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Stephen Eric Berry @stephenericberry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Altman’s latest delusional comments about “human agency” and his pitch that we all must reconcile ourselves to accepting whatever “bad things” AI visits upon us…are egregious and dangerous. OpenAI should be shuttered now. #controlai

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Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman

Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver

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Stephen Eric Berry @stephenericberry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

youtube.com/watch?v=1vxQ... This performance feels like the interior of how I felt for at least two years in Kansas City after being dumped by my first girlfriend. A chalky, empty, biting, melancholy numbness you can taste morning, noon, and night.

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St. Vincent - These Days (DUMBO Session) (Nico Cover)

YouTube video by 4AD

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Stephen Eric Berry @stephenericberry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This erotic masterpiece was written by Benjamin de Murashkin for these two virtuosos. I own all of TOEAC’s albums. youtu.be/vB0ZJ_odAsE?...

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Tango Orgánico

YouTube video by Accordionduo TOEAC

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Stephen Eric Berry @stephenericberry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

youtube.com/watch?v=_jhv... Marcus argues that LLMs will not get us to a solution to the alignment problem. Marcus argues that LLMs lack robust symbolic representations of world models. Interesting lecture. What do you think?

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Gary Marcus: 'LLMs are not the way to alignment' | TAIS 2026

YouTube video by AI Safety 東京

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ControlAI @controlai.com · 03/10/2026

NEW: Lord Palmer of Childs Hill has backed our campaign for binding regulation on the most powerful AIs! He joins 170+ UK parliamentarians recognizing the risk of human extinction from superintelligent AI.

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Techmeme X Chatter @xchatter.techmeme.com · 01/10/2026

This tweet appeared under this Techmeme headline: @arfurgrok: 👀 Mikita Balesni (@balesni) has left OpenAI.

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Stephen Eric Berry @stephenericberry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... A hack about bush fires in Australia today, tomorrow wiping out your investment and bank accounts. We need an international trust-but-verify ban on super intelligence right now, similar to what we did on human cloning. www.geneticsandsociety.org/internal-con...

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OpenAI disclose another hack on government department in Australia

Attack accessing historical data on bushfires occurred in June but not disclosed by the tech company until Thursday

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Stephen Eric Berry @stephenericberry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

deathpenaltyinfo.org/gender-and-c... Highest praise goes out to Sandra Babcock for her work on the barbarity, torture, and gender disparities rampant in how states kill their citizens. If Joseph Conrad were alive today he would write a new “Heart of Darkness” on this runaway atrocity.

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Gender and Capital Punishment: Scholarly Article Examines How Gender Affects Outcomes for Women in Death Penalty Cases | Death Penalty Information Center

In “Gendered Capital Punishment,” Cornell Law School Clinical Professor Sandra Babcock examines how the gender of actors in capital cases affects outcomes…

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Stephen Eric Berry @stephenericberry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... A CNN report published on 18 September, which hasn’t been verified by other major outlets, describes how the US “almost started a war” with China, based on an intelligence report that claimed a Chinese ship was transporting components of nuclear weapons.

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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

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Stephen Eric Berry @stephenericberry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

youtube.com/watch?v=Xqxb... Instead of discussing faulty, unreliable systems," Gebru says tech leaders are "marketing their systems as all-knowing, superpowerful, superintelligent," and lobbying for "self-policing and self-regulation" to avoid being held "liable through existing laws."

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"They're Not Superintelligent": Timnit Gebru Discredits Big Tech's AI Claims

YouTube video by Democracy Now!

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ControlAI @controlai.com · 01/10/2026

Lord Sedwill, who served as Cabinet Secretary - the UK's most senior civil servant - and National Security Adviser, backs our campaign for binding rules on the most powerful AIs! 170+ UK lawmakers recognize the risk of human extinction from superintelligent AI.

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Stephen Eric Berry @stephenericberry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

youtu.be/IkdziSLYzHw?... This talk is a useful, approachable intro to neural nets. It also is a cautionary tale on developing super intelligence without human control. I’m sharing this link with **someone** out there. If you’re that person, I hope you share it with some other someone.

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Will AI outsmart human intelligence? - with 'Godfather of AI' Geoffrey Hinton

YouTube video by The Royal Institution

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Stephen Eric Berry @stephenericberry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This full-page ad appeared in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal. What do you think about it?

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ControlAI @controlai.com · 15/09/2026

MPs and peers across parties are sounding the alarm on superintelligent AI. The warnings have been heard. It's time to act. We need to prohibit the development of superintelligence.

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ControlAI @controlai.com · 15/09/2026

NEW: Lara Bird MP has backed our campaign! Over 150 UK politicians now recognize the risk of human extinction posed by superintelligent AI, calling for binding regulation on the most powerful AI systems.

