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Rien Emmery

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 20h
Not the least bit surprising but still extremely grim to read. time.com/article/2026...
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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This American Life @thisamericanlife.org · 23/09/2026
Some NPR podcasts started getting mysterious comments on Spotify. They made no sense to the staff reading them – until someone from a younger generation cracked the code. Hear the story: link.podtrac.com/78g1b584
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEWS: My new investigation uncovers the horrific ChatGPT history of the Tumbler Ridge school shooter. OpenAI’s chatbot fueled the shooter's violent fantasies and plans up to the day of the massacre. Chats about guns, timing of attacks, becoming infamous, and more. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
motherjones.com
ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron
Trump speaking at UN — MS NOW chyron reads: Trump touts being a peacemaker while asking if he should annihilate Iran
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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Thread: Two different versions of this AI-generated image purporting to show President Trump and his assistant Natalie Harp kissing went viral this week, generating millions of views across multiple platforms. Despite being fake, this wasn't a straightforward AI image to debunk. I'll explain why.
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
bloomberg.com
Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Rien Emmery @rienemmery.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
N.a.v. de kwestie Freddy Mortier zie ik veel gejeremieer dat "vrije meningsuiting dood is aan de UGent!" etc. Maar mensen in een publiek die hun mening willen uiten, hebben weinig opties naast uitjouwen of de zaal verlaten. Vrije meningsuiting geldt niet alleen voor machtige mannen met microfoons.
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Rien Emmery @rienemmery.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Deze check heeft een aantal grappige details: 1. P-Magazine dacht dat Bracke écht een Maybach-bolide gekocht heeft en schreef daar zelfs een artikel over. 2. Aan Het Nieuwsblad vertelde Bracke dat hij denkt dat hij gehackt is door "een mol in Doorbraak die aan wachtwoorden is geraakt".
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
theguardian.com
Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda
In effort to prime chatbots to make pro-Israel arguments the site published 124 reports, over 560,000 words in nine days, Guardian analysis shows
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Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com · 23/08/2026
The death of folk graphic design in favor of AI slop across our country's delis is leading to some incredibly Lovecraftian food horrors
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/08/2026
AI is alarming for many reasons: it's a dangerous financial bubble, an environmental catastrophe, and a tool for eroding wages and labor power. But in addition to all that, AI is an epistemic disaster. 1/
The North Pole at night, hand-tinted in blues and purples so it looks more like a moonscape. Protruding from the ice is the cross-sectioned head and neck of a man, his brains on display. Stepping over the leftmost mountains is a killer pulp robot, about to crush the head. Leaning against the rightmost mountains is a sneering, princely toff in a red frock coat, holding a cane that has penetrated the decapitated skull and lodged in the brains.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“X’s algorithm learns what you hate and shows you more of it, according to a new study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” www.404media.co/xs-algorithm...
404media.co
X's Algorithm Feeds Off Ragebait and Impacts Democrats More, Study Finds
X is driving engagement by making users fight in the replies.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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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Jeroen Baert @jbaert.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Keer op keer is gebleken dat als je het context window van die LLM's vult met shit die *jij* wil horen, ze na een tijd op slijmballerige wijze akkoord gaan. Het is onthutsend hoe hard die systemen getraind zijn op user engagement/retainment, want kapitalisme en de bikkelharde concurrentie.
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Jeroen Baert @jbaert.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
In godsnaam, lees die gesprekken die ChatGPT voerde met Adam Raine en kom dan opnieuw vertellen hoe je een LLM als therapeut kan gebruiken. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raine_v...
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A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.
More people are turning to general-purpose chatbots for emotional support. At first, Adam Raine, 16, used ChatGPT for schoolwork, but then he started discussing plans to end his life.
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Rien Emmery @rienemmery.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
In Facebook-wappiegroepjes zijn Wakkere Belgen™️ aan het opscheppen hoe ze niet in de val zijn getrapt van de roverheid en de maffia van Big Eclipsbril.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 07/08/2026
Hello local business, your AI ads are costing you customers: aftermath.site/ai-poster-ad-f...
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JogchumV @jogchumv.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Leuk initiatief, maar tamelijk onbegrijpelijk dat het nieuwe nationale park Brabantse Wouden -met zijn soortenrijkdom- suffe niet-bestaande AI-beesten gebruikt: wat moet die abominatie van een fantasieroofvogel voorstellen? En welke bricolage hertachtige zou dit moeten zijn? 🥲😭🦌🌳
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 31/07/2026
The State Department said ​it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.
