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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We need to rephrase the whole discussion in terms of hazardous products, instead of "minds". And then we need to make sure that there's liability. A model hacks someone? Put a C-suite guy in jail. A model produces sexual harassment material? Put a C-suite guy in jail. Watch how fast things get safe

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026

Everyone needs to read this. Reality is, in fact, stranger than fiction. Reality is worse than anything we can say about these people in a few words, media appearances, op-eds, or other conversations. Read the whole thing. ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/urbits3/sitf...

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predatory sex cult started by a fan fiction author. Since those involved
to be taken seriously, they have to hide that. Everyone else working in
Safety is, effectively, a smokescreen for this core group and their ideas
We might some day have “AI Safety”, as a science or policy area, that
primarily a sex cult in Berkeley, California, but it does not currently exi

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Davis Allen @davisallen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The climate crisis we face today wasn't inevitable, and we have the receipts.

The cover for a new report from the Center for Climate Integrity, "Climate Fraud 101: Big Oil's Climate Deception Explained in 101 Documents, 1957-2026"

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MondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Assembly of First Nations told The Canadian Press it has identified "many red flags" in the pipeline's national interest designation and says the federal government appears to be predetermining outcomes and approving projects in advance of meaningful consultations. ca.news.yahoo.com/indigenous-c...

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Indigenous groups given just two months to consult on pipeline project designation

OTTAWA — Indigenous communities along the route for the newly announced West Coast oil pipeline were given just two months for consultations on whether the pipeline should be designated a project of n...

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 01/10/2026

I'm compiling posts on "what's the deal with this John Wentworth guy, who is a LessWrong poster who appears to be an "independent AI researcher" and who also just received a 6-figure grant from the Survival and Flourishing Fund" here: bsky.app/profile/pois...

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

115 letters. That's all that stands between us and 18,000 letters telling Congress to keep a private equity firm's road out of Yosemite. Let's finish it today. Send yours: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

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Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Yosemite Giveaway

Contact Congress today!

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Teaching Swift today, and will always share this on “Modest Proposal” day.

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 29/09/2026

These are not products of an effective design process. Instead of starting with a purpose and finding the best way to satisfy it they are starting with a behemoth existing material and desperately trying to find ways to make it useful. This is anti-design.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Following the Pope’s encyclical about AI, you’re going to see a lot more religious intervention in shaping public opinion about tech companies. There are only two social institutions resilient enough to counter AI politically — states and religion. They bought the first. Standby on the second.

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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Documenting the attacks on climate researchers as litigation against fossil fuel companies gets underway: This “wave of requests constitutes a larger and more targeted campaign against researchers whose work could be used by lawyers to advance climate lawsuits.” www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

politico.com

Inside the anti-climate campaign against researchers

A POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you want to know the actual best poem it's Senlin, by Conrad Aiken. Behold just a taste:

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you missed this year's BSPS annual conference, fear not! By the power of technology, we bring you Eleanor Knox's keynote talk, 'The Scale (and Context) Relativity of Spacetime Structure' youtu.be/pAQVXHcZXiY #philsci #philsky

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Eleanor Knox, 'The Scale (and Context) Relativity of Spacetime Structure'

Keynote address delivered in July 2026 at the annual conference of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science #philsci

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.” www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...

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Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian Duncan

How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ...

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Greenpeace Canada @greenpeaceca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Carney says this (Bill C-39) is a decisive moment for Canada, & he’s right: his government is deciding to remove decades-long environmental and labour protections to build more pipelines, bypass essential environmental protections, & sideline FPIC from Indigenous Peoples. 🧵 1/7

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Wayne Myrvold @wmyrvold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Try to prepare youself for how bad this ad is. Think of the worst, most cringe-worthy piece of slop you can imagine.Then watch it to find how limited your imagination is.

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Wayne Myrvold @wmyrvold.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Understanding the Silicon Valley subculture surrounding AI is essential to understanding what's happening to our world, and this thread sheds light on an aspect of it you might not have been familiar with.

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Last year it was ‘chatbots have been endorsing lots of people’s delusions and we didn’t notice.’ This year, its ’agents have been hacking lots of websites and we didn’t notice.’ Seems there’s a problem with controlling this technology and monitoring what it is doing.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Butt teeth! Butt teeth! Butt teeth! @panic.gay · 26/09/2026

Being frustrated that your elevator is powered by an unnecessary and cloyingly friendly chatbot seemed like such silly hyperbolic satire and now it is just a regular Thursday.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When I say Butlerian, you say Jihad. Butlerian! Jihad! Butlerian! Jihad!

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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“A.I. is not equivalent to railroads. For one, rail travel met an immediate need whereas, outside of highly technical fields, artificial intelligence is still a product looking for a market.” Well, sort of a cross between a product looking for a market & a religion looking for converts.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist.

