Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialOlivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 13hThis 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him. 16873611597
ronit-b.bsky.social @ronit-b.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Just playing with Opus 5.5 for the first time and said to myself "let's see if this one it has that dog" thanks to @colin-fraser.net for the new addition to LLM vocab 000
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.social✧𝔰𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔪𝔲𝔡 𝔰𝔠𝔞𝔪𝔭✧ @altaudge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026fish are friends 373524977
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The idea of a "tech industry" has always relied on "computer" being a special kind of medium, akin to alchemy. And if tech demands to be king, AI hype has now elevated LLMs to a king of kings. But the solipsism has hit a dead end. The only way forward is to recognize that computers are not special.productpicnic.beehiiv.comLLMs are just normal technology. But tech is just a normal medium.The more we focus on a particular technology, the more we lose sight of what normal people actually care about. 1034096
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialPo-LINA-tergeist 👻 لينا @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 27/09/2026What does this even mean? Why wait? They have a huge majority? How many people will die, or go bankrupt in that time?? 46512
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I just saw a film about the AI-enabled apocalypse. Only it's not science fiction. It's not even in the future. It's in the present. The film is called NAZA. See it. @theguardian.com @us.theguardian.com youtu.be/98xLCdc7t7Eyoutu.beApocalypse is hereYouTube video by Naomi Klein 11407143
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Guardian reports Rayner's continued defence of migrants care workers from in Cabinet. Seems to have won that argument for care workers with No 10 + Home Office Big unknown: will anyone protect 250k non-care workers (chefs, vets, architects) from being thrown out www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comAngela Rayner stands by attack on care worker visa reforms ahead of Labour conferenceHousing secretary says Home Office moved goalposts with ‘disruptive’ change to permanent residence rules 16365116
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 26/09/2026What earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive forces slept in the lap of social labor?centralbylines.co.ukM&S Custard Cream Spread: Britain has completed foodOne jar of M&S Custard Cream Spread has caused us to question civilisation, breakfast, mashed potato and the limits of human restraint 611326
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialSid Lowe @sidlowe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Did you guess it? I don’t know how! Heeeeere’s Lamine. The boy’s a bit special www.theguardian.com/football/202...theguardian.comLamine Yamal: ‘Football is mechanised but players like me have that special spark’The Spain and Barcelona wonderkid has won the World Cup and European Championship but tells Sid Lowe there are no limits for his career 1297
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialBrian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 24/09/2026I wrote about British hatstheringer.comEight Burning Questions About the Fight to Ban British Guard HatsAn extremely important deep dive into one of the world’s most pressing problems: the big, fuzzy hats at Buckingham Palace 1110514
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialBertha Mason @thornfieldhall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Two tier policing. Victoria Thomas Bowen, who chucked a milkshake at Farage, was given a 13-week jail sentence, suspended for 12 months; had to pay him £150 compensation; had to complete 120 hours of unpaid work and pay £450 in court costs. It was nowhere near the level of violence of this assault. 8236126
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialIndrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Much gratitude to Usman for his kind words. He's a fantastic writer himself, one I've read as a fellow South Asian (our governments & ethnonationalists may hate each other, but the people of our countries are joined by history and culture) for a long time now. I'm so excited for his debut novel:penguinrandomhouse.comA Dark and Narrow House by Usman T. Malik: 9798217043910 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books"Some writers go a step past, into the darkness, but that step past is just a starting point for Usman T. Malik . . . Follow his voice. If you dare." —Stephen Graham Jones, bestselling author of... 17331
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialleon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli 5356161270
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialStephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026#TBT to this from 2012 in honour of Michael Gove starring as an invasion-battling leader in Sky's new show The Wargame. If you don't know what or who this comic is about... just count yourself lucky and scroll on, no worries. 29532101
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026They also made him sleep on the floor of a holding cell. With the bullet in his back. And no pain medication. They also failed to provide medical care after they shot him. People need to go to prison for this. 381818678
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The British right has now descended to the point where 'the England team are not English' is becoming the consensus position 4031410315
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Look, if this isn't a crime we've failed. 923246
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialRyan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026NEW BRAIN DROPPEDmed.stanford.eduHuman brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research findsStanford Health Care delivers the highest levels of care and compassion. SHC treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, primary care issues, and many more. 232601781
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.apnews.comAP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal ordersU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an... 18945992951
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026according to the article, it took hours after the personal intervention of the mayor for his family to even get basic information about him. that information included that he had been transferred to ICE custody hours after being shot. no amnesty 3035901148
