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Alex Ross @wergend.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Google "News" I've never bothered looking into, especially after it promoted GB News, as News. AI generated "News" however, a new shitification, claims the Greens object to a new tower, because the shadow might block PV for nearby houseboats? Who reads this crap?

Google News now slumping to AI generated tabloid trash.

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Alex Ross @wergend.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Buckle up, I did find this fairly challenging to follow, but I think he is right. @garyseconomics.bsky.social what do you think? I'd love to know. youtube.com/watch?v=bHHO...

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Every Economics Concept Explained in 30 Minutes

YouTube video by ProfSteveKeen

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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I wish he would go to Harrods and get himself a hairbrush, instead of combing his hair with a balloon

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Bijan63 @bijan63.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

2/2 opsluiting gehouden. De Revolutionaire Rechtbank heeft haar nu ter dood veroordeeld. Dit gebeurt terwijl westerse politici bij d VN handen schudden m vertegenwoordigers v t misdadige regime,& Pezeshkian beweert dat t regime d eigen bevolking niet doodt. Haar leven is in gevaar Wees svp haar stem

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Alex Ross @wergend.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

THIS is really good. An accessible introduction to AGI, P-DooM and the reality. youtube.com/watch?v=clax...

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Like Sabine Hossenfelder, I Was Offered Money to Tell You AI Will Kill Us

YouTube video by House of El: AI

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The best birthday present imaginable. #DollyDay 💖

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Alex Ross @wergend.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Steve Keen is a bit of a legend in my book. I will have to see if I can get his book bundle to listen through (I rarely get the time to read for pleasure.) Enjoy... youtu.be/6LPpih9-hwE?...

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How Modern Economics Became Ideology | Steve Keen Explains

YouTube video by The Peter McCormack Show

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Alex Ross @wergend.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Mostly everything could say about climatology and geology relevant today, in one interview. Doesn't touch on AMOC, but I HIGHLY recommend you re-share. youtu.be/ee9fYVwhBsU?...

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Natural Disaster Expert: Elites Have NO PLAN for Climate Collapse | Aaron Bastani meets Bill McGuire

YouTube video by Novara Media

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Alex Ross @wergend.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I love it when the story of Monopoly gets told to someone who hasn't heard it before. Even Jubilees get a mention. First Ceps of the year, birch polypore for tea AND a great conversation to listen to as I cook. 🍄🍵🍲🔊 youtu.be/CK8M5sKWRkc?...

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Why Google, Apple & Big Tech Keep Making Everything Worse | Cory Doctorow and Trevor Noah

YouTube video by Trevor Noah

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Alex Ross @wergend.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Basically China is going to be impossible to ignore from now on. There is the language barrier, which will take me ages, but in the meantime, there's a ton to discuss. What do you think?

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"A climate disaster in the Atlantic could disrupt life across continents. Scientists are studying whether the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, could cross a tipping point, threatening rainfall patterns, food production, and coastlines ..." www.facebook.com/fromquarktoq...

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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

While negotiations over the digital omnibus continue, Ireland does the most Ireland thing possible: demanding that corporate tech profits supersede human rights, in this case lifting the mandatory opt-out over GDPR. Coming from the country that has yet to ask Apple to pay its ECJ-confirmed taxes

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AI: EU Member States plan “digital expropriation” of Europeans in the interest of AI companies

In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of AI companies to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental rights of Europeans.

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Alex Ross @wergend.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This morning I watched a humanoid robot unpack itself from a box, which felt like a seminal moment. Jurassic Park is a great analogy! Also, the news that Jurassic Park was released in 1993. It is 33 years old, a third of a century 😳 youtu.be/RyOFDfpjR9U?...

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Jurassic Park Was a Warning About A.I

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Alex Ross @wergend.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Here's a basic introduction into how humans are likely to end, IF we don't fizzle out before then through environmental destruction and the scramble for rapidly dwindling resources in a world increasingly hostile and alien. youtube.com/watch?v=cKOa...