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ControlAI @controlai.com · 15/09/2026

Four more Labour MPs just joined our campaign! Cat Eccles, Jeff Smith, Yasmin Qureshi and Patrick Hurley. Over 160 UK lawmakers now support our campaign for binding regulation on the most powerful AIs, recognizing the risk of extinction posed by superintelligent AI.

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ControlAI @controlai.com · 15/09/2026

"The only winner is superintelligence. If America builds superintelligence, America will cease to exist. If China builds superintelligence, China will cease to exist, as will all other countries." ControlAI's US Executive Director Connor Leahy on NewsNation:

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ControlAI @controlai.com · 14/09/2026

In Canada, 30+ MPs and Senators back our call for an international prohibition on superintelligent AI. Grant Jackson MP is the latest - it's great to see this coalition continue to grow!

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Stephen Eric Berry @stephenericberry.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2026... Last week the first bill to ban Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) was introduced in the U.K. Parliament (see linked draft). It provides a framework for preventing the catastrophic risks connate with ASI. I’m sharing this draft with our reps in the U.S. Senate.

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Artificial Superintelligence - Hansard - UK Parliament

Hansard record of the item : ' Artificial Superintelligence' on Tuesday 8 September 2026.

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Stephen Eric Berry @stephenericberry.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

@samueart2-ellen.bsky.social Replying to your quote about aphorisms, alignment & truth. Just wanted to say the alignment problem is at the core of all texts, not just aphorisms. Example: “Less is more” is an aphorism that may be true, but the not-aphorism “Less is less” may be true just as often.

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Stephen Eric Berry @stephenericberry.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

youtube.com/watch?v=_xod... Excellent summary of why ASI must be banned now. We may be as close as a few months away from a lab growing the first ASI. By then it will be too late for meaningful international regulation.

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ControlAI's Connor Leahy on an Anthropic researcher's warning that AI could "kill us all"

YouTube video by Quest Means Business

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Stephen Eric Berry @stephenericberry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

youtube.com/watch?v=ZqiS... Another super-insightful interview with Connor Leahy. Highly recommended!

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EMERGENCY PODCAST: ASI Will Kill Us All!

YouTube video by Tom Bilyeu

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Andrea Miotti @andreamiotti.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It was great to speak with @hern.bsky.social on @economist.com podcast about OpenAI’s AIs that went rogue, escaped containment, and hacked Hugging Face. This should be a wake up call. We need an international agreement to ban the development of superintelligence. www.economist.com/podcasts/202...

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Stephen Eric Berry @stephenericberry.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

What would Burroughs say about Trump? That he is… - a Mugwump addict, a Reptile with a “little round disk mouth of brown gristle”; -a black marketeer of World War III; - a creature suffering from “unspeakable mutilations of the spirit”; - the source of a foul smell like tainted cheese. #NoKings

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Stephen Eric Berry @stephenericberry.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Welcome to the Trump Nobel Peace Prize Tour Peace to Iranian bridges Peace to desalinization plants Peace to fertilizer plants Peace to helium tankers Peace to a million homeless Lebanese Peace to Palestinian gallows Peace to 12-year-old girls rendered into gray smoke. #NoKings

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Stephen Eric Berry @stephenericberry.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

A Quick Note to All Friends of the World If you’ve posted anything on this platform (or any other) that might be construed as “anti-Zionist,” I’d encourage you to back up all of your posts. Far better to be prepared before you’re cancelled than sorry afterwards. #NoKings

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Stephen Eric Berry @stephenericberry.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Imagine a small state with a small population let there be labor-saving tools that aren’t used let people consider death and not move far let there be boats and carts but no reason to ride them let there be armor and weapons but no reason to employ them (1 of 3)

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Stephen Eric Berry @stephenericberry.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Make no mistake. The man we saw on our TV screens tonight would do ANYTHING to flee his Persian debacle. This includes dropping a nuke on Tehran. Ah, c’mon, you might say, That’s crazy. If this is you, listen to a little song that channeled Trump 54 years ago. #NoKings youtu.be/olOk5cK4lqQ?...

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Political Science - Randy Newman | The Midnight Special

YouTube video by The Midnight Special

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Stephen Eric Berry @stephenericberry.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Deflated. Depressed. Delusional. Dreary. Detached. Weary. Arid. Leaden. Monotonal. Sheepish. Inhibited. Weary. Dreary. What else is there to say about Trump lying to the American people tonight? This is what an obliterated human being looks like. #NoKings

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Stephen Eric Berry @stephenericberry.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

News for Fox viewers: -We did not “win” in Afghanistan. The Taliban are still in charge. Cost: 46K dead Afghan civilians & 2,459 U.S. soldiers. - We did not “win” in Iraq. We decapitated a Sunni dictatorship & ceded the country to Iran. Cost: 300K dead Iraqi civilians & 4,400 dead U.S. soldiers.

