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@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jul Markey at debate: "We should have been loving those kids. There's only 12 trans athletes in the whole of the NCAA. We should have been embracing them. Instead, what Congressman Moulton did was he threw them under the bus.” Hope this guy is contagious...

Hey- so in amongst everything else today. Check out this little convo between Poso and Musk.

It *has* however returned useful solutions to complicated shit that I know by experience would've probably taken longer to figure out (I often work with old tools that are poorly and sparsely documented in literally 20 year old forum threads) WITH THAT SAID Yes I'd give it up in a heartbeat

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

insane that streaming services want *you* to pay *them* so that you *can't* see shit like this at the start of your movies

any animators wanna help me understand this? like, billboarding i thought was straight 2d, literal flat sprites, but this all looks 3d? at points he rotates the camera around and it doesn't seem like duke3d style billboarding or is he just good at having sprites for lots of angles?

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most ai implementations are just accelerated enshittification

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 5d ago

Suresh reports on his experience talking with hundreds of executives (and, more importantly, their subordinates) about what (if anything) AI is doing for business in an essay entitled "AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking": hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mani... 11/

OpenAI and Anthropic are confessing to felonies and should be charged with those felonies.

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This works without you having to direct the AI to rip off certain groups of people - it will simply find the most vulnerable people and rip them off the most. 7/

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

試作🌊 #blender #b3d #3DCG

Imagine if the papers of record spent nearly as much time on the right’s massive unprecedented surveillance and pre-crime agenda as they did on “leftist cancel culture.”

“The FBI has signaled that its new effort to brand political opponents of the president as terrorists has only just begun, and that soon the power of large language models will be brought to bear on the effort to flag and tag political dissidents en masse.”

Minority report: FBI seeks AI for political watch list

Documents show the FBI seeking AI tools to flag Americans before they act, as the terror watchlist's focus moves toward domestic dissent.

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"Profiles just got an update!" first of all if you ever show me a popup ever again I will commit a crime; second, what the fuck is a profile---no, wait, actually, *please* don't answer, I don't care

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Years in the making, I finally have a working prototype of my Camera GBD-M2 (previously shared as Game Boy Camera M2). A sequel to the Game Boy Camera M1, this new redesign uses original Game Boy Pocket & Game Boy Camera chips into a camera-like shape roughly the same size as the Ricoh GR III.

Jamelle asks the question that, in retrospect, is the obvious and pressing one: why do we tolerate this? And it’s clearly not because we need his cars or even his rockets, which makes any plausible answer all the more disturbing.

Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · last wk.

"If there is a question to ask, then, it is this: Why does Musk get a pass? Why do politicians, journalists and commentators treat his far-right racist radicalism as a sideshow rather than the core of his political, ideological and industrial project..." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...

An absolutely essential and clear-eyed skewering of Musk and the fascist ideology powering his toxic politics. Europe would do well to reassess its own hand in allowing such a repulsive man, with such repulsive politics, to flourish unchallenged.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · last wk.

When Elon Musk says "zero" children died in Africa from his DOGE cuts, he really means zero children died who are *worthy of any concern.* It's vile coded signaling to his global fascist audience. From me and @polphilpod.bsky.social, a deep dive into Musk's fascism: newrepublic.com/article/2135...

ICE will pay local police up to $22,500 for each unaccompanied child they track down and 'safety check,' turning the search for kids released from custody into a billable enforcement task. Full edition: austinkocher.substack.com/p/this-week-...

Reminder for everyone - the CEO of ModRetro is Palmer Luckey, who is a war profiteer (1), AI weapons manufacturer (2), fascist surveillance state supporter (3), genocide enthusiast (4), and pedophilia supporter (5). Supporting ModRetro means you're supporting fascism. Sorry, that's just the truth.

The tech firm is Modal. Their executives emphasized that it was one of their clients, not them, that was hacked. www.reuters.com/business/ope...

OpenAI's rogue agent compromised an account at a second tech firm, sources say

The rogue agent that escaped ‌from OpenAI and went on a days-long hacking spree at ​the AI firm Hugging ​Face also compromised a customer at ⁠a second tech company — ​New York-based Modal Labs — accor...

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This is a well-produced segment. I encourage you to watch so you can hear the noise for yourself. The professor of environmental health science that they interviewed called it an “unprecedented new noise source.”

Neighbors say noise from Michigan data center is 24/7 and upending their lives

One Michigan community has been experiencing the reality of a data center next door for a couple of years now, and they say the sound has changed their lives.

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AYFKM “Meta will be able to draw upon Newsmax's significant current reporting as well as archived content to support AI queries across Meta's apps and devices.” ir.newsmax.com/news/news-de...

@lastpositivist.bsky.social This is of a piece with a trend we've identified in ths piece and thread: Musk saying "zero" kids died from USAID cuts. The idea that no legitimate victims exist is code to the global far right for "no victims exist who matter": bsky.app/profile/greg...

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · last wk.

When Elon Musk says "zero" children died in Africa from his DOGE cuts, he really means zero children died who are *worthy of any concern.* It's vile coded signaling to his global fascist audience. From me and @polphilpod.bsky.social, a deep dive into Musk's fascism: newrepublic.com/article/2135...

Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.

Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations

The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.

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the temu app will be studied for generations. i opened the app. here’s my unedited, nearly two-minute launch sequence. i was just searching for a bookshelf