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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

In this op-ed, @emilymbender.bsky.social & I remind everyone that it's the BELIEF that these products are "superintelligent," enough to rely on them for this type of use, that almost rendered humanity extinct.

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Jessica Cogswell 🌸 @jessicogs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Idk, this week has been fucking brutal for me. I feel on fire and all this anger is pouring out in a million different directions. Women deserve better. We deserve a space at the table and to feel safe at it. We deserve the same opportunities these pieces of shit regularly get. We deserve it all.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 29/09/2026

The Fairford incident is dominating the news cycle - and the right-wing. Over the past 48 hours we’ve seen speculation, insinuation and implication attempt turn a serious story about security into one about immigration. This is a long one. Make some tea.

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A Dissection: The Fairford Fannywobble

How the right-wing commentariat turned an ongoing investigation into a migrant story before the facts were known.

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The problem isn't rogue #AI models, it's *negligent companies*. If a biomedical firm put their product in public water supply because they wanted to test it 'in the real world', they'd be treated as criminal at corporate & individual level. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue

Decision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 24/09/2026

funny how the government is considering jailing parents for the crimes their kids commit, but not jailing tech ceos for the crimes their ai agents commit

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New Post: Why I Love AI Next month it'll be twenty years since I went to university, learned to program, and studied AI. I wrote about why I loved it, why I still love it, and why, unfortunately, it no longer exists. www.possibilityspace.org/blog/posts/i...

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 23/12/2025

As a starting point I think the CEO of every company offering chatbots should be *personally* liable for all the text their chatbots produce. as though it was a direct conversation with them

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

a lot freaks me out about AI but 0% of my anxiety is about AGI. i think this is the part that freaks me out the most right now -- the many many indications that no one is at the wheel and no adults are present

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

For the record, it's more than 13 million British citizens. That's nearly a quarter of the UK population.

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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: Ed Sheeran to represent Piddington at Eurovision

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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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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

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Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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

Did...not a single MP raise the issue of balaclava-clad far-right mobs on the streets over the weekend? I missed PMQs myself (am travelling), but I can't see any mention of it across the whole liveblog. Absolutely extraordinary if so.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/09/2026

Also, why is this basically written up as "quirky crowd make an embarrassing mistake" and not "violent racists form mob because Asian people use hotel"?

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

There is a story here, one about white male grievance in academia, and about how ✌️concerned academics✌️, masquerading as integrity sleuths, organise to target Black academics & escalate suspicion through complacent, if not complicit, media.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I think the ultimate test of this is actually Boris Johnson. Boris *was fired from his first job* for making up stories, only to go on to be hired into a prestigious role at the Telegraph and spend years lying about the EU at Brussels. And I mean literally lying here; not bad punditry.

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AJ McTERROR @robertgalbraith.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

There are senior figures in British media and politics - quite high in politics, in fact, to put it mildly - who are known, by the same hacks who hounded Jason Arday to his death, to have done things much much worse than what he did. The hacks protect those people.

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Suzi Gage @soozaphone.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

And then I think about white academics who have (eg) sexually harassed students, embezzled funds. You know...actual crimes... Who have just been minor news stories or even just allowed to retire so as not to cause a fuss.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/08/2026

Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 13/08/2026

I maintain that if software runs amok causing damage the problem is a human being being reckless, stupid, intentionally malicious, or engaged in marketing

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

A phenomenon I've noticed recently is people trying to occupy some untenable middleground wrt to the use of systems sold as "AI" -- this is a position where people try to recognize the harms of this tech but also hold space for "responsible" or "ethical" use. 🧵>>

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

It didn't "go rogue". It did what it was instructed to do. In a sophisticated way but nonetheless we have to stop assigning human agency to AI systems. Everything that happened here was as a result of human designed and instructed systems.

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Tim Day @timday101.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Our org is doing an AI self assessment thing about “how well do you understand AI/how often do you use it etc” and there is no option for “I feel I understand it pretty well and hate everything about it”

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Martin Griffiths @qwertymartin.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

It was nice of them to put the answer right under the question.