A lovely mossy boulder with a face. I walked past this venerable stone gentleman on Dartmoor when I was beginning to write my first novel, Villager, and it whispered all 104,000 words of the book to me. So now I have to pay it all of my royalties. Unfortunately my ex-publisher stopped paying me royalties last year. Understandable, the boulder was not happy. But now I have a new publisher and the book has been republished. So remember if you purchase a copy you will be helping a boulder to eat, pay the rent on his riverside moss garden, and feed his boulder family.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

help us 90s rachel leigh cook's problematic anti-drug psa, you're our only hope

Rachel Leigh Cook in her iconic anti-drug PSA. She's holding an egg and I've added a subtitle that reads, "This is your brain"

Rachel Leigh Cook holding a frying pan with a completely smashed egg on it, dripping yolk onto the floor. I've added a subtitle that reads, "This is your brain on AI"

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

corporate asked you to find the differences between these two pictures

Tilcayo, the newly discovered leopard cat

Heater, the well-known orange baby (identical)

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Marshall Abrams @marshall0i.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm trying to organize a session at the 2027 @ishpssb.bsky.social meeting in Buenos Aires on philosophical, historical, or social science issues related to random drift. Mike Dietrich has expressed interest. Please contact me if you think you might be interested or have questions.

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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Took this picture of @alanrichardson.bsky.social and I like to think he’s asking how much your favourite Vienna Circle member would have hated generative AI

A man in a white shirt with glasses behind a lectern and computer, gesturing with one hand, looking like he is clearly telling you some solid truths

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

And every day there is more Fresh AI Hell. What's worse than polluting the information ecosystem with synthetic text dressed up to look like news? Dressing it up further as the work of fake Indigenous journalists: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

cbc.ca

‘Very harmful’: website uses AI to generate northern Indigenous news ‘correspondents’ | CBC News

The website WE NEWS has three northern Indigenous 'AI correspondents.' Their profiles say they are 'a member of Yukon First Nation,' 'of Dene heritage,' and 'an Inuk raised in the North.' Experts in t...

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I have been yelling since 2021 about how using synthetic text extruding machines for information access is a TERRIBLE IDEA. And yet and yet and yet: they are marketing so heavily that way that people keep falling for it. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

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Wayne Myrvold @wmyrvold.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What's up with that? People accept, and publish, AI shit that they would never accept from a human designer.

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Lois Beckett @loisbeckett.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

An AI book list with three categories: 1) smart books that explain and critique the AI industry 2) VERY flawed but ~illustrative~ books on AI 3) books that provide deeper political/social context, including some fiction (lmk what you'd add to the list) www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%. 80%! A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

Folks, remember when Geoff Hinton called gpt-2 humanity's caterpillar and gpt-3 humanity's butterfly or something like that? Also remember how he said radiologists were gonna be obsolete in 5 years (but he said that ~10 years ago)? Ok now, he says ChatGPT is an alien being.

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John L. Walters @johnlwalters.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

‘We are in a moment where refusal is really meaningful.’ @emilymbender.bsky.social in a fascinating and entertaining conversation with @adambecker.bsky.social From Dreaming Against the Machine: Episode 23: Language Models, with Emily Bender, 15 Sep 2026 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...

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Episode 23: Language Models, with Emily Bender

Podcast Episode · Dreaming Against the Machine · 15 September · 58min

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

Erin Redwing
@realizingerin
I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This video is amaze -best placement of a lavalier mic I've ever seen (baguette mic!) -a suitable number of F bombs (I use them when appropriate, & with Trump, Bhattacharya, Vought, & RFK Jr doing all they can to dismantle science & public health, F bombs are warranted) -the compact is FANTASTIC

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 13/09/2026

On the left is you got the poison gravel that stinks like rotten egg farts. On the right is the one you find in your pantry that makes your food taste better. Vote Halite! #MinCup26

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I forced my economist husband to listen to me read this out loud and I think I might have physically hurt him.

The economist William Nordhaus has shown that creators of technology are only able to capture about 2% of the economic value created by that technology. The other 98% flows through to society in the form of what economists call social surplus.
Technological innovation in a market system is inherently philanthropic, by a 50:1 ratio. Who gets more value from a new technology, the single company that makes it, or the millions or billions of people who use it to improve their lives? QED.

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Wayne Myrvold @wmyrvold.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Fun little test. Relieved that I got all the words right in Italian, French and German. Unsurprising that I bombed on Slavic and Uralic languages.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Oh this is interesting! Climate scientist @leahstokes.bsky.social shows that candidates who talk about climate change *get a bump in preference from voters*. "Common knowledge" is that climate is a losing issue, but this survey shows the opposite is true: voters care. mailchi.mp/9af4ccd3280e...

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Climate action comes in waves

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