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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

it's cool that Bill Gates' own wife thought the Epstein Files stuff was bad enough that she divorced him, but for the Thought Leaders he's still a guy in perfectly good standing

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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

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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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Ryan Hodes (The Stories We Tell) @thestorieswetell.co · 27/09/2026

If Elon didn’t want to be made fun of for how he is perhaps he could consider not being that way

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026

peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:

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Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people

Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’

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Ryan Hodes (The Stories We Tell) @thestorieswetell.co · 25/09/2026

In my new video I talk to the hidden, exploited workers who make AI possible, and explore what their stories mean about the future of work youtu.be/n21Zx_XZH28

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AI Sweatshops & The Permanent Underclass

YouTube video by The Stories We Tell w/ Ryan Hodes

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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

you guys broke watergate

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/09/2026

Two thing can be true. The WH kicking out media it doesn’t like is absolutely a First Amendment violation. And There is little journalism of value to be found in the highly controlled, substance-free halls of power—wall-to-wall navel-gazing about one’s access probably being of the least value.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 23/09/2026

nathan fielder: you're a real PNG file, right?

Elizabeth Holmes on a gray checked background looking totally full of shit:
why would I decieve you?

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Ryan Hodes (The Stories We Tell) @thestorieswetell.co · 21/09/2026

"The danger of AI, therefore, is not an emergent superintelligence, but the very fact that AI’s supposed “intelligence” is used as a shield from accountability. The danger is the new Cold War arms race, where AI dominance means geopolitical power and a re-entrenchment of American hegemony."

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The Real Existential Risk is Techno-Nationalism

We should not focus on “aligning” AI, but instead on dismantling the techno-nationalist narratives driving its acceleration

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

New: we are starting to get data showing what cops are using Axon's license plate cameras for, which are replacing Flock around the country. But we need your help: is your city using Axon? We have written the request you need to get this data yourself. Get it here: www.404media.co/is-your-city...

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Is Your City Using Axon License Plate Cameras? We Need Your Help

404 Media is filing public records requests around the country to find out how cops are using Axon's ALPRs. Here is how you can do that too.

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This NRA reference is also used by Latour! And I tend to agree with him: we need to look at the full "system," which includes the mechanisms, but also users, designers, bureaucracies, labor, economics. "The machine did this" hides that; "the process produced this" has to surface it.

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Ryan Hodes (The Stories We Tell) @thestorieswetell.co · 17/09/2026

Since the AI death cult is in the discourse right now, I figured I'd resurface a piece I wrote about its "rightful calif" who thinks it's not so bad to kill infants and likes to write million-word BDSM decision theory fanfic about D&D in his spare time www.thestorieswetell.co/p/the-worst-...

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The Worst Tech Bro You've Never Heard Of

And the bizarre AI cult he started

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It’s so awesome that every billionaire is insanely stupid

Mark Cuban: Hey @grok, which is more likely to create a human extinction event or series of events in the next 25 years, Al or Climate Change ?
Assign a probability to each
If the answer to either is yes, do your best to put a timeline for when you think it happens
If the answer is no. Explain why

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Ghost in the Machine @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The wait is finally over! Ghosties get involved @pbs.org Also airing tonight on your local PBS station 7PM PT, 10PM ET! "The one documentary with the power to burst the AI bubble" - The Wrap www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLQz...

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Ghost in the Machine | What is Artificial Intelligence? | Full Documentary

YouTube video by PBS Documentaries

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This conversation with @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social couldn't be more timely. With the AI industry talking about *its own products' potential to cause human extinction* we drill into who might still want to build such technology, and why. Hint: it's in the title of their new book.

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The End Times Fascists of AI, ft. Naomi Klein + Astra Taylor

Listen now (64 mins) | A conversation with Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor about “end times fascism” in the tech industry.

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is just a spectacular unintentional self-own

Dude on Threads: If you hate on ai, you better be pretty damn good at whatever you're doing

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Ryan Hodes (The Stories We Tell) @thestorieswetell.co · 11/09/2026

Really strange how politicians have decided addictive features are just fine for adults.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

Some folks will claim that this is hyperbolic, but what I wish people would understand is that tech initiatives like this serve as a means of eroding consent and lower the barrier for the persistent capture of people’s image, voice, data, or whatever else a gadget can glean.

pcmag.com

Apple's New Siri Recap Turns Every Apple Watch Into a Mass Surveillance Nightmare

Apple's always-listening AI feature promises neat summaries of your daily conversations, but it forces everyone around you into a nonconsensual recording experiment.

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Ryan Hodes (The Stories We Tell) @thestorieswetell.co · 09/09/2026

ICYMI, my last video went live recently. The video is about the colonial roots of the lawn, and how it symbolizes the erasure of everything that lived here before, from native ecology to indigenous peoples. Wrote about my additional thoughts & others' reactions to the vid here. Plus, discussion Qs!

