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Taraxacum Runcation @taraxaruncation.bsky.social · 15h

Why is Adobe Acrobat so slow? Aaaargh

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Taraxacum Runcation @taraxaruncation.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Erm, I'm going to need another 2026 bingo card as mine doesn't have: Triumphal Arch with snipers and drones - FFS

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Alexander Laufer @alexlaufer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Even just replacing "AI" by "software" paints such a different picture. "our software broke out and hacked some organisations". Who's reponsible now?

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Taraxacum Runcation @taraxaruncation.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A cynical person might think that the Dover and Portsmouth protests are a useful, coincidental distraction from a political party's donations.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026

been reading university/higher-ed policies on the use of genAI in education. most policies propose using genAI safely, ethically, & responsibly, which is an oxymoron. the way current genAI is developed, deployed & functions renders the very ideas of safety, ethics, and responsible use meaningless

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

exactly 💯 on LLMs: they simulate the output we call language, not the cognitive capacity we call language!

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/08/2026

"AI, we’re told, will make learning more efficient. But is that what we dream of for our kids – an efficient childhood? To write an efficient story, sing an efficient song?"

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Dr Zubaida Haque @zubhaque.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

But it was never simply a question of “should schools be open or shut?” during the pandemic. The key question pre‑vaccine was: were schools safe enough to be open - for teachers, vulnerable children and whole communities – given the wholly inadequate mitigations the Johnson government put in place.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/07/2026

that second sentence doesn't make for an ad-engagement driving, attention-grabbing headline

"The hack came during an internal OpenAI test of its models’ security capabilities. The company deliberately disabled guardrails that are supposed to block high-risk actions."

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Observe the rank anthropomorphization here. Models don't "conclude" anything, nor do they "hack", "wriggle", or "cheat". You simply can't write clear informative articles about this stuff if you displace agency away from the people (organized into corporations) responsible. /fin for now.

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Rogue AIs going unsupervised for days, hacking at least one company, represent one of the first real-world examples of a threat long feared by AI safety researchers: loss of control. It comes as the cybersecurity capacities of top models, including Anthropic’s Mythos, have helped fuel debate in Washington about how to regulate artificial intelligence.

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Taraxacum Runcation @taraxaruncation.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Honorary Spaniard this evening. Come on Spain!

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 19/07/2026

First time in recorded history that a man has been simultaneously arrested by the cops and the fashion police

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Taraxacum Runcation @taraxaruncation.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

If England win this I'll be very surprised FFS 🤦🙄

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 14/07/2026

google's "why don't you want to use our documentation chatbot" survey offers a pretty good list of reasons not to use their documentation chatbot

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Using banning teens from social media as a backdoor to getting mass internet surveillance because people will support the former but not the latter is the same playbook as banning "porn" from the children's section of a library in order to implement total censorship.

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I also feel awkward telling professional writers which tools to use, but Markdown and git is a much safer, quicker, less distracting way to write than perfidious and faffy MS Word

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Labour can threaten a £10k charge on migrants and still it’s never enough for the hard right. Perhaps there’s a lesson here? 🤔

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Pixar make this buddy movie

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

This is why the use of “AI” as a marketing term is so corrosive. It means nothing, hurts good tech, shields harmful/useless tech. It’s a gimmick, it’s a sign of ignorance, it’s doublespeak

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Nathaniel Glasgow @ncglasgow.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I'm vaguely contemplating getting a new phone, and it seems like most of the new ones don't have an SD card slot? Like, where am I going to put my 65GB of music and 1 million photos? Also, they all tout their awesome AI features 🫤. I want a decent camera and an SD card slot and that's about it.

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Aibo - Zonny @aibo-zonny.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Trump The Peacemaker- "Smart people don't like me" ~ Donald J.Trump🇺🇸 British rant🇬🇧

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Trump The Peacemaker

YouTube video by Jonathan Pie

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

What we should be doing is investing in digital and regular media literacy education at all ages and efforts to improve social media and protect against surveillance for everyone

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Taraxacum Runcation @taraxaruncation.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

@thenerve.news It'd be a shame if someone were to look beyond Starmer's "under-16 social media ban" to what the proposals mean for every person in the UK re: personal privacy and data security. Also, what motivates this global wave of "think of the children"? Hint: surveillance - but who benefits?

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Taraxacum Runcation @taraxaruncation.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Starmer's "social media ban" is surveillance. Everyone will need an ID uploading, not just children. What could possibly go wrong with all those IDs in one place in the hands of an unregulated company? In other news, VPN companies report a bumper year ahead.

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pmf @clearlight.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Kids route around gates with VPNs, so "effective" enforcement requires age-gating VPNs too Each piece is justified individually: but together forms something far more sinister and once that infrastructure exists it's there forever, waiting to be repurposed by fascism

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pmf @clearlight.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Age verification is essentially identity verification, and in practice takes two forms: matching against government-issued ID, or facial age estimation. Starmer is announcing enforced Digital ID for everyone here. Otherwise you can't even begin to do this stuff.

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Ruth Curtice @ruthcurtice.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I was surprised to see a chart on BBC Verify yesterday - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... - highlighting that “defence spending has fallen as welfare spending has risen”. It didn’t look quite right to me so we took a closer look....⤵️

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What's happened to UK defence spending?

BBC Verify looks at the size of the UK military after Lord Robertson criticises the government over defence spending.

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 13/06/2026

Elon Musk having “a trillion dollars” doesn’t really mean anything except that the stock market is underregulated to such an extent that one morally insane capitalist can contaminate the entire global economy

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 13/06/2026

If you can’t tax billionaires & trillionaire because “its unrealized gains until they cash out,” then stop letting them leverage that wealth for loans, as collateral, or as equity. If it’s not real enough to tax—it shouldn’t be real enough to leverage. Abolish billionaires—Protect working people.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Tomorrow’s Independent front page:

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The Way Bac
Their promises of more jobs, more trade, more power for Britain have proved a con, Michael Heseltine writes as the Brexit vote 10th anniversary approaches. Never have so few done so much damage to so many with so little ability to execute what they lied about. Their scandalously false prospectus has turned to dust and ashes. Naturally, they blame everyone but themselves.
They are the guilty men and should...
...hang their heads in shame

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

One annoying thing about Aaron's clips is how he transcribes what they said and you think "that can't really be what they said, Aaron must've made a mistake" so you feel obliged as a good citizen to listen to it yourself and inevitably Aaron was right, that's really what they said.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 12/06/2026

llms don't and can't love, hate, feel, care, think, imagine, dream, hope, fear, believe, reflect, aspire, wonder, empathize,... fix your your anthropomorphising language

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/06/2026

It's hard to be excited about the Artemis III mission announcements when the CEO of the company making one of the mission's rockets has spent his week inciting racial violence via his personal social media platform.

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Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

“What the UK government wants instead is invisible surveillance infrastructure, switched on by default and potentially rushed into law under cynical pretexts”

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Taraxacum Runcation @taraxaruncation.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Part of zero is still zero. These companies aren't ever going to make a profit

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I really hope that some people will consider complaining to the BBC, this is a huge editorial failure. It is platforming paid-for corporate lobbyists in place of informed expert voices..in the week that the Pope joined the ranks of world’s most astute AI commentators.

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