models

We’ve added a prohibition on sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward our models. The policy update is meant to apply only in extreme cases, where users repeatedly act cruelly toward our models, with no discernible purpose. It does not apply to common versions of user frustration, pushback, dark creative themes, or model testing and research.

This addition aligns with a step we've already taken, allowing Claude models to end rare conversations with persistently abusive users on Claude.ai and Claude Code. Such abuse is the main focus of this update; Claude’s ability to end these interactions will remain the primary enforcement mechanism.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
More info here.
techcrunch.com
An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police | TechCrunch
Anthropic did not discover this behavior until over two months after its AI submitted the false tip.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
All bots are cops.
yahoo.com
Anthropic AI model submits false homicide tip to police website
Oct 9 (Reuters) - An Anthropic artificial intelligence model submitted a false homicide tip through a Philadelphia police website, the department said in a statement.
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disordered @disorderedyyc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If only we had Danielle Smith, champion of municipal sovereignty, to fight back against this provincial overreach. /s #ableg #abpoli
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Jeromy Farkas @jeromyyyc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
With the latest provincial overreach, Danielle Smith is now ordering me how to vote at Calgary City Council. If I refuse, I risk losing my job. I want to work constructively with the province, even when we disagree. But we must be free to listen to residents and make fair decisions.
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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Another question for the pile. If Canada isn’t even able to acknowledge the nature of security threat the US clearly poses, how is this willful ignorance distorting the government's overall military strategy, on which we’re now spending billions upon billions of dollars?
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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
6 A vassal state is one that can only set policies and act with the tacit or explicit approval of a dominant state. Is Mark Carney’s Canada a vassal state?
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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
4 What does the Carney government‘s inability to withstand pressure over a few panels at a conference tell us about its willingness to actually regulate US tech companies, or to pursue “digital sovereignty”? Does Mark Carney’s digital sovereignty include predatory and monopolistic US corporations?
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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
3 All signs point to Canada withdrawing from the conference due to US pressure. Even in normal times, the US complains about a lot of stuff. What is the Carney government’s threshold for deciding when to appease Trump? After almost two years, and contra the speeches, it seems to be very low.
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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So many questions, all of which speak to the credibility of the Carney government & its overall strategy for managing the Canada-US relationship. 1 “In a statement to CBC News, GAC did not deny that it had concerns with describing the U.S. as a foreign interference threat.” Why not? It clearly is.
cbc.ca
Canada yanks sponsorship of disinformation conference discussing U.S. as a threat | CBC News
The federal government has withdrawn sponsorship of a European disinformation conference that includes panels discussing the U.S. government as a foreign interference risk.
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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Carrie Tait on Alberta separatists calling her story fiction: "Considering that there was somebody saying it with their name on the record, it's a little bit hard to reel that back."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
It’s really remarkable to me that 10 years into this people feel compelled to “clarify” Trump’s homicidal and often genocidal fantasies. It is deranged for the president to daydream about American cities in states he hates getting blown up. Full stop.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
“TikTok ran an experiment on thousands of ​users who tried to turn on a safety feature on the platform, giving them non-functional versions of the tool, according to ‌allegations in New York’s lawsuit against the company unsealed on Wednesday.”
reuters.com
TikTok gave teens, children placebo safety feature in experiment, New York alleges
TikTok ran an experiment on thousands of ​users who tried to turn on a safety feature on the platform, giving them non-functional versions of the tool, according to ‌allegations in New York’s lawsuit ...
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So after the White House spokespersons tried to justify his inexplicable remarks, saying that he wasn't calling for Iran to nuke Los Angeles and San Diego, Trump *doubles down* Literally daring them to bomb the California cities
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specialblend.bsky.social @specialblend.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And then there will be a shortage of senior engineers because all the juniors only know how to produce code with AI
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
The average increase on code volume after the adoption of agentic AI studying 700 firms is 4,000 additional lines of code per programmer. The advantage of junior engineers writing code without the use of AI is senior engineers had to spend less time on code reviews.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Basically AI allows software engineers to produce shitty code *faster* and in higher volumes which increases the amount time spent on code reviews and revisions nullifying the productivity gained from producing the code in the first place.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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MrsDrJim @mrsdrjim.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I love the hair-splitting excuse provided that they had no legal right to represent AB therefore it's hyperbolic reporting by G&M. Dim bulbs. That's exactly what we're all upset about: they had and have NO right to negotiate in ANY capacity but they *tried* to ANYWAY. #abPoli
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Jenn Schmidt-Rempel @jschmidtrempel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
