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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I just had a second to tune into the MAHA shitshow. They have a bunch of techbros talking about longevity and how AI and tech will allow people to live longer. Of course they utterly ignore access to healthcare, income, and all other social determinants of health that actually dictate lifespan.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is but a glimpse of why MAHA is not about making Americans healthy. It’s about funneling money to people who are already wealthy and who prey upon others with pie in the sky bullshit.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

MAHA in a nutshell: If any of these tech millionaires actually gave a shit about making AMERICA healthy and not just themselves, they’d use some of their gold coins to feed children and increase access to healthcare instead of hoarding their gold like dragons. Yes, it is that simple.

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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How is this even a thing? HOW IS THIS EVEN A THING?!!!!

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“requires proofreading by a native English speaker" should be one of the things a reviewer *never* writes in a review. Never.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 29/09/2026

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’ve heard of crows doing this thing where they drop an acorn to crack it, but this is the first time I’ve gotten to see one do it. This crow was at it for a while before I started recording. 😊 They’re such problem solvers.

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Dr. BlackDeer @drblackdeer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As we head into National Truth and Reconciliation Day (Orange Shirt Day), try to resist the urge to say "listen to Indigenous voices," and try instead, "listen to Indigenous peoples." Notice how the shift in one word changes the entire tone?

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And just to be clear, I am not a doomer or a hype guy — here is my position on this incident: thebulletin.org/2026/09/rogu...

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Rogue AI didn’t breach Hugging Face, human decisions did

At the core of the Hugging Face hacking incident were a series of human choices that traded security for speed.

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Of course there was a prompt that set the system in motion; the system then wrote its own notes because it was optimized to do that kind of “collaborative text” and take action as a result. But there is no evidence any engineer prompted anything like “hack hugging face” or “cover your tracks.”

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’ve seen people say OpenAI testers *prompted* the model to do things like go online; etc. If that’s true, I haven’t seen it verified. It’s likely a misread of the report: the model wrote text (because it’s a language model) and that text worked as a prompt (because it’s a language model).

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 29/09/2026

I saw someone say “I read the report so you don’t have to” & then make this misrepresentation, you gotta read the report yourself (or listen to Eryk here) it’s turtles all the way down w/ false claims in this space, hold on to any real fact with dear life

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i know that shit fucks with yall’s heads, sometimes i think i know it better than you know it because part of the quest for frictionlessness is suppressing your understanding of the morally right way to behave. you can be a better man! do right things instead of nothing!

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i agree with the key point here and will add to it that there IS a reward, it’s knowing you did one right thing instead of walking around plagued by the nameless shame that afflicts all men who are determined to live the most frictionless lives possible

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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The risk ratio is so close to zero that these extensive data sets could be used as superb population controls for anything.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/02/2025

I am no longer accepting the argument "there are bigger problems than this!" unless you are personally working to stop the ultimate Heat Death of the Universe.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Notable Canadian reporter (formerly of the Toronto Star) gets it exactly right.

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Andrea Lathrop @cabernet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

30 people in this photo... 2 of them are women.

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Evelyn Lamb @evelynjlamb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Being a cyclist has really shifted my mindset about speed when I'm driving. Cycling, I often see the same cars at several lights in a row, so I know cars are going through the city about as fast as a bicycle. When I'm driving, I relax bc I know I'm getting through the city at 10-15 mph regardless.

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 29/09/2026

Liberal MPP Stephanie Bowman (Don Valley West) compared the project to the premier’s proposal for a tunnel under Highway 401. “Where is the actual plan to get this built?" said Bowman, "I think it’s simply more talk.” Read more from the Star's Robert Benzie: mrf.lu/2dypL

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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 29/09/2026

Ford emphasized the Ontario government, which is paying for a feasibility study, would be “an investor." “I’m just going to reinforce that we are not paying for this pipeline — we’re putting a small investment,” he said, declining to specify an amount. mrf.lu/2dyH9

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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 29/09/2026

Premier Doug Ford says Ontario taxpayers will help fuel a proposed 3,300-km oil pipeline from Alberta to Sarnia that could ultimately cost tens of billions of dollars. The premier said the project was necessary because of the existential threat posed by U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war.

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Doug Ford says Ontario taxpayers will invest in proposed pipeline from Alberta to Sarnia

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So let me get this straight, it’s ok for you ignorant twats to interfere in our elections and pressure our businesses to move there, but you are threatening us when we are NOT doing the same? Please, take your fucking threats and shove them up your collective asses 🤣 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Trump trade adviser says Canada will 'pay even more dearly' if 'you interfere' in U.S. midterms | CBC News

One of U.S. President Donald Trump's trade advisers is threatening repercussions for Canada if it "interferes" in the upcoming midterm elections — though it's not clear what he anticipates the country...

