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Sarah Dearing 🇨🇦

@sarahdearing.bsky.social
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Novelist. Experience Snatcher. Birds. Gardening. Oddities. AI slop blocker.

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Sarah Dearing 🇨🇦 @sarahdearing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Someone chopped down the tree on One Tree Hill, so they put up a monument. I’m sorry, but why not replace the tree?
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Sarah Dearing 🇨🇦 @sarahdearing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Not a single woman apart from Susie Wiles was at the table to discuss AI safety. Morally binding is worthless from a pack of predatory men who believe consent, in any form, is for losers.
deadline.com
Trump "Very Close" To Naming AI Czar, Lauds Techlords Inking Self-Regulation Pact
Sam Altman wasn't there, but all the other techlords joined Trump today at the White House to plot a plan for AI growth in America, kinda
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
No one should be surprised that OpenAI — a company that built their systems on stolen work — would steal the work of researchers and try to take credit for it.
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Sarah Dearing 🇨🇦 @sarahdearing.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Charlie Manson but with money and connections.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 27/09/2026
"X Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back Lula" paydayreport.com/x-blocks-acc...
paydayreport.com
X Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back Lula
Polls show Catholics backing Lula as the church denounces foreign interference.
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Sarah Dearing 🇨🇦 @sarahdearing.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Paris nails it. I’m so infuriated by gov’t inaction and lack of concern for real world harms. These assholes don’t care and can’t be trusted.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 24/09/2026
*extremely tired voice*AI agents don't "go rogue". They are not sentient; they don't have agency. They work within guardrails set by humans. If the humans are so shit at building secure sandboxes for the agents to work within, that's on the humans. Stop using this framing.
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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I assume that Australia has laws against the unauthorized access of computer networks and this will lead to charges against OpenAI.
abc.net.au
OpenAI agents attack the 'first' government hack by autonomous AI, researchers say
A swarm of OpenAI rogue AI agents appear to have gone on a spree of trying to access Australian government health data, in what some researchers say is the first autonomous hack of a government websit...
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Sarah Dearing 🇨🇦 @sarahdearing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trolling the UN.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026
Trump tells the UN he is officially changing the name of Artificial Intelligence to "Super Intelligence" and says all US government documents will now be changed to refer to "SI"
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please help spread the word. Rory does great work, and I have the feeling this request is building on a story that matters a lot to our democracy.
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Sarah Dearing 🇨🇦 @sarahdearing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Cuba just walked out on Trump at the UN. 👏🏻
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The word of the day is: "unleash" I've been seeing a lot of "unleashing AI", "unleashing expertimentation (with AI)", and even ostensibly critical "OpenAI unleashed ChatGPT on the world with no one's consent". >>
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Sarah Dearing 🇨🇦 @sarahdearing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This UNGA *should be* consequential. They have their own TV channel—just like the US President—but with multiple perspectives.
webtv.un.org
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UN Web TV is available 24 hours a day with selected LIVE programming of United Nations meetings and events as well as with pre-recorded video features and documentaries on various global issues.
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Sarah Dearing 🇨🇦 @sarahdearing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Been closely watching Brazil at WIPO and UNESCO committees for a few years now. They are a formidable ally. And they, too, are pissed off.
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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If anyone (including @jeffsharlet.bsky.social) has students writing about their relationship to AI/how it's shaping their education, please let them know I'd be very interested in publishing their reflections in theimportantwork.substack.com. Tell them 3000+ teachers want to hear what they think!
theimportantwork.substack.com
The Important Work | Jane Rosenzweig | Substack
Teaching Writing in the Age of AI. Click to read The Important Work, by Jane Rosenzweig, a Substack publication.
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Sarah Dearing 🇨🇦 @sarahdearing.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
*Digital Fighters Task* Hate it here.
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Sarah Dearing 🇨🇦 @sarahdearing.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I can imagine Carney saying “First PM to step foot here on an official visit” when he gestures at his feet. (A bizarre fact when you think about it).
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Sarah Dearing 🇨🇦 @sarahdearing.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is delightful, complete with an eccentric British expert brimming with enthusiasm.
podcasts.apple.com
How a 1,000-Year-Old Tapestry Took London by Storm
Podcast Episode · The Daily · September 20 · 35m
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026
Humans are doing harm. AI is the mechanism. The humans need to be regulated so that they stop doing that.
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Sarah Dearing 🇨🇦 @sarahdearing.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Not sure “supreme intelligence” is the rebranding win for AI that Trump’s looking for, but I really hope it wins his poll.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/09/2026
Like tbh you’d think we could get more attention and funding on “stopping combatants from using cheap drones to kill grandparents,” but the weirdo AI safety narrative is sucking up an insane amount of oxygen and money that used to be dedicated to current, tangible problems in tech safety and ethics.
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Sarah Dearing 🇨🇦 @sarahdearing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Venezuela, Brazil, Greenland, Ukraine … @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu knits them all together. Highly recommend a listen.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Based upon their documented behavior over the past few years, the tech industry is less afraid of the potential ramifications of Artificial Superintelligence than they are of Lina Khan.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I would like to point out that the local people in Bolivia were already familiar with the new cat species, traditionally calling it "Tilcayo", a name honored by the scientists who carried it over into the formal scientific name Leopardus tilcayo.
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Sarah Dearing 🇨🇦 @sarahdearing.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Looks like The Intercept has submitted the unredacted NYT docs in its DMCA case to prove knowing removal of Copyright Management Information. Dominos. @kint.bsky.social
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2026
Great to meet Mélanie Joly as we continue the spirit of collaboration between Canada and Illinois to strengthen our economic ties.
Governor Pritzker and Mélanie Joly pose for a photo after their meeting.
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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
y'all
