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PJ 🌻

@pierrejulian.bsky.social
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Former teacher, now a SaaS slave, looking for a way out of “tech.” Propaganda victim. GenAI is a massive scam. Spam followers will be blocked. Ukraine 🇺🇦 will win.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 12h
“Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said the crypto billionaire. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient." Hmm, where have I heard this before? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...
nytimes.com
Inside a Billionaire’s Paradise With Crypto’s Most Powerful Ex-Convict (Gift Article)
Changpeng Zhao, jailed in the United States for a financial crime and pardoned by President Trump, is now living a gilded life in the United Arab Emirates.
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404 Media @404media.co · 04/10/2026
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 images. www.404media.co/humans-readi...
404media.co
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…
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Spooky Professor Lifestyle Giant @magnumt.bsky.social · 18h
If the media wasn't run by the same business interests then it would be doing its part to emphasise just how fucking weird the freaks running the AI business are, and those are just the doomsday sex cultists working at Anthropic, a company run by a wannabe prophet of the apocalypse...
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Like, every so often, someone comes rushing out to say 'I think we invented AGI' and, if that were true, the next words out of your mouth ought to be "and so we now have moral obligations towards this new being we created" and somehow that is not generally what I see comes next.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 04/10/2026
Got interviewed by one of the largest Swedish newspapers and they led with the best headline/photo (translates to “it’s easier to see an angry man than the truth”) www.svd.se/a/pB7E0G/ed-...
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”Lättare att se en arg man än sanningen”
Han har kallats galen, bett en AI-vd att hålla käften – och i åratal varnat för en börskrasch. Nu har den högljudda outsidern tagit klivet in i finrummen. Ändå känner sig Ed Zitron fortfarande behandl...
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
GOOD NEWS! A new cancer treatment has demonstrated unprecedented results in a large trial for cancer patients whose disease has become resistant to chemotherapy AND immunotherapy. Tumors shrank in OVER a third of participants, with 15 patients experiencing COMPLETE eradication of their tumors.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Taps the sign.
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Another Josh Smith @jcsmith55.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Of the course the person who uses AI to write their piece ends up "writing" a piece about whether writing can survive with AI
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 29/09/2026
⚽️ Ukrainian and Georgian football fans united in massive solidarity during a UEFA Nations League match in Georgia.
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PJ 🌻 @pierrejulian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Great, but these risks are still nonsense - a distraction from the real risks which are global ecological harms, degradation of labor and deskilling of millions, mass theft of intellectual property, and further consolidation of power among the top 1 percent. These are the real risks!
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“We’re losing billions and we’re making a product that’s an existential threat to humanity” is a hell of sales pitch www.ft.com/content/c768...
ft.com
Anthropic warns of ‘existential risks to humanity’ in IPO prospectus
Long-awaited S1 filing reports Claude maker lost $8bn last year on $4.6bn in revenue
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rare opportunity to invest in no future.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The tweet that immediately came to mind:
We're a modest company with modest goals:
1: sell a quality product at a fair price
2: drain the world's oceans so we can find and kill god
6:19 PM • Oct 21, 2014 • Twitter for iPhone
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Shveta Thakrar @shvetathakrar.com · 29/09/2026
So why are they looking to continue to fund it?
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Cliff Truesdell @clifftruesdell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Get Rich AND Die Tryin'"
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Bjørn (No ALT? No RP) @sarcasticsmall.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
Eleanor Morton is still not wrong. " ... schtuffff!" www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...
youtube.com
We Have AI Now
YouTube video by Eleanor Morton
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/09/2026
Basically, whether on LinkedIn or Instagram, there is a push among white people in rich countries to do post-hoc rationalisations for their chatbot addictions taking a fascinatingly similar form to the same thing where high-carbon lifestyles are rationalised bc "BP invented the carbon footprint"
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The idea of a "tech industry" has always relied on "computer" being a special kind of medium, akin to alchemy. And if tech demands to be king, AI hype has now elevated LLMs to a king of kings. But the solipsism has hit a dead end. The only way forward is to recognize that computers are not special.
productpicnic.beehiiv.com
LLMs are just normal technology. But tech is just a normal medium.
The more we focus on a particular technology, the more we lose sight of what normal people actually care about.
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Liana Brooks @lianabrooks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The TL;DR here is: DON'T USE AI AI makes your brain atrophy.
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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Jason Douglas Thompson @jasdoutho.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It seems to me that using AI is the perfect way to be left behind. It is easy to become needlessly dependent on it. People lose their ability to think and create.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“AI” IS impacting labor, but not in the ways you think. In some cases, people generating “workslop” are making their colleagues’ jobs more difficult. Snippet from my video Myths of AI and Productivity, in which we at dispel 5 common myths around AI and labor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BO0...
There are three stacked screenshots from a video of Alex, a brown trans woman, sitting on a pink chair and speaking into the camera while holding a small microphone. She has short black curly hair and is wearing a blue long-sleeved shirt and light tan pants. Behind her is a cat-shaped pillow with an image of a tuxedo cat on it, and behind her chair are rows of books on a light blue wall. Underneath are captions from the video that say: “But generative AI can also reduce wages in other ways, namely by punishing workers who use the tools and pass on ‘workslop’ to their colleagues.”, “...researchers report that receiving generative AI text or images from colleagues results in lower perceptions of the competence of their colleagues.” and “Getting slop from your colleague makes you think worse of them. And if those workers are women or older, or people of color, then it confirms their co-workers’ biases against them.”
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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is it. This is what everyone is enabling by humoring genAI: you spend months writing something that took you years to get at, for an opaque algorithm that a few control to spit a number and cut you off right there and then. This is what we're up against 🧪
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j0yj0yj0y.bsky.social @j0yj0yj0y.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yes. The more people are unable to perform basic critical thinking tasks for themselves the more dependent they will be on the product he is selling.
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Dave Kartunen @davekartunen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Think of all the extra time you’ll have to [checks notes] play fantasy football! Wait. Never mind.
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Michael Tyznik @tyznik.com · 23/09/2026
Finally someone has invented a machine that can do my hobbies for me so i finally have time to sit in silence and stare at the wall.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
NYT tech reporter sings the praises of Meta Muse. It can do everything for you! Even set your fantasy football lineups! My dude... you know that's called "cognitive surrender," right? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/t...
"To test Muse, I experimented with it nonstop for two weeks... I had it perform dozens of day-to-day tasks, including (...) setting my fantasy football lineups."
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Roel Maalderink @roelmaalderink.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hoe vinden Meta-medewerkers hun eigen Meta-bril? (Samen met @bitsoffreedom.eurosky.social)
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404 Media @404media.co · 21/09/2026
When chatbots become our closest “friends,” what happens to our capacity to care? @samleecole.bsky.social speaks to Professor Sherry Turkle, a licensed clinical psychologist and the founding director of MIT's Initiative on Technology and Self. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=whqD...
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404 Media @404media.co · 21/09/2026
Sherry Turkle's latest book, Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines, comes out on September 29.
404media.co
How AI Chatbots Are 'Deskilling' Human Empathy
Sherry Turkle's latest book, Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines, comes out on September 29.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
FT asking the big questions here - could Anthropic maintain its growth trajectory if AI destroys humanity? www.ft.com/content/96d0...
Investors are questioning whether
Anthropic can sustain its extraordinary growth as competition, price-sensitive customers and the potential for Al to destroy humanity cloud its blockbuster IPO.
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Paul Gadzikowski 🔞 @sc4rfm4n.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I don't know the context of the screenshot quote but I suspect what the quote means to say the #genAI stooges are calling drudgery to "delegate" is the painting and the writing
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026
honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care
arstechnica.com
UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 18/09/2026
Total unscientific nonsense spread via the media as a means of pretending they are doing some bastardized form of recursive self-improvement. Takes a lot to make me dislike a company more than OpenAI but Dario truly has taken the lead
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...
404media.co
Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
a scooby doo "unmasking" meme. it reads: 

