Congratulations to everyone who worked their asses off for something that any semi-decent and ultimately self-interested government should have done in penance www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...

Education Dept. to Wipe Out Student Loans of 170,000 More Defrauded Borrowers (Gift Article)

The sprawling case, centered on students defrauded by for-profit schools, has now become the largest class-action settlement in American history.

nytimes.com

I have a bug in my ass about the way in which WNBA commentators talk about trans people in sports because they are failing the Kirby test. The point is not that there are no trans women athletes in the W, nor that trans women do not have a competitive advantage when looking at the data.

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, ep 82 www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis... … in which @savasavasava.myatproto.social joins @alexhanna.bsky.social and me for a good hard look at “harm reduction” as misapplied to “AI”.

This is rough but I think it talks about a lot of what is missing from the Cunningham/WNBA discourse. Namely, that trans people are not hypothetical thought experiments. They are real people who are being genocided by our government & any coverage that doesn't center that reality misses the mark.

the answer is always to disavow it

Would you let the Proud Boys march in and sit courtside?

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Maybe I should start a WNBA podcast ...or maybe I should start a podcast about trans women who lift heavy shit

working on a talk for late fall and wanted to share some *older* texts that anyone writing about data centers today should know about!

The city of Madison is clearing the Ruiz memorial site right now with cops. Many unhoused folks are sleeping there right now and at risk for harm. If you are local and can get down there, please do ASAP. Help people clear their stuff out and de-escalate. Document the harm. Whatever you can do.

Scott Wiener is so fucking creepy!!! making an AI chatbot of your woman opponent so she says all the things your campaign wants her to say is deeply misogynistic!!! holy shit!!!

NEW polling on AI in the workplace. Takeaway: workers aren't buying the hype: → 51% say AI will mostly benefit business owners & executives → Just 6% say most benefits will go to workers The benefits of AI in the workplace are not being split evenly.

AI at Work: Gains at the Top, Pressure for Everyone Else - Groundwork Collaborative

groundworkcollaborative.org

Exclusive: We obtained a leaked playbook that Flock gives to cops to coach them on "how to speak to city council" to avoid getting their contracts canceled. Includes strategies like "own the narrative" by talking to mayor "before public comment periods" www.404media.co/own-the-narr...

‘Own the Narrative’: Leaked Flock Guide Shows How It Teaches Cops to Promote Its Tech

"This document shows a coordinated effort from Flock Safety to compel law enforcement agencies to convince our elected leaders to represent their interests as a company rather than the interests of co...

404media.co

Tune into the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live stream @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social take on the latest nonsense: Altman' “singularity”; the Guardian on AI consciousness; OpenAI & Anthropic blame their cybercrimes on “rogue models” Today, noon PT www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

dair_institute - Twitch

Twitch account for The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR).

twitch.tv

And here it is with spaces for text so you can use it as a meme template:

John Harper@johnharper.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Here it is with the proposed re-ordering of the frames.

Everyone is wondering who caused this! The platform literally has a "Write with AI" button...

404 Media@404media.co · 3d ago

Following 404 Media's reporting on how LinkedIn is full of AI slop, the platform is giving users a chance to report it when they see it. www.404media.co/linkedin-int...

Unfortunately Cathy is spineless, of the consultant class, and jumps whenever Nosferatu Adam Silver says so

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 3d ago

A good commissioner steps in now before every WNBA game becomes a rightwing performance space, like school board meetings were during peak CRT. You just have to throw the hammer down on this. Do not give them an inch.

A good commissioner steps in now before every WNBA game becomes a rightwing performance space, like school board meetings were during peak CRT. You just have to throw the hammer down on this. Do not give them an inch.

taylr@taylordahlin.com · 3d ago

riley gaines is at the minnesota lynx vs indiana fever game posing with people courtside as they line up for photos

Nothing but respect for my coach: "I believe in inclusivity. Little girls should be able to play and that includes trans women." youtu.be/Dio3JSJ0hU0?... #wnba

Valkyries Coach Pre-Game Natalie Nakase Pregame - | Valkyries vs Tempo | WNBA | 8.02.2026

YouTube video by Valkyries United

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Cheryl Reeve’s shirt today:

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

Altman proclaiming the “singularity”; the Guardian publishing blather about possible AI consciousness; OpenAI and Anthropic blaming their cybercrimes on “rogue models”—the nonsense is coming fast and thick. Time for another MAIHT3k livestream with me & @alexhanna.bsky.social: Mon, Aug 3, noon PT

dair_institute - Twitch

Twitch account for The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR).

twitch.tv

I don't know how much of a market there is for used solar panels but is there?? I would like to power my homelab with the sun

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

What the hell, USA Network? Why are you platforming transphobe Sophie Cunningham during the Valks halftime? #wnba

Forgot my afternoon meth so am replacing with three shots of espresso

Getting tech support in the post chatbot world is a nightmare. If I wanted synthetic responses I'd ask the chatbot, not Reddit or a product forum

This is a well-produced segment. I encourage you to watch so you can hear the noise for yourself. The professor of environmental health science that they interviewed called it an “unprecedented new noise source.”

Neighbors say noise from Michigan data center is 24/7 and upending their lives

One Michigan community has been experiencing the reality of a data center next door for a couple of years now, and they say the sound has changed their lives.

wxyz.com

Democracy Now, a news outlet I have been following for YEARs, platforming someone as genocidal as Rania Khalek, is disgusting.

Democracy Now!@democracynow.org · last wk.

“Everybody who cares about a free press and cares about free speech should be alarmed about an attack like this," says BreakThrough News journalist Rania Khalek.

I don't think that you can (or should) write about this subject without heavily emphasizing the fact the people in charge of how this technology evolves enthusiastically supported fascists who dismantled much of the federal regulatory and public protection apparatus

Opinion | The Environmental Case Against Data Centers Is Misguided

Our animosity toward data centers is really more about our anxieties about A.I.

nytimes.com

A follow up on this thread for anyone who wondered. The editors of the journal agreed with my assessment that the author(s) perpetrated digital sexual violence.

Nicole Bedera@nbedera.bsky.social · last mo.

I just did a peer review for one of the most horrifying studies I’ve ever read. I won’t go into details, but it included putting participants through an “AI simulation” of being raped at a party.