Reposted by Oliver FuchsRhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 10/10/2026From Anthropic’s own report, the models were completing tasks which they’d been given by Anthropic, and while doing so circumvented restrictions which Anthropic failed to make sufficiently strong, so how exactly were they “acting on their own”? 🙄 614737
Reposted by Oliver FuchsChen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Nobel Laureate Anne Carson, with one of my all-time favorite opening lines and one of my all-time favorite closing lines. 5367104
Reposted by Oliver FuchsMatt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026the tech industry is about to invent books 573215714205
Reposted by Oliver FuchsDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Ignoring advice to secure and monitor your sandboxes during testing then blaming it on your AI being so smart that it’s a threat to humanity is nasty work 18632163
Oliver Fuchs @olifox.bsky.social · 03/10/2026To “soften the blow”, Madison and her colleagues will say things like, “We have this really hyper-specific wine list, maybe it’s showing you a French wine, and we don’t carry French wine,” instead of telling the customer their chatbot completely made up a wine brand.theverge.comAI hallucinations are making entitled customers even worseThanks to AI, the customer really isn’t always right. 110
Reposted by Oliver FuchsJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026In 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 ... 1212215
Reposted by Oliver FuchsMatt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Trump, 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 linkeconomist.comWhy MAGA hates and loves EuropeThree big reasons explain the New Right’s hostility to Europeans 104516
Reposted by Oliver FuchsPaul Ford @ftrain.com · 26/09/2026whatever is going on inside large language models I no longer want to know about it 9445
Reposted by Oliver Fuchsjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026huh, this piece nailed the AI bros like a decade ago 511775284
Reposted by Oliver FuchsRyan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026He 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... 341127524654
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 Officialkyivindependent.comExclusive: Ukraine, Russia are done with Steve Witkoff. Trump sees no problemKyiv 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... 102
Reposted by Oliver FuchsMaria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 18/09/2026Another 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...nytimes.comOpinion | 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. 12458116
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"404media.co‘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." 041
Reposted by Oliver FuchsNicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Remember: 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. 26218
Reposted by Oliver FuchsSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026New 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...samf.substack.comHouthis, Hormuz and the “chokepoint” threat to the global economyToday and Thursday we have two posts addressing big risks facing the global economy. 68826
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." 010
Reposted by Oliver FuchsFischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026breaking: XAI announces that they have used an unreleased grok model to solve a major open problem in the field of race science 352683346
Reposted by Oliver FuchsKarthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Here 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...worldpoliticsreview.comAmerica’s Regard for Sovereignty Is a One-Way StreetThe Trump administration invokes sovereignty to resist international law while using its power to violate the sovereignty of others. 39125
Reposted by Oliver FuchsOlli Bäckström @ollibackstrom.bsky.social · 02/03/2026I'm not gonna lie: Macron and his generals singing the Marseillaise to a nuclear weapon is a bit chilling. 1022943
Reposted by Oliver Fuchsmr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 26/08/2026this 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 211019
Reposted by Oliver FuchsEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Misread the url as TMZ and thought "wow, that really is a pivot" 31025
Reposted by Oliver FuchsTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Algorithms 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. 251891270
Reposted by Oliver FuchsBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/08/2026The Onion's potential revenue is $31 trillion. 1613124267
Reposted by Oliver FuchsSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 23/08/2026A 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...samf.substack.comThe financial crisis theory of everythingLast month there was a fascinating poll from More in Common asking people to pick the main reason Britain is “on the wrong track”. 33367132
Reposted by Oliver FuchsDeb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 23/08/2026This 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...ifloz.substack.comKING CARNEY ACTIVATES KONG MODE WITH ZERO FUCKSCarney Reads the Clock Like a Pro Wrestler 992005769
Oliver Fuchs @olifox.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Wow.samkriss.substack.comThe carrion-eatersWhat we did to Jason Arday 000
Reposted by Oliver FuchsBen Myring @benmyring.bsky.social · 14/08/2026This is wonderful - if you need cheering up then this is a real tonic. ordinaryabundance.comordinaryabundance.comOrdinary AbundanceA walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new. 3267118
Reposted by Oliver FuchsIan 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. 16572178
Reposted by Oliver FuchsNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Every 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. 12781991567
Reposted by Oliver FuchsStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Fascinating yarn this:ft.comChina bypasses shipping chokepoints with ‘Ice Silk Road’ through ArcticFirst scheduled container service between Europe and Asia will significantly reduce voyage times 8449
Reposted by Oliver FuchsUlrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 09/08/2026So… aehm… I. I don’t … What now?! 🤨 www.newindianexpress.com/thesundaysta... 1812313
Reposted by Oliver FuchsJon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 08/08/2026kind 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” 1565427
Reposted by Oliver FuchsDefector @defector.com · 06/08/2026Defector also investigating how our super powerful AI tool broke contain: defector.com/defector-als...defector.comDefector Also Investigating How Our Super Powerful AI Tool Broke Contain | DefectorAs 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… 16412
Reposted by Oliver FuchsJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 04/08/2026automatically 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 33852139
Reposted by Oliver FuchsKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/08/2026If 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" 11265681266
Reposted by Oliver FuchsLeo 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... 11332521369
Reposted by Oliver FuchsJameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Musk 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. 441275347
Reposted by Oliver FuchsAnthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026It 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. 14431131
Reposted by Oliver FuchsSimon Lester @simonlester.com · 21/07/2026The Trump administration's position on MFN has two components: 1) We don't have to comply with it 2) Everyone else does 073
Reposted by Oliver FuchsRick Ellis @toomuchtvcom.bsky.social · 18/07/2026The 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") 693426703
Reposted by Oliver FuchsAdrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Is 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 38716
Reposted by Oliver Fuchsphylan @phylan.website · 17/07/2026I love the bird in the beginning that's like Y'ALL SEE THIS? THIS PILE OF POOP IS FUCKING MOVING 441294238
