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Bill Thornbro @billthornbro.bsky.social · 10h

The average data center in Ohio or Michigan is over 200 acres. That's huge. Light and noise pollution is intolerable. Water usage is huge. And NONE of our 50 governors live next to one. No senators. No congressmen. There are no data centers next to Mar-a-Lago. They expect YOU to live next to them.

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Trout in Plaid @troutinplaid.bsky.social · 6h

Of course they do. Multibillion dollar international corporations will go to any lengths to take advantage of grants and tax breaks, and regular folks get the squeeze.

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Trout in Plaid @troutinplaid.bsky.social · 7h

Honey, just because AI can use language to describe a feeling, doesn't mean it has a feeling.

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Trout in Plaid @troutinplaid.bsky.social · 12h

Remember what happened when we legally made corporations "persons"? We're sleepwalking into serfdom.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Nurses and community members are protesting in San Francisco today as part of the "People vs. Palantir" Global Week of Action. Organizers say the demonstration is focused on Palantir's work with ICE and concerns over immigration enforcement.

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Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Constitution #ai

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Sarah O @erniebufflo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is why I am always telling y'all you want your raw oysters to be from very cold water, and why I, personally, do not eat Florida/Gulf oysters raw, ever. Warmer water = more bacteria, a problem climate change is exacerbating. Love, your friend the oyster shucker.

people.com

Fifth Person in Florida Dies of Flesh-Eating Bacteria Linked to Raw Seafood

A fifth person in Florida has died of a flesh-eating bacteria commonly linked to eating raw seafood as cases of Vibrio in the state continue to climb.

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Gary Fowler 🇨🇦 @bayman1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Another reason to ban data centers, billionaires requiring the poor to pay for their vanity projects. Data centers and AI are a scourge on society snd must be removed!!

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Greg @gkri15263.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Tax these greedy bastards", they're the ones causing our problems with their greed and corruption.

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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This scandal should enter the national debate over data centers. Meta evaded $4B in taxes last year by using the "research" tax credit for its data center buildout. Tax accountants say it's highly questionable, the Congressional sponsor says buying supplies was never what was intended.

nytimes.com

How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes

Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.

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Money Power Politics with Stephanie Ruhle @moneypowerpolitics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A New York Times report reveals that Meta is telling the IRS that their A.I. data centers are a giant experiment or “pilot models” allowing the company trim almost $4 billion off its tax bill last year. #meta #irs #tax #money #a.i. #datacenter #markzuckerberg

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We present a typology of traps to avoid: 1. Believing that AI systems are minds 2. Believing that AI systems are theories 3. Believing that cognitive science can be automated. Learn to recognise and avoid these traps. Failure to avoid leads to numerous problems.

Table 1: Typology of traps, what goes wrong if not avoided, and how the traps can be avoided. Note that all traps in a sense constitute category errors (Ryle & Tanney, 2009) and the success-to-truth inference (Guest & Martin, 2023) is an important driver in most, if not all, of the traps.

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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So instead of Republicans passing legislation to regulate AI, Trump signed an EO that allows tech companies to police themselves. I’m with Rep Lieu (D-CA) Republicans need to get their asses back to DC to pass a law that has #GuardrailsForAI this is absurd.

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Credit to phil.beerson.for Re Stelco US owned steel company, he’s right ⬇️⬇️🇨🇦🍁

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Dr Karen Pinder 🇨🇦 🔬 @drkarenpinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

35%. THIRTY. FIVE. PERCENT. 😡

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Trout in Plaid @troutinplaid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Are our new Canadian sovereign AI companies going to be built from LLMs that are not based on theft?

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Trout in Plaid @troutinplaid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bill Gates says AI robots are going to be employees so they should pay income taxes. Will that mean they will collect income? Or are they slaves?

youtu.be

Bill Gates’s Blunt Warning on A.I. | The Ezra Klein Show

YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show

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Trout in Plaid @troutinplaid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The president and administrators who thought these men should not be prosecuted must resign.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Few remember the ancient bygone days of spring 2026, when we were reliably told by leading technology brothers that Anthropic was actually profitable (because Anthropic had said so and only stupid fools would doubt them).

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Ms.Sally 🇨🇦 @ms-sally.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

California company accused of shipping pesticide laden berries to Canada. We can't trust American product we should be able to trust that our government has adequate numbers of inspectors in place to protect us. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

cbc.ca

Whistleblower alleges millions of Driscoll’s berries sent to Canada with excess chemical levels | CBC News

A whistleblower lawsuit in California is alleging millions of pounds of Driscoll's fruit containing non-compliant levels of pesticides and chemicals crossed the border into Canada, and the company tri...

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"The greatest contributions to humanity — art, inventions, even products — show evidence of people who got lost in a problem & came out the other side with an idea they would not have found otherwise. That does not happen by taking a shortcut to the center. It happens in the detours." #GiftLink 🎁

This new dynamic worries me, not for the financial implications but for the creative ones. When we reach for the wrong tools too quickly, we eliminate the part of the process where our particular experience and point of view enter the work. I fear that A.I. is undermining what makes us most human — the ability to translate lived experience and nuanced thoughts into a unique point of view, and then to crystallize that perspective into something people can connect with.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just thrilled to see the re-release of Cyberselfish. It’s a hell of a book. Downright prescient. The only mistake Borsook made was in writing it a couple decades before people were willing to listen.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My pet theory is that, unless people get wise, the collapse of GenAI will be a boon for the AI industry left standing, as they pump more and more non-gen versions into sending algorithmic governance into hyperdrive. Everyone is looking left (hating GenAI) while the longterm dangers to to the right.

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Trout in Plaid @troutinplaid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hey I don't think AI is conscious, but if it were, wouldn't that mean we are creating a slave class?

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Nick Tsergas @nicktsergas.ca · 27/09/2026

Happening tomorrow in #ptbo

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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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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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You take our bike lanes, we take the road. Toronto showed up Friday night. 📸 @geoffreybercarich via Instagram

Cyclists taking the lane stretching kms of a city street

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Trout in Plaid @troutinplaid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Gift article. '"Perverse financial incentives are making it difficult to protect humanity from the dangers of A.I.,” the former Treasury secretaries Robert Rubin and Hank Paulson wrote.' I wonder if the Chinese people hate AI as much as we do.

nytimes.com

Opinion | What Happens if the A.I. Bubble Bursts (Gift Article)

It’s as though 2008 never even happened.

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Trout in Plaid @troutinplaid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If I were running for #ptbo mayor and wanted to "clean up the downtown" I would definitely consult with UHN's Dr. Boozary who set up hospital-adjacent supportive housing, and listen to @streetdrjill - they know what they are talking about. www.instagram.com/reels/DduXyn...

instagram.com

Andrew Boozary MD on Instagram: "Reminder we need more peer workers in health care. @tngcommunityto @uhn.foundation @nycmayor"

drandrewbb on September 25, 2026: "Reminder we need more peer workers in health care. @tngcommunityto @uhn.foundation @nycmayor".

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

AI propagandists are more willing to believe a computer program feels pain than a woman or black person.

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Trout in Plaid @troutinplaid.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Environmental and planning issues mayoral debate brought to you by 4RG, @ptbonature.bsky.social, and Reimagine Peterborough October 6, 2026, 7:00 – 8:30pm Peterborough Lion’s Club, 347 Burnham St

reimaginepeterborough.ca

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Trout in Plaid @troutinplaid.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Duh. Guess they want us to bail them out.

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Trout in Plaid @troutinplaid.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Charge Altman with accessory to murder.

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