Amazon is too scared to adapt the stories of Jack Reacher brutally killing white supremacists, because it would personally offend the President of the United States.

IGN@ign.com · 13h ago

Amazon has green lit Reacher Season 6 while Season 5 is still in production. https://bit.ly/4hBTQ61

We now have rigorous pooled data showing that even without active restoration efforts, cleared rainforest can rebound to 75% of their former species composition and 90% of species diversity within just thirty years. #goodnews

Rainforest biodiversity rebounds within a single generation | The Optimist Daily

A major Ecuador study finds cleared rainforests can recover 90 percent of their species diversity in just 30 years, as long as humans leave the land alone.

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reminder that the united states has NO federal head of arts or even an art department within our government. we have 4 different departments to justify couping other countries and bombing brown children, yet no arts department.

UBI Works@ubiworks.bsky.social · 6d ago

Ireland's artist basic income returned €1.39 for every €1 spent. They made it permanent. South Korea just announced plans to follow. Now Scotland too.

It would be such a shame if more people knew this is the 5th year of UF's "AI Days" genAI festival, and that the genAI art / business proposal contest does not actually check if you are a student before letting you submit things. ai.ufl.edu/ai-universit...

@mossworm.bsky.social · 4d ago

I think it would be just awful if everyone were to associate the University of Florida with genAI slop and grifters forever. It would be terrible if everyone was aware of how they partnered with the NVIDIA guy to jam-pack the school with 100 AI-focused faculty, including multiple AI art professors.

the answer to the iced coffee is that the interviewer should bring iced coffee for their prospective employee, or whatever drink preference they have because they should be good hosts and care about people and iced coffee would make it feel almost worth it in this hellscape of a job market.

A lot of people have used the argument that AI is here to stay so I should accept it as a tool in my life. If you accept destruction in the world because it is already here don’t be surprised when you face the consequences of that destruction.

I have the privilege of being able talk to and work in the field with environmental scientists and entomologist. People have asked why I feel so strongly against AI and it’s because I’m seeing it directly destroy the natural world I care about.

👏👏👏 @boom-studios.com Credit to @azhuoart.bsky.social for the screenshot

The superintendent of Cobb County just banned Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye from school libraries. I read this book as a student in Cobb County. It was part of my education, not something that needed to be hidden from me.

Georgia school system abruptly bans Toni Morrison’s ‘The Bluest Eye’ - The Current

Cobb County Schools Superintendent Chris Ragsdale announced the removal of Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye' from school libraries, sparking criticism from advocates who claim the district bypassed est...

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I’m gonna actually make a raffle where you can win 1 (small webiste page with max 3 subpages) of your idea. 📜 rules: 🟦 follow 🟦 repost 🟦 like Raffle will be closed at 30 sep. Every new 1000 followers there will be +1 winner. It will be good if you already have a domain. I will host your page.

Hasira 🍁🪴@hasira.me · last wk.

I've been working on my little private internet corner update for my portfolio for quite long time, and it's out! 👀📷 hasira.me/personal

The fact that every major news outlet includes vocal tics and hesitations when it’s a woman saying “like” and not when it’s a man saying “um” is itself wicked telling.

Nick Field@nickfield.bsky.social · last wk.

“This country has never elected a female president. Why are we pretending that this is not a factor?” Ocasio-Cortez said with a laugh. “That doesn’t make it impossible, but to act as though it’s not a factor in anything ever is really a form of, like, denialism” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u...

The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.

when you interact with an object or environment produced by people, every single part of it is downstream of active human choices. and that means they can be legislated. for example: we can make it illegal for chatbots to call themselves "i" and pretend to be a person. that is a deliberate trick.

Amy Hoy@amyhoy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

the big chatbots hide all of this from you INTENTIONALLY to create an illusion to fool you and that’s why i think consumer-facing chatbots should be illegal it is a DELIBERATE trick. they carefully crafted it to trick people. it’s not “how llms work.“ the secret nature of it is a choice

Absolutely horrific: Thanks to a false intelligence "generated with the help of artificial intelligence," the US military nearly carried out an operation aboard a Chinese ship because the incorrect intelligence said it was carrying nukes, according to @cnn.com. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

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holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway

Jason Kint@kint.bsky.social · 2w ago

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

IDEM: Developers must not clear trees within the project boundaries from April through September to protect the federally endangered Indiana Bat and the federally threatened Northern Long-Eared Bat Me: Well, that's not nothing IDEM, glaring at me: Unless they obtain a special waiver. Me: Oh. Ok.

IDEM approves Google’s request to fill more protected wetlands

The Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) decided to approve a permit that will allow the developers of the Google Data Center in Fort Wayne to fill more protected wetlands.

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Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · last mo.

"Speakers argued for denying the application because the Indiana DNR’s wetland mitigation program is out of compliance, as reported by the Indiana Capital Chronicle. The DNR has collected more than $60,000,000 in mitigation credits but has only fulfilled around $8,000,000 in wetland replacement."

