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Reposted by Henrik Skaug Sætra, Tom Clark, Richard Ashby Wilson , and 4 more

hollyanderson.bsky.social
you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text: Episcopalians on Facebook Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h • Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."
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technologyreview.com
Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage can scale faster than other approaches. But some experts are dubious about the climate benefits.
Big Tech’s big bet on a controversial carbon removal tactic
Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage can scale faster than other approaches. But some experts are dubious about the climate benefits.
www.technologyreview.com
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Reposted by Henrik Skaug Sætra, Anna O. Law, Staffan I. Lindberg , and 12 more

johnpfaff.bsky.social
To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.
Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids
Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.
abcnews.go.com
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by Henrik Skaug Sætra

futuritas.eu
Uff da.. på IFI?
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Reposted by Henrik Skaug Sætra, Will Jennings, Brendan Nyhan , and 3 more

gtconway.bsky.social
That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
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onestpress.onestnetwork.com
Watch with sound (if you can)
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thetnholler.bsky.social
CARTOON OF THE DAY

(From @jesseduquette.bsky.social )
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by Brendan Nyhan — Reposted by Henrik Skaug Sætra, David Lazer, Will Jennings , and 3 more

brendannyhan.bsky.social
Unprecedented corruption
robertscotthorton.bsky.social
Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5d
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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by Joanna Bryson — Reposted by Henrik Skaug Sætra

j2bryson.bsky.social
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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by Joanna Bryson — Reposted by Henrik Skaug Sætra, Joanna Bryson

j2bryson.bsky.social
Mulling = “waiting to see what happens, rather than pitching in and trying to improve what happens via solidarity”
reuters.com
Reuters @reuters.com · 5d
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.
reut.rs
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Reposted by Henrik Skaug Sætra, Rosemary A. Joyce, Philip Nel , and 2 more

volts.wtf
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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Reposted by Henrik Skaug Sætra, Nandita Sharma, Kevin J. Anchukaitis

mollyjongfast.bsky.social
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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Reposted by Henrik Skaug Sætra, Woodrow Hartzog

hypervisible.blacksky.app
“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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Reposted by Henrik Skaug Sætra, Anne Applebaum, Joanna Bryson , and 44 more

thedailyshow.com
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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Reposted by Henrik Skaug Sætra, Richard Price

willoremus.com
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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by Robert B. Reich — Reposted by Henrik Skaug Sætra

rbreich.bsky.social
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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by Annalee Newitz — Reposted by Henrik Skaug Sætra

annaleen.bsky.social
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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Reposted by Henrik Skaug Sætra

hypervisible.blacksky.app
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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Reposted by Henrik Skaug Sætra, Nandita Sharma, Brendan Nyhan , and 6 more

ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
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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Reposted by Henrik Skaug Sætra

wired.com
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.
wrd.cm
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by Brendan Nyhan — Reposted by Henrik Skaug Sætra

brendannyhan.bsky.social
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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by Brendan Nyhan — Reposted by Henrik Skaug Sætra, Joanna Bryson, Lisa W. Fazio , and 3 more

brendannyhan.bsky.social
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
robertscotthorton.bsky.social
Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12d
“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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Reposted by Henrik Skaug Sætra, James M. Thomas

sethabramson.bsky.social
No notes, this is a perfectly reasonable summary
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Reposted by Henrik Skaug Sætra, Stephen M. Walt, Steve Peers , and 3 more

dinfontay.com
“'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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by Henrik Skaug Sætra

futuritas.eu
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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Reposted by Henrik Skaug Sætra, Carlos Nunes Silva

tedmccormick.bsky.social
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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by Shannon Vallor — Reposted by Henrik Skaug Sætra, Lesley A. Hall

shannonvallor.bsky.social
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
shannonvallor.bsky.social
Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 13d
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!
anilseth.bsky.social
Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 14d
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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Reposted by Henrik Skaug Sætra

bigearthdata.bsky.social
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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by Henrik Skaug Sætra

futuritas.eu
Great seeing this piece in the wild - an honour being a part of this collaborative project!
nathumbehav.nature.com
Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com · 14d
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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Reposted by Henrik Skaug Sætra

nathumbehav.nature.com
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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