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Matt Brown @nowheria.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

because they're so bad. This is based on why Anthropic keeps shifting its IPO, and Open AI is postponing theirs: because their figures are so bad and they are very nervous about disclosing them.

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Matt Brown @nowheria.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I wonder if something will go wrong between the Anthropic IPO and the Open AI one. I mean that perhaps Anthropic will just make it through their IPO, but doubts will be increasing, and when Open AI either reveal or are due to reveal their figures, that's the moment the bubble pops, >>

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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

New @newstatesman1913.bsky.social pod - @meganekenyon.bsky.social back from Green Party conference takes us through the Zionism is racism motion row, and talks more widely about where the Greens are at:

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The Green Party’s Zionism reckoning | The Politics Show

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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A free 2000 word post on the sad irrelevant history of the 'Zionism is racism' debate davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/the-anti-z...

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The anti-Zionism of fools

On the Corbynising of the Green party

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

No two words send AI industry advocates into fits of rage more than "stochastic parrots." The question is: Why? Why do they get so worked up over this particular critical framework time and time again? I sat down with @emilymbender.bsky.social, one of the coauthors of the original paper, to discuss

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The two words the AI industry hates more than anything

I talk with computational linguist Emily M. Bender, co-author of the influential 2021 “stochastic parrots” paper, about why AI industry leaders can’t stop seething over the term.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

383. The wish to talk about ourselves, and to show our faults from the angle we ourselves would choose, makes up a large part of our sincerity.

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DreamingAgainstTheMachine @dreamingagainstthemachine.com · 28/09/2026

Is there a way to save human writing from AI slop? Author Meghan O'Gieblyn is our guest this week, listen tomorrow morning starting at 5am est. #ai #datmpodcast #slop #writing #author #aislop #noai #books #literature #humanity @adambecker.bsky.social @multitudeshows.com

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Alexander Schmidt-Lebuhn @anschmidtlebuhn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It is really underappreciated to what degree the rogue agents discourse is about prefabricating an excuse for releasing predictably unreliable and unsafe products. We don't need "AI alignment", we need enforcement of consumer protection and felony hacking laws.

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ChinaFile @chinafile.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Was the Trump-Xi summit a success? Despite all the pomp and circumstance, the deliverables announced by the two sides were partial and circumscribed. How much that matters depends on what you think is the point of meetings between the two presidents." writes @neilthomas123.bsky.social

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What Actually Happened at the Xi-Trump Summit

On September 24, U.S. President Donald Trump hosted Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the White House for their second summit of the year. The meeting advanced new mechanisms on trade and investment, and l...

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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My interview with The Philosopher is now up! We discuss the ideologies behind the race to build ASI and the history of thinking about human extinction, among other topics! www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

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Are We Living in End Times? w/ Émile P. Torres

YouTube video by The Philosopher

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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CBS News @cbsnews.com · 24/09/2026

The bond market is flashing red. The yield on the 30-year Treasury note reached 5.44% on Wednesday, its highest level since 2004, before slipping slightly on Thursday morning.

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Why the bond market is freaking out, and what it means for your money

Investors are increasingly nervous about rising inflation, which could require the Federal Reserve to hike interest rates.

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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I love clothes so the first thing I do with new relevant AI tools is try to use it to shop better. I played around with Muse for ~an hour and it finally hit me that these use cases — shopping, party planning, travel etc — only make sense if you hate doing the thing to begin with.

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Matt Brown @nowheria.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Versions of this have been a problem for years with Meta. I remember at the time of the Cambridge Analytica scandal (2018), Martin Lewis testifying to Parliament about how the then Facebook did nothing themselves to take down the hundreds of scams involving his stolen identity.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 21/09/2026

So @dwillner.bsky.social & I took some of our discussion thread from Bluesky last week regarding the "sexy apocalypse" predictions from the EA-aligned "AI Safety" folks, and wrote an article from the perspective (Dave's) of those who do *real* risk mitigation work. The apocalypse will not be sexy.

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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 22/09/2026

Today is the paperback release, with a new afterword, of GILDED RAGE: ELON MUSK AND THE RADICALIZATION OF SILICON VALLEY. It's my look at the rise of the tech right, the 2024 election, and the bankrupt ideologies animating tech oligarchs. www.bloomsbury.com/us/gilded-ra...

