OpenAI sent subpoenas to AI governance nonprofits Encode and CANI, alleging they are part of a conspiracy involving Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and others (Emily Shugerman/The San Francisco Standard)
https://sfstandard.com/2025/09/02/openai-sam-altman-elon-musk-a…
Es una religión
“It’s a religion. We believe in technology. Technology is God. It’s really hard to push back against it. People don’t want to hear it.”
How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time.
MIT Tech. Review:
https://www.
What's with people giving unsolicited medical advice, especially when it's conspiracy-theory level of bullshit (like "it's not actually gluten, it's glyphosate!").
JUST DON'T, FOR THE LOVE OF FUCK.
Exposing the Monsanto conspiracy.
This is why we need strong government regulations.
https://youtu.be/CxVXvFOPIyQ
Veritasium: Exposing the Monsanto Conspiracy
#Monsanto #Glyfosate
ConspirED: A Dataset for Cognitive Traits of Conspiracy Theories and Large Language Model Safety
Luke Bates, Max Glockner, Preslav Nakov, Iryna Gurevych
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20468
#ListeningClub Hello from the country where the mad king went “missing” for nearly a week and conspiracy social media had a field day. Hopefully your week was better!
Harmeet Dhillon, a former Trump lawyer placed in charge of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division,
bragged to the Wall Street Journal that she “wakes up around 6am and begins her workday scrolling through X, searching for claims of discrimination …
After spotting ‘a list of new horrors,’ she said,
‘I text my deputies, and we assign cases, and we get cranking.’”
Dhillon’s office has been bleeding staff, since experienced lawyers are largely disinclined to waste…
If only the Americans were to demand this kind of alegal accountability of anyone, including presidents – and politicians in general, frankly.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/25/nicolas-sarkoz…
#Coincidence or #Conspiracy ?
Black women lost 319,000 jobs in #USA
since #DJT took office, while
I love it when bands play in these abandoned warehouse settings. This is from a place operated by The state51 Conspiracy in London.
#music #uk
https://www.
Ganska bra genomgång av hur folk kan gå från att ta till sig tips om hur de gör en bättre frukost till att luras in i större konspirationsteorier och sen tar besluta som verkligen kan skada deras hälsa.
Vi har en stor mängd influensers här i Sverige idag som jobbar på samma vis som de här personerna. De kopierar stora delar av deras påståenden och "trender".
You Might Have Already Fallen for MAHA’s Conspiracy Theories
This is what JD Vance wrote in his bestselling memoir:
“ I spent much of my time terrorizing the Appalachian fauna:
No turtle, snake, frog, fish, or squirrel was safe.”
https://bsky.app/profile/ostonox.com/post/3m4e2oqmkoc2m
Currently listening to @… and Ariel Bogle talking about their new book *Conspiracy Nation* which is available from Ultimo Press https://ultimopress.com.au/products/co
Stephen Miller unloads shocking threat Dems may face 'seditious conspiracy' charges - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/stephen-miller-2674232032/
“The real conspiracy theory around Trump and Epstein is that multiple apparently unconnected women lied, and continue to lie, about Trump’s behavior. This with nothing to gain, and much to lose, by speaking out about his misdeeds.”
Must Read #EpsteinFiles #Trump
Charlie Kirk was a fossil fuel industry plant
Big Oil's money gave Kirk a larger platform to spread baseless climate conspiracy theories—as well as other extremist views.
By EMILY ATKIN
https://heated.world/p/charlie-kirks-extremism-was-fossil
Today's (Canadian) history-inspired band name (found in an article in a left-wing Toronto paper in the 1930s):
The Hepburn-Duplessis Conspiracy
Generative Dynamic Graph Representation Learning for Conspiracy Spoofing Detection
Sheng Xiang, Yidong Jiang, Yunting Chen, Dawei Cheng, Guoping Zhao, Changjun Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05562
seen on Wikipedia:
"In 1966, Kennedy's brain was found to be missing from the National Archives. Conspiracy theorists often claim that the brain may have shown a bullet from the front. It has also been suggested that Robert Kennedy destroyed the brain." 👀
my current idea is to just retake the word conspiracy and devalue it and just use it for every day facts.
Here's a conspiracy they don't want you to know and they aren't talking about in the media: Sales tax in NJ is 6.625%. USE THIS INFORMATION WISELY!
