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A global treaty signed by 197 countries — including Russia — requires reporting any death that could be a sign of an outbreak to come. n.pr/3VHezOw

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Did Russia play by the rules in reporting lab worker's death?

A global treaty signed by 197 countries — including Russia — requires reporting any death that could be a sign of an outbreak to come.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10h

NEWS: Eight major U.S. allies—including Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan—have issued a joint rebuke of the Trump regime’s sweeping sanctions on the International Criminal Court. They vow “unwavering support” for the ICC’s independence.

A vertical graphic on a white background displays an October 9, 2026, joint statement from the foreign ministers of Canada, Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The full statement, presented in black serif text, reaffirms unwavering support for the International Criminal Court (ICC), strongly opposes U.S. sanctions against the Court, warns of their impact on its work, staff, and families, and pledges continued support for international justice, accountability, and the rules-based international system.

Marco Rubio, mouth agape, as he announces sweeping sanctions on the ICC to try to punish them for acknowledging Bibi Netanyahu’s war crimes

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Sorkel @sorkel3.bsky.social · 13h

Unemployed college student Barron Trump made $150m in one year. When asked about it Trump said "It's none of your business". Republicans: Silent. When Hunter Biden sold $40k worth of paintings, Republicans shrieked, investigated, held hearings and said Joe Biden should be impeached over this.

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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 15h

Donald Trump fears the November elections, knowing it may make him subject to investigations and impeachments, Mary Trump explains to Joanna Coles as they unpack how the elderly president is willing to take everyone down with him... youtube.com/shorts/aQz9W...

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Why Trump Will Choose To Take Everyone Down With Him

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 13h

Three OpenAI employees who were let go from the company have written an open letter to OpenAI to express their concerns about safety: “As an industry, we do not yet know how to safely develop and deploy models that we cannot monitor. The monitorability of frontier models is degrading.”

OpenAl cannot make Al safe on its own
A note on third-party collaborations, open debate, and clear operating procedures Dear Safety and Security Committee, Safety Advisory Group, and Mission Advisory Council:
We are the three safety and alignment employees who were fired from OpenAl last week: Tomek Korbak, Jasmine Wang, and Mikita Balesni. We are writing to you because you hold oversight responsibility for safety at OpenAl; our firing and the way it was handled bear directly on it.
We have become concerned that internal and external communications around our firing have made our former colleagues afraid to speak and operate in ways that, until last week, were an integral part of working at Open Al. We could raise safety concerns and disagree openly, and were encouraged to draw on the expertise of independent safety organizations.
This is part of what made OpenAl special, and why we are immensely proud to have been part of the team.
Al is not a normal technology, and OpenAl is not a normal company. Those of us who work on safety see risks before anyone else, and we rely on close collaboration with outside experts to work out how to address them. The freedom to do so without fear, and to have well-defined internal procedures that enable this work, is itself an essential safety mechanism.
We do not believe the path to superintelligence can be navigated safely if the people closest to the risks can no longer work in high-trust, high-bandwidth ways with each other and with third parties. It is that culture we are writing to defend.
For those of you who do not know us, each of us has been working on AI safety for years.
• Tomek did his PhD on RL for aligning language models in the GPT-2 cra and then worked on applying those techniques at Anthropic. He joined OpenAl to work on chain-of-thought monitorability, co-authored
Open Al's safety strategy, worked on identifying the root cause of the drop in CoT monitorability in Astra-class models, and was the technical point of c…