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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 01/07/2026

Look am I the only one to find it silly to be doing a vibe-coded AI compass quiz?! It's obviously vibe coded right?

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Recliner Notes @reclinernotes.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Spontaneous Music Live, the latest album from SML, is out now. I wrote a quick post for the blog about this thrilling record, my thoughts about SML, and this moment in experimental music. reclinernotes.com/2026/06/26/s...

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SML’s Spontaneous Music Live

Today is the release day for the latest SML album, Spontaneous Music Live. I first heard it in March while driving to Big Ears because I received an advanced preview copy and I’ve been excite…

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Martin Griffiths @qwertymartin.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Insanely great improvised live album by SML - album of the year contender! intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/sponta...

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Spontaneous Music Live, by SML

2 track album

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

If you don't want all the big money in publishing to go to celebs, talk about books you love. Write about them. Borrow books that excite you from the library. Read reviews. Listen to podcasts about books. Go to book events if you can afford it. Celebs get book deals because people talk about them.

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I’m not saying the debate in the U.K. has moved to the right, but Ed Miliband is basically seen as Pol Pot for aiming for a climate target first agreed to by…I think Theresa May’s government? Definitely Johnson’s. And this chat is going on during the middle of a record-breaking heatwave

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 25/06/2026

Treat. Platforms. As. Publishers.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

i think, if I tried to boil it down to a sentence, it'd be: "All politicians are hated by their opponents - but Starmer went out of his way to be hated by his supporters too."

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

From the messes over the winter fuel allowance and the 2 child benefit cap to Mandelson and McSweeney, to the Island of Strangers and the aping of Farage’s immigration policies, it was all him. And all unnecessary.

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Christabel Cooper @christabelcoops.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

It is extremely important that Labour understands that the movement of voters between Lab and Ref was not the crucial factor, it was consolidation of the anti-Ref vote and Lab voters turning out in droves. Otherwise Burnham will make the same mistakes as Starmer in targeting only one set of voters.

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

So fun fact these are actually people in the country right now trying to make plans for the next 5-10 years who you’re talking about like some kind of bargaining chip

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Suzi Gage @soozaphone.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

So the social media ban. I'm really torn about it. I'm really glad social media wasn't around when I was a teenager. There is a lot I don't like about social media. But. I also owe a lot to it (work and personal stuff), though admittedly far less in recent years.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

It does all come back to the tax pledge, Hunt deliberately shafting them and Labour choosing to remain shafted has basically undermined their entire governing project.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Now we're talking. Prospect - the union for specialist civil servants including some in comms - has just called on the Government to stop using X after its use to help coordinate far right riots in the UK:

Mike Clancy, General Secretary of Prospect, said:

“The attempted murder in Belfast yesterday was horrific and we want to express solidarity with the victim and his family.

“But the indiscriminate targeting of migrant families we have seen in response is totally unacceptable and shames our country. We must all stand in solidarity with those affected by this racist violence.

“We must also be clear about what is driving this behaviour. Elon Musk continues to use his X platform to promote far-right content and interfere in the politics of the UK. It is increasingly clear that X is not a social media app but a far right organising tool with Musk himself actively supporting and promoting people who are calling for violence and far right policies.

“Government use of X legitimises it as a platform, and also results in civil service communications officers having to wade through racist content while doing their jobs. We need to stand up to racism and the far right - that has to start with creating spaces for dialogue that aren't poisoned by racism. We call on the Government to abandon its use of X and use the expertise of specialist civil servants to develop alternative approaches to communications.”

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Scare-o-lyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I do not fully trust critics who are not both lovers and haters. All I want is for you to have some kind of taste, some kind of ethic, and I want you to argue in favor of it, which should inevitably mean that you greatly admire some works in your chosen field and definitely don’t admire others.

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Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The government continuing to post on X gives the media all they need to justify continuing to use X posts in news broadcasts. X becomes agenda-setting in the way front pages did even when most people stopped reading newspapers.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Condemning riots isn't enough. We need policy action, including an immediate appraisal of X as a vehicle for coordinating far-right disorder. And we need political leadership, to challenge white nationalism as an idea, not to validate it daily and then complain when it turns violent.

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