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Sam

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Questioning just about everything [by Design] Safer Online Communications: https://activistchecklist.org/ Behind The Paywall 🔓: https://hackernoon.com/how-to-get-around-paywalls-on-major-websites

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Sam @sfsutcliffe.bsky.social · 4h

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Trentemøller: In A Storm

YouTube video by Trentemøller

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Fight Chat Control @fightchatcontrol.bsky.social · 5d

Take action!

fightchatcontrol.eu to contact your ministers, permanent representation, MEPs, and, if you are German or Italian, your national MPs!

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Sam @sfsutcliffe.bsky.social · 16h

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Trentemøller: Never Stop Running - live (feat. Marie Fisker)

YouTube video by Trentemøller

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Sam @sfsutcliffe.bsky.social · 16h

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Wet Leg: The Band That Makes You Ask “What? Why? How?

YouTube video by The Quiet Rebel

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Sam @sfsutcliffe.bsky.social · 1d

Dutch pragmatism because they've run out of road. Pity Rutte (VVD) didn't invest in a smartgrid all those decades ago when the Danes did.

Sam @sfsutcliffe.bsky.social · 1d

The only way out is to get to the gym on time as per usual. Not everyone gets to feel this alive.

Sam @sfsutcliffe.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently those of us who are not America need to advertise this fact more.

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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 2d

When the aurora moves overhead like this >>>

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Sam @sfsutcliffe.bsky.social · 2d

Well, at least I know who I'll be voting for this time round..

Sam @sfsutcliffe.bsky.social · 2d

hilarious. Thanks Jim! 😅

Sam @sfsutcliffe.bsky.social · 2d

white screen glare down.. miles to go before..

Sam @sfsutcliffe.bsky.social · 2d

Over 3 so-called answers from the idiot AI that has infested Google search covered in errors. fictitious dates, associations it made up..

Sam @sfsutcliffe.bsky.social · 2d

not everything is so obvious, but some things are.

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Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social · Jul 30

Check out this new series by AJE untangles on the "war on truth". It looks at the transformative impact of mis and disinformation in the digital age. This episode, called "Why are lies thriving?", includes interviews with myself Hossein Derakshan and Claire Wardle
youtube.com/watch?v=yw_P...

Why are lies thriving? | Al Jazeera Untangles

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

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Sam @sfsutcliffe.bsky.social · 3d

*'But it’s not just the slop. It’s also the scams. “At its most innocuous, #AI generated content without watermarking and metadata accelerates the #enshittification of the internet and tricks people with inflammatory content,”'
www.404media.co/sora-2-water... 🔓 archive.is/RqM6k #disinformation

Sora 2 Watermark Removers Flood the Web

Bypassing Sora 2's rudimentary safety features is easy and experts worry it'll lead to a new era of scams and disinformation.

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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 8d

So is it a slop machine? Yes. Yes, I think it is.

But it's more than that. Sora can also bring your favorite fringe ideas to life... like chemtrails!

(this is seriously maybe the video I'm most proud of so far...)

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Sam @sfsutcliffe.bsky.social · 3d

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Fonoptikon - Δυστοπία

YouTube video by Fonoptikon

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Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 3d

🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

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Sam @sfsutcliffe.bsky.social · 3d

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Director James Cameron says the Terminator plot ''not science fiction anymore''

#ABC730 #Australia #ABCNews www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... #science #AI

'Not sci-fi anymore': James Cameron's AI warning

The Hollywood director has been present in the film space for many years but the emergence of AI and its power has him somewhat scared for the future.

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Sam @sfsutcliffe.bsky.social · 3d

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On hope, courage, and action 🐒🌿🕊️ with Jane Goodall

Podcast Episode · WHAT IF WE GET IT RIGHT? · 10/07/2025 · 35m

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Nick Hedley @nickhedley.bsky.social · 3d

So long, coal

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Ian Gaston Photography @iangaston.bsky.social · Feb 7

The intricate details of a small section of decaying oak at twilight.

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Sam @sfsutcliffe.bsky.social · 3d

''There's so many problems in our world, so much negativity. Don't worry about the darkness — turn on the light and the darkness automatically goes.'' —David Lynch

(Photo by Gérard Rancinan)

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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson @ayanaeliza.bsky.social · 4d

In 2021, I was a guest on Jane Goodall’s podcast. Today, I’m re-airing that conversation to share her voice, her wisdom, her abundant soft power, with you.

🐒 🌿🕊️ Listen here (wherever you get your pods): www.getitright.earth/podcast

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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 8d

Well gang, it's happened: OpenAI has built a platform filled exclusively with fake, AI content.

I've been playing with it for a few days, and I think it's safe to say we're basically kissing reality goodbye.

Here's the story: www.npr.org/2025/10/03/n...

And some thoughts 🧵

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