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Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · Jul 12

My HUMAN 3.0 startup is inspired by the book, LIFE 3.0 by Max Tegmark, and all who are working for a world where humanity and technology coexist harmoniously.

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Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · Sep 21

www.eventbrite.com/e/new-luddis...

New Luddism: Technology and Resistance in the Modern Workplace

Join us at Columbia University for a student-led conference featuring researchers, workers, and organizers.

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Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · Sep 21

Absolutely fucking insane.

Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · Sep 21

substack.com/redirect/a16... via @bcmerchant.bsky.social

Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia

A new paper calls on academia to repel rampant AI in university departments and classrooms.

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Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · Sep 20

The man building some of the most powerful AI systems on Earth believes there's a 1 in 4 chance of catastrophe. If your pilot said there was a 25% chance your plane would crash, would you board?

ControlAI @controlai.com · Sep 19

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says he thinks there's a 25% chance AI ends in disaster.

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David Orban @davidorban.com · Aug 25

Download the full PDF of The AI Paradox Report

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Gerd Leonhard @futuristgerd.com · Sep 19

Meet me in Copenhagen Oct28 for my keynote at FutureTense 2025 buff.ly/FCYxt38
I am working on something very special for this event:)))) See ya there. #FutureTenseCPH

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Future of Life Institute @futureoflife.org · May 8

‼️ On April 26, 100+ AI scientists convened at the Singapore Conference on AI to produce the just-released Singapore Consensus on Global AI Safety Research Priorities. 🧵⬇️

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Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · Aug 14

I am, Mark Riva, love me or simply misunderstand me, but you won’t forget me.

Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · Aug 14

I’m sorry, I can no longer waste my time.

Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · Aug 14

Bluesky, it’s just more pie in the sky…

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Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · Aug 5

Digital De-Arrangement

Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · Aug 5

@human30.bsky.social

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Techdirt @techdirt.com · Aug 5

Take Back Our Digital Infrastructure To Save Democracy

Watch the tech oligarchs who lined up behind Donald Trump at his inauguration, and you'll see the most important story of our time: the fascists are winning because they've built a direct pipeline from concentrated technological power to…

Take Back Our Digital Infrastructure To Save Democracy

Watch the tech oligarchs who lined up behind Donald Trump at his inauguration, and you'll see the most important story of our time: the fascists are winning because they've built a direct pipeline from concentrated technological power to concentrated political power. This isn't about technology being inherently dangerous—it's about how distorted Wall Street incentives drove us toward digital infrastructure that mirrors authoritarian power structures.

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Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · Aug 5

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Expert Says a Specific Group of People Is Leading to the Collapse of Human Civilization

A new book that covers 5,000 years and the collapse of more than 400 societies argues that we're in for a rude awakening.

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Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · Aug 3

25 years later, where’s Mondo when we need them??

Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · Aug 3

It’s not a movie, it’s a documentary.

Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · Aug 2

What is it about these words that make 30+ people hit the like button?

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Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · Aug 2

Don’t stop Dreaming… youtu.be/svpXB2Bi7Qw?...

Dream On

YouTube video by The Beloved - Topic

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Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · Aug 2

If there ever was a time to act on our most radical plans to activate our most primal instincts and awaken our latent powers and highest potential to express our deepest longings and achieve our wildest dreams, it is Right Now… youtu.be/nFkmTa4oY84?...

Samantha James - Right Now

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Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · Aug 2

As we descend into the digital abyss we walk a knife-edge crisis full of unimaginable revelations and unfathomable opportunities…

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Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · Aug 2

By all accounts, I’m blocking more accounts on Bluesky than all other “social media” sites combined. What has this sufferable cyberworld become? Our info-highway leads to a tawdry sideshow down some two-bit nightmare alley… youtu.be/Q81Yf46Oj3s?...

NIGHTMARE ALLEY | Official Trailer | Searchlight Pictures

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Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · Aug 2

youtube.com/shorts/pR_DZ... @governor.ca.gov @briantylercohen.bsky.social

Newsom: "He's caught red handed. He's in the files"

YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen

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Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · Aug 2

These people aren’t stupid

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dorian @doriantaylor.com · Aug 2

my headcanon is that there was a schism early on between the licklider/engelbart camp (the computer is a tool) and the minsky/mccarthy camp (the computer is a slave), and it is somewhat substantiated by this book: press.stripe.com/the-dream-ma...

Stripe Press — The Dream Machine

A biography of J. C. R. Licklider, the psychologist and scientist who inspired the work that led to the internet, and shifted our understanding of what computers could be.

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Mark Riva @markriva.bsky.social · Aug 2

Ballroom Blitz.