Meta has made it repeatedly clear that one of their growth strategies is sexualizing kids. Mark Zuckerberg and his leadership team deserve to face personal liability for this, and the company deserves sanctions up to and including corporate dissolution

WIRED@wired.com · 11h ago

Over the last nine months, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and images of minors alongside sexually suggestive statements, according to details of the ads shared with WIRED.

Professional writer organizations should not send out pro-AI propaganda in the form of tantrum-having "essays" to their members, and I don't think that's controversial.

Regarding The Pro-AI Tantrum In The HWA Newsletter

Today I, and every other HWA member, received the HWA newsletter in our inboxes. In that newsletter was an essay (“essay”) of pro-AI propaganda that made a number of specious points in …

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Me: Maybe I will re-up my membership to the HWA this year. So many of my friends are in it & I kinda miss StokerCon HWA: HAVE A COMPLETELY CONDESCENDING AI APOLOGIST OPINION PIECE IN OUR NEWSLETTER AS A LITTLE TREAT ☹️

Yes. More of this. I won't be renewing my membership if this goes unaddressed.

C.J. Subko@cjsubko.bsky.social · 14h ago

My letter to the HWA president. Can't keep my mouth shut I guess.

The ultimate "threatening me with a good time."

Dr Eleanor Janega@goingmedieval.bsky.social · 15h ago

Sorry but the OP is so funny. "Oh you hate AI? Well what if all these things that suck and burn natural resources, and that also stole from you, which you have never used even once went away?" What point is this meant to prove?

Bradbury was, is, and I suspect always will be my favorite writer. Every August I read (or reread) a Bradbury book as summer begins its slow slide toward autumn; this year it's The Toynbee Convector, but today I'm rereading this. It's more relevant now than it was 76 years ago.

Sam J Miller@sentencebender.bsky.social · 2d ago

Today is the day on which Ray Bradbury's “There Will Come Soft Rains” (pub'd 1950) takes place. It’s a short elegaic story about a smart home slowly dying after its owners are wiped out in a nuclear extinction event. Re-reading it now, I’m feeling softly sucker-punched by what it has to offer us.

Yeah, where are the "marketplace of ideas" guys now? Oh, wait, they're all on X because they were conservative chuds all along.

Secret Agent Number Six@designationsix.bsky.social · 2d ago

Why do we need to "address the Liberal bubble on Bluesky" and not the Conservative bubble on TwitterX, Anti-Truth Social, or the news media?

Stop calling them "data centers." Start calling them pollution centers. 🧵👇

OpenAI hack of Hugging Face gets attention of 15 state attorneys general. www.businessinsider.com/openai-attor...

15 attorneys general have instructed OpenAI to preserve all materials related to the Hugging Face hack

They wrote in a letter that OpenAI is either unable or unwilling to ensure the safety of its products, posing a risk of substantial harm to Americans.

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The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

I counter your Tossed Salad trap card with my holographic Scrambled Eggs.

marlo@marlo.ooo · 3d ago

chat they made something in real life that i swear to god would be a shitpost i could have come up with almost a decade ago and i need people to mail me packs immediately as little gifts. do you know how badly i need 1993 Daphne on a trading card with her lil choker and flower skirt

The always delightful Readful Things has made some truly fantastic posters based on those "READ" posters found in libraries & classrooms. This one's my favorite, but I'll post two more in the comments. 💙📚🩸📽️🎨

Little Crater Lake monsters!

Molly Templeton@mollytempleton.com · 2d ago

sometimes I just need something really cool to be happy about for five minutes

Louder for the bozos in the back.

Nefarious Bat Press@nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 3d ago

To avoid any ambiguity. If you use (commercialised LLM-based probabilistic text/image extruders masquerading as) "AI," you are contributing to the destruction of everything we value about the world. You are, to paraphrase someone smarter and better than us, anti-life. Ergo, we hate you.

