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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 4h
did even a single "AI safety expert" come within a country mile of this threat model?
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Seriously what the fuck is this man's problem that he would devote his considerable talents to this idiotic argument
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Reading his Globe byline, the average reader would have no idea that Hanania is a white supremacist and misogynist
Richard Hanania is president of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology, which funds policy research. He is the author of the new book “Kakistocracy,” from which this essay is adapted.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
To reiterate bsky.app/profile/asel...
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Periodic reminder that the @bostonglobe.com opinion section regularly features pieces from Richard Hanania
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And the last one I’ll mention is for mothers to set boundaries in their own relationships with their sons. The way he treats you is a model for how he treats all other women. If you succumb to the social pressure to make every sacrifice for him, he will expect the same of other women too.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
Loll Yudkowsky, Soares and such AREN'T SHILLS? The Yudkowsky who founded the eugenicist, rationalist cult? The one who predected singularity to be 2025? The one in the sex parties that women have to attend to "network? The rape orgies with dubious consent mechanisms that Soares coorganizes?
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Anyway, if you’re an acquisitions editor right now I hope you’re looking for (and heavily subsidizing) the next Barbara Ehrenreich and Mike Davis. Because I’ve got a hunch…
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work.
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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
My husband and his friends realised they thought they were good guys but still made like, ironic-sexist jokes. They introduced the 'sexism snake' where wherever one of them made a sexist comment or joke, the others would just start hissing. Didn't need to get into an argument about it, just hissing.
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┻━┻ ︵ヽ(`Д´)ノ︵ ┻━┻ "sam a" @pfhlick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
AI bros version of cultural competency: translating your cosplay victorian prose into a Google search for "tea near me" wow mind blown
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Noah Deuce @noahdeuce.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New from 404 Media: when you upload images to Copilot, they're not private. Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users' prompts/images, according to internal docs we got And they're horrified at what they're seeing. Bombarded with requests to make sexual AI images www.404media.co/humans-readi...
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Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
… I need to write this essay … but They’re mad that the manipulation of metrics hasn’t led to generative cultural cachet themselves and are projecting Everything they do is about a relation to art that is more social dominance and they assume other people do too
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z @oddbott.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
me watching DN this morning
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This really puts stuff like publicly funded third spaces in perspective for me. It's so relatively cheap to build out community centers, gyms, makerspaces, studios etc.
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Think of the clean energy infrastructure and electrification this could be going to instead
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Bearded Stoner @beardedstoner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
High speed rail? Universal healthcare? Nah. Let's invest in the plagiarism machine that drinks lakes and threatens our very existence!
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Ethan Hein @ethanhein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Cool cool we could be putting up solar panels but no the spam factory it is
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bcwbcw.bsky.social @bcwbcw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just enforce liability law- make the companies pay for IP and copyright theft; and prosecute for hacking. It's not the AI that's hacking; it's a company running an AI program that does what it is programmed to do. Don't let them pretend it's a separate intelligence.
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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller September 23,1960
P1- NANCY AND SLUGGO ARE WALKING TO SCHOOL 
NANCY: I HEAR WE HAVE A NEW ART
TEACHER FROM OUT WEST
P2- NANCY AND SLUGGO HAVE ARRIVED AT SCHOOL AND ARE WALKING TO THE ART CLASS 
SLUGGO: YEAH---SHE COMES FROM RANCH COUNTRY AND SHE'S TOUGH
P3- NANCY AND SLUGGO AND THE OTHER STUDENTS ARE AT THEIR DRAWING PADS AND THE ART TEACHER IS STANDING AT THE FRONT OF THE CLASSROOM WITH A VERY STERN EXPRESSION 
TEACHER : DRAW YOU VARMINTS
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yes! Image a future where parents put their kids in driverless cars to take them to school while they themselves get in different cars to go to work. Instead of one or two cars chaining trips, now you might have four separate cars making four separate trips. Would be a disaster at scale.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
(related to bias) the fallacy of the internet being representative, financial cost (and related impacts on who gets to participate in the field if that is the price of entry), opportunity cost (what else aren't we researching), and risks associated with synthetic text. >>
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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Up until relatively recently, working in software was still generally publicly vaunted. In press narratives and dinner table conversations, the tech world was portrayed as creating the future, democratizing this and that, putting the smartest people to work on the biggest problems, etc., etc.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
Remember the time around 2023 when we thought that the TESCREAL bozos were gonna continue to get exposed because there was a brief period where mainstream journalists were doing their jobs? But only because SBF committed one of the biggest frauds in US history? www.politico.com/news/2023/10...
politico.com
How a billionaire-backed network of AI advisers took over Washington
A sprawling network spread across Congress, federal agencies and think tanks is pushing policymakers to put AI apocalypse at the top of the agenda — potentially boxing out other worries and benefiting...
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The PBS showing is tonight, but if you want it via YouTube, that's available as of a couple of hours ago! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLQz...
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Ghost in the Machine | What is Artificial Intelligence? | Full Documentary
YouTube video by PBS Documentaries
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
The only person in public service who has consistently made 100% sense on issues of "AI," which is why they hate her so much.
Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there’s no AI exemption from laws already on the books — a point 
@FTC
 emphasized repeatedly during my tenure.

