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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Dara Kerr @darakerr.bsky.social · 2d

We got the audio from Peter Thiel's off-the-record antichrist lectures and... my brain hurts.

But please read what we wrote, it's long, weird, and has Thiel's take on everyone from Musk to Netanyahu to Mamdani. (With @jmbooyah.bsky.social & Nick Robins-Early)

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 2d

Feeling VERY targeted by this subway ad post-publishing this story

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Blake Montgomery @montgomery.bsky.social · 2d

We obtained leaked recordings of Peter Thiel's off-the-record lectures about the antichrist. Here's what one of the most powerful men in Silicon Valley and US politics is saying about the end of the world behind closed doors.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social · 2d

Thiel, who describes himself as a “small-o Orthodox Christian”, believes the harbinger of the end of the world could already be in our midst and that things such as international agencies, environmentalism and guardrails on technology could quicken its rise. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 2d

"Peter Thiel famously isn’t into academia. And yet, in four recent off-the-record lectures on the antichrist in San Francisco, the billionaire venture capitalist has made a good case for credentialing."

www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Peter Thiel’s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon

Silicon Valley titan desperately tries to detach self from power in amateurish talks attempting to ape his favorite philosopher

www.theguardian.com

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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 2d

We got leaked audio from Peter Thiel’s off the record antichrist lectures: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Graham Starr @gstarr.bsky.social · 4d

Fascinating story from @dropsitenews.com:
Why are The New York Times, CNN, Spectrum News, and The Atlantic sending journalists to participate in a foundation that its founder says was created in part to be a mouthpiece for the IDF in the U.S.? www.dropsitenews.com/p/karsh-fell...

Legacy Journalists from NYT, CNN Are Mentors in a Fellowship Founded for Pro-Israel “Information War”

Hardline Israel advocate Jacki Karsh says she founded the new journalism fellowship to help “shift some of the narrative” in Israel’s favor.

www.dropsitenews.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8d

“Advocates are particularly concerned over the facilities’ use of Pfas gas, or f-gas, which can be potent greenhouse gases, and may mean datacenters’ climate impact is worse than previously thought. Other f-gases turn into a type of dangerous compound that is rapidly accumulating across the globe.”

Advocates raise alarm over Pfas pollution from datacenters amid AI boom

Tech companies’ use of Pfas gas at facilities may mean datacenters’ climate impact is worse than previously thought

www.theguardian.com

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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 10d

The officials misclassified the children as “unaccompanied minors” before placing them in government-run shelters or foster care. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 10d

The Trump admin is separating families again, attorneys & former immigration officials allege.

In some cases officials retaliated against immigrants who challenged deportation orders by forcibly separating them from their children, a Guardian investigation found. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Trump revives family separations amid drive to deport millions: ‘A tactic to punish’

Family separations were the hallmark of the first Trump administration’s border policy. Now advocates allege migrant families are being split up again as a retaliatory measure

www.theguardian.com

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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 11d

“After two years of obstructing ceasefire negotiations, Netanyahu got almost everything he wanted, thanks to Trump. It’s close to the 'total victory' over Hamas that Netanyahu has consistently promised the Israeli public, but failed to deliver on the battlefield” — my latest for @theguardian.com

Once again, Netanyahu has outplayed Trump | Mohamad Bazzi

Trump considers himself a master deal-maker. But he’s been regularly outmaneuvered by strongmen like Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin

www.theguardian.com

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 10d

I spoke to parents who are letting their young kids play with generative AI and tried to sort through some of the questions they have about it.

"I don’t know what this is doing to their brains," one dad told me.

Meanwhile, Sam Altman says, "Kids love ChatGPT on voicemode."

‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?

Some believe AI can spark their child’s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its affect on creativity

www.theguardian.com

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 12d

AI will cure cancer only if we let it steal everything www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

Exclusive | OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out

Executives at the company notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.

www.wsj.com

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 12d

🚨NEW RESEARCH🚨

AWU teamed up with @techequity.bsky.social & @cwaunion.bsky.social to produce a report - Ghost Workers in the AI Machine: U.S. Data Workers Speak Out About Big Tech’s Exploitation - documenting the working conditions of the workers behind the AI boom.
cwa-union.org/ghost-worker...

A TechEquity/AWU graphic with a photo of Kirn Gill III and the following text: “There are low paid people who are not even treated as humans - just little more than employee ID numbers - out there making the 1 billion dollar, trillion dollar Al systems that are supposed to lead our entire society and civilization into the future. -Kirn Gill II Search Quality Rater working on Google products at Telus.”

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 16d

Big takeaway here is a mass erosion of barriers between governmental and corporate data collection/surveillance--and the idea that the one-off surveillance of walking past a single CCTV camera is over, the consolidation of ALL data means true mass surveillance from 100 redundant pieces of data.

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 16d

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 17d

“The actual state of Palestine” — brilliant front page from UK Observer

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16d

US marketing companies are helping to rebrand the genocide in Gaza | Arwa Mahdawi

Reports say PR teams are busy rewriting history in real time – not that the American media needs the help

www.theguardian.com

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John Saveland @johnsaveland.com · 16d

Women & children are being cast out onto the street b/c the WH illegally froze US foreign aid $$.

“Lefteris Papagiannakis, director of the Greek Council for Refugees, says: ‘We are losing the whole of the international protection system that has been in place for the last 80 years in six months.’”

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16d

They fled war and sexual violence and found a safe space in Athens. Then the aid cuts hit

Thirty women and their children found themselves out on the streets when their shelter closed. It was a direct result of US and European governments slashing their aid budgets

www.theguardian.com

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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 16d

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Immigrants with no criminal record now largest group in Ice detention

Government data shows 16,523 people with no record, versus 15,725 with a record and 13,767 with pending charges

www.theguardian.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17d

Now do wage theft.

Shoplifters could soon be chased down by drones

Flock Safety is pitching its police-style drone program to private businesses. It could bring aerial surveillance to shopping centers, warehouses, and hospitals.

www.technologyreview.com

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 17d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 17d

"The termination is the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza.

The decision has not affected Microsoft’s wider commercial relationship with the IDF, which...will retain access to other services."

Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 17d

Microsoft has terminated the Israeli military’s access to technology it used to operate a powerful surveillance system. The decision to cut off Unit 8200’s ability to use some of its technology results directly from an investigation published by the Guardian & +972 Magazine last month.

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians

Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project

www.theguardian.com

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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 17d

The Guardian’s joint investigation prompted protests at Microsoft’s US headquarters and one of its European datacentres, as well as demands by a worker-led campaign group, No Azure for Apartheid, to end all ties to the Israeli military. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Five current and ex-Microsoft workers arrested at sit-in over Israeli military ties

Police placed protesters in harnesses and took them in after sit-in urging tech giant to cut ties with Israeli government

www.theguardian.com

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