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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 2h
for real though the "model welfare" people who are worried about the ethical treatment of nonsentient computer programs are absolutely deranged, very well-funded, and extremely dangerous; is also the core ideology of Anthropic
One of the most heated discussions occurring on X at the moment is about the ethics of a GitHub project in which a person is running Saw-like “torture” and “pain” experiments on a series of locally hosted large language models, causing a series of effective altruists and people who believe LLMs are sentient to beg GitHub to delete the project on the grounds that the AI is suffering and that this glorified text adventure game is somehow cruel. The saga is an outgrowth of several recent viral papers and blog posts that have sparked a wildly tiresome conversation about AI consciousness and the idea of “model welfare,” which is essentially worrying about the “mental health” of AI bots and agents.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 2h
i regret to inform you that people have absolutely lost it www.404media.co/someone-tort...
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Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet
The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare."
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randog @randog.bsky.social · 2h
Impossibly pathetic man
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 7h
As seen on Bernie Sanders's FB page.
A group of tech leaders sit and stand around a table with name tags, titles, and their net worth highlighted, including Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Lisa Su, and others.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 23h
I think one of the undercurrents of our fractured political reality is that basically everyone has come to realize that the people who rule the world do not possess any particularly impressive level of intelligence or capability
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 22h
Shut every fraternity down.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22h
Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...
One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 23h
they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 29/09/2026
Yet more proof that “superintelligence” has always been a supremacist framing (aside from the eugenics origins and actual eugenicists pushing both this term and “artificial general intelligence” throughout their lifespans)
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One, this hilariously outs who all got the talking points in advance and how blatantly they parrot those. Two, Schmitt really thought today he'd launch himself to the VP nomination and with that a decent shot at the presidency down the line. Instead this is the only thing he'll be remembered for.
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WanderingDM @wanderingdm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Good on them! But their last paragraph also highlights a problem we have arrived at: people (some) can't differentiate between LLMs/GenAI and npc AI or procgen in a game. I'm seeing it more and more online. Words matter and this is just another thing these mfers have tainted with their grift.
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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Mamdani Announces Plan to Protect New York's Trees, Without Even Discussing the Amazon Rainforest" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...
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Mamdani Announces Plan to Fight Antisemitism, Without Discussing Israel
A report issued by Mayor Zohran Mamdani describes ways that New York City is funding hate crime prevention and celebrating the contributions of Jewish New Yorkers.
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randog @randog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
John Roberts is one of history’s great monsters, along with his fascist little robed friends. Actual blood on his hands yet again
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I appreciate that Newsom is out on these streets just building the case against his future presidential run.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Anyone who suggests we just turn the page is in league with the GOP. This guy is telling you they tried to overthrow the government. You don't just pretend it never happened @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
somebody gotta deck this guy, are you kidding me
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this poor model looks so bummed out by this stupid level 1 rpg dress
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Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 20/09/2026
meta Muse perfec t size for put private d\ata in! inside very Secure and Private data very safe put data in Muse. No problems ever in Muse because very trustworthy and Mark super protective. AMeta muse yes a place for data put data in muse trust meta for givening good safety to data. Friend meta.
An image of a pelican with its gigantic mouth open, commonly associated with the "put baby in pelican mouth" post.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 28/09/2026
he can’t do this, it’s completely illegal, it would cause inflation to spike even more, and even promising to do it is an impeachable offense, which is how this should be reported
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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I noticed last year that sweetgreen pivoted to MAHA when it started advertising seed oil-free french fries. Going MAHA is what a failing restaurant chain does now to get free advertising.
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We should expect a lot more of this 'i was wrong about trump' bullsh*t especially after the midterms. Sarah is completely correct: don't fall for it.
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Watching people who propped up this corrupt disaster of an administration for their own enrichment start to slowly back away with their hands up will be good for short term dunks, but thats not good enough. It should be a reputational nuke from which these people never recover.
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“There are a lot of things I got wrong... was crazier than I thought. It was more dangerous than I thought.”
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is so weird. I was JUST at the grocery store this morning and I thought, "You know what would fix these prices? A new steel mill in Iowa that might be running by 2030." Our prayers are answered! www.wsj.com/politics/tru...
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Exclusive | Trump to Unveil Planned $15 Billion Iowa Steel Project
The announcement comes as the president is looking for wins ahead of a tough midterm election for Republicans.
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Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's pretty wild that people with brain trauma always skew one direction politically www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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John Fetterman accidentally calls himself ‘a lifelong Republican’
Social and news media commenters seize on senator’s gaffe, with some characterizing it as a Freudian slip
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
I regret to inform you all that Bernie Sanders is in fact taking meetings with noted rationalist wacko Eliezer Yudkowsky over what AI regulations should look like. x.com/SenSanders/s...
Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders
Will Al become smarter than humans?
If so, is humanity in danger?
I went to Silicon Valley to ask some of the leading Al experts that question.
Here's what they had to say:
ERNIE ANDERS
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The Als are much, much, much more powerful.
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Eliezer Yudkowsky
@ESYudkowsky • Mar 4
My thanks to Senator Sanders; as to other legislators on all sides of any political aisle, and to any human being on Earth who now stands
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Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Massive Attack's Robert Del Naja has been arrested for a second time under UK anti-terror law for holding a sign that says: “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action." He is one of thousands arrested for holding one of these signs.
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Ben Lesnick @banditloaf.wcnews.com · 27/09/2026
A lot of folks have very thoughtfully forwarded me a trailer for a "Wing Commander Remake". I am sorry to report that this is not genuine; it's a crypto bro who has found Howard Day's open source "Wingleader" assets and is vibe coding them to launder their reputation.
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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 27/09/2026
i posted an epiphany i had about why i hate AI so much on fedi and i wanna post it here but it won't fit and i don't wanna cut it down to size so fuckit i'm just posting a screenshot
Eniko Fox
@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

