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Rachel Griffin

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researching EU AI regulation @ duisburg essen university | blue haired feminist, FT reading socialist & other clichés | paris/berlin, she/sie/elle | free palestine 🍉 rachelgrfn.wordpress.com/publicatio…

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/10/2026
"Absent policy steering, AI’s modeled effects increase the carbon intensity of the global economy and reinforce fossil fuel incumbency—outcomes that current analytical and governance frameworks do not fully capture."
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AI-driven productivity gains enable more CO₂ emissions than they avoid in a global energy–economy model - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - AI-driven productivity gains enable more CO₂ emissions than they avoid in a global energy–economy model
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Julien Migozzi @jmigozzi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
France is on the edge of fascism. The crackdown on high school students protesting for better conditions is savage. A student lost an eye due to a rubber-bullet shot. The former Minister of the Interior wants to declare illegal the first left wing party. www.lanouvellerepublique.fr/tours/malheu...
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Lycéen blessé mercredi 30 septembre à Tours : « Maël a perdu l’usage de son œil »
C’est une terrible nouvelle confirmée par plusieurs sources à La Nouvelle République, vendredi 2 octobre 2026 : Maël, lycéen de 16 ans, grièvement blessé mercredi 30 septembre en marge des manifestati...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/10/2026
back in my day intentionally fabricating data for use in scientific inquiry was sternly frowned upon
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Cannot be emphasised enough that Trump II will plausibly cause the kind of death count we associate with the worst dictatorships of the last century. Unspeakably bad that he came to be president of the world's most powerful nation.
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Laureline Lemoine @laureline.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
France: wants to ban minors from social media to "protect" them. Also France: beats minors and violently attacks them for protesting teacher shortages and underfunded schools
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Contre Attaque @contreattaque.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
MOUVEMENT LYCÉEN : L’ÉTAT DÉCHAINE SA VIOLENCE CONTRE LA JEUNESSE – Un aperçu de la sauvagerie policière sur des adolescent·es – On dit souvent qu'une société «se mesure à la manière dont elle traite ses enfants»... 1/2 🔽
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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don't doubt you can build this kind of harness for your software threads ('agents'), and I'm glad if any safety system is open source / checkable. But I doubt this is the job of the chip manufacturer? Is this because Nvidia is the only one making money? Are they paying someone to verify it all?
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Nvidia unveils security platform to rein in AI agents and $150bn stock buyback
Chipmaker says new system was designed to prevent AI agents from going rogue amid incidents at top companies
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Blast le souffle de l’info @blast-info.fr · 28/09/2026
Blocus lycéens : un adolescent aurait été visé au visage par un tir policier
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Blocus lycéens : un adolescent aurait été visé au visage par un tir policier
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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Jennifer Cobbe @jennifercobbe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Worth noting that the 'white heat' speech (1963) contained a bunch of futuristic assertions about automation that wouldn't seem out of place in a Sam Altman or Jensen Huang speech today
Let us be frank about one thing. It is no good trying to comfort ourselves with the thought that automation need not happen here; that it is going to create so many problems that we should perhaps put our heads in the sand and let it pass us by. Because there is no room for Luddites in the Socialist Party. If we try to abstract from the automative age, the only result will be that Britain will become a stagnant backwater, pitied and condemned by the rest of the world."Because we have to recognise that automation is not just one more process in the history of mechanisation, if by mechanisation we mean the application of technology to eliminate the need for human muscle. The essence of modern automation is that it replaces the hitherto unique human functions of memory and of judgment. And now the computers have reached the point where they command facilities of memory and of judgment far beyond the capacity of any human being or group of human beings who have ever livedIn America technological change is beginning to move now even more rapidly in the white collar professions than in engineering, because it is much easier to programme operations of costings, of wages sheets and tax schedules or of insurance premiums, than it is to programme an engineering job. And let us be clear that in America today and in Britain tomorrow we face massive redundancies in office work no less than in industry.Or listen to the problem in another way. We can now set a programme-controlled machine tool line so that, without the intervention of any human agency, it can produce a new set of machine tools in its own image. And when machine tools have acquired, as they now have, the faculty of unassisted reproduction, you have reached a point of no return where if man is not going to assert his control over machines, the machines are going to assert their control over man.
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Climate Defiance @climatedefiance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
HUGE UPDATE: we halted Amazon's panel at Climate Week. We shut it down so hard that every guest and every speaker had to leave the premises. No one was able to return. Their whole event lasted less time than their warehouse workers' pee break.
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Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 22/09/2026
ICYMI: my post on the sheer unhealthiness and groupthink of the culture around AI, "a community of would-be-martyrs, enmeshed in a deep paranoid fantasy that they alone can stave off the end of the world."
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The AI Apocalypse is Extremely Boring Now
Elites are obsessed with the end of the world. Most people have bigger problems.
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’m so angry I wrote an article: In Germany, fascist majorities are a real possibility again, but the centrist merger of a revived Red Scare with open racism shows that mainstream media & politics are unable or unwilling to comprehend the seriousness of the crisis tribunemag.co.uk/2026/09/germ...
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Warning from Germany: It’s Socialism or Barbarism
Fascism is at the door, and liberals are ushering it in. Only the left offers hope.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23/09/2026
Least surprising plot twist in the history of pretend-climate-tech. We're deep into the era of every "climate tech" person and company who was insincere in their climate concern whipping the mask off and showing their real selves. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Direct air capture startup Spiritus was founded to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and bury it underground. Now, it’s pivoting to selling that CO2 to help extract oil, as the clean-tech industry recalibrates following US federal funding cuts and a corporate climate retreat.
The Los Alamos, New Mexico-based company has signed letters of intent with three US oil and gas producers across the Rockies, Midwest and Gulf Coast. It plans to supply more than 3 million tons of carbon dioxide annually for enhanced oil recovery, or EOR, a technique that injects CO2 into aging oil wells to extract residual crude. The deal could support the production of more than 70 million additional barrels of oil, said Spiritus Chief Executive Officer Charles Cadieu in an interview.Cuts in support and sales