• Mikita was a founding member of Apollo Research in 2023 where he studied Al misalignment and was one of the first people to notice when Als started to become aware of being evaluated. At OpenAl, Mikita worked on alignment evaluations, science of misalignment and chain-of-thought monitorability. He was involved in the Hugging Face incident investigation.
Before joining OpenAl, we started, and two of us were lead authors on, a cross-industry position paper: Chain of Thought Monitorability: A New and Fragile Opportunity for Al Safety.
On our dismissals
OpenAI was much more than a job for us. Its mission has been central to our lives.
Throughout our time at OpenAl, we acted in line with OpenAl's mission and within the working norms of the time. Our firing leaves us worried that the norms inside OpenAl are shifting, and that employees are now unclear on where they stand.
Given the significant safety concerns surrounding the development of AI, employees must not be left working in an environment where fear and unclear rules stymie Al safety work and weaken third-party accountability.
Terminations such as ours, executed and communicated so abruptly, are chilling the open culture OpenAl has prized in the past.
If conduct that was considered normal last month now constitutes grounds for sudden dismissal, everyone at Open Al is left guessing where the line is.
We understand there are various versions of events circulating. We'd like you to hear a few things from us directly:
• We were not the source of the leak for The Information article about supposed new, less monitorable architectures. We do not know who it was. We had no reason to leak it; quite the contrary, the article undermined our own work on cross-company limits on the development of unmonitorable architectures.
• At no point do we believe we engaged with external parties outside the mandates of our jobs. As every person on this email thread understands well, the Hugging Face incident investigation was without pr…

• Mikita was navigating similar territory while stewarding cross-company work on commitments to prevent loss of monitorability, an effort that can only succeed through extensive communication with external parties.
Mikita was doing this in coordination and discussion with board members and the C-suite, with the understanding that senior members of OpenAl were supportive of this work. Throughout, Mikita checked in with his reporting line and took care to remove sensitive details from materials before sharing them. He acted throughout in good faith and within the company's norms as they stood at the time.
• Jasmine's access to an executive's email was delegated for recruiting purposes, with permission. When it was no longer needed, she asked for it to be removed. IT failed to do so. Jasmine had no ability to remove it or log out herself. The emails were combined in her inbox in a way that did not distinguish which inbox an email was intended for. When she accidentally clicked on a sensitive email, Jasmine reported this to the executive within minutes and flagged the access issue again to IT for removal.
We believe the above explanations are important, because we value the relationships we have with our colleagues at OpenAl. We are also worried by the number of rumors circulating, including allegations about a shared board-level memo. This was never raised with us, so we have had no chance to respond to what we believe is a mistaken assumption. Similarly, we did not share the news of our firings with the media. We would much rather not have been unexpectedly thrown into the spotlight.
Our concern now is that the lack of clarity around our firing, the very public manner in which it was carried out, and the circulating rumors are chilling those who remain at OpenAl, at a time when so much of the world's safety depends on them
Our parting recommendations to OpenAl
1. OpenAl must adhere to last month's public commitments to embed third-party safety auditors within the orga…

follow through on Sam Altman's September 12th public commitment to give independent evaluators ongoing, employee-like access.
2. OpenAl must preserve the monitorability of frontier models.
As an industry, we do not yet know how to safely develop and deploy models that we cannot monitor. The monitorability of frontier models is degrading.
As long as we rely on monitorability for safety, OpenAl and other frontier companies should not move forward with developments that further decrease monitorability.
We agree with Jakub's public statements that chain of thought monitorability is "fragile and unfortunately trending in a negative direction" and we "want to prevent a race into unmonitorable architectures." We continue to believe that industry-wide coordination on this issue is important, and hope that OpenAl will support its employees in making it possible.
3. OpenAl must continue to support an open and transparent culture of dialogue between its safety researchers and the rest of the safety ecosystem.
If Open Al's employees no longer feel like they can raise safety issues internally, or work within high-bandwidth channels with external safety organizations, we are all at greater risk that something truly catastrophic will happen.
We urge OpenAl to publicly reaffirm its culture of transparency and openness that allows for concerns to be raised both internally and externally.
Researchers inside OpenAl are a frontline defense against things going wrong, and the open culture that has been a feature of the company since its inception needs to be preserved. We also urge OpenAl to set out clearly how employees may work with external safety organizations, so that no one has to guess where the shifting lines now are. To support this conversation, we request that this letter be shared widely internally.
While we may no longer be part of Open Al, we have the utmost respect for our former colleagues. We urge them to keep holding OpenAl to its mission.
As we know, OpenAl is nothing…

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The Mr Neutron @themrneutron.bsky.social · 12h

What is it with these ghouls that prevents them from showing even the tiniest bit of compassion to another human.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12h

Productivity as an adult is just an endless process of applying new psychological tricks and operant conditioning to yourself until an acceptable number of tasks are completed.

