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Tristan Felix B.

@tristiger.bsky.social
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Emily Balistrieri, Japanese translator: Shihodo Stationery, People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals Are Nice, Tatami Galaxy, Until I Love Myself, Soul Lanterns, Kiki. he/him 日本語では: @tristora.bsky.social Never genAI.

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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 9h
I can't actually make it to the 10.7 march either, but there is one in Osaka planned by Kansai Gaza Emergency Action: 6:30 p.m. Rally at Shinmachi Kita Park 7:10 p.m. March departs (via Midosuji to Namba)
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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 21h
Really glad the JLPT keeps records going back more than 10 years. I ordered proof of my N1 cuz I'm sure I'll need it soon...
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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 23h
I can't make it, but here's info about an International Anti-War Day (Oct. 21) march planned in Osaka no-war.sakura.ne.jp/1021/
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10.21国際反戦デー 情報サイト
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
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....
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Surveillance Watch
This interactive map reveals the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.
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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Glad I kept this tab open! Definitely read it if you haven't >> www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Lorna Finlayson | Public Positions
Given much of the coverage of the Ed Sheeran-Macklemore debacle, you could be forgiven for thinking that Sheeran had...
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 30/09/2026
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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#StopFANUCNow ICYMI, this is what we're dealing with 😮‍💨 FANUC's unwillingness to take accountability and make changes is why this week is a global week of action 💢
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worldkidlit.bsky.social @worldkidlit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Teachers! Librarians! Does your school have a #ReadtheWorld display? Have students/staff run a reading project with an international dimension this year? Enter the Schools' Int'l Reading Award by 23 Oct Your school could win a 10-book bundle of global books! worldkidlit.org/internationa... #kidlit
Poster for the World Kid Lit Schools International Reading Award

Key details:
Promote international reading and your school could win a bundle of books from every continent!
Awards for
* Best “Read the World” display
* Best group project
* Best solo project
All ages! Free to enter. Open to schools anywhere in the world. Enter by 23 October 2026! Full details at: https://worldkidlit.org/international-reading-award/
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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#StopFANUCNow what to do in Japan for the global week of action >>> bdsjapanbulletin.wordpress.com/2026/09/25/s... (En) www.instagram.com/p/Dd0ST1uAVC... (Ja + limited En, fully bilingual in a more hours) zenko-peace.com/archives/25501 (Ja)
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#StopFANUCNow Global Action Week September 28 (Mon.) – October 4 (Sun.)
FANUC must take responsibility for its robots’ complici…
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Why is the outrage hollow? Difficult not to read this as "these lefties must know we aren't going to stop the mass killing, so why do they insist on going on about it? They made their token protest so they could say they were against it, now it's time to move on."
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"More than 900 wheelchairs donated by 2 Australian charities for wounded & amputee children in Gaza have been blocked by Israel from entering... shipments stuck in storage in Jordan since 2025 & ...charities calling on Australian members of parliament to intervene..." www.newarab.com/news/israel-...
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Israel blocks 900 wheelchairs for Gaza’s child amputees
Over 900 wheelchairs, intended for wounded children in Gaza, have been held in Jordan since 2025 due to Israel blocking the shipment.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
As I do each year I’m running the @unrwa.org 5K this year, a fundraiser! Last year we raised 1,025 and I’d love to beat that though I’m starting to fundraise later than I did last time. If you can chip in, here’s the link! getinvolved.unrwausa.org/fundraiser/7...
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2026 NYC Gaza 5K
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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
insufferable bros chatting loudly about how to use AI to decide where to eat. at a restaurant.
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“The azaleas growing by the new hospital’s gates are in full bloom, a bright pink that makes my eyes sore.” Read from Nao-Cola Yamazaki’s novel Beautiful Distance, translated by Charlotte Goff. buff.ly/jO5fjvU
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Beautiful Distance
The azaleas growing by the new hospital’s gates are in full bloom, a bright pink that makes my eyes sore. May is my wife’s favorite month. She’s always said that May evening skies are the most beau…
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
Democracy Now! has now gone from constantly inviting Max Tegmark to platforming people from none other than MIRI. That's right MIRI. Y'all know how bad that is? Do you understand the level to which they are doubling down on the eugenicists?
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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
listen: there's a level on which I don't like "hallucinate" for ai because it's inaccurate. there's another where it's offensive that we are shrugging off so "hallucinations" when we absolutely don't human ones. and another where calling it hallucinations is making it harder to look up human ones
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEW from The Key: In Southern Lebanon, villages leveled by Israeli bombardment are being erased twice: once by the strikes, and again by the removal of landmarks and records that proved anyone lived there. Zaynab Mayladan reports.
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“I Couldn't Tell My House From the Rubble”: How Israel Is Wiping South Lebanon’s Homes Off The Map
In a region where ownership is often passed down without documentation, Israel is strategically destroying villages to enable their permanent erasure, experts say.
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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The statement released today (only in Japanese atm) >> kojiskojis.hatenablog.com/entry/2026/0...
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【転載】次期駐日イスラエル大使によるデマに対する抗議声明 - 杉原こうじのブログ2
9月24日、参議院議員会館で行なわれた抗議の記者会見 ※9月24日、参議院議員会館での記者会見にて公表された抗議声明を転載します。エマニュエル・ナヴォンはデマと中傷をただちに撤回し、謝罪すべきです。 -------------------------------- 次期駐日イスラエル大使によるデマに対する抗議声明 イスラエル次期駐日大使エマニュエル・ナヴォン氏が、9月11日に行われた日本記者クラブ...
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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Next talks with the Ministry of Defense re: Israeli drones* are on Oct. 14 (Wednesday). METI will also be grilled about the Tower Semiconductor investment**. Highly encourage anyone who can make it to go. #NoGenocideDrones * www.change.org/p/mod-sumito... ** ir.towersemi.com/news-release...
省庁交渉の告知画像。以前の省庁交渉時の写真を背景に、白いフォントで画面いっぱいにタイトルが書かれている。
「防衛省と住友商事、日本エヤークラフトサプライはイスラエルの虐殺ドローンを買うな! 防衛省・経産省交渉」
タワーセミコンダクターへの助成について経産省にも質問します!
<呼びかけ>BDS Japan Bulletin、武器取引反対ネットワーク(NAJAT)、ジェノサイドに抗する防衛大学校卒業生の会

