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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/09/2026

Remember the random dude who got 49020939 articles of uncritical media coverage in the space of two days because he quit anthropic based on his fears of existential AI risk? Yeah..........he's a climate denier. So is the whole AI industry. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a...

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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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Dr Nafeez Ahmed @nafeez.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

EXCLUSIVE: AI giants warn their tech could kill us all. Their proposed safety rules could help kill off cheaper competition. Our @bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation exposes unproven runaway claims and a looming financial blackhole worth 10% of world GDP 1/20 bylinetimes.com/2026/09/15/b...

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Behind the AI ‘Extinction’ Power Bid: Soaring Costs Could Hit 10% of World GDP

AI firms are invoking unproven extinction warnings to justify restrictions on developments by their smaller rivals whilst seeking greater influence over regulation

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 14/09/2026

Frontier AI firms are openly calling for competition-reducing coordination. We shouldn't be surprised: The inter-firm infrastructure for this has long been in the making. People think varieties of capitalism is no longer cool but Silicon Valley has built a ... privately coordinated market economy.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...

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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats

Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

If you showed up at Defcon and gave talk about how your autonomous malware did something unexpected and damaged someone else's computers, the first question from the audience would be "Why are you so shit at making secure sandboxes?" It wouldn't be "How are you so awesome at making hacking tools?"

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Jeremy Sheff @jnsheff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

But command-and-control regulation is not the only regulatory tool available. To force frontier AI companies to internalize the externalities of social or systemic risk, the obvious policy lever is tort liabity: make AI companies liable for the harms their models cause (or enable users to cause).

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 13/07/2026

With all the July model runs now in, it is very likely that 2026 will see the largest El Niño event since records began in the late 1800s – and potentially by a truly mind-blowing margin. The median estimate is now 3.6C, roughly 0.8C hotter than the prior record (2.75C). www.theclimatebrink....

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

"Who made this?? 🤣🤣🤣" x.com/warlock_trad...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/04/2026

The time between fossil fuel crises is just going to keep shrinking, until there's no discrete single "crisis" - just one unbroken prolonged state of global suffering due to fossil fuel unreliability The best time to ditch fossil fuels was 30 years ago. The second best time is now

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Finance ministers of Germany, Spain, Portugal, Austria & Italy are calling on the EU to introduce a windfall profits tax on energy companies. This is a no brainer and should be implemented swiftly. Our democracies can’t take another redistribution shock. www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/h...

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

No one wants to talk about rationing. It’s not pretty economic policy. But the ugliest form of rationing is rationing by price explosions. That’s why it’s high time to put fair emergency rationing protocols in place for energy. Shortages are already here.

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

The lesson of the previous energy crisis: Price interventions have to stop ripple effects before they start. This is about buying time for emergency adjustments. European democracies cannot afford another round of falling real wages and war profiteering. @wsj.com Link: www.wsj.com/economy/glob...

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Holy shit truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

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Ilyas Dogru @ilyasdogru.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Olieprisen stiger til morgen. Elprisen er tæt på 0 kr midt på dagen🚗🔌 Velkommen til energimarkedet i 2026: Klimaminister beder benzin- & dieselbilister om at køre mindre, mens elbiler kan stort set køre gratis i dag. Uafhængighed af fossile brændstoffer er et must & elbiler er godt billede på det✌️

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Fossil fuels are by far the most systemically significant price, it's not even close. We just saw the largest single day price jump in oil. It's the responsibility of governments to contain this price jump and not let another round of sellers' inflation take hold. academic.oup.com/icc/article/...

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Broadbent Institute @broadbent.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

"We try to manage the whole inflation problem by focusing on only the interest rate whereas I would argue that there’s a range of other systemically significant prices that we should also be paying attention to if we want to achieve greater price stability."

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Profits, Inflation and Survival in an Age of Emergencies: Why We Need a New Paradigm – 2024 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture | Perspectives Journal

The 2024 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture was delivered by economist Isabella Weber, demonstrating how economic shocks and corporate profits have affected our affordability crisis. From gas to groceries, t...

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Gas prices up by around 50% today. A painful reminder that relying on imported fossil fuels is a risky strategy.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

wow who was he up against

5 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A man hosting an award ceremony announces that the winner of the FIFA peace prize is Donald Trump

Panel 2: Donald Trump looking disgustingly excited

Panels 3 to 5: The other nominees for the award looking suitably disappointed. They are: Mustard gas, The Devil, and a cardboard cut out of Adolf Hitler

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Chris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Easily one of the top charts of all time

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Frank O'Connor @frankoconnor.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Rising, rising Rents are rising, rising ... & no-one is one bit f*cking surprised As this is another lesson in how you manufacture a housing emergency, Irish Government style #speirgorm

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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 27/01/2026

Companies / governments / institutions went from zero Zoom usage ("we can't assess the security issues of remote working" etc etc) to full-on ALL ZOOM EVERYWHERE in the space of about a month during Covid. Turns out if it's important, you can just do the thing.

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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

The one thing that is growing extremely fast is the wealth of the top billionaires: The top 0.00001% used to own the equivalent of 3% of national income in wealth in 2010 Now they own the equivalent of 12% of national income!

