Tim Squirrell
@tmsqrll.bsky.social
Professional abyss gazer. Tech horrors in 57 varieties, head of strategy @foxglovelegal.bsky.social but my views are shared only by the demented and damned. I also have a PhD in Online, so that’s Dr 🐿️ to you
well i for one am sure glad that they mitigated the serious mental health issues with their product in a way that they can be certain will have worked in the 3 months between this young man dying by suicide and sam altman claiming it's all fine now actually www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
well i for one am sure glad that they mitigated the serious mental health issues with their product in a way that they can be certain will have worked in the 3 months between this young man dying by suicide and sam altman claiming it's all fine now actually www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
'now that we have mitigated the serious mental health problems' - Sam Altman, 2 months after, and 24 days before, lawsuits claiming his product has killed someone's son
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 9:42 PM
'now that we have mitigated the serious mental health problems' - Sam Altman, 2 months after, and 24 days before, lawsuits claiming his product has killed someone's son
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
New polling: majority of Europeans in 5 countries (inc UK) agree that data centres should only be built if new renewable energy sources power them.
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October 29, 2025 at 10:53 AM
New polling: majority of Europeans in 5 countries (inc UK) agree that data centres should only be built if new renewable energy sources power them.
beyondfossilfuels.org/2025/10/27/e...
beyondfossilfuels.org/2025/10/27/e...
“Amazon hides its water use” was a negative headline imagined in a strategy document about the consequences of Amazon hiding its water use. Now it’s the headline they’re getting, because Amazon hides its water use.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows
Executives at world’s biggest datacenter owner grappled with disclosing information about water used to help power facilities
www.theguardian.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:38 AM
“Amazon hides its water use” was a negative headline imagined in a strategy document about the consequences of Amazon hiding its water use. Now it’s the headline they’re getting, because Amazon hides its water use.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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UK's proposed AI age estimation tools "completely unaccountable," warns Foxglove's @tmsqrll.bsky.social:
www.context.news/ai/uk-use-of...
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UK use of AI age estimation tech on migrants fuels rights fears | Context by TRF
UK to use facial recognition tech to decide ages of lone child asylum seekers but critics say biases could rob many of safeguards
www.context.news
October 21, 2025 at 8:16 AM
UK's proposed AI age estimation tools "completely unaccountable," warns Foxglove's @tmsqrll.bsky.social:
www.context.news/ai/uk-use-of...
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NOW THAT WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO MITIGATE THE SERIOUS MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES
i am going to lose my entire fucking mind
i am going to lose my entire fucking mind
October 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
NOW THAT WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO MITIGATE THE SERIOUS MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES
i am going to lose my entire fucking mind
i am going to lose my entire fucking mind
is it slightly concerning that the most amoral people you have ever met in your life all seem to be simultaneously gravitating towards “responsible AI” like a school of terrible fish
October 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
is it slightly concerning that the most amoral people you have ever met in your life all seem to be simultaneously gravitating towards “responsible AI” like a school of terrible fish
Some other nuggets of complete insanity from this story:
- This data centre is planned to be 5 gigawatts. That's 1/6 of the National Grid's *peak demand* added by a single project
- It 'would pave the way for a British ChatGPT' - sorry, wtf??
www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
- This data centre is planned to be 5 gigawatts. That's 1/6 of the National Grid's *peak demand* added by a single project
- It 'would pave the way for a British ChatGPT' - sorry, wtf??
www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
October 13, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Some other nuggets of complete insanity from this story:
- This data centre is planned to be 5 gigawatts. That's 1/6 of the National Grid's *peak demand* added by a single project
- It 'would pave the way for a British ChatGPT' - sorry, wtf??
www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
- This data centre is planned to be 5 gigawatts. That's 1/6 of the National Grid's *peak demand* added by a single project
- It 'would pave the way for a British ChatGPT' - sorry, wtf??
www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
'will Teesside be developed into a 5GW (!) Data Centre or a Blue Hydrogen Plant' is a real Alien vs Predator situation huh www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
Ed Miliband’s split with Starmer over a £100bn mega-project
A bitter cabinet division has opened up over the future of Teesside. Will AI datacentres or a net zero-linked hydrogen plant get the vote?
www.thetimes.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:36 AM
'will Teesside be developed into a 5GW (!) Data Centre or a Blue Hydrogen Plant' is a real Alien vs Predator situation huh www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
initial take on “chatfishing”: wow PUAs in the fucking mud, turns out women want to be listened to
2nd take: maybe PUA market isn’t dead - you turn up to a date who expects you to be witty & empathetic but you don’t have those skills because you chatfished
3rd take: who the fuck finds chatGPT witty
2nd take: maybe PUA market isn’t dead - you turn up to a date who expects you to be witty & empathetic but you don’t have those skills because you chatfished
3rd take: who the fuck finds chatGPT witty
this is sociopathic behaviour and I think we need to treat it as such! just because something has become easy to do doesn't mean it has become less creepy, or more acceptable!
