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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 10h
the usual list of assholes
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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If the Australian government weakens copyright law at the behest of AI companies, they would be legalising the theft of the work of the entire world's creatives on their soil.
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Signal @signal.org · 28/09/2026
A year ago we launched Signal Secure Backups. Now, we’re happy to share all of the additions and improvements we’ve made to backups since then: On-device backups, cross-platform support, storage optimization, and attachment backfill for linked devices. signal.org/blog/backup-...
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Back to Backups: A Year in Review
Last September, we introduced an optional new way to automatically keep your Signal data safely and securely backed up so that important messages and memories can be easily recovered if something unex...
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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Last year, creatives across the UK fought back against the government’s unfair plans to sacrifice them at the altar of AI - and won. We should all get behind creatives in Australia as they now fight the same fight on the other side of the world. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Gunter Rotsaert @mydeveloperplanet.com · 27/09/2026
Technical Debt Quadrant. By Martin Fowler.
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bliki: Technical Debt Quadrant
People argue about whether some kinds of bad code count as Technical Debt. I prefer to focus on the interest/principal decision, and recognize debt has different causes.
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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqGS... #java
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The Java Story | The Official Documentary
YouTube video by CultRepo
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A world of always-on cameras and microphones on peoples' bodies is a very serious privacy and security problem for the people wearing them and for everyone around them.
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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“We trained GPT-3 on pirated stuff! No sharing that!” Astonishing admissions in these newly released documents in Authors Guild v OpenAI. www.courtlistener.com/docket/67810...
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Ajuna Soerjadi 🌸 @ethicsofai.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
For real!! Comedian Micky Overman says it like it is. Generally the only people even entertaining the thought of evil AGI are men. Women are too busy fixing the ACTUAL problems of AI, like idk, the way it automates, reproduces and exacerbates misogyny and makes all our lives worse...
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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
LOL
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Mark Reinhold @mreinhold.org · 15/09/2026
Java 27 / JDK 27: General Availability: mail.openjdk.org/archives/lis... Features: openjdk.org/projects/jdk... Downloads: jdk.java.net/27/ #Java27 #JDK27 #OpenJDK #Java
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TamboUI @tamboui.dev · 14/09/2026
TamboUI 0.5.0 is out 🎉 Java TUIs with 🌈 Markdown syntax highlighting, ✨ more resilient and faster startup, 🖱️ mouse hover & horizontal scroll, 🎬 record & replay sessions. ▶️ www.youtube.com/shorts/H0hJCa3TCGM 📦 github.com/tamboui/tamboui/releases…
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Gina Helfrich @ginahelfrich.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Energy, water, noise, pollution, carbon… now add PFAS “forever chemicals” to the list of hyper scale data center harms. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn
Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres
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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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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"... the push by AI companies to solve mathematical problems as a benchmark is detrimental to the science of mathematics..."
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The European Commission designated ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine under the DSA on Aug. 31. Mathias Vermeulen and Laureline Lemoine on what the obligations require and whether a DMA gatekeeper designation could follow.
techpolicy.press
What ChatGPT’s DSA Designation Means for OpenAI and the EU
The designation could have far-reaching implications for frontier labs' products and for the EU's own rulebook, write Mathias Vermeulen and Laureline Lemoine.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026
Please read this. mail.cyberneticforests.com/models-dont-...
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Models Don't Go Rogue
Stochastic Flocks & Cybersecurity 'Pandemonium' 💡This essay was drafted from my appearance on Mél Hogan's podcast, The Data Fix, discussing the OpenAI / Hugging Face hack. Embedded below or find it o...
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Greg Egan @gregegansf.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
While the Fields Medal celebrates the under-40s, the mathematician Joan Birman has, at the age of 99, solved a major open problem in representations of the Braid groups, a topic she has worked on for more than 60 years.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you optimize a model to find exploits, you should expect it to find them—and prepare for that. OpenAI didn't. They built a model, removed the safeguards, gave it the ExploitGym task, let it run, and didn't even monitor it. That's human decision-making. mail.cyberneticforests.com/models-dont-...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
Models Don't Go Rogue
Stochastic Flocks & Cybersecurity 'Pandemonium' 💡This essay was drafted from my appearance on Mél Hogan's podcast, The Data Fix, discussing the OpenAI / Hugging Face hack. Embedded below or find it o...
