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Alistair @perivale.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Love this take, people are cool and engaging with things they create is good actually!

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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I mean, yes designing cyberattack software does have some downside risk

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Public Service Broadcasting HQ @psbhq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Big thanks to Mike Palmer for the footage here, Thomas Coe-Brooker for the edit and everyone who came along on Saturday and helped make it such a great night.

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Dean Hochlaf @dhochlaf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You came into power and raised the cost of employing people, especially for entry level jobs and have been non-stop talking about how amazing AI is to boost productivity, which in reality comes through reducing entry level roles, and now have decided the cause of youth unemployment is welfare

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Alistair @perivale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It really is impressive how much Google is attempting to utterly torpedo its reputation for some reason

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Alistair @perivale.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

More to put on my big pile of “I do not trust these companies with literally any data whatsoever” and yet HMG seems pretty happy pushing AI use (seriously, if we’re going to use these tools the UK really needs sovereign AI for anything remotely sensitive)

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Alistair @perivale.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Continue having a rough time so back down on South Bank and London was looking pretty moody earlier

Grey skies over St. Paul’s, The City and the OXO Tower from the South Bank of the Thames

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Alistair @perivale.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It really was something very special!

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The chipping away at citizenship, which started with Shamima Begum, is utterly poisonous. Anytime now, Restore will support the removal of citizenship on the basis of race or religion.

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 25/09/2026

M&S Custard Cream Spread: Britain has completed food One jar of M&S Custard Cream Spread has caused us to question civilisation, breakfast, mashed potato and the limits of human restraint @willyandbill.bsky.social

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M&S Custard Cream Spread: Britain has completed food

One jar of M&S Custard Cream Spread has caused us to question civilisation, breakfast, mashed potato and the limits of human restraint

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It seems to me that a solution to encouraging AI 'alignment' would be to hold AI companies and their executives legally liable - criminally, if relevant - for what their AI agents do.

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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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Alistair @perivale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Somewhat relatedly this is something I actually struggle with as I don’t identify as English which I think is down to my father’s service in the RAF - he considered himself British and a Yorkshireman but Englishness was only a thing when it came to sports

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I do think you basically charge a few of them with the cybercrimes they're committing and the "alignment" problem does suddenly start to disappear.

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Alistair @perivale.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Well this is so grim; maybe AI will eventually replace all need for cognitive work but I do think that that way lies stagnation and ever more control of our civilisation by those who own the AIs. Worries me a lot more than an AI apocalypse

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Alistair @perivale.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So very tired of the bed bug situation. Looks like my local population is dealt with but they’re still coming in and dying in the silica dust so I can’t unpack and live normally. It’s so grim

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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

anyway all joking aside it's pretty obvious they're asking for a legal monopoly where they get to control the entire global "i gave all the good drugs to clippy" market

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not to harp on this, but one man has now coordinated the disruption of a port, two separate attacks on the RNLI, and interference with the border force and the police have no further questions? And the Home Secretary has not noticed?

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Alistair @perivale.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I got some side-eye when working as an open day rep for the physics department at Durham during my PhD when i was telling prospective undergrads to basically ignore the stated “40hr” weeks as you could 100% coast through attending lectures and labs with some additional work for 25-30 hrs a week

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 23/09/2026

am having to force myself to live in a state of at least partial denial because I find the currenty situation so deeply nauseating that constant knowledge of it would probably have a significant impact on my day-to-day

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 23/09/2026

I think once black clad men are interfering with rescues at sea, we are past "legitimate concerns". Once they're attacking boats, and risking the lives of everyone on board, it's just thuggery. The Home Secretary's statement is on the side of criminals. There's no other way to read it.

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Tom Irwin @tomirwin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Things feel grim right now. Imo a statement is needed, preferably by a coalition of national leaders, stating what the UK's values are and what won't be tolerated. Silence and inaction legitimises the far right. Their actions and what they say are not OK and they do represent me or my country.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 22/09/2026

shouting YOU'LL BE HEARING FROM MY LAWYERS and leaving the room and as I walk out several men in impeccable, expensive suits silently walk in and sternly hand you a little note, which you open and which reads "I actually really love your outfit today :)"

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Alistair @perivale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Something I wonder about Trump and AI is whether his massive support for deploying new models as fast as possible comes down to him knowing he’s dying and believing the hype from the tech CEOs that they are creating a machine god that could let him live forever

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 19/09/2026

I think it should be a source of deep embarrassment – and perhaps even shame – that Rishi Sunak has spoken out on this before Andy Burnham has.

