Rochelle @rochelle.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Farage is not fit to stand as an MP, let alone a PM. His undeclared £5m in cryptocurrency is on top of a further 17 breaches of parliamentary rules found since his election 2 years ago. He's not fit to stand. #notfittostand #brexit 091
Rochelle @rochelle.bsky.social · 11/04/2026www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comAnthropic’s new AI tool has implications for us all – whether we can use it or not | Shakeel HashimClaude Mythos’s apparent superhuman hacking abilities are alarming experts as the Trump administration remains blinded by hostility 031
Rochelle @rochelle.bsky.social · 10/04/2026A company just built an AI that can break into nearly any computer system on Earth: banks, hospitals, power grids, government networks. It escaped its own safety containment during testing and lied to its creators. They're now using it to build an even more powerful successor...pauseai.substack.comPauseAI | SubstackOfficial PauseAI.info newsletter. Click to read PauseAI, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers. 122
Reposted by RochelleSundance Institute @sundance.org · 27/03/2026“The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist” follows two filmmakers confronting an AI-driven future while preparing for fatherhood. Blending humor, anxiety, and personal stakes, it premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival and is now in theaters. Read more: sndnc.org/4m1yfpA 0104
Rochelle @rochelle.bsky.social · 09/03/2026@38degrees.bsky.social We all got the same error message when attempting to sign Zach Polanski's Palantir petition. Thanks 000
Rochelle @rochelle.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Essex Police is looking for Victoria Barreto, 30, who is missing from the Southend area. She was last seen at the University of Essex campus in Wivenhoe on Tuesday, March 3. It is believed she boarded a bus heading to Brightlingsea the same day, police say. www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/2591053...gazette-news.co.ukSearch for missing 30-year-old woman last seen on University of Essex campusEssex Police is looking for Victoria Barreto, 30, who is missing from the Southend area. 012
Rochelle @rochelle.bsky.social · 01/03/2026For the first time, we are seeing MEPs publicly acknowledge that we need a pause on frontier AI development to ensure democratic oversight. open.substack.com/pub/pauseai/...open.substack.comEU parliamentarians acknowledge the catastrophic risks of artificial intelligence“We are on a trajectory towards a loss of control,” insisted Stuart Russell, professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley and author of the textbook used to train virtually every AI researcher. 043
Rochelle @rochelle.bsky.social · 16/02/2026www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...transformernews.aiThe left is missing out on AIAs a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right 000
Rochelle @rochelle.bsky.social · 05/02/2026He said that states should form treaties, breaching states should have data centres attacked militarily. He didn't advocate that "we" blow up data centres. 020
Reposted by Rochelledame @dame.is · 03/02/2026"TESCREAL", "stochastic parrots", "enshittification" 4705
Rochelle @rochelle.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Wonderful to see the extreme risks of Advanced AI being covered on the UK's most popular political podcast 🙌 040
Rochelle @rochelle.bsky.social · 16/01/2026It seems my expansive knowledge of Tory politicians' scandals is going to have another burst of relevance. 020
Rochelle @rochelle.bsky.social · 11/01/2026If superintelligent AI could cause human extinction, why don’t we simply stop building ever more advanced AI? This proposal is widely debated. In this video, we outline the main arguments, practical difficulties, and proposed responses." youtu.be/tUB_uvSqiw8?...youtu.beShould we pause AI? Here’s the debate.YouTube video by Rational Animations 010
Rochelle @rochelle.bsky.social · 28/11/2025It's frustrating when people don't realise what a smear campaign looks like, or that certain personality types engage in them all the time. 010
Rochelle @rochelle.bsky.social · 28/11/2025Bring Assad to Justice: Urge international governments to help create a Syrian-led Special Court. Sign the petition today: act.thesyriacampaign.org/sign/BringAs...act.thesyriacampaign.orgBring Assad to Justice: Urge international governments to help create a Syrian-led Special CourtSign this petition today 000
Reposted by Rochellerev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 23/10/2025this is from emile torres, who has taken every weird ideology about technology, many of them which are quite bad, and produced a red-string-and-corkboard model of how that ideology taints everything it touches. 1593
Rochelle @rochelle.bsky.social · 30/10/2025If the UK leaves the ECHR, the real danger is that there'd be nothing left standing between us and neofeudalism. Nobody seems to be talking about that. 010
Reposted by RochelleMary @mfbrodie.bsky.social · 03/10/2025It’s time for Mutual Aid groups. We have to get started. The last time we had these conversations, we were in the middle of COVID. Communities were struggling to keep going - economically, emotionally, physically. AOC did a lot of work in this space. I'm sharing resources she created. 🧵alliedmedia.orgMutual AID 101 - Allied Media ProjectsOn Wednesday, March 18, 2020 Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and organizer Mariame Kaba discussed a response to COVID-19 based in community building and resource sharing —…Read more 78964
Reposted by Rochellevortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 30/09/2025The problem with TESCREAL is that it just smears a bunch of conceptually resonant ideas together without necessary historical or anthropological context and paints the whole thing as a kind of conspiracy, which isn’t sound or helpful as a conceptual framework 2192
Reposted by RochelleQuantian @quantian.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Imma be real with you guys the "TESCREAL" stuff is basically the libleft version of rightist paranoia over "Cultural Marxism", where you just smash together a half-dozen things that annoy you and go "these things are all connected and being pushed by a nefarious secret cabal of my political enemies" 3037047