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Stephen Eric Berry @stephenericberry.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Beyond absurd, our Orange Jesus is claiming he will bomb Iran back to the Stone Age and leave in two weeks. For those uninitiated in Trumpspeak, “two weeks” means never. #NoKings

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

After a year in ICE detention, Leqaa Kordia is finally free. We will not stop fighting until every person incarcerated, from ICE detention centers to Israeli prisons, sees freedom.

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Stephen Eric Berry @stephenericberry.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... Now Americans are learning the Palestinian nightmare first hand. Learning what it’s like to wake up to a an ICE thug in your bedroom. What it’s like to have a laughing stranger pointing a gun in your face. #NoKings

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‘Human tragedy’: Leqaa Kordia on how ICE jail echoes life in occupied Palestine

In her first print interview since release, the Palestinian immigrant says after year in custody, she sees it as her duty to denounce ICE detention in the US

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Stephen Eric Berry @stephenericberry.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Stupidity is shitting on your friends and then pretending NOT to be surprised when they shun you. The orange thumb says it all. #NoKings

Image of the super-moussed, comb-lined U.S. President, Donald J. Trump floundering around in the dark with his thumb in the air.

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Stephen Eric Berry @stephenericberry.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Hubris is believing that no one is shooting at your B-52s because they can’t. Hubris is like adrenalin. It feels warm and buzzy and wonderful in your bloodstream…at first. Then the spigot cranks shut and you get a new feeling: the flush of humiliation combined with a stellar cold chill. #NoKings

Photograph of John Daniel "Raizin" Caine (born 10 August 1968), an American general and venture capitalist who became the 22nd chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He was four years old when the U.S. lost the Vietnam War after 12 years of atrocities, bloodletting, occupation, napalm, and humiliation.

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Stephen Eric Berry @stephenericberry.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

youtube.com/live/uOW2EPu... This interview with artist and historian Molly Crabapple is a gem! Watched it twice and ordered her book, to be released next week.

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The Lost History Buried By Zionists w/ Molly Crabapple | MR Live

YouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder

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Stephen Eric Berry @stephenericberry.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... “Iran has sent a threat, according to mediators: it will carpet bomb its own territory to kill any American soldiers on its soil. Tehran warned that it is prepared to blow up its own infrastructure to hit the invading forces, according to diplomats involved.”

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How could US forcibly reopen strait of Hormuz and what are the risks?

US ground troops have arrived in Middle East but military options to open strait risk strong retaliation from Iran

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Stephen Eric Berry @stephenericberry.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w... As usual, Trump offers no evidence for his claims. Thinks he’s juicing the market. Doh. As for Trump’s absurd claim of having brought off “regime change,” there has NEVER been more than one Iranian regime. And they are handing him his ass. #NoKings #PersianTaco

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Trump Says Iran Agreed to Allow 20 More Ships of Oil Through Strait of Hormuz

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Stephen Eric Berry @stephenericberry.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Four things to say about Artemis II: 1) Artemis of myth has a twin-brother named Apollo. How does that work? 2) Artemis causes violent death. 3) It’s unethical to put humans in a re-entry system that is not flight tested. 4) “I’ve got a bad feeling about this mission,” or so said Lt. Kowalski.

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Stephen Eric Berry @stephenericberry.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

youtube.com/watch?v=9OOI... Tonight we saw this brilliant piece of work. Pure joy! Highly recommended.

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Color Theories by Julio Torres | Official Trailer | HBO Max

YouTube video by HBO Max

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Stephen Eric Berry @stephenericberry.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

New U.S. Missile Hit Iranian Sports Hall and School, Analysis Shows www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w... War crime.

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New U.S. Missile Hit Iranian Sports Hall and School, Analysis Shows

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Stephen Eric Berry @stephenericberry.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

share.google/DQAfUTARacBA... Trump’s idiotic war of choice reminds us just how brilliantly prophetic Zappa’s 1981 song “Dumb All Over” remains. Here’s a link to the lyrics. Song audio available on YouTube for free.

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Stephen Eric Berry @stephenericberry.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

American cable news in the U.S. has largely become unviewable. Why? — Declining ratio of programming to commercials; — War-mongering bias; — Few journalists in the countries they claim to report from. We read The Guardian for actual news and Sky News to see reporters in the field. #SkyNews

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Stephen Eric Berry @stephenericberry.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Alana Holmberg “Nerve Pathways of the Clitoris” Photograph: Oculi for The Guardian

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Stephen Eric Berry @stephenericberry.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

“Persian / Taco / Loser” 30” x 40” Ink on Cardboard My sign from yesterday’s NO KINGS protest in Ann Arbor, Michigan. #NoKings

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Stephen Eric Berry @stephenericberry.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

“We can sit like this You and me My baby boy For a few seconds longer Because what else is more Important to do?” —Erin O’Connor #Instagram #Censorship

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