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This is How AI Could End Humanity

YouTube video by Absolutely Agentic

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm so grateful to all the people in Holborn & St Pancras helping us elect our 6th Green MP. We always need more people! Every single conversation we can have is vital to winning on October 8th. Sign up day and evening sessions here 👇🏽 linktr.ee/HSP_6thGreen...

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Everything you need to get involved! - Scroll down for weekday actions

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Anyone know why a newspaper owned by the Fourth Lord Rothermere, who inherited a fortune from the Third Lord Rothermere, who inherited his money from the Second Lord Rothermere, who inherited it from the First Lord Rothermere, is so strongly opposed to inheritance tax?

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 14/09/2026

Your 'bonus moment of doom' for today: "it is unimaginable that any month in the last few thousand years, maybe 100,000 years, has more [Precipitable water] in the atmosphere than August 2026." www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-atmosp...

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The Atmosphere Just Set a Water Vapor Record

More water vapor means more rocket fuel for extreme rain — so this record is not good news

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 14/09/2026

Here is the latest combined forecast across all 14 models, compared to past strong El Nino events. It shows just how extreme and unprecedented this event is forecast to be:

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026

Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom.

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Alex Ross @wergend.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I have a heck of a lot of time for Mehdi. Here he talks about the founding of Zeteo, where he is coming from, the gap in society for journalism, and a general critique of US and UK media. prospectmagazine.substack.com/p/mehdi-hasa...

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Mehdi Hasan slams journalists who won’t call out Trump’s lies | Media Confidential

The Zeteo founder discusses the failings of the US and UK media

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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

£36m for Reform... In 2022, Ben Delo pleaded guilty to "willfully" breaching US anti-money laundering laws with his firm Bitmex being described as "in effect, a money laundering platform". Delo received 30 months probation and a $10 million fine, before being pardoned by Donald Trump in March 2025.

Image from Telegraph interview with Ben Delo, accompanied by quote: "I'm giving Reform millions to make the next election a fair fight."

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 12/09/2026

You can call this legal. You can call it a donation. But please don’t insult everyone’s intelligence by calling it a “level playing field”.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"The opening 2 paragraphs alone are going to be quoted for decades." What an incredibly lovely thing to say about any book. Thank you @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social 🙏

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Alex Ross @wergend.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Yes it's painfully slow, but, as a begging point for general applications, imagine a three year old doing the same... youtube.com/shorts/Yng98...

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China's AI Robots Are Learning to Work Alone 🤖#AI #Robotics #ArtificialIntelligence #HumanoidRobots

YouTube video by Epsilon Pulse AI

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 11/09/2026

"When Silicon Valley tries to imagine superintelligence, what it comes up with is no-holds-barred capitalism." Little has changed in the decade since Ted Chiang wrote about how tech oligopolies embody the world-eating attitude and lack of insight that they project onto "rogue AI."

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Alex Ross @wergend.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"Cognitive scientist, entrepreneur, and bestselling author Gary Marcus joins Brian Greene for a conversation on artificial intelligence, the mind, and the future of humanity in an ever increasing digital world." youtube.com/watch?v=iFYF...

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The Uncomfortable Truth About AI “Reasoning” | World Science Festival

YouTube video by World Science Festival

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Not bad for a blogger ;) (™ Reform UK)

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 10/09/2026

THE REPORT THEY TRIED TO HIDE. Empty shelves. Water shortages. Food security at risk. The government cannot keep hiding the scale of the threat. It must release the report in full and act on it.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You might have to turn up for the results of this one, Nige.

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Alex Ross @wergend.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Prof' Richard Murphy and John Christensen. 50 years experience (give or take,) confirm - the richest, ARE the most corrupt. youtube.com/watch?v=b83u...