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The American Dream is a Dead Lawn [redux]

Some additional thoughts + a discussion thread

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Ryan Hodes (The Stories We Tell) @thestorieswetell.co · 09/09/2026

We’re really speedrunning every dystopia at this point

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Ryan Hodes (The Stories We Tell) @thestorieswetell.co · 06/09/2026

I actually followed through on my promise to become a soccer fan after the World Cup

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

ICE got permission to cut open a Cuban hunger striker’s stomach and insert a gastric tube to make him easier to forcefeed Nuremberg trials are too merciful for these monsters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube

Exclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My friend and codefendant Brian Straw is running for reelection as Oak Park trustee to make his community safer through bikable infrastructure, housing + immigrant protections, and rebuking surveillance. He’s one of the best people I know — and a NIMBY nightmare: secure.actblue.com/donate/brian...

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Donate to Brian Straw

Show your support with a contribution.

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Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It was great to join CNN International/PBS on Amanpour and Company to discuss the OpenAI/HF incident, and how this is actually a story about OpenAI’s intent and lack of responsibility in deploying the most rudimentary security practices. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwv8...

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What Really Happened When OpenAI Bots Escaped a Cybersecurity Test? | Amanpour and Company

YouTube video by Amanpour and Company

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

As the OG Astra I want to say: OpenAI sucks, Sam Altman is a fascist, and my name deserves better. The meaning of astra is stars. It should connote wonder at the beauty of the cosmos, not a blinkered obsession with profit and a willing to burn this world for a vampiric facsimile.

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Ryan Hodes (The Stories We Tell) @thestorieswetell.co · 02/09/2026

People on Letterboxd just be saying shit, huh?

Review of Koyaanisqatsi 1982: “In the top 10 movies to watch while on drugs.”

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"Besides being deeply cynical, Chomsky’s supposed pragmatism has not stood the test of time...We may have manufactured consent once upon a time, but America has long since transitioned to a post-manufacturing economy." Very harsh but worthwhile read. strangematters.coop/noam-chomsky...

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Chomsky After Epstein - Strange Matters

Noam Chomsky – friend of Epstein, defender of dictatorships – was no model anti-imperialist. Can we do better?

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Ryan Hodes (The Stories We Tell) @thestorieswetell.co · 28/08/2026

As expected, @hypervisible.blacksky.app brought the smoke to the latest episode of Blood in the Machine. Btw, BITM is now on instagram (www.instagram.com/bloodinthema...) and TikTok (www.instagram.com/bloodinthema...)

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Ryan Hodes (The Stories We Tell) @thestorieswetell.co · 27/08/2026

The recent AI rare book destruction may be undertaken simply as a cost saving measure, but it's worth exploring how neatly it fits into the broader project of AI, whose goal is to make the chatbot the unquestioned source of truth. My latest, under my fresh new domain 😮‍💨

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AI & The War on Knowledge

Plus, a refresh of this newsletter

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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 26/08/2026

Ok, what if (hear me out) we called these places for what they are actually doing?

Geordie LaForge meme

No: AI training facility
Yes: books & knowledge destruction facility

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Ryan Hodes (The Stories We Tell) @thestorieswetell.co · 25/08/2026

We are not just cooked. We are burnt to a crisp.

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I’m less interested in what a law says than in how it’s enforced. Illinois claims to be a sanctuary state, but JB Pritzker arrested more people at Broadview than Trump. And now it turns out our prosecutors are passing on tips to ICE.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/08/2026

Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/democratic-socialism-m…

MYTH: The government will take away your money and give it to the poor.

FACT: You are the poor.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 15/08/2026

It’s official: the Nerd Reich podcast is getting banned from YouTube….the week of my book launch! Incredible timing, since I’ll be all over the media next week talking about tech fascism. They can delete my account. They can’t stop my work. Buy the book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This is the latest episode of the Blood in the Machine podcast I've been experimenting with a bit, w/ producer @storieswetell303.bsky.social This was a particularly fun, if dark chat — if you find this interesting, subscribe and all that stuff below let me know what you think

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The State of the AI Bubble with Ed Zitron

How much further can the AI bubble inflate before it bursts? What might cause the ultimate puncture? Why aren't more people worrying about this? A dive into all those questions, and more.

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Ryan Hodes (The Stories We Tell) @thestorieswetell.co · 14/08/2026

"A great longing is upon us, to live again in a world made of gifts." - Robin Wall Kimmerer Part three of my upcoming video is about reciprocity, and how it can heal our culture and our economy. Enjoy! windblowncuriosities.substack.com/p/to-live-in...

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To Live in a World of Gifts

How reciprocity can heal our culture

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Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Classic Silicon Valley. Something is announced (or leaked). There is massive push back. They walk it back and say they won't do it. Wait. Do it anyway.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

You don’t have to like this guy‘s politics to recognize that everyone who has insisted for decades that The Issues are almost all too complicated and too nuanced to explain to voters let alone address was lying to you.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/08/2026

If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.

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Ryan Hodes (The Stories We Tell) @thestorieswetell.co · 10/08/2026

The American Dream is a dead lawn, but a dead lawn represents, to me, the opportunity to build something better. Something dynamic, diverse, flourishing, full of life and hope. Part one of my next essay available now: windblowncuriosities.substack.com/p/the-americ...

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The American Dream is a Dead Lawn

Like the genocide of indigenous Americans, the lawn is built upon the extermination of what lived here before

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are you not infotained @alopex-ii.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Getting iced by a swat sniper because I dropped a plate in my kitchen

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