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A month ago, Italian researchers found that *poetic* prompts made AI chatbots (aka digi-trolls) cough up their darkest, most dangerous secrets. Now Mrinank Sharma, an Oxford PhD AI safety researcher, resigns Anthropic in protest to become a poet of "courageous speech" in and for a "world in peril".
10.02.2026 02:07 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0The links between Epstein, Israeli intelligence, and pro-Israel politicians, as they continue to be unearthed, will do enormous damage to the indispensible US-Israel friendship. To begin to repair that friendship, Israel needs to clean house. Throw out the festering yeast of Netanyahu's corruption.
09.02.2026 19:34 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0www.patreon.com/posts/new-qu... The Patristica channel's first fully self-produced documentary promotes the recent TANZ critical reconstruction of Marcion's Apostolos and its corresponding bilingual Reader's Edition.
08.02.2026 17:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If such a law is ever passed, then the plaque on the Statue of Liberty should simultaneously be moved to Canada, because they will honor it. The US, it seems, no longer does, or can, and that is the greatest tragedy of all.
26.01.2026 23:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Part of this comes from knowing the stories of Latino (Mexican-born) friends who self-deported from California to Canada. They are *enormously* thankful they did, because they are safe, welcomed, and have a high quality of life.
26.01.2026 23:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The U.S. has to be a nation of laws *and* we have to diffuse the toxic culture of scapegoating and villification.
26.01.2026 23:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This idea might not be popular with my followers, but I'd propose a bipartisan de-escalation of 40-50 days to 1) pause ICE/CBP deportations (except for violent criminals) and 2) grant temporary amnesty for peaceful, dignified, humane, church-assisted self-deportation of undocumented persons.
26.01.2026 23:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0“He’s killing us in the streets and we still have to pay our taxes in April” is an incredibly compelling point.
26.01.2026 00:40 — 👍 7482 🔁 2203 💬 14 📌 0Cheer up, WaPo! I hear there are raises and new positions opening up for Melania movie reviewers and theater-goers, as long as they stay positive. Fallout thumbs up! 👍
26.01.2026 21:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I think this also points to the need for open, transparent submission and peer-review. Research subjects should be anonymized. Trustworthy researchers should be and act as public figures. Blind peer review is increasingly providing cover for massive academic AI malfeasance.
26.01.2026 21:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Absolutely insane that Federal agents are spraying Americans en masse with carcinogens, at the same time Republicans are making healthcare impossible to afford. They are a cancer on the nation.
26.01.2026 21:19 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“…when it comes to your fitness tracker and some health records, the new Dr. ChatGPT seems to be winging it. That fits a disturbing trend: AI companies launching products that are broken, fail to deliver or are even dangerous.”
26.01.2026 18:52 — 👍 75 🔁 26 💬 1 📌 12We are opening an investigation into Grok because we believe that X may have breached the DSA.
We have seen antisemitic content, non-consensual deepfakes of women, and child sexual abuse material.
In Europe, no company will make money by violating our fundamental rights.
link.europa.eu/Fh8h84
A lot of truth in that. Also true that "white", "black", and other labels have no basis in biology (genotype or phenotype) and are arbitrary socio-cultural constructs. If we seek human equality and dignity, let's deconstruct race completely.
26.01.2026 21:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A little bit of self-reported, supplemental metadata would be enough to aggregate metrics and identify bad actors. #issn0000-0000 #evaluatororcid0000-0000-0000-0000 #reviewerorcid0000-0000-0000-0000
26.01.2026 20:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Librarians used to rely heavily on Beaill's List to identify predatory journals, before publishers threatened defamation lawsuits. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beall's... ... Rather than a single brave librarian-curated list, what about a crowd-sourced list or even hashtag such as #AIslopreview?
26.01.2026 20:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Most X metrics are bot bull$hit anyway, designed to make Elon and his fellow hair-plug, incel bros feel popular.
26.01.2026 20:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@calstate.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk Still feeling all warm and fuzzy about your high-on-hype decisions to ink big AI deals for $hatGPT? #AIdivestment
26.01.2026 20:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Share the memo with the Obamas. They are the draw, because they are trusted and beloved. Musk has broken faith with the US people and Constitution.
26.01.2026 19:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Screenshot with the time index (1:06), archived in case the typo is corrected in the original source.
26.01.2026 19:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Freudian slip: Madel's closed caption reads "ISIS" when he said "ICE". I won't put an ISIS execution picture side by side with a freeze frame of the execution of Alex Pretti. But consider the numerous disgusting and disturbing similarities. Masks must come off, and ID badges and body-cams on.
26.01.2026 19:41 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0A small but significant way that President and Mrs. Obama could bear witness in this moment would be to leave Musk's KKK/Nazi-supporting platform and migrate entirely to Bluesky. We the People are looking for Digital Moseses to lead us out of places of oppression.
26.01.2026 19:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0France announced today it’s phasing out Teams, Zoom, etc. to be replaced with a French/European solution called Visio. The data is hosted on Outscale. Transcripts and subtitles are also handled by French providers. The target is set on 2027 for government agencies.
26.01.2026 15:31 — 👍 3305 🔁 1059 💬 100 📌 240Qs for @emilymbender.bsky.social, @abeba.bsky.social et al. LLM bot prompts all begin with "You are" ... [a helpful assistant | a curious student | etc], do they not? Doesn't this encode deceptive anthropomorphic role play as default? Is there any pratical or experimental alternative to this?
26.01.2026 17:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Little did Bovino realize, his mantra would inspire Minneapolis' Elementary school teachers to ask their students to create and share a new lineup of childrens' satirical books, "The Cow That Wanted to Be a Horse."
26.01.2026 17:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Icymi, "turn and burn" is 1980s Top Gun lingo. So Bovino and calves are basically cos-playing as Mavericks. Quite an aspirational euphemism for violating the 4th Amendment. Kelly McGinnis and Jennifer Connelly are most impressed, Sirs.
26.01.2026 17:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It's also why LLMs are incapable of composing a Chicago-style, citation rich, original thesis-driven research essay in the Humanities. They cannot critically interrogate, accurately curate or cite the intricate networks of real-world, external authorities and sources on which such works depend.
26.01.2026 17:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is *precisely* why Google can no longer be trusted as an EdTech developer/partner.
26.01.2026 16:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes. Search engines point to *external* authorities and sources of truth. LLM search summaries --- whose "success" metrics seem to be self-fulfilling UI/UX by forced adoption --- self-intermediate and self-source as fundamentally illegitimate and biased authorities and sources of truth.
26.01.2026 16:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0