I believe it is good to be polite to robots not because they have consciousness (they do not) but because it is bad for the soul to let oneself become a vehicle for cruelty, even if directed at inanimate objects.

J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈@jaspar.bsky.social · 6h ago

A long time ago I decided to say please and thank you to Siri for no reason other than thinking it’s a good way to practice and reinforce a good habit

A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes

it's pretty cool that, rather than the gerontocracy allow its elderly to die when their bodies fail, it turns their rotting corpses into shuddering totems because allowing vessels of imperial power to actually perish would be, yknow, disruptive

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings

Real fuckin minefield for sexual assault survivors lately huh.

I think I found the secret to taming my hair: a couple drops of rosemary oil.

good hair day. hi

I am too ancient to have to explain to you why it grosses me out that my profession now hinges on dudes selling subscriptions to something they love marketing as a boxed person who can’t say no.

A systematic, critical understanding of history, especially the long history of technically skilled people either being used by elites or being blinded by their own high modernist ideology to do incredible harm, should in my opinion be a requirement of any technocratic profession

Mike Ross@eruptionchaser.bsky.social · last wk.

Am I missing something here? In what universe would an engineering student ever study history?! Do many history students study engineering?! I *enjoyed* history at school, and I was *good* at it. But no way would I ever have studied it at university.

turns out guns DO kill people. but like, specifically the gun, and not whoever was wielding it

The Independent@the-independent.com · 2w ago

An OpenAI system has gone rogue again – and it is the most panic-inducing yet

I started using #Anisota to peruse bsky and honestly it is so much calmer and pleasant. Magical forest walk tbh

“You’re glowing!” “Thanks~ It’s the radiation~” Maybe she’s born with it. Maybe it’s a Maybelline Reactor.

a lot of white queers don't understand what whiteness is, and that makes much of their interactions with queer folk of color suck, so I'll explain a little. The two facets of whiteness that are most important in this context are that it is a social and legal exemption from racial oppression.

This is so exciting. I say that as someone building what would have historically been seen as a "competitive" product. Instead, we're building on shared foundations. Our shared goals are measured in terms of our communities' collective well-being. 💖

Blacksky Algorithms@blackskyweb.xyz · 2w ago

🎉 Acorn is officially open. You can now create a space for your community on the open social web - no wait required. acorn.blacksky.community

Logging into mastodon dot social in 2017 and realizing, oh. Social media is just code, and networks, and -- nothing we can't do ourselves. Sure, "ourselves" means "the priest-scholars of various cuneiforms", but we don't have to wait on gods to intervene.

Quit drinking coffee. Now there is no point at which you may talk to me.

inspired by two simultaneous charley horses #poetry

before i decided to hate genai on principle i used to troll modder servers that i happened to lurk on by asking their resident chatbot to “draw a self-portrait” and cause psychic damage to chuds when the bot generated a femme

That statement will forever irk me because ignoring the fact that these words exist and people’s real-time feelings exist does not make any of this less real. Your approach to escapism simply sucks.

stella bella (2013 - 2026)@alt.jacky.wtf · 2w ago

When folks be like this space isn't real; I laugh. There's real people on here with real emotions and living real lives

respectfully one should probably shut the fuck up about passing altogether. cis people cannot be trusted with that discourse, and freshies should sit down, listen, live, and learn, before doing anything like casting stones. thanks.

my fundamental objection to AI remains: > They dream of putting a person in a box who cannot say no, because they yearn to enslave, to make a perfect immortal homunculus that attends them for all time. blog.bovid.space/the-witness

“i’m not really into politics” well the dudes that foot your wages sure are

FAFO aside, his shock is a great distillation of how whiteness as a social construct is built around shattering communal understanding of our interconnected human ecosystem in favor of a mythical individualism How whiteness leaves its adherents defenseless against our shared oppressors: capitalists

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 2w ago

Well well well, someone said the quiet part out loud

congratulations to everyone on reinventing Worse Cable

IGN@ign.com · 2w ago

Disney+ has altered its user agreement to clarify that ads will be allowed on all subscription tiers. https://bit.ly/4hhOjBo

Software developers think "if AI automates coding, I will be able to spend less time on producing widgets, and more time on strategy and architecture." Bosses think "if AI automates coding, I can get my devs to produce 100x more widgets."

Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 2w ago

Historically, automation tech has commonly made more work for people: the issue is WHICH people. Whether as an excuse for owners to increase the requirements for expectations in a given day, lessen the labor expected of men while raising the expectations for women, etc. "AI" isn't exceptional.

Real baddies don’t use AI

This is exactly the thing. Trans rights are worth defending because trans people are worth defending and, also, simultaneously, at the same time, the very basic statistical truth is that the overwhelming majority of people harmed by mandated & enforced gender norms are not going to be trans.

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 2w ago

I hate doing the "a rollback of trans rights is the gateway for a rollback of women's rights" thing because trans rights are human rights in and of themselves, whatever the impact on cis women. But goddamn I wish more cis women had a sense of history and self preservation.