以下の実施情報は余白に黄色い字で書かれている。
日時:10月14日(水)14:00~16:30
場所:参議院議員会館B109
定員78人/通行証配布 13:30~
永田町駅1番出口徒歩1分 国会議事堂前1番出口徒歩5分
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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
✨ TOMORROW❗️ A Radical Proposal: Why literary translators should see themselves as workers and how building solidarity will lead to better working conditions across the industry, and ensure a more vibrant, diverse, and sustainable literary ecosystem not only for translators but readers too.
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Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Category is Books just had its window smashed in AGAIN. Fuck every person on the fence. Fuck every Just Asking Questions. Fuck every Labour MP, MSP, councillor and member.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
a critical weakness in far too many left-wing spaces is the lack of any real strategy for dealing with people who weaponize social justice language to lambast and tear down others while framing even the mildest - let alone well-deserved - pushback against them as bigoted abuse.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?
Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?
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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Press conference today to refute Ambassador-Designate Navon's lies. (For one: anti-genocide, anti-apartheid protestors in Japan are not funded by Qatar 🤷🏻‍♂️) kojiskojis.hatenablog.com/entry/2026/0...
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【緊急記者会見】イスラエル次期大使による悪質なデマに抗議します! - 杉原こうじのブログ2
戦争犯罪人エマニュエル・ナボン(次期駐日「イスラエル」大使) 2026年9月8日のイスラエル大使館抗議行動 【緊急記者会見】イスラエル次期大使エマニュエル・ナボンによる市民団体およびデモ参加者に対する「カタールから資金が出ている」等のデマや中傷、不当な攻撃に対し、事実関係説明と抗議の記者会見を行います!ご取材よろしくお願いします!! 9月24日(木)15時~16時※14時30分よりロビーにて通行証...
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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Israel is blatantly defying international law and the UN as a whole. Sign the petition urging UNGA President Rahman to suspend genocidal Israel from the UN ➡️ loom.ly/HrqDS8M
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lesbian al-gaib 🇵🇸 @unethicalcoffee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We're launching an online workshop for folks who want to help build our campaign to boycott Xbox! We'll chat about the industry's complicity in genocide, and how we build a movement to divest from it. And remember: BOYCOTT MODERN WARFARE 4. Come by ❤️💚🤍🖤
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worldkidlit.bsky.social @worldkidlit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#ReadJapan #JapaneseKidLit for #WorldKidLitMonth! Phenomenonal bluesky action from @readjapaneseliterature.com this month! and GLLI (Global Literature in Libraries Initiative) has an entire month of Japan kid lit this September glli-us.org #kidlit #kidlitUK #readtheworld #readasia #booksky
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Global Literature in Libraries Initiative
Act Locally, Read Globally
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
ICE are currently chasing and kidnapping immigrants in New Bedford, Massachusetts, a town that is at this point probably most famous for being the starting point for Ishmael’s journey in the great American novel Moby-Dick, which portrays a multiracial crew including many immigrants, working together
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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Btw here’s the side-by-side. Bigger as with Downpour, but also quite a different vibe this time 👀
The English edition of ゆきのこえ (The Voice of the Snow) is a little bigger and features a more playful image (of the boy jumping up and throwing snow in the air). On the Japanese cover, the boy is standing still listening to the snow, and the design features big, intricate snowflakes.
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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Voice of the Snow is outttt (tr. me) 🥰👦🏻❄️
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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Should have taken a pic of my lunch but I was too busy eating it 😋 Everything was delicious and the vibes are 💯 So many books (to buy but also a library)! Beautiful Tatreez! Etc. Etc. You must go. Simply a lovely place. I will post more next time. www.instagram.com/hakawati_boo...
The menu for 9/21/2026 Mezze Set (Halal) ¥1500, Mukhassan Roll Set (Halal) ¥1500, Cous Cous Set ¥1600, Algerian sweets for dessert ¥500-600. For drinks they serve Coffee, Sage Tea, Rose Soda
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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Suuuuper dreamy book cafe opened in Kobe 😍 #Hakawati
Colorful signs on the second floor balcony say Hakawati, English & multi-language bookstore, Palestinian handicraft & Tatreez, 輸入書籍販売、図書、軽食、パレスチナ手仕事作品販売、ハカワティ(語り部)ブックカフェ
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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Got to read Kina Hinata's debut about two girls in middle school who bond over their love of horror movies and start a secret club to train to be the perfect slaughtered extra. Out next month in Japan 👻
