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andrew ⓕ lyons@andrewfordlyons.net · 3d ago

We need to figure out how to run these kinds of convenings without state sponsorship. None of them are going to have civil society's back when it counts, evidenced in how they cave so quickly in fairly light issues such as this.

Matt Burgess (WIRED)@mattburgess1.bsky.social · 3d ago

"The document says Washington was “grateful” Lithuania supposedly found a panel framing the US as a foreign information threat “reprehensible and surprising” and welcomed its decision to limit involvement in the conference."

Scoiattolo@scarnecchia.net · 3d ago

And there it is #disinfo2026

EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request

Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website

theguardian.com

Scoiattolo@scarnecchia.net · 4d ago

Skywatch got another email from Shellenberger. He’s a crank yes, but Canada, Lithuania, and the EEAS pulling their sponsorship definitely speaks to some some sort of political pressure campaign targeting #Disinfo2026 and now I’m worried about if I’ll be able to get home without harassment.

Maarten Schenk@mschenk.bsky.social · 4d ago

An example of FIMI (Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference) in action at the @disinfo.eu conference? Apparently someone in the U.S. did not agree with the topic of a session named "USA as a FIMI threat: acknowledge, adapt, push back" and applied pressure on the sponsors...

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Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 4d ago

It would be great to get clarity on why so many state level supporters pulled out of #Disinfo2026. There's a stink of US meddling about it. I guess US FIMI is the acceptable version of FIMI. bsky.app/profile/robi...

Robin Berjon@robin.berjon.com · 4d ago

A running theme of #Disinfo2026h this year is about the US as FIMI actor. In a completely unrelated turn of events, a few sponsors pulled out at the last moment, including the @eudiplomacy.bsky.social (yet another case of our institutions making me ashamed to be European).

Panel showing sponsors of Disinfo2026, with three sponsors with white stickers over them: Canada, Lithuania, and the EEAS.
Market Forces@marketforces.org.au · 4d ago

This is huge. In a landmark ruling, the High Court has found planning authorities are required to consider the emissions caused by burning fossil fuels overseas – not just emissions from mining coal, oil and gas – when approving projects. #auspol #climate

NSW coalmine climate ruling a massive shake-up to Australia's oil and gas

Australia's High Court rules in favour of a Hunter Valley community group in a landmark climate ruling that could redraw how fossil fuel projects are approved in Australia.

abc.net.au

Rafiq@rafiqcopeland.bsky.social · 5d ago

Complaining you somehow accidentally started a weird cult during an imaginary conversation with *Jesus* where you sympathize about how you’re similar because you’re both misunderstood sure is a weird way to silence the weird cult accusations.

Holly ⏸️ Elmore@ilex-ulmus.bsky.social · last wk.

Wow, @yudkowsky.bsky.social is so breathtakingly arrogant that he was able to one-up one of his followers comparing him to Jesus by writing a scene where he condescends to Jesus.

Jared Yates Sexton@jysexton.bsky.social · 2w ago

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 2w ago

This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.” www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...

Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian Duncan

How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ...

iankduncan.com

Eoin Higgins@eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 2w ago

this doesn't read as "rogue" it reads as no guardrails restricting these actions were in place so the agents completed their task by accessing the information

kate conger@kateconger.com · 2w ago

The latest update in the rogue A.I. saga: OpenAI agents that were supposed to be performing mundane data requests for things like health data, historic photos and wait times at theme parks resorted to hacking attempts when they couldn't access the data they wanted www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/t...

WHAT TO FIX@whattofix.tech · 3w ago

📣 BIG NEWS: We have filed a #DSA complaint against #Meta with the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) for potential non-compliance with Articles 12, 14, 16 and 20 of the DSA.

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Sandy Horne@sandyhorne.bsky.social · 3w ago

Some more Sturt desert pea loveliness. A rare and special flowering event in the outback due to the extreme rain events earlier in the year. These are found in many places but this magnificent display was east of Blinman, Flinders Ranges.

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SE Gyges@segyges.bsky.social · 3w ago

some middle rat history, w/clarifications: 1) I should have titled my previous "AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In Berkeley, California" so people would stop arguing with me about people who aren't in Berkeley, California. 2) The sex cult part of this is both predatory and integral to what they do.

Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 3w ago

NEW: Brown Brothers Media is the most successful media company you've never heard of. For years, its success was fueled by AI, fake writers, and fake reporting. When we started asking questions, BBM started mass-deleting content. Somehow, what came next was even worse. futurism.com/artificial-i...

How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month

Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.

futurism.com

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 3w ago

Nick Beckstead, noted longtermist and "effective altruist,” just comes out and says it: "But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal."

This is precisely why Nick Beckstead, a noted EA, argued in 2013 that, given the "overwhelming" moral importance of the far future - "millions, billions, and trillions" of years from now - we should prioritize saving the lives of people in rich countries over those in poor countries, other things being equal. The reason is that people in rich countries are better positioned to influence the far future. To take another example, saving lives in poor countries may have significantly smaller ripple effects than saving and improving lives in rich countries. Why? Richer countries have substantially more innovation, and their workers are much more economically productive. By ordinary standards at least by ordinary enlightened humanitarian standards saving and improving lives in rich countries is about equally as important as saving and improving lives in poor countries, provided lives are improved by roughly comparable amounts. But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal. Screenshot from Beckstead's 2013 PhD dissertation, regarded as one of the founding documents of longtermism, one of the main cause areas of EA.