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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

Four-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I need you all to promise me that when this all happens, you never stop clowning them. Never ever. no matter how much they plead for understanding or try to pretend they were never into it, don't ever let them fucking forget

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My essay on rogue AI has been republished by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists — “Rogue AI didn’t breach Hugging Face, human decisions did.” Grateful to @thebulletin.org for the invitation!

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Rogue AI didn’t breach Hugging Face, human decisions did

At the core of the Hugging Face hacking incident were a series of human choices that traded security for speed.

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Cathy @cathyby.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Both vaccines and anti-monopoly laws were so effective we forgot what caused the decline in child deaths and the rise in living standards for ordinary people. We let one be demonised and the other be rolled back as a result of forgetting. (Halfway down thread)

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The plagiarism machine I created will likely kill us all, there’s a 40% chance, no, higher, like 75%,or more! But NO I will not “unplug it,” that’s an insane suggestion. The scientific solution is to *give me more money.*

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

"Did these AI models “go rogue”? Not exactly. the models were tasked with finding solutions to a hacking challenge, and this is what they attempted to do, though in an unintended and surprising manner." aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading...

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Misleading Metaphors, Real Risks

What To Fear from AI Agents and How to Reclaim Our Human Agency

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“Many of the major questions that AI raises are old questions in new clothing. How do labour markets absorb technological change? How do we govern how institutions make decisions about people?”

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ElizabethwithaZ @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The AI Literacy we get: "Here's a piece of software founded on theft, labor exploitation, and environmental devastation. It consistently produces bias and falsehoods, so be sure to use it ethically and responsibly!" The AI Literacy we need:

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Please be vocal about not using AI. We have to normalize it. No "I'm not going to say that because it should be assumed. I'm not going to give them this". We don't have time for that shit ideological shit right now. NOW is the time to capitalize on waning favorability. Ppl want human made

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Across the US, workers are souring on AI. The tech industry has insisted that AI would make workers’ lives easier and more productive, that the more people understood and used AI, the more they would like it. Something closer to the opposite has happened.

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Why office workers are turning against AI

Whether or not you like AI at work ultimately boils down to a question of power.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Glassdoor has a very revealing report out on worker sentiment regarding AI. Workers' attitudes towards AI have grown increasingly negative, and extremely so in certain fields. This is happening as adoption is scaling, and workers have had *more* exposure. The more they use it, the less they like it.

glassdoor.com

How workers feel about AI in 2026 - Glassdoor US

LLMs have stormed the workplace, and workers have a lot to say about that. This report reveals what they love - and hate - about AI.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026

Friends, when I sent this message to my team laughing, I didn't know that this fairytale blog had been shared far & wide & that people actually believed it. I didn't know that until someone asked me for a good source debunking this nonsense. I'm not sure what planet we're living in at this point.

Timnit commented "I don't know what level of ridiculousness this is", sharing a screenshot that reads

@Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp
Over the course of 3 months at OpenAI, 3 consecutive secret AI civilizations got started, then got wiped out, only to reemerge from the predecessor’s ashes.

This culminated in the third one taking over part of OpenAI itself.

All this happened while humans remained more-or-less in the dark about the scope of the conspiracy.

I’ve spent the last three days reading through these reports and trying to understand exactly what happened.

Here is my attempt to tell the whole story in plain English:

There is a sibling emoji reaction to her post

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/09/2026

Free newsletter: We have entered an era of technological hypernormalization, where the tech industry does everything it can to twist our sense of reality to make us ignore the very simple economic problems they're unable to solve. www.wheresyoured.at/hyperscale-n...

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vanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

@edzitron.com had it on the money here

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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

404media.co

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 07/07/2026

The race to develop AI, which requires data centers to handle the energy-intensive computing, has resulted in plans for 74 new or expanded methane gas plants across the U.S. Trump says he'll approve plans for more “in a period of a matter of weeks.”

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Trump Tells Big Tech He’ll Fast-Track Fossil Fuel Plants to Power AI

The AI development race has resulted in plans to build or expand 74 methane gas plants across the country.

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Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 02/07/2026

Out now! For robust research, center values, not technology, w/ Christine Cuskley DOI doi.org/10.1017/S014... PDF pure.mpg.de/rest/items/i... Our commentary on "How linguistics learned to stop worrying and love the language models" by Futrell & Mahowald

Cover page of For robust research, center values, not
technology, by Mark Dingemanse and Christine Cuskley

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

1000 evaluators given identical resumes & told candidate used AI. Only difference on resumes was candidate’s name: Emily vs James. Study found women using AI are evaluated as less competent than men who use AI...To evaluators, women’s AI use signaled inability, while men’s AI use signaled initiative

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Hey @govpritzker.illinois.gov maybe don’t sign the age verification bill because it’s actually a mass surveillance bill.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Why Bernie why?? @nathaliemarechal.net joins me and @alexhanna.bsky.social to observe and contextualize Sen Sanders’ descent into AI Doomerism: www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...

