Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

thenerve.news

Devastatingly important work on a devastatingly fascist platform. So many: @anildash.com @karlbode.com @molly.wiki have let you know why and how to leave. It's time to go @mrdtjames.bsky.social.

Substack Still Has A Nazi Problem (And Doesn't Care)

For several years Substack has been accused of coddling white supremacy and fascist ideology for cash. And despite several major scandals and a mass defection of ethical authors, there's little seriou...

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The youth claim to hate capitalism yet they purchase goods and services in order to survive ahaha and I am very Fortune Magazine

San Francisco’s Exploratorium will require N95 or KN95 masks during special morning hours designed for immunocompromised visitors.

This S.F. museum is requiring masks again. Here’s when

San Francisco’s Exploratorium will require N95 or KN95 masks during special morning hours designed for immunocompromised visitors.

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Guys will listen to male influencer bullshit about needing to have a six pack and manipulate everyone and meanwhile women will go “you know who is the sexiest fucking guy I’ve ever seen?” and post this

I. Do. Not. Like. It. Here.

Missouri Independent@missouriindependent.com · 17h ago

Wesley Bell beats Cori Bush in Democratic primary for St. Louis congressional seat #moleg #mogov

I'm just gonna say: it somewhat baffles me that people who are understandably skeptical of opaque LLMs as legitimate sources of information will suddenly go full on "the computer KNOWS" when they are using opaque tools to "detect" AI. The computer does not know.

Susanna Kearsley@susannakearsley.bsky.social · yesterday

❤️ Gillian Green, publisher at Tor Bramble, told The Bookseller: “HM Wolfe has confirmed that Daggermouth was written entirely without AI. We stand behind our author, and we do not recognise third-party AI detection tools as a fair or reliable measure of authenticity when used on their own.”

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

I came across this a while back and ended up saving it because it was so accurate and depressing

ok this makes me feel a little better about not having my scale model ready today

Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary)@bowiesongs.bsky.social · yesterday

in re Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" (which, in the original Martian Chronicles, occurs on today's date), I didn't realize the very first published version of the story, in Collier's magazine, was set in April 1985. (the current edition of Martian Chronicles now sets it in 2057).

now that’s what i call positive masculinity

Josh Fireland@fireland.com · 2d ago

[shoves bra into bottle of tito’s, lights it on fire] son this is what they call a gentleman’s molotov [yeets it at cybertruck]

when we read about folks affected by a public health issue having “underlying health conditions,” instead of saying “thank god that won’t be me” we should all say “let’s protect vulnerable people even more” also illnesses acquired via public health issues LEAD TO UNDERLYING HEALTH CONDITIONS.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

why do I often put scare quotes around "vulnerable" and "at risk"? because people are *made* vulnerable, and people are *put at-risk"—these are not stable categories. we all live in a state of risk, some more than others, and risk is not distributed evenly. we can all be made vulnerable.

people could respond to this framing around reporting deaths—"had significant underlying health conditions"—with more confidence if we weren't also living through a pandemic in which we have been told only people who have "underlying health issues" are "vulnerable" or "at risk"

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

I am creating a 1:24 scale model of the house from this story. I had hoped it would be ready by tomorrow but it won’t be :(

T H E VV O R S T@milfparade.bsky.social · 2d ago

A few weeks ago I realized that tomorrow is the date the Ray Bradbury story “There Will Come Soft Rains” takes place. It’s a shame science fiction from 75 years ago isn’t relevant anymore

it’s like this in my town too so now I use the deflock map to take no-camera routes wherever I drive. I’m not planning to do crimes, it’s just on principle

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d ago

“There’s been a trend over the last couple decades of law enforcement being able to pretty easily, and without much oversight, get and implement whatever surveillance technology they want…”

this guy gets it

Using lists of three is not an "AI tell." It's a common trait in human writing because our brains biologically want to make sure there's always one thing to marry, one thing to fuck, and one thing to murder.

we need to bring back saying “yabba dabba doo” and sliding off a dinosaur tail right after being allowed to clock out of work

this is troubling! we can’t rely on either detection software or “hunches” because people are biased; consider the handwringing about “proper” language, what constitutes the “literary,” etc. it’s already a pattern that it’s being used against writers of color — 3 Black authors, in this case.

$2m crime novel deal collapses amid questions over AI use

Agents withdraw Jerry Falade’s hotly anticipated debut after saying they can no longer authenticate ‘how the manuscript evolved’

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Not only that, but they've signaled they are willing to roll over for anyone with a large enough pot of money to threaten them with. Again, I ask: What is the point of you now?

John Lees@johnlees.bsky.social · 5d ago

Amnesty are about to learn the hard way that apologising to JKR and her TERF minions doesn't end their vendetta against you, only emboldens them to ramp it up.

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 6d ago

Google Earth, a tool often used as a source of satellite imagery to verify photos and videos, has added a feature that allows you to alter satellite imagery with AI, for reasons. blog.google/products-and...

ironically the name of the rose is sledbud

lol

So, I looked it up, what he said was "Nothing sadder than a hot person in a wheel chair." www.distractify.com/p/what-did-k...

‘Jeopardy!’ Champ Ken Jennings Issues Apology for "Insensitive" Post About Wheelchair Users

What did Ken Jennings tweet about wheelchair users? The ‘Jeopardy!’ champ’s “insensitive” joke is coming back to haunt him as he readies to guest-host the game show.

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a classic Ken Jennings tweet back in the day said simply, “nothing sadder than a hot person in a wheelchair.” this man has always been trash, always will be trash.

Ken Jennings@kenjennings.bsky.social · 6d ago

This may be true of others but I actually got express permission from the trans community to keep NYT games and recipes. I also have a news subscription, which is arguably worse, so I had to specifically send in a written request. Took 30 days but I got approved.

trans rights frankly is a top 5, potentially top 3 issue for me despite not being trans and not having any trans family being bigoted against trans folks not only hurts my trans friends and every trans person but is so predictive of further bigotry

the long trauma of covid will be with us so long as people live in denial of the fact that covid is not over

The Fig Economy@figgityfigs.bsky.social · last wk.

One of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.

I will reiterate: Christians in the West evangelize in public for the same reason men catcall. Neither is trying to persuade you; both are reminding you that the public sphere belongs to them and you exist in it at their sufferance.

one thing that infuriates me so much about this shit is that they act as if the women making the allegations are being massively rewarded for their actions when in fact most of what they face for coming forward is being called liars and harassed by assholes like them

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last wk.

matt stoller fully embracing his role as sexual assault denialist