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gwenckatz.bsky.social
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week:
-A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses
-A ban on ICE agents working for the state government
-A ban on websites selling your data
-A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights
-A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
October 2, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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noco3n-com.bsky.social
cosmos.
September 26, 2026 at 9:25 AM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
Every big tech company is attempting to normalize some form of always listening, recording, and/or watching. It’s the only way to sell a product that people largely don’t want but companies are heavily invested in.
parismarx.com Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 14d
So far, Apple has been slow on pushing AI features. But that also appears poised to change under Ternus, starting with a new set of Apple Watch features that necessitate it constantly listening to you and the people around you.

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It appears one of the big initial Ternus pushes will be more comprehensively integrating generative AI into Apple’s products, following the slow deployment under Cook. It’s most visible in a series of new features for the Apple Watch that record everything said around it to recognize sounds and music, provide a recap of your conversations, and allow a “Live Rewind” where you can see a transcript of what was said around you in the past 15 seconds. At a moment of people freaking out about Meta’s “pervert glasses,” this is Apple moving to make the fear of your devices listening to everything you say a reality that’s openly championed as a new feature. The company is promising it will all be done in a way that respects privacy and security, but that’s what companies always say as we experience a progressive degradation in those very things.
September 21, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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jamellebouie.net
yeah, this stuff is far from my area of expertise, but i have yet to see anyone convincingly explain how the causal chain is supposed to operate here. it feels like the "AI will kill us all people" spent too much time watching Terminator 2 and the Animatrix.
faineg.com Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19d
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
September 16, 2026 at 1:05 AM
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nellucnhoj.bsky.social
Just saw someone saying that Breath of the Wild is old enough now that there are adults for whom that would have been their childhood Zelda.

Time is stupid.
September 9, 2026 at 10:27 AM
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plantgoodseed.bsky.social
garlic seed for planting aka really high quality bulb stock is now available at plantgoodseed.com! five offerings this year: sicilian softneck, silver rose softneck, pyongyang hardneck, donostia red hardneck and the venerable applegate artichoke. all certified organic #🧄 #🌱
September 3, 2026 at 10:05 AM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
The potential downside of the focus on Flock is that people don’t recognize it as a singular entity within an entire landscape of companies creating the surveillance state.
As Flock battles public scrutiny, other police surveillance companies see an opening
Dozens of cities have canceled their contracts with Flock. Some are switching to other companies, but privacy experts say they're no better than Flock.
www.npr.org
August 23, 2026 at 9:52 PM
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escapismstudio.bsky.social
Read a piece by @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social on how AI chatbots are changing relationships and felt compelled to make this.
The loneliness epidemic is not a markt opportunity — invest in local communities
January 23, 2026 at 12:53 PM
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bennjordan.bsky.social
It's 105°f out in Dallas. Why isn't anyone swimming?
August 15, 2026 at 2:19 AM
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zinoky.bsky.social
On August 19, Orthodox Christians celebrate the Transfiguration of the Lord. In folk tradition, this day is known as Apple Savior. Apples grow in southern Siberia.
August 19, 2026 at 4:35 AM
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certificates.bsky.social
"if you're not explicitly asking me to weigh in with my opinion, why are you posting online?"
August 17, 2026 at 6:21 PM
kittystandardtime.bsky.social
killing the earth to consolidate wealth for like four to 10 people can elicit moral panic im okay with that
brendannyhan.bsky.social Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · Aug 15
Interesting @jeremiahdjohns.bsky.social piece on the dogmatism of the "Believe Science" crew who publicly proclaim their fidelity to science while not practicing what they preach, including falling victim to the anti-AI moral panic www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-heresy...
August 15, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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videoteca-nod.org
pro-AI boosterism is firmly rooted in denial of fossil fuel-powered climate disaster, hope this helps
August 15, 2026 at 9:11 PM
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gregmepstein.bsky.social
Once again: AI is, non-metaphorically, a religion. These people believe in a fundamentalist way that they're a chosen people—so they can do whatever the fuck they want to do. The present-day impact of your actions on others doesn't matter when you're infallibly chosen as Savior in the World to Come
August 9, 2026 at 2:04 AM
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couts.bsky.social
NEW: ICE has drastically increased the number of people from whom it’s collecting DNA to enter into an FBI criminal database, including children as young as 4 and 5. @dmehro.bsky.social w/ the scoop. No paywall bc FOIA: www.wired.com/story/ice-dn...
ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children
Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.
www.wired.com
August 3, 2026 at 11:43 AM
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karlbode.com
there's 5 main reasons they want you to think AI is now self-aware and "goes rogue"

1. product marketing misrepresentation
2. props up insane valuations for a sector not making money
3. scares lawmakers into trash legislation
4. distracts from technofascism
5. distances execs from accountability
July 29, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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timnitgebru.blacksky.app
Bernie hasn't tried this on here yet but here he is doing free marketing for OpenAI.

He has been captured by the worst people in AI for a few years now and has been parroting company hype talking points instead of guarding against them. It’s like the public is being assaulted from all sides.
Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders A new AI model went rogue and hacked other computers. No, this is not science fiction. Uncontrolled AI poses a serious threat to all of us. We cannot continue the race to build and deploy this powerful technology until strong safeguards are in place. CONGRESS MUST ACT.
July 23, 2026 at 3:47 PM
kittystandardtime.bsky.social
give thx to the anonymous indians who make it all possible.
July 13, 2026 at 7:04 AM
kittystandardtime.bsky.social
ai is gr8 if u wanna be spreadsheet
July 12, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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ojaimayor.bsky.social
I wish world bank happened every four years and teams of financial wizards played against each other to impoverish each other's countries with increasingly complex contracts and loans
July 11, 2026 at 12:47 AM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
www.themarshallproject.org/2026/07/09/p...
Made in America: The Products of U.S. Prison Labor Are All Around Us
A project by photographer Daniella Zalcman shows the casual prevalence of goods made by prison labor in public and private spaces.
www.themarshallproject.org
July 9, 2026 at 10:49 PM
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dreamcatcher01.bsky.social
Nature's colorful good night....
June 29, 2026 at 1:45 AM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
Every one of these guys: Totalitarianism is good bro, trust me.
“Radical transparency is coming. A future where you can know anything, anytime, anywhere. A future where no one can hide,” he wrote on Substack. “We are wrapping the planet in an ‘Sensor Ecosystem’: a living, multi-layered sensing system that runs from the cameras in your home, to the phone in your pocket, to autonomous cars and humanoid robots on the ground, to drones and flying cars in the air, all the way up to a constellation of satellites imaging every square meter on the Earth every single day.” Diamandis’ comments come roughly two years after Oracle founder Larry Ellison said something very similar. ”
June 27, 2026 at 1:11 PM
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almostinfamous.bsky.social
Welcome to the age of Nepomaxxing
gilduran.com Gil Durán @gilduran.com · Jun 19
A 22-year-old just got a $30 million investment valuing his new futures exchange at $300 million.

He graduated Stanford, wrote for Thiel's Stanford Review, interned at Andreessen Horowitz.

His mom? Pro-crypto Sen. Gillibrand, D-NY.

Bipartisan capture in full bloom.
fortune.com/2026/06/18/t...
Son of pro-crypto New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand raises $30 million to launch a derivatives exchange | Fortune
Lux Capital led the investment, which values the Stanford graduate’s exchange at $300 million.
fortune.com
June 19, 2026 at 5:41 PM