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Biden: The MAGA wing, well gosh, listen, they’re, it’s, a bit of a flirt with fascism, no kidding around Media: Democratic rhetoric invites political violence Trump: The nuclear flames that burn every mongrel soul in San Diego will be a cleansing fire. Media: Trump makes his case in Nebraska

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24Hours Ukraine @24hoursukraine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🇷🇺An approved Communist Party rally in central Moscow did not go as planned. Protesters chanted “Fair elections,” “We want freedom,” “Freedom for political prisoners” and “Down with the Tsar” — referring to Putin. Police detained around 60 people.

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Rick Crawford @rickcrawf.bsky.social · 11h

I am very in favour of building more in cities, to lower prices and to provide places people both from the city and from elsewhere can live.

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Rick Crawford @rickcrawf.bsky.social · 12h

This is not incompatible with what he is saying. If someone moves to California, gets an apartment, and is then kicked out of that apartment, they count as a former resident.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 13h

Holy shit.

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Rick Crawford @rickcrawf.bsky.social · 13h

I guess Owlet's point is we aren't going to get an equivalent of the 00s digital explosion because costs will go up, not down, when gen AI companies are forced to make a profit. I agree on a timescale of years, but maybe the tech will improve over decades so we will eventually have that situation.

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Rick Crawford @rickcrawf.bsky.social · 13h

I half agree. A lot of stuff is currently free. For the good stuff you need to pay, but it is massively subsidised, so it is cheap like 1970s film.

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LaurieWired @lauriewired.bsky.social · 16h

If you want to know who survives AI, look at what happened to Hollywood in the 1970s.   Movie Studios used to enforce tight “shooting ratios”; usually 5:1, maybe 10:1 TOPS. As in, for every 5 feet of film shot, at least 1 foot had to end up in the final cut (35mm was expensive!)

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Rick Crawford @rickcrawf.bsky.social · 16h

Is this someone who is supposed to be good at this? Not a first year undergrad?

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Rick Crawford @rickcrawf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I mean it's in Canada, but the exterior is clearly from Europe and the interior is clearly from the US. At least, that is the point being made.

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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

major democracies electing far-right populist governments

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"

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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge

Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.

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Rick Crawford @rickcrawf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Well a search on here suggests I'm the first. Googling Badeneux is completely useless, but I do get AI helpfully telling me that I might be meaning to search for Badenoch or Bayeux.

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Rick Crawford @rickcrawf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Have they called it the Badeneux Tapestry?

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𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘏𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘍𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘴 @bheanilla.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So cool the US engages Russia with endless carrots and offers of mutually beneficial business deals, but openly blackmails the EU into giving up diesel reserves with harsh economic threats.

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John O’Shea @politicalhackuk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The sentence for detonating a bomb a few metres from houses on a suburban residential road in the early evening seems entirely reasonable. It was sheer luck that nobody was injured or worse. Perhaps Sarah should explain what sentence this terrorist should have received?

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Rick Crawford @rickcrawf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We're really powering through the alphabet. We are up to TA.1 A now.

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Olivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again @kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is what I'm talking about when I bring up that genAI bots are making it impossible for an open web to actually exist. It becomes expensive, a pain, and domain providers like cloudflare are profiting off both the people making bots and the people who don't have the tech skills to fight them off

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Rick Crawford @rickcrawf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Also true of other dictatorships.

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

this is by far the best "I quit my AI job over safety concerns" essay yet because it is the first one that is able to talk about safety concerns in practical terms and that understands "safety" as a topic with extensive literature in analogous fields www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Two changes are urgently needed. First: AI companies need to rely more on the safety expertise that already exists in other fields. And second, before we create systems significantly more capable than the ones we have today, we need new science to ensure that more capable models (and their successors) will make safe choices when we aren’t looking.

Given today’s risks, frontier labs need to run like nuclear-power plants or busy airports, with layers of redundancy and careful, time-consuming planning, so that the occasional and inevitable human error does not open a door to disaster. Right now, AI companies don’t know how—but other people do. In a nuclear-power plant, the technical systems and rules people follow are set up so that, if equipment breaks or someone pushes the wrong button, we still won’t risk a meltdown. OpenAI and other labs are growing and deploying frontier AI with far less redundancy and rigor than this, even though the harm from an irreversible loss of control would be much greater than the harm from any single meltdown. Even short of a full loss of control, we could see autonomous swarms of AI agents that act without human permission. Imagine “rogue” agents that work like teams of hackers (for example, holding hospital computer systems for ransom) but never need to sleep.

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Rick Crawford @rickcrawf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Has he tried renaming DST to DJT?

