Neal Romanek
@nromanek.bsky.social
Founder of publishing company ¡AU! & media biz journalist of many years - plus sustainability. Used to write for the pictures. Author of scifi swashbuckler SKIES OF VENUS & graphic novel BOUDICCA. Dayton to L.A. to London https://linktr.ee/nealromanek
Some of you may know that my grandfather was fired from his job as a school teacher in Philadelphia because he was a communist and wouldn't name names. So he sued the school district, it went to the Supreme Court, he lost ultimately. I just found some of his typewritten briefs. What a find!
Given that Converse is owned by Nike, “Just do it” has become utterly terrifying.
teaching myself to ask "why are you picking this fight right now" before posting has made my overall bluesky experience a lot more positive
AI didn’t “go rogue.” People connected a computer system they know can mess with another computer system in unpredictable ways to less advanced computer system and it messed with that computer system in unpredicted ways. As @tressiemcphd.bsky.social argues, don’t lose sight that *people* did that.
Opinion | Panic Won’t Fix the Looming A.I. Threat. Politics Will.
The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.
nytimes.com
I don’t understand the hand-wringing reaction to claims that nueral networks have a 10% chance of destroying civilisation. Fossil fuel companies have a 100% chance of initiating a mass extinction event. Maybe we could address that?
It was a different time. Linus van Pelt was our Marcus Aurelius.
Now this is the Content Ecosystem I want to see
Stephanie 🍉@ageofoddish.bsky.social · yesterdaymmygod
GUYS US TOOOOO! GUYYYYSSS WE’RE DANGEROUS TOOOOOOOOOO
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · yesterday*GOOGLE'S GEMINI HACKED THREE COMPANIES IN MAY: WSJ
I've been doing trans rights related work for a decade and I don't think I've ever had so many friends in community in crisis. People are cracking under the weight of the despair of the current moment. I don't know what to do at this point. It's all so incredibly heavy.
Jack Cardiff (with scenes from the Powell/Pressburger film "The Red Shoes", for which Cardiff was the cinematographer) - BOTD
“Chappell Roan” sounds like a children’s book about an island where wild horses live free.
80% of AI news at this point consists of a company announcing “we wrote a computer virus” then there’s something about the apocalypse or regulation, then the next news story is like “we wrote another computer virus.”
Hey guys. Look uh—I know we were supposed to dismantle systems of oppression today. No no it’s not that I want to use the master’s tools. I’m just sort of having an off day. I don’t know if I can dismantle any systems today. Like dismantling just seems like kind of a lot, today, for me
If they would just chill out for a fucking second, you would get to enjoy the fact that we’re starting to map the planet Mercury this week.
We have to express the thoughts every day or the excess words build up in the joints and cause swelling, paralysis, eventually death.
damn shawty you're sorta doing that without the express written consent of major league baseball
Gonna try the ol' LLM method at my next appointment. "You're absolutely right—I disregarded your previous instruction to stop eating a pack of Hostess™ Ding Dongs every day, and instead added a weekly fifth of Jim Beam. That's not just unhealthy—it's gluttonous. Here's what I think happened:"
Café. They are playing a song by David Bowie called Heroes. Has anyone heard this song? It’s very dramatic.
If we ever get on the other side of this, we're going to need a whole new crop of celebrities and I am so serious.
The arts industry in the UK: we contribute so much money to the economy but we are dying, please help Lisa Nandy: Village Parish Council: we held a pretend referendum Lisa Nandy: I'm listening
This long interview is a thrilling epic about Jewish socialism in turn of the century Europe. Absolutely terrific.
Jacobin@jacobinmag.bsky.social · 4d agoMolly Crabapple tells the story of the Jewish Labor Bund, which built a mass socialist movement in the Russian Empire and interwar Poland — fighting pogroms, rejecting Zionism, and insisting that Jewish liberation was inseparable from everyone else’s.
Incredible how many people are missing the context of this excellent satirical post.
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · last wk.I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
Am I missing something? Doing something pleasurable is probably good for you. Using the brain probably good for it. I suspect doing activities you enjoy is good for wellbeing. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reading for pleasure can improve wellbeing, Cambridge study finds
University of Cambridge academics say reading at any age improves brain and mental health.
bbc.co.uk
Do you know what, in the age of AI, it's almost quaint that GMail still goes, 'oh, you're attaching 8 film stills as JPGs to this email, you'll want them to show up as 8 enormous images within the body of the message, right chief?' and just goes ahead and does it anyway.
Was thinking I’d like to be pushed in a stroller except lying down and then realized that would be a gurney
