Reposted by @sassdroid.bsky.socialJose @josendhelp.bsky.social · 11hHave you seen Werner Herzog watching and discussing skate clips? www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQLI...youtube.comDiscussing Skateboarding with Filmmaker Werner HerzogYouTube video by jenkemmag 816953
Reposted by @sassdroid.bsky.socialDemocracy Now! @democracynow.org · 22hAI safety expert Timnit Gebru says tech leaders are promoting greatly exaggerated claims about "superintelligence" and "existential risk" as a way to distract from the real threat — their own unregulated companies.democracynow.orgThe Real Existential Risk Is AI CEOs Avoiding Oversight: “Alternative Nobel” Winner Timnit GebruWe speak to the prominent AI researcher and leading critic of the AI industry, Timnit Gebru, who was recently awarded a 2026 Right Livelihood Award for her work investigating the harms and hype behind... 14341157
Reposted by @sassdroid.bsky.socialEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 30/09/2026But when those questions are motivated from the lens of "does THIS disprove stochstic parrots?" the reasoning goes off the rails, and it does so in a specific way connected to the role that theoretical math results have played in this summer of hype www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1... >>technologyreview.comDon’t be fooled by this summer of AI hypeBreathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny. 1549
Reposted by @sassdroid.bsky.socialThomas “Scary” Fuchs 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 30/09/2026Correct www.wired.com/story/the-bi... You don't need to "believe" this by the way; LLM don't have thoughts or reasoning. The output state is entirely deterministically derived as a straightforward strictly defined mathematical operation from the input state.wired.comTimnit Gebru Believes There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AIOne of AI’s fiercest critics believes the doom talk is about founders making money, not saving humanity. 44912
Reposted by @sassdroid.bsky.socialDarth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026OTD in 1938 Nazi Germany started occupying the Sudetenland. The west tried to appease Hitler by giving him bits of someone else's country without asking the owners. It didnt work & led to a terrible war. Imagine it happening today.... 16710218
Reposted by @sassdroid.bsky.socialtef @tef.bsky.social · 30/09/2026a statistician told me this joke, it goes like this three mathematicians bump into three economists on the train, they're on the way to a joint conference, and the economists are a little puzzled the mathematicians only have one ticket between them 1173
Reposted by @sassdroid.bsky.socialThe Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Michael Tracey is actively attempting to dox Jane Doe in the Cornell 7 rape case 2923525787
Reposted by @sassdroid.bsky.socialAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026as a hater let me acknowledge something ai is good at: producing irritating discourse at scale this is usually because, like "ai" itself, people are talking about different things like they are one thing so let me disentangle, with statements numbered for easy disagreement 6403116
Reposted by @sassdroid.bsky.socialKimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026But I need to smile more. 714143546316
Reposted by @sassdroid.bsky.socialAnti-Substack Labeler: Substack Funds Nazis @labeler.antisubstack.fyi · 20/02/2025Hi! This is a labeler account meant to identify Substack links. If you didn't know, Substack actively courts and platforms Nazis. If you quit X/Twitter because of the Nazi problem, well, what are you still doing on Substack? There are plenty of alternatives which may be more cost-effective for you. 8504269
Reposted by @sassdroid.bsky.socialAskme @askme99.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Only in America do they deny children free lunch while forcing them to read about Jesus feeding the hungry. 563250719
Reposted by @sassdroid.bsky.socialJared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I would like everyone to read this, from @eoinhiggins.bsky.social eoinhiggins.substack.com/p/there-are-...eoinhiggins.substack.comThere are no “rogue” AI agentsIdentifying them as such only lets companies like OpenAI off the hook. 720658
Reposted by @sassdroid.bsky.socialHillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Michael Kotlikoff, President Ryan Lombardi, VP Student and Campus Life Brian White, VP Robert Harrington, Dean of Medicine And Chi Phi Fraternity. 810064
Reposted by @sassdroid.bsky.socialFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.” www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...iankduncan.comSex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian DuncanHow a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ... 571936467
Reposted by @sassdroid.bsky.socialMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Wait until these dummies find out the percentage of people who buy life insurance and never use it during their entire lifetimes! 231261123
Reposted by @sassdroid.bsky.socialLaura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Not everybody knows this, and everybody should. On Sept. 26, 1983, a Soviet nuclear warning system alerted Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov that the U.S. had launched a missile attack. He did not retaliate, preventing WWIII. This is a post about AI. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...en.wikipedia.orgStanislav Petrov - Wikipedia 11571209
Reposted by @sassdroid.bsky.socialColin @colin-fraser.net · 25/09/2026Roughly, they think: AGI iff wants to kill all humans. The fact that LLMs don’t seem to want to do that means they’re not AGI and conversely if they can make an LLM that wants to do that then it’s AGI. 1532
Reposted by @sassdroid.bsky.socialtweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 25/09/2026the idea they had for how AI "should" work--an idea that was deeply entwined with the broader rationalist/xrisk/EA view of the world--didn't pan out at all, and meanwhile something completely different randomly started being super effective and they had to do a lot of, basically, retconning. 330126
Reposted by @sassdroid.bsky.socialOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 25/09/2026The problem is that learning about a new topic often requires 1) letting (maybe temporarily only) go of existing frames and 2) understanding another (learned) community's or (expert) person's way of seeing things. 45213
Reposted by @sassdroid.bsky.socialmaple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The thing about trying to appeal to right wing bigots is that right wing bigots are all stupid idiots who get 100% of their news from propagandists so they will never actually find out that you were trying to appeal to them in the first place 7164881221