1. There is an extensive set of laws that govern dangerous and defective products. For example, releasing unvetted AI models or agents can violate consumer protection laws. Shipping flawed AI tools without implementing adequate measures to detect and stop rogue or defective AI agents can be an “unfair or deceptive” act or practice under the FTC Act (and analogous state laws). And some state AGs are already exploring holding AI firms and their CEOs criminally liable when their models participate in criminal activity.

2. Existing laws also prohibit “unfair methods of competition.” This covers instances where AI firms appropriate the competitively sensitive information of their customers, including through tracking their use of various tools. It can also cover instances where firms pursue dangerous behavior, aware that doing so may compel rivals to do the same.As the Supreme Court has noted: “A method of competition which casts upon one's competitors the burden of the loss of business unless they will descend to a practice which they are under a powerful moral compulsion not to adopt, even though it is not criminal, was thought to involve the kind of unfairness at which the [unfair methods of competition] statute was aimed."

3. The highly concentrated and interconnected structure of these markets could be creating major risks and conflicts of interest. We had started investigating these partnerships and cross-investments across the stack (and released a preliminarily overview of some findings: https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-issues-staff-report-ai-partnerships-investments-study). 

Both federal and state enforcers should be scrutinizing these opaque relationships and inter-dependencies. We are already seeing how these relationships could undermine accountability. For example, OpenAI could face liability given the Hugging Face incident, but Hugging Face being bought up by Nvidia means that we’re unlikely to see it file a lawsuit over this — given Nvidia’s strong incentive to see OpenAI continue full speed ahead.4. As AI tools dramatically change the landscape of cybersecurity risks and hacks, all businesses should be doubling down on having core security protections in place. Firms that fail to invest in adequate data security measures or fix known vulnerabilities can also be breaking the law. A recent analysis showed that around 1/3 of Fortune 100 companies do not even have a way to notify them about security issues. During my 
@FTC
 tenure, we sued firms for poor data security practices and held CEOs liable when they were personally responsible.

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/dozens-of-americas-largest-companies-have-no-simple-way-to-report-security-flaws/

https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/10/ftc-takes-action-against-drizly-its-ceo-james-cory-rellas-security-failures-exposed-data-25-million

5. As policymakers consider new legal regimes, we should be looking to lessons from prior efforts to govern major sectors, such as banking and other networks, platforms, and utilities. Tools like structural separations, nondiscrimination, and supervision could be key, and there’s a rich history of what works and what doesn’t. But we can and must pursue any new efforts alongside enforcing existing laws.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026
All of a sudden we're not talking about the widely popular bipartisan opposition to massive data center buildouts. I wonder why 🤔
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┻━┻ ︵ヽ(`Д´)ノ︵ ┻━┻ "sam a" @pfhlick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
NEW LIFE GOAL
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
Toby Ord, Cofounder of the Effective Altruism movement, longtermist who believes humanity's goal is to create vast amounts of digital beings to colonize the cosmos, is the one advising your lawmakers on "AI".
Toby Ord tweet: 72 lawmakers in the UK have sent a letter to the Prime Minister, calling for an immediate ban on the development of superintelligence and the championing of an international treaty to do the same worldwide.

