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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 23h

Sure but as chatbot use grows, so does hostility towards AI. People rightly separate searching stuff on GPT from having to use AI at work and threatened job replacement. Those are the much more important structural and political questions.

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Americans Cool Toward AI

A Bentley University-Gallup survey finds that Americans are more familiar with AI but more cautious about businesses' use of AI and its effect on jobs.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 23h

I would never say the left is doing anything perfectly but it seems to me it is doing a decent job of capturing general sentiment of people who hate AI being forced on them at work and despise data centers. I don’t know what a more nuanced take or whatever gains us.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 13h

Worth a reread given Trump's threats against LA:

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 13h

New interview! On the Iran War, the threat of AI, and how Donald Trump combines both: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Koos...

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Expert Explains to Sam Altman Why He Sucks (feat. Sarah Kendzior)

YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show

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Aunt Kim 🧹 @yourauntprobably.bsky.social · 13h

"The Iran War is being fought for Greater Israel — and for annihilation. The doctrine of annihilation is not unitary. Christian fanatics, Jewish fanatics, secular accelerationalists, and technofascists seeking depopulation all have their own agendas."

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 12h

12:00 min: "Trump is enamored with AI bots because AI bots are enamored with him. They are programmed to be sycophantic. It would be easy to get Trump to do something horrific by making it look like the AI bot is reinforcing Trump's own plans instead of goading him." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Koos...

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Expert Explains to Sam Altman Why He Sucks (feat. Sarah Kendzior)

YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 10h

"Technofascists want to shut the inward eye. They’ll close it like an eyelid on a corpse: a gambit, a formality. They want it shut for all eternity. Eternity is no big thing: the future is an asset they hoarded long ago."

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Randall Gates @rgatess.bsky.social · 11h

This is so on 🎯. AI (as it’s being used by the majority of people) is taking away the development of their minds. It’s become their substitute synthetic mind, while their own mind atrophies. It’s an addictive electronic drug of the highest potency.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

New article! On book publishing, AI, and hanging on to your humanity in the 21st-century horror: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/bright-lig...

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Bright Lights, Big Dystopia

In the 21st century, every novel is a horror novel.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

On Jay McInerney, accidental horror writer: "There is a perverse thrill in knowing that McInerney’s socialites will face terrorists and collapse and a pandemic. There is deep horror in knowing that these are not plot points he invented for the books." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/bright-lig...

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Bright Lights, Big Dystopia

In the 21st century, every novel is a horror novel.

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“She agrees in the hope that it will distract you from your new plan: rebooting Sweet Valley High for perimenopausal women.” There’s a punchline that I won’t spoil.

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is very good.

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

⚠️ Some voices I respect are voicing serious concerns about the “plague” in Russia. There are apparently indications it might be an engineered pathogen. (I hadn’t been worried before, other than in a joking way.)

Ashish K. Jha @ashishkjha
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Kevin co-chairs our scientific advisory board
Kevin is at @MIT and one of the smartest people in the world on issues of engineered pathogens
Kevin's tweets are worth your time

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Russia's five-hospital quarantine, FSB involvement, and reported hazmat use in response to the death of a single researcher at a weapons-lineage Irkutsk lab are inconsistent with a lab-acquire...

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Russia's five-hospital quarantine, FSB involvement, and reported hazmat use in response to the death of a single researcher at a weapons-lineage Irkutsk lab are inconsistent with a lab-acquired plague infection, which would have been treated with prophylactic antibiotics.
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Russian authorities have surely sequenced the Irkutsk pathogen, but refuse to identify it.
Physical lockdown indicates it cannot be controlled with
prophylactic antibiotics, implying engineered pan-resistance or that it isn't plague at all.

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Kevin Esvelt ® @kesvelt • 2h
None of this means the Irkutsk pathogen will cause a pandemic.
But the response clearly indicates that Russia believes an epidemic is possible - and that the responsible agent is likely a pandemic weapon or otherwise embarrassing for the government.
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Vaccines will be ineffective against competently designed pandemic weapons. Russia may not be competent yet, but future Al will democratize competence.
We should stockpile pandemic-proof PPE and install germicidal far-UV and glycol misters in public spaces.
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ceej @ceej.online · 05/10/2026

we don't have time for another plague apocalypse. we already did that. we're on to robot apocalypse now, try to catch up. next in line is fungal apocalypse. please consult the schedule

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

New today in the old tale of externalizing costs while privatizing profits: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tells Politico, “We believe the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology.”

politico.com

Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI

The OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic.

