PS Cavanaugh
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I really don’t think this angle is working for the AI dudes, but too many of them have drunk the Rationalist Kool-Aid. They can’t help themselves. They think “we’re the only ones who can safely shepherd God into existence” is a compelling pitch for normal people.
EXCLUSIVE: Anthropic warns AI may pose 'existential risks to humanity' in IPO filing reut.rs/4hvqeY1
EXCLUSIVE: Anthropic warns AI may pose 'existential risks to humanity' in IPO filing
Anthropic plans to caution potential investors in its IPO that advanced AI could pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity," an extraordinary warning by a company seeking to profit from the same technology.
reut.rs
September 29, 2026 at 1:59 PM
I really don’t think this angle is working for the AI dudes, but too many of them have drunk the Rationalist Kool-Aid. They can’t help themselves. They think “we’re the only ones who can safely shepherd God into existence” is a compelling pitch for normal people.
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Haven't thought this out all the way through, but now would be a good time for an aggressive humanitarian movement to combat the death cults, the rise of AI, and otherwise anti-life impulses coursing through our politics and society.
September 28, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Haven't thought this out all the way through, but now would be a good time for an aggressive humanitarian movement to combat the death cults, the rise of AI, and otherwise anti-life impulses coursing through our politics and society.
Pretty sick of all this!!
New from 404 Media: when you upload images to Copilot, they're not private. Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users' prompts/images, according to internal docs we got
And they're horrified at what they're seeing. Bombarded with requests to make sexual AI images www.404media.co/humans-readi...
And they're horrified at what they're seeing. Bombarded with requests to make sexual AI images www.404media.co/humans-readi...
Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...
www.404media.co
September 28, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Pretty sick of all this!!
Sorry but if you want stupid Tilly Norwood news to go away, stop sharing the stupid articles about her!
September 26, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Sorry but if you want stupid Tilly Norwood news to go away, stop sharing the stupid articles about her!
I think things would be better if instead of displacing anger at the bad dad/husband/whatever in our lives and projecting those qualities onto internet strangers, we confronted the bad people in our lives directly and left the strangers, who we know nothing about, alone.
September 26, 2026 at 4:21 PM
I think things would be better if instead of displacing anger at the bad dad/husband/whatever in our lives and projecting those qualities onto internet strangers, we confronted the bad people in our lives directly and left the strangers, who we know nothing about, alone.
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great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
themomoftheyear.substack.com
September 26, 2026 at 1:40 PM
great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
After a few days in Vienna I am fully tram pilled. Time to start laying rail Chicago.
September 24, 2026 at 2:51 PM
After a few days in Vienna I am fully tram pilled. Time to start laying rail Chicago.
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I came up with some more inane bullshit for everyone to argue about!
September 23, 2026 at 2:46 PM
I came up with some more inane bullshit for everyone to argue about!
My story “A Bug Screamed At Me, Yet I Must Carry On As Normal” is in this! The title pretty much explains it!
You better bet I’ll let you know when the story is available online too but heck if you’ve got 3 bucks why don’t you give this a buy!
You better bet I’ll let you know when the story is available online too but heck if you’ve got 3 bucks why don’t you give this a buy!
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If you'd rather wait, the stories will also drop twice a week for free on our website.
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a.co
September 21, 2026 at 5:28 PM
My story “A Bug Screamed At Me, Yet I Must Carry On As Normal” is in this! The title pretty much explains it!
You better bet I’ll let you know when the story is available online too but heck if you’ve got 3 bucks why don’t you give this a buy!
You better bet I’ll let you know when the story is available online too but heck if you’ve got 3 bucks why don’t you give this a buy!
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Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man
September 20, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man
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Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans”
September 17, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans”
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Great piece by @xriskology.bsky.social on how the effective altruism cult has helped destroy actual philanthropy - with dangerous and deadly results for many people in need:
Effective Altruism Is a Dangerous Cult — Here's Why
Understanding the "Scientology of Silicon Valley." (7,700 words)
www.realtimetechpocalypse.com
September 17, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Great piece by @xriskology.bsky.social on how the effective altruism cult has helped destroy actual philanthropy - with dangerous and deadly results for many people in need:
Campaign Brandon is back.