highly capable, powerful, advanced super-intelligent AI 

army of humans hired by OpenAI to read real ChatGPT users' chats
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My man looks like a Care Bear whose stomach symbol is a swastika
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Frankenbert Graveyardko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
On the A.I. guys warning us that their own work might kill us all: defector.com/what-if-we-c...
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What If We Could Have A Future? | Defector
Maybe you have heard of Roko’s Basilisk. This is a thought experiment, for lack of a better term, popular among a certain set: hyper-rationalists, futurists, effective altruists. Tech-industry guys. Y...
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Occasional reminder that there is an ICC arrest warrant against Putin for war crimes in connection with the mass abduction of Ukrainian children.
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Philip Obaji Jr. @philipobaji.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Russia is engineering a migration crisis for Europe via the West African. Disinfo on local radio & media pushes desperate people north through Niger toward Libya. Wagner trucks move migrants to smugglers; their militias then help load boats across the Mediterranean. Time to act.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Fresh off failing to end the Iran war, secure any concessions, or even make US surrender stick, and riding on the apparent, deepening failure of their Gaza plan, Jared and Steve head to Moscow to resume their failing effort to get Ukraine to bow down to Putin and reward Russia for its aggression.
bbc.com
Trump envoys arrive in Moscow ahead of Ukraine talks
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are due to hold talks with Russia before travelling to Ukraine on Sunday.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My man looks like he asks how come *we* don't get to say that?
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Prune60 @prune602.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
‼️ Russia: “Russia is comfortable working with Witkoff and Kushner to resolve the Ukrainian conflict, Putin says.” WE KNOW you’re “comfortable” with them. But we also know you’re not interested in negotiations! Day 1651 of Russia’s 3 Day War ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/09/02/r...
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/09/2026
What if post-Trump America is even *worse*? 1/
A nuclear mushroom cloud wearing a giant Trump wig. A decaying American flag fills the sky behind it.
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Erin 🌱 @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
DO NOT get obsessed with a sycophantic chatbot DO get obsessed with locally native plants and the cute peaceable bees that enjoy them
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 17/05/2024
Mary Shelley doesn't get enough credit for not only anticipating the silver-spooned narcissist techbro who recklessly creates technology without thinking through the consequences, but also for knowing that said techbro would be an absolutely terrible father.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“.. an Nvidia-backed AI developer is renting computing capacity from an Nvidia-backed cloud provider, using an Nvidia-leased data center that will be filled with Nvidia’s hardware.” @barrons.com $NVDA www.barrons.com/articles/nvi...
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