all my interactions with ai are miserable and nonconsensual. it is the reason my programs are running slowly, why my weather report is inaccurate, why I always get connected to the wrong department of any automated call service. I would pay a lot of money to be rid of it.

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 21h ago

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

My kink is watching crime noir shows and cackling at how they desperately try to make Oslo look like a crime-ridden drug den

It is the single worst deliberate change I have ever seen made to a product, and might be what stops me using Microsoft Office after…25+ years? Imbecilic product decision, but just one among *many*.

Heather Burns@heatherburnstech.bsky.social · yesterday

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

This is another way we live in rape culture; we live in a culture where we have to hear about monstrosity all the time. Sometimes I look at those top stories lists and wonder if I'm the only one who notices that two or three or four of the ten are about violence against women.

"If you think it is bad that Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and a handful of their billionaire buddies are effectively unconstrained, then the most effective thing you can do is pick a fight over data center siting in your area." by @davekarpf.bsky.social

The data center backlash Is working. That's why the New York Times is so concerned.

I have a

davekarpf.beehiiv.com

OBSESSED with linguistic drift and generational differences in text communication (the Gen z use for ‼️ is the most intuitive to me, a 1990, chronically online millennial)

KSV@ksvesq.bsky.social · yesterday

My Gen Z employees have taught me that putting the !! sticker on a text means you agree with what the person is saying and not “omfg are you kidding me?!?” (as I had been using it frequently) and now I’m spiraling.

Excellent observation by @katemanne.bsky.social "In short, they miss female subordinates who seamlessly do their bidding." open.substack.com/pub/katemann...

A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants

And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue

open.substack.com

WNBA (the org) courted this. They could have nipped this in the bud, but instead they placated anti-trans activists, so now bigots have glomed onto them. If you don't tell them their opinions are vile and are unwelcome, they will destroy you or leech on you forever. just ask amnesty international

taylr@taylordahlin.com · 3d ago

riley gaines is at the minnesota lynx vs indiana fever game posing with people courtside as they line up for photos

Canadian researchers found that 97 percent of youth who seek treatment for gender dysphoria still identify as trans years later.

New study finds Canadian trans youth rarely detransition | Xtra Magazine

A group of Canadian researchers found that 97 percent of youth who seek treatment for gender dysphoria still identify as trans years later

xtramagazine.com

I'm quoting this solely so a few people see it and it brings them as much joy as it does me.

Kate Ozment@grubstreetwomen.bsky.social · 4d ago

They interviewed Maybelle Blair, who is 99 years old and has 4 broken ribs and she's here to cheer them on 😭 she's excited women are allowed pants and said they had to to dig gravel out of her ass in those skirts

"Teaching kindergarten in South Central Los Angeles in the 1950s and ’60s, she [Mildred Pitts Walter] realized that her students were not represented in the books they read. So she wrote her own."

YouTuber Hank Green Admits He Has Unhealthy Relationship With AI After Facing Backlash Over Recent Video 'The level of dopamine I've been getting from interacting with LLMs is not healthy for me,' said Green

Hank Green Admits To Using AI After Fan Backlash Over Recent Video

'The level of dopamine I've been getting from interacting with LLMs is not healthy for me,' said Hank Green

kotaku.com

IMPACT: that company that was offering to buy books for AI companies’ training data — and probably destroy them in the process — says it will no longer offer this service following 404 Media’s exposure of it www.404media.co/ai-company-t...

Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage

Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."

404media.co

Senna needs a new home! 🐕 She's an energetic Australian Cattle Dog that would thrive in a home where she can get the love and attention she needs. Posting for my neighbor. Located in Long Beach, CA 90808. www.adoptapet.com/pet/48876241...

YES.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d ago

Very excited for this new essay at "Can We Still Govern?": The key claim is that planning for a progressive future cannot just focus on new policies. It also has to include - to start with - political power. What does a power-shifting perspective look like? 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/rebuilding...

Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

Also finished Trans Technologies by @haimson.bsky.social (2025). Not a trans history book, but relevant for a peripheral argument I’m making in my comps exam. That said, incredibly cool to have a book that provides perhaps the most comprehensive list of trans technologies.

This cat is what we call a longue durée

Started season 4 of Dark Winds. Despite the fact that this show has a permanent existential crisis. Is it an atmospheric, spiritual crime mystery? A police procedural? Why does Chee's personality and motivation change every season?

"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.

futurism.com

"Is Polyamory Right for You? Elisabeth Sheff spent 30 years studying polyamory. Here’s what she learned." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/p...

Is Polyamory Right for You?

Elisabeth Sheff spent 30 years studying polyamory. Here’s what she learned.

nytimes.com

A reminder from my client @katjungnickel.bsky.social! "All of the FREE Bikes & Bloomers sewing patterns are back online. They’ve already been downloaded 100,000 times. Be good to see this increase even more! Who doesn’t need a fantastic pair of bloomers?" bikesandbloomers.com/patterns/

“Initially I couldn't believe Google could be so dumb to kill the thing it makes literally all its money from, but lately I've arrived at another conclusion: Google knows it's killing the open web and is doing it on purpose. There's no way no one at Google realizes what's happening.”

Drew Curtis@drewcurtis.bsky.social · last wk.

So with regards to what I said about how Fark won't survive this year without more TF subscribers, I wrote up a longer explanation about what we're all up against. Not just Fark, all of digital media.

I saw someone suggest Nolan made Odysseus more brooding because Americans don't have any cultural background with the trickster hero and that might be the "Charlie Brown had hoes" of cultural anthropology

Discover The Visual Elements series: essential handbooks offering accessible guidance for scientists and engineers who must communicate their work visually for grant applications, journal submissions, and conference presentations. Learn more here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/se... #ESA2026

"NCTE Dissolves 77-Year-Old Composition Association" www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

NCTE Dissolves 77-Year-Old Composition Association

The National Council of Teachers of English’s decision was met with swift backlash from Conference on College Composition and Communication members, who say their organization is vital to advancing co...

insidehighered.com

a friend and I went downtown this evening to scream in the streets with thousands of our neighbors. @theonion.com was also at the protest this evening and they were pulling no punches

In retrospect, naming myself as a homonym for the plural of the verb for "to be" may have set me up for a lifelong existential crisis