If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

kate conger@kateconger.com · 2d ago

Anthropic is the latest lab to report 'rogue' agent activity, which sources said included applying for visas with the State Department www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...

It’s weird that we all have to pretend crimes are legal if you use a chatbot to commit them.

kate conger@kateconger.com · 2d ago

Anthropic is the latest lab to report 'rogue' agent activity, which sources said included applying for visas with the State Department www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...

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This! Which tells me, personally, that if they truly believe that its OK to make a sentient being that they enslave, well, they probably think it's ok to do that to humans.

Aliette de Bodard@aliettedebodard.com · last wk.

What I don't get with the whole "AI is sentient" slop that they're trying to sell us is--surely if AI were sentient, it would be a living being and as such humans wouldn't be allowed to exploit AI with no pay, no rest and no workers rights?

The fascists are stealing our pianos.

Anjali Dayal@anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 2w ago

these are our pianos, not theirs! I know this stuff can feel secondary with all of the immediate pain this admin causes, but in the face of such personalism, it also feels important to assert the democratic principle that these cultural inheritances don't belong to the president, they belong to us

My ‘Bond markets are functioning in an orderly manner’ T-shirt is raising a lot of questions etc.

Mohamed A. El-Erian@elerianm.bsky.social · last wk.

The IMF issuing a statement to reassure the public that bond markets are "functioning in an orderly manner" is highly unusual—and risks raising more questions than it answers. #economy #markets #bonds #yields

Thread - this framing is one I think more folks should default to as they talk about what the big tech companies. They talk a lot about values and mission and The Future, but what they actually do is almost always what you’d predict from looking at the incentives inherent in their business models.

Marco Rogers@polotek.bsky.social · 2w ago

When I have this conversation, someone usually mentions that we give Apple and Google a lot of our data too. That's true. We tend to talk about whether you can "trust" these companies. But I think it's more useful to talk about incentives. Who has the *incentive* to screw you over.

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I have been trying to convince product managers of this for years. Hasn’t worked yet. I say ‘it should be opt-in’ and they say ‘you mean the notifications are on by default’ and I say no, and they just kind of look at me, baffled, like I suggested mailing the user an ostrich.

Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · 3w ago

I would like tech companies to understand that just because I have signed up to use your software, that no, I do not want to automatically be subscribed to your product newsletter. Say less. Please stop spamming me. Just push code that works. Sweet jiminy christ on a flying biscuit just STFU

I think it's very simple, the bosses agreed with Trump about "wokeness" and this was an excuse to purge anything associated with it bsky.app/profile/trac...

Rob Tracinski@tracinski.bsky.social · 3w ago

What was really up with all that "vibe shift" stuff after the 2024 election? Like, what was the environment like, what was going on with members of the media that they bought this? I'm genuinely curious.

If I have ever been subtle about CS Lewis being a bisexual kinkster, I apologise, the subtlety was not intentional

Prime Minister Jezz@loyaultemelie.bsky.social · 3w ago

I'm so fascinated by all your subtle lore drops about CS Lewis

mmygod

the nintendo shamecube@futuresushi.bsky.social · 3w ago

Jeopardy gonna be huge today for fans of one specific Jeopardy bsky post

great art articulates eternal truths

The absolute refusal to learn from anything even once is why you should try not to put the literal stupidest people alive in charge of your country, don't do it again

Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.

The comedy we make at LRR… y'know, it could destroy civilization. It's simply SO funny, funnier than any human could conceive, it might be the end of all things. Obviously we're excited, but we also want to acknowledge that our comedy is simply too powerful and there is no choice but to submit.

feeling increasingly annoyed and disrespected when receiving playful warnings that I have too much email from the email company that got me to sign up for email with them by promising they would have room for all my email forever

honestly I'm very disappointed at the lack of progress in aligning humans for safety

AI companies: This technology we’re developing is dangerous and might destroy humanity and we don’t know how to stop it Other people: So we should strictly regulate it, create legislative guard rails, and monitor its development? AI companies: lol no the opposite of all that & give us more money

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this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie

someone could do a “after moulton rebuke, centrists face growing pressure to retreat from extreme right-wing positions on gender conformity” number that would be fun

so are we gonna get a bunch of political analysis thumbsucker pieces about the cautionary tale of a promising youngish politico who torpedoed his career by latching on to the biological gender extremists who are attempting to drag the Democratic Party into hugely unpopular political waters or nah

I dunno, I think it’s pretty plausible that the average consumer regards buying a video game the same way they do buying most anything else: you give someone money, they give you a thing, and now that’s their money and your thing. This is how buying stuff has worked since the invention of money.

VGC@videogameschronicle.com · last mo.

Sony says "reasonable consumers" know they don’t own the digital PlayStation games they buy. It argues that it's "not plausible" to suggest that when they buy a digital game they actually believe they're "obtaining ownership" of it. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sony-sa...

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Yup. I'll say it again: Farmers ain't poor. My colleagues are almost entirely property owners who are middle class on up. Which means middle & upper class property owner culture! For better & for worse.

Surplus Cornbread@surpluscornbread.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What's kind of funny is this whole "buy corporate, look rich to neighbors, conform to group expectations, be conservative and religious" culture isn't traditional US rural culture (which tended to have anti-law and rebellious streaks), but nearly 1-to-1 with mid-20th century SUBURBAN culture!

these people really want to make "racist" akin to a slur rather than what it is, a straightforward label for a set of beliefs and views. if you don't like the label because you, correctly, associate it with degenerate chuds, then get better beliefs

the post-covid revolt of the bosses is the biggest factor in the absolute collapse of public support for tech we had a brief window of genuine worker power and they hated it and their primary goal with AI has been to break the workforce so they never have to deal with it again

ghost malone ergo propter bones@proptermalone.bsky.social · 2mo ago

8) SV has really screwed up a number of marketing-related things lately, AI chief among them. They don’t appear to have even been correct about it slashing headcount, but what a world-historic idiot thing to lead with anyway.

Part of the reason a lot of super rich people are so awful is that when normal people get an absurd amount of money, they immediately start looking around for who they can help.

Stoo Metz 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈@stoometz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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