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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 45m
Days before Brazil's election, Meta briefly blocked President Lula's campaign page from running political ads and removed an Instagram profile behind a viral video on Flávio Bolsonaro. Both decisions were reversed, but raised public concerns. Brazilian investigative journalist Laís Martins reports.
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On Eve of Brazil Elections, Meta Content Moderation Decisions Raise Questions
Two recent moderation decisions—while later reversed—have raised concerns about the company's policies and practices, writes Laís Martins.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 1h
Loll Yudkowsky, Soares and such AREN'T SHILLS? The Yudkowsky who founded the eugenicist, rationalist cult? The one who predected singularity to be 2025? The one in the sex parties that women have to attend to "network? The rape orgies with dubious consent mechanisms that Soares coorganizes?
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 2h
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 1h
“Asked for clarification, Anthropic issued the following statement: ‘The common good of, you know who 😏’ “
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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 2h
"Anthropic leaders to control AI lab via 'Founder LLC' to promote the common good" www.reuters.com/legal/transa.... If only Elinor Ostrom was still around to explain to these AI doomer numpties that 'common good' is something we decide _in common_, not via a cabal.
screenshot from linked Reuters piece which reads: "Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic has long positioned itself as the virtuous AI company. An early look at its IPO filing shows how it is creating a ​new "Founder LLC" vehicle aimed at serving the common good, while insulating its leaders from market forces.
The new LLC will be made up initially of Anthropic's seven co-founders including CEO Dario ‌Amodei, individuals who are "distinctly equipped to be stewards of our mission," according to a copy of the filing, seen by Reuters. Anthropic's mission is to benefit humanity through responsible AI."
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1h
Read this thread 🧵
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Immigrant Punk @porcupunk.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
If we want to talk about guardrails and safety of "AI," we should start with some basic standards and guardrails for software in the first place. Here's an idea - every instance of any defect, issue, hallucination, etc. by software is automatic $1K fine autopayable to user who experienced it.
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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 2h
« You're Not Businesspeople, You're a Business, People »
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
They’ve sunk everything into the idea that regular people somehow want a layer of enterprise software between them and every aspect of their lives. They can’t imagine people don’t want to run everything like a business.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4h
It’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 10h
One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 5h
a common misogynist pattern we've seen from oldschool twitter and of course offline misogyny: they seem to strip us of our job titles, degrees, even names and genders in some cases to help buoy their claims we're not experts nor scholars... I don't care that much personally, but it's a useful tell!
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 6h
I just realised a very funny irony of boosters who push for nuance within the booster class, cannot deal with nuance on other generalisations: they think AI critical academics agree on it all. A mistake more serious than generalising over e/cc and rationalists if you want to understand academics.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13h
Friends, while they're trying to talk about fictional machine gods, don't lose sight into what they're all actually powering in real life. You can browse the the entities on the website and use the API, and learn more about it on the DAIR project site: dair-institute.org/projects/sur....
dair-institute.org
Surveillance Watch
This interactive map reveals the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.
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julie, like jewelry @julie.alady.top · 20/09/2026
is it an ad hominem to write off this article before I've even read past the byline
An article from the Atlantic, entitled "The Data-Center Debate is Divorced from the Facts" written by Andy Masley. His bio reports Andy, before reporting on AI safety and policy, he led the effective-altruistic network in D.C.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 13h
A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 14h
I wouldn't mind a second and longer and more thorough MeToo tbqh
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You know this is my third or fourth go around with this kind of technological innovation for consumers and citizens. And a lot of it is the same. Same pattern of exaggerated benefits, underestimated challenges. What’s new this time is the sector isn’t even pretending to care about the consumer.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19h
Well, I guess the problem is that I have never said, “these companies are providing nothing to users.” So yeah. That’s probably the problem. But I’m a sociologist. I’m sure I’m wrong about that.
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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 14h
absurdi.tech
Du nom que l'on donne aux "affaires"
Dans Absurditech aujourd'hui, on parle de ce que l'IA fait à la réalité et à la culture
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 16h
Additionally, be aware of responsibility washing. See e.g. 📝 Amnesty International (2026). Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI. www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
Cover image of Amnesty International (2026). Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI. https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/pol40/0996/2026/en/
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20h
If you can’t tolerate that there exists a class of people who don’t use to-do lists to mange their everyday life, then you’re pretty much programmed for all the bad -isms.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20h
More seriously the way people* rapidly moved to contempt and dehumanization upon hearing someone is different from them in this very minor way is a bigger lesson for us all.
