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old uncle BATface @catfacejoe.bsky.social · 1d

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Matt the outlaw
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Lady behind me at the thing screening last night to her partner "why are they shooting at the dog?" and her partner says very firmly "have you never seen a film before? you watch and information is revealed"

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 1d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 1d

Ongoing CFP:

Heliotrope is seeking submissions on a rolling basis. This a space for short think-&-feel pieces... www.heliotropejournal.net/editors-notes

Editors' notes — HELIOTROPE

www.heliotropejournal.net

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 1d

this!!!

Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 1d

Everything I have learned about [insert name of far-right US media pundit], I have learned entirely against my will.

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 1d

While there is value to foresight and anticipating risks, writes Tech Policy Press fellow
@eryk.bsky.social, could the language used by AI risk communities to describe the technology contribute to the very problems it aims to curb?

The AI Safety Debate Needs AI Skeptics | TechPolicy.Press

The language used by AI risk communities to describe the technology may contribute to the very problems it aims to curb, Eryk Salvaggio writes.

www.techpolicy.press

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olgacronin.bsky.social @olgacronin.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a video explaining how Chat Control surveillance would work by the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy...

fair.tube/w/72DCPMByyS...

#speirgorm

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 5d

every day I wake up and read a headline that sounds like something a concussed writer for The Simpsons would come up with while trying to make an intentionally stupid joke about George Orwell

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 5d

Oh god, they actually put in the newspaper that I got mad

Stewart Webb @nuclearpidgeon.bsky.social · 5d

Two copies acquired and distributed to the lunch tables of my corporate tech job office 🙂

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 7d

Yall please go watch @merriam-webster.com’s new AI ad😅

youtu.be/RvQnl3O0D3c?...

LLM

YouTube video by Merriam-Webster

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Dani Shanley @danishanley.bsky.social · 12d

I agree. it's the only job that corresponds with my dress sense, other than children's tv presenter.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13d

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets.

• Joy Reid
• Don Lemon
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Tiffany Cross
• Jemele Hill
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Karen Attiah
• Amber Ruffin

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 13d

They've lost the 9yos

JA Westenberg
@Daojoan@mastodon.social

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI
Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 15d

I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him.

I'm talking about something very different.

Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired.

Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to.

But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿‍♂️

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Dani Shanley @danishanley.bsky.social · 14d

if you filter for AI on the resources of @hypestudies.bsky.social you'll find a few... hypestudies.org/resources

Resources | Hype Studies

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 14d

I was part of a working group on AI and Fraternity assembled by the Vatican. We met in Rome and worked on this over two days. I am happy to share the result of that intense effort: a Declaration we presented to the Pope and other government authorities

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In this spirit of fraternity, hope and caution, we call upon your leadership to uphold the following principles and red lines to foster dialogue and reflection on how AI can best serve our entire human family:

Human life and dignity: AI must never be developed or used in ways that threaten, diminish, or disqualify human life, dignity, or fundamental rights. Human intelligence – our capacity for wisdom, moral reasoning, and orientation toward truth and beauty – must never be devalued by artificial processing, however sophisticated.

AI must be used as a tool, not an authority: AI must remain under human control. Building uncontrollable systems or over-delegating decisions is morally unacceptable and must be legally prohibited. Therefore, development of superintelligence (as mentioned above) AI technologies should not be allowed until there is broad scientific consensus that it will be done safely and controllably, and there is clear and broad public consent.

Accountability: only humans have moral and legal agency and AI systems are and must remain legal objects, never subjects. Responsibility and liability reside with developers, vendors, companies, deployers, users, institutes, and governments. AI cannot be granted legal personhood or “rights”.

Life-and-death decisions: AI systems must never be allowed to make life or death decisions, especially in military applications during armed conflict or peacetime, law enforcement, border control, healthcare or judicial decisions.

Independent testing and adequate risk assessment must be required before deployment and throughout the entire lifecycle.
Stewardship: Governments, corporations, and anyone else should not weaponize AI for any kind of domination, illegal wars of aggression, coercion, manipulation, social scoring, or unwarranted mass surveillance.

Responsible design: AI should be designed and independently evaluated to avoid unintentional and catastrophic effects on humans and society, for example through design giving rise to deception, delusion, addiction, or loss of autonomy.

