Irene Kaoru
@irenekaoru.bsky.social
Artist / writer / creative director & marketing strategist / overgrown theater nerd / 👩🏻💻 Art Director, Night Crew Games
Meta has called the potential payout "outlandish." Do you know what I think is "outlandish"? Burying evidence that your product is actively harming children and continuing to harm them anyway. Sue Meta into the ground. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Meta Accused of Exploiting Kids as Social Media Trial Gets Underway
Meta Platforms Inc. has deceived the public for years by targeting children on Facebook and Instagram with technology designed to turn them into compulsive users and drive up advertising revenue, a la...
bloomberg.com
Small piece of good news: Portland school board has made a sensible choice to pause pause on acquiring any new "ed tech" software that uses generative AI. www.oregonlive.com/education/20...
Amid concerns that AI is ‘infiltrating’ its schools, Portland school board hits pause
The amendment to the district’s budget for the 2026-27 school year won unanimous approval from school board members.
oregonlive.com
Key insight: "A paycheck tells workers what they earn. It does not tell them what the job costs them."
Amy Diehl, Ph.D.@amydiehl.bsky.social · 5d agoModel of a $104K IT worker estimates an extended salary of $163K adding the economic value of remote/flexible work. The difference is in avoided costs (commuting), reduced friction (stress) & a more humane workday (time for family, sleep, exercise, focus). thehill.com/opinion/tech...
No. This is not it. Do not fall for this. Why would you trust anything that OpenAI says is safe? Do not let your children use this product. It is not ethical or safe. Restrict it. Keep it out of your home and out of your school.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 6d agoOpenAI announced on Tuesday “ChatGPT for Teens,” a new mode in which the chatbot automatically limits some conversations to better protect young users, as scrutiny grows over the harmful effects of A.I.
If you are producing scholarship with AI and your work could plausibly be accessed in the EU, you are now legally compelled to disclose the nature and extent of your AI use. A tremendous win for scholarly integrity. www.lexacademic.com/blog/the-sta...
The Stamp of Shame: What Claude’s New Legal Watermark Means for your Research - Lex Academic®
lexacademic.com
Woke up to find out my team is on the @originsgamefair.bsky.social homepage! 😍✨🔥🙌 Happy Friday NIGHT CREW! originsgamefair.com
A disturbed young man practiced and refined fantasies of murdering his family with the help of ChatGPT, then killed his mother and brother in real life. OpenAI could alert family, authorities, someone, anyone about the warning signs in this use of their product but doesn't.
@clserdaigle.bsky.social · 2w agoIt was just reported that the kid in Acton who killed his mother and brother was talking to ChatGPT about fantasies of killing his family and using it to generate stories of killing his family. nbcboston.app.link/zJDe0h36x5b
I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Enact a moratorium on the use of generative AI in San Francisco schools. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/en...
Enact a two-year moratorium on the use of generative AI in San Francisco schools.
The use of generative AI and technology products is expanding, despite clear and growing evidence that it can undermine or degrade cognition, critical thinking, memory, social and emotional growth, cr...
actionnetwork.org
This mural is titled 𝘿𝙖𝙝𝙡𝙞𝙖 and was created by UK-based artist Sophie Mess. It’s located in Waterford, Ireland. Photo credit: Willem Groen #art #mural #streetart #ireland
Cyberpunk Legends makes ICv2's "Most Buzzworthy Games of Gen Con" list! icv2.com/articles/col...
The JDS Perspective - The Most Buzzworthy Games from Gen Con 2026
Column by Jeffrey Dohm-Sanchez