@helmet91@mastodon.social You are spreading a crackpot conspiracy theory based on your amateur forensics and harming actual people who are facing genocide and famine.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
Since you clearly have no intention to stop, I am blocking you. And I suggest anyone with a conscience does the same.
Started reading Naomi Klein's "Doppelganger", a book about how she is often mixed up with Naomi Wolf (former feminist icon turned conspiracy nut/grifter). It's... tedious. I haven't gotten to the parts that are praised on the back cover yet. So far it has been 100 densely-printed pages of philosophical and historical treatise. Interesting for sure, but I would have preferred this as a much much shorter essay so far. Will continue to read, but it's work.
Comedian Rocky Dale Davis' bit, "Redneck Uncle", talks about right-wing conspiracy freakshows that make stuff up out of thin air and omg if you have any MAGA friends...
#comedy #rockydaledavis
X got too much even for the Communications of the ACM
"The X platform has become an echo chamber for disinformation, hate speech, amplifying division, conspiracy theories, and more "
https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/deleting-x-why-sigdoc-left-the-platform/
Replaced article(s) found for cs.CY. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/new
[1/1]:
- The Conspiracy Money Machine: Uncovering Telegram's Conspiracy Channels and their Profit Model
Vincenzo Imperati, Massimo La Morgia, Alessandro Mei, Alberto Maria Mongardini, Francesco Sassi
"I do not want to sound like a tin-foil hat conspiracy theorist, but your country, your neighbourhood, your job…your entire life is already controlled by artificial intelligence. If you do not like the bit in Star Trek: Discovery where we find that Control has taken over Starfleet, then I have bad news: an AI is running the military, too."
Good Morning #Canada
I don't want to alarm you but... #WinterIsComing. That means it's time to start thinking about installing your #SnowTires because I don't want you behind me on a slippery slope if you're not prepared. Outside of Quebec, where winter tires are mandatory, over 76% of Canadians are putting on the special rubber to protect themselves and others. Atlantic Canada leads with 94% using winter tires, and tropical Saskatchewan and Manitoba have the lowest usage at 64%. But you need to be alert because 31% of Canadians surveyed say they won't buy or replace their snow tires because of affordability. The friendly rotund Michelin Man recommends that every vehicle should have snow tires from December 1st to March 15th. Why would he lie to us.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Snowmageddon
When the temperature is consistently below 10°C
November 1st
Like everyone else, the day after the first significant snowfall
All Season tires are fine
Snow Tires are a scam, a conspiracy imposed on us by capitalist rubber and insurance oligarchs
a lot of conspiracy theories can be disproven by the fact that the current richest men in the world are petty as fuck and if they had access to the thing we would see strange disappearances of everyone who ratios Elon on twitter
“In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.”
― Czesław Miłosz, Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat who won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature
Via Francine McKenna/The Dig
#quote
I wonder how it comes that people do not "contribute" to open source, but mutilate it. From version 4.9 to version 5.2 the contributors managed to destroy usability and consistency checking in kmymoney. Maybe this is done deliberately by those offering commercial options? (Conspiracy vs just human stupidity). I'm not amused, because it is then hard to keep it out of the updates.
“Under President Trump’s leadership,” Stephen Miller vowed to shut down unspecified leftist groups.
“I don’t care how,” he said. “It could be a RICO charge, a conspiracy charge, conspiracy against the United States, insurrection.
But we are going to do what it takes to dismantle the organizations and the entities that are fomenting riots, that are doxxing, that are trying to inspire terrorism, that are committing acts of wanton violence.”
RICO refers to the Racketeer Influenc…
This is a public service announcement for all the dollar-store Sherlock Holmes’s out there who clearly have nothing better to do than to concoct conspiracy theories about people from Gaza on the fediverse who are faced with genocide and famine:
Stop.
Have some humanity.
Case in point, do not do what Daniel (@helmet91@mastodon.social) is doing here:
Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[1/17]:
- Detecting Conspiracy Theory Against COVID-19 Vaccines
Md Hasibul Amin, Harika Madanu, Sahithi Lavu, Hadi Mansourifar, Dana Alsagheer, Weidong Shi
Corr, what a anti-vaccine conspiracy pillock. #totp
In US court, Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon says he will plead guilty to charges of conspiracy and wire fraud under an agreement with prosecutors (Bob Van Voris/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-1…
Today I learned that Aum Shinrikyo, the #terrorist group that killed passengers of the Tokyo subway with nerve gas in 1995, was based on #antisemitic conspiracy tales.
