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Oliver Fuchs

@olifox.bsky.social
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Baue was Neues. Wird lustig. Davor: Beobachter. Noch davor: Republik und NZZ.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14h
In response to my other threads a very common reaction is why can't I just pay a small amount to read one article? In the business this is generally called "micro-payments". The short answer is this has been tried countless times and it's never worked. The longer answer is that the incentives ...
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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump, MAGA and the New Right intellectuals don’t *simply* hat Europe; it’s much more complicated. I wrote about MAGA’s weird “love-hate relationship” with Europe, as Laura K Field put it to me. Gift link
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Why MAGA hates and loves Europe
Three big reasons explain the New Right’s hostility to Europeans
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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 26/09/2026
whatever is going on inside large language models I no longer want to know about it
Claude output: I found the causes: the hand job's visibility was flickering based on momentary input backlog, and stored items weren't persisting on reload, while the wagon never retired because cheap old buildings always beat newer ones on output-per-dollar. Now I'll check what the test asserts about hiding before changing the logic.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
huh, this piece nailed the AI bros like a decade ago
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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Oliver Fuchs @olifox.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
🔥 pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/g...
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Oliver Fuchs @olifox.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"They keep telling us that 'you have to end this war.' As if we don't f***ing want to end it" - Ukrainian Official
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Exclusive: Ukraine, Russia are done with Steve Witkoff. Trump sees no problem
Kyiv and Moscow are growing increasingly frustrated with the U.S.-mediated peace process — and with Washington's Envoy Steve Witkoff, people familiar with the matter told the Kyiv Independent. Witkof...
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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 18/09/2026
Another must-read from @ftrain.com, a profoundly informed (and undeceived) writer on all things A.I. (n.b. Paul is an Ellie award-winning writer, an entrepreneur and businessman, an insightful theorist of the internet of the olden time, etc. etc.) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...
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Opinion | A.I. Slopware Is Everywhere Now. Nobody Is Using It. (Gift Article)
Just because A.I. is revolutionizing coding, doesn’t mean it will automatically revolutionize our apps.
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Oliver Fuchs @olifox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Our AI content strategy has started a ‘doom loop’ (...) It is highly unusual that an end-product threatens the economic foundations of its essential suppliers, but that is the situation we have created for our LLM business with respect to its ‘content supply chain"
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Remember: Canada spoke out in favour of its European allies over Greenland, while the EU, incl von der Leyen yesterday, has remained quiet over Trump's threat against Canada. Offering associate membership as a geopolitical move requires taking sides.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
New post out: The battle over the Strait of Hormuz combined with the Houthis capturing the coast of Yemen, is putting severe strain on the global economy. We have an alarming guest post from a leading maritime expert on how bad things could get. (£/free trial) samf.substack.com/p/houthis-ho...
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Houthis, Hormuz and the “chokepoint” threat to the global economy
Today and Thursday we have two posts addressing big risks facing the global economy.
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Oliver Fuchs @olifox.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Das visuelle Konzept des «Blick fürs Wochenende» hat Julie Body, AI Creative Director von Ringier Medien Schweiz, entwickelt."
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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
breaking: XAI announces that they have used an unreleased grok model to solve a major open problem in the field of race science
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Oliver Fuchs @olifox.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
go to hell shannon maldonado
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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Here is a gift link to a piece in World Politics Review about a longstanding peeve of mine -- how Washington holds a fundamentally asymmetric view of sovereignty, depending on whether it is the intruder or the intrudee. www.worldpoliticsreview.com/us-soveriegn...
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America’s Regard for Sovereignty Is a One-Way Street
The Trump administration invokes sovereignty to resist international law while using its power to violate the sovereignty of others.
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Olli Bäckström @ollibackstrom.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I'm not gonna lie: Macron and his generals singing the Marseillaise to a nuclear weapon is a bit chilling.
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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 26/08/2026
this is only stuff you can do on open models not just open weights, but fully open models with open datasets this stuff is extremely important, and we know next to nothing about it
Matlin and Chakraborty designed a study » around inf'yence functions, a technique that estimates how much any single training document - an article, post, or page a model trained on - shaped how the model answered a particular benchmark question.
Add those estimates up across the data, and you can see which kinds of writing - literary, technical, and so on - support a given ability in the model. But that holds only if you can confirm the model actually trained on the documents in question.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Misread the url as TMZ and thought "wow, that really is a pivot"
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Algorithms killed the spectrum of emotional valences. Everything now is set to 10. Bring back the eyeroll, the exasperated sigh, the hand wave, the shoulder shrug. Some stuff is just mildly annoying or blandly dumb. You don’t need to blow every emotional outburst on the mundane.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Onion's potential revenue is $31 trillion.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A year ago I wrote one of my most popular posts: "the financial crisis theory of everything". It looks at how the 2008 crash led to Trump, the rise of the radical right, Brexit, the war in Ukraine etc... I've taken off the paywall so it's now free to read. samf.substack.com/p/the-financ...
