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Henrik Skaug Sætra / [spillteori]
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Technology, ethics, and philosophy. Oh, and some political science - more specifically political theory. Associate professor at the University of Oslo. My research: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=p

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Henrik Skaug Sætra / [spillteori] @futuritas.eu · Aug 8
What's the value of academic articles and doing research? The product or the process?

This article has been a long process, and how I've processed the ongoing AI disruption of research. I use it very little, and while it's clearly not all bad, I argue for caution.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h
CARTOON OF THE DAY

(From @jesseduquette.bsky.social )
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d
Unprecedented corruption
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d
Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job
US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board
www.telegraph.co.uk
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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d
Why is @signal.org asking to see devices on my local network?

I'm used to (constantly) denying chrome that permission...
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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 2d
Mulling = “waiting to see what happens, rather than pitching in and trying to improve what happens via solidarity”
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Reuters @reuters.com · 2d
MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling reut.rs/471tkNZ
MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling
Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth on Friday said she "cannot support" a memo that the White House sent to nine elite U.S. universities last week detailing policies they should follow to get preferential consideration for federal funding.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d
Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

www.nj.com/news/2025/10...
Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons
Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.
www.nj.com
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d
This is the way

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment
www.nytimes.com
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d
“Another former OpenAI employee who also was not authorized to speak publicly argued that releasing a deepfake AI social media platform was the right business decision, even if it contributes to the collapse of everyone's shared sense of reality.” 💀
Sora gives deepfakes 'a publicist and a distribution deal.' It could change the internet
OpenAI's new hit app has unleashed a new wave of AI slop across the internet. But what happens when there are no rules over hyper-realistic synthetic videos?
www.npr.org
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 3d
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 5d
Obviously not the main point here, but it's interesting how this is framed as content rather than policy.

"BREAKING" is typically what journalists or influencers say when they have a big story -- not what government officials say when they launch "undercover" operations
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5d
ICE will reportedly hire contractors to surveil social media platforms 24/7 to target people for deportations.

The information would then be funneled into an existing ICE database built by Palantir (founded by Trump ally Peter Thiel).