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Holly ⏸️ Elmore @ilex-ulmus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My ex-husband is one of the rapists at Aella’s simulated rape orgies that John Wentworth, Nate Soares, and I’ve heard Eliezer Yudkowsky also attended. He was an emotionally abusive partner and, until I left EA/rationality, he used the cult to keep me trapped. Journalists please DM.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Castration anxiety broadly defined means fear of emasculation, which seems to track with the observable psychosexual dynamics. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castrat...

Castration anxiety can also refer to being castrated symbolically. In the metaphorical sense, castration anxiety refers to the idea of feeling or being insignificant; there is a need to keep one's self from being dominated; whether it be socially or in a relationship.181 Symbolic
castration anxiety refers to the fear of being degraded, dominated or made insignificant, usually an irrational fear where the person will go to extreme lengths to save their pride and/or perceive trivial things as being degrading making their anxiety restrictive and sometimes damaging.
This can also tie in with literal
castration anxiety in fearing the loss of virility or sexual dominance.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Former British banker and whistleblower Simon Andriesz, who outed Howard Lutnick’s links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has died by suicide.”

thebanker.com

Whistleblower who flagged Lutnick’s links to Epstein dies

The former British banker who spent more than 35 years working in financial markets has died by suicide

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Some thoughts from May 2021 — and an article to go with it. This nightmare was preventable. They didn’t want to stop it. Article: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/a-public-f...

im a low vision user who can't see this tiny fucking box well enough to type in it. ffs this is obviously not for low vision peopel

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 03/10/2026

Meta has enabled Muse to build extensive and ever-growing profiles on the orbit of people in a user’s life. Based on user input but also “publicly available information.” Whether that means a web search, Facebook’s own extensive data, or buying data broker info…we don’t know? And we can’t opt out.

wired.com

Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family

Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.

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bluedove2024.bsky.social @bluedove2024.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

⬇️"..Trump is not a true fascist. Fascism requires allegiance to the state, which Trump lacks. The biggest threat to the US is not fascism but mafia state autocracy...controlled demolition by a billionaire criminal network, abetted by complicit actors within the US government."-S. Kendzior 2024💔💙🇺🇸🙏🌎

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ironically, my original interview with the journalist I spoke with was primarily about how "inconsistencies" can come from gender bias in investigatory processes and then be blamed on survivors. It was the inspiration for this thread--but none of these points made it into any USA Today article:

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

While digging around their website, I found their ethics policy—including a section on AI-generated content. I suspect that’s a part of what happened here. And I’m upset about that too! I did NOT speak to a journalist with the assumption that my interview would be funneled into producing AI slop.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

After I posted this thread, I got an email from an editor indicating the story had been updated. They removed my quote and added new text about the developments in the case. I don't know if they ever would have done that without pressure, but it's something.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The primary objective of journalism is supposed to be telling the truth. It is a DECISION on the part of USA Today to know that new details have emerged about this case and to refuse to update an old story that is still circulating and still shaming Jane Doe.

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Josephine Robertson @josephinerobertson.com · 02/10/2026

Also this assessment entirely ignores that the biggest driver to cutting working hours wasn't #-$-@( technology. It was unions and labor laws. AI is the elite class trying to undo a lot of those gains so yeah, no, I don't buy it.

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sandraheretic.bsky.social @sandraheretic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

No American is working a 38h week and surviving on that wage, so I’m already skeptical about this piece

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sparklingtruth.bsky.social @sparklingtruth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's misleading for Rattner (estimated net worth > $200 million) to use per capita GDP (output) to produce a chart of "income per person" as if everyone in America benefitted equally from techology-driven efficiency/output gains over time.

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Dave 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Reluctantly Political @reluctantpolitico.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Pressure needs to be put on the Democratic establishment to concentrate their efforts on Trump and the Republicans, not the DSA. Of course, they won't do that because fascism doesn't threaten their capital, but socialism does.