No AI monopoly: the benefits of AI – economic, medical, scientific, social – should not be monopolized.

No Human Devaluation: design and deployment of AI should make humans flourish in their chosen pursuits, not render humanity redundant, disenfranchised, devalued or replaceable.

Ecological responsibility: our use of AI must not endanger our planet and ecosystems. Its vast demands for energy, water, and rare minerals must be managed responsibly and sustainably across the whole supply chain.

No irresponsible global competition: We must avoid an irresponsible race between corporations and countries towards ever more powerful AI.

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · Feb 20

apropos of recent posts, I was invited to give a talk to my faculty about "social impacts of AI" on Monday and I have decided to stop being coy about it

screenshot of powerpoint title slide: "Saying "No": 10 things I hate about GenAI (and you should too)"

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 14d

"The AI model appears intelligent only because thousands of humans have already evaluated and shaped its outputs ... Their labor produces the value that makes AI systems profitable, yet the “intelligence” is attributed not to workers but to the machine itself."

antipodeonline.org/2025/07/30/f...

Intervention — “For a Political Geography of Artificial Intelligence: Fighting Ghost Work, Exploitation, and the Making of a Global Digital Underclass” - Antipode Online

Richard Kirk (University of California, Los Angeles) “The worker becomes all the more a mere appendage of the machine…” —Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, 1848 The Fetish of Aut...

antipodeonline.org

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 14d

FWIW, I’ve read a lot of corporate materials on AI for research and I’ve noticed this, too. It may not seem like a big deal that AI sometimes gets stuff wrong, as long as it’s mostly right—but in fact it throws every product into doubt and is therefore close to useless.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 15d

If you're in London, check out Breaking the (G)loom, the only event that pokes at (p)doom and references the original luddites all in one title. *Also* wish I could make this one

luma.com/9ddl2shi

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 15d

If you're in New York, join the Silicon Valley tech-rejecting youth, a Palantir whistleblower, activists, writers and critics as they take to the Highline to make some noise.

Really wish I could make this.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 15d

Protests, mass meetups, conferences—a youth-led movement is reclaiming the Luddite mantle, rejecting a future dominated by Silicon Valley companies, toxic apps, and generative AI.

This fall, a "Luddite renaissance" is in full swing.

www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...

The Luddite Renaissance is in full swing

This fall, the new luddites are rising

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 15d

my friend @nastasiahadjadji.bsky.social has a new book out on techno-fascism. if you’re a french speaker, you should definitely check it out!

apocalypse nerds by nastasia hadjadji and olivier tesquet

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Dani Shanley @danishanley.bsky.social · 19d

Some thoughts on seeing through/beyond the hype surrounding synthetic data. Delighted to share them via @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social! 🙏

Ada Lovelace Institute @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social · 19d

In our new guest post, @danishanley.bsky.social examines how and why synthetic data is being used in AI development, and why this creates a need to move beyond traditional auditing approaches.

www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/synthet...

Synthetic data, real harm

Why is synthetic data used and what challenges does it raise for AI assurance mechanisms?

www.adalovelaceinstitute.org

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Marielza @marielza.bsky.social · 19d

"If so-called ‘real’ data is never objective — but rather the product of subjective decisions about what to measure, when to collect, whom to include and how to categorise – synthetic data, voided of any concrete referents, makes this subjectivity more concentrated and less visible."

Ada Lovelace Institute @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social · 19d

In our new guest post, @danishanley.bsky.social examines how and why synthetic data is being used in AI development, and why this creates a need to move beyond traditional auditing approaches.

www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/synthet...

Synthetic data, real harm

Why is synthetic data used and what challenges does it raise for AI assurance mechanisms?

www.adalovelaceinstitute.org

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 20d

With a nod to our @hypestudies.bsky.social meeting last week in Barcelona. Thanks Eryk.

Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 20d

AI hype overlaps with the belief that people don’t matter and that politics needs to be “solved” for government to be efficient. In the ongoing failure of US democracy to solve problems, AI hype shadowed the rise of authoritarian anti-politics. www.techpolicy.press/future-fatig...

Future Fatigue: How Hype has Replaced Hope in the 21st Century | TechPolicy.Press

To resist AI hype, we must not reassert the fiction that we could “return” to a functional democracy, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

www.techpolicy.press

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