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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 29/10/2026

this was very interesting/informative (and kind of funny...sorry for all those software engineers though. I wouldn't blame them for becoming cybercrimininals tbh)

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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

The EU does this too btw (from its AI Continent Action Plan)

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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

United for Palestine demo in Berlin today ✌️🍉

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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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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026

hi Malte, happy to see the book doing well! hope you see this is meant constructively: it's disappointing to see you both presenting in an antideutsch club which claims on its official website there was no Palestinian identity pre-1945 and that the word 'intifada' = calling for extermination of Jews

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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026

satirical dystopia #3: plan for an apparatus to shoot down people flying from east berlin, submitted to an open call for architectural proposals in the 80s by two architects who were then arrested

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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026

repressed memory #2: painting fragment from palast der republik, the DDR parliament/restaurants/nightclub/bowling alley complex. now replaced by a replica of a prussian royal palace holding stolen human remains. steel from the demolished parliament was eventually used in the burj khalifa

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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026

unrealised architectural future #1: imagined reopening of haus der jungen talente, a DDR-era youth cultural centre & computer club, which was going to continue as a self-managed association post-reunification until the new western govt shut it down

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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026

me on the tour waiting for the optimum moment to mention that I read derrida's spectres de marx last month

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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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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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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 01/09/2026

Starmer quitting as an MP to spend more time lobbying for the arms industry and campaigning against violence against women and girls...feel he might have more success if he picked just one of the the two

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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 30/08/2026

Even from this single still you can immediately tell how hard Jeremy Strong's acting is going to go 👌

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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 23/08/2026

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Conversely, the study found that the continued expansion of renewables and low-carbon technologies in the North Sea would reduce reliance on volatile gas imports much faster than allowing new drilling, with energy from new wind and solar from the latest government auction expected to produce six times more electricity by 2030 than new drilling licences would.

On employment, the campaign group Uplift points out that the number of jobs supported by the oil and gas industry has more than halved in the last decade – from 441,000 to 214,000 today – despite previous governments issuing hundreds of new licences in six separate licensing rounds.

And on tax, critics have questioned the scale of the benefit once you take into account state subsidies to oil and gas companies, which globally run into the hundreds of billions of pounds.

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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 22/08/2026

the last thing you see before the death of neoliberalism

Wahlplakate der Berliner FDP mit Text ,Wirtschaft gut, alles gut.'

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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026

Help my colleague Shreya Chappidi with her research on why people stop using AI! ⬇️ tinyurl.com/StoppingAIUse

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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 26/07/2026

Marching with @scientistrebger.bsky.social for Gaza's murdered and imprisoned healthcare workers

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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 21/07/2026

don't threaten us with a good time!! www.livemint.com/ai/top-ameri...

“One probable outcome of an open-weight-model-dominant world is full AI communism, which is precisely what China proposes: rather than a market product, AI is a ‘public good’ which will ultimately be provided by the state as a kind of ‘digital public infrastructure,’” Dean Ball, OpenAI’s head of strategic futures, said in an X post Friday.
Ball, a former Trump administration official, called such a scenario a “dystopian hellscape” and said he expected the Trump administration to make moves toward reducing the use of open-source models. Ball later

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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 20/07/2026

this is part of a bigger project on environmentally harmful uses of AI - building on prior research taking apart 'AI for sustainability' narratives by e.g. @ketanjoshi.co @sashamtl.bsky.social @paulschuetze.bsky.social, we see fossil fuels as the most egregious instance of a more fundamental problem

Independent researchers have shown that claims about ‘AI for sustainability’ are typically speculative and poorly-evidenced. 18 They also overlook inconvenient dynamics such as the Jevons paradox (where efficiency improvements often increase aggregate resource consumption, by reducing costs).19 Yet these critiques point to a more fundamental problem. In a global economy that is not organised around planetary boundaries and human needs, but economic growth and private profit, there is no reason to believe that AI tools which are predominantly being developed on a commercial basis (and which will have to be astronomically profitable to justify the vast capital investments involved) will be used only or primarily for environmentally beneficial activities. Any scientific breakthroughs and efficiency gains enabled by AI are as likely to be used to scale up unsustainable business activities as to promote sustainability. 20 In fact, given the greater profitability of environmentally-harmful sectors like fossil fuels and mining and the greater resources of the actors responsible,21 it is far more likely that AI will be used for the former