放課後死体クラブ(仮題) by Kina Hinata. The cover has two girls in sailor uniforms sitting on classroom furniture covered in fake blood (there are 3 bottles of it scattered around) One of them has long dark hair and band aids on her elbows and knees. The other has chin-length brown hair. I like the touch of adding their extra spicy cup ramen in one corner...
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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
404 Media mentioned ✅ So fucking bleakkkkk news.ntv.co.jp/category/soc...
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【独自】古書店で「謎の大量注文」相次ぐ……AI学習か 米国向け「日本の本 50トン」の輸出記録も(2026年9月22日掲載)|日テレNEWS NNN
日本各地のオンライン古書店に対して、今年8月ごろから書籍の大量注文が相次いでいることがわかった。古書店を取材すると「1日100冊売れる」「売上が5倍になった日もある」と話しており、業界内では「生成AI(人工知能)の学習データを集める目的ではないか」という見方が広がっている。さらに追跡取材を続けると、日本から米国に50トン以上が輸出された記録も。書籍がAI学習のために消費・廃棄されることは許されるの...
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Ask Google, Amazon, and Microsoft whether they consult Native nations before building a data center, and you'll get ... silence dressed up as sustainability commitment — as if the law here were unsettled, rather than two centuries old."
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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The #StopFANUCNow Global Week of Action is next week!!! Ping me if you need info for what to show up for in Osaka 🙌🏻 I can also hook you up to the group going to HQ in Yamanashi.
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Read Japanese Literature @readjapaneseliterature.com · 19/09/2026
#worldkidlitmonth Summer Adventures and Goodbyes—Four Japanese Books for Middle Schoolers by Sabrina Rossi of the International School of Amsterdam Books "all set in the hot Japanese summer and offering" *Two of these are written for adults but appropriate and delightful MG reads
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#WorldKidLit Month: Summer Adventures and Goodbyes—Four Japanese Books for Middle Graders
Today’s post comes to you from Sabrina Rossi: If summer feels already like a distant memory, you may want to dive into the following middle grade books, all set in the hot Japanese summer and offer…
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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
who wants to cowork in kansai 💻
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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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✿明るいさくら❀ @akaruisakura.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A performance by Age, a local street performer based in Osaka, known for his ability to play multiple instruments at a time and use rhythmic breathing. youtube.com/shorts/97EHr...
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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Sanma biryani with sweet potato curry 😭
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I have been yelling since 2021 about how using synthetic text extruding machines for information access is a TERRIBLE IDEA. And yet and yet and yet: they are marketing so heavily that way that people keep falling for it. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Search here to find the university, college, and high school FANUC programs near you (Americas). There are over 1,700!! >>> www.fanucamerica.com/cert-schools #StopFANUCNow
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CERT for Schools Automation Education
Explore FANUC CERT schools offering certified robotics and CNC training. Over 1,700 partner schools across the Americas prepare students for careers in…
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Truthout @truthout.org · 11/09/2026
National Nurses United, the largest union of registered nurses in the U.S., is demanding that hospitals cut ties with Palantir, with nurses citing the firm’s role in developing technology used to surveil immigrants in the U.S. and target civilians in Gaza.
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Nurses Across US Demand Hospitals Cut Ties With Palantir, Citing ICE and Gaza
National Nurses United is expanding its campaign against Palantir in a global week of action starting on September 28.
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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Make sure to read FANUC's reply to our inquiries and BJB's thoughts ahead of the global action week against FANUC, Sept 28-Oct 4. #StopFANUCNow #ShutElbitDown bdsjapanbulletin.wordpress.com/2026/09/18/w...
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We Have Issues With FANUC’s Reply
On June 25, 2026, eleven groups including BDS Japan Bul…
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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So ready to get some rights as a translator but admittedly not ready to quit being a translator. FML
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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Read the report: static1.squarespace.com/static/68f39...
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
Remember folks, take notes here: ✅ When your company hacking another one helps with marketing, its "OMG rogue models gone wild hacking other companies." 😱 ❌ When a hacking incident doesn't raise your valuation but shows you to be massive thieves, it's an internal "ah nice"


