“Claude Mythos is a very good friend of mine. Great guy.”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

Q: Did Anthropic have a meeting at the White House? TRUMP: Who? Q: Anthropic. TRUMP: I have no idea. *walks away*

Trump: "The only control or 'guardrails' that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!"

In other words, “It’s all Greek to me.”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3h ago

JD Vance: "I have to say, just personally, I feel a little bit weird about the fact that you have so many frontier AI tech companies kind of coming to the government and begging the government to regulate them. It feels a little bit to me like a bit of a trojan horse."

In this house, my daughter calls AI "Artificial idiot"

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 5h ago

Today's threads (a thread) Inside: But do you use keyboard shortcuts?; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/09/14/c... #Pluralistic

Love this. Why so many bosses really *need* AI.

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Hassinator@hassinator.bsky.social · yesterday

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

NEW BLOG: The interests of tech billionaires and fascist leaders like Trump and Farage are very closely aligned. This explains the surge in mega-donations in recent years, but it does not bode well for democracy. www.jandehn.com/post/the-big...

The Big Business-Billionaire-Fascism Nexus

The interests of tech billionaires and fascist leaders like Trump and Farage are extraordinarily closely aligned. This explains the surge in mega-donations in recent years, but it does not bode well f...

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Crypto eh? Great bunch of lads, always said that

Byline Times@bylinetimes.bsky.social · 9h ago

🔎 From the archive: Reform UK Welsh Leader Nathan Gill was due to give a talk on cryptocurrencies at a Kremlin-backed convention in Moscow when he was arrested As Reform receive £72m from Crypto Kings

NEW Why holding a placard is a terrorist act, while causing disruption in a balaclava is not The mess caused by ministers and the police not taking terrorism law seriously By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

They should have named it 'Hypocentre' instead of 'Isembard'. (Russian Strategic Rocket Forces will already have the coordinates programmed into the internal guidance computers on the post-boost vehicle and an independent warhead.)

Ulrike Franke@rikefranke.bsky.social · 8h ago

“Chief executive Alexander Fitzgerald said the facility would produce components for the likes of drones, rockets, robots, submarines and jet engines.”

There was a time when AI was full of abundant promise. Dangers came only from its predatory, power-hungry, human masterminds & developers. Humanity has regulatory, judicial ways of dealing with its own villains… Now, it turns out AI can be a global enemy all by itself: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Questions mount over what an AI 'slowdown' would look like

While pacing AI development might sound like a quick fix, it is far from an easy solution.

bbc.co.uk

This sounds like a pretty significant near-miss – with pretty major escalatory potential. 👀

WarTranslated (Dmitri)@wartranslated.bsky.social · yesterday

Der Spiegel says Russia’s drone strike near the Yahodyn-Dorohusk border crossing hit close to a special train from Kyiv carrying Boris Johnson plus advisers to Merz and other European leaders. www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/u...

The sheer predictability of it. Germany in the 1930s taught the world nothing at all. (Although some of us are old enough to remember, as children, being constantly told about it, learning it was humanity’s fateful error - and that we should commit our lives to ensuring it never happened again.)

Psychologist 4 Democracy@psychologist7.bsky.social · 2d ago

This.

Here we go again. The enemy with its sights on Poland… #WorldWar

Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · yesterday

This is a major escalation - Russian drone attacks on trains right at the Polish border

I’m just a person on my fucking knees begging the government to use its absolutely massive majority to do something extremely fucking popular: save our democracy.

Trump the scattergun guerilla diplomacist. Every sentence a fresh grenade hurled on a different potential pipeline for peace.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump: "The Houthis called us. They don't want to fight with us. They let us know they don't want to fight with us. They don't want us to go after them. They would much prefer not having us involved, and they are letting most ships go through. There's just one country they're not too happy with."

Great piece. And a timely reminder that tech billionaires, because they’re human, are as mutable - if not as sensible or generous - as the rest of us. Their story has a narrative too - it just happens to be dastardly. And Mephistopheles didn’t once come into it…

Ray Ryan@rjrjr.com · 2d ago

“…they would genuinely rather reign in hell than share in heaven. And they have all the money to make sure they get there.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...

The projection of the climate threat onto AI is a major theme of our book, too

Why We Fear AI: On the Interpretation of Nightmares — Common Notions Press

Industry insiders Hagen Blix and Ingeborg Glimmer dive into the dark, twisted world of AI to demystify the many nightmares we have about it. They combine expertise in cognitive science and machine lea...

