For the record, I 100% support an Amazon boycott — I personally do not use Amazon, Prime, or shop at Whole Foods. But a consumer boycott can’t be the extent of it. Workers need to organize, speak out. More protests. Power.

Response from the maintainer is pretty bad. Suggests that it is "represents a first-of-its-kind case study of misaligned AI behavior in the wild", buys into the "blackmail" example from Anthropic. theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-... (h/t @fvsch.com)

More Than 1,000 Google Workers Call On Company to Cancel Contracts with ICE and CBP

TY @bcmerchant.bsky.social for speaking to us about our #GooglersAgainstICE petition—now at 1200+ names! We refuse for our labor to power ICE—that's why we're growing our base of Google workers committed to antimilitarism & organized for the fights ahead. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/google-is-...

What German politicians – especially those helping sustain genocide and apartheid while attacking those trying to end it – don’t seem to grasp is that hardly anyone takes them particularly seriously anymore. I doubt @franceskalbs.bsky.social or the UN will be intimidated by such silly posturing.

⭕️ RSF drone strikes hit Al-Rahad school & Dilling primary school w/in 24 hours, killing & wounding dozens Sudan Doctors Network says RSF forces killed 2 children & injured 13 other students after a suicide drone struck Sheikh Ahmed Al-Badawi Mosque in Al-Rahad, North Kordofan, at dawn, calling...

🇺🇳 UN officials reported drone strikes in South, North, & West Kordofan are threatening civilians & humanitarian workers along key supply routes linking El Obeid to Dilling & Kadugli. Despite the insecurity, a 41-truck UN convoy carrying about 800 metric tons of aid departed El Obeid for Kadugli...

This!

Their code of conduct says "Do the right thing and if you see something that you think isn't right -- speak up!" Guess it's time to revise that document.

At Google, speech critical of ICE is censored from the company's internal platform, employees who speak out are served with warnings, and leadership refuses to acknowledge a petition that's now gotten 1,200 employee signatures. Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:

Please, listen. This campaign against Albanese and everyone who defends the Palastinians is becomming unbearable. We, Albanese stand side by side with major Jewish voices inside and ouside Israel like Ilan Pape and Gideon Levey against the hijacking of Israel of tze narrative. Shameful Ministers!

Art is socially constructed and elites are busy destroying our society as fast as they can.

Join us tomorrow!

Wikipedia editors vs. AI Slop: The volunteer army wrangling the world’s chatbots https://restofworld.org/2026/wikipedia-ai-training-regional-languages/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1770553320

Jeff Bezos did not have to gut the Washington Post. He chose to.

Noam Chomsky's wife says he was 'ensnared' and 'manipulated' by Epstein - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/noam-chomskys-wife-says-he-was-ensnared-and-manipulated-epstein

The world's richest man is facing a new set of trials and tribulations.

Israeli PM Netanyahu two mornings ago is invoking Epstein to smear a political rival, fmr. PM Ehud Barak from Israel’s security establishment who sits to Netanyahu’s left. But Drop Site’s reporting shows Epstein wasn’t just tied to Barak. He helped open doors for Netanyahu too. An investigation...

“Agents can identify people on the street through facial recognition, trace their movements through license-plate readers and, in some cases, use commercially available phone-location data to reconstruct daily routines and associations.” All surveillance tools people have pushed back on for ages…

Prediction: the notion of 'sovereignty' will be one of key technopolitical pH tests of 2026. Proposed as a solution to AI's centrifugal accelerationism, technonationalism is actually the desired outcome of current restructuring, and a safe space for Western masculine subjectivity.

Relatedly : in every adult online safety workshop I have done, I have said mumsnet and white mummy bloggers or Instagram families should worry you as much as Roblox or Snapchat. Mumsnet and other parenting forums, FB groups etc are hotbeds of right wing radicalisation. We did warn you all..

the civil rights movement did not win by awakening the secret virtue of Southern whites by appealing to their better nature. it won by producing a demonstration of their brutality Northerners could not ignore

This week, prosecutors filed criminal charges against Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony for organizing the city’s 2025 Pride march. This is yet another example of the erosion of the rule of law, human rights and fundamental freedoms in Hungary.

☀️ Summer School 📚 “Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming" Organisers and teachers: 👉 @marentierra.bsky.social 👉 @olivia.science 👉 myself Deadline for application: 🐦 31 March 2026 (early bird fee) 1/🧵 www.ru.nl/en/education...

AI isn't "the most transformative technology of our times". There is a lot of structural transformation going on, and there are lots of claims about specific computational technologies. Conflating these facts obscures the true technopolitics of the interregnum.

This was already the plan 2 years ago, they couldn't enforce on people. Now, they try again with complicity from everyone around the world who could have stopped this and didn't @ec.europa.eu Violations of human rights couldn't be louder than this, ref. Article 2 of the Israel-EU assoc agreement

قبل ما ندخل ننام، نفتكر أن 28 يناير 2011 أعظم يوم في تاريخ مصر الحديث.

I am super grateful and happy to share with you what the incredible @mariaressa.bsky.social has to say about #PROPHECY: “Oxford philosopher Carissa Veliz traces the invisible forces that are insidiously manipulating us, stealing our data—and our agency. 1/

Court gives Israeli government until March to justify ban on foreign media from Gaza.

Incredibly worthwhile piece from @alainstephens.bsky.social about the history of the second amendment and how that right has never been fully applied to Black and brown people in this country, or our allies. theintercept.com/2026/01/28/a...

Theyre killing these kids

Israel wants to restrict the number of Palestinians entering Gaza through the border crossing with Egypt to ensure that more are allowed out than in, three sources briefed on the matter told Reuters ahead of the border's expected opening next week.

There are so many gems in this article. "When I contacted OpenAI’s support, the first responses came from an AI agent." "However, my case reveals a fundamental weakness: these tools were not developed with academic standards of reliability and accountability in mind."

These plonkers from Anthropic want us to believe that they've combined the insights of neuroscience, psychology and dramaturgy, while in reality they're stumbling around in the LLM fog trying to keep the flame of hype alight www.anthropic.com/research/ass...

Sanctions are the solution @ec.europa.eu get back on track and remember that holding principles and values is what gives the true power.

“We should be keeping a clear list of every person in this administration who has broken the law…and they need to be prosecuted.” @rokhanna.bsky.social and @mehdirhasan.bsky.social discuss holding tech billionaires like Elon Musk accountable at Zeteo’s live event in DC. zeteo.com/p/what-is-th...

This morning, the Israeli military targeted and bombed a vehicle carrying employees of the Egyptian Committee for Gaza Relief, killing three journalists while they were on their way to document a newly established displacement camp.

🔴 Gaza | Jan. 22, 2026 Early Thu., Israeli forces began reportedly carrying out large-scale demolition operations inside Israeli-occupied areas east of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza. Additional incidents: - The demolitions were accompanied by gunfire from Israeli attack helicopters, Palestine...

Despite all this, last week, the House of Representatives approved an additional $3.3 billion in military aid to the Israeli government. We demand that the US stop sending billions of dollars to the Israeli military.

Die komplette Veranstaltung an der Universität Hamburg lässt sich übrigens hier in voller Länge sehen. Vlt auch als Tipp an das Hamburger Abendblatt, das die falschen Zitate in einem Bericht zur Sache heute einfach mal übernommen hat lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v...

8) Geschädigt sind alle: Universität, Redner und Organisatoren, aber auch die Glaubwürdigkeit des Netzwerks mit seinen zahlreichen offenen Briefen, sowie der blauäugigen Antisemitismusbekämpfer. Und geschädigt ist der Kampf gegen Antisemitismus. Alle sollten daraus lernen. 11/

Die Differenzierung wie auch den Vortrag kann man kritisieren. Paech zeigt aber im Vortrag, warum sie völkerrechtlich plausibel ist. Vor allem unterscheidet sie sich erheblich vom kolportierten Zitat. Paech hat das Massaker gerade nicht verteidigt, sondern verurteilt. 10/ bsky.app/profile/haha...

7) Als das Vortragsvideo veröffentlicht wird, wird klar: Paech bezeichnet nicht den Angriff auf „Israel“ und schon gar nicht das Massaker für legitim, sondern differenziert zwischen legitimem Angriff auf Militäranlagen und Völkerrechtsverbrechen gegen Zivilisten. 9/ bsky.app/profile/haha...

6) Eine Lokalpolitikerin behauptet, Paech habe "ein gezieltes Massaker an Zivilisten" als legal und legitimiert bezeichnet und nennt die Reaktion der Universität, man prüfe und differenziere “beschämend". Sie selbst hat offenbar nicht geprüft und differenziert. 8/ cduhh.de/von-treuenfe...

5) Auch das Abendblatt geht davon aus, der Satz sei so gefallen, lässt aber immerhin auch Paech und die Universität zu Wort kommen. Das nutzt aber offenbar wenig, dennn... www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/poli... 7/

4) Diesen Brief wiederum verbreitet der ehemalige Antisemitismusbeauftragte Stefan Hensel auf Facebook „als Teil einer notwendigen Dokumentation“ und nennt Paechs Vortrag "Teil eines größeren Problems." Er erhält über 700 likes. 5/ www.facebook.com/stefan.hense...

3) Das Netzwerk jüdischer Hochschullehrender gründet in einem offenen Brief auf das Fehlzitat die Aufforderung an die Hochschulleitung, weitreichende Maßnahmen einzuleiten. Ob das Zitat zutrifft, prüft das Netzwerk vor der Veröffentlichung offenbar nicht. n-j-h.de/offener-brie... 4/

2) Der Vorsitzende der Deutsch-israelischen Gesellschaft, @volkerbeck.bsky.social nimmt das Fehlzitat für bare Münze und verschärft es noch: Paech "billige und rechtfertige das antisemitische genozidale Massaker der Hamas". Er erklärt, die Staatsanwaltschaft eingeschaltet zu haben. 3/

1) Ein Veranstaltungsbesucher berichtet auf Twitter, Paech habe den "Angriff auf Israel" als legal und legitim bezeichnet, und behauptet, das sei ein wörtliches Zitat. Wenn das stimmte, wäre es in der Tat problematisch. Es stimmt nicht. 2/

ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."