"The party of small government,” folks.
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 5d
A lot of the apps on your phone are tracking your physical location and selling that information to other companies. Here's a fantastic explainer from @pcmag.com about 20 of the most common apps that spy on you. Service journalism at its finest. www.pcmag.com/explainers/t...
These 20 Apps Are Watching You—And You Probably Use Them Every Day
You might use these apps every day, but have no idea what they collect. These 20 apps are quietly harvesting your location, contacts, photos, and more—here's what you can do about it.
www.pcmag.com
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7d
I think often about the Amazon engineer who wrote in an open letter to the company that Ring was “incompatible” with a free society.
Analysis | Amazon’s Ring plans to scan everyone’s face at the door
For the first time, the company is putting facial recognition into its home security doorbells and video cameras.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7d
The protests are on one block. Nothing is burning down. His justification for sending in troops is all based on lies.
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WIRED @wired.com · 7d
It should be the best of times for the tech world, supercharged by the AI boom. But a shadow has fallen over Silicon Valley. With few exceptions, its leaders are responding to Donald Trump by either keeping quiet or actively courting the government.
I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong
Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 8d
This @danwphilosophy.bsky.social Substack post captures the same objection I had to the @ezraklein.bsky.social position in his pod with Ta-Nehisi Coates www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o... - Klein keeps saying Ds have to expand the coalition but never argues sincerely for positions that would do so.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 8d
This is what authoritarians do - use the powers of the state to humiliate and degrade their opponents in public so that others will not challenge them
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 9d
“The source told CBS News that [Kash Patel and Dan Bongino] asked for "large, beefy" agents to conduct an arrest of Comey "in full kit," including Kevlar vests and exterior wear emblazoned with the FBI logo.” The leadership of the FBI is now in the hands of infantile psychopaths.
The FBI is weighing an arrest and perp walk for Comey — and suspended an agent for refusing to help, sources say
The FBI is considering carrying out a "showy" arrest and perp walk of the agency's now-indicted ex-Director James Comey, sources tell CBS News.
www.cbsnews.com
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 8d
No notes, this is a perfectly reasonable summary
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 9d
“'The fact that we don't have money to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Bari Weiss between $100 and 200 million is indicative of what the Ellisons' true goal here is,' a network correspondent said. 'And it's not journalism.'"
CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom
EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.
www.independent.co.uk
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Henrik Skaug Sætra / [spillteori] @futuritas.eu · 9d
Interesting watching what happens now. I wrote about the initial migration to Bluesky, and certainly never thought it was a perfect solution (but still hope it’ll last a bit longer than this). cacm.acm.org/opinion/leav... and dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 9d
It’s funny because it’s true
Jay D@@jay.bsky.team You could try a poster's strike. I hear that works crystal @cim.bsky.social your user base consists entirely of people who are willing to migrate from social media websites that turn on them
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 10d
Since it resonated with the audience, I’ll recap my main argument against AGI here. ‘General intelligence’ is like phlogiston, or the aether. It’s an outmoded scientific concept that does not refer to anything real. Any explanatory work it did can be done better by a richer scientific frame. 1/3
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 10d
This was a truly heartening day, with deeply thoughtful challenges to the dominant narrative framed around AGI, coming from across disciplines and perspectives. Felt like the tide might finally be turning a bit, at least among the scientific community. Thanks @royalsociety.org!
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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 11d
1/2 I'm looking forward to taking part in a panel on AGI and the Turing Test, tomorrow afternoon (Thurs 2nd Oct) at the @royalsociety.org, w/ Dame Wendy Hall, Shannon Vallor, William Isaac, & Sir Nigel Shadbolt. royalsociety.org/science-even...
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Climate, Ecology, War & More by Dr. Glen Barry, BigEarthData.ai @bigearthdata.bsky.social · 10d
The impact of advanced AI systems on democracy
->Nature | #AI #Democracy | More from BigEarthData.ai
The impact of advanced AI systems on democracy
Coeckelbergh, M. Why AI Undermines Democracy and What to Do About It (Polity, 2024). Jungherr, A. Artificial intelligence and democracy: a conceptual framework. Soc. Media Soc.https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231186353 (2023). Risse, M. in The Cambridge Handbook of Responsible Artificial Intelligence (eds Voeneky, S...
www.nature.com
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Henrik Skaug Sætra / [spillteori] @futuritas.eu · 10d
Great seeing this piece in the wild - an honour being a part of this collaborative project!
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Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com · 11d
In this new Perspective, Christopher Summerfield et al. discuss a range of potential impacts of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) on democracy, considering both risks and possible opportunities.
The impact of advanced AI systems on democracy - Nature Human Behaviour
This Perspective from Summerfield et al. considers the impacts of advanced artificial intelligence systems on the process and function of democracy. The authors explore a wide range of potential risks and opportunities.
www.nature.com
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Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com · 11d
In this new Perspective, Christopher Summerfield et al. discuss a range of potential impacts of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) on democracy, considering both risks and possible opportunities.
The impact of advanced AI systems on democracy - Nature Human Behaviour
This Perspective from Summerfield et al. considers the impacts of advanced artificial intelligence systems on the process and function of democracy. The authors explore a wide range of potential risks and opportunities.
www.nature.com
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 11d
Quick reminder: they can still release the Epstein files during a government shutdown.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 12d
The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries.

He said this out loud.
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Ben Sanderson @benmsanderson.bsky.social · 13d
Paris-Berlin sleeper: low carbon, 2 years old, constantly full, but currently losing SNCF a few million EUR/yr

Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone.

And you're cutting... the sleeper?

www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
It’s goodnight Vienna as Paris sleeper train to Austria and Berlin hit by cuts
Some Nightjet services suspended from mid-December after French withdrawal amid public budget crisis
www.theguardian.com
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NetLogo @netlogo.bsky.social · 13d
We are incredibly excited to announce that Uri Wilensky, the founder of #NetLogo, has been awarded the prestigious Yidan Prize for Educational Research!

yidanprize.org/laureates/ur...
Yidan Prize
The Yidan Prize Foundation is a global philanthropic foundation. Through its prize and network of changemakers, it supports ideas and practices in education — specifically, ones with the power to posi...
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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 14d
The government has to learn how to lead public opinion, rather than chase it. Leaving X is a no-brainer when the algorithm is stacked in favour of extremists.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 14d
Miliband says it's 'possible' government should come off Elon Musk's X social media platform

DO IT

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14d
Have very belatedly left twitter for good.

Naively thought I was still fighting the occasional worthwhile fight but nope.

It's a cesspit and nobody should be on it.

People saying that months ago were absolutely right.

Last "quote tweet" from Harry says it all
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