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Shreya Chowdhary @shreyachowdhary.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I'm presenting this paper this afternoon in Malmo! Here's a peek at the poster, which previews the article's core arguments. Come find me to talk more about how we can reclaim democratic control over AI futures :) Read full paper here: doi.org/10.1609/aies...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 3h

> There was no outbreak of oligarch support when Timnit Gebru […] was fired from Google in 2020 for refusing to take down a research paper she had co-authored. […] Her findings were buttressed by another researcher, Abeba Birhane, who co-authored a paper called “On Hate Scaling Laws for Data-Swamps”

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 4h

Artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination -- Arundhati Roy www.equator.org/articles/aru... 🧵

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Apocalypse Now and Then • EQUATOR

Artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 9h

“What do Palestinians think about it” is a question you would only ask if you think the answer would have any meaning, and indeed if you believe that Palestinians are properly human.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 9h

I saw a few people on here saying "we thought Brazil was good at dealing with fascism, how come Bolsonaro's son is leading" but that take fails to acknowledge the scale of the challenge that antifascists face in Brazil (Google "Marielle Franco 2018"). What they have achieved there is incredible.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 14/10/2026

Israel's foremost natsec think tank says Israel's new doctrine rests on these principles 1. Jewish supremacy over democracy. 2. Peace is illusory 3. No such thing as an independent Arab state 4. War is key to security 5. The US is declining, Israel does not need it 6. Settlement is key to security.

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pettter, stuff scientist @pettter.bsky.social · 9h

Why have we gotten to the point where militaries are relying on civilian commercial data centers for critical ongoing operations and administration?

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 10h

Folks were obsessed with this story because once again it hit the liberal ideal of politics: this isn’t our fault, our friends and neighbors aren’t actually Nazis with an ideology we have to consciously address, it’s just a building and if we blow it up we won Politics: the Video Game

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Jourhavande Filosof @systerfrida.se · 10h

Öppet meddelande till Alla Myndigheter och Företag som Fakturerar: SLUTA SKICKA FAKTUROR TILL FUCKING "KIVRA" E-fakturan uppfanns av en anledning jävla idioter

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Felipe Estrada @festra.bsky.social · 10h

Jag fick ta bild när vår brasilianska gästforskare bad Metas AI/Whapp fixa en gröngul bild för Lulas kampanj inför andra omgång. Den behövde en seg minut att svara. Å ni ser det ursäktande svaret. Därefter bad han om en motsvarande bild för Flavio Bolsonaro. Valpåverkan kom med vändande post…

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 10h

OpenAI continues to enshittify ChatGPT: OpenAI allows advertisers — or really anyone, I tested myself in 5 minutes — upload raw phone numbers or email addresses to OpenAI to then target those specific people and inject specific ads into their ChatGPT session www.404media.co/how-chatgpt-...

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How ChatGPT Targets Ads To You Based On Your Prompts, Phone Number, and Email

Most ChatGPT users probably don’t know you can be specifically targeted on the platform by advertisers based on your email, phone number, or unique phone identifier.

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 12h

Today I found out that Umberto Eco crafted a version of this meme in the 1980s…

Beware the
alibi of photocopies ! Photocopies are indis-
pensable instruments. They allow you to keep with you a text you have already read in the library, and to take home a text you have not read yet. But a set of photocopies can become an alibi. A student makes hundreds of pages of photocopies and takes them home, and the manual labor he exercises in doing so gives him the impression that he possesses the work. Owning the photocopies exempts the student from actually reading them. This sort of vertigo of accumulation, a neocapitalism of information, happens to many. Defend yourself from this trap: as soon as you have the photocopy, read it and annotate it immediately. If you are not in a great hurry, do not photocopy something new before you own (that is, before you have read and annotated) the previous set of photocopies. There are many things that I do not know because I photocopied a text and then relaxed as if I had read it.

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Devin Chaloux @devinchaloux.com · 11h

And yet no one talks about how Pangram's main source of revenue is convincing teachers to violate the law.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 18h

This is all disgusting. I've had people accuse me of using AI when I do shit like use an em-dash. I struggle to avoid yelling but HUNDREDS OF ARTICLES AND AT LEAST TWO BOOKS I WROTE have been scraped by OpenAI. I'm part of why your chatbots write the way they do. They're copying me.

