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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

Reading proofs from book & remembering what I wrote in 2015: "I am very concerned about the future of AI. Not because of the risk of rogue machines taking over. But because of the homogeneous, one-dimensional group of men who are currently involved in advancing the technology.”

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Glyph @glyph.im · 27/09/2026

It's not even "I wrote some software and put it in a product and the product did a harm and I'm maybe fractionally culpable in a way that's really hard to apportion" any more. It's just "I set up a computer to do crimes and I spent ten million dollars on electricity to prove it could do crimes […]

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 22/09/2026

Oh my god it’s funny because it’s true — take a gander at the video and then read up: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunnes_...

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Dunnes Stores strike - Wikipedia

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Onur Erdur @onurerdur.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ich habe in den letzten 24h keine einzige Nachricht in den Medien lesen dürfen, in der nüchtern konstatiert wird, dass am letzten Sonntag ein völlig inkompetenter + korrupter CDU/SPD-Senat, der Berlin weiter kaputt gemacht hat, nach drei entsetzlichen Jahren demokratisch abgewählt worden ist.

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svckr.eurosky.social @svckr.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026

[writing down game rules] 1 - start over, better luck next time 2 - you defeat the enemy, move ahead one square 3, 4, 5 - you hacked the game, take a shortcut, move ahead number of eyes on the die 6 - shoot yourself in the head, next player [rolls die] 6 „Dice are an extinction level risk!“

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I just wanted to write about physics! But noooo, a fucking sex cult had to take over Silicon Valley and the entire public discourse about technology and the future while aiding the rise of fascism, and I felt duty-bound to write about that instead LOOK WHAT THEY MADE ME DO

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More Everything Forever

This "smart and wonderfully readable" (New York Times) exposé shows why Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death...

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Just absolutely wild to see so many people discovering the massive influence of the rationalists in real time and say things like "I wish I could unlearn what I've learned in the last 24 hours." I, and others, have been researching these people for YEARS. There is so much I wish I could unlearn.

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svckr.eurosky.social @svckr.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026

Delighted to see that, even without sound, even without knowing it was him, he comes off as the most unlikable twat imaginable ❤️

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Macklemore just shared that he’ll be donating his net tour earnings ($1 million) to 6 Palestinian aid orgs, and invited billionaire Robert Kraft to do the same. Calls for people to focus back on Palestine. “When the news cycle moves on, which it will, don't move with it. Free Palestine.”

Post from Macklemore of white text on a black background. Caption reads: These are the organizations I am donating to. I invite you to join if you're able
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With everything that has happened over the last 48 hours, I want to bring the conversation back to where it belongs: to the Palestinian people who are still being killed, still living under military occupation, and still fighting for their freedom.
I will be donating the entire $1 million of my net earnings from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour to six organizations working directly to support the Palestinian people. And I invite Robert Kraft to match my donation. Whatever we disagree about, perhaps we can agree on this: Palestinian lives are worth protecting. A Palestinian life is no less valuable than any other life on this earth.

That is what this has always been about. Not me. Not a tour. Not the headlines or the controversy. It is about Palestinians right to freedom, dignity and safety in their own homeland.
I want to center the parents carrying their children into hospitals without the basic resources to treat them, and the physicians, paramedics, journalists and aid workers who keep going back in. I want to center the organizers and activists who have paid real costs for standing with Palestine. Their risk is of a far different order than mine.

Just yesterday, 15 year old Muhammad al Zinati was killed in an Israeli strike while rushing to help aid worker Sherif Lubbad, who had already been injured.
He was a child. Both were murdered. Both should be alive.
And the ones still under the rubble, whose names exist only in the memories of people who may not have survived to speak them.
Writing a check is one of the least costly forms of solidarity available to me. I am doing it because I can, and because these organizations are doing the work while much of the world debates it.