October 12, 2025 at 9:40 AM
initial take on “chatfishing”: wow PUAs in the fucking mud, turns out women want to be listened to
2nd take: maybe PUA market isn’t dead - you turn up to a date who expects you to be witty & empathetic but you don’t have those skills because you chatfished
3rd take: who the fuck finds chatGPT witty
2nd take: maybe PUA market isn’t dead - you turn up to a date who expects you to be witty & empathetic but you don’t have those skills because you chatfished
3rd take: who the fuck finds chatGPT witty
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‘My Government Must Quit Twitter and Call Out Elon Musk’s Far-Right Hate’
Labour MP Noah Law explains why it’s time for Keir Starmer to start treating the billionaire X owner as the ‘foreign extremist’ he now is
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/15/m...
Labour MP Noah Law explains why it’s time for Keir Starmer to start treating the billionaire X owner as the ‘foreign extremist’ he now is
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/15/m...
'My Government Must Quit Twitter and Call Out Elon Musk's Far-Right Hate'
Labour MP Noah Law explains why it's time for Keir Starmer to start treating the billionaire X owner as the 'foreign extremist' he now is
bylinetimes.com
September 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
‘My Government Must Quit Twitter and Call Out Elon Musk’s Far-Right Hate’
Labour MP Noah Law explains why it’s time for Keir Starmer to start treating the billionaire X owner as the ‘foreign extremist’ he now is
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/15/m...
Labour MP Noah Law explains why it’s time for Keir Starmer to start treating the billionaire X owner as the ‘foreign extremist’ he now is
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/15/m...
“free speech” is just an empty signifier at this point and has been for at least 20 years (i am not a historian please don’t be mad if its way longer i am only a man)
September 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
“free speech” is just an empty signifier at this point and has been for at least 20 years (i am not a historian please don’t be mad if its way longer i am only a man)
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“It’s alarming that the Environment Agency has been handing out licences for datacentres to extract hundreds of millions of litres of water from the environment – while failing to keep track of the total.” observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Fears as datacentres ‘fail to disclose water usage’
Campaigners want companies supplying AI infrastructure to publicise water consumption
observer.co.uk
September 8, 2025 at 7:42 AM
“It’s alarming that the Environment Agency has been handing out licences for datacentres to extract hundreds of millions of litres of water from the environment – while failing to keep track of the total.” observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
finally some good fuckin news www.ft.com/content/8f8b...
EU hits Google with €2.95bn antitrust fine
Sanction comes despite Trump’s threat of retaliatory tariffs over digital regulations
www.ft.com
September 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
finally some good fuckin news www.ft.com/content/8f8b...
farewell Peter Kyle, I will miss coming up with new and imaginative ways to say you’re getting your wallet inspected by big tech
September 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
farewell Peter Kyle, I will miss coming up with new and imaginative ways to say you’re getting your wallet inspected by big tech
Judge Mehta had a real opportunity to make significant change to the market here, and he’s basically blown it. I doubt we’ll see a similar chance to break up the monopolies for a long time.
The Google monopolization remedy is out and it looks like the judge imposed next to nothing as a penalty. Big disappointment. Trump doesn't even have to intervene and bail Google out.
Here is the verdict:
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dsf41...
Here is the verdict:
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dsf41...
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September 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Judge Mehta had a real opportunity to make significant change to the market here, and he’s basically blown it. I doubt we’ll see a similar chance to break up the monopolies for a long time.