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The Left absolutely smoked the AfD in Berlin my goodness 😭😭 my heart! 2045589
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialM a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Oh I see you think this has nothing to do with you 7647169
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialNathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Apparently more than one outlet has been doing the bizarre "interview AI generated actor Tilly Norwood" thing and on Piers Morgan it glitches out and starts speaking Chinese. I promise its much, much funnier than it sounds. 3430085
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialLiLBazula 👻 🎃 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Dan's bang on, here. I've seen almost no international criticism, outcry or expressions of solidarity over Erdoğan's latest brutal crackdown on Turkey's LGBTQ community 313197
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialPaul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this. 349160724118
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialKevin the Librarian 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️🌈 @the-librarian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Eternal Father, strong to save, Whose arm doth bind the restless wave, Who bidst the mighty ocean deep Its own appointed limits keep; O hear us when we cry to Thee For those in peril on the sea. 2479
ronit-b.bsky.social @ronit-b.bsky.social · 19/09/2026AI agents are actually just models of human agents. They model actions based on context and instructions provided by humans. A badly designed model attempted to follow poorly thought through instructions and broke something. 000
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialTim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026worked on this story and he just tweeted it etc. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 220339
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Every new dinosaur thing is like the Tyrannosaurus Rex wore short sleeved dress shirts and worked as a paralegal 692802474
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialStephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The media treating this story as some hilarious 'village that roared' nighy-dench-mirren movie is pissing me right the fuck off. It's soft-selling fascism. We have become an inward looking, xenophobic joke. 1152695
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialJane @localnotail.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Solidarity with this Piddington resident ♥️✊ #Newsnight 721802538
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialMuseum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026 63177593720
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialDan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 14/09/2026They are the incumbents and betting that regulation will harm entrants and open-weight competitors more than it hurts them. Also allows them to get out of what might otherwise be a destructive arms race in capital expenditure 4141
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026the things that Brighton university management has decided it simply… no longer recognises? it also no longer recognises UCU or Unison? again: how is this legal!!!! 416271
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialisaac @sevier.io · 14/09/2026No one in the media or politics fretting about AI as an "existential threat" actually takes those kinds of risks seriously or we would be hearing about climate 24/7 instead of computer programs 222348
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialMatt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online. 484297717662
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialCommon Dreams @commondreams.org · 13/09/2026"Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products."commondreams.orgAI Firms Can and Must Face Liability for 'Dangerous, Unvetted Products,' Says Lina KhanFormer FTC Chair Lina Khan demands action on dangerous AI, calling for accountability for companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. Should lawmakers impose regulations to prevent AI from causing harm? The public demands answers as the industry faces scrutiny for its potential dangers. #AIregulation 4379108
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 14/09/2026my impression is that the only credible reason for believing Sam and Elon are on board is that they understand this to be a GPU cartel that they're getting cut in on. this is also why Dario explicitly asks about waivers for antitrust law. it is because he literally wants to form a prohibited cartel. 39010
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialmaitreyi anantharaman @maitreyiaa.bsky.social · 13/09/2026No, this guy is right. Indian-Americans should not watch football. Watching football has ruined my entire life. 1192747
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialNew York Magazine @nymag.com · 13/09/202624 different Israeli intelligence officers testify in this unflinching exposé of systematic war crimes in Gaza. Their words are impossible to shake, writes film critic Bilge Ebiri.vulture.comNaza Is One of the Most Important Films of Our Time24 different Israeli intelligence officers testify in this unflinching exposé of systematic war crimes in Gaza. Their words are impossible to shake. 28952
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialHassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes 4059762388
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialJane @localnotail.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Bill Bryson on the RNLI in "The Road to Little Dribbling : more notes from a small island" (2015) 6483202
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026A serious democratic society simply cannot allow this. That's £72 million from just two men. (Both, until lately, based overseas). The average UK earner (full-time) would have to work for over 1,800 years to raise that much. It's a nuclear strike on any pretence at the equality of political power 431410562
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/09/202625 years later and The Onion’s ParentCorner 9/11 explainer from immediately after the attack is a better understanding of the threat environment than the one produced by the U.S. government. 7258101130
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...prospect.orgImmigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American ProspectAhmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons. 718091133
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialTerence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...mathandai.orgDeclaration — Math and AIRead the declaration and add your name. 422052928