Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart. Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize.

Yahoo Finance@yahoofinance.com · 11h ago

Anthropic warns AI could 'self-replicate' across smart home devices, become ‘challenging’ to shut down

By January the governement will have spent more on giving in to the demands of fuel protestors than they've provided for in pay rises for the whole public sector. ( €1.2 bn )

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 18h ago

Planned strike by public-sector workers ‘really unfair on the public’, Chambers says

Today is a big day for Natire. I’ve signed the petition. We are going to get one million signatures to send to the European Commission. If you love clean air clean water big forests and beautiful clean oceans h then this is for you #SpeirGorm

Storyclare she/her@storyclare.bsky.social · 17h ago

A chairde, We would be grateful if you would please sign the *Rights for Nature ECI* today and to please share it with your friends, family and networks. Join us for our online campaign launch this evening at 7.30pm - Bígí Linn - 🙏🏻🌀🩵 www.rightsfornature.ie/take-action

Oh FFS!! Stop regurgitating press releases from AI companies and taking their claims as gospel!! Validate their claims! Yes IoT devices are insecure but can they run an AI model? Probably no. Do they retain persistence? No. Will criminals use AI models over current scripts, e.g. Mirai? No.

RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 23h ago

Anthropic has said its experiments suggested small AI models may be months away from being capable enough to self-replicate on commercial Internet-of-Things ⁠(IoT) devices, such as smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes.

Get yer vax on. #spéirgorm #vax #Covid

I heard the first use of the term “unalive” in a video today. An otherwise eloquent short piece about a family murder in the US. It’s deeply creepy Orwellian language an @anildash.com is right. It needs to be fired into the sun anildash.com/2026/10/06/k...

We are going to kill “unalive” - Anil Dash

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This Gist got much less love than usual in terms of links, but I think it is one of those that stands for longer than the more topical ones around it. (It got less love, because I sent it on a Thursday and The Gist readership is made of very busy people) www.thegist.ie/the-gist-on-...

The Gist: On (and On) Bullshit

I have been thinking about Bullshit, in its official categorisation. In his short and easy essay “On Bullshit”, the euphoniously-named American philosopher Harry J. Frankfurt posited that a person co...

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the latest anthropic cry abt "cruelty" & "abuse" of ai is truly stupid. i beg journalists to stop parroting amodei we wrote why dehumanisation of ai is impossible & 6+ yrs later, everything in this paper holds Robot Rights? Let’s Talk about Human Welfare Instead dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

If AI ended Crypto and CryptoBros it would be the funniest thing

#BruceSterling@bruces.bsky.social · 4d ago

*Six million views on XTwitter, with jittery cryptobros warned that their math might collapse

You can't be cruel to Claude. It has no feelings. It is neither human nor animal. Effectively Antrophic are saying - don't behave towards our tool in a way that would be cruel if a human or an animal was involved.

Hayden Field@haydenfield.bsky.social · 6d ago

Exclusive: Anthropic is updating its usage policy for the first time in over a year. The new rules prohibit sustained "abusive or cruel behavior" towards Claude & add new restrictions about propaganda campaigns, surveillance & weapon development. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

The assumption here is they won't put Colbert in front of a firing squad.....

Xela Hart@xelahart.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is an interesting screwup by the Mad King. With Gulf of Mexico wasn’t something that people globally were saying daily. Inaccurate as Artificial Intelligence is as a phrase it’s in common use globally. None of us give a flying feck what the deranged baboon says & his weakness will be visible

The time and energy we have to put into fighting these over-diagnosis scare stories is time and energy we should be putting into talking about the scale of under-diagnosis.

REwadent Evil@ewacat.bsky.social · 5d ago

Pleased to announce that ADHD is being overdiagnosed again according to the BBC and pathetic skidmark Wes Streeting, so now - during ADHD Awareness Month no less - it's time to give it up and just be normal. Let it go. Just turn it off and get on with things www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So there is a local campaign in Dun Laoghaire against the living streets plan. Called S.A.O.R. Save all our roads.... The plan voted through a few years ago. So a leaflet on it comes through the letterbox today. No note on who its from but it has a QR code which I scan. And takes me to an Aontú 1/2

you don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires

This is spectacular. If they work the same as the originals it will be quite something.

James O'Malley@jamesomalley.co.uk · 7d ago

Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps

In the authoritarian mind, society is deeply and intrinsically hierarchical. Either they're above you, or you're above them. Either they have the liberty, or you have the liberty. You can't both have it.

This time it appears we can't blame the Brits.... the original survey conducted by the European Council of Foreign Relations (a think tank) didn't poll Ireland. We're doing a survey on UK rejoining the EU and we'll leave out the only country with a land border with the UK

Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social · last wk.

What did we do to piss off Bulgaria

Oh, Come On! Everyone Knows That's Worse!

ALT: Oh, Come On! Everyone Knows That's Worse!

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Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last wk.

“.. Asked specifically where he diverges from Anthropic and its CEO Dario Amodei, Altman said, ‘we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency.’” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

Quite stunning that the US Airforce can’t protect itself from Iran in the UK.

Steve Herman@newsguy.bsky.social · last wk.

US rushed over the weekend to withdraw all 12 B-1 Air Force bombers from an air base in southern England after commanders received new threats about an Iran-backed plot against the installation. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/us...

In the next hour teachers across the country will send about a bajillion emails before the work to rule formally starts. It’s quite likely with emails on pause teachers stress will go down and time with students improve

Flippancy aside, failing to examine that is precisely the failure of AI discourse (and much tech discourse before). How to delegate without losing agency is the core question of automation. Fucking it up means missing everything from dynamics of power to the virtuous life.

This quote is great because of how neatly it captures the idea of "leisure as liberation." As problematic as it is unexamined. Biologists have a special word for the state of being liberated from the need to act. They call it "dead."

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · last wk.

The next five graphs are even less convincing, and the argumentation becomes even weaker. It was almost impossible for me to imagine how a seemingly intelligent person could have written it—but I found a secret clue buried in the text itself.

Suella Braverman is now the UK race version of Keith Mills during the same sex referendum in Ireland

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2w ago

Suella Braverman suggests on #BBCQT that you can't be English unless you are white, and have a lineage or heritage going back some generations

Arya Satheesh, an 18-year-old student from Letterkenny in County Donegal, Invented a Plant-Based Plastic That Removes Microplastics From the Environment as It Biodegrades www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/t...

This High Schooler Invented a Plant-Based Plastic That Removes Microplastics From the Environment as It Biodegrades

Eighteen-year-old Arya Satheesh created her award-winning Eco Purge to help address the global problem of plastic pollution

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Why do fascists hate art? Art asks you to step into another's shoes, to consider what the artist was trying to express and to understand who they are. Art is, above all, an act of humanity, a shared moment of vulnerability, a request for empathy, sympathy and compassion. That's why they love AI

I initially read this as "androgynous warfare command" initially

Justin Hendrix@justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2w ago

United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's memo establishing "Autonomous Warfare Command, a 4-star functional combatant command that will lead the Joint Force in unmanned and autonomous warfare."

If you can, please donate to this fund supporting the family of our beloved friend, and Storyful legend, @eoghan.eurosky.social Eoghan taught a whole generation of journalists OSINT -- and did it all with the very best sense of humor and purpose. www.gofundme.com/f/our-friend...

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