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AI advertises itself as a deadly development - a strategy inspired by the approach of Exxon, BP et al: making a lucrative vice of grappling (& failing to remedy) a commonly known truth about oil. Yep, doom itself - political, cultural, human & planetary - is a great business incentive. #KillBabyKill

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2d ago

The people running these companies believe that climate change could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a fringe worry. Publicly, many executives soften their language to sound reasonable, but privately, the fear is real. No other industry poses this level of danger to civilization.

The #moneyeffect in the ‘democratic’ fortunes see-saw - millions of pounds mendaciously usurping millions of votes for meaningful representation. Delo and Harborne’s donations to Reform have today seen a TENFOLD increase. Genuine, well-informed choice will soon be a luxury only the rich can afford.

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Crypto billionaires Christopher Harborne and Ben Delo have donated a further combined £7 million to Reform UK since the start of the year, according to the latest Electoral Commision figures. Both men would be massively advantaged by Reform's policy of halving taxes on crypto sales to just 10%

Those with vast sums to hurl at political parties, and the lucky recipients of their dizzying donations, are oddly confined to one side of the democratic see-saw: (Cartoon by Kjell Nilsson-Maki)

Trump becomes the first orange man to support a united Ireland

Richard Chambers@newschambers.bsky.social · 2d ago

Breaking: Donald Trump says “I’d love to see Ireland unified…. I think it would be a great thing. How could it be bad?” Oh my word.

If anyone is still in doubt about AI promoting its own doomsday capabilities for simple bubble-expanding benefits, remember catastrophe and alarm have long been at the heart of Big Tech Bros’ arguments. (And see here for Thiel: bsky.app/profile/sara...)

Bloomberg Opinion@opinion.bloomberg.com · 5mo ago

Don't fall for the AI doomsday hype. It's all about marketing the tech

The Ben Delo who has just given Reform £36m is the same Ben Delo who US prosecutors said was the leader of a ‘criminal enterprise’ But hey ho, it’s fine for him- and any other crypto bro - to buy British democracy lock stock and barrel democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reforms-4m...

Reform's £4m donor "thumbed his nose at the law", US prosecutors said

Ben Delo has called his US conviction a "non-crime". Prosecutors said the Farage-backing crypto billionaire was a “leader of a criminal enterprise”.

democracyforsale.substack.com

Money, formerly a VIP passenger on the democracy aircraft, has, let’s face it, turned into a deadly hijacker.

Peter Geoghegan@petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 2d ago

The logic of Citizens United/US big money in a single pair A single crypto billionaire making a £36m donation is ‘levelling the playing fiend’ - not oligarchic money buying democracy

Whole thread. Incredible stuff. And disowned by his Mum to boot.

Jane@localnotail.bsky.social · 5d ago

Daniel Thomas sent his Patriot Platform militia to the Daily Mail today because they published this exposé on him archive.ph/LlO4H

When it comes to the AI beast, taxidermy may be posterity’s only safe option. Then stick it in its own Unnatural History Museum for all future generations to gawp at.

Rob@robsnottweeting.bsky.social · 5d ago

We can’t control the tigers per se, but we hoping that treating them nicely now will mean they reciprocate when we do open the cages. Btw we’re currently hard at work on opening the cages.

ANTHROPIC EXEC: “.. I personally think it is >10% within the next decade.”

About 5% of Jewish people sympathise with far right pro-settler parties (12% with Netanyahu). So 5% of 0.3% of the population. YouGov find a toxic 6% of public say would expel/ethnically cleanse Palestinians. (Over 97% of the 6% can not be Jewish: basic maths/demographics) bsky.app/profile/sund...

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 6d ago

In this comparative study [end 2024], UK respondents include 1 in 10 wanting one of two extreme solutions with ethnic cleansing 4% destroy Israel + expel Israelis 6% refuse Palestine + expel Palestinians A broader group have sympathies with one side, or both, while wanting to recognise both

This is a simply splendid analysis of Today’s Webb-Miliband interview. And the Foreign Secretary’s ability to speak so lucidly and rigorously in the face of half-baked, intellectually impoverished questioning is particularly impressive.

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 5d ago

I’ve written more about this brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/analysing-...