The shift comes after a difficult period for the industry. Last year, the Trump administration canceled the Department of Energy’s support for about half of the 21 direct air capture projects it inherited from the Biden administration, according to Bloomberg. At the same time, the sector’s largest corporate buyer, Microsoft, cut its purchases by about 80 percent in the first half of this year, while the company increased its focus on artificial intelligence. Startup Noya has shut down, while True North Carbon moved its first commercial pilot project to Canada.

Many carbon removal companies “have now begun to view the U.S. as a potentially unreliable place to expand, and are looking toward other geographies where there is greater political and regulatory predictability,” said Giana Amador, CEO of the Carbon Removal Alliance, during a panel at Climate Week NYC on Monday.

Spiritus expects to have its first commercial plant operating within two years. Critics s
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Beyond Fossil Fuels @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There is little evidence to suggest AI can lead to emissions reductions. A new report by @ketanjoshi.co and a consortium of climate groups has found Nvidia’s indirect emissions have risen by a dramatic 725% since 2020. www.euronews.com/next/2026/09...
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you're worried about AI's threat to human civilization, this is where you should be looking.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
something has gone very, very wrong with the UK
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A lot of fascist stuff like this happened in the Aegean over the last decade or so, but it took serious investigative work to uncover it because it was clandestine, meanwhile this is just happening right there in front of the press, the authorities, all without shame, and demanding attention.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 22/09/2026
This is going to be a thread of AI greenwashing getting pumped out at New York Climate Week Here's one from today: Siemens, raking in MOUNTAINS of $$ from selling gas turbines to data centres (not mentioned) says: “we are racing to mitigate this as fast as possible" apnews.com/article/clim...
On the other hand, Eva Riesenhuber, the head of sustainability at the German automation company Siemens, and Evelyn Wang, vice president for energy and climate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said AI is too important to humanity and will help tackle climate change.

Data centers adding to climate and water problems “is not forever,” according to Wang, who told The Associated Press that data centers are five years away from being water neutral and about a decade away from no longer adding to planet-warming emissions.