Pre-training: The accused LLMs contain billions of parameters (weights) used to generate
outputs (responses) to inputs (queries or prompts) one token (i.e., a word or word part) at a time.
SF847. These LLMs generate outputs by predicting the next word that is likely to follow an input
text based on the similarity of the input to text used to train the model. SF1040. During pre-training,
OpenAI passed millions of copies of Plaintiffs’ articles through the model. SF849. As a result, the
models have encoded specific text from those articles in their parameters (a process called
“memorization”) that the models can output verbatim or near-verbatim (“regurgitation”). SF925-
26. OpenAI’s training sets did not include Plaintiffs’ copyright management information because
OpenAI systematically removed it before training. SF1136-138, 1300-04, 1363-1421.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The court filing dug up by @kint.bsky.social is the most They Admit It i have ever seen in my life www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
404media.co
‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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Sarah Dearing 🇨🇦 @sarahdearing.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I did not know the story of the Vimy oaks before Carny’s speech today. I would have included the detail that a Chinese Baptist church is now the steward of the originals. 😉
vimyoakslegacy.ca
Canada’s “Vimy Oaks” Soldier | Vimy Oaks Legacy
Our Mission was to create living memorials by repatriating “Vimy Oak” saplings to Vimy Ridge in 2018 and by distributing commemorative “Vimy Oak” saplings across Canada.
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Sarah Dearing 🇨🇦 @sarahdearing.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Important thread for copyright nerds on the AI “fair use” argument. Not only did executives know paywalls were being circumvented (illegal like the Anthropic ruling), they are aware of the threat to the economic interests of the copyright holders: a big no no in the fair use 3-step test rules.
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I think we'd see a lot more urgency about regulating AI in Silicon Valley if the AI agents suddenly developed a sense of restorative justice, and instead of them threatening humanity with total extinction, they just wanted to redistribute wealth and reverse power hierarchies.
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Sarah Dearing 🇨🇦 @sarahdearing.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Spiteful over here since 1982.
youtube.com
The English Beat - I Confess (Official Music Video) [HD]
YouTube video by RHINO
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Truly astonishing that all any world leader can think to do is keep inviting the same guys into a room to give their considered advice on how we can protect ourselves from all the harmful, unsafe things deliberately done by the guys in the room
bbc.co.uk
King Charles warns of 'existential danger' of AI falling into wrong hands
The comments were made at a summit in Ayrshire with participants from AI giants including Nvidia, OpenAI and Anthropic.
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Sarah Dearing 🇨🇦 @sarahdearing.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Things could be worse. A Lord of the Rings fanfic sex cult could be in charge of AI. Or has that one just not been shankied yet? #Palantir
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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 17/09/2026
It’s clear that both Europeans and Canadians have a lot to gain from a partnership. And one of the things Europeans need is inspiration. In a period of European leadership vacuum, Carney’s speech in the EU Parliament today was desperately needed.
davekeating.substack.com
With Carney’s speech, Europe is importing inspiration
Trump’s aggressive reaction to the idea of Canada’s “associate membership” in the EU shows exactly why a defensive partnership is needed. But will the label prove a distraction?
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Sarah Dearing 🇨🇦 @sarahdearing.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Seamless digital trade with the EU jumped out at me. (lol non-ag) 🐄🧀 So, is the EU AI Act inching forward as our standard? Not ideal, but better than “let ‘er rip”. Wondering about the rules on the Digital Single Market too.
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Sarah Dearing 🇨🇦 @sarahdearing.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Friend who worked at a funeral parlour in his youth taught me about replanting discarded mums.
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Juliette Kayyem @juliettekayyem.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
AI won’t kill us. The AI titans will. Let’s retire the word “rogue” because it denies responsibility. substack.com/@juliettekay...
substack.com
Juliette Kayyem (@juliettekayyem)
Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Dario Amodei, the leading CEOs in the AI world, completely ruined my weekend. That tends to happen when the destruction of the human species seems imminent and unstoppable. ...
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Sarah Dearing 🇨🇦 @sarahdearing.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Dump mums from last autumn for the win. Looking forward to the other colours emerging: white, yellow and pink. 🌱#gardensky #bloomscrolling
Four mum plants in the ground, one orange in bloom waiting for its pink, yellow, and white sisters.
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Look, we can all speculate on how the Canada-EU discussions might go. But one thing is certain - they should sell tickets so we can watch what happens when French farmers meet Quebec dairy farmers The Common Agricultural Policy meets Supply Management, en francais
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Sarah Dearing 🇨🇦 @sarahdearing.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Very happy about manufacturing vaccines locally after the Covid fiasco.
cbc.ca
Sanofi launching $925M facility in North York to make flu vaccines for seniors | CBC News
French pharmaceutical company Sanofi officially launched its new $925 million vaccine manufacturing facility in North York on Wednesday — a site that will be used to create high-dose flu vaccines for ...
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Sarah Dearing 🇨🇦 @sarahdearing.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This was a pretty good episode on AI $$$ going to influencers. @taylorlorenz.bsky.social was excellent even though her interviewer was meh.
podcasts.apple.com
Taylor Lorenz on the dark money buying your social feed
Podcast Episode · Machines Like Us · September 15 · 45m
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Sarah Dearing 🇨🇦 @sarahdearing.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Norman Rockwell’s Democracy painting with the question: What if China’s models are already safer?
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Sarah Dearing 🇨🇦 @sarahdearing.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I find it nauseating when Sam and Dario speak of “the frontier”. As an antidote, I think of the old Davy Crockett joke and adapt it accordingly: How many ears does Sam Altman have? Three. His left ear, his right ear, and his wily frontier.
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Sarah Dearing 🇨🇦 @sarahdearing.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Mark Carney Emmanuel Macron
Alt: French President Emmanuel Macron sporting sunglasses indoors at Davos, reaches into the inside pocket of his impeccably-tailored suit and hands a similar pair to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who slides them on with a goofy grin.
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Ghouly Hoye 👻🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
If anyone is doubting Canadian resolve right now, we’re at the single-jalapeño level of petty. 🇨🇦 💪🏼
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
The only person in public service who has consistently made 100% sense on issues of "AI," which is why they hate her so much.
Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there’s no AI exemption from laws already on the books — a point 
@FTC
 emphasized repeatedly during my tenure.