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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

We hear it all the time: Since the turn of the 2010s, thanks to the rise of tech, the US has pulled ahead economically. This idea is everywhere from Washington to Davos—and it's paralyzing Europe But it's simply not true! Let's look at what's really happening, with charts🧵

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Bad Faith Times @dennycarter.badfaithtimes.com.ap.brid.gy · 12/01/2026

Denny Carter writes that the primacy of feeling good and the politics of pleasure run counter to the sort of sustainability and hearty civic life of a functional democratic society. badfaithtimes.com/there-is-no-you

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There Is No You

The politics of never-ending pleasure favors the right wing and makes democracy (almost) impossible

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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · 04/01/2026

There’s a line here whereby carving out techno-libertarian ‘zones’ in your jurisdiction (ala Honduras) becomes a viable territorial self-defence strategy against Trump’s global ambitions.

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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

6/Again that is why the repeated claims to Greenland. This is not a world of sovereign equality or of balancing against China. It is about extraction. Why the interest in Greenland, it is about the resources and tech network state fantasies. bsky.app/profile/clae...

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

What do Greenland, Honduras, Venezuela, and Nigeria have in common? The “network state” cabal—which includes Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, & Joe Lonsdale—has been circling them like vultures. 1/

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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

4/Enough of the uncomfortably laughs. We need to stop thinking about this as states interacting with states or through the lens of great power politics.This is not just silly freelancing or Trump being Trump but an effort to rewire the norms of international politics. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

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Exclusive: Greenland ‘Freedom City’? Rich donors push Trump for a tech hub up north

It is described as 'a libertarian utopia with minimal corporate regulation.'

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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

2/There is a multiyear campaign on the part of the tech broligarchy to establish a 'network state' in Greenland similar to what was done in Honduras (Prospera). Trump/Vance are pushing this agenda forward on multiple fronts (see also pardon past Honduran president). techcrunch.com/2024/11/15/i...

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'I went to Greenland to try to buy it': Meet the founder who wants to recreate Mars on Earth | TechCrunch

Praxis co-founder Dryden Brown wants to build a city in Greenland that emulates what a community on Mars could be like.

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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

1/More head scratching over Trump Greenland threats. Remember there is nothing about great power politics or spheres of influence that says you antagonize an ally/other great power (Europe). The motivation and goal is about neo-royalism: assert dominance/extract resources for the insider clique.

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Kasper Junge Wester @veterandrusianer.dk · 07/10/2025

Det er en skandale, at Den Danske Ordbogs fremtid er usikker - uanset om det skyldes, at den skal fungere som en luns til et eller andet parti i finanslovsforhandlingerne eller ej. Jeg har netop skrevet under på dette borgerforslag. Det bør du også gøre. www.borgerforslag.dk/se-og-stoet-...

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Poya Pakzad @ppkzd.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Hi BlueSky. For weeks I've been writing a daily brief on Israel's genocide in Gaza and beyond, condensing ~50 pages of news from around the world into one piece each day. It's in Danish, but machine translation makes it readable anywhere. 🫵👇

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Languages are systems. They can most certainly have biases, but they do not and cannot have goals. Exactly the same is true for the mathematical models of language that are produced by transformers ... the English language ... is never going to become conscious and decide to turn us into paperclips.

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Cultural theory was right about the death of the author. It was just a few decades early

How old theories explain the new technology of LLMs

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

We need to escape the Gernsback Continuum. How @greatdismal.bsky.social 1980s short story anticipates the dreams of Silicon Valley today.

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We need to escape the Gernsback Continuum

Outdated science fiction is hobbling our dreams.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

“you’re not americannn, why do u care about U.S politicssss?”

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tveskov @tveskov.com · 19/04/2025

Pust liv i din halvtræge Bluesky-oplevelse med denne kortfattede guide med tips og tricks: tveskov.com/bluesky-guide/

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Kom godt igang med Bluesky – t v e s k o v . c o m

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Kate Glenn @findingtangle.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Look, I understand the impulse to continue saying it doesn't make any sense but these people are not very secretive about what they want and why. Their theory of how it will all come together is frequently insane or idiotic but *they think it's achievable* which is why they are doing it.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

👀 Praxis is a Thiel-backed “network state” project that aims to build its OWN COUNTRY. In Nov, Praxis founder Dryden Brown wrote about wanting Greenland 4 Praxis. In Dec, Trump named Thiel partner Ken Howery as ambassador to Denmark & said the US shld buy Greenland. Praxis & Dryden are thrilled...1/

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The Exploding Heads @explodingheads.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

BREAKING: Trump dodges trade war, citing bone spurs

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Hear the sirens. If the warfare state replaces the welfare state, this will further fuel the extreme right. More countries falling in the hands of extreme right nationalists would weaken Europe in an existential way.

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charleslister1.bsky.social @charleslister1.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I just left #Syria after an extraordinary trip — one that until recently I never thought I’d make again. From #Aleppo, to #Idlib, #Latakia, #Tartus, #Salamiya, #Suwayda & #Damascus. So many takeaways, but most of all: it's free & everyone is overjoyed. A 🧵:

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