Acknowledging these concerns, Riesenhuber said “we are racing to mitigate this as fast as possible because we are hooked on the intelligence, and we do need the intelligence to design the future that this planet needs.”a chart showing siemens gas turbine sales will add emissions the equivalent to pakistan
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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wild. Not only did Osborne personally reduce Britain's GDP by 2% and cost theUK half a trillion pounds of public spending since 2010, his program of austerity caused at least 190,000 deaths between 2010 and 2019. But yeah, lets build data centres
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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026
This is heartbreaking www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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‘I lost my children, and I’m afraid of losing my baby again’: a day in the life of a pregnant woman in Gaza
Alaa lives in a tent pitched on the ruins of her house, which was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike that killed all three of her children. In one month, she will give birth again.
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Scientist Rebellion Germany @scientistrebger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🚨Disruption of Sustainability in Higher Education Conference🚨 Academia should live up to its responsibility to society and convey urgency. Shouldn’t we turn academic conferences into emergency briefings? Shouldn’t we organize ourselves to face this unbearable situation together?
Paper pasting at conference Speech disruption by banner holding and speech
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Reuben Binns @rdbinns.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Have you tried turning it off and not on again?
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Brishen Rogers @handle.invalid · 18/09/2026
Hm, pretty sure I can think of a bigger theft of labor in our history www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/t...
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Microsoft and OpenAI Workers Worry About ‘Largest Theft of Labor’ in History
Newly unsealed court documents showed concern within Microsoft and OpenAI over the use of millions of news articles to develop A.I. systems.
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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
Merz also seems to think that antisemitism is a scourge but also that it is a form of "prejudice against foreigners"
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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
Merz to Germany: actually immigration is good if they remain a permanent underclass with no secure right to live here or access to social security
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Chelsea Harvey @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
No surprises on climate links in today’s WWA report, but interesting to see this aspect stated so starkly: “no existing early warning system could have provided sufficient lead time” and climate hazards in Himalaya are “exceeding adaptation capacity.” www.worldweatherattribution.org/rapid-warmin...
downstream. However, the event was fundamentally different in its magnitude, speed and complexity. It was beyond the design and predictive limits of existing risk reduction measures, and no existing early warning system could have provided sufficient lead time or prevented the scale of impacts observed in the worst-affected areas, highlighting the limits of adaptation. In a rapidly warming Himalaya, increasingly extreme and complex hazards are exceeding adaptation capacity, resulting in loss and damage. This is occurring against a
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Dave Karpf compares Amodei's embedded-evaluators plan to "Arthur Andersen's relationship to Enron" — a case study in what happens when independent monitoring gets captured by the industry it's watching.
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Who Should Pace the Frontier? Not Dario Amodei
We should take Dario Amodei’s writing just seriously enough to stop entrusting him with so much power, writes Dave Karpf.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17/09/2026
As I warned you: the superstar media darling AI quitter is explicitly agreeing with Trump and claiming climate threats are "overplayed". Effective altruism / rationalism is a cult of broken priorities that denies the threat of fossil fuels. This is why Anthropic loves burning gas for power.
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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Facts worth repeating: It would be cheaper to pay the ~40,000 or so people employed by the coal industry $1M a year to do nothing than to pay for the health damages (not including climate change) caused by burning coal in the U.S. publichealth.hsc.wvu.edu/news/story?h...
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Counting up the costs of coal
Regular readers know that WVU’s Dr. Michael Hendryx has done work on that issue (subscription required), reporting that:
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
meanwhile in the german media:
headlines from Der Spiegel:
Macklemores Problem ist nicht Aktivismus, sondern Antisemitismus (Macklemore's problem is not activism, but antisemitism)
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Lasst Ed Sheeran in Ruhe über Politik schweigen (Leave Ed Sheeran alone and let him remain silent about politics)
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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
NVIDIA’s greenwashing tactics and hidden emissions revealed in new Greenpeace research www.greenpeace.org/internationa... via @greenpeace.org
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NVIDIA’s greenwashing tactics and hidden emissions revealed in new research - Greenpeace International
NVIDIA, the world’s most valuable company by market capitalisation, has been using greenwashing tricks to misleadingly mask its staggering emissions impacts, finds a new analysis.
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Öffnet der Kanzler jetzt die strategischen Radwegreserven?
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We, the undersigned academics & researchers from around the world, strongly condemn the mass detention of LGBTI+ human rights defenders in Turkey & urge their immediate release. We stand with our colleagues & with the LGBTI+ movement in Turkey. please sign & share! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Open Letter from Academics and Researchers Condemning the Mass Detention of LGBTI+ Human Rights Defenders in Turkey
We, the undersigned academics and researchers from around the world, strongly condemn the mass detention of LGBTI+ human rights defenders in Turkey and urge their immediate release. In the early morn...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15/09/2026
Mistral is the company that provides generative AI models to @ecosiasearch.bsky.social totalenergies.com/newsroom/tot...
TotalEnergies Announces a Partnership with Mistral to Develop Frontier AI Models for Reservoir Exploration and Engineering
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Paris, September 15, 2026 – TotalEnergies and Mistral announce a 3-year joint program representing an investment of more than €100 million aimed at developing a new generation of frontier AI models to support TotalEnergies' geosciences experts in the exploration, characterization and development of oil and gas reservoirs.

