"don't be mean to me"

As we said in March, blocking the Internet Archive is like newspapers telling physical libraries they’re no longer allowed to collect past issues. Whatever happens in AI-copyright disputes, publishers shouldn’t make libraries collateral damage.

Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record

Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—th...

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News publishers are worried about AI scraping. But as Brewster Kahle writes in the Atlantic today, blocking the Wayback Machine leaves holes in the public record, and takes away evidence journalists themselves need to hold the powerful accountable.

The Internet Needs a Memory

Publishers have every right to challenge businesses that exploit their work—but the Wayback Machine has become collateral damage.

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"All of a sudden, the powers that be are rendered naked, and begin to stutter. They treat a blockaded high school as “urban violence” and explain...that even if they pursue an education, it will never be enough for them to compete with AI. Now everything becomes clear." illwill.com/becoming-alive

Becoming Alive, Autonomous, and Explosive • Ill Will

Interview with the Invisible Committee on "Survival Manual" and the ongoing uprising in France.

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The French, Albanian, Nepalese, and now Argentinian proletariat are showing the rest of us how to do it.

Jessika 🏳️‍⚧⛓️🤖@jesikalashnikov.bsky.social · 3d ago

YES BITCH FUCK THEM UP

I would add that putting a single sentence of flavor text and then vomiting out all your socials in the alt text, does NOT count as alt text and IMO, is worse than just leaving it blank

Nanci Barthelmess@nancisnaughties.secondlife.bio · 3d ago

Dear #SecondLife people on Bluesky, Please include alt text with your images. It may sound useless when talking about a virtual community that is so visual, but people who use on screen readers deserve to be able to know what the pictures you post are about. Without alt text... #AccessibilityMatters

Merriam Webster out here fighting for its life

Repost if $30k would change your life right now

Matt Darling@besttrousers.bsky.social · 5d ago

I don't think $30k is a life-changing amount of money. Median American born in 1980 will have $2m in income in their lifetime. It's a 1% increase in earnings.

you can set your watch to either

Queer is a community, not some inherent state of being. Anybody can choose to be queer if they want. #meme #anarchism #anarchyMeme

I did the things. romance.blackwhiskercult.com lockedtony.github.io/kink-jars/

ah, yep, the pivot to the next Big Tech Thing™ is starting now, with it being quantum computing just like many people predicted: blog.google/innovation-a... AI is fucking done for lmao

Bringing the magic: Google breaks open a bottleneck in quantum computing

In a paper published in Science, Google has shown that Magic State Cultivation works on Google Quantum AI hardware.

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I fear I love them

With Call of Duty release near and no union contract in sight, Activision workers authorize strike aftermath.site/activision-qa-...

"Police car bbq" Source: instagram:@anarchistposters Original: https://gateway.ipfs.anarchiststickersarchive.org/ipfs/bafybeie7rd2mwoyxamshdslvwt7kn6x2zovcctdhvn6bmfcfmzi5sggipi Permalink: https://anarchiststickersarchive.org/stickers/8052 #anarchism #stickers #archive

thank you macaroni and cheese lawyer

1395) Golembot. Has kind of an old-school aesthetic. Friends with Dreidelbot. Fluent in Czech, Hebrew, and Yiddish. #SmallRobotsRemonstered #Halloween

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

Reminder this also applies to Scott Cawthon and Five Nights at Freddy’s.

// ꌗ꓄ꋬꉧ //@staxdeadempress.bsky.social · last wk.

reminder

If you're sharing those "author kicked off prize list because of AI suspicions" stories and the suspicion is "an AI claimed it looked like AI" then I'm going to judge you the same as if you'd posted an obvious genAI cute pet video.

"I hate to say it but Nick Fuentes is completely on point..." No you don't have to say it. There's probably someone who isn't a nazi who already said it better. Promote them. Nazis offer nothing of value to anyone. Eat a cookie. Be happy.

"The server in the Netherlands was 'one of the last pieces of hardware we wanted to get rid of. We were in touch with [the data center] about it.' According to the anonymous source, the encrypted server contains nothing that could cause problems for A/I users. 'I’m not worried. Just surprised.'"

William Gillis 🏴@rechelon.bsky.social · 7d ago

A brutal reminder this morning that the fascists haven't stopped persecuting the Autistici/Inventati collective. Police in Amsterdam have seized one of their servers. Providing wordpress hosting for hundreds of activist groups is not "terrorism." keepitfree.ai/news/amsterd...

this has lived in my head for a week and I gotta let it out

My account is negative my mates account is negative and we have no income for the forseeable future because my mates boss is a fucking asshole...My kofi is on my profile info up at the top if anyone wants to help...we cant afford anything at this point #MutualAid #KoFi #Assistance

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads