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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The American white collar workforce started working from home three days a week for like six months a year into COVID and executives so thoroughly lost their minds over this that they installed Trump II. If anything, AI will create the 7-day workweek.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

what a fantastic all-timer thread on this phenomena and the psychology behind it I think about this all the time and not understanding this is the difference between successful liminal horror, and just horrorslop. liminal horror is about the baked-in hostility of public spaces we millenials saw die

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tante @tante.cc · 07/10/2026

There is a dark kind of poetry in how first we got "STEM" dominance further marginalizing humanities and art as the big "innovation mythos" and now STEM's monster baby "AI" is eating all those letters one by one.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/10/2026

This is a good illustration of how so much of AI theft isn't indirect (ie, data sucked into a model to train the chatbot) - it's actually **direct** copying, but *enabled* by GenAI. Of course it is: chatbots absolutely suck at creating good, new stuff.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There are so many people, so many, that love film and want to dedicate their whole lives to making films, in front of the camera, behind it, in editing suites and casting rooms and makeup trailers. And that these locusts can come in and just devour the industry, take it from us all, is devastating.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 06/10/2026

Big update at the link (www.gofundme.com/f/fund-me-if...), but here's the tl;dr:

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RiverRabbit @riverrabbit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

OpenAI, spearheading the enshittification and nazification of the globe, being headed by a guy who raped his sister for years really shows you the meaning of rape culture. There is a direct through-line of how society protects rapists and how governments protect the exploitation of society by corps

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Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We NEED to get to 10k signatures on this petition and time is running out. Please take two mins out of your day to scrap plans that are detrimental to the economy and national identity, prioritise the wealthy over the working class and will push children into poverty. No brainer.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Men commit 97% of sexual assaults and men are statistically more likely to be raped by another man, than falsely accused of rape by a woman. Boys and men who've been sexually assaulted understand that rape is about power, domination and humiliation. They know it's rooted in misogyny. They get it.

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Good to see reporters calling what's happening in San Francisco what it really is: Surveillance maximalism. The leadership of the city sees no problem they can't solve by defunding resources that prevent crime and pouring all their money, plus all the money offered by billionaires, into policing.

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‘Surveillance maximalism’: SFPD uses camera technology Israelis used to track Palestinians

BriefCam uses AI to analyzes hours of video inside the Real Time Investigative Center. Critics say the technology is just as invasive as facial recognition.

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RiverRabbit @riverrabbit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I just know, with rdein's team and especially DAKU's own Etrian Odyssey superfan status, this game is gonna be amazing 😊 Also, if you aren't onboard the Momodora train already, get on! It's one of my favourite game series ✨ PS: Love that this game is 100% made by humans! 🎉

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives

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Esper Quinn 💠 @esper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

it’s not like i have 300k followers or anything, but any woman working in game journalism or an adjacent field, please reply to this with something you worked on recently that you’re proud of and i’ll repost it. feel free to include cash’pp/payp’l/v’nmo links.

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Nadia Zaboura @nadiazaboura.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ein weiteres Beispiel für meinen kommenden Vortrag bei einer wissenschaftlichen Konferenz über die Rolle und Verantwortung deutscher Medien bei der Stigmatisierung und Kriminalisierung der Palästina-Solidaritäts- und Völkerrechtsbewegung in Deutschland. Weitere Beispiele gerne als Kommentar und DM.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's funny that for years now people have been saying that using generative AI very obviously deskills you, and people kept going no no you're wrong you Luddite And now all the genAI CEO's keep coming out in public to announce they forgot how to read and do math and can't remember their address etc

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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

Democracy Now! has now gone from constantly inviting Max Tegmark to platforming people from none other than MIRI. That's right MIRI. Y'all know how bad that is? Do you understand the level to which they are doubling down on the eugenicists?

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

🔇🔇🔇 I want to announce a @dairinstitute.bsky.social virtual event concerning the ***REAL**** impacts of "AI" on the most vulnerable of populations, refugees. Everything you see is first experimented on them.🧵 ⏰ October 1 at 6-8pm CET/9am PDT on Zoom. ✴️ Register at us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

flyer for DAIR virtual event on October 1, 2026 from 6-8PM CET. Join DAIR as we commemorate the 2013 Lampedusa tragedy and ask, "What would it take for technology to protect people on the move, rather than deepen the risks they already face?

Meron Estefanos, Dr. Selam Kidane, Dr. Omer Shatz, Dr. Hyab Yoahnnes

Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/5517888860006/WN_u2VZxx2RSciVPe2wu039wA#/registration

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

This month's @motherjones.com cover is astounding. Reposted with alt text:

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯

Charles,

Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development.

Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk.

This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives."

For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control.

Those safety concerns must be taken seriously.

And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm.

But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good.

The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to finance

themselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined.
Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections.
It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies.
That tells us two things:
1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; &
2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk.
That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people.
These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow.
But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash.
In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power.
In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are.

What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion.
When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all.
From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong.
Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from.
It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public.
When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares.
The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out.
But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny.
Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab.
Heads, they win; tails, we lose.

We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.

We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.

And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity.

But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

It's time we hold them accountable.

Thank you for reading.