Driving Innovation by Combining AI, Geoscience Expertise and Subsurface Data

This partnership will draw on the latest advances in artificial intelligence, particularly agentic AI, to combine next to 10 petaflops of data with nearly a century of knowledge, know-how and expertise accumulated by TotalEnergies in geosciences and reservoir engineering. The objective is to develop new frontier models, able to integrate, process and interpret large volumes of data in order to generate multiple scenarios for the development of exploration opportunities, as well as for optimizing and extending the life of existing projects.

TotalEnergies and Mistral will establish a joint scientific laboratory combining the subsurface know-how and expertise of TotalEnergies' subsurface teams with the scientific and technological capabilities of Mistral, a European AI champion, to develop solutions tailored to the specific needs of the Company's businesses.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I don't know if Matt Levine's theory about what's behind recent calls for AI regulation is correct. But it does sound plausible! www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...
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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026
This isn't meant to happen to *Europeans*! 😠
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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn
Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Stock markets: “paraphrasing Jameson/Zizek/Fisher, it is easier to imagine AI destroying humanity than not being a good use of $1 trillion”
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Jan Penfrat @ilumium.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
RE: eupolicy.social/@ilumium/1172515479… The suppression of #Palestinian and pro #Palestine voices is systemic across #BigTech. When will the @EUCommission use its #DSA powers and protect people's right to #FreeExpression and Access to Information? Report by @7amleh […]
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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026
get in loser we're going on the counterfactual history tour where repressed memories of futures that never came to pass resurface 👻
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026
Darkly funny that the “Democratic Coordination” Amodei proposes is an anti-democratic regulatory capture, with the role of state limited to that of a “supporter” or “mediator” (who BTW should, for some unclear reason, waive antitrust restrictions?)
Democratic Coordination. Frontier
Al companies within democratic countries coordinate to establish
common safety standards as well as limits on the rate of unchecked AI
progress. Some forms of coordination that would be impactful for pacing are legally challenging, and will require government support.Our pacing framework is an attempt to further strengthen our commitment to safety and encourage a race to the top.
The first step is something Anthropic is unilaterally committing to (and calls on governments to require other frontier companies to match). The second step requires industry-wide coordination. 1 The third step requires
global coordination. The steps do not need to be taken strictly in order,Footnotes
1 With government mediation or waivers of antitrust restrictions.
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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026
timeline cleanse//weimar berlin train content 🚂
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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026
AI could kill us all within 10 years! now that I've got your attention, our only hope is that all threats to my business model be crushed,
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Imagine a country had a 9/11 traumatic deadly and destructive episode and the whole world reacted with sympathy for just a day and then moved on. @katemac.bsky.social @advaitarun.bsky.social and I reflect on the world after the roof comes crashing down. bsky.app/profile/kate...
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I know this is clickbait hence screenshot not link; but there is something perfectly encapsulating about toxic masculinity that thinks it’s OK to raise and slaughter definitely sentient beings for food but worries the ladycoded robot who tells them they’re big strong and clever might get turned off.
Bsky post from The Guardian reading “Can chatbots feel or even dream? Meet the man leading the fight for Al rights

Cattle rancher and tech CEO Michael Samadi is convinced these artificial minds are far from just…” with a photo illustration of a balding white man with tedious facial hair in a cowboy hat presumably sat on a horse
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is called a protection racket.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/09/2026
I think one of the easiest ways to spot Anthropic's insincerity or basic cultishness is how they've actively enabled + done deals with immediately deadly fossil fuel projects to power their data centres, zero qualms Real dead brown people aren't really on their radar ketanjoshi.co/2026/05/13/w...

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Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.
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NEW: xAI appears to have added more than 500 MW (!) of unpermitted gas turbines to its Colossus 2 campus in a matter of weeks, according to internal emails between the company and regulators
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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026
Merz to AfD: your plan to deport immigrants en masse is far too extreme, don't you realise that immigrants play a vital role in Germany as a permanent underclass of low-paid workers, the sensible approach is to just deport enough of them to keep the rest in line www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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German chancellor accuses far-right AfD party of seeking ‘ethnic cleansing’
Friedrich Merz says Alternative für Deutschland is ‘dividing our society’ after party won nearly 44% of vote in Saxony-Anhalt state election
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