Bryan Johnson tweet, Feb 1, 2026:
8 years ago I met Epstein via zoom. A mutual contact put us in touch as I was building my brain interface company Kernel and he had supposedly done some neuroscience stuff at MIT.
After a ten minute video call I immediately called the person who put us in contact and told him that Epstein seemed like a very dark person. I felt sick to my stomach. I also told him I that never wanted to speak to him again. I remember this so clearly because I knew nothing about him but weirdly, intuitively, something was deeply wrong. Being in his proximity felt dangerous. Despite having nothing to go off of, I never interacted with him again and came to find out years later that he'd had a fucked up past.
The wellness bros are panicking.
02.02.2026 21:07 — 👍 73 🔁 15 💬 8 📌 4
Person: say, i am alive.
Computer: I am alive.
Person: oh my god.
01.02.2026 23:48 — 👍 22351 🔁 4926 💬 82 📌 127
“The firm's push to deploy AI at a time when top brass are emphasising the importance of a personal touch might seem loaded with irony, but Niccol [the CEO] sees little tension.”
"’It's a way for us to make the experience... have less friction,’ he said.” 😮💨
02.02.2026 16:03 — 👍 65 🔁 9 💬 6 📌 1
Unmissably good review essay. A pull quote in every paragraph.
"AI is less a 'revolution' than a smoothing agent for incumbent powers."
02.02.2026 11:48 — 👍 12 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
These Rural Americans Are Trying to Hold Back the Tide of AI
Fearing rising utility costs, job losses and privacy violations, residents have blocked or delayed data-center projects around the country.
More evidence of the growing cross-partisan backlash to the data center boom. Will politicians continue to override their constituents' concerns in favor of Big Tech's donations in this year's elections?
02.02.2026 14:15 — 👍 24 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 0
“Most hazardously, their portrayal of the current state of affairs obscures a long arc of neoliberal restructuring that, over several decades, has transformed universities into corporate brands and data-driven service enterprises”
02.02.2026 13:48 — 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
7 Reasons Teens Say No to AI
Some young people only turn to artificial-intelligence chatbots as a last resort, citing concerns about relationships, creativity, the environment and more.
As these teens describe, AI can diminish human relationships; devalue art; threaten the environment; lead to laziness; give unreliable results; pose privacy concerns; and be misused.
So, please, stop with the narratives of inevitability and let's embrace a pedagogy and politics of refusal.
01.02.2026 22:24 — 👍 322 🔁 127 💬 6 📌 5
Meme with anime character, labeled “journalists,” looking excitedly at a butterfly labeled “unexpected behavior in an LLM.” The character asks, “is this… intelligence?”
Felt timely
01.02.2026 17:29 — 👍 159 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 5
Google to pay $68 million over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users
Class-action lawsuit alleged that Google's voice assistant illegally recorded and shared private conversations with advertisers.
Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
01.02.2026 21:44 — 👍 18253 🔁 8091 💬 816 📌 830
Aussie Olympic preparations continue after COVID-19 positive tests
Australia's Winter Olympics preparations will continue with minimal fuss in northern Italy despite two members of staff testing positive for COVID-19.
Australian Winter Olympics team staff test positive for COVID-19 ahead of 2026 Milan-Cortina Games.
Two staff members with Australia’s Winter Olympic team tested positive for COVID-19 in late January. Both were symptomatic, are not competing, and measures are in place to contain any further spread.
01.02.2026 23:23 — 👍 346 🔁 136 💬 8 📌 20
Over 1,000 anti-LGBTQ+ attacks occurred in 2025: report
2025 was "one of the most dangerous years on record for LGBTQ Americans," according to a new report.
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this can’t be for real
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Houston schools are using AI to watch student mental health. Experts are worried
Ed tech companies like GoGuardian and Lightspeed Systems offer for AI software to detect self-harm. Experts and students are concerned about its accuracy and unintended consequences.
Students said “they believe the monitoring software has created a sense of fear among students who worry looking something up online can get them into trouble at school, and even if their school district means well, the constant digital surveillance creates more stress, not less.”
31.01.2026 14:10 — 👍 116 🔁 50 💬 4 📌 10
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31.01.2026 14:19 — 👍 27 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Do either "zombie citation" or "ghost reference" capture how AI is affecting scholarly infrastructure? Both assume a living thing that lives no more, and is undead or haunts in the present. Maybe we need a new term for AI-generated references to non-existent papers? Comp-Scitations? Slopferences?
30.01.2026 21:51 — 👍 26 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
A great thread on AI-driven epistemic contamination
31.01.2026 14:12 — 👍 38 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 1
You know, yes, this is media diet and Netflix and whatever. But part of college — part of study in general — is understanding that not everything is *entertaining* all the time. And part of that is deciding you care about learning things! (1/2)
31.01.2026 12:54 — 👍 320 🔁 43 💬 5 📌 4
Story reads like a corp press release.
A typical 12-megawatt data centre requires approximately 20 to 22 operational staff.
Closed loop water systems become contaminated over time and require replenishing the water.
Extensive burning of fossil fuels, like natural gas, is not 'green'.
31.01.2026 12:55 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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