But aid alone cannot address the conditions that make it necessary. This is a manmade injustice, and | believe it requires immediate political change.
Palestinians have lived for decades without basic rights and should not have to wait another day to be free.
That is where my focus will remain. I will continue to stand with the Palestinian people and their fight for liberation.
When the news cycle moves on, which it will, don't move with it.
Free Palestine.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

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I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse

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tante @tante.cc · 15/09/2026

"As soon as you stop believing that you need to take Anthropic rationalists or weird freaks working at Meta seriously you have to challenge the dominant narrative of tech being the well of progress and future." Rediscovering The Spark

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 10/09/2026

The obvious self-mythologizing aside, once again noting that it seems like the AI labs are running a criminal conspiracy to engage in offensive cyberops against other developer infrastructure.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 10/09/2026

It's unbelievable how gullible people have to be to take their narrative explanation at face value, and how deeply irresponsible the AI labs have to be at bog standard cybersecurity practices for this to keep happening if they weren't doing it on purpose.

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the most typical @jazzpomegranate.com · 10/09/2026

humanity is perfectly capable of killing itself, thank you

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Once again, there's a reason they won't spell out how we'd go extinct. Are we getting Jurassic Park'd because the AI is reinventing dinosaurs? Are they getting access to the nuclear codes and hypnotizing the president into using them? They are referring to bank/infrastructure hacks and exaggerating.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/09/2026

Maybe he parlays this into a “safety role” at some startup or a non profit thing. Perhaps Google for an “alignment role.” Or perhaps a venture capitalist role where he invests in ai safety. I severely doubt he isn’t going to seize this moment to leave the ai industry or tech

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Haunter @holybible.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

They're intentionally constructed to convert bsky.app/profile/elec...

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The other issue is that it's not just fundamentally rooted in capitalism, but in a very particular death cult of it. There are so many better, easier, smarter tools that you could build with these same principles, and the reason they're going with this instead is because they're in that cult

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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026

The thing is "in a vacuum', this technology † would not even exist, because there would be no workers to exploit, no intellectual property to steal, and no minerals to exploit under appalling conditions. † I assume we mean LLMs in this thread, but it applies to many technologies.

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Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I am so goddamn sick of the naive "ackshually this fundamentally capitalist project would be cool without capitalism"

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Initially I was frustrated with the rise of self-checkout but I appreciated how stores passed the savings on to me rather than pocket the money, fire armies of workers & make me do a job I suck at. It’s also why I’m optimistic about AI! I have been kicked in the head by several horses.

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jenn schiffer 😎 @jennschiffer.com · 09/09/2026

something is wrong with these people. i get letting your job give you a lil psychosis - i mean, peeling 100000000 shrimp for outback steakhouse while my frontal lobe was developing certainly made me a little nutty, but holy shit lol i will not be losing sleep from, of all things, ai dev doom posts

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jenn schiffer 😎 @jennschiffer.com · 09/09/2026

resigning now from your ai job bc your bosses give you a weird vibe all of a sudden? you sound like a dumbass

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jenn schiffer 😎 @jennschiffer.com · 09/09/2026

if your bosses are making a thing that’s apparently going to kill people then literally what am i supposed to do that you don’t have more access to do? buy stocks?

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👻🎃 Bundescancleramt 🎃👻 @ellebil.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

„Wir dürfen die AfD-Wähler jetzt nicht beschämen. Beschämung ist ein wichtiges politisches Instrument, das wir für Bürgergeldempfänger benötigen. Ich bitte da um etwas Disziplin.“ Friedrich Merz

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Every time I hear climate/enviro folks casually say the 1.5°C target is dead, I think of Asad Rehman's 2020 post on Ambassador Lumumba Di-Aping's intervention in the Copenhagen talks in 2009—“certain death for Africa”, “climate fascism” imposed on Africa by high carbon emitters

19 Nov 2020 tweet from Asad Rehman

"When I hear net zero 2050 l always remember Ambassador Lumumba (the Chair of the G77) at the Copenhagen climate talks in 2009 when he said 2c "certain death for Africa", & a type of "climate fascism". The UK, EU, Obama's US supported by big northern NGOs opposed 1/1.5c target.
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Image shows 3 men, the gentleman in the centre is lead G77 negotiator, Lumumba Di-Aping of Sudan

Screenshot of a thread of 3 tweets from Asad Rehman continuing from previous tweet (19 Nov 2020)

"He sat silently, tears rolling down his face, put his head in his hands & said "We have been asked to sign a suicide pact." & that Africa is being asked to "celebrate" this deal for $10 billion. "$10 billion is not enough to buy us coffins". This is a colonisation of the sky 2/"

"The global North want to ignore historical emissions & allow their citizens to carry on emitting & prevent African countries from lifting their people out of poverty. "It is unfortunate that after 500 years-plus of interaction with the West we are still considered disposables"."