The triumph of bullshit -- Internet conspiracy theories are now official government policy. (Liz Dye/Public Notice)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-tylenol-autism-lawsuit-texas
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p34#a251029p34
The American goal of spreading democracy around the globe has lost its lustre and hasn't been very successful lately. American-style right-wing extremism on the other hand ...
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/s
A senior national security prosecutor in the eastern district of Virginia
said in a farewell note taped to his door to colleagues on Friday
that he was apparently fired this week because a January 6 conspiracy theorist denounced him on social media
for having worked for the deputy attorney general in the Biden administration.
The veteran federal prosecutor, Michael Ben’Ary,
was fired on Wednesday,
the same day that Julie Kelly,
a pro-Trump commentato…
“These numbers are put together by teams of literally hundreds of people following detailed procedures that are in manuals. There’s no conceivable way that the head of the BLS could have manipulated this number.”
White House Doubles Down on Baseless “Rigged” Claims About Poor Jobs Data – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/08/trump-jobs-data-bls-commissioner-fired-conspiracy-theory/
"Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is planning to investigate climate and weather control, and is expected to create a task force that will recommend possible federal action, according to a former agency official, an internal agency memo obtained by KFF Health News, and a consultant who helped with the memo."
Leaked memo shows bizarre weather conspiracy theory being taken seriously by government - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/weather-2674206192/
👹 The Association Between the Dark Triad and Political Trust: The Mediating Role of Conspiracy Beliefs
#politics
One of Charlie Kirk’s main legacies was a “watchlist” of professors who Kirk and his organization, Turning Point USA, considered too liberal;
People on the list often were targeted for smears and death threats.
TPUSA also bussed people to the January 6 insurrection, and Kirk was a major proponent of “Stop the Steal” conspiracy theories.
Among many other horrific statements, Kirk said that stoning LGBT people to death is part of “God’s perfect law,”
and that gun dea…
Police assaulted as far-right UK rally led by Tommy Robinson sparks clashes
More than 110,000 marched at
"Unite the Kingdom" event in London,
with 5,000 counter-protesters nearby
Tommy Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon,
said “patriotism is the future, borders are the future”
as he claimed it was the “biggest demonstration is British history”.
In a video from the protest, Robinson added that
“Britain has finally awoke…
They make explosives. Not to be conspiracy-theorist, but we keep having manufacturing plants blow up...
‘Multiple people’ dead after explosion at Tennessee plant as crews search rubble for missing workers | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/explosion-bucksnort-tennessee-plant-death-toll-b2843396.html
A profile of Charlie Kirk: Trump ally and divisive provocateur | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/10/who-is-charlie-kirk-profile -- “During an appearance with Trump in Georgia last fall, he claimed that Democrats “stand for everythin…
Trump’s all-out assault on immigrant communities and the rule of law
escalated to new heights when federal agents beat and arrested
David Huerta, a prominent labor leader and president of the Service Employees International Union
– United Service Workers (West),
while Huerta and others were observing an ICE raid in Los Angeles, CA, on June 6.
Huerta was released from federal custody, but he is still being charged with felony conspiracy to impede an officer,
This Saturday, millions of people are going to say no, and insist that every American has a right to dissent.
It’s going to be big
— there will be enormous rallies in major cities, and smaller but still meaningful ones in towns around the country.
There will be families, and dogs, and people in silly costumes.
They’re going to march, and stand together, and listen to speeches, and hold up signs
Trump and his allies will spin their absurd conspiracy theories,…
By “accusing powerful people of doing things in secret for their own benefit, against the common good,”
RFK Jr is trafficking in conspiracy theories,
according to Joseph E. Uscinski, a political scientist at the University of Miami who studies the phenomenon.
Having a top government official contradicting science is
“a serious, serious problem,”
Professor Uscinkski said,
“because the hope is that,
in a free society,
you develop expertise and me…
A judge in Michigan dismissed the felony charges against a slate of electors who falsely signed on to documents claiming Donald Trump won the 2020 election
in the latest blow to efforts to hold the president and his allies accountable for attempting to overturn the results of the White House race he lost to Joe Biden.
Sixteen people were initially charged with eight felonies each related to forgery and conspiracy by the Democratic attorney general, Dana Nessel, in 2023,
tho…
Alleged #Whistleblower Harassment #Lawsuit involving #SanLeandro #PublicOfficials sheds new light on mutual