These "we have made an AI so powerful" warnings are straight-up advertisements, btw. No different than "we have made an Oreo so delicious all other snack artists must relent."

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · last wk.

OPENAI, ANTHROPIC STAFF CIRCULATE PETITION URGING US TO SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL EFFORT TO 'DELIBERATELY PACE' FRONTIER AI DEVELOPMENT, WARNING OF RISK IT ADVANCES FASTER THAN HUMANS CAN CONTROL; LETTER ALSO SHARED WITH GOOGLE DEEPMIND STAFF, EXPECTED PUBLIC THIS WEEK

through sheer ubiquity a blockbuster becomes a unit of language & reference & legibility -- something The Odyssey itself has been for millennia -- & I think it's really good for that enormous referential power to be contested & challenged & engaged by those who've made a special study of it

For #BlackWomenEqualPayDay, @ayannapressley.bsky.social and I in @bostonglobe.com discussing why the attacks against workers begin and end with Black women. There is no world where workers are valued, and Black women workers are not. Either the economy serves us all, or it serves no one. #blacksky

The attack on workers begins and ends with Black women - The Boston Globe

Black Women’s Equal Pay Day is about more than wage gaps. Job losses and stalled pay for Black women are an early warning sign for every American worker.

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25 years ago Kelly & I published our first season's titles — all 2 of them: first collections from Kelly (Stranger Things Happen; art: Shelley Jackson) & Ray Vukcevich (Meet Me in the Moon Room; art Rafał Olbinski). Buy either this month, we'll send you both: smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journa...

If you’re looking for a comfortable mask with a good seal to wear outside, Flomask still has EU-printed adult masks at half off for US customers (check your nose bridge using their instructions). They also have a children’s size. www.flomask.com/products/flo...

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As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from humanoid sex robots to classroom "education" robots. Buckle up. nysfocus.com/2026/07/14/n... 🧵

Rural NY School To Launch Humanoid Robot Teacher

Plans to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant at Salamanca High School have sparked debate over the role of technology in schools.

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Grateful for the oasis of Tour de Fleece posts when pretty much everything else is varying degrees of stressful right now. They’re making me want to make handspinning posts even though I don’t do Tour de Fleece, and I rarely post anything.

waymo locks you in the car and delivers you to a police station, then unlocks the door so you can open it and get shot to death by a robot dog with a rifle. it later emerges that the flock network in your neighborhood tracked you for months because of some algo/admin error.

“A simple data-entry error, magnified and broadcast nationwide by a growing surveillance network operated through an opaque partnership between a private company and public agencies, led police to identify me as a car thief and set up a sting to take me down.”

How Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked Me for Days Over ‘Stolen’ Plates and Sent Police After Me

A simple error got magnified by Flock's nationwide surveillance camera network and ended with four cop cars boxing me in.

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Some awesome things you can do to celebrate Independence Day and support the dream of equal rights for all without getting heat stroke! First, check out the @romancingthevote.com auction and buy some fun stuff while supporting voting rights! www.32auctions.com/romancingthe...

Romancing the Vote 2026

Silent auction 'Romancing the Vote 2026' hosted online at 32auctions.

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NEW: A special TTRPG charity bundle to help designer Rae Nedjadi offset their medical expenses after serious illness and a month-long hospital stay. Includes Apocalypse Keys plus a terrific selection of other games. Get over $285 in games for just 25 bucks! 👇 www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Anyone know about any south asian diaspora retirement communities (leaning progressive minded a plus) in/around the triangle (NC). Please repost for reach. Thank you.

Whenever people say things like “oh people are just ignorant and fear mongering about data centers” they’re always punching at some rando online but also they’re lashing out at the NAACP and communities in Memphis who are directly voicing how this affects them.

molly taft@mollytaft.com · 2mo ago

NEW: the US government intervened Monday on behalf of xAI in a lawsuit over its gas turbines, claiming that the company needs to run the turbines in order to power Grok, which is "vital" for national security lots of wild stuff in the filing:

Is fun how the general public is convinced that things I've been using for decades—em-dashes, the rule of three, and now, apparently, serif fonts—are signifiers for slop. We're training people to use bad heuristics and we're going to make both design and the written word worse.