We’ve come a long way since the reasonably strong response to the Southport race riots, huh
It's beyond me why the PM doesn't want to put out this simple message. It's not hard. Hold a reception for prominent non-white British sportspeople, actors, etc to point out the kinds of well known and well liked people this kind of ugly nationalism is attacking. It's really not rocket science. 5/5
September 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
We’ve come a long way since the reasonably strong response to the Southport race riots, huh
let the body keep the score
let the body keep the score
let the body keep the score
let the body keep the
SCOOOOOOOOOOOOORE
let the body keep the score
let the body keep the score
let the body keep the
SCOOOOOOOOOOOOORE
August 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM
let the body keep the score
let the body keep the score
let the body keep the score
let the body keep the
SCOOOOOOOOOOOOORE
let the body keep the score
let the body keep the score
let the body keep the
SCOOOOOOOOOOOOORE
this isn’t even the correct version of the Great Replacement conspiracy theory for the uk!! “they’re importing voters” is the US version!!!! my man can’t even keep his white supremacist conspiracy bollocks straight
Why is Labour still on X-Twitter when its owner is pushing out xenophobic rabble-rousing lies like this?
![Elon Musk @elonmusk 9:09 AM BST Aug 31, 2025
The Labor Party goal is destruction of democracy by importing voters and bribing them with benefits paid for by British citizens
[Quote tweet]
Basil the Great @Basil_TGMD
How Labour plan to win the next election
In the Scottish and Welsh devolved assembly elections the voting age is 16
The Labour Government changed the voting rules in UK wide elections to match this
In the Scottish and Welsh devolved assembly elections foreigners can vote
The Labour Government will soon change the voting rules for UK wide elections to match this
This is why they're bringing in so many migrants. They will say you need to vote for us or another party will get in who will likely deport you
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August 31, 2025 at 10:28 AM
this isn’t even the correct version of the Great Replacement conspiracy theory for the uk!! “they’re importing voters” is the US version!!!! my man can’t even keep his white supremacist conspiracy bollocks straight
On the 30th August. Criminal.
August 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
On the 30th August. Criminal.
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This was entirely expected. The vast increase in energy demand that coming from data centres cannot be satisfied by renewables, or even existing grid infrastructure. So they are building new fossil fuel on-site generation. It's madness.
August 30, 2025 at 11:23 AM
This was entirely expected. The vast increase in energy demand that coming from data centres cannot be satisfied by renewables, or even existing grid infrastructure. So they are building new fossil fuel on-site generation. It's madness.
chatGPT will report you to the police but somehow OpenAI isn't capable of intervening when someone is an active suicide risk??
Folks are treating this is a big new step OpenAI is taking. But all LLMs were already constantly using people's chats with them for training. They're all subpoenable. They have safety measures to flag genuinely worrisome behavior — advice for how to shoot a school, CSAM — that will surely misfire.
OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police
OpenAI has authorized itself to call law enforcement if users say threatening enough things when talking to ChatGPT.
futurism.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
chatGPT will report you to the police but somehow OpenAI isn't capable of intervening when someone is an active suicide risk??
working on a thesis that the earnestness of AI chatbots is fundamentally antithetical to the bri'ish mind
August 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
working on a thesis that the earnestness of AI chatbots is fundamentally antithetical to the bri'ish mind
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"Future historians will surely debate at great length whether it was economics or media culture or simple incompetence that led the Starmer government’s moral compass to break. But they surely won’t debate who, out of the Taliban or the people who fled from their regime, were actually the baddies."
It’s Just Wrong, and They Should Say So
This week: if you think handing asylum seekers to the Taliban is good politics, you’re a bad person. Also: on the non-existence of purple; and a map of the mid-Tudor world.
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August 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
"Future historians will surely debate at great length whether it was economics or media culture or simple incompetence that led the Starmer government’s moral compass to break. But they surely won’t debate who, out of the Taliban or the people who fled from their regime, were actually the baddies."
The question here, as with other cases of tech-enabled suicide, isn't so much 'did ChatGPT kill this boy?', it's 'why did he engage with ChatGPT to the exclusion of anyone/thing else?'.
And the answer - in my view - is that ChatGPT, as w/ nearly all social media today, is designed to be addictive.
And the answer - in my view - is that ChatGPT, as w/ nearly all social media today, is designed to be addictive.
Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death.
Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...
Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...
A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.
www.nytimes.com
August 27, 2025 at 10:30 AM
The question here, as with other cases of tech-enabled suicide, isn't so much 'did ChatGPT kill this boy?', it's 'why did he engage with ChatGPT to the exclusion of anyone/thing else?'.
And the answer - in my view - is that ChatGPT, as w/ nearly all social media today, is designed to be addictive.
And the answer - in my view - is that ChatGPT, as w/ nearly all social media today, is designed to be addictive.