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Genderfluid. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Based in London. Arsenal fan

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Rita, antifascist🏴@oldsquida.bsky.social · 11h ago

Amsterdam Police seize server, at American request, from Italian Internet service provider A/I

Politie Amsterdam neemt op Amerikaans verzoek server in beslag van linkse internetdienstverlener A/I: organisatie zou ‘antifa’ faciliteren

Een eenheid van de Amsterdamse politie heeft dinsdag bij een datacenter op het Science Park in Amsterdam een server in beslag genomen van de Italiaanse internetdienstverlener Autistici/Inventati (A/I)...

nrc.nl

William Gillis 🏴@rechelon.bsky.social · 12h ago

A brutal reminder this morning that the fascists haven't stopped persecuting the Autistici/Inventati collective. Police in Amsterdam have seized one of their servers. Providing wordpress hosting for hundreds of activist groups is not "terrorism." keepitfree.ai/news/amsterd...

SometimesPDX@sometimespdx.bsky.social · 14h ago

Here's a new one - a regressive guide for the owners of restaurants. Are you tired of small profit margins and paying workers a living wage and fighting off unionization? Would you like to buddy-up with the ultra-rich MAGAs? Have we got the guide for you?

Go Portland Go paid ad: The voter guide for restaurant owners (and other small businesses). Paid for by Go Portland Go! misc. committee #24993
Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈@kennedy.northsky.social · 17h ago

We're always saying that people who hate trans women are using trans women as a proxy for their hate for all women but people never seem to believe it

Kenny Campbell@mrkennycampbell.bsky.social · 17h ago

I have never seen coverage of a live trial, one involving allegations of multiple sex attacks on multiple women, framed in a more distasteful way. It's not 'Fame under fire' it's a rape trial. And it involves actual women. And this from the *checks notes* BBC

BBC screengrab from within their Russell Brand trial coverage. Image of Brand in 70s-style aviator glasses, with earpods in, blank expression. Long dark wavy hair, black and grey beard, dark unbuttoned shirt. All on a fire red/orange and black background BBC logo top and centre, underneath a subdeck reading: Fame Under Fire. Then the headline 'Russell Brand On Trial'. The words 'fire'and 'trial' are coloured to look like they are glowing orange at the bottom
Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social · 17h ago

Giving echoes of the British media's pile-on of Jason Arday, African writers are noticing how the BBC (which didn't cover the original announcement of this year's award) is now covering the AI "scandal".

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Bwgan Buzz@bwganbuzz.bsky.social · 18h ago

Musk upset about data centres getting destroyed in Russia. Means drop in bots does impact him and therefore more people quitting twitter is something that would impact him negatively

👻 🎃 🦇 Boola Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸@belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 20h ago

Headlines one day apart. Could someone maybe join some fucking dots here?

Nigel Farage says charities that help asylum seekers get to UK should be prosecuted

Reform leader did not say who should be targeted but party figures have been critical of small boat rescues by RNLI

theguardian.com

👻 🎃 🦇 Boola Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸@belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 2d ago

Water increasingly likely to be wet.

Chris Boyd@paperghost.bsky.social · 20h ago

i'm credited with discovering the first ever rootkit in an IM worm infection, used to power a large botnet, way back in 2005. i know my way around a worm and how they spread. please allow me to repeatedly slam my head in an oven door

FT Edit@ftedit.ft.com · 20h ago

“We’re seeing signs of life for AI worms,” Anthropic has warned. And these rogue AI agents may soon hijack our homes — spreading like "digital slime mold" through the smart devices we’ve come to rely on. Read the story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/91QGknv Take today's poll 🗳️ ft.trib.al/CqtTTdK

Ghostly Jenny 😷🇵🇸🔻🏳️‍⚧️☭ @truthaddictvt@masto.ai@truthaddictvt.bsky.social · 2d ago

Same for overt misogyny and transphobia People still there tell themselves they're just made of sterner stuff than we who left are, but it's actually not healthy to live in neverending thunderdome with fascists, it will grind you down

Wagatwe Wanjuki@wagatwe.bsky.social · 2d ago

leaving Twitter immediately improved my mental health because my exposure to racism dropped dramatically. I shudder to think how much the minds of the people who mainly stay there are cooked.

Andy Oliver@andywpoliver.bsky.social · 20h ago

Those constantly critical of Broken Frontier's zero tolerance to AI slop stance are, of course, more than welcome to submit their work to any of the other countless review sites out there. Oh, wait...

cornish person girl@gemma.transwrites.world · 20h ago

any headline that starts "AI COMPANY SAYS" or any variation thereupon is just marketing. the sole purpose of them saying this shit to the press is to advertise their chatbot as being the best most powerful cool robot there is. stop taking the bait dick heads.

