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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 4h
everyone is so focused on what natural-language-to-code can do for industry but I'm most excited about what it can do for normal ordinary people "make a bespoke tool to help me be more organized about my hobby" can take billions of individualized forms and I think that's beautiful
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 13h
Fun times. Even America.gov knows that Biden won the 2020 election. Also, if you want a wild ride, tell it to play minecraft
After asking who won the 2020 presidential election according to Whitehouse.gov documents, the AI responded 

I’ll look up official White House and related records on the 2020 presidential election result.

WhiteHouse.gov does not publish an official 2020 Electoral College results record like the National Archives.

Federal Electoral College records list Joseph R. Biden Jr. as the 2020 winner (306 electoral votes to 232).

National Archives: 2020 Electoral College Results
FEC: Official 2020 Presidential General Election Results (PDF)
Current WhiteHouse.gov pages discuss election integrity and related 2020 topics; they are not the certified vote tally. Archived Trump White House remarks from 2020 are statements, not the Electoral College count.
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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 29/09/2026
🙃🫠 There really needs to be an emoji for TFW you warn people that what they're doing is a terrible idea, they do it anyway, and then they're surprised/shocked/upset when they discover there are consequences for doing the bad thing. PS: Never trust Meta with anything, especially your data.
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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 29/09/2026
I'm sharing this because the comments are gold, and because this will probably enrage @eternalcatwar.bsky.social ....
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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
theonion.com/creatively-t...
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Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’
BUENOS AIRES—After exhausting a significant amount of his intellectual energy in a series of company launches, a creatively tapped-out Peter Thiel announced Tuesday a new startup called “Frodo, But Ev...
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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 28/09/2026
I feel like every time I see the phrase 'stochastic parrot' in relation to LLMs, it's the equivalent of people saying 'like yelling fire in a crowded theater' or 'possession is 9/10ths of the law'. It's a lazy way to indicate that the speaker doesn't know, and doesn't really want to learn.
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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 28/09/2026
The states that settled on Meta's terms should be ashamed. Meanwhile, New Mexico over here doing it right.
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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 28/09/2026
'NOOO...DON'T EAT MY FACE!' Trump voters scream as the leopards begin to gnaw away in delight.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@libshipwreck

I know we’re all tired of being on Zoom, but some important Zoom etiquette reminders:

- everyone wants to see your cat

- don’t just say “my cat is here,” hold your cat up to the camera so we can see it

