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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 22/09/2026

Researchers from Stanford claim humans actually have two brains – which is cool because the same university can now ruin two brains for the price of one with all the GenAI shit they're forcing upon students and the academic community. 🙄

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Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds

Stanford Health Care delivers the highest levels of care and compassion. SHC treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, primary care issues, and many more.

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 17/09/2026

The 2036 Paralympics field will be quite crowded, I guess.

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 13/08/2026

The GenAI & bots shitshow on Bluesky is in full swing. This is what Bluesky is currently showing as of August 13, 8:20 a.m. CET, when the polls have just opened. #Clacton #Farage

Screenshot of the Bluesky interface with a focus on the trending topics. The top topic is "Farage wins Clacton seat" (but polls have just opened and no results have been declared). When you click on this trend, the BlueSky interface's top heading starts with "Count Binface also stood" (the past tense is not a typo made by me).

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 28/04/2026

(1/2) The web is now full of people who claim they can sniff out "AI" writing but then list issues that have been present in human writing for ages. In writers circles some now even say they're changing their style b/c they don't want to be accused of writing with "AI". This sh*t is exhaaausting!

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X
Because we get asked a lot.

The Technological Republic, in brief.

1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.

3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

thewesternedge.media

‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility

A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

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404 Media @404media.co · 24/03/2026

NEW: WebinarTV, a company that bills itself as “a search engine for the best webinars,” is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links, recording the calls, and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for profit. @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social reports:

404media.co

This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts

WebinarTV hosts 200,000 “webinars.” A Zoom call you may thought was private might be one of them.

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404 Media @404media.co · 10/02/2026

With Ring’s recent partnership with Flock, which will further facilitate the sharing of video footage with police, and its new Search Party feature, the message is clear: Ring always will be in the business of leveraging its network of luxury surveillance consumers as a law enforcement tool.

404media.co

With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet

Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

fuck this lady, fuck the nyt reporter, fuck all of this. fuck amazon for introducing the KU page read model that makes this possible, fuck our tech overlords. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...

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The New Fabio Is Claude

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 01/10/2025

We're ~3 years into this #GenAI circus and I still see many colleagues praise these systems as if their cost-benefit ratio were anything but utterly unacceptable. In case anybody needs a primer, here's a good one (ignore the baiting title for the YT algorithm): www.youtube.com/watch?v=8enX...

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Silicon Valley Insider EXPOSES Cult-Like AI Companies | Aaron Bastani Meets Karen Hao

YouTube video by Novara Media

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 18/09/2025

In case you need another reason to dump Google products wherever possible, here you go. #fail #DegenerativeAI #Chrome

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Fantastic news out of Tucson! None of this is inevitable. Not "AI", not data centers, not the surrendering of public water resources, not the handing over of electrical grid priorities to big tech. azluminaria.org/2025/08/06/t...

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Tucson City Council rejects Project Blue data center amid intense community pressure - AZ Luminaria

The Tucson city council voted unanimously Wednesday against bringing the massive and water-devouring Project Blue data center — tied to tech giant Amazon — into city limits. After weeks of escalating...

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404 Media @404media.co · 17/07/2025

Facial recognition and crowdsourced social media investigations are constantly being used not just on cringe CEOs, but on random people who are simply existing in public. 🔗 www.404media.co/the-astronom...

404media.co

The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia

Facial recognition and crowdsourced social media investigations are constantly being used not just on cringe CEOs, but on random people who are simply existing in public.

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 10/07/2025

FFS! It's not enough to exploit & displace vulnerable people via toxic, resource-hungry tech systems – now these systems even speak for those whose voices we actually need to hear?! And the clowns behind this justify it with FOMO and saying it's just like going on a date?! Wtf? #AI #EmpireOfAI #fail

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 19/05/2025

Oops!... They did it again... "GenAI vendors are making major claims for their products without meaningful documentation. You think genAI makes stuff up? Imagine what comes out of their vendors’ marketing departments." www.computerworld.com/article/3985... #GenAI #XL8 #AI

computerworld.com

ChatGPT gave wildly inaccurate translations — to try and make users happy

Three recent incidents are reminders that generative AI tools remain troublesome and unreliable. IT buyer beware.

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I love being able to explain academic things like statistics, and the history of computer science, to journalists. In this article, I got to do both. 😍 Meanwhile @emilymbender.bsky.social does a brilliant job at explaining why it doesn’t make sense to have machines as the “translator” for human art.

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