Quote tweeting 

Alex Sobel MP for Leeds Central and Headingley
@alexsobel's tweet: 
With 71 colleagues I am calling on the Govt to work with us on my bill to prohibit the development of superintelligent AI and champion an international agreement

We can then lead on preventing the extinction risk posed by superintelligence
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Valerie A. Traina @v3ndettaval.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
YOU MUST READ THIS by journalist and author Sarah Kendzior‼️🤬😱👇
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026
Just to note, fucking YUDKOWSKY's coauthor is on market place today, I guess I do need to do a thread on him because I have nothing better to do than write about OPEN EUGENICISTS being interviewed by NPR and advising BERNIE SANDERS.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Remarkable. In 2025, Japan had the lowest number of crash deaths on record (going back to 1948). Now they're poised to have even fewer.
theguardian.com
Japan halves speed limit to 30km/h on all narrow city streets
Speed limit dropped from 60km/h for around 70% of general roads in the hope of making narrow streets of crowded cities safer
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If only the media had as much interest in the world's richest person, the primary funder of the Republican Party, who spoke at Trump's Inauguration and gave a Sieg Heil, once again declaring his belief "white solidarity is the only way to survive" as they do some Twitch streamer.
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...
theverge.com
LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby
Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
I had a thread about @sanders.senate.gov & Max Tegmark before seeing this one. Yudkowsky is an even more overt eugenicist, you don't have to do any digging to see that. He also has ZERO expertise in "AI" except for being a self described "genius" cult leader who wrote a Harry Potter fanfic.
Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSadners

Will AI become smarter than humans?

If so, is humanity in danger?

I went to Silicon Valley to ask some of the leading AI experts that question. 

Here's what they had to say.
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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 04/09/2026
Now do cars.
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┻━┻ ︵ヽ(`Д´)ノ︵ ┻━┻ "sam a" @pfhlick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is a powerhouse board. Here's hoping it's a big year for the League.
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The Fort Pointer @fortpointer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
While reporters, columnists and pundits obsessed over Sen. Collins’ battle with Wu, NOT A SINGLE JOURNALIST made voters aware of his dismal record on climate change. While a feature film about Collins’ district by a Pulitzer Prize winning director screens worldwide. www.inundationdistrict.com/home
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INUNDATION DISTRICT is an award-winning feature-length film about the implications of one city’s decision to ignore the threats posed by climate change and spend billions of dollars building a new wat...
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026
It’s bad. That even now, even as we are living through the results of using the specter of crime and gang members to justify mass deportation fewer and fewer people are willing to say “no, gang members don’t deserve this either.”
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I want an impeachment hearing where trump has to watch a series of a.i. videos and testify as to whether he believes they really happened
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Paul @pawlbologna.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Moulton repeated this smear every day for the last month. 3 days ago he even told a teenager this. The student of course found out that it was false. For close to a year he has lied about and attacked a trusted public servant with no positive message of his own. I look forward to his irrelevance.
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T. Derscheid @derscheid.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
jesus christ. primary everybody who even looks like they want this.
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 28/08/2026
Everybody saying that helmets distract from a need to protect cyclists on streets should click thru below to write your reps, to keep Trump’s USDOT and the Senate GOP from banning bikelanes on many arterial streets bsky.app/profile/bike...
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League of American Bicyclists @bikeleague.org · 27/08/2026
ACTION ALERT 🚨 Right now, the Senate is considering adding language to the transportation reauthorization bill to restrict bike lanes. Tell Congress: funding for bike safety projects MUST continue! Take action: action.bikeleague.org/page/101946/...
Action alert graphic. A man holds a sign next to a bike lane that says "Everyone deserves safe streets!" Below the image is white text on a black background: "Tell congress: Funding for Bike Safety Projects MUST Continue! bikeleague.org/action-center"Action alert graphic. White text on a black background: "Congress Must Save America's Bike Lanes
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy erased the data that shows bike lanes reduce crashes and don’t cause congestion. Then he asked Congress to defund all bike lanes — and even remove bike lanes from busy roads.

Now, Congress may be listening: the Senate is considering adding language to the transportation reauthorization bill that would restrict what kinds of roads could have bike lanes on them at all. 

We need everyone in Congress to hear us clearly: bike lanes save lives and bicyclists have a right to ride on the roads and get home safely. 

Tell your elected representatives: vote NO on any transportation reauthorization bill that would restrict the ability of federal funding to be used on bike safety projects. bikeleague.org/action-center"
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 28/08/2026
Guys, this is for real. Senate GOP and the administration want to pass a law that outlaws bikelanes on the 160K mile National Highway System. Imagine if adding protected bikelanes to many arterials would suddenly be against the law. Let’s not allow this.
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👏👏👏
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