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 19h

Look, AI-detection companies do the worst thing you could possibly do: They do a loop between training and the test set, until they get the test set right. And then they pretend that generalizes That's iterative p-hacking. It's making the numbers look better, while the results get worse.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12h

THANK YOU @nicoleconlan.bsky.social + Rollie Williams for covering our great big report in AI greenwashing for the 4th season of the Climate Deniers Playbook, go listen and subscribe to their bloody amazing podcast please www.instagram.com/p/DefY3QfBQxg/ linktr.ee/deniersplayb...

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The Björnen formerly known as Beelzebjörn @beelzebjorn.bsky.social · 12h

Och det har skett avsiktligt och uträknat, medan pengar istället strösslats över politikernas kompisar/blivande arbetsgivare i den ägande klassen.

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pettter, stuff scientist @pettter.bsky.social · 12h

Hussetal Påtal Australopitekustal

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The Björnen formerly known as Beelzebjörn @beelzebjorn.bsky.social · 12h

Hur går det med "regeringsdugligheten" förresten? Någon som luskat ut en bra definition än? Min är "mått på hur täta band till näringslivsorganisationerna ett parti har."

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pettter, stuff scientist @pettter.bsky.social · 12h

Considering every fucking western state is already at their mercy with how integrated Microsoft is absolutely everywhere? Very very good way to demonstrate willingness to use their stranglehold to secure further contracts.

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Mentalt handikappat boskap @toebias.bsky.social · 12h

På fyra år har svensk fattigdom fördubblats "Forskningen pekar på ett urholkat och svårtillgängligt socialförsäkringssystem och en avreglerad kreditmarknad" www.aftonbladet.se/debatt/a/kvy...

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På fyra år har svensk fattigdom fördubblats

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12h

This is a great presentation from Kara as well www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k7C...

The Wrong Takes
Unless you're ready to accept defeat ...
Kara
" 'The biggest change is moving from climate moralism into climate realism,'
said Yair Reem, partner at Extantia Capital, a Berlin-based VC firm."
WSJ
1. I will acknowledge that decarb is no longer
the main demand driver.
2025 clQsed as the second-hottest year on record, capping the three
hottest years ever measured. Global temperatures again exceeded 1.5C
above preindustrial levels, at least temporarily breaching the world's most
important climate target.
And yet, the investment signal moved in the opposite direction.
Decarbonization powered climate tech's takeoff in 2020, backed by
strong policy tailwinds and corporate net-zero commitments. That world
Climate tech -> Al and defense is not a "pivot" for
climate
no longer exists.
sightline
What replaced emissions targets as the primary driver is r climate
energy demand. Al, data centers, electrification, and grid
pulling capital toward anything that can deliver power fast, reliably, and at
a tolerable cost. Buyers are optimizing for speed to electrons, not tons of
C02 avoided. Emissions reduction still matters, but it's no longer the
pitch. That shift explains why the biggest deals of 2025 clustered around
firm power, energy security, and system resilience.
o
Al opens opportunities for some clean tech,
like long duration energy storage (LDES), but
it is ultimately not inherent clean tech, and in
fact is likely to be harmful to the environment
without intervention
Defense is a small market and comes with
other, dark implications, and is not a
substitute for a clean tech agenda

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 13h

Cannot overstate how refreshing and great it is to read this fantastic piece on how 'climate tech' has completely lost the plot. Eye-opening to realise just how inevitable the forgetting of climate as a priority is, when pin all this on capitalism intercalationstation.substack.com/p/we-lost-th...