The @journalstone.bsky.social website seems to be down at the moment, so until it's back up here's a fresh link to buy my collection should you be so inclined. Did I mention it's got dinosaurs?

Every Crawling, Putrid Thing

In his debut collection, David Busboom presents fifteen tales of dark fantasy and horror, populated by bizarre reptiles, occult serial killers, carnivorous protoplasms, and parasitic worms. A child fa...

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We impeached but never convicted him Had four years and mountains of evidence but never held a federal trial Convicted him at the state level on 34 felony counts and then levied no punishment, not even probation Tell me what, in all of this, would lead me to believe he’ll be held to account

Yes yes, we've seen WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d ago

Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.

Honored to be paired with such interior art 💜

New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine@newedgeswordmag.bsky.social · 5d ago

📣 Did you know we have a ⚔️Sword & Planet🪐 special issue, featuring stunning cover art by @partyinthefront.bsky.social, interior art by @decassette.bsky.social & more, and plenty of great tales & non-fiction? Well! 👉 newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate...

You know what, when I said films needed to get weirder and hornier, I did in fact mean exactly like this

Every Film Now@everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 7d ago

First trailer for ‘WICKER’ starring Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård, Elizabeth Debicki and Peter Dinklage. In theaters October 30. #Wicker #OliviaColman

Do you know how bad public perception of AI tech has to be for LinkedIn of all places to let you start flagging it?

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 7d ago

New: LinkedIn just introduced a "seems like AI slop" button. That's literally what the button says. The thought leaders are going to have a meltdown www.404media.co/linkedin-int...

Not only is he a smoking hot abolitionist who was assassinated for refusing orders to massacre indigenous folks, he "befriended Walt Whitman" according to his Wikipedia page which ABSOLUTELY means they fucked

Patrick McCray@patrickmccray.bsky.social · 2w ago

Remembering Silas Soule, born OTD in 1838. American abolitionist, conductor on the Underground Railroad, military officer, and hero for disobeying orders to participate in Sand Creek Massacre and then giving evidence against his commander. Murdered 1865. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silas_S...

Incandescent rage.

Alexander Chee@alexanderchee.bsky.social · last wk.

‘Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.’

*whispers* you know we can do this cultural debate about art thing all the time, right? Websites and news organizations used to have culture critics on staff whose entire job was writing about books, movies, and TV. People read them and then discussed them. We have the technology to do this again.

Been thinking a lot about that old Prohibition-era slogan "lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine" but in the context of AI. I'm happily married, but I'd never date an AI user. Bad enough when a friend uses it. And I'm no teetotaler, but I say we need a Carrie Nation for the data centers.

Accuracy is important

Michael Capobianco@michaelcapobianco.bsky.social · last wk.

Quote from a news article: "A spokesperson for Anthropic said more than 91% of authors included in the settlement have claimed their share." This is false and misleading. More than 91% of books have been claimed, but that number includes claims by both authors and publishers.

Everyone has a take on the Odyssey

Moby Dick@mobydickatsea.bsky.social · last wk.

methinks it rings most vast, but hollow

I think it's a shame that so much Odyssey discourse is being framed as antagonistic, because there are really interesting ideas being explored, and we don't have to choose sides. I loved Nolan's film and I think Wilson's critiques are reasonable. It should be a conversation, not an argument.

You guys. You can hold two feelings at once. An adaptation can be a good time and also Not rise to the themes of source material

Don’t wanna step too far into than this but - I really enjoyed Nolan’s Odyssey. Had some qualms, but on balance great. Enough so I hope to see it again soon (I almost never want that). I also liked Emily Wilson’s essay. Again, yer qualms. But fascinating points! www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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Odyssey Monster Thoughts: Nolan's Goya-inspired Polyphemus is my second-favorite cinematic cyclops (first is, obviously, Harryhausen's). The Laestrygonians were fine; could've cut them for more Polyphemus IMO. Circe, Hades, and the sirens were done really well. Scylla was a pretty big letdown.