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The real sources of corruption – and why we don't talk about them

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Bluesky teacher hivemind, I'm looking for examples of concepts in any subject that learners find tricky to grasp, and the creative, amusing, concrete or multisensory ways you've come up with to teach them. It's for a book I'm writing atm. Thanks in advance! Please repost. #EduSky

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Alex Ross @wergend.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Word of the day: Hyperstition. "A hyperstition is a self-fulfilling idea that becomes real through its own existence" Wiki Clever guys, but my intuition is, the gap between their Ai theories and practical application in the real world, underestimated. Unknown unknowns. youtube.com/watch?v=z5Xi...

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How Many Narrow AIs Could Behave Like One Superintelligence - Daniel Kokotajlo and Thomas Larsen

YouTube video by Machine Learning Street Talk

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Alex Ross @wergend.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Just a normal day in DC...

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Alex Ross @wergend.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

One question. Was the transcription of what they did, post-hoc, LLM generated description, of what they did. Seperate, from what the agents actually did? Cory Doctorow seems skeptical. I have questions, most of all, on incentive mechanisms we haven't put on those leading youtube.com/watch?v=X50z...

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Ajeya Cotra – "This might be the clearest warning shot we ever get"

YouTube video by Dwarkesh Patel

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Alex Ross @wergend.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

My first SCBA course, many moons ago! #fire #SCBA 🔥🚒👨🏽‍🚒

Three pictures of a backdraft from a shipping container

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Alex Ross @wergend.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Reform conference, assaulting a protestor, but the teleprompted mantra "Boring, boring, boring," says more. Not that the protesters were wrong. What they said wasn't entertaining. Forget fact, what feels good? We saw Brexit, Boris, ... this is how it all goes wrong. youtu.be/uwyLGiyDa2g?...

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The 3 ways stupidity spreads throughout a society | Jonny Thomson

YouTube video by Big Think Clips

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Alex Ross @wergend.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It's just struck me. People who say it's hubris, to think that we could affect the climate. They have a lot in common with those who made similar things about the passenger pigeon. I heard once that a single flock could take hours to pass.

Illustration depicting men with shotguns firing at an enormous flock of passenger pigeon.

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Alex Ross @wergend.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I did NOT know, that the English had canon, at the battle of Crécy. I wonder, even as rudimentary as they where, whether the psychological effect, was as powerful as anything the longbows did?

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Alex Ross @wergend.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

On a scale of 1-10, how concerned are you about OpenAI's rogue "swarm?"

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Alex Ross @wergend.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This feels intuitively correct. Being a biologist/physicist, more than a technologist, is rooted in reality wherefrom more realistic and, I think, more exciting inspiration is to be found. I trust forward-engineering biomimicry, rather than back-engineering Sci-Fi. youtube.com/watch?v=fgsm...

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An Astrophysicist Debunks the Singularity — Adam Becker

YouTube video by Machine Learning Street Talk

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Nicholas D Carter @nicholasdcarter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Global protein consumption has increased by 1/3 since 1960 More than half of this new growth has come from animal sources, despite plant protein still making up 62% of all protein supply Reversing this trend & being clear on plant protein wins (fibre, planetary health, equal muscle gain) is key

"relative" change in protein supply, showing animal protein growing faster via: https://ourworldindata.org/food-supply

Other references: FAOSTAT & Poore & Nemecek (2018)

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Alex Ross @wergend.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

good general observation. youtube.com/watch?v=brNA...

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The source of the flood in Nepal is a collapsed glacier 🧪⚒️

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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Whatever the colour of your political persuasion, if this ISN’T your view… you’re on the wrong side. Simple.

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Alex Ross @wergend.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"Why do we work? The obvious answer is: Because we have to. But what if that's only part of the story? ... motivation, scarcity, UBI .. and the rather uncomfortable possibility that if we looked at the studies and acted on them ..." youtube.com/watch?v=JeRd...

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Why The Rich Think The Poor Are Lazy

YouTube video by Barry's Economics

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