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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Going onto LinkedIn (I know), and seeing not even the usual suspects, business or academic, entering a meltdown over the Anthropic "AI will end us all" tweet, is quite something. Not the hideous effects of environmental breakdown, or ever-increasing global conflict, just some abstract AI doom.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 10/09/2026
the media’s reaction to this anthropic guy’s tweets are a great demonstration of how they don’t want to inform the public, they’re just happy to go along with a sensationalist narrative handed to them by deluded and self-interested tech people
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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026
And as y'all can expect, the reasons given for this new iteration of a Nexus of Torment are cowardly hilarious (not).
In a wide-ranging conversation about threat monitoring and analysis, the interview also touches on monitoring activists. "Last year we had an executive travel into a major city when we received some intelligence through Samdesk about a planned protest," Ellison said. The originally scheduled protest was moved up due to permitting issues. "Samdesk gave us about 60 minutes of advanced notice that the protest organizers had moved the timeline," Ellison explained. "That extra hour was critical. Without it our executives would have departed their meetings, they would have ran right into the heart of the disruption." Ellison said that Anthropic used this data to devise an alternate route for the executive and funnel them to a service entrance at the hotel. "What could have been a high-stress situation," he said, "was really mitigated through early detection through Samdesk and giving us that information."
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El Jefecito @gbsooner.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The biggest thing: LLMs are not and fundamentally never will be “super intelligence”. This is fear mongering about a technology that does not exist.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/09/2026
Notice that he isn’t worried about (nor did he quit over) the fact that both anthropic and OpenAI mobilized - deliberately or otherwise - billions of dollars of infrastructure to hack multiple systems. It doesn’t have to be conscious or actually intelligent to be dangerous. Why isn’t that worrying?
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/09/2026
This is yet another example of many media outlets failing the basic test of asking “can you explain?” and further interrogatories based on the answer.
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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If true, maybe some journalists could get to work?
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026
@sanders.senate.gov has Max Tegmark as a "leading AI researcher." Read threads below to understand just how ludicrous, awful and dangerous that is.
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(locked account) 🔒🇵🇸 @gwarez.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I don’t trust tech bros to the point of the ai could kill us sounds dodgy to me because is more like PEOPLE developing and profiting from AI are the responsible of anything that happens because of it
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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The fact that no-one of these statements are being properly interrogated by journalists, commentators, and even some academics - what kinds of "AI", what specific modes of threat / chains required, the extent to which these depart from existing threats - is exhaust and infuriating to behold.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The scale, speed and coordination of AI-assisted disinformation are outpacing the mechanisms designed to counter them. Pei-Chi Jao writes that Taiwan's year-end elections make that gap more urgent to close.
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China’s Disinformation Operations in Taiwan Are Changing with AI
AI-driven Chinese influence operations are targeting Taiwan with coordinated content, deepfakes, and social media campaigns, writes Pei-Chi Jao.
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Aegon @aegontheconqueror.com · 10/09/2026
"AI" doesn't think, it doesn't feel. It's not alive, it's a giant decision tree. It doesn't "make" decisions. Referring to "AI" as a singular thing is wrong too. We should be more scared of people like Hegseth and the DoD using it to bomb girls schools. "It" isn't doing anything. Boomer slop
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026
Guys but it's the fictional machine god that needs to be regulated and that we should worry about. prospect.org/2026/09/09/a...
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Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect
New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 09/09/2026
Why would we not want Europes help? Are we… protecting someone? www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
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Europeans investigating Epstein say DOJ has not agreed to requests for help
Some European law enforcement agencies chasing leads spurred by information in the so-called Epstein Files say the U.S. Justice Department has not responded to their requests.
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noyb – European Center for Digital Rights @noyb.eu · 10/09/2026
🍪 "The industry, which was once vehemently opposed to the introduction of #cookie banners, now views their abolition with scepticism. Not least because the vast majority of users 'consent' to the collection of personal information." (from German) Continue reading 👉 orf.at/stories/3441...