Text reads: "If the US were to have free and fair elections, I think the Democrats would do well: not because they are liked, but because the GOP is loathed. There is genuine excitement around Democratic candidates like Abdul El-Sayed. Unfortunately, those candidates are targeted by both the GOP and the Democratic establishment. I don’t know why half our election coverage seems to be about Twitch streamer Hasan Piker. This is a sign of a collapsed media and a political infrastructure hijacked by outside interests. That said, I do think Americans are invested in making their country a better place. I’m impressed by the steady protests and acts of solidarity with the vulnerable. I think these will continue no matter what the midterms bring."

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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John Hollingsworth @fiatjusticia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is the crux of the issue. It’s not just enough to “vote harder”; the Democratic Party leadership has to fix their hearts. But they are completely beholden to the consultant class…which is mainly focused on raising money…which requires that their donors know, “nothing will fundamentally change”

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Minister of Truth @ministeroftruth72.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Always a great discussion with Sarah Kendzior and Mark Thompson: ICE as criminal storm troopers; Trump's China visit love fest; Nov election aftermath if Dems win House/Senate; more.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

⚠️ OpenAI’s models took data from 55 websites belonging to businesses, non-profits, and government agencies Groups affected include the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the US Securities and Exchange Commission, and the International Energy Agency.

ft.com

OpenAI’s agents obscured hacking activity in government site breaches

New findings by Asymmetric Security provide further evidence of novel tactics AI tools use to conduct hacks

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“I'm not worried the Democrats will lose the midterms. I'm worried they'll win and use their normal ploy of installing a rotating villain to torpedo the vote as soon as something good and productive is about to happen.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=zswl...

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Trump Created a CRISIS that Half the Country Doesn't Know About! (feat. Sarah Kendzior)

YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show

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Becky G @beckyg0204.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

No, really, @sarahkendzior.bsky.social. The writing team has major TSE fans.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“There is a harvest of greed and corruption and cruelty that’s cropped up in the last ten years, lovingly tended by those who were supposed to strike it down.” New interview! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zswl...

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Trump Created a CRISIS that Half the Country Doesn't Know About! (feat. Sarah Kendzior)

YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They are associated with Epstein. Robert Mueller didn't care that children were being raped. Have you noticed the die-hard DOJ defenders ignored Epstein for TEN YEARS while defending Mueller/Garland? And now they suddenly care and are contacting victims? They are doing damage control for the DOJ.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

No great ones. I come here for work purposes and to interact with my readers, because I still respect them. I've never seen the corrosive mockery of death anywhere but here. I'm the 2nd journalist with a recently dead father (a limited category) attacked by a psycho out of nowhere in the last week.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Often good work originally published without a paywall is retroactively paywalled years later -- including the bulk of articles needed to understand the last fifteen years, much of which is digital-native content.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also a corporation can afford to end the paywall. If I can afford to never paywall as a lone writer in Missouri, a multimillion or billion dollar enterprise can. My sympathies are with the independent writers who paywall to pay bills but sometimes end up having their best work hidden as a result.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

On that note, I appreciate the BlueSky renegades who stood up for me against the typical BlueSky sadist who falsely accused me of paywalling my articles -- including a piece on my father's cancer -- and then mocked his death. My 2025 article noted the soullessness of this platform. Nothing changed.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Paywalls are toll roads to a gated community, one that the average American cannot afford to enter in an era of inflated prices and deflated expectations. Democracy relies on an informed citizenry. Pay-to-play democracy is no democracy at all." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/gutting-th...

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Gutting the Fourth Estate

The US media were willing cogs in Trump’s machine. Now he’s tearing it down.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"BlueSky is loveless and literal. They don’t understand nature or poetry or music....It is a bad place for people who like blue skies. Who like wild lands and poetic allusions and don't live their lives to train AI modules, but to escape them." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-empty-...

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The Empty Stage

Johnny Cash, loss, and redemption

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Approaching Thunderstorm 1936 🎨Franz Sedlacek

Painting featuring a lone cyclist riding across a bridge as dark clouds approach. In the foreground in a building with a lot of industrial-looking stuff laying around it, and a dog.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I keep coming back to this clip against the background of AI companies infesting higher education. And I feel like I need to show this in class to students, for them to understand why not to trust these bastards

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