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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 03/10/2026

Federal judge: "Freedom from persistent, dragnet-style surveillance while in public is not a foreign concept in our society & it is a reasonable expectation that society already accepts ... Why is it the govt's business where everyone goes all the time?" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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A police search using Flock was a form of ‘mass surveillance,’ judge rules

A federal judge said that police conducted an “unconstitutional warrantless search” by using Flock cameras to reconstruct a woman’s travels without probable cause.

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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is insane.

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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.

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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don’t believe AI has consciousness because it seems all discussion around it is marketing fluff.

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The Future is Stupid @stupidfuture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

EXCLUSIVE: CEO of Fidget Spinner Labs Inc. says that fidget spinners pose an "existential risk to humanity" and could wipe out life on earth "by the end of the decade" ... journalists, pause here. Do you see how obvious the play is here from the Fidget Spinner Labs' PR team? Good. Remember that

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The Future is Stupid @stupidfuture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Obviously though this was not an interview with Altman or Amodei, I'll keep digging for an example of someone asking them that Also she went on to ask "Are you prepping? Do you have a bunker?" which is not really a helpful frame

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The Future is Stupid @stupidfuture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here's a real answer to your question: CBS asked a version of this question recently: "Do [Anthropic and Open AI] have to abandon [their] profit-seeking mission [of building superintelligence]? It was in this interview with Jacob Coxon (he said yes, they do) www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNut...

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Extended interview: Ex-Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who warns AI could destroy humanity

YouTube video by CBS News

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The Future is Stupid @stupidfuture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Very good to see news organisations start to push back on "AI did it" and all the related industry spin about "agency" Companies that make products are accountable for those products Frustrating that it's taken so long for the media to get its act together, but at least some of them are wising up

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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
6:19 PM • Oct 21, 2014 • Twitter for iPhone
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32.7K Likes

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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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The Future is Stupid @stupidfuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One of the awful effects of this is it provides confirmation bias for those on the centre-left who want to pursue a losing strategy of trying to persuade the right (look! MTG has changed her tune), rather than energising and mobilising their own base. This shifts the Overton window to the right

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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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The Future is Stupid @stupidfuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This discourse is all like "Obviously God can be a lion, but can God be a woman?"

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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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The Future is Stupid @stupidfuture.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yes! That's where I discovered it. Brilliant documentary

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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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The Future is Stupid @stupidfuture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So the cult sees AI as "god and child and wife", which I feel explains a lot of the ick I get when I listen to the tech bros

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The Future is Stupid @stupidfuture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Don't forget arguably the weirdest part of the cult, the one that sees AI as a way for men to usurp women by creating "life": tech as a male womb, AI as a child of science, of reason and of man There's a clip somewhere of a 1970s Stanford lecture where one of the OG AI researchers lays it all out

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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

Courage calls to courage everywhere 💚

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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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Garth Marenghi's 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 now with 100% more 🎃 @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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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 · 17/09/2026

I noticed she's no longer talking about gas and hydrogen as solutions, at least. Every mention of fossil fuels was framed as either a cost or a dependence to be reduced. That in itself hints at the real solution: a full phase-out of fossil fuels. Problem is, existing EU targets fall short of that

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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.

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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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The Future is Stupid @stupidfuture.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I say this to everyone I know, all the time: Every sci-fi story the techbro freaks blather on about - apocalypse, utopia, eternal life, conscious robots - ***all of it*** serves to get you to think about a speculative future, rather than scrutinise the present reality It's real cult leader shit

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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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