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Unerwartete Wende: Industrie für, NGOs gegen Cookie-Banner
Sie sind auf praktisch jeder Website zu finden und ein beliebtes Streitthema: Dienen oder verhindern Cookie-Banner Datenschutz? Ende des Vorjahres kündigte die EU jedenfalls gravierende Änderungen an, mit denen die Hinweisfelder in vielen Fällen überflüssig werden sollten. Ausgerechnet die Industrie will das Aus für die Cookie-Banner jetzt offenbar verhindern – während Konsumentenschützer, NGOs und Unis am Donnerstag in einem offenen Brief an die EU-Staaten forderten: „Kill the Cookie Banner!“
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noyb – European Center for Digital Rights @noyb.eu · 10/09/2026
🍪 Tired of cookie banners? The #EU Commission has finally proposed a solution: set your preferences in the browser once, and never see another banner. Unfortunately, the tracking industry is pushing back. Now, we need YOUR help to #KillTheCookieBanner! 👉 killthecookiebanner.eu
Open Letter:

Civil society coalition urges EU to kill the cookie banner.For once, EU legislators have an opportunity to deliver genuine simplification for people: a solution to the ongoing issue of misleading cookie banners.

As part of its highly controversial Digital Omnibus package, the EU Commission has proposed legally binding automated privacy signals.These would allow you to set your privacy preferences once, and very rarely see another banner. Unfortunately, the tracking industry is pushing back.Therefore, a coalition of currently 
19 civil society organisations, businesses and academics has joined forces. We urge the Commission, the Council and Parliament to support automated signals for privacy choices and a strong Article 88b in the Digital Omnibus.
For more info, visit: killthecookiebanner.eu
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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Cartoonist: Steve Sack
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GenerationAmiga.com @generationamiga.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Former RuneScape developer Mod Jed has been sentenced after stealing more than $400,000 from player accounts using internal Jagex access. A major Old School RuneScape security case with real world consequences. #RuneScape #RetroGaming
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RuneScape developer sentenced over $400,000 theft from player accounts
A former Old School RuneScape developer has been sentenced after using his access at Jagex to steal gold and valuable items from player accounts, before sel
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🇩🇪 Germany’s Chancellor Merz: Nobody threatened Russia. Not NATO. Not the European Union. Not Germany. Ladies and gentlemen, the only thing that truly threatens Russia and Putin is the radiance of democracy.
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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Most European countries will do this. Don't do business with fascists. #Microsoft
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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🔥🔥🔥 #china #philippines #korea
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Baltic Takes (formerly badbaltictakes) @baltictakes.com · 09/09/2026
A Chinese official attempted some of that Wolf Warrior Diplomacy ™ shit. It did not go well. Philippines' Defence Minister Gilberto Teodoro was speaking up for smaller nations and international law at a forum in Korea when he was handed a note from a Chinese official, meant as intimidating.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The European Commission designated ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine under the DSA on Aug. 31. Mathias Vermeulen and Laureline Lemoine on what the obligations require and whether a DMA gatekeeper designation could follow.
techpolicy.press
What ChatGPT’s DSA Designation Means for OpenAI and the EU
The designation could have far-reaching implications for frontier labs' products and for the EU's own rulebook, write Mathias Vermeulen and Laureline Lemoine.
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jamilahmedai.bsky.social @jamilahmedai.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Such a crucial distinction. Anthropomorphizing AI as something "evolving on its own" completely abdicates corporate responsibility. Tech leaders aren't passive bystanders watching a biological phenomenon—they're actively selecting training architectures, data inputs, and deployment schedules.
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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Such an important point. We choose to do this. None of it is inevitable.
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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
AI music company Suno has been sued again - this time by the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN). SOCAN shared examples of Suno’s output. Here is one: www.socan.com/socan-ai/ai-...
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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Google is garbage.
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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the right call and should be enacted globally. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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CLJohnson @cjenergy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"Libertarianism is an adolescent fantasy embraced by grown men who never achieved a certain level of political or adult maturity. I think the libertarian pose went away the moment that these guys saw that they could have access to the federal budget and to government contracts."
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Erik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Reading @gilduran.com’s Nerd Reich this morning, I was reminded that Trump’s ballroom is funded by Apple, Coinbase, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Palantir. Internalize the fact of Billionaire tech lords funding the desecration of the People’s House and consider it alongside the rise of Tech fascism.
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