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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The choice for Europe is not between regulating and building. It is between continuing to set rules for infrastructure that others operate, and acquiring the capacity to operate infrastructure whose rules Europe sets and can change, writes Nicholas Gates.

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Europe’s Digital Sovereignty Agenda Must Include Digital Public Infrastructure

Europe has DPI capabilities, but has yet to organize them into a coherent strategy for digital sovereignty, writes Nicholas Gates.

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Elias Storms @lostsociologist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Die verwarring van 'resultaat' en 'process' van tekst en schrijven zie je overal in de context van LLMs. Velen vergeten dat in veel situaties de *activiteit van schrijven* een vorm van gestructureerd denken is. Een foutieve gelijkstelling van resultaat (tekst) en proces (schrijven).

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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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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Studies show that watching a beaver eating cabbage lowers stress levels by 15% so enjoy 😊

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lucindacatchlove.bsky.social @lucindacatchlove.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Which is pretty ironic since it was invented to be a decentralized system to share knowledge and the VC Epstein class has made it into a highly vulnerable centralized one in their question for economic and social power, while also working hard to turn it into a bullshit machine.

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Bishop Steiner @bishopsteiner.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

still one of the greatest conversations ever put on TV.

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Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue @criticalai-journal.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

@wsj.com documents the gradual shift away from peak hype on the AI jobs apocalypse. Just. Not. Happening.

America’s biggest companies say they might need more people after all.

For months, major employers treated hiring as an expensive last resort. Now, a shift is emerging across industries. Companies ranging from railroad giant CSX to Google parent Alphabet GOOGL 2.87%increase; green up pointing triangle have told investors in recent days that they plan to hire to meet growth goals or to seize on emerging technologies.

The push to expand head count, at least modestly, is a reversal from the prevailing corporate messaging during much of the AI era. Major employers largely held back on adding people due to economic uncertainties or a belief that artificial intelligence could shoulder more tasks on the job. But some executives say the costs and limitations of AI now demand that more people be added; others want to hire people back following layoffs.

“We actually need to accelerate hiring a bit. We’re a little bit behind right now,” Booz Allen Hamilton’s Chief Operating Officer Kristine Martin Anderson told investors Friday. “We’re addressing that now.”

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Much of AI "productivity gains" come from managers implicitly trusting an LLM to do a good job, and suspending the onerous micromanagement that humans employees get subjected to. You can do that without paying Anthropic a single penny. It just requires letting the experts you hired do their jobs.

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Trust is not built on craft alone

No amount of tooling will let product teams move faster than being trusted to own their process. That trust is earned through rigor rather than mere velocity.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

As usual, Henry gets it.

No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.

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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

So the world’s only trillionaire, who hates taxes, opposes wealth redistribution, wants to cut public spending, and barely gives to charity, wants you to think he will lead the world to abundance for all if you buy his robots? How has that worked so far?

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Caelan Conrad @caelan.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Are there any artists who are mapmakers on here? Is that a real thing? I’m guessing it would mostly be for tabletop campaigns but I have a project that needs a sick looking map and I’m looking to commission one this summer.

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

This is how you speak about AI to young people, or to anyone really.

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

How significant is support in the European Parliament for efforts to undermine the Digital Services Act, and how does that support align with criticism from the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress? Tech Policy Press contributing editor Dean Jackson collected public evidence.

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Charting the Transatlantic Far Right Campaign Against Europe’s Digital Rules

How large is the European interest in Washington’s narrative of censorship and grievance? Dean Jackson considers evidence on the public record.

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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Apparently, collaborating with AI impairs unassisted performance because it optimises on short-term goals not long-term. The frame is the trick; you can't actually 'collaborate' with a synthetic token machine at all. Myth-making masquerading as critique ⚠️ arxiv.org/abs/2604.04721

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AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance

People often optimize for long-term goals in collaboration: A mentor or companion doesn't just answer questions, but also scaffolds learning, tracks progress, and prioritizes the other person's growth...

