Rich men have always manipulated society to maximize profits—but something else entirely is happening with today’s billionaires, Noah Hawley argues. He recounts what he saw during his weekend at Jeff Bezos’s Campfire retreat: (From April)

I work at Google DeepMind. This won't make me popular. But it's all public reporting: 2014: DeepMind reportedly sold to Google on conditions: no military use, independent oversight 2026: a Pentagon contract for "any lawful government purpose" Not one safeguard survived intact

I saw Linus Torvalds expressing concern over how ”AI-powered” bug hunters have made the Linux security mailing list unmanageable. So I sketched out a quick visualisation of this 😁

Yet again, I have cause to tap the sign hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/wz35dvpo...

hej, visste du att SCBs befolkningsprognos är att antalet & andelen av den svenska befolkningen som är i arbetsför ålder ÖKAR fram till 2070? www.scb.se/hitta-statis...

Staying in the game I'm four months into my interim CEO role at Bluesky, and it's time for an update. Most importantly, as of today, the interim part of the title is gone. I'm... https://toni.org/2026/07/10/staying-in-the-game/

Olivia Guest is my favorite person to follow when it comes to calling out AI hype based on a deep and thoughtful understanding of it. This point is so very important. It's ok not to know things. #FollowFriday

The original Turing test has this too yes, some of my ideas here: olivia.science/turing

> “Hallucination,” then, is not a bug awaiting a patch but a symptomatic expression of this structural condition. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Alla behöver läsa det här kapitlet, och beställa och läsa hela boken om man inte redan gjort det. Planera in ett träningspass efteråt för att hantera upprördheten. Älskar för övrigt raden "Det här kapitlet är redan för långt och behöver börja rundas av."

Enström är syster till Henrik Landerholm, som var vice ordförande för Europaskolan i Strängnäs innan Birgitta Ed blev det. Han var det samtidigt som hans fru var kommunalråd och ville ge bort en kommunal skola till Europaskolan, vilket ledde till hennes och hans avgång. omni.se/m-toppens-kr...

You may have seen it written about, but the whole segment where DJT admits to talking to FIFA about the red card is wild. yt.axbom.com?id=ZCtIirTgOOk

You may be having a bad day but midfielder Jordan Henderson got a yellow card during the Mexico-England game, was later carried out on a stretcher with a broken wrist, surgery required, unable to celebrate with his team, and the world cup over for him. Oh, and he DID NOT PLAY A SECOND in the game.

New blog post: "Conviviality in computational science" blog.khinsen.net/posts/2026/0... "Conviviality matters for science ... if you want to derive knowledge from your work, you need to know exactly what you are doing, and that includes a detailed understanding of your tools." 🧪 #metascience

New preprint! So honoured to have worked with Ishani Ray on providing vital critique on "AI literacy" & correctives for those interested in understanding why "just use the newest version of an LLM" is nonsense Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/

Much of AI "productivity gains" come from managers implicitly trusting an LLM to do a good job, and suspending the onerous micromanagement that humans employees get subjected to. You can do that without paying Anthropic a single penny. It just requires letting the experts you hired do their jobs.

Obligatorisk skräckläsning. ”[…] även den som är odelat positiv till ny kärnkraft måste fråga sig om detta är ett vettigt sätt att få det att hända.”

Men nu i natt, när mörkret kommer, kommer sorgen och ilskan över att @astridekstrand.bsky.social och jag inte kan gifta oss. I Sverige innebär nämligen giftermål att en blir av med personlig assistans. Även om man inte bor tillsammans. Och ba… Jag sörjer att vi inte kan.

when people talk about AI used in moderation of social media posts, you must remember there is always the human-in-the-loop, often a woman, often in the Global South, always dehumanised and forgotten 1/n www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Jag vill återigen bara säga att man inte röstar av egoistiska skäl. Man röstar för dem som har det sämre än en själv. Man röstar för de ensamstående, arbetslösa, hemlösa, sjuka etc. Du som har det bra kan i princip överleva vilket styre som helst. Det kan inte alla. Erkänn privilegiet.

Dreaming of inventing a hardware device that people can buy, start up and will run a server that can host your web presence in the form of a personal fedi instance, a ATProto PDS, a Ghost blog, document management, maybe even email and more, on a custom domain. A pre-installed plug-and-play VPS.

Wrote a follow-up to my last blog post on Bluesky. This time about PDS. Enjoy! kevinak.se/blog/who-act...

For me, the most maddening thing is when AI boosters, or detractors, all seem to agree that AlphaFold is an unmitigated good and useful tool showing the power of AI. I disagree. It's hit and miss. And the misses are REALLY expensive. Especially when the conversation suggests it is ALL HIT.