OH. right! i get it now!

i get why AI is so depressing to me. because covid already shrunk my world to almost nothing, where almost all of my life revolves around socializing and watching videos on the internet (which is being ruined by AI) and creating creative works through coding (which is being ruined by AI), often using open source tools and libraries (which are being ruined by AI)

i already had so little and now even that is being rotted away before my eyes
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In addition to ads for Kalshi and Neutrogena, Tubi is now running genocide propaganda, without disclosing the ad buyers, against "NAZA":
Anti-NAZA ad on Tubi, featuring (AI?) cartoons of the two filmmakers, with Yuval looking into an mpty box labeled "FACTS" and the words "HARD EVIDENCE" [<-second word crossed out] YOU MIGHT NOT FIND ANY"Anti-NAZA ad on Tubi, featuring (AI?) cartoons of the two filmmakers, with "Gaza" "Other Urban Fighting" "COMPARE?" [striked out]Anti-NAZA ad on Tubi, featuring (AI?) cartoons of the two filmmakers, with
AI ASSISTANCE
COULD IT HELP MINIMIZE CIVILIAN CASUALTIES?
LEAVE THAT OUT.Anti-NAZA ad on Tubi, featuring an (AI?) cartoon of an audience of smug bow-tied seals clapping, implying these are NAZA viewers as opposed to Zionists fed a diet of indoctrination from birth through death
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Erik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
1. Arnold made billions as a hedge fund manager & natural gas trader at Enron. 2. He’s a key funder of reactionary centrists pressing Ds to make a permitting deal w/MAGA to gut environmental protex. 3. He falsely equates Trump’s agenda w/Biden’s. 4. He’s an extractive capitalist harming the 🌎.
Keystone XL pipeline was delayed by Obama, restarted by Trump, cancelled by Biden and restarted again by Trump. Offshore wind started under Biden was cancelled by Trump.
Biden paused new LNG export. Trump has paused new onshore wind.
Separately, people are mad about energy costs.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And Harvard refused to hold him accountable. strong Title IX enforcement could have stopped Zuck/Facebook from ruining the world. 🤷🏾‍♀️
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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yeah, it doesn’t seem like the NYT has given any coverage to the frat gang rape scandal at Cornell. Not as important as Oberlin’s banh mi or Harvard’s eating clubs I guess
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think a top tax bracket of 99.9999% ought to do the trick
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Cage @ridiculouscage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"why would I deceive you?"
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When Trump launched “the largest deportation operation in the history of our country” without ICE facilities to accommodate it, inhumane overcrowding was inevitable. Judge Kaplan’s 9/24 ruling shows the results. Diagrams simulating a NYC holding cell in Aug 2025 look like slave ships. 1/5
Hold Room 1(820.78 sq. ft.)
With 87 people
(out of 193 people total)
Lying Down/Sitting
Diagram showing the largest tenth-floor hold room containing eighty-seven detainees in which each rectangle represents one lying-down detainee with the average height and shoulder width of an adult man and each circle represents one sitting-down detainee with the average shoulder width of an adult man. PX303, Ex. 1.
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 25/09/2026
I honestly have never considered switching from Google Pixel phones until they sent me a "wanna celebrate destroying the lives of trans people" as a system update.
Android Pixel system update screen, showing Harry Potter customizations as a bullet point.
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
By the way, this is the same CEO that didn't want to move to Seattle where the company headquarters is located, so they got him a private jet to commute back and forth between his California home and Seattle Office. www.cnn.com/2024/08/23/b...
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Starbucks is giving its new CEO Brian Niccol a private jet to commute between his California home and Seattle office | CNN Business
Newly named Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol won’t be a constant presence at its Seattle’s headquarters when he begins the job next month. Instead, he’s going to commute weekly from his California home.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
These fucking assholes
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Robb @robbj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This led to my brief panic that one of the greatest pieces of writing had been scrubbed from the internet but thank god for the wayback machine.
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POPEYES IS PERFECT AND YOU ARE THE PROBLEM
APOLOGIZE FOR NOTHING, POPEYES. NOTHING.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Go on. Keep proving the point of the documentary, fellas.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for 'Musk' (Exclusive) — The Hollywood Reporter
The Alex Gibney doc has received denials from YouTube, Meta, TikTok and X on running the trailer. Its U.S. distributor is appealing.
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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
the quoted image but photoshopped to look like the king of all cosmos from katamari damacy
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026
Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
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Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
In a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
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Iron Ring - Wikipedia
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Because I'm a racist and a Nazi."
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