"I would rather die with my dignity than sign a deal that will channel my people into a furnace." He called for "One Africa, One degree" & "Two degrees is suicide". It was clear then that rich country govts & big NGOs were more than happy to sacrifice the global South. 4/"

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"Now despite the science, the urgency, the devastating impacts we are told that 2030 targets are radical & we should be pragmatic. Anti-racists & #climate justice activists should not accept 'channeling the people of the global South into the furnace' by supporting net zero 2050"

"In 2009 global South countries were calling for cuts of 80% by 2030 by rich countries & to pay their climate debt because even then the IPCC said 2c globally means 3.5c across every region of Africa. Since then the science is even clearer that preventing a breach of 1.5c is key"

"Today the UK is 16th highest global emitter, 6th highest historically, responsible for 3.5% of global emissions. Just to meet it's fairshare of emissions cuts for the 1.5c budget - it would be -200% by 2030 so it would need to be at zero by 2030 & transfer £1 trillion to the poor"

Image shows an infographic on the UK's Climate Fair Share from waronwant.org

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Pernicious and gay little ghoul🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @gremlinjess.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This is so unbelievably fucking funny man he's the only example we have in the modern era of someone definitely, provably, 100% verifiably going to hell

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Anyway, what if the end of the world looks like an argument between one guy on X who's made 400 charts to explain why he's right and everyone else saying, "don't do that" till everything explodes.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Hyperscale data centres are a great example of the tech industry's inability to read the room. The vibe is *all wrong*. They're the physical instantiation of extractive "repent never" capitalism and no amount of whatabouting about "actually they use less water than you think" makes that better.

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Stella @lecieldeparis.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026

Don’t threat us with a good time

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Ein Bündnis von Linken, SPD und Grünen wäre für die deutsche Hauptstadt fatal, könnte aber schon bald Realität werden. Es drohen die Verstaatlichung von Konzernen, ein extrem regulierter Flughafen und linksradikale Asylpolitik.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 23/01/2026

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

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rob cham! @robcham.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

DIY > AI

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 30/11/2025

We can't really say this enough... > Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate. www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...

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AI tools are 'deskilling' workers, philosophy professor says

A philosophy professor warns that AI reliance is weakening workers' judgment, creativity, and problem-solving.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 16/08/2026

There's even research into it, hilariously from pro AI people... It's like how even the petrochemical industry discovered they would ruin the planet Tully, S. M., Longoni, C., & Appel, G. (2025). Lower Artificial Intelligence Literacy Predicts Greater AI Receptivity. Journal of Marketing.

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Lower Artificial Intelligence Literacy Predicts Greater AI Receptivity - Stephanie M. Tully, Chiara Longoni, Gil Appel, 2025

As artificial intelligence (AI) transforms society, understanding factors that influence AI receptivity is increasingly important. The current research investig...

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026

Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.

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Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned

Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Cybersecurity LinkedIn has had too much sun. Presented for your enjoyment because I am still crying laughing This could be peak cyber LinkedIn I’m not sure

I celebrated a wedding at the weekend.
It was simple, beautiful and incredibly heartwarming.
Two people starting something new, surrounded by people who will support them along the way.
And it made me think about those starting out in cybersecurity.
Cyber can feel overwhelming at the beginning.
There's so much to learn. So many certifications. So many different paths. And so many people who seem to know far more than you do.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 07/08/2026

Hello local business, your AI ads are costing you customers: aftermath.site/ai-poster-ad-f...

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Peter Jelinek @peterjelinek.eurosky.social · 07/08/2026

Kanzler Merz: "wenn sich diese Wetterentwicklungen fortsetzen“, werde er "gegebenenfalls auch öffentlich etwas sagen". Verkehrsminister Binger: "Wir können das Wetter nicht beeinflussen, aber wir können dafür sorgen, dass unsere Wirtschaft..." Für die Merz-CDU ist das also alles "Wetter"...🌎🔥

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