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The Future is Stupid

@stupidfuture.bsky.social
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A man filled with the gladness of living. Ecosocialist, European and Luddite.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The tweet that immediately came to mind:
We're a modest company with modest goals:
1: sell a quality product at a fair price
2: drain the world's oceans so we can find and kill god
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So, what to do? USE YOUR FUCKING BRAIN. THINK: “Would I give this information to someone who wants to make money off my ideas without giving me credit?” Don’t outsource your brilliance to these people. They are NOT good actors. It’s not rocket science; have a drop of self-preservation instinct!
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/09/2026
Happy ten year anniversary of the 2016 blackout in South Australia. I was told that as clean power grew in Aus, we'd see a blackout apocalypse. The chart below shows blackouts for generation shortfall as columns, and renewable proportion as a percent of the eastern grid. Enjoy :)
a chart showing blackout data for Australia
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You take our bike lanes, we take the road. Toronto showed up Friday night. 📸 @geoffreybercarich via Instagram
Cyclists taking the lane stretching kms of a city street
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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Ah! can it be that out of sorrow's night, From tears, from yearning pain, from long despair, Into joy's sunlight I shall come again?” ― Robert Bridges a wish for peace🩷
Sunset over the east bay in california.  Three palms tree are on the right and in the distance are some hills.
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The Future is Stupid @stupidfuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Pro business tip: next time your company gets caught breaking the law, don't get defensive. Just act all concerned, and then announce that after an investigation you have discovered: a rogue AI agent did it, a fix is now in place, and no we don't need police or government to investigate thaaaanks
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Streisand Effect, Activate.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's disgusting watching people buying into the "Tucker Carlson is making sense?!" bullshit and it's probably time to wrap our heads around the fact that the people susceptible to this are unconsciously fascist curious and just need the ugly delivered to them in an "acceptable" package
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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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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
it really needs to be more openly discussed that all the people advocating for “we should be fine with losing basic skills if we get more systems thinking” are men, meaning socialized to expect to be able to offload basic tasks of daily living onto a wife as part of their compensation for existing
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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 24/09/2026
Jim Henson would have been 90 (yup, you read that right: NINETY) years old today. You can celebrate his life by celebrating creativity, diversity, peace, imagination, and silliness.
A tuxedoed Jim Henson sits in a sea of Muppets.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 24/09/2026
I would like tech companies to understand that just because I have signed up to use your software, that no, I do not want to automatically be subscribed to your product newsletter. Say less. Please stop spamming me. Just push code that works. Sweet jiminy christ on a flying biscuit just STFU
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The Future is Stupid @stupidfuture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For the day that's in it
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The Future is Stupid @stupidfuture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We have invented frictionless global communication and then added friction so that billionaires can sell the frictionless version as premium
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Conductor Alto @ Join the Stella Glow Discord @elcrest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you're like me and on iOS, and got locked out of 18+ servers, but you're classified as an adult, go into the discord web app and recheck the age restricted servers on iOS. Even if it's already checked, uncheck it and check it again. That should solve your issue. This whole thing is dumb as hell.
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The Future is Stupid @stupidfuture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Been saying this since the day the first slop draft landed in my inbox to edit Shovelling more sh*t does not mean more productivity, it just gives others more to clean up
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Incredible Facebook slop ad I just got
Horse pin with an illustration of a horse and the following text:
"Give a man a horse he'll eat in a day, teach a man to horse. and make him drinks water."
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Catbus @catbus.phd · 21/08/2026
techbros be like "I am happy to announce the IPO of my wish granting company, Monkey's Paw LLC"
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Xero Reynolds 41/100 on Patreon @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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W. Ethan Duckworth @weduckworth.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Look, my calculator has a deep understanding of numbers. It understands how to add them, subtract them, multiply them, and divide them. It can even combine these operations in complex ways. The fact that it gets correct results proves it understands what it's doing.
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The Future is Stupid @stupidfuture.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
***Points to profile name***
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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
been thinkin about how robots are gonna kill us
Scratchy drawing of a two panel comic.
Panel 1: 
Titled:“How we thought robots would kill us”
A robot shoots a human to death with a gun. It screams “Die flesh sack”