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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 12h

Putin reportedly can't land in Moscow after returning from Turkmenistan. All four Moscow airports have suspended operations amid drone threats, while several Russian government jets are circling near the capital, waiting for clearance to land.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Russians are barbarians and should be treated as such, not as people to negotiate new business deals with to benefit corrupt oligarchs in the US.

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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

President Donald Trump pledged $2.9 billion in U.S. Navy support this week for Anduril Industries' submarine manufacturing shipyard in Maryland, adding federal backing to a $3.7 billion private investment that promises to return large-scale shipbuilding to the former Bethlehem Steel site.

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Trump: Navy to invest $2.9B in planned Sparrows Point submarine shipyard

President Donald Trump pledged $2.9 billion in U.S. Navy support for Anduril Industries’ submarine manufacturing shipyard in Maryland, adding federal backing to a $3.7 billion private investment that ...

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A video that seems to sum up my war. A burning truck drives oblivious to its own destruction past the wrecks of others while people watch as if its normal.

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TVP World @tvpworld.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A secret March meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Polish Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz is making headlines in Poland. Unconfirmed reports say Trump discussed Polish domestic politics and alternative scenarios. Did he try to influence Poland’s government?

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So it was the US State Department all along! Maybe Shellenberger should be emailing them about censorship instead of conference participants. #disinfo26 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request

Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’ve talked before about how AI is changing hacking risks: Of the cybersecurity vulnerabilities hackers exploit, almost 90% are reportedly now being attacked on or before the day the vulnerability becomes public knowledge. In 2020, that share was less than 25%.

Zero-Days-To-Exploit, Almost 90% Of The Time Percentage of exploited CVEs where exploitation occurred before or on the day of disclosure

[graph showing an upward rise]

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

They listened to me. There is now more chart.

Chart showing the daily sea surface temperature for the Nino region of the Pacific, with a red line for 2026 shooting off above every other year in record-setting territory, with the y axis now expanded upward somewhat to allow for the absurdly high temperature

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

OTD in 2006 journalist & activist Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead. Whoever ordered her killed is still at large. And turns 74 today.

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TVP World @tvpworld.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A Russian shadow fleet tanker has been set ablaze in the Black Sea, sending a thick column of smoke into the sky near Sochi. An unmanned vessel attacked the Aframax Rio. All 23 crew members were rescued, with no injuries reported.

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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

NATO is poised to unveil a new "Theory of Victory" battle plan for defeating a Russian attack on its eastern flank, featuring front-line troops blunting an incursion while unleashing high-tech systems to destroy Moscow's ability to command its forces. From Stars and Stripes' John Vandiver:

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NATO Theory of Victory war plan aims to cripple invading Russian forces at border

NATO is poised to unveil a new battle plan for defeating a Russian attack on its eastern flank.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Really weird how Trump campaign managers end up working for Putin allies

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

No better case for the billionaire tax than how hard they’re working to defeat it

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Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

On this day 20 years ago, Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in Moscow, on Putin’s 54th birthday. She had spent years reporting on Putin’s Russia and exposing atrocities committed during Russia’s war in Chechnya. Dozens of journalists have been killed for their work under Putin.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/10/2026

The ATF’s new proposed rule would allow gun dealers to conduct many firearms sales entirely remotely. Eligible buyers could verify their identities online and have a gun shipped directly to their home—no in-person interaction required.

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A new Trump administration rule could transform gun sales. The president’s son has a stake in a company poised to profit.

It’s one of a slew of changes to federal gun policy pursued under Trump this year. And according to a veteran gun violence prevention attorney, “probably the most dangerous action taken by the US gove...

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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The plague death in Russia has taken an unwanted step, but one many of us pondered over. #BiologicalWarfare #BioLabs Here's the link in the post by Marshall Billingslea: nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...