Would love to see Campaign Brandon stick around this time if he wins.
Would love to see Campaign Brandon stick around this time if he wins.
Four years ago, we promised to build the safest most affordable city in America by investing in people. Together we’ve made progress on delivering a better, stronger, and safer Chicago and our work is not done. Join us!
September 15, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Campaign Brandon is back.
Would love to see Campaign Brandon stick around this time if he wins.
Would love to see Campaign Brandon stick around this time if he wins.
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Besides the point but I like that no one on the left tries to pretend Macklemore’s music is good
September 15, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Besides the point but I like that no one on the left tries to pretend Macklemore’s music is good
That third one is by me :)
Issue #4 is right around the corner, coming in print and digital formats on September 21, 2026!
Titles:
The Old Man's Watch
The Dowager and the Seedsnipe
A Bug Screamed at Me, Yet I Must Carry On as Normal
and more . . .
See crypticfrogpublishing.wordpress.com/.../cryptic.... for updates.
Titles:
The Old Man's Watch
The Dowager and the Seedsnipe
A Bug Screamed at Me, Yet I Must Carry On as Normal
and more . . .
See crypticfrogpublishing.wordpress.com/.../cryptic.... for updates.
September 14, 2026 at 7:32 PM
That third one is by me :)
I am a newer Bears follower but I can say with 100% confidence they are going to win the Super Bowl
September 13, 2026 at 8:41 PM
I am a newer Bears follower but I can say with 100% confidence they are going to win the Super Bowl
Earnest question, is there any easy way to mute posts that are just dunking on screenshots from Twitter/X?
Otherwise, gonna keep the whack-a-mole approach going I guess.
Otherwise, gonna keep the whack-a-mole approach going I guess.
September 12, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Earnest question, is there any easy way to mute posts that are just dunking on screenshots from Twitter/X?
Otherwise, gonna keep the whack-a-mole approach going I guess.
Otherwise, gonna keep the whack-a-mole approach going I guess.
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It's kind of crazy that the right wanted to turn Charlie Kirk into their Reichstag Fire, but instead they accidentally turned him into their Harambe
September 10, 2026 at 3:18 PM
It's kind of crazy that the right wanted to turn Charlie Kirk into their Reichstag Fire, but instead they accidentally turned him into their Harambe
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If you write "I work for Anthropic and I think it might kill humanity" and I'm not reading it off of a Dropbox manifesto after you painted the walls of the HQ I'm inclined to think you're not being sincere
September 9, 2026 at 8:25 PM
If you write "I work for Anthropic and I think it might kill humanity" and I'm not reading it off of a Dropbox manifesto after you painted the walls of the HQ I'm inclined to think you're not being sincere
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It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...
LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby
Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.
www.theverge.com
September 8, 2026 at 11:52 AM
It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...
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I am sympathetic to Silicon Valley guys ascribing human-level consciousness to AI because if I had to talk to people from Silicon Valley all day I’d probably have a real low bar for sentience too
September 8, 2026 at 2:41 PM
I am sympathetic to Silicon Valley guys ascribing human-level consciousness to AI because if I had to talk to people from Silicon Valley all day I’d probably have a real low bar for sentience too
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I use AI at my job everyday, it's a requirement.
My account was recently reset. I'd had it set to be as impersonal and clinical and terse as I could make it. Like a word calculator.
When it was set back to the stock version, I was taken aback at how sycophantic and overly familiar it is.
My account was recently reset. I'd had it set to be as impersonal and clinical and terse as I could make it. Like a word calculator.
When it was set back to the stock version, I was taken aback at how sycophantic and overly familiar it is.
September 8, 2026 at 3:07 AM
I use AI at my job everyday, it's a requirement.
My account was recently reset. I'd had it set to be as impersonal and clinical and terse as I could make it. Like a word calculator.
When it was set back to the stock version, I was taken aback at how sycophantic and overly familiar it is.
My account was recently reset. I'd had it set to be as impersonal and clinical and terse as I could make it. Like a word calculator.
When it was set back to the stock version, I was taken aback at how sycophantic and overly familiar it is.