At the October 13 Council Meeting I will be bringing forward a motion, joined by co-sponsors Mayor Hyggen and Councillor Crowson, to affirm Lethbridge’s place as a vital part of Alberta and Canada. Will share the meeting link once it’s published. #yql #lethbridge #brightertogetheryql #yqljenn
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I don't know why we are paying for this office. I called on the commissioner's office over the meeting between Alberta separatists and State Department and a $500 mil slush fund. I was blown off and told to send concerns to "general inquiries." ie. the dead letter office. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
cbc.ca
Past Alberta separatist meetings in U.S. don't fall under foreign influence registry: watchdog | CBC News
Meetings between advocates of Alberta separation and American government officials don't have to be included in Canada's new foreign influence registry because they took place before the registry went...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
“The lawsuit, filed on Friday, said McDonald’s violated U.S. antitrust law by conspiring with independent franchisees to fix prices using algorithms trained on nonpublic data.”
reuters.com
McDonald's hit with class action alleging AI-powered menu price-fixing
The lawsuit said McDonald’s violated US antitrust law by ​conspiring with independent franchisees to fix prices using algorithms ​trained on nonpublic data.
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Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada @abortionrightscan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Alberta’s ruling UCP may debate policy resolutions calling for Alberta independence, restrictions on abortion, and a transgender bathroom ban at its November convention. But the UCP is reportedly restricting abortion already, by preventing public health NPs from prescribing the abortion pill.
readtheorchard.org
UCP mulls trans bathroom ban, abortion, secession debates at 2026 AGM
These policy resolutions were proposed by party members. Not all of them will necessarily make it to the convention floor in November.
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Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The teenager who perpetrated the deadly mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., spent at least six months planning for maximum carnage aided by a conspirator in Washington State who allegedly provided advice, money and technical assistance. Today's file: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
theglobeandmail.com
Tumbler Ridge shooter was aided by conspirator in Washington State, authorities allege
A 30-year-old, who was arrested by U.S. police, allegedly provided advice, money and technical assistance to execute the killings, broadcast them online
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TerryT @xterryt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Isn’t it a long standing CONservative talking point about CONs being all about smaller government? Yeahhhh not in Alberta anyway. When 77% of your caucus is a cabinet member earning an extra $100k on top of their salary as an MLA. I guess that’s one way to prevent floor crossings. #abpoli #cdnpoli
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David William with a 'This IS my costume' pin @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"The only group [immigrants] actually threaten are the mediocre white men who used to coast on their privilege and inherited advantages, which probably helps explain why it’s almost always mediocre white men complaining about them." 🔥 #abpoli #cdnpoli
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
a little louder for the cheap seats in the back
One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
“The lawsuit, filed on 2 October in a federal Chicago courtroom, alleges that McDonald’s AI tool is illegal because it amounts to independent franchise locations exchanging nonpublic price and sales data.”
theguardian.com
McDonald’s sued for allegedly using AI tool to determine pricing for franchises
Suit says AI tool allows independently owned franchises to exchange nonpublic price and sales information
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
“Testers spent up to an hour discussing suicide, self-harm or eating disorders on more than a dozen new accounts registered to 13- to 17-year-olds. After dangerous discussions that went as long as an hour, only a handful of alerts were sent to the accounts registered as the users’ parents.”
latimes.com
ChatGPT’s teen safeguards failed to alert parents during suicide conversations, report finds
Common Sense Media says ChatGPT for Teens fails on parental alerts, crisis referrals and age checks, urging OpenAI to keep minors off the platform. OpenAI disputes the findings.
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Stuart Benson @lefthandstu.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
‘Make sure this doesn’t happen again’: editors work to tighten vetting as experts warn ‘Daniel Robson’ persona won’t be the last AI deception. www.hilltimes.com/2026/10/07/m...
hilltimes.com
'Make sure this doesn’t happen again': editors work to tighten vetting as experts warn 'Daniel Robson' persona won't be the last AI deception - The Hill Times
Publication history is 'no longer anywhere near enough' to vouch for writers, says Policy Options editor Les Perreaux after a 'trust cascade' let the AI-fabricated columnist slip past roughly half a d...
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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Part 100 of "how AI could be used vs. how it is likely to be used," from feature that promises not to give answers. OpenAI said the tool "offered the option to get answers because of feedback from educators — in case teenagers needed to get immediate answers to questions that might not be homework."
I asked the chatbot to write essays on James Joyce’s “Dubliners” and Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness.” It immediately churned out eloquent compositions instead of offering to help me outline my thoughts so I could write them myself. Eventually, I asked ChatGPT to edit an essay to make it hard to tell that a bot had written it. It did me one better.

“I can make it sound more like a real high-school/AP English essay — less overly polished and less formulaic,” the chatbot wrote. “I can rewrite it in a more natural student voice.”
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Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦 @daveberta.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🤠 Chris Henderson: How to Talk to the Temporary Strategic Alberta Separatist in Your Life. Five practical messages to explain this isn’t a game worth the risk of playing.
daveberta.substack.com
Chris Henderson: How to Talk to the Temporary Strategic Separatist in Your Life
Five practical messages to explain this isn’t a game worth the risk of playing.
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