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ceej @ceej.online · 31/07/2026
ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil
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Graham Cluley @grahamcluley.com · 31/07/2026
Of course, the real story here is this: OpenAI: "Hey, we sucked at securing our test environment, and so our AI did precisely what we asked it to do" Anthropic: "Woah! Not so fast! We suck at security too!"
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Graham Cluley @grahamcluley.com · 31/07/2026
Anthropic not wanting to be left behind by OpenAI, I see... No doubt someone in their marketing department was crying into their coffee that OpenAI got there first...
BBC News headline: Anthropic's Claude AI escapes to hack into three organisations
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 03/08/2026
The AI race will only become more competitive from here. The real prize isn't AI itself; it's the ability to shape the narratives that define our past, frame our present, and influence our future. bsky.app/profile/soci...
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 03/08/2026
Question: Tell me what happened at Tiananmen Square in 1989. Here are the answers from two popular open-source Chinese AI models.
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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The most satisfying—and deserved—ratio in human history.
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404 Media @404media.co · 31/07/2026
UPDATE: After the publication of this piece, Google sent 404 Media a statement saying it was “rolling back this feature in Google Earth while we work on implementing stronger guardrails.” www.404media.co/google-earth...
404media.co
Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images
"Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash on a street in Amsterdam."
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Google Earth, a tool often used as a source of satellite imagery to verify photos and videos, has added a feature that allows you to alter satellite imagery with AI, for reasons. blog.google/products-and...
blog.google
Transform any place with Nano Banana in Google Earth
Custom images — generated from Google Earth satellite, aerial, and 3D imagery — help you redesign any location.
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David De Pue @dpdaaf.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
STOP EENS MET DIE LELIJKE AI VISUALS AUB. (Dit komt van de website van Natuurpunt, maar het probleem duikt werkelijk overal op)
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 22/07/2026
Historically accurate Odysseus is steering the ship from the foredeck with a ship's wheel that wasn't invented until the 1700s
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The Justice Department appears to have included a fake AI-generated. citation in an ICE detainee's case. Judge Jarbou, a Trump appointee in Michigan, called it out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Rien Emmery @rienemmery.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Op X zijn ze WEODEND op "Arnoud (24)" en zijn hot take over huisvesting en babyboomers. Maar Arnoud bestaat niet. Dit is zo'n typisch copy-paste ragebait-stukje dat gemaakt wordt door Nederlandse clickbaitpagina's. + stockfoto van Oekraïense fotograaf Roman Tymochko www.pexels.com/photo/a-man-...
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Jonathan Jarry @jonathanjarry.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
A fascinating read about what level of evidence is needed for a conspiracy theorist to change their mind—and how they navigate the dissonance of their private doubts and their public personas. 💯
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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Can people change their minds when the conspiracies are everywhere and seem compelling — but so are the facts? Really interesting reporting here from @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
feel like these stories always used to be ‘kids these days are doing X and Y’ and were mostly unsubstantiated fearmongering and now it’s ’men these days are doing X and Y’ and they really are doing X and Y
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Dennis Geleyn @dennisgeleyn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
De voetbalbond is los.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot.
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Rien Emmery @rienemmery.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
RELEASE THE E̶P̶S̶T̶E̶I̶ BALOGUN FILES! 😐
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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
If you’re getting lectures about fair play from Sepp Blatter…
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Whatever happens now, the USA's entire World Cup campaign will be forever stained by Trump's interference.
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Relmans @krisremels.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
BREAKING: FIFA announces independent committee to rule in Balogun red card case, headed by the Frenchman Donatien Trompe.
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Blue Skies In Utah @papabear333.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
folarin balogun steps onto the pitch. he's got a new celebration– six-shooter finger guns! wait, those are real revolvers! he guns down the entire belgian side in the first minute & trump lands marine one at midfield to present him with an official pardon and the medal of honor. he is then deported
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Rien Emmery @rienemmery.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
STOP THE STEAL 😐
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants"
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Rien Emmery @rienemmery.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Kijk we hadden nog een penalty te goed sinds Röthlisberger in 1994, da's in orde nu; ik stel voor dat we dit WK ook gecompenseerd worden voor Prendergast in 2002 (lichte duwfout van scorende Lukaku die niet gefloten wordt in de finale).
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Thomas Smolders @ljosmyndun.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Rudi Garcia ereburger van Leuven, nu!
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Rien Emmery @rienemmery.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Als Meunier nu nog scoort in de 96ste minuut ga ik persoonlijk Garcia's schoenen poetsen.
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