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Saga, sighs queen @saga.iam.bi · 08/10/2026
In case anybody wants a source for this story that *isn't* on a website using AI and doesn't read like it was written by AI, here ya go: heritageheadlines.com/rare-west-vi...
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Rare West Virginia Chestnuts Sit Near a Massive AI Data Center Plan - Hopewell Heritage Headlines
Advocates warn that blight-surviving American chestnuts near Mason County’s former state nursery could be lost to AI data center construction. State…
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
gadgetreview.com
One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
The average increase on code volume after the adoption of agentic AI studying 700 firms is 4,000 additional lines of code per programmer. The advantage of junior engineers writing code without the use of AI is senior engineers had to spend less time on code reviews.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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Brendan Sinclair @brendansinclair.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
New EA patent has some unusual ideas about game dev roles.
Chart with y-axis showing "skill level" from novice to expert, graphing a line of "level of creative participation" with increasingly higher skill levels.
Novice = Player
Beginner = Level Designer
Intermediate = Game Designer
Advanced = Technical Game Designer
Expert = Game Programmer / Artist
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Dr. RawheaD @rawhead.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm sure the entire news media will be asking JD Vance et al. if they rebuke Yarvin (∩´∀`)∩
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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
remember this?
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 07/10/2026
Google has been ordered to temporarily stop work on two datacentres in Finland after failing to do the necessary environmental impact assessments on its construction sites. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Google told to halt work on datacentres in Finland over environmental concerns
Order on two construction sites comes after Google failed to carry out environmental impact assessments
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We need to be less hysterical about potential AMOC collapse in 2100 and way more hysterical about the actual mega El Niño in 2027.
politico.eu
A climate nightmare lurks in the Atlantic. Europe is starting to pay attention.
A slowdown of ocean currents that would disrupt life on the continent on an unthinkable scale.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Listen to Jim, he’s 100% correct.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
At least $260 billion in data center projects have been cancelled so far this year due to local organizing and opposition, according to Heatmap. heatmap.news/daily/260-bi...
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Exclusive: Data Center Cancellations Top $260 Billion in 2026
Local opposition has exacted a much higher cost for developers than has been previously understood, according to new Heatmap Pro survey of public records and financial information.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I don't think we'll ever be done with the "I fucking told you so's." The Food Research & Action Center reported that these changes would weaken safety nets and worsen food insecurity for low-income families: frac.org/blog/project...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 07/10/2026
So many of the world's worst industries keep threatening us with a good time www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Equinor may stop investing in UK if oil and gas fields do not get go-ahead
The boss of the Norwegian state company says further investment in the UK could be at risk if Rosebank and Jackdaw are not approved.
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 07/10/2026
In the last 24 hours, Elon added $5,423,645.66. New totals include: $13,131,789.48 vs @jamestalarico.bsky.social $6,308,848.86 vs @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social $5,117,111.82 vs @abdulelsayed.bsky.social $1,991,872.98 vs @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social $1,176,301.42 vs @troyjackson207.bsky.social
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 07/10/2026
there's a lot going on right now, but the ability to buy elections in order to stay out of prison is on the ballot whether you realize it or not
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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glscienze.bsky.social @glscienze.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
When she said the small town will pay $10,000 LESS, they should never have been forced to pay for an illegal tariff to begin with. You don’t get credit for stopping punching me in the face when you never should have punched me in the face in the first place. She sounds like a doddering old fool
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ok, now that shit is funny. And more true than not, regarding many men.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There is a suspected outbreak of the plague in Russia. Yes, you read that right. And we cannot trust RFK Jr. and the Trump administration to be prepared to deal with this. We need a Democratic public health doctor in the US Senate.
axios.com
Scoop: White House monitors suspected plague outbreak in Russia
Administration is "aware, monitoring the outbreak, and assessing options," an official told Axios.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I know Tony and Wendy well. They're good friends and long-time Greens, and they've spent decades fighting to protect the Hunter Valley they love. Today they took on the fossil fuel giants and got an important win.
Guardian article screenshot. Headline: Hunter Valley community group wins landmark high court climate change case over coalmine.Photo of David Shoebridge, Larissa Waters, Wendy, and Tony standing together and smiling in a Parliament office
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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 🇨🇦 🍁 🇸🇪 🇵🇷 @vero1986.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
San Diego hosts more than 115,000 active-duty military personnel (with some regional estimates and related defense figures putting the active-duty and broader service population over 130,000). So he's OK with bombing our Military. This is who 77 million voted for. It's stunning.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
incredible this will get little to no coverage
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Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 07/10/2026
What does the inequality crisis look like? This 👇 98% of public schools are underfunded – that’s 2.6 million kids without the resources they need for the education they deserve. Yet the richest private schools are charging massive fees while banking billions of public dollars.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Seriously 👇
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/10/2026
This is a good illustration of how so much of AI theft isn't indirect (ie, data sucked into a model to train the chatbot) - it's actually **direct** copying, but *enabled* by GenAI. Of course it is: chatbots absolutely suck at creating good, new stuff.
