ah yes, who among us can’t relate to the time when a patient almost died right in front of you so you put the SCISSTI&DOTLẼŮR pocket and SHĚN{TE&FUR knew?

"I need this so I can stalk my ex-girlfriend" - actual quote (now this is satire)

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2w ago

Darth Vader spoke in favor of Flock cameras at a San Diego city council meeting yesterday

* ~85% of wildfires are human-caused. * More wildfires in National Forests start near roads than in roadless areas. * Only 1% of all Lower 48 wildfires start in roadless areas. Our interactive map shows why rolling back the Roadless Rule makes no sense to protect communities from wildfire.

Frontier Group@frontiergroup.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Trump administration says that opening 45 million acres of wild forests to logging and road building is needed to protect communities from wildfires. Our analysis of 160,000 wildfires shows it isn't ... and could make things worse. frontiergroup.org/articles/rem...

Just ran across this excellent description of being online in Tung-Hui Hu's great book A Prehistory of the Cloud: "To use the cloud is to willingly put on an electronic collar; it is to fuse our hunt for data with our identities as marketing prospects."

There are 7 PR people for every journalist in the US. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Data center protest sign thread - updated whenever I run into a new one 📍Admire, KS

Something similar has happened with both ChatGPT and Grok. If you're a chatbot user, it's safest to behave like anything you share could be made public some day.

Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · last mo.

NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...

My parents have 13 (!) Black Swallowtail butterflies absolutely destroying their herb garden. Look at this tank. I love him

Burn it with fire.

Meta Patents Technology to Detect Your Mood by Constantly Analyzing Your Tone of Voice

Meta patented AI tech that constantly listens to your voice and surroundings in order to detect your emotional state.

trib.al

assuming the reason @cpsc.gov keeps sharing horse pics is horses have been recalled

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission@cpsc.gov · 2mo ago

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Troutville, VA

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I think I speak for everyone when I ask how this will be used to sell advertisements.

Designers are experimenting with AI to make clothes and footwear more interactive

Toronto-based start-up Aurmada is designing AI-enhanced clothing that it hopes will help those wearing it monitor everything from their gait to how close someone is standing, part of a budding wearabl...

ca.news.yahoo.com

Ever seen a news story about AI and thought “this could be an episode of Black Mirror”? We're running a research study where we ask people to imagine generative AI futures and pitch their own science fiction story. More detail at the link and please share! www.internetruleslab.com/black-mirror...

Black Mirror Survey Study — Internet Rules Lab

We're recruiting for a survey where you pitch your own Black Mirror episode about the future of generative AI!

internetruleslab.com

perhaps the most important choice you can make in life is what you pay attention to. personally i recommend choosing to focus on posts by the most unlikable people on the planet

I’ve gotten the same comment about our 1990s era fridge. Keep it, do not upgrade, because the new ones are flimsy and near impossible to repair.

leon@leyawn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

the appliances in my apartment are from like 15 years ago, stove, fridge, dishwasher, etc, low tech. repair guy came in to fix a faulty wire with the stove and i asked him if i should think about getting a new one. he immediately was like "no man hold onto this thing for as long as possible" lol

Here's Ted Chiang on the idea that LLMs can be conscious Link: www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2... Unpaywalled just in case: archive.is/bcpZl

On writing about A.I. that simulates people: "The longer this story went on, the more tired I was... It was the feeling of being at a computer all day. It was a dehydration of human interaction... It was the subject matter. It was trying to dig to the depths of something and not finding any."

Taffy Brodesser-Akner@taffyakner.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Woke up this morning wanting to swallow your own tongue? Here, then, I wrote this for you!

State Consumer Privacy Laws Are Being Corrupted by Lobbying danielsolove.substack.com/p/state-cons... My thoughts on the tragedy of Vermont’s privacy law and how Rep. Monique Priestley’s valiant attempt to create a good law was undermined by lobbyists.

State Consumer Privacy Laws Are Being Corrupted by Lobbying

Starting in 2018, the U.S.

danielsolove.substack.com

Paradox Paradox, CO

we'll do commemorative shirts for anything now

WEATHER IS HAPPENING@weatherishappening.com · 3mo ago

/ THE BOSTON BIG BOOM OF 2026 COMMEMORATIVE T-SHIRT / SUMTHING 2 WEAR IN THE FUTURE / 2 BRING UP THE SUBJECT / OF THE TIME / THAT THERE / WAS A BIG BOOM IN BOSTON / THIS T-SHIRT IS AVAILABLE @: / merch.weatherishappening.com/product/the-...

biblically accurate robot unit

Scientists found the optimal robot body, and it has 20 legs ‪—‬ watch it scale walls and move through trees

A sea-urchin-like robot could offer a new blueprint for making more versatile robots, research suggests.

livescience.com

AI companies are letting anyone with a credit card use their models to make products for kids - the same models that the #AI companies themselves have said are not for children. A video version of our recent research: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbG0...

How AI models not for kids are ending up in toys

YouTube video by PIRGvideos

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one of my favorite facts about the US coal industry is that it employs less people than Broadway

Paul Waldman@paulwaldman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Another interesting fact: When I wrote that piece in 2019, 6,569 people in Kentucky, or 1 in 500 working age adults, were employed in coal mining. Today the number is 3,843, or about 1 in every 1,000 working age Kentuckians. But we have to save coal! Data here: eec.ky.gov/Energy/News-... 3/3

I wanted a book my public library didn't have, so I asked them to buy it, and they did. @bpl.boston.gov is truly magic

I’m realizing reading the replies that my dog may be on the simple side. At least he’s entertaining

ashley fairbanks@ziibiing.com · 4mo ago

how many words do you think your dog knows? what are they?

adaptive lawn sign

Now that OpenAI is in the targeted ads business, hard to imagine your bank account data not being used to decide how expensive of crap they should try to get you to buy

MacRumors.com@macrumors.bsky.social · 4mo ago

ChatGPT Can Now Connect to Your Financial Accounts for Budgeting Advice

Appreciated the chance to chat w/ @sophiecharara.bsky.social about our newest #AI toys research - AI companies don't vet the toy companies using their models at all. After all my time messing w/ these little weirdos, I'm in the same place as this piece: "Or, you know, there’s always 'dumb' toys."

WIRED@wired.com · 4mo ago

These cuddly, connected companions could disrupt everything from make-believe to bedtime stories. No wonder some lawmakers want them banned. www.wired.com/story/the-ne...

This is unhealthy, irresponsible, and is going to get people stalked if not killed

New AI tool lets heartbroken users ‘recreate’ their exes and people are divided - Dexerto

An AI agent that can ‘recreate’ people’s exes by using their texts and social media is sparking a fierce debate in China.

dexerto.com