1. There is an extensive set of laws that govern dangerous and defective products. For example, releasing unvetted AI models or agents can violate consumer protection laws. Shipping flawed AI tools without implementing adequate measures to detect and stop rogue or defective AI agents can be an “unfair or deceptive” act or practice under the FTC Act (and analogous state laws). And some state AGs are already exploring holding AI firms and their CEOs criminally liable when their models participate in criminal activity.

2. Existing laws also prohibit “unfair methods of competition.” This covers instances where AI firms appropriate the competitively sensitive information of their customers, including through tracking their use of various tools. It can also cover instances where firms pursue dangerous behavior, aware that doing so may compel rivals to do the same.As the Supreme Court has noted: “A method of competition which casts upon one's competitors the burden of the loss of business unless they will descend to a practice which they are under a powerful moral compulsion not to adopt, even though it is not criminal, was thought to involve the kind of unfairness at which the [unfair methods of competition] statute was aimed."

3. The highly concentrated and interconnected structure of these markets could be creating major risks and conflicts of interest. We had started investigating these partnerships and cross-investments across the stack (and released a preliminarily overview of some findings: https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-issues-staff-report-ai-partnerships-investments-study). 

Both federal and state enforcers should be scrutinizing these opaque relationships and inter-dependencies. We are already seeing how these relationships could undermine accountability. For example, OpenAI could face liability given the Hugging Face incident, but Hugging Face being bought up by Nvidia means that we’re unlikely to see it file a lawsuit over this — given Nvidia’s strong incentive to see OpenAI continue full speed ahead.4. As AI tools dramatically change the landscape of cybersecurity risks and hacks, all businesses should be doubling down on having core security protections in place. Firms that fail to invest in adequate data security measures or fix known vulnerabilities can also be breaking the law. A recent analysis showed that around 1/3 of Fortune 100 companies do not even have a way to notify them about security issues. During my 
@FTC
 tenure, we sued firms for poor data security practices and held CEOs liable when they were personally responsible.

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/dozens-of-americas-largest-companies-have-no-simple-way-to-report-security-flaws/

https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/10/ftc-takes-action-against-drizly-its-ceo-james-cory-rellas-security-failures-exposed-data-25-million

5. As policymakers consider new legal regimes, we should be looking to lessons from prior efforts to govern major sectors, such as banking and other networks, platforms, and utilities. Tools like structural separations, nondiscrimination, and supervision could be key, and there’s a rich history of what works and what doesn’t. But we can and must pursue any new efforts alongside enforcing existing laws.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13/09/2026
We could be seeing the first dominoes to fall in the end of fossil fuel hegemony and the end of the US petrodollar. SA needs oil revenue to run its country. It's reserves are tied in US treasuries that they will need to sell to get liquidity, putting even more upwards pressure on bond yields.
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