Ernest Post@monkchips.com · 2mo ago

I was talking about this the other day. The return of Serifs, their cultural association with AI, and by association, slop.

Introduce yourself with 10 bands / artists you've seen live Bat for Lashes Björk Cibo Matto Deltron 3030 Fishbone Living Colour Hugh Masekela Massive Attack PJ Harvey Wu-Tang Clan

Big Ol’ Mush@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

Currensy Inc. Bad Brains Solange OFWGKTA JMSN Wiz Khalifa DJ Jazzy Jeff Kirk Franklin and the Nu Nation Erykah Badu

My answer to that fictional band prompt that’s going around is Cold Slither.

Anyone know what kind of bird this is?

btw, regulators confirmed to us this morning that the 19 new turbines (and the 27 already on site) are not part of an air permit granted in March, meaning xAI has more than 1 GW of unpermitted gas power at Colossus 2 right now

molly taft@mollytaft.com · 3mo ago

NEW: xAI appears to have added more than 500 MW (!) of unpermitted gas turbines to its Colossus 2 campus in a matter of weeks, according to internal emails between the company and regulators

My aunt, Priscilla Stephens Kruize, can no longer live on her own at age 87 & assisted living costs are huge. Our family launched a fundraiser to help fund her care until she gets financial aid. She is a civil rights HERO who has given so much to others - and now she needs us. gofund.me/8db8323e6

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While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

There are people still living who fought — and watched their compatriots be murdered — for the passage of this act and to attempt to democratize America. To see it completed felled in the span of their OWN lifetime is just absolutely devastating.

Hey. Hey y'all. Diane Duane - yep, the author, THAT Diane Duane - is hoping that folks will buy some of her ebook bundles. www.tumblr.com/dduane/81506...

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I'll say it again, one of the worst things this rampant push to cram "generative AI" into everything has done is make people suspect bright kids of cheating when they're just nerdy or bookish or neurodivergent, sanding down their unique edges to fit into people's lowered, homogenized expectations.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3mo ago

The child’s mom, a university professor, “suspects her daughter was flagged by the teacher’s AI detection tools because she used terms such as ‘the titular character.’”

…The thing about "Generative AI" is that it takes all those racialized, gendered, ableist assumptions about skills, intelligence, capability, & it feeds on them as data which then become outputs of "AI Detectors,"which in turn become what people think of as so-called "tell tale signs of AI writing"…

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like planet earth, i too look like i have my shit together from an incredible distance

very much enjoy the way the people who work with Ryan Coogler talk about him & obviously feel supported and inspired by the experience. Also love how he talks about the people he works with. Master class in respect and genuine admiration.

Due to a shipping error, Flo Mask has a half-off sale of their EU-printed products for US customers. The masks are the same. They just have the EU printing on them. I wear this mask to work, church, etc., and it’s easily the most comfortable one I use. www.flomask.com/products/flo...

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“This was not a thoughtful, phased development. It was an industrial surge imposed on our residential community.”

Elon Musk's makeshift AI power plant generates sound and fury in Mississippi

The 27 temporary gas turbines roar like jet engines day and night to power data centers, residents say.

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it took an expensive, coordinated effort & a lot of people saying “this doesn’t matter” to get from a bathroom ban costing one state $400 million & a gubernatorial race to “trans people must turn in their documents which become invalid in a few hours or face fines & potential jail time” in 10 years.

Bugs, Yaoist@bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 5mo ago

it's 2016: north carolina introduces a bill to ban trans people from using bathrooms safely. there's a national outcry; companies withdraw business up to and including the NCAA cancelling a publicized game. the bill fails. it's 2026: kansas passes a law nullifying trans people's licenses. crickets.