Vajra Chandrasekera@vajra.me · yesterday

Simba Kundizeza's statement on his Caine Prize-winning story "The Blue Fighter" is also worth reading—keep in mind, the evidence-free article slandering him was published in The Atlantic to a mass readership and his defense is a tweet to his eight hundred followers

Simba Kundizeza @S_S_Kundizeza Statement on The Atlantic article concerning “The Blue Fighter” I would like to say at the outset that this statement is not in any way a proffer of an explanation or a defense against the allegations levelled against me in the article published by The Atlantic, because I don’t believe the article warrants either. I am however writing because of the level of public interest generated in its aftermath, and out of respect for the people who have supported and championed my writing, as well as my fellow shortlisted writers for the Caine Prize. I want to set the record straight. For the avoidance of doubt, I wrote "The Blue Fighter." I did not use generative AI to write it. It is entirely my own work. This story did not appear out of nowhere; it has a concrete, documented history. Its genesis was during my LOATAD Black Atlantic Residency in Ghana. While there‚ I read a poem by vangile gantsho titled “my father's hands․” I was inspired by this poem to write a story about my family's experiences in Zimbabwe‚ including my father leaving his accounting profession and the hardships my family faced as a result․ Other aspects of the story‚ including characters and the setting‚ are drawn from events in my own life․There is also a clear chronology to the story's development. I sent the completed first draft of the story to vangile for feedback on May 15‚ 2025․ I then submitted the story to The Shallow Tales Review on May 27‚ 2025․ Fiction editor Nzube Nlebedim accepted the story on June 10‚ 2025‚ and it went through the standard editorial process. vangile then provided her feedback to me on June 25‚ 2025․ On the same day Nzube also provided editorial feedback to me․ In an email dated June 27‚ 2025‚ I sent the final draft and requested that the editor preserve the formatting of an epigraph in the story as originally submitted by vangile as a courtesy to her․ The story was published on June 30‚ 2025․ The Atlantic article seems to question the story's authorship by comparing its style to my other writing. As writers we develop recurring interests, but we don’t produce work from a single fixed template. My debut novel, “Freelance”, and the story titled "The Whistleblower" published in Transition Magazine in 2021 which is referenced by Ms. Vara, are thrillers dealing with political intrigue. "The Blue Fighter," however, is a deeply personal story about economic collapse and familial relationships. The voice shifts because the subject matter demands it. To suggest that a writer cannot write in different styles or genres, or improve his writing substantially after five or more years fundamentally misunderstands the craft of writing.The motive for my supposedly using AI to generate the story is equally difficult to understand. I was under no obligation to write “The Blue Fighter”. I was not commissioned to produce it, nor was I paid a fee for its publication. The decision to submit the piece for consideration for the Caine Prize was made by the editor of The Shallow Tales Review months after its publication. I therefore didn’t write the story with any guarantee that it would be submitted, let alone win anything. The idea that I would have somehow written the story with the express intention of entering and winning the Caine Prize, despite the inherently competitive and uncertain nature of the prize, conjures up a motive that simply did not exist. "The Blue Fighter" is my work, and I stand by it completely. I'm grateful to vangile for her inspiration, to The Shallow Tales Review for giving the story a home, and to the Caine Prize judges for recognizing the work on its merits. I’m also heartened by the numerous messages of solidarity from fellow writers and readers, and to Adrienne Ingrum and Regina Brooks at Serendipity Literary Agency for their support throughout. I look forward to continuing to work with the Caine Prize team, and to celebrating this recognition with the people who helped bring this story into the world. Most importantly, I will continue to write.
Vajra Chandrasekera@vajra.me · 3d ago

Yeah. And if you don't care what Pangram says—it's just another AI company, and I don't care how good they are at hyping themselves—I also don't see what's so "AI" about this story at all. I don't think "trust me, it's bad" is meaningful (and that is quite literally what the article says.)

Mahmud El Sayed@mahmudelsayed.bsky.social · yesterday

This type of unfounded accusation is becoming more and more common against writers of a certain background. If The Atlantic care so much about AI use, why don't they go after the writers who admit using it like James Frey or Olga Tokarczuk or Anthony Horowitz? It's plain double standards.

Vajra Chandrasekera@vajra.me · yesterday

Simba Kundizeza's statement on his Caine Prize-winning story "The Blue Fighter" is also worth reading—keep in mind, the evidence-free article slandering him was published in The Atlantic to a mass readership and his defense is a tweet to his eight hundred followers