Some are arguing that the industry needs to leverage the moment to accelerate the scale-up of climate technologies, as if data centers and drones can be a beachhead market to decarbonization broadly. This “nice” idea fails to acknowledge that many of these markets (e.g., batteries for the Department of War) are very small and will not move the needle across the industry. These markets often necessitate vastly different performance metrics than, say, the EV or grid storage markets, challenging the idea that progress in the beachhead will do much for the broader electrification opportunity. The thesis further ignores the direct harms these industries are doing to the electrification argument: for example, rising electricity prices coming from the data center buildout severely harm the unit economics of most electrified technologies that rely on cheap electricity to justify the replacement of fossil incumbent processes. And then, of course, there’s the complete ignorance to the deeper, climate-negative implications of massive, rapid load growth coming from data centers and the growing “us versus them” geopolitics being fueled by the anti-China rhetoric driving the national security conversation. In the former case, we have yet to meaningfully transition (i.e., retire fossil assets) anything about our grid to date, calling into question the sanity of allowing substantial load growth that will only exacerbate our problem. In the latter case, we are rapidly approaching the need for global coordination to enact climate solutions of all shapes and sizes. Not to mention the war in Iran released 5 million metric tons of CO2 in just 14 days, the equivalent of a 1 GW coal plant running for nearly a year, and the US spent over $25B on that war in under 60 days, the same amount invested in the whole Clean Tech 1.0 era.

So I’m calling for radical honesty about what is actually happening. We talk about climate denialism as a disease of those who reject the science, but more pervasive may be the denial among those seeking to solve this problem about what solving it actually requires. If a climate week didn’t talk about climate, why are we still calling it climate week? The virtue-signaling and greenwashing running rampant in our industry — the pat-on-the-back events, the optimistic LinkedIn posts — are not just unhelpful. They actively obscure the problem. I find that the average Gen Z-er is more critical of data centers than most climate professionals I know. That should embarrass us.

The deeper issue is that we’ve been trying to solve a systemic problem with a narrow tool. The neoliberal solution set — drop-in technologies that slot into the existing status quo order, hardly the “disruption” we like to envision when we talk about venture-backed startups — is structurally incapable of driving the true change required. There is no such thing as a free market: agriculture, petrochemicals, and defense have all been propped up by aggressive industrial policy for decades. Climate deserves at minimum the same treatment and arguably necessitates full-scale policy prioritization. Which policies we pick must result from a genuine reckoning with the finite nature of our planet, the unviability of perpetual growth, and the deep power structures that are equally responsible for the historic wealth inequality we face today as the continued divide of the Global North and South. Degrowth, techno-negativity, and other ideas currently dismissed as radical deserve as serious engagement as the techno-economic approach that has so far failed to move the needle.

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vitkor arnell @vitkor.bsky.social · 13h

Nu har också tingsrätten bekräftat att det gäller Solna kommun och inte Järva. Alltså: Ingen misstänkt för valfusk i Järva. Tvärtom mot vad alla stora medier rapporterade i tisdags. Det kan vara så att de blandat ihop Järva med Järvastaden i Solna.

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Tingsrätten bekräftar: ingen misstänkt för valfusk i Järva - Nyhetsbyrån Järva

Misstankarna mot en person för otillbörligt verkande vid röstning gäller i Solna kommun, inte Stockholm.

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Katie Spoon @kspoon.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

As a PhD student designing my first survey, I added what I thought was a throwaway question at the end. To my surprise, thousands of academics answered it! The paper is out today: doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

for the record what i love most about 40k is that it was clearly created by a bunch of british nerds in the 80s that hated margaret thatcher. that's what makes it good.

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 14h

This is not some Jimmy Wales-Wikipedia style forever-appeal. Either people donate and subscribe to Open Australia Foundation now or it’s gonna have to be shut down. It can’t operate without adequate funding

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Görel Sandström @gorelsan.bsky.social · 14h

Det här ska läsas mot bakgrund av Palantir-historien. Tidö har arbetat målmedvetet för att göra oss till en entusiastisk lydstat under ett tech-fascistiskt USA www.dn.se/sverige/sa-b...

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Så blev Sverige Trumpministrarnas ögonsten i Nato

Sverige har fått plats i Bergengruppen, en grupp som USA vill göra till en motor för att styra om Nato och flytta mer ansvar till Europa.

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Fröken Grön @jessjess.bsky.social · 14h

Bra också för att pervobrillor måste få fäste. Det ska vara skämmigt att ha såna glasögon.

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Niklas Blomqvist @blmqvst.bsky.social · 17h

Vad skänker svenska polisen och försvaret bort till Palantir och USA? Vilka hemligheter? Vilka personliga data över oss medborgare?

