They didn't like Aaron Swartz's goals (making scientific knowledge more accessible to the public) and they do like the LLM companies' goals (permanently crushing the labor market for knowledge workers)

Chance the Lawyer@chancethelawyer.bsky.social · last mo.

say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

AI is amazing for adhd because you can take an idea you haven't touched for over a decade and make a prototype in like 4 hours.

In SF for fig week. Who’s around?

ok

the work you need to put into actually understanding something new and seeing it from a novel perspective is why I'm not super concerned about my job

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

Veerender Singh Jubbal@veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · 8mo ago

“We cannot just abolish ICE!” Bestie, you are older than ICE.

What's everyone using these days for their website CMS

What's your fav creamy mechanical keyboard??

I think I might have gotten into angel investing too soon and it’s forcing me to take stock

My book, "The Staff Designer", was officially published by @rosenfeldmedia.com this week! 200+ pages of IC design leadership advice including personal experience and 20+ interviews with staff designers & managers ✨ It's performance reviews season. Get you a copy: rosenfeldmedia.com/books/the-st...

new york times lol

wonder how the kpop demon hunter voice actresses feel like to star in the top movie of the year but see the singers get 100% of press coverage

never thought I'd miss the old design twitter

Happy dehumanized by my own community day

so many grifter ads like "this is how I learned AI in 2025" buddy what does "learning AI" even mean

Gavin Newsom: Hey social media team! I need the Twitter password! Team: Sure thing boss! Here you go! Team: 🤔Wait... What do you need it for? Gavin Newsom: I'm just going to make a tweet about current events! Team: Which current event? Newsom: ...and sent! Team: Sir, which current event?

getting kind of hard to have a parasocial relationship with the dropout cast when everyone else also has a parasocial relationship with the dropout cast

@blueprincegame.bsky.social elijah wood is also obsessed

just watched kpop demon hunters and... have I been missing out on kpop??

Superman was great

Obsidian

Dani Donovan 👩🏻‍🎨 ADHD Comics@danidonovan.com · last yr.

the ADHD urge to pour time and energy into developing a complex organizational system, just to immediately abandon it because it requires too much effort to maintain

100 health groups sound alarm after ‘abrupt’ cancellation of USPSTF meeting. The influential task force dictates whether health insurers must cover preventive services such as mammograms and low-dose CT lung exams, which now may be in jeopardy. radiologybusiness.com/topics/healt...

Senator, 100 health groups sound alarm after ‘abrupt’ cancellation of USPSTF meeting

The influential task force dictates whether health insurers must cover preventive services such as mammograms and low-dose CT lung exams, which some say could be in jeopardy.

radiologybusiness.com

Just saw the "Common People" Black Mirror episode and I'll be back here in give or take a year once I manage to climb out of this black pit of depression

I have been saying for ~15 years that government agencies cannot require people to go to private social media services for vital public information. This is exactly fucking why. Multiple federal agencies RIGHT NOW require being logged into a site that promotes a second holocaust if you want updates.

K. Thor Jensen@kthorjensen.bsky.social · last yr.

Elon's AI is now actively recommending a second Holocaust

The point of life is to eat every weird fruit and pet every weird cutie

Building rooms without a permit, light treason

Matthew@enragedodin.bsky.social · 2y ago

Confess your crimes to me

Love that the expectation from Bernie after conceding the primary was to be a "team player" and do everything he could for Clinton/Biden/Harris (and be labeled a traitor to the party anyway) but Zohran can win the Dem primary and establishment Dems are masks off "nah fuuuuuck that" class over party

Zohran Mamdani, who recently cross-endorsed with Lander, called for the comptroller’s immediate release. “This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice,” said Mamdani.

Federal agents handcuff and detain New York City mayoral candidate

Brad Lander was taken into custody at an immigration court in Lower Manhattan.

motherjones.com