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Alberta Claw @albertonykus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

New microraptorian dinosaur Norellraptor barsboldi, with evidence from phylogeny and bone growth that microraptorians evolved flight independently from the lineage leading to modern birds: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🪶🧪 (📷Wang et al.)

Fossilized skeleton of a bird-like dinosaur, with close-ups of select regions of its body.

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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

First the Academy of Natural Sciences, and now the Sternberg Museum of #NaturalHistory. In a better world, leaders would divert some of the money currently being spent on AI or data centers to maintain our libraries, museums, and archives... #histSTM #histsci #STEM #paleontology 🗃️📜📚

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Sternberg Museum in Hays to close by year’s end

The president of Fort Hays State University cited a budget shortfall in the closure decision.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My first exposure to this guy was hearing him on Ezra Klein's podcast and being surprised that a computer scientist would say such things. Then, I googled him and learned he was not only *not* a computer scientist, but had never finished high school. Everything made a lot more sense after that.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 29/09/2026

it is sad. technology can be so very cool and the soulless big tech data-parasite paradigm has REALLY complicated being able to enjoy it (I wrote about this dynamic here): little-flying-robots.ghost.io/i-just-want-...

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I Just Want a Cute Robot Lamp That Isn't Evil

Apple's engineers have figured out how to design a robot lamp so adorable that everyone I've shown the video to says they'd die for it. By studying how to translate human expression into the movement...

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 29/09/2026

Hey read my latest article, it’s protective against basilisks, according to Bayesian inference

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Put up the video of the AI-generated Doctor Who. Let’s see it, let’s see how good it is.

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fifth-place finisher in a four-person IQ test

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Update: environmental groups say yeah, this announcement isn’t sufficient to mitigate the harms of the powers the government is giving itself with respect to endangered species (like the whales!). Soooooo a nice move in general, but insufficient in context. Which means Carney is indeed full of it.

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Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@timnitgebru.blacksky.app, a PhD in computer vision; Altman, a dropout funded by Musk and Thiel. One explains how llms/chatbots work; the other is part of a cult that blathers on about 'reasoning,' 'rogue AI, 'digital immortality,' and other nonsense. www.wired.com/story/the-bi...

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Timnit Gebru Believes There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AI

One of AI’s fiercest critics believes the doom talk is about founders making money, not saving humanity.

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As a scientist, I wish everyone knew that getting ‘bogged down’ isn’t actually a bad thing. Here’s why. 🧵 1/

Image of a scientist - me! - waist deep in peat.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026

corruption has endured federal U.S. public interest guard rails and corporate oversight no longer function but all our biggest news outlets don't think that's worth mentioning just weird toothless infotainment

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026

it would be cool if U.S. journalism could clearly inform readers that the trump administration dismantled what was left of our already shaky regulators and replaced them with perfomative vibes

"It's almost like a constitution, in a way," Mr. Trump said while flanked by SpaceX's Elon Musk, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Nvidia's Jensen Huang, OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Google's Sundar Pichai and a throng of other tech executives."

It's not clear exactly how the accord will work. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told reporters the AI firms agreed to "multiple layers of auditing and controls," including internal evaluations and external audits. The findings of auditors would be independently reviewed by each company's board of directors, Zuckerberg added.

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Nicole Guenther Discenza @ndiscenza1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The familect piece is wonderful1

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

According to leaks, Anthropic reported a $42B net loss in 2025. This was revealed as Anthropic is preparing a massive IPO and even bigger investments in AI infrastructure. How worried should we be about the AI bubble bursting?

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Brace Yourself for the AI Bubble

Are we watching an AI revolution, or a slow-motion economic disaster?

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am really tired of the AI stuff, but it's what we've got now. I think I'll do a thread here on the latest, rather than an LGM post, though. Quicker for me, and less annoyance for them. Ezra Klein interviewed Bill Gates on AI. This alone should be reason to shut them all down.

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Opinion | Bill Gates’s Blunt Warning on A.I. (Gift Article)

As A.I. capabilities accelerate, the technologist is shocked by the “complete lack of engagement” with the question of how to manage its risks.

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Well, That Was Spooky @thediscoveryofzero.com · 29/09/2026

This interview with @timnitgebru.blacksky.app does a good job puncturing some of this BS. I think the private sector often profits off of just this sort of move: hiding ‘expertise’ behind proprietary doors and then making public claims that can’t be scrutinized is par for the course in business.

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There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AI Says Timnit Gebru

Podcast Episode · Uncanny Valley | WIRED · September 29 · 32m

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The Sisko @patbits.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

what about in the ground

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