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Ty @ty2743.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is one of the better articles I've seen on the risk of AI bias, SBS did well here www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
sbs.com.au
Widely used, rarely disclosed: The extent of AI inside government, revealed​‌
AI is spreading across government departments, but experts say 'shadow' use may be harder to track.
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Malcontent News @malcontentnews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Russia has attacked two cargo ships in Bulgaria’s EEZ. One ship had departed Romania and was sailing to Türkiye. The other departed Egypt and was also sailing to Romania. The Turkish-owned ALFA WATAN sank after it was hit. This is a major escalation, as neither vessel was sailing to or from Ukraine.
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Ty @ty2743.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's about time www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Greens pitch Zohran Mamdani-style $25.1bn plan to nationalise 200 Coles and Woolworths supermarkets
Former MP and Greens Institute head, Max Chandler-Mather, says proposal for publicly owned supermarket chain will ease grocery prices
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/10/2026
Columnist Stephen Rattner probably got screwed over by the headline writer, but I'm seriously floored at how poor a job these six charts do at showing that we need AI.
nytimes.com
Opinion | Six Charts That Show Just How Much We Need A.I. (Gift Article)
All the worry about artificial intelligence should not obscure this key point: If we don’t develop it, we’ll be a lot worse off.
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s-isabelle.bsky.social @s-isabelle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I skipped down to this and now I don't feel any desire to read the article. AI really does save me time (The more articles written by AI, the fewer articles I read!)🤣🤣🤣
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/10/2026
The next five graphs are even less convincing, and the argumentation becomes even weaker. It was almost impossible for me to imagine how a seemingly intelligent person could have written it—but I found a secret clue buried in the text itself.

A.I. has the potential to enhance the way we live in the same way. It saved me and my colleague, Will McGrew, many hours of prowling the internet to research this essay. That left us with time to do other tasks.
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Laura Sofia 🏳️‍⚧️ @taw.moe · 03/10/2026
I've checked their account... It gets so much funnier... "do the cardinals run an AI lab"
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You Might Know Jack O’Lantern @lessweirdjack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“The AR stands for Armalite” ass response to the Pope telling the world a bunch of 1s and 0s doing some real complex stuff doesn’t mean it’s alive
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MatheMusician.bsky.social @mathemusician.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And he's a mathematician, so actually it's quite possible he really does know what he's talking about: at least, more than the average person does.
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DeWallet Inspector @otlee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“No one elected you” Buhhhhhhhhhhhhh there’s a fairly famous chimney that says otherwise!
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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 03/10/2026
How many local models do you run?

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Pope, would you please shut the fuck up about matters you do not understand? You're not an Ai influencer, no one elected you, and you have absolutely no weight in this debate and you're being used as a mouthpiece to sway public opinion. how many local models do you run?
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Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
New just now in The Atlantic: David Robinson resigned this week. He was among the longest-tenured employees at OpenAI—and oversaw safety reports on 12 frontier launches. He is very worried: “The time for trial and error is over.” You can read his essay here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
theatlantic.com
I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken
The industry’s approach to safety guarantees more failures.
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
this is the first one of these "the alarm must be raised" pieces that actually makes sense, largely because he says something obvious: no one at the company has any clue about how safety engineering works
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"But as far as I know, I never encountered a colleague who had experience making airplanes fly safely or nuclear reactors run without melting down, or helping the financial system grow without collapsing."
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Peter Juul @petermjuul.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Boeing really should have taken this line with the 737max: it’s a spooky conscious autonomous agent! We can’t be held responsible if it crashes!
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
and in turn making it a normal systems safety problem also means that existing law and regulatory frameworks are applied, and the entire alchemical-occultic frame and the political economy it is aligned with is dropped in favor of treating the industry as other countries across the world have
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Ty @ty2743.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Maybe we should focus on the safety issues we already have, and regulate them like we already regulate computers little-flying-robots.ghost.io/why-we-cant-...
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Why We Can't Let Enormous Weirdos Regulate AI
Imagine if instead of regulating drones via the standard lengthy, boring, and bureaucratic process - which we did - we instead decided, in the name of fostering all-important American drone innovation...
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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manewt.bsky.social @manewt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Friend who works at meta: “Do not use the muse agent, it’s like inviting a Vampire inside”
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
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Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Australian Government gonna use AI to write legislation? Have some self-respect.
screenshot of a contract notice listed on AusTender that shows Office of Parliamentary Counsel paying $44,000 to Larrison Pty Ltd for "in-house Legislative Drafting Tool Proof of Concept"
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