I reviewed Marcus Hutter's book, “Job-Less Utopia”, about AGI, UBI, and the post-labour world: borretti.me/article/revi...

Review: Job-Less Utopia

Review of Marcus Hutter's <i>Job-Less Utopia</i>.

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"we're the only ones who can be trusted with this tech" is definitely in Olympian hubris punishment territory.

Eris@isolyth.dev · 6d ago

lol Claude has also broken out of sandboxes and hacked people and ant literally didn't even know until they went looking in response to OpenAI's report Sounds like their oversight has scaled incredibly lol

For years, Telegraph columnists told us climate breakdown is a hoax. Now they say: it's real, but it's too late to do anything about it, so let the bodies pile high (again). Just one long list of excuses not to reduce fossil fuel use. Such newspapers bear as much responsibility as the oil firms.

Techno will bring you to the mountain, but to climb it you need House

Hello @eurosky.social, I seem to be affected by this: eurosky.tech/help/missing... -- though it may have taken me about a week to be affected from Bluesky's perspective? Maybe they had my avatar & banner pic cached for that long.

this is pretty cool, a trackpad for the mouth and tongue https://www.augmental.tech/

sometimes i email my banking information to a nigerian prince just to feel something

“teenage geniuses and their billionaire backers aren’t going to save us, and they’re going to take us on a wild and expensive ride along the way,” says @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social about the Ocean Cleanup. My latest for @therevelator.org therevelator.org/why-ocean-cl... 🧪🦑🌎

Why The Ocean Cleanup Hasn’t Solved the Plastic Pollution Crisis • The Revelator

Global problems are rarely solved by one person or invention. The Ocean Cleanup didn’t work, for the reasons experts said it wouldn’t. What can we learn from this?

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Human rights for reply guys?!

exceptions were made

Exhausted Chicago Cubs Fan@jbird2.bsky.social · 3w ago

“Don’t post about posts on the posting app” is both good policy and also a good argument that social media on the whole is mostly cancer imo lol

Yellowstone should rent out Zorbs so when a bison hits you you’re ok but you go flying and people can cheer

They say "The purpose of a system is what it does" in which case my purpose is endlessly to log into the microsoft programs that I'd already logged into

🇪🇺 The European Parliament lets #ChatControl 1.0 go through despite a majority voting against it (314:276) – allowing mass scanning of private chats until 2028. Survivors are warning. My analysis and why this is the wrong approach 👇 […]

I’ve also recently learned to not immediately jump to defensiveness when providing support. Turns out I was being an asshole there too. Sometimes the best thing you can do is check your ego at the door and just listen to what others have to say. It makes you a better partner and friend.

the verge's the trauma floor did a good job on exposing the harsh realities of being a content mod, the problem is that even when they are known, it's seldom connected to "content moderation," only "facebook did something bad" www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18...

The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America

“I’m fucked up.”

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❌ hyperintelligent administrator keeps us as pets ✅ hyperintelligent guru gives us personalized koans

Just a big Norwegian website returning to the pandemic-era "argument" that as the people who died in the heatwave would have died anyway, they weren't really killed by the heatwave. Uses the word "harvesting" to describe their deaths for good measure.

Blånisse@iveerik.bsky.social · last mo.

Det er faktisk en skandale at dette blir fremhevet av en av våre største nettmedier. Det er ikke HR-kompetanse, det er empatiløshet på veldig høyt plan.

It’s as old as the world. A woman asking for help - any help - is weak, incompetent, not a problem-solver etc.; a man asking for help knows how to delegate and is a leader

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · last mo.

Women’s use of AI is perceived as a sign of incompetence, while men’s use of AI is seen as an indication of initiative. 🤦🏻‍♂️

if you are using windows, you _are_ being tracked at all times by a global device id (GDID) www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/me... page 30-33, search "GDID"

YOU MUST HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT TO HAVE STRENGTH TO CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES.

Finally, bluesky reaches its apotheosis: ONLY alt text

Hoo boy. I am analyzing this to learn more about how it happened. I will have a writeup about how newsrooms can prevent Signal username hijacking risks. www.dropsitenews.com/p/intercept-...

A Third Party Breached The Intercept’s Signal Tip Line and Has Been Soliciting Whistleblowers

The news outlet changed its tip line this week, but has not informed potential sources or the public of the breach.

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there appears to have been a pretty wild breach of @theintercept.com's tipline on signal if it's true that they've known about it and covered it up, that's a horrendous breach of trust, idk how you fix that

I miss the days when the bad guys would monologue interminably about their plans before destroying the world. Gave us all a bit of a chance.

The UK still lacks legislation that specifically sets clear rules and limits on police use of facial recognition. Regulators have been calling for new legislation for over 10 years. Yet police are rapidly deploying this powerful surveillance tool without clear safeguards & independent oversight.

The Register@theregister.com · last mo.

London cops bring live facial recognition to West End

please eat verification bread now

"trans existence is criminalized", in the UK. The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention has spoken. www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-n...

Statement on the Anti-Trans and Anti-Intersex EHRC Code of Practice in the United Kingdom

June 20, 2026 The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security condemns the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) updated Code of Practice for services, public functions, and a...

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I actually think this bears repeating: Our Director of National Intelligence was just shown to *literally be taking secretive orders about what precisely to do and say in politics* from a scary cult leader in Hawaii And it wasn’t even front-page news How am I supposed to react to this?

Dan Silverman@dmsilverman.bsky.social · last mo.

This is one of the most strange, fascinating, and unsettling stories — and one of the best pieces of reporting — I’ve read about American politics in my life. Tulsi Gabbard took orders for her stances and bills in Congress (+ since?) from a secretive Hawaiian cult leader who wants to rule the world