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25/11/2025

Large language mistake Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... great read from @benjaminjriley.bsky.social

Our cognition improves because of language — but it’s not created or defined by it.
Take away our ability to speak, and we can still think, reason, form beliefs, fall in love, and move about the world; our range of what we can experience and think about remains vast.
But take away language from a large language model, and you are left with literally nothing at all.

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Anyway, this is why they all act like they do - they quite literally don't believe other people exist in any way that matters; THEY exist, but only as pure Intelligence, which is all that will be left once the great programmer in the sky destroys material reality

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Rene @renebeekman.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

disesdi.substack.com/p/if-you-bou...

Anthropic is playing engineering make believe.

They are doing this, in my opinion, because they have no moat and they think seeming “moral” will differentiate them from their competition.

Oh and also, they think we’re all dumb.

Just my opinion.

If you are an adult who has anything resembling moral principles or a conscience, now is the time to drop this charade.

I am going to be blunt: No, there were never any “guardrails” against AI warfighting capabilities.

The “guardrails” are MATHEMATICALLY IMPOSSIBLE.

Not better or worse than anyone else’s.

MATHEMATICALLY. IMPOSSIBLE.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 28/02/2026

Everybody is (understandably) very excited that Anthropic isn't selling their AI for Hegseth to use to automate his war crimes. But I would gently suggest that we not accept setting the bar quite so low. www.anildash.com/2026/02/27/a...

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A Cookie for Dario? — Anthropic and selling death - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

"Women adopt AI at rates 25% lower than men. This isn’t a guess. It’s the finding of a Harvard Business School meta-analysis examining eighteen studies, over 140,000 participants, across multiple countries." "Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife" abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built...

Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 19/02/2026

I'm gonna repeat my comment. Talking about nonexistent "super intelligent" machines is like talking about the Cookie Monster rather than corporations creating real things causing harm. A non existent machine god bringing apocalypse or utopia is a framing that is harmful. Period.

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Rene @renebeekman.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Another day, another PM influencer boasting how much more productive they became with AI by…. doing dev stuff…. 🙈

Claude Code gave me PM Superpowers 💪 - here is how

This is a very personal story, I have to tell you.

I am NOT a developer.

I have never written a line of code.

Yet, I built only in the last month:

A Game (link removed)
An App (still pending approval)
A browser plugin for a side project

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I couldn't help but track it down, and that article is underselling what the AI report said, too. www.parkrecord.com/2025/12/16/h...

“I read the report, and I’m like, ‘Man, this really looks like an officer wrote it,’” Sever recalled. “But when it got to one part, it said, ‘And then the officer turned into a frog, and a magic book appeared and began granting wishes.’ … It was

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Users hate AI. So tech made it mandatory. Even if you don't use it, it pollutes what you read and how systems make decisions. The computer's hallucinated word is final. And it needs all of your data to do it. In the age of no consent, UX exists to normalized complete acquiescence to surveillance:

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The AI age is the "age of no consent"

"Inevitability" means design decisions are no longer informed by user needs; now they are unilaterally imposed. The users are the ones being designed.

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

www.pangram.com

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KJ Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

It's your birthday, Duane.

Duane Kearns Puryear, holding his panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt. It reads, in block letters: "My name is Duane Kearns Puryear. I was born on December 20, 1964. I was diagnosed with AIDS on September 7, 1987 at 4:45 PM. I was 22 old. Sometimes, it makes me very sad. I made this panel myself. If you are reading it, I am dead..."

There are several great resources to learn about Duane, his advocacy, his family, his panel, and the politics of memory and re-creation, especially this one by The Dallas Way: http://www.thedallasway.org/stories/written/2021/9/19/duane-puryears-and-the-quilt-panel

Duane Puryear died in 1991.

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Shane Anderson 🏳️‍🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning. Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪

“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47 percent drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, and critical reasoning. Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage. Eighty-three percent of heavy Al users couldn't recall key points from what they'd "written, compared to only 10 percent of those who composed unaided.
Neutral reviewers described the Al-assisted writing as "soulless, empty, lacking individuality." Most alarmingly, after four months of reliance on Chat GPT, participants wrote worse once it was removed than those who had never used it at all.
The study warns that when writing is
delegated to Al, the way people learn fundamentally changes.”