- when your cat is on camera, either say “cat” or type “cat” in the chat
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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 28/09/2026
Reason #2,657,398 why you should just say no to Meta. Especially their AI agent, but really, NEVER TRUST META.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 27/09/2026
This (along with the iced-coffee discourse) makes me think of the opening chapter in @jmberger.com's Optimal, where the main character was in a heated debate with the online about two different brands of watch. And how the whole debate was designed to keep people distracted.
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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 27/09/2026
In November 2025, we moved to the Netherlands. We live in a quiet, suburban Dutch neighborhood, and kids are everywhere. Playing, biking around, just being kids. When I was a kid growing up in the US suburbs, we were constantly reminded about 'stranger danger', and my parents were protective ...
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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 27/09/2026
I keep saying: we don't need more regulation, we need to use the regulation and laws we have, and in particular, three civil and criminal penalties available against the billionaire class. Start arresting Altman, Amodei, and Musk for the crimes their agents commit in their name.
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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 27/09/2026
Never trust Meta. Stop using Meta. This is who they are, and this is how their software works. Spreading outrage, disinformation, and lies. Causing harm and pain. This is how they operate, and it ain't gonna change.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 27/09/2026
I have a theory about how many of the world's problems are caused by people who were told they were the smartest people alive as kids, believed it, and then when they became adults and couldn't accept that maybe they weren't that special, started breaking shit if only to prove they were special
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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 26/09/2026
I've been reading quite a bit on competition law history, and let's just say, there's a lot of lessons for how to deal with power-mad authoritarians, exorbitantly wealthy oligarchs and externe power concentration, and I'm really digging it.
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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 26/09/2026
Free speech warrior Elon Musk has such a thin skin, that he convinced his fellow billionaires to keep an unflattering film about him hidden. What an absolute loser. Can't wait to see this when it makes it to the NL (though probably not streaming, because I doubt they'll carry it).
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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 26/09/2026
Oh look, a senator is getting outraged again on Bsky, instead of idk, doing anything at all about it in Congress. I'm still voting blue, but God, I wish these lazy assholes would do something other than whine on social media.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 25/09/2026
The only part of this that's remotely surprising is that the instructions were disclosed. I mean, OFC Meta is using it's AI surveillance tool to build a social graph of everyone who uses it. It's fucking Meta!
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Notorious RBMK @comraderobot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i don’t think there is much Actual Evil in the world and there is even less Evil Collusion. like 99% of the time it’s just people with shit ass systemic incentives acting rationally
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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 24/09/2026
Yup. Start threatening Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, et al with personal liability/jail time and all those AI risks will disappear in a day.
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Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hey folks, I TOLD YOU a few weeks ago in @fastcompany.com that Meta had a bigger plan: www.fastcompany.com/91594615/met...
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Meta's creepy smart glasses are part of a much bigger plan
Meta’s vision has not so much abandoned the metaverse as relocated it. Its interface is increasingly the world around us, rather than a virtual world we choose to enter.
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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 22/09/2026
There will be cheering in the streets around the world the day that this miserable stain of humanity either drops dead or is sent to jail. Until then, he's a blight on America.
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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 22/09/2026
Trump continues to be the stupidest, most corrupt egomaniacal piece of shit ever to hold office. it's embarrassing how many. people let him get away with it without even batting an eye. His enablers and supporters deserve to lose their positions for being spineless cowards or corrupt grifters.
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Luis Alberto Montezuma 路易斯·阿尔贝托·蒙特祖玛 @montezumachavez.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Irish Presidency has just presented a new compromise text on the Digital Omnibus, aiming to help governments quickly resolve their differences. Compared with the June version, this text appears to represent a step backward. Please see Júlia Tar's here: www.linkedin.com/posts/julia-...
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Kevin Teljeur @kevinteljeur.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This should be a headline item, @thejournal.ie and @news.rte.ie
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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 21/09/2026
Bonta is such a coward. And this is further proof of who really has power in America.
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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You do understand that everything he's doing to Washington DC is about fortifying the city when he decides he's not leaving office
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026
I promise you there would be no AI alignment problem if the CEOs of AI companies faced jail time if their AI killed anyone.
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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 19/09/2026
I'm of two minds here: 1) this is blatantly unconstitutional, authoritarian shit, and it's wrong 2) the WHCA/press corps have been Trump's fluffers for the last two years, exchanging access journalism for real journalism. Now that's gone, maybe they'll try actual journalism again.
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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 18/09/2026
And frequently preventable.
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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 18/09/2026
This right here. The doomers want to shift the harm narrative away from the obvious damaging stuff their tech is actually doing, to speculative sci-fi bullshit, in order to avoid any liability or obligation to fix what they are doing, because that would make their valuations go down.
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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 18/09/2026
This. 💯 Companies can pace without colluding, but they can't rig the markets without colluding.
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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 17/09/2026
I love this. Such a great ad campaign.
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Joe Hardy @blokeonwheels.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
To paraphrase @mrjamesob.bsky.social The US is going to be the second country in the world to voluntarily impose economic sanctions upon itself
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Daragh Ó Briain @daraghobrien.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
On the Internet nobody knows you’re a dog, but dang it you WILL be microchipped.
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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 17/09/2026
I still think this is partly true, but they CEOs of these companies have also succumbed to the typical power lust that humans tend to crave as they achieve more power. It's a very predictable cycle.
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I feel about this roughly the same way I would feel about all the pharmaceutical companies getting together to say they wanted to waive anti-trust laws so they could form a cartel to ban medical research: these people are the enemies of humanity.
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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 17/09/2026
I've got some thoughts on that. I don't think this particular hype/pacing push is tied to EA/RA marching orders, but it's very clear that the companies who buy into the doomer cult ideology are leveraging the anxiety they've help foster to grab power for themselves.
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The AI Fears are Real. The Proposed Rulebook is the Problem
The OpenAI/Hugging Face breach is real. So was 9/11. The question isn't whether the fear is justified, it's who gets to write the response.
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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 17/09/2026
This is, IMHO, 💯 correct. The money sloshing around directly reinforces the enthusiasm and importantly, the marketing of AI safety. I've been to RA/EA events (both in the BA & in Europe), and it's IMPOSSIBLE not to have one inform the other.
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This idea seems to be the most infectious because it activates the same neurosis that every apocalyptic or millenarian cult does. The world is going to end, and only I and my special group of people in the know can maybe stop it. (Also, you should give me money and have sex with me.)
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)
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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 17/09/2026
The EU is leaning hard into the bacronym approach for naming legislation, favored by the US. It's a bad look, and unfortunately, it seems to also be leading to terrible legislation.
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Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 17/09/2026
Not really a surprise, but in addition to invading privacy, enabling ICE to kidnap people, and furthering the authoritarian state, Flock cameras are also very hackable, because they're running old, unpatched Android code. This company needs to be destroyed, and the cameras yeeted into the sun.
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Eternal Cat War @eternalcatwar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
it’s so fucking stupid, fuck the nerd reich (metaphorically, not literally cause eww)
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Blue Fairylicious Girl🧚 @bluesnowflake.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If “I just shagged a sheep and I like it” was a person
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