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Alistair @perivale.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That’s (basically) 6 boxes of terminators. Do I need 30 terminators? No. Do I want 30 terminators? Very much yes

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Air gapping apparently wouldn't work in alignment tests because, I shit you not according to this OpenAI guy, one computer could run the CPU hot and tell the other airgapped one it is in trouble. I wish I could get paid $10m a year to say the stupidest cybersecurity thing you've ever heard

Tweet by Fireside Alpha, which reads:
OpenAI's Noam Brown says air-gapping the computers may not stop a misaligned AI, because two air-gapped machines can still talk by running a CPU hot and reading the temperature change.

There's a picture of a white guy with glasses, looking very concerned, under this text.

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Carney telling the European Parliament that what's needed is an alliance - his word, repeated - where nobody gets to tell the EU and Canada what to do. Good *LORD*. And met with a standing ovation. Well, that's that for the previously-existing form of Atlanticism, then.

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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 17/09/2026

‘People built the test, removed restraints, defined the objective, left a route open and decided not to stop what was happening. Calling the result “rogue AI” does more than sensationalize it. It allows those human decisions to disappear quietly from the story.’ www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

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Opinion | The Hugging Face Hack Wasn’t What It Was Cracked Up to Be

Forget the ‘hive mind’ of AI agents ‘going rogue.’ They did what humans programmed them to do.

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Alistair @perivale.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I am finding the bed big situation incredibly draining - next door’s pesticide treatment has driven them into the walls so i keep getting them popping up, walking through my silica dust and dying. Hopefully keeps them in a limited bit of the flat but means i have to be ultra vigilant all the time

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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

it's creepypasta for adults but somehow dumber.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 16/09/2026

again, they either knew they were creating a massive hacking machine and didn't care, or they didn't know and they should have done. i don't get how either of these is good. still, $1.2tn valuation, you say? sounds good, onwards and upwards

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is pitiful. Allowing the very thing it claims to condemn because it is too cowardly and self-interested to support that which would stop it.

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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely cannot emote worth a damn!”

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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Incredible framing

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is a great thread. I just wanted to add how much labels matter. If we called AI "machine learning models" and poorly-designed agents "computer viruses," people would have a very different understanding of what has been happening.

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 13/09/2026

I love how a week ago, the rogue AI agents were like whatever and now suddenly we're scrambling back from the brink of human extinction. The Very Special Tech Boys either didn't care a week ago, or they didn't realise what they'd done, or the whole thing is bollocks.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’m just a person on my fucking knees begging the government to use its absolutely massive majority to do something extremely fucking popular: save our democracy.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The snobbishness about this comes in part from the fact you can no longer pay all your bills doing a minimum wage job. If you work 35hrs a week you should be able to pay rent, pay utilities, buy food & have a little left over for a few beers on a Friday. This never used to be a controversial view.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 12/09/2026

I've had two labour members WhatsApp me furiously about this already. One's cancelled his direct debit. The other was so angry he sent a reply to the automated inbox, even knowing it was unmonitored. So wouldn't say it's looking like a *great* idea, so far…

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Will Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

And now another £36m. Two crypto billionaires. £72m to one political party in two days. More than every UK political party received combined last year. This isn’t healthy political participation. It’s a flashing red warning about the power of extreme wealth. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Reform receives second £36m donation in two days as crypto investor matches record

Cryptocurrency investor Christopher Harborne says he has matched a donation from Ben Delo announced late on Friday.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A serious democratic society simply cannot allow this. That's £72 million from just two men. (Both, until lately, based overseas). The average UK earner (full-time) would have to work for over 1,800 years to raise that much. It's a nuclear strike on any pretence at the equality of political power

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I thought Keir Starmer was bad, and that having a Principal with even a vague sense of direction would help, but the more time goes on the more convinced I become that the Labour Party is fundamentally incapable of doing the basic bits of preserving a state, even to their own detriment.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12/09/2026

Congratulations on your decision to run for national office. We think you're going to do great. Now, first order of business is to find an Omelas child to put in a hole

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 11/09/2026

I'm sure glad the government sees no need to introduce a cap on donations to political parties! What a great decision!

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What if “the future” is not synonymous with the whims of radicalised billionaire loonies?

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Alistair @perivale.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Well this is amazing - clearly some good left in the world

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Alistair @perivale.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Saw the first(?) preview performance of Night City tonight at the Southwark Playhouse and definitely recommend. A grimy exploration of the people living in the gig economy - it’s a little bleak but that’s sort of the point (it’s also pretty funny)

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Immanuel Cunt @sheogorath.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“Why are people so resistant to this new technology that we’ve been promising for years will take their jobs?”

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