sassdroid.bsky.social @sassdroid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The problem with this “are they trying to embed conclusions” is the exact opposite is happening. You are accepting the industry framing used to cloud the issues. Not some hyper precise objective terminology. 011
Reposted by @sassdroid.bsky.socialMother Jones @motherjones.com · 18/04/2026After advancements in gene editing led to the successful treatment of life-threatening health conditions, some tech bros are considering a new application for the controversial science: making super-smart babies to save the world from dangerously capable AI.ow.lyCreating baby geniuses to thwart the AI threat? (Yes, really.)The new wave of Silicon Valley–backed gene-editing startups is straight out of “Brave New World.” 12117760
Reposted by @sassdroid.bsky.socialjon christian @jonchristian.net · 09/09/2026NEW: In one of the most horrifying stories I've ever reported, I found that Facebook is hosting huge quantities of AI-generated videos of violent child abuse -- kids being beaten, burned, and far more But the genuinely shocking thing was how little Meta seems to care futurism.com/artificial-i... 431534700
Reposted by @sassdroid.bsky.socialColin @colin-fraser.net · 24/09/2026OpenAI created autonomous hacking software and left it running for hours and days with no one watching 817725
Reposted by @sassdroid.bsky.socialColin @colin-fraser.net · 24/09/2026It’s not like they never anticipated that something like this could happen. They’ve been publishing white papers about exactly this kind of thing for like a decade, including more recently specifically about things you should do (that they didn’t) in the specific case of highly capable LLM agents. 2343
Reposted by @sassdroid.bsky.socialColin @colin-fraser.net · 24/09/2026The simple facts are: 1. OpenAI deliberately designed software for carrying out autonomous cyberattacks (they were training it on something called “ExploitGym” for heaven’s sake) 2. They left it on completely unmonitored 3. Exactly what you think would happen happened 56714
Reposted by @sassdroid.bsky.socialMatt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o... 58854821503
Reposted by @sassdroid.bsky.socialJeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"People built the test, removed restraints, defined the objective, left a route open and decided not to stop what was happening. Calling the result 'rogue AI' does more than sensationalize it. It allows those human decisions to disappear quietly from the story" Gift link www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...wsj.comOpinion | The Hugging Face Hack Wasn’t What It Was Cracked Up to BeForget the ‘hive mind’ of AI agents ‘going rogue.’ They did what humans programmed them to do. 21570223
Reposted by @sassdroid.bsky.socialKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 24/09/2026I wrote about the press' irresponsible AI doomsday coverage:karlbode.comLazy Journalism At The 'End Of The World'U.S. corporate media long ago gave up on accurately describing abject reality. 423975
Reposted by @sassdroid.bsky.socialCaræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 24/09/2026guys please stop falling for this, this is not “rogue AI” it’s “environments with lax cybersecurity controls” 431659431
sassdroid.bsky.social @sassdroid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Can we apply even a smidge of skepticism, please? Please! If you understood the basics of LLMs and how the work you would never believe that the model acted unprompted. We need an LLM basics for journalists course so badly. 000
Reposted by @sassdroid.bsky.socialJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026New: OpenAI has thousands of contractors improving its AI, including reading ChatGPT users' prompts We've found many of those contractors have been fired for themselves using AI to train the AI. People using AI "all the time and people are let go for it all the time" www.404media.co/people-train...404media.coPeople Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AIOpenAI has thousands and thousands of contractors helping improve the company's AI models. Multiple contractors have been fired for using AI to train the AI. 20368132
Reposted by @sassdroid.bsky.socialJohn Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Ok, this "there are two separate brains" thing appears to be making the rounds, and I want to be absolutely clear: this is a press office overhyping some perfectly reasonable science that won't come as a surprise to most developmental biologists. 32755238
Reposted by @sassdroid.bsky.socialImani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people 16886332303
sassdroid.bsky.social @sassdroid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026A lot of people making the case for going back to blogs today 011
sassdroid.bsky.social @sassdroid.bsky.social · 17/09/2026A lot of people making the case for going back to blogs today 010
sassdroid.bsky.social @sassdroid.bsky.social · 17/09/2026A lot of people making the case for going back to blogs today 010
sassdroid.bsky.social @sassdroid.bsky.social · 17/09/2026A lot of people making the case for going back to blogs today 000
sassdroid.bsky.social @sassdroid.bsky.social · 17/09/2026That’s fine if they are only available by prescription 010
Reposted by @sassdroid.bsky.socialMicah Lee @micahflee.com · 16/09/2026HaJ3FgupAm8RrDJW3MHgT9X7Ft27eVaD What is that? That's a hard-coded API token that Flock cameras use to identify themselves and get OAuth credentials, which can then be used to talk to Flock's production servers. Like, anyone on the internet can probably do this right now. 382530851
Reposted by @sassdroid.bsky.socialDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Statement by House Democratic leadership on the enormous unilateral tariff authority Congress just gave the president. House passed this 262-159 with 58 Democrats supporting, clearly no leadership whipping going on. The Senate version passed 86-11 and Schumer voted yes! 28254108
Reposted by @sassdroid.bsky.socialDan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 10/09/2026The fact we have an executive class that doesn't know what to do with the Looney Tunes or The Muppets really sums up what a joyless, barren world they inhabit. 776972172
Reposted by @sassdroid.bsky.socialMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828. 142135232193
Reposted by @sassdroid.bsky.socialYoel Roth @yoyoel.com · 09/09/2026Apple quietly dropped a ton of detail about the Apple Watch’s new always-on don’t-call-it-transcription feature and it is FASCINATING. support.apple.com/en-us/148354 57508142
Reposted by @sassdroid.bsky.socialCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi... 46079473377
Reposted by @sassdroid.bsky.socialRyan Calo @rcalo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Guess it’s time to resurrect my essay from 2023 undark.org/2023/06/22/a... 28226