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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 21h
Look, the solution is obvious. Hold the execs accountable for the crime that the committed by their greedy negligence. Who cares about "superintelligence", what's rogue here is a number of companies with unsafe business practices which knowingly endanger the public
nytimes.com
OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models
Employees and security researchers said they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but OpenAI did not listen.
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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 20h
Bsky is behaving weird; did Paul Frazee fart again?
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hey, remember when engineering fields (all of them) took pride in precision, rigorous testing, safety standards, sufficient margins for error, etc? Yeah, that was nice. www.404media.co/these-tech-w... >>
404media.co
These Tech Workers Made ChatGPT Drive a Toyota Corolla
The team used frontier LLMs with no prior training data navigate a simple parking lot course.
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Xodanix3 @xodanix3.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For years. But they love predators like this and give them all the resources to spite survivors.
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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Tristan Waleckx @tristanwaleckx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pour rappel, quand #ComplementDenquete avait révélé le faux compte Twitter de Jordan Bardella, où il enchaînait blagues racistes et hommage au « grand sociologue » (sic) Alain Soral, il avait annoncé déposer une plainte. Deux ans plus tard, celle-ci n’a toujours pas été reçue
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Abstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What if every person at an organization who interacts with Microsoft salespeople sent them a link to this article and said "your product sucks and you treat your workers like shit so we're canceling our contract with you"
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/09/2026
If I’m reading this right, Anthropic has no choice but to IPO now because it doesn’t have the money to cover its computing / infrastructure obligations next year
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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
broke: LOL woke: LMAO bespoke: LLMAO
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Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In the same way that Walter Rodney famously showed how Europe underdeveloped Africa in an economic sense, Ruth First’s “The Barrel of a Gun” presented the case for how Europe politically underdeveloped the continent.
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How Europe Politically Underdeveloped Africa - Dissent Magazine
In a renewed period of coups across the African continent, Ruth First’s analysis in The Barrel of a Gun remains as timely as ever.
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.
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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it’s utterly incomprehensible to me that anyone can see this and still claim Israel hasn’t been committing genocide
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
and yet, trans people cannot go to the bathroom there
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justthisguy.net @justthisguy.net · 29/09/2026
Teach a man to fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to use agentic AI to take away the drudgery and do the fishing for him, and he’ll grow fat on fish until the market collapses and the data centers go dark. Then the fish will rejoice.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I read this with great interest www.bcbs.com/about-us/ass...
bcbs.com
BCBSA Analysis How AI Coding Tools Affect Healthcare Costs
Analysis of BCBS claims data found growing use of AI coding tools contribute to higher hospital billing costs and increased healthcare spending.
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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Teach a man to fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to use agentic AI to take away the drudgery and do the fishing for him, he'll rip your head off and defecate in your trunk.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's not even destroyed buildings and rubble it's just dust and ash
Cover of the Scottish national showing the genocide in Gaza (it's just complete annihilation)
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And they should not make life, death, or freedom decisions.
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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
[angry_goose.jpeg] « certain academics? which academics?? »
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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
« The Shadoks have four monosyllabic words in their language: "Ga", "Bu", "Zo", "Meu" (French spelling). But their brains only have four cells, so if they had to learn a new word (e.g. "Ni"), they would only remember the last four ones heard »
An drawing of a red bird, with "ga bu zo meu" in his head, the bird turns a crank and points at his head
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Laura M Williams @williamslauram.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This. When “frontier” started getting deployed in context of AI, I thought “Were there no humanities majors in the room?” Maybe some marketing team thought it romantically evoked pushing boundaries/space exploration. But it also connotes lawlessness, exploitation of people and resources, even death.
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 29/09/2026
much discourse today about using/automating AI for "household tasks" and suchlike but mostly it just bums me out because yes, it's a hassle to do a lotta things! but also those "lotta things" include tasks that enrich (or benefit) our lives -- from cooking to travel plans to doc appts
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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Tonight at 11:00... Doom!
Alt: Tonight at 11:00... Doom! from futurama
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RodianRomanovichWasRight @rodyawasright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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