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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

❗️France today conducted a test launch of the new intercontinental ballistic missile M51.3. The launch took place from the nuclear submarine Le Vigilant. “To be free, you must be feared. And to be feared, you must be strong,” Macron said.

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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is worth reading, whenever you fear existential angst creeping up on you - about the climate, AI, world war three, social collapse etc etc.

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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You couldn't make it up! Having apparently killed one of its employees in Irkutsk (by not treating her with simple antibiotics), the "plague lab" is scheduled to host an international forum on protecting the public from plague! I wonder how many overseas visitors will come?

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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

From "Kyiv in 3 days" to "a few houses in the last 24 hours" - it's so funny to read Russian state news agency TASS reduced to such pathetic claims. And of course there's not a semblance of truth even about it. The DeepState map shows the invaders are not in Dobropillia, Donetsk region.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/10/2026

From Physics Today (physicsworld.com/a/francis-ha...): ‘When asked what he will do for the rest of today, Halzen replied “I’m working on a proposal. I hope this prize will help get it approved.”’

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

⚠️ Germany’s former foreign intelligence chief August Hanning has been arrested on suspicion of treason and accused of selling state secrets regarding Iran’s nuclear program and the Russian military to an unnamed foreign power.

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Former German spy chief arrested for treason

Ex-intelligence head August Hanning suspected of selling state secrets to foreign power

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 06/10/2026

Bepi and Mio are almost at Mercury, and they would love to hear from you 💌 Send them a #WelcomeToMercury message for a chance to win a trip to ESA's mission control in Darmstadt, Germany, this December. Wish them well 👉 esa.int/WelcomeToMercury 🫶 🔭

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Johnny 🫧 Cowlick @jefferycowlick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Trump loved to call COVID the 'China Virus'. I wonder why he's not calling this the 'Russia Virus' 🤔

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 06/10/2026

If Nidal Hasan is executed by firing squad, as the Pentagon spokesman says Hegseth and Trump have decided, it will be the first death sentence carried out by the U.S. military since 1961, and the first by firing squad since 1945. www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...

Screenshot of a tweet from @SeanParnellASW dated 5 Oct 2026, reading as follows:

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has recommended — and President Donald J. Trump has approved — death by U.S. Army firing squad for convicted terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan, the jihadist who opened fire on unarmed American soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009. He killed 13 people and wounded 32 others while shouting “Allahu Akbar” during the attack.

The Secretary of the Army will set the time and place of the execution. Judgement day for Hasan has finally come.

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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

❗️I want to sincerely thank the people of Poland for everything you have done for Ukrainians. Poland was among the first to begin providing military aid, transferred the largest number of tanks, and took in the most refugees. Thank you for everything, Poland. 🇺🇦❤️🇵🇱

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A whole political movement should be stood up against this arrogant and sociopathic bullshit www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You know who’s going to pay for this? You and me.

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Donny held another batshit rally last night, and he's too fucking narcissistic to understand just how badly he's screwing up the GOP's midterm chances. thank you for your attention to today's post, in which I throw my head back in laughter. link is here: bit.ly/4hreRl7

The bottom line is that who gives a shit what memes I use to mock the fuckery. All that matters is that Donny is super toxic right now. He’s massively unpopular — even among the GOP — and every time he shows up at one of these shittacular rallies, he just digs himself and his party deeper.

We’re at the point where Republicans up for reelection don’t want this guy coming around and fucking up their chances. It’s pretty much only the perennial losers and bottom-feeders like Ramaswamy who are still sucking up to Dear Leader.

Shoot that shit straight into my veins.

Get out and vote on November 3rd. It’ll ruin Donny’s day. I promise.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Whistleblower who flagged Lutnick’s links to Epstein dies… ex British banker who spent more than 35 years working in financial markets has died by suicide…Simon Andriesz was previously a managing director at Wall St firm where Lutnick was CEO…” www.thebanker.com/content/0228...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No could possibly have predicted that Trump calling Democrats “sons of bitches” would not be on today’s front page of the NYT, & Jake Tapper would be platforming Kevin Hassett to lie with impunity on the Sunday shows. 🧐🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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