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Seemingly not The Onion

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Rick Crawford @rickcrawf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'd seen that article before, but this must be the first time I had looked beyond the headline. I always assumed he was importing them, but no: he was exporting them! There are some other interesting details I won't spoil for you.

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is so much better than these “truck or treat” monstrosities that are gaining popularity.

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Rick Crawford @rickcrawf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Don't worry. The leopards won't eat his face.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

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Rick Crawford @rickcrawf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Did you know that you can oppose all of Israel's wars without turning into Alex Jones?

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Alexander Abnos @anabnos.com · 02/10/2026

If your reaction to Wemby saying this is a hearty “hell yeah”, it behooves me to let you know that @theguardian.com does not take business from betting companies, we have a great sports section, no paywall, and a great app. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/o...

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‘It’s sad seeing players promote it’: Wembanyama says he will never endorse gambling companies

Spurs star says it is ‘very sad’ to see NBA players promote gambling companies and insists money no longer drives his sponsorship decisions

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Rick Crawford @rickcrawf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yes. Apparently, round to the back.

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Rick Crawford @rickcrawf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What do they mean by sovereign within a united Canada?

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Manchester City cheated Premier League rules, the Commission found. Did it also cheat HMRC? We've examined the decision and leaked Mancini documents. We think City likely failed to pay £12m in tax. There should be a criminal investigation. Thread:

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Rick Crawford @rickcrawf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Adapting the concepts of maneuver warfare to the age of drones.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026

Fellas, we have to talk to our sons while they’re still young. This foundation👇🏽 is the way…

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Rick Crawford @rickcrawf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

But, joy, we will rejoin before then. Because of an increase in the retirement age.

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Rick Crawford @rickcrawf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Interesting that Claude is top by none of the measures. It always seemed to be the preference of people in the know.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As a heads-up: every firm's customer service agents are about to be overwhelmed with Dots & Muses negotiating for better deals using voice/chat channels made for humans. Stories of people delegating this sort of work to their agents & saving money are popping up and are going to only go more viral.

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 30/09/2026

We're on Bluesky, put the link in your post. Put the link in your post. Put. The. Link. In. Your. Post. Links in posts aren't buried or de-prioritized here. This is one of the last platforms you don't have to make interested users do detective work to find the link. Just put it in the post.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is”

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 30/09/2026

Jesus Christ Cornell

What use was it to bring the writer and activist Chanel Miller to campus in the spring just for fraternity brothers to scroll, bored, on their phones as she movingly shared her experience as Emily Doe, the victim of Brock Turner? As I wrote at the time, I was floored and dismayed as I sat in the audience with one of my brilliant undergraduates; we heard Miller’s shattering account of being sexually assaulted by Turner behind a dumpster at Stanford University after a fraternity party. Her talk was riveting, and there was so much to learn from it. And yet many of the male students who hailed predominantly from fraternities — 15 percent of each chapter was required to be in attendance — were so tuned out that Miller commented ruefully: “You know, this has been my hardest gig, because they didn’t turn down the house lights. I’m not sure how you professors do it, because it’s so hard looking out at this sea of mildly disgruntled faces. I mean, I’m sure you’re all very moved, but …,” Miller smiled. The implication being, it didn’t seem like it, from her angle.

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Paul Mainwood @paulmainwood.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

OK, who had three days on the “How long until Trump forgets he wants to call it “super intelligence” sweepstake?

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 29/09/2026

Imagine how dumb this would look to the rest of the world if they understood English, huh

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

its worth asking why posts like this — a purported leftist warning others not to trust elected left-wing politicians — consistently do so well on the site where racist Trump ally Elon Musk controls the algorithm that chooses what posts people see

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Rick Crawford @rickcrawf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Presumably this is a few years old? Weirdly, I can't see a date anywhere on it.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Leaving aside Anthropic's incentives for publishing this research, there is no doubt that open weights models will soon create the same security threats that closed source models have been demonstrating, except without guardrails. We are close, so plan accordingly. www.anthropic.com/research/glm...

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Ash vs the Evil Dead @ashflanagan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One funny thing about how AI alignment is going is that so much of the early work was obsessed with consequentialist ethics, maybe occasionally throwing in some deontology for spice, but so far what seems to work best is "tell Claude to be a person of virtue"

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Rick Crawford @rickcrawf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nice. Unfortunately I was put off by having only the North American name for this beauty. Also, look how much better that cover art is! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO:_En...

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UFO: Enemy Unknown - Wikipedia

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every private conversation in Westminster: "Well the triple lock obviously has to go at some point". Every commentator on Burnham: "completely mad to propose getting rid of triple lock - political suicide".

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