Congress should not let companies take advantage of such exemptions to deploy AI without necessary accountability measures to prevent harms to consumers.

Coalition Urges Senate Not to Let Companies Waive Financial Regulations for AI - Center for Democracy and Technology

CDT joined AI Now Institute, American Civil Liberties Union, and several organizations dedicated to tech policy, consumer protection, and civil rights in a letter to Senate leadership and the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee opposing the “AI Innovation Labs” language in Sec. 10509 of the CLARITY Act.

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Shueisha shared a new survey on its Shonen Jump Manga Plus site that asks quite a few questions about how folks feel about AI translations for series. www.siliconera.com/shueisha-man...

Shueisha Manga Plus Survey Asks About AI Manga Translations

Shueisha shared a survey asking questions about AI manga translations on its Shonen Jump Manga Plus site in September 2026.

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Tech oligarchs agree calling AI "too dangerous" way cooler than just admitting it doesn't work

Tech oligarchs agree calling AI "too dangerous" way cooler than just admitting it doesn't work

SILICON VALLEY - The CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and GrokAI have released a statement agreeing that claiming artificial intelligence "could potentially kill all humans" sounds much more awesome than just admitting that they blew a fortune on glorified chatbots.

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So they're gonna kill your kids.

Zahra Hirji@zhirji.bsky.social · 2w ago

Scoop: The EPA is expected to formally rescind carbon pollution standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants as soon as Monday, according to people familiar with the matter. Tag team with @bloomberg.com’s Ari Natter and Jen Dlouhy. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

they're going to "scale back" because AI is bottoming out, and then say they did it out of the goodness of their hearts and interest in humankind

Mahmud Asrar 🪲@mahmudasrar.bsky.social · 2w ago

Then slow it down! We're not the ones who're developing it as if there's no tomorrow. www.bbc.com/news/article...

if you learn a skill or start a new hobby, it makes you a better person, not worse. nobody ever gets into calligraphy and immediately starts screeching that typefaces are useless and only the quill shall prosper. there is no "woodworking psychosis" nobody thinks they're dating their kettlebell

If your reaction to these astoundingly complex programs surprising you is to conclude there must be a ghost in there, you should stay away from these LLMs. This isn’t a dunk. It’s bad to get collectively caught up in the feeling that maybe humanity isn’t real because the computer indexed your files

Marcus@marcusjmerritt.com · 3w ago

These models will make you think they understand your language and are responding to you with deliberation, but that‘s not what’s happening. If you can’t remember that’s not what’s happening despite how it feels while you’re interacting with them, you shouldn’t use them. They are dangerous to you

There's a pernicious pattern here with "A.i." companies claiming individual rights for industrialized extraction. Claiming an artist's fair use and a photographer's right to record people in public to justify corporations ingesting literally everything in the world for "A.i." databases? 🤮

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4w ago

When I say the purpose of the tech is to erase consent…

Identity Verification Is Broken. The 153 Million Driver’s Licenses Now for Sale Are Proof https://gizmodo.com/identity-verification-is-broken-the-153-million-drivers-licenses-now-for-sale-are-proof-2000806437

Identity Verification Is Broken. The 153 Million Driver’s Licenses Now for Sale Are Proof

A massive trove of driver’s license scans allegedly stolen from an identity verification company shows the danger of creating honey pots of our most sensitive documents for malicious actors to exploit.

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People need to find ways to support the Smithsonian. To signal to the country that Trump needs to keep his sticky, grabby, racist paws off all the institutions that mind our cultural and historical heritage. Tell your Congressional Reps and Senators: Hands off the Smithsonian!

Eileen Clancy 🧿@clancyny.bsky.social · 4w ago

Trump administration threatens to cut off agencies’ ties to Smithsonian By Jonathan Edwards Echoing White House attacks, an Interior Department letter threatened the institution “under current leadership” with loss of support for sourcing artifacts and more. @jonathanreports.bsky.social Gift link

The USDA is trying to recind the Roadless Rule which currently protects 45 million acres of National Forests from logging and deforestation. We have until September 20th to comment and tell the USDA we don't want this! File your comment w/ link below: action.outdooralliance.org/a/roadless-d...

Sometimes i think about how, in the late 90s, USPS was moving to set up a secure email address for every US resident and how congress prevented it.

Tuta@tuta.com · 4w ago

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

I really feel like it should be bigger news that fibreglass is in IV saline bags in the US. This isn’t a situation where you might get a little sick. Fibreglass going directly into your veins will kill you. IV saline is used for almost every medical procedure. This is unconscionable:

Baxter Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall for Two Lots of 0.9% Sodium Chloride Injection Due to Potential Presence of Particulate Matter

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – AUG. 25, 2026 – DEERFIELD, Ill., Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX) is voluntarily recalling two lots of 0.9% Sodium Chloride Injection due to the potential presence of parti...

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Please share your feedback on how genAI destroys the livelihoods of artists on the official EU website. You can do so even if you're not an EU citizen. We have to be loud so the change will come, and practice shoes that voicing hatred towards genAI works ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...