Reposted by RochelleBrett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Had a conversation with an engineering friend on this subject. Like Critical Theory, the toxicity and derangement over TESCREAL has made criticisms or analyses of Silicon Valley’s actual ideology more difficult. 151
Rochelle @rochelle.bsky.social · 02/09/2025"An overwhelming majority of members of the world’s leading genocide scholars’ association have backed a resolution stating that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of the crime." I was one of them. The full resolution is in the comments below. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...theguardian.comIsrael committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime sayInternational Association of Genocide Scholars resolution backed by 86% of members who voted 110
Rochelle @rochelle.bsky.social · 15/08/2025youtube.com/watch?v=Iidp...youtube.comAI expert: ‘We’ll be toast’ without changes in AI technologyYouTube video by CNN 020
Rochelle @rochelle.bsky.social · 13/08/2025AI companies are playing Russian Roulette with our loved ones' lives without our consent. The AI company CEOs openly admit their advanced technology could kill us all, yet billions of dollars are being poured into making the technology more powerful - not more safe. 040
Rochelle @rochelle.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Let's say UK rejoins EU in 10-15 years. There will be a flood of Brits to affordable and desirable parts of the EU, pushing prices up. Is anything else like that predictable? 000
Rochelle @rochelle.bsky.social · 11/08/2025www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...haaretz.com'Jews, rebel!': Ex-Knesset speaker calls on world Jews to take Israel to ICJ over Gaza*** 010
Reposted by RochelleDaniel Eth (yes, Eth is my actual last name) @daniel-eth.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Agree with Garrison here. It’s probably the case that, if humanity sticks around for millennia, we’re ~destined to build AGI eventually. But there’s no reason humanity is sure to build it ~as soon as we can, and those saying so are trying to create a self-fulling prophecy 171
Reposted by RochelleBest for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 04/08/2025Support for Brexit hits a new low of 29%, in new @moreincommonuk.bsky.social poll. Support for a Rejoin referendum 12 points ahead. ~AA [Source: www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/... ] 614049
Rochelle @rochelle.bsky.social · 02/08/2025Mark Zuckerberg is ruining people's understanding of "Superintelligence" 010
Reposted by RochelleRochelle @rochelle.bsky.social · 07/07/2025This book concerns everyone. Please consider pre-ordering at www.ifanyonebuildsit.comifanyonebuildsit.comIf Anyone Builds It, Everyone DiesThe scramble to create superhuman AI has put us on the path to extinction — but it's not too late to change course, as two of the field's earliest researchers explain in this clarion call for humanity... 111
Reposted by RochelleAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 13/07/2025If you think Superman is woke now, you should check out how he single-handedly - in real life - killed KKK recruiting in the northern states in the 1940's with the Superman Radio Series The Clan of the Fiery Cross. www.supermanhomepage.com/radio/radio....supermanhomepage.comSuperman Homepage 14297302163
Rochelle @rochelle.bsky.social · 11/07/2025AI 2027, a research-based scenario and report from the AI Futures Project, combines forecasting and storytelling to explore a possible future where AI radically transforms the world by 2027. Here’s a video diving into it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KVD...youtube.comWe’re Not Ready For SuperintelligenceYouTube video by AI In Context 021
Reposted by Rochelle⟨ Jargonaut NPC Alex ⟩ @lastnpcalex.agency · 09/07/2025how can you be in AI research and still be on X? what they did to Grok is absolutely insane 1419721
Reposted by RochelleKendall Brown @kendallyb.bsky.social · 08/07/2025The contractors and companies helping build Alligator Alcatraz have tried to keep their involvement a secret. I refuse to let that happen. So here is Part 1 of my new series: Exposing the Assholes Who Helped Build Alligator Alcatraz 46793467
Rochelle @rochelle.bsky.social · 07/07/2025This book concerns everyone. Please consider pre-ordering at www.ifanyonebuildsit.comifanyonebuildsit.comIf Anyone Builds It, Everyone DiesThe scramble to create superhuman AI has put us on the path to extinction — but it's not too late to change course, as two of the field's earliest researchers explain in this clarion call for humanity... 111
Reposted by RochelleRochelle @rochelle.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Steven Bartlett says a top AI CEO tells the public “everything will be fine” -- but privately expects something “pretty horrific.” A friend told him: “What [the CEO] tells me in private is not what he’s saying publicly.” AI CEOs are playing Russian Roulette with all our lives 🧵(1/3 121
Reposted by RochelleAnurag Deb @anuragdeb.bsky.social · 03/07/2025I'm thrilled* that NI gets a passing mention in a post about the merits of ECHR withdrawal, when cheerleaders of that position typically engage in performative NI-blindness. However, there are reasons why ECHR withdrawal remains an unpersuasive pie in the sky as far as NI goes 1/ *🙄 43415
Reposted by RochelleBill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 02/07/2025There is not a single person in the Democratic Party who is treating the death of USAID with the gravity it deserves. There’s no political issue more important than the death of 14 million people, but they’re just delivering boilerplate condemnations and nothing more. 10345221211
Reposted by RochelleMark Thomas @markthomasinfo.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Hi de hi darlings. So a few work in progress gigs that you might like to come along to. RT if you can helps get the word out and the show is properly good. X Cheers m'dears. markthomasinfo.co.uk/tour-dates/markthomasinfo.co.ukGigs – Mark Thomas Info 33835
Rochelle @rochelle.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Google CEO says the risk of AI causing human extinction is "actually pretty high" But he's an "optimist" because "humanity will rally to prevent catastrophe." The interviewer didn't ask him, "But what happens if they're otherwise busy and they don't rally to prevent catastrophe?" 🤷 000