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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 19/07/2026

ah there it is. given what we know about the industry's concerted involvement in the "competiveness" deregulation push, CSDDD rollback etc I would be shocked if there isn't fossil fuel money helping amplify the whole Europe 2031 narrative

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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 02/07/2026

original post I was quoting here (I wonder why it was deleted...) and here's the commission's call for proposals for funding to develop decentralised social media for young people digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/new-...

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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 30/06/2026

dangerous contraband the german government doesn't want you to see 🤫

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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 20/06/2026

...je travaille actuellement sur des thèmes similaires dans le cadre de la réglementation européenne. J'ai pu présenter quelques idées à la summer school sur l'économie politique de l'IA organisée par @jscarbs.bsky.social et collègues la semaine dernière, j'espère pouvoir en partager plus bientôt !

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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 16/06/2026

complete ban on protest and/or displaying maps of historic Palestine at my alma mater @hertieschool.bsky.social graduation ceremony - very disappointing

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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 08/06/2026

at the @scientistrebellion.bsky.social global economic justice teach-in protesting the Super Return investment conference discussing among other things the new Global Justice Report from @thomaspiketty.bsky.social & co globaljusticeproject.wid.world/www-site/upl...

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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 05/06/2026

@ berlin followers! join me and @scientistrebger.bsky.social on monday afternoon for a fun and educational protest against the super return investor conference and the plutocratic elites that are destroying our planet

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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 01/06/2026

in Germany, depicting the same map with a watermelon symbolising Palestinian national identity would be categorised as illegal antisemitic extremism www.verfassungsschutz.de/SharedDocs/h...

screenshot from Bundesverfassungsschutz page on antisemitic extremism explaining that depicting a map of Israel/Palestine and the Golan Heights in the colours of a watermelon is antisemitic and extremist because it denies Israel's right to exist

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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 01/06/2026

the EU's 2025 "AI Continent" Action Plan, describing its "AI Factories" programme of public computing infrastructure, which includes some non-EU countries, depicts Israel as including the illegally occupied Palestinian territories & Syrian Golan Heights digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/a...

map of continental Europe with Cyprus and Israel depicted in bottom right corner; Israel is depicted as an outline including Gaza, the West Bank and the Golan Heights

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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 27/05/2026

discovered the emojicode function in maxqda 😏 also, can someone explain to me what this part of the AI Act is meant to mean? models with capabilities that exceed the capabilities of the most advanced models? i.e. they definitionally don't exist? am I missing something?

screenshot of text reading "‘high-impact capabilities’ means capabilities that match or exceed the capabilities recorded in the most advanced general-purpose AI models" coded with a monocle emoji

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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 08/04/2026

The man speaking now says he lost two friends in the last two hours. The previous speaker was on the phone to his family when their neighbourhood started being bombed. Earlier today 250 people were killed in the space of 10 minutes

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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 08/04/2026

Emergency protest in solidarity with Lebanon at Berlin main station

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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 02/04/2026

one of a number of people taking photos of this at the martin parr retrospective

Martin Parr photo of people's hands holding up their smartphones to photograph the mona lisa

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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 16/03/2026

How have we all become inured to this?!

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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 13/03/2026

protesting against Allianz's collaboration with Elbit & other arms companies outside their offices with @scientistrebger.bsky.social and other groups 🍉🌱 stop genocide, stop imperial wars, stop fossil capital

protesters in dove costumes, lab coats & keffiyehs

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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 24/02/2026

the friend billboards have made it to paris and people are responding appropriately

white billboard with graffiti saying things like 'fuck ice and AI' and 'dream by yourselves'

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