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Society for the History of the Philosophy of Technology (HPT) @hptsociety.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

OTD in 2002, Ivan Illich died. A radical social critic and philosopher, Illich offered one of the most distinctive and influential critiques of modern technology in the 20th century. 1/

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lindsaybussau.bsky.social @lindsaybussau.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

“Constant lying is not about making people believe a lie, but about ensuring that no one believes anything. A people who no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between good and evil: a people deprived of the power to think,” Hannah Arendt. Are we there yet?

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Whitney Merrill @wbm312.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

It's my favorite day! It's the 38th anniversary of the Max Headroom signal broadcast intrusion! 1st incident lasted 25s during the 9PM news on WGN-TV in Chicago; The 2nd, 2hrs later, lasted ~90s on PBS affiliate WTTW during Dr. Who. You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqge...

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Max Headroom 1987 Broadcast Signal Intrusion Incident

YouTube video by andrew867

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 21/11/2025

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

So these two trends—AI as smokescreen for management's ulterior motives/misplaced belief in its hype, and AI as an automation system for producing cheap knockoff art and writing (at the expense of artists and writers)—are what I think are the biggest impacts of AI on jobs so far. More in the piece:

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What’s really going on with AI and jobs?

Record-breaking layoff reports, Amazon's mass firings, and a slump in entry level employment. Is AI behind it all?

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I do, of course, have a paragraph from "Why We Fear AI" for this

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LLM is an abstraction over the status quo (or rather, the text of
the status quo) that has, at its core, no other aim than producing
more text that is just like the text already in existence. One result
is that the dominant ideas, the dominant textual patterns of our
time, are recast as “intelligence” per se. We might call the complex
mass of concepts and ideas, the channels into which ideas flow
often and easily, or the boundaries of what is reasonable to debate
in so-called “polite society”—the dominant ideology of an age.
An age’s dominant ideology tends to presuppose that the power
of that age is natural; the hallmark of ideology, in this sense, is
that it is easy to recognize only when it’s past its time. We may
no longer think that an almighty god appointed a king to rule
us, that women are naturally unfit to vote, or that sex outside of
a heterosexual marriage is immoral. But at various times, to think
otherwise (to think of replacing the monarchy with a republic, to
affirm that women are people, or being in favor of sexual or gay
liberation) was the far more difficult, even dangerous thought—if
not to have, then at the very least to put in writing. Ideology, of
course, is never complete, other thoughts are always possible.
But ideology is easy to think, it’s what our thoughts are already
marinated in. And hence, ideology will be dominant in the textual
patterns of an age. Seen in this light, what is called “intelligence”
in a language model, is really that—ideology as a thing that can
pretend to be a person.

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Petplay Semetary (Rei_) @randomfactor.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

"6-7"?! Boy I say boy you gen alpha kids cant be doin' that! Your signifiers need signs boy! You've laid a rhetorical claim to an empty space son! You're creatin' a nihilistic dialectic! Your broccoli hairs obfuscatin' some much needed communication! Find some MEANIN', kid!

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SlugNoodle @slugnoodle.com · 30/07/2025

For anyone interested in Projeckt B00KM4RK: THE ROAMING LIBRARY and building their own, instructions and files can be found here: github.com/TheSlugNoodl...

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GitHub - TheSlugNoodle/ProjectBookmark

Contribute to TheSlugNoodle/ProjectBookmark development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I'm definitely a Prompt Engineer.

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info-activism.bsky.social @info-activism.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

We face a climate+info crisis. What to do? Get “The RePlaybook: A Field Guide to the Climate & Information Crisis” by Tactical Tech. In this guide, 30+ experts share strategies to decode disinfo, challenge tech & counter division in climate info. Download: tacticaltech.org/replaybook/

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/10/2025

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

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The Majority AI View - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Rene @renebeekman.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

The comments to this make a great readinglist

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/09/2025

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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