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Matt Brown @nowheria.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Also like Stonehenge in 'This Is Spinal Tap'.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 20/09/2026

Here's astrophysicist and journalist @adambecker.bsky.social debunking billionaire fantasies like godlike AI, Mars colonization, and eternal life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NrD...

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Here’s Why Elon Musk’s Mars Fantasy Is BS | Scientist Destroys Billionaire AI, AGI and Space Hype

YouTube video by The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

GLP-Mussolini He's even adopted Il Duce's signature gesture.

Stephen Miller pointing his right index finger upward at a press conference.

Mussolini doing his signature gesture, with right index finger pointing upward.

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Matt Brown @nowheria.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I admit there's a lot to chose from but 'Best Victorian Novels' without 'Middlemarch' or any other George Eliot on it ?

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Elon Musk talked up AI safety, threats from "superintelligence" this week, all while fighting off regulation... It's a strategy he's used for more than a decade, as documented by @dairinstitute.bsky.social & others. My latest @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/09/18/a...

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Elon Musk talks up AI safety while fighting regulation in wild week of strange alliances

In the past week, Musk has agreed with the CEOs of Anthropic and OpenAI, while getting contradicted by President Trump and Nvidia's Jensen Huang.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"The report, according to one of the sources, was 'entirely false.' But it also 'almost started a war,' the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations."

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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

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AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The speculative frenzy and doomsday AI narratives circulating alongside calls for regulation are no coincidence. They come from the same source: AI companies. AI Now's @smw.bsky.social talks w/ @mcgrathmag.bsky.social about restraining the political and economic power of AI companies as a priority.

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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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Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Alright, alright. I bit. My latest on The Antidote: My two cents on recent scary tech predictions. The Future Doesn’t Get Predicted — It Gets Produced carissaveliz.substack.com/p/the-future...

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 14/09/2026

Global tech stocks fell on Monday after the biggest AI companies called for a slowdown in the development of the technology following days of dramatic warnings over its safety. Read more here: ft.trib.al/Yc3SaxI

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

IWM has these photographs of armoured cars as Peerless armoured cars but they seem to be Pierce-Arrow armoured AA trucks en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierce-... bsky.app/profile/this...

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IWM Q 102736 - "Column of Peerless armoured cars. Note flanged wheels for use on railway lines." https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205345807

IWM Q 102735 - "British officer standing in front of a Peerless armoured car, 1915."
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Matt Brown @nowheria.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Three notorious hype-merchants try to keep the faltering hype going. "Keep lending us trillions of dollars you'll never see a return on !"

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 12/09/2026

Sam Altman confirms OpenAI won't go public this year saying "given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public" (Jason Ma/Fortune) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

walked into a grocery store in malibu…the rich people are not ok

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

376. Envy is destroyed by true friendship, and coquetry by true love.

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Matt Brown @nowheria.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

V good article by @ashleybelanger.bsky.social . For major US AI companies to accuse other people of committing the heinous sin of stealing intellectual property is so beyond absurd that I don't even know what to say. It's a burglar complaining about being burgled. Laughable.

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Duc François de la Rochefoucauld @rochefoucauld.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

375. Mediocre minds usually condemn whatever is beyond their grasp.

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 06/09/2026

Latest numbers

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

OpenAI is now facing more than 50 consumer harm and wrongful death lawsuits alleging that extensive use of ChatGPT resulted in psychological harm, physical injury, and even the deaths of users and/or those around them. futurism.com/artificial-i...

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OpenAI Is Now Facing Over 50 Consumer Harm and Wrongful Death Lawsuits

OpenAI was hit with 30 new lawsuits overs its alleged role in the Tumbler Ridge school massacre. It now faces over 50 consumer harm lawsuits.

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Matt Brown @nowheria.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is a good idea, I think. We already knew that Africa was absolutely huge (think of Algeria alone) - now it looks even bigger: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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UN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africa’s true scale

Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland

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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Um you might want to watch channel 4 news right now. A lot of people's careers are over, it seems

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