As former safety staff at OpenAI and Anthropic speak out, a nonprofit called Psst is building tools to help AI workers raise concerns confidentially https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-whistleblower-psst-mary-inman/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
A post on X from Polymarket that says “BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”
I would also be anxious if I fucked up
so bad I murdered dozens of schoolchildren
Great
it’s going to look great at first: a new era of “cheap” phones and laptops, that are light and slim with amazing battery life - because they’re basically just front ends for cloud services, and do zero local compute
added bonus: forget trying to block ads when “your” browser is running in the cloud
most days I sincerely believe that a better world is possible
[Mr Rogers voice] look for the people who aren't giant narcissist idiots
YES. this has been a discourse blog position for years, let's make it happen www.discourseblog.com/p/pet-icare-...
I've been through so much technological change in my life this LLMs are the end of history stuff really gets to me.
IT TOTALLY CHANGES DESIGN
no it really doesn't. you're thinking of runaway financialization and gutting the public sector such that we've given up on improving material conditions.
I like friction. I’m sorry.
I also don’t like cruise control.
I guess I’m a “denialist” because I believe that all writing, even so-called functional writing, is a way of thinking.
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It is the anniversary of the Kentucky Meat Shower of 1876 (look it up if don't know what it is), so I am celebrating with this Civil War era shinplaster from a meat and grocery store that featured a cow's head on the note. Page & Martin's Meat and Grocery Store, Manchester, NH, $.02, Nov. 25, 1863.
I reached out to the developer and we did some troubleshooting. Everything seems good; no apparent conflicts; he refunded me 🤷♀️
“At some point, and on some timeline you don’t get to choose, the world pushes back. You can just do things, sure, right until the game is up, and then you can’t.”
I'm rapidly coming around to the position that I don't trust anyone who wants to outsource their humanity, call me a Luddite, go ahead
My entire life the systematic murder and incarceration of Black people has been a daily norm that just runs in the background of American life and has been perpetuated by every major institution and publication and when you talk to or about Black folks you need to take into account that context
From the article: “Kalshi is the world’s largest prediction market that boasts Donald Trump Jr. as a ‘strategic advisor.’”
What?
One theme of Equator is the post-American world – the end of the era when people everywhere saw the US as a model for their own futures. This memoir by @siddharthadeb.bsky.social, about leaving India for American academia, is a study of global disenchantment:
www.equator.org/articles/fro...
A large number of privacy and infosec researchers have published a detailed letter calling for a moratorium on laws requiring age assurance technologies until there is a scientific consensus on the risk/benefit tradeoff of using them
www.politico.eu/article/age-...
Fucking bizarre to cede both control over what you publish and the fact that it matters
I was so excited about this and got the so-called pro version, but it doesn’t work for me, alas 😔 At first it was returning all values as zero; then today when I selected a text of around 500 words, it returned values of 1 (word count) and 6 (char count). I’ve reached out to the developer 🤞
I will simply reiterate what I have said for years, namely that whatever their utility when it comes to individual psychopathology, the ideas of repetition compulsions and the death drive are super clarifying when it comes to the libidinal economies of settler colonial imperial violence
I’m trying to hold “Everything will keep happening all the time, gotta keep going” and “this is all very bad and should not be normal” in my head at the same time, and I’m so tired
Woman who attended SOTU to highlight her arrest without cause arrested without cause at SOTU.
““I just stood up. I stood silently, with no signs. I was not blocking anyone’s view of the hall. And then I was arrested.”
Too many “middle ground” AI arguments—“I have concerns, too, but we have to adapt”—proceed from what is to me a peculiar embrace of “inevitability” which seems to be magical thinking, a way of depoliticizing the political, of self-soothing in the face of an overwhelming challenge.
Time for a new activist collective. Gran Furry.
It just can’t be said enough that for months the federal government waged war on the people of Minnesota, kidnapping them off the streets, driving families into hiding, and killing 2 of people. And if you cannot call that out or state that clearly, you’re not one of us. You’re one of them.
This stuff just radiates fear to me. All these tough guys are so fucking scared all the time.
They're all our kids