I wish more people engaged with this point. 1/2

After moving to Eurosky I've realised the logical next step is to run my very own personal data server, giving me even more independence and control over my own data. Reading this post from @brent.atproto.bront.rodeo and it seems ridiculously easy. blog.bront.rodeo/setting-up-y...

Labyrint-spelet fyller 80 i år. Jäklar vad många timmar av min barndom jag la på detta ändå. (A Swedish invention, the Labyrinth game, is 80 years old this year.) ‪www.lekoseum.se/kom-och-lek-med-oss-labyrintspelet-fyller-80-ar/‬

During my time in the US last month, I had multiple people argue to my face that ‘winning’ the AI race is worth risking climate catastrophe, loss of human agency, mass psychological disturbance, informational collapse, and of course, any moral commitment to a better world. I’m still processing that.

This! 👇

Toad went out to his garden with some candles. “I will read the seeds a story,” said Toad. “Then they will not be afraid.”

Medical practitioners should be instructed not to be visibly displeased when patients refuse to be recorded and have their words automatically transcribed. Nor should they insist that the transcription will then be checked by a human. If I refuse consent that should be the end of it.

Been working on and off for a week on a graphic outlining Harms of the AI Ecosystem. Excited to soon share it in a newsletter / blog post, but here is a sneak peek 😊 Still some tweaks, tests and details before I feel it's ready. #AIEthics #DigitalEthics #DigitalHarms

Viktig påminnelse. Det pågår inte en anonym miljökatastrof. Det finns ansvar att utkräva. www.expressen.se/debatt/debat...

In other news, I just used the edit button on mu.social to edit one of my "Bluesky/Eurosky" posts. When you use mu.social rather than bsky.app you have an edit button for your post for 5 minutes after posting. Love seeing variations in these AT Proto clients. mu.social

What fresh LinkedIn hell is this?! Under Invitations: "X is inviting you to follow because you engaged with their content." [Accept] INVITING YOU TO FOLLOW?! They don't even want to be a contact.

Tack för frågan - jag har inte tillräcklig koll, men jag repostar så följarna här kan hjälpa mig få en bild; Ni som på olika sätt arbetar med (människor som blir utsatta för) våld i nära relationer - vad är beredskapen och kunskapen om funkisars situation?

New paper! w/ @cocoscilab.bsky.social🧵Can large language models reason flexibly, or have they learned what reasoning looks like? We introduce a new paradigm to test this question—the riddle riddle—and find that humans and LLMs show opposite patterns of performance. 📜

Sometimes I'm struck by how deeply dehumanizing it is to liken machine function with the wonder of personhood.

Rather than Substack or Medium, you can use Leaflet for writing. As it's part of the Atmosphere you can log in to Leaflet with your Bluesky account. And the free tier even allows a custom domain! leaflet.pub

I've moved my AT Proto data from Bluesky to Eurosky, all hosted in Europe. My followers/following and all posts are intact. My username remains the same as I'm using my own domain. An invisible step for my contacts, a big step for independent social media and data ownership. move.eurosky.tech

Even the pubs are fed up. Thomas House in Dublin is saying no to flyers and posters with AI art, and connecting local artists with bands and promoters. ”We’re right next to Ireland’s biggest art college, lads. It’s not a good look.” Graphics from their Instagram account, username thomashousebar.

Madonna: "Because we think if we look at Instagram for two hours, we’ve actually been with somebody. It’s a deeply disturbing activity." www.interviewmagazine.com/music/madonn...

Calvin, ahead of his time.

En Suède, la femme du premier ministre, Birgitta Ed, soupçonnée de « corruption entre amis »

Min egen erfarenhet - som alltså är HELT subjektiv; EN persons upplevelse och allt det där - är att ingen såg. Eller snarare, att även de som såg, vägrade ta in eller reagera på det de såg. För det är partnern som "tar hand om" den funktionsnedsatte som är hjälten. Som "stannar kvar" och är god.

Vi dödar oss själva med våra utsläpp. Uppvärmningen går allra snabbast i Europa. Extremhetta i stora delar av kontinenten och vi är inte ens i juli ännu. 200 000 döda på fyra år. 2500 döda enbart i Tyskland bara förra året.

Nu har drottningen av antik kunskap skrivit om detta. Läs! www.dn.se/kultur/ida-o...

Anyone migrated their Bluesky account to Eurosky yet? I may have to do it just to be able to do a writeup… eurosky.tech/accounts/ #Eurosky

Tips Varje gång ni oroas över eller kritiserar Tidö, ställ frågan: What will S do? Överraskande ofta inte tveklöst något annorlunda. Så många lever kvar i gamla föreställningar om S. Så mycket under radarn här och det är extremt oroväckande.

”Sveriges trygghet avgörs inte bara av hur vi hanterar brott, utan av hur vi tar hand om barn som far illa.”

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