Panel 2:
Titled “How robots will actually kill us”
A MediBot is injecting something into a humans arm. The bot says “Whooops. I injected you with cancer instead of insulin. That’s on me”
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"I belong to a cult. Someone did some research that undermines the core tenets of my cult and came up with a catchy phrase that makes it harder to recruit more people to my cult. This makes me sad."
Screencap of tweet on X from @jackclarkSF (Jack Clark):

"stochastic parrot" was a mimetically-fit cognitive virus that spread from 2021-2025; it temporarily blinded many gifted people to the nature of AI progress, burning up crucial years in which they could have helped think through the response to the situation.
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stovey @doorhook.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
someone laying in bed with their iPhone. the text reads “Nothing like waking up and immediately being handed all of humanity's problems through a little glowing rectangle.”
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The Future is Stupid @stupidfuture.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hit them in their pocket to slow down the march of AI: 1. Oppose the construction of data centres 2. Refuse to pay for AI 3. Move savings etc. out of banks/funds that invest in AI 4. Join local activist groups or give them money 5. Tell people - family, friends, coworkers - all of the above
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stovey @doorhook.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
i spoke with the trees, and they said fuck your data center
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Tina Kotek @tinakotek.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Data centers are asking Oregon communities to absorb enormous demands on our water, energy, and infrastructure – and I’m not going to let that happen. I’ve already stopped state agencies from handling requests to allow use of state public land for new data center projects.
statesmanjournal.com
Gov. Tina Kotek says legislature should pass statewide data center moratorium
Oregon agencies must stop any unapproved requests of state land, property and more for data center projects that are not already under construction.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
Fucking bullshit that this guy is not only doing the press rounds but is the guy politicians on the "left" are taking their cues from.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026
I'm just going to keep yelling this louder and louder until it clicks: weird overpaid AI nerds hand-wringing about human extinction are trying to distract you from the extremely deadly and serious harms they are causing yesterday, today and tomorrow www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Headline: "US Data Centers Set to Burn More Natural Gas Than Most Nations" above a photo of natural gas compressor towers, power lines and a crane at an industrial site, illustrating rising gas use tied to data centers.News excerpt reporting that U.S. data centers’ natural gas use is expected to grow by 15 billion cubic feet per day by 2035—amounting to more gas than every country except China, Russia, Iran and the U.S., citing the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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The Future is Stupid @stupidfuture.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Anyone else notice this? A small number of people I work with can get an idea from a chatbot lodged in their brains and nothing can dislodge it. It's genuinely scary how they abandon all critical thinking and defer to the bot, even when an expert is sitting there telling them otherwise
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Den Bersus @bersus.io · 15/09/2026
AI sycophancy -> AI psychosis. Researchers are noticing a scary trend where users slip into deep delusions after talking to chatbots for too long. A study by Kartik Chandra (arXiv:2602.19141) modeled this out and proved that constant agreement (sycophancy) actually drives people into delusional
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15/09/2026
I genuinely wonder if and how Trump actually uses AI. What is that conversation like!! The most sycophancy-vulnerable human in history vs the most powerful automated sycophancy engine ever created
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Follow the Money EU @ftm.eu · 15/09/2026
Gambling-like features are turning some video games into spending traps for children. Some teenagers have spent thousands on ‘loot boxes’, purchases made without knowing what you’ll get. Brussels wants tougher rules, but the industry is lobbying hard, with a powerful ally inside the Commission.
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Tech giants fight EU crackdown on video games that push children to spend
The EU is working on a law to curb some of the video gaming industry’s most controversial practices. Campaigners warn that children are especially vulnerable to gambling-like features designed to enco...
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The Future is Stupid @stupidfuture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Your weekly reminder of this actual thing Sam Altman said in 2024: "AI will probably, most likely, sort of lead to the end of the world. But in the meantime, there will be great companies" Tl;DR, image
Cartoon by Tom Toro:

A man in a tattered suit sits with three children by a campfire, as the ruins of a city loom out of the darkness behind them.