Matt Stoller
@matthewstoller
OpenAI's President Greg Brockman, when told his company had hacked the NYT paywall to scrape the site, responded with "ah nice."

That's a straightforward criminal violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. OpenAI executives in jail.

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woah. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. 
Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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Straight from OpenAI's Brockman and Microsoft's Nadella - 'doom loop' for the entire web [as they vacuum up and substitute the work of journalism and threaten their economic foundations]. /2
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Not good, OpenAI. "Read this NYTimes" article.. "Summarize" this NYTimes article... (NYT content in red). /3
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Blood boiling. Not a good look for OpenAI or Greg Brockman here:
 "ah nice" in response to "a hack to get around nytimes paywall" in his efforts "to scrape" The Times website. After many points on his bragging about OpenAI's substitution for news. /4

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The character of Defendants' conduct weighs further against fair use.
The transgressive and deceptive nature of Defendants' efforts to acquire Plaintiffs' content confirms that their purpose in doing so was fundamentally to avoid the cost of acquiring lawful
copies. OpenAI employees devised and implemented strategies to circumvent paywalls without
detection when scraping websites. For example, when Nick Ryder informed Mr. Brockman about
, hack to get around nytimes paywall" to help with Mr. Brockman's efforts to "scrape[]" The
Times's site, Mr. Brockman responded "ah nice." SF791. OpenAI's corporate representative on
the subject was unaware of any "method for detecting paywalled content" in its da…
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