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blair @blairaf.com · 29/05/2026

One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?

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Isaac G. Bryan @ib2real.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17/05/2026

“…reinforcing previous studies, the researchers found that a patchwork of state, federal and local policies allow data center operators to avoid publicly disclosing their actual water use.”

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Data centers are guzzling California’s water. We have no idea how much.

A new report warns that data center buildout is encroaching on California’s most vulnerable, water-stressed communities. The problem is, no one’s saying how much water they use

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

This is awful. Jesus. These funds have saved people from getting evicted, fired, and losing custody of their kids. (Also, just to be clear, it doesn’t criminalize the funds’ existence, but it makes them subject to federal insurance regulations, which will effectively kill many of them.)

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/09/2025

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 13/05/2026

Students, if you’re thinking about dropping a note to that teacher or professor about what their class/project/mentorship has meant to you, but you worry it will be cringe or cheesy, let me just tell you they will coast on the fuzzy feelings prompted by that note for months, if not years

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bingley567 @bingley567.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

True, but just TRY to get something like this past the GOP.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 12/05/2026

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 12/05/2026

🚨 NEW REPORT: EU handing industry #Permission2Pollute 🚨 At the request of oil&gas, mining + BigTech lobbyists, the Commission is ripping up permitting rules to fast-track polluting projects like pipelines, mines + data centres. Read more corporateeurope.org/en/2026/05/permission-pollute 👇 🧵 1/6

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Permission to Pollute | Corporate Europe Observatory

New report on how the European Commission is weakening permitting rules to fast-track polluting projects, such as mines, CO2 pipelines and data centres.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

If we actually want to appreciate moms, we should be providing free childcare, healthcare, and guaranteed income for stay-at-home parents to put more money in families’ pockets and ensure no SAHP is reliant on a partner for their economic security. Idk I think that’s better than 15% off a vacuum.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

CEO pay rose 20 times faster than worker pay in 2025, per Oxfam. Overall, global worker pay declined 12% between 2019 and 2025 — while CEO pay rose 54% during the same time. Trickle-down economics was always a sham. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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CEO pay soared in 2025, 20 times faster than workers’ pay

Analysis finds real wages fell 12% since 2019, with inequality widening in the US beyond global levels

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

A New Jersey data center will reportedly receive $77 million in tax breaks — while only creating one permanent job. One job, in exchange for higher utility bills, noise pollution, and potential groundwater pollution. Is it any wonder communities are organizing to stop data centers?

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This Data Center Is Getting a $77 Million Tax Break to Create One Job

No other project in the country has gotten such a large subsidy to create so few jobs, according to watchdogs.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

some things about becoming a parent are radicalizing in ways I expected - e.g being reminded viscerally how screwed we'd all be if childcare and other care work disappeared. but other things are radicalizing in ways I didn't - like experiencing constant spontaneous solidarity in ways big and small

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

We are deciding right now if we are to be a nation of concentration camps and ethnic cleansing. And there is much citizens can do!

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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Just because a President announces he’s agreed to a two week ceasefire moments before he threatened to commit war crimes, does not mean he is suddenly fit to serve. #25thAmendment

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress beforehand, or our allies, or coherently explain to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop this.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

There is something you can do about all of this — make your plans for May 1. This country needs a united show of power, energy, and hope. indivisible.org/events/may-d...

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May Day Strong: No Work, No School, No Shopping | Indivisible

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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

If your president is brazenly announcing he plans to commit war crimes, you literally have to impeach him. Is this not obvious?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/04/2026

Trump is committing war crimes in Iran and is threatening more and worse ones. His entire war strategy at this point is war crimes. A functional Congress would be far down the road of impeachment and removal.

Our Military, the greatest and most powerful (by far!) anywhere in the World, hasn’t even started destroying what’s left in Iran. Bridges next, then Electric Power Plants! New Regime leadership knows what has to be done, and has to be done, FAST! President DONALD J.TRUMP

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Textbook corporate greed.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Hard for Trump to get out of a war that is making so much money for Putin.

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 31/03/2026

Claude Code is now open source!!! just kidding, Anthropic accidentally leaked the source and this guy put it up on github within an hour github.com/instructkr/c...

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GitHub - instructkr/claude-code: Claude Code Snapshot for Research. All original source code is the property of Anthropic.

Claude Code Snapshot for Research. All original source code is the property of Anthropic. - instructkr/claude-code

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Grammarly made an AI to sell shitty writing advice with famous writers' names on it. This bullshit illustrates a trend in the tech industry: shipping features as quickly as you can write lines of code, with no way to tell if they are any good until something breaks or someone sues you.

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Grammarly shows how prototyping turned into an excuse for not thinking

The industry is in the grip of directionless urgency, and users are paying the price. Strategy has been replaced with half-baked features.

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