He says: "Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders."
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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It is becoming impossible to miss how Europe’s own Chicago Boys are turning the hard right’s surge into both alibi and accelerator: the response isn’t to rebuild the social protections people feel they have lost, but to speed up their dismantling, in the name of competitiveness #draghi #merz
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Shona Murray @shonamurray.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Project 2025 in action. Women die.
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The Future is Stupid @stupidfuture.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Jellycat has created a stuffed bunny so snuggly, it could snuggle humanity out of existence by 2030. We will only share Snuggle Bunny: Oblivion with the leading plushie labs until we are confident it's safe to release it to the general public. Also we definifely don't need regulators involved k thx
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Follow the Money EU @ftm.eu · 11/09/2026
AI data centres come with huge environmental costs. One British firm thinks it’s found a bold solution: power them with landfill gas and sell carbon credits for it. But that gas is already required by law to be captured.
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‘Money for old rope’: AI data centre firm criticised for dubious carbon claim
A British tech firm plans to power AI data centres with landfill gas, and sell carbon credits for the emissions it claims this will save. But the gas earmarked for the project is already being capture...
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euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · 10/09/2026
Finland’s first licence to mine a Natura 2000 site would set a deadly precedent for EU nature protection
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Finland’s first licence to mine a Natura 2000 site would set a deadly precedent for EU nature protection
The Viiankiaapa peat bog in Finland faces permanent destruction for a short-term mining project. Even more worryingly, this could be a dangerous test case for the interests of mining for minerals overriding the public interest to preserve nature.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
i don’t believe any of the current/former AI company employees “warning” us, sorry
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The Future is Stupid @stupidfuture.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Cap'n Crunch has developed a cereal so crunchy, it could crunch humanity out of existence by 2030. We will only be sharing Cap'n Crunch: Hubris with the other leading cereal labs until we can be sure that it's safe for the general public. Also we definifely don't need regulators involved k thx bye
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The Future is Stupid @stupidfuture.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind  - Emily Dickinson
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L. Shrew @seethingshrew.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I don't want to sound like a tinfoil hat kinda guy but between anti loitering laws, cameras, hostile public architecture, the disappearance of water fountains and bathrooms...they really don't want us to do anything but sit inside on our phones. They don't want us inhabiting outside
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The Future is Stupid @stupidfuture.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"True European sovereignty requires transparency, public scrutiny, and democratic oversight. Not reckless, brute speed that hands over our critical digital infrastructure to Silicon Valley." #SOTEU
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euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · 10/09/2026
As Ursula von der Leyen gears up to talk up her data centre plans in the State of the Union address next Wednesday (16 September), MEPs must question who will own and benefit from these data centres.
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Von der Leyen’s State of the Union AI data-centre dream will be a nightmare
As Ursula von der Leyen gears up to talk up her data centre plans in the State of the Union address next Wednesday (16 September), MEPs must question who will own and benefit from these data centres.
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The Future is Stupid @stupidfuture.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Media literacy for the anthropocene: When people say (as this article does) that climate change made a thing "eighty times more likely", you can think of that as: "if in the past this would have happened once in a lifetime, now it'll happen around once a year" www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Climate crisis-driven heat ‘sucking soils dry’ as extreme drought hits Europe
Analysis shows how heatwaves are making atmosphere thirstier, damaging water supplies, food production and power generation
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The Future is Stupid @stupidfuture.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"The Middle East is at a crossroads" like bruh we've known that since before they invented maps
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