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Maria Hymna Ramnehill @tramslobbyn.bsky.social · 14h

Det är ingen fara, det handlar bara om skillnaden mellan gift och medicin

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Maria Hymna Ramnehill @tramslobbyn.bsky.social · 14h

Så kallad Ai har fått ett nytt försäljningargument som digital rysk roulette

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Maria Hymna Ramnehill @tramslobbyn.bsky.social · 14h

Samtalen till Giftinformationscentralen ökar pga felaktiga råd från AI, men "Myndigheten betonar dock att AI också kan ge korrekta råd"

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Amos @amosduveen.bsky.social · 15h

On that note, can I offer you this little gem? No idea why I was suddenly reminded of the term "spherical bastard" while thinking about AI tech billionaires... 🤷‍♂️ bsky.app/profile/fion...

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Leo @leoemanuel.bsky.social · 17h

Så Schweiz försvarsmakts utvärdering av Palantir kom fram till att systemet inte kunde användas på egna servrar. Det är ju något som företagets talespersoner påstått är möjligt, när de fått frågor om dataskydd. Ljuger Palantir, eller vad stämmer? www.republik.ch/2026/10/15/n...

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Wren Reilly @akareilly.bsky.social · 15h

Some tech assholes in Silicon Valley read “Don’t Create the Torment Nexus” as an instruction manual, but there are variations: “My Torment Nexus is Open Source and Any Humanities People Complaining Are Just Too Lazy to Learn to Code so They Can Be Smart Like Me and Take Part in This Conversation”

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 14h

AI as a tool for accelerating the core functions of IP law; extract from Black culture with impunity and randomly terrorize Black artists who find success, while soothing, reassuring and rewarding white mediocrity

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Spökulv @spookulv.bsky.social · 14h

Om migverket ser en bild på en homosexuell man pussa en kvinna på Facebook så kommer dom försöka göra ett case om att hen ljugit om sitt skäl till skydd. Vilken normal myndighet full av helt normala och väl anpassade individer

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 19h

All governments that rely on these “Tech Bros” for their critical infrastructure will eventually find themselves at their mercy.

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Marcus Larsson @skolinkvisition.bsky.social · 17h

Det här kommer att låta lite hårt men tyvärr har en majoritet av lärarna och rektorerna blivit nyttiga idioter i techindustrins tjänst.

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Liv Beckström @livbecks.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Instämmer ‼️ inloggningstvång på SVT-play är ett idiotiskt förslag som bara syftar till helt onödig kartläggning av tittarna som finansierar SVT. ”Själv har jag aldrig loggat in på SVT Play under de tre år det har varit möjligt. Inte en enda gång har jag känt mig snuvad på en ”sammanhängande tjänst”.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15h

Norway's fossil fuel bloody money bank could be opened up to investing in companies that manufacture nuclear weapons go.bsky.app/redirect?u=h...

Nuclear weapons
The committee believes that the guidelines for companies that produce nuclear weapons should be changed.

– This means that several European and American companies that produce components for nuclear weapons can be re-admitted to the fund, the press release states.

The prerequisite is that the company is domiciled in an allied country that is a nuclear weapons state according to the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

The justification mentions that the security policy situation has changed and that Norway is building up its defense.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 13/10/2026

the reason "con" is such a useful way to think about tech companies is that it helps you make sense of their playbook, which is the con-man's playbook razzle-dazzle, escalation, claims to authority, scaring people about being left out, offering to let you in on the secret BUT YOU HAVE TO ACT NOW

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The Björnen formerly known as Beelzebjörn @beelzebjorn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Var Nuon-affären ett exempel på hur man jobbar som en företagsledning? Plundrar statskassan och tar emot ryggdunkar från näringslivskompisarna?

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Marcus Larsson @skolinkvisition.bsky.social · 17h

www.vilarare.se/nyheter/kron...

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pettter, stuff scientist @pettter.bsky.social · 17h

It is also their only source of profit.

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Kenan Habul @kenanhabul.bsky.social · 18h

När övergår ett palestinskt barn till att bli gisslan?

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