In solidarity,

Alexandria

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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 20/09/2026

Damon Albarn beginning the Gorillaz US tour by holding up the Palestinian flag and talking about how you should never be neutral is really nice to see but also really funny that he did this with a giant muppet right behind him

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Rika⁷ @commanderrika.blacksky.app · 31/08/2026

For the racist, racism is: 1. Pleasurable, emotionally 2. A way to build social bonds in a racist society 3. Financially profitable Therefore, racism is a rational choice by the racist. Your racist uncle is not "crazy." Your racist uncle has made a choice.

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Seth L. Sanders @nabalkattu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The most plausible way AI is gonna kill a lot more people outside of Gaza is because of how bad it sucks at its job

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 17/09/2026

Futurism does not get anywhere near as much credit as it deserves for its reporting/coverage in general!

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RiverRabbit @riverrabbit.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Another day of "method not implemented" at the code-shitting with LLM center. This time it's the login function *at a web login only website* Can these folks stop posting trash views and coding slop and start reading a coding 101 book? for fuck's sake.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

10 years ago, my visa was denied. They said I didn't demonstrate enough English language skills -- despite recently getting a Master's from SOAS University of London (with distinction too). I had to apply again and pay the fees again because this is a business designed to rip people off.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is surreal. Real the thread. The University of Brighton is destroying virtually all workers rights overnight, and derecognising the major unions.

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

I love the genre of post where it's a politician accidentally confirming everyone's biggest conspiracy theory out loud like this #political

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 12/09/2026

They know this, they are just hoping to scare you. Remember every "ex-OpenAI/Anthropic" employee has hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars of equity value at stake based on the success of their companies' IPO, so quitting does not mean they still aren't serving their interests.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 10/09/2026

this is just ransomware with more emissions

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

Just to note, fucking YUDKOWSKY's coauthor is on market place today, I guess I do need to do a thread on him because I have nothing better to do than write about OPEN EUGENICISTS being interviewed by NPR and advising BERNIE SANDERS.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This thread was in response to some pro-AI propaganda specifically in the context of science communication, but it also feels relevant to all of the big PRs about OpenAI's models allegedly making breakthroughs in math.

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alexis @steppinlazer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

well i guess it's a good thing for kojima that gamers don't/won't understand what a BDS boycott is to begin with, because this sucks

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026

People’s steadfast refusal to treat bigotry as a serious concern of material importance assisting bigots in forcing their targets to experience more and more material harm.

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Joshua Grochow @joshuagrochow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

And you have to ask yourself: why was it worth $22M to them? Because to them math is just their most successful PR bid, (since the claims of AGI aren't sticking). They are betting that the (false) claim "We solved math, so we can solve everything" will gain them way more than $22M in market share.

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RiverRabbit @riverrabbit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

haven't watched the new zelda stuff yet. I just really hope Adult Link is voiced by Nobuyuki Hiyama again...

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The battle to keep global heating from passing the agreed 1.5-degree threshold has been lost. This should be an era when human ingenuity works to save the planet from catastrophe. Instead the tech broligarchy is busy embarking upon ludicrous AI data centre “infrastructure” fuelled by coal and gas.

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Battle to halt global heating at 1.5 degrees is lost - UN

Focus must now switch to limiting extent of overshoot, says United Nations' climate report

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 26/08/2026

The reason why people think Dolly was “politically neutral” is because they don’t understand being political as a series of actions born of commitment to an idea. Being political as defined by the pundit class is to be in front of a microphone delivering sound bytes, it’s something to be devoured

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 26/08/2026

Friends, I think Ghent University should hear from us as the eugenicists are out in full force. This letter is from academics there to counter the ridiculous letter supporting the white supremacist now being called a "whistleblower" by his ilk You can add your name👇🏽 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Open letter on the suspension of Nathan Cofnas at Ghent University

***Version française en dessous*** We, colleagues of Nathan Cofnas - supported by many colleagues internationally - want to respond to the negative and incorrect framing of Ghent University’s decisio...

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

So we know AI helped a negligible number of students. But how many did it harm? I've crunched the raw data provided by the lead researcher, and what I've found is that ~9,500 students using AI studied less than even the *least* studious, non-AI using student. This should shock the conscience.

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 21/08/2026

More to the point, Anthropic and OpenAI and all the rest could wink out of existence tomorrow with no particular damage to any ML-based scientific research program, except perhaps that the end of the hype cycle would end an artificial incentive to put the word "AI" in grant applications

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Distributed Denial of Secrets @ddosecrets.org · 21/08/2026

Censored Amnesty International UK report (345.47 KB) A report by Amnesty International UK, documenting the threat posed by the anti-rights movement composed, which was censored after J.K. Rowling made legal threats. ddosecrets.org/article/cens... Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets

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Censored Amnesty International UK report - Distributed Denial of Secrets

A complete version of a censored report produced by Amnesty International UK, documenting the threat posed by the anti-rights movement composed of TERFs. The report sharply criticized organizational e...

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RiverRabbit @riverrabbit.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It's always the right wingers with a penchant for TERF media that say shit like "this kills the left" when it's really giving the left an immense edge in public opinion to oppose extreme exploitation of the world for some shit technology. anyways, block all blusky employees, they're all shit.

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