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The financial crisis theory of everything
Last month there was a fascinating poll from More in Common asking people to pick the main reason Britain is “on the wrong track”.
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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This explainer out of Australia is genuinely useful background and analysis of what happened with the Canada-US trade deal last night. Note that it is extremely and delightfully sweary. Also there’s an appended glossary of Australian slang. ifloz.substack.com/p/king-carne...
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KING CARNEY ACTIVATES KONG MODE WITH ZERO FUCKS
Carney Reads the Clock Like a Pro Wrestler
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Oliver Fuchs @olifox.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
but her printers
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Oliver Fuchs @olifox.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Wow.
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The carrion-eaters
What we did to Jason Arday
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Ben Myring @benmyring.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This is wonderful - if you need cheering up then this is a real tonic. ordinaryabundance.com
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Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"Anthropic’s commitments under the EU AI Act’s Code of Practice" A reminder that these things are not really that complicated. We are not the serfs of tech billionaires. We can regulate to get the world we want to live in. And it is easier to regulate if you operate at scale, as the EU does.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Every six months a writer goes on parental leave, is driven insane by watching 10,000 hours of Paw Patrol, and writes another one of these articles, and they're always great.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Fascinating yarn this:
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China bypasses shipping chokepoints with ‘Ice Silk Road’ through Arctic
First scheduled container service between Europe and Asia will significantly reduce voyage times
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 09/08/2026
So… aehm… I. I don’t … What now?! 🤨 www.newindianexpress.com/thesundaysta...
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
kind of a bummer to spend years trying to learn all kinds of cooking techniques only to eventually realize that the world’s best meal is just “pineapple with salt and cayenne pepper on it”
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Defector @defector.com · 06/08/2026
Defector also investigating how our super powerful AI tool broke contain: defector.com/defector-als...
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Defector Also Investigating How Our Super Powerful AI Tool Broke Contain | Defector
As many of you know, Defector Research Labs is hard at work creating what we are sure will be the most powerful AI coding tool on the market. The goal of DevinBelly is simple: to allow users to scale…
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
automatically running signal messages through a stranger's AI is, I think, the worst pitch and idea I've ever been cold pitched in my life and that is saying a lot
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
If you show up to Bluesky without following anyone, you'll be treated to a series of posts about art, music, and dogs. If you show up to X without following anyone, you'll be bombarded with right-wing conspiracies and white supremacist slop. It's weird which one is seen as a "political bubble"
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
But they will be
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 30/07/2026
++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Musk is calling for the assassination of a journalist. It's so difficult to comprehend why someone in his position would do such a thing that we naturally give him the benefit of every doubt, but it's crystal clear what he's saying.
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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
It didn't "go rogue". It did what it was instructed to do. In a sophisticated way but nonetheless we have to stop assigning human agency to AI systems. Everything that happened here was as a result of human designed and instructed systems.
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Simon Lester @simonlester.com · 21/07/2026
The Trump administration's position on MFN has two components: 1) We don't have to comply with it 2) Everyone else does
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Rick Ellis @toomuchtvcom.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The movie "The Odyssey" is great. But if this was 1992, we would all be listening to the Bryan Adams power ballad hit "Making My Way to You (love theme from "The Odyssey")
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Is your child texting about The Odyssey? What your Homeric teen’s wine dark texts really mean: cg = cloud gatherer doe = daughter of eetion dom = destroyer of mice sbn = soft braided nymph boh = breaker of horses pm = πολύ μητις
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phylan @phylan.website · 17/07/2026
I love the bird in the beginning that's like Y'ALL SEE THIS? THIS PILE OF POOP IS FUCKING MOVING
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Oliver Fuchs @olifox.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
"My first question is, is there a reason I should be suspicious of this person?" he said, noting that McConnell "has been in public service for a long time and has never been known as an abject liar." ... ... ok.
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
trump says the u.s. is going to get paid for guarding the strait, among other things
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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 12/07/2026
How many AI models does it take to change a lightbulb? That's a great question, which shows that you care about illumination! You don't just want to see - you want to be seen. Unfortunately no such thing as a lightbulb has ever existed or will ever exist.
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Oliver Fuchs @olifox.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Finally, it has happened to me right in front of my face And I just cannot hide it
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
At some point we are going to have to reckon with what percentage of the Thought Leadership we get from this class of people is just drug addiction. Either a lot of credulous reporters have never listened to someone tooted out of their mind go on a monologue or they're afraid to call it out.
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Oliver Fuchs @olifox.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Sichern Sie sich jetzt exklusive inhalte!
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Chris Conroy @conroyforreal.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Every time this goes around I’m stunned that there are still people who’ve never seen it, this performance is to drag what the Mona Lisa is to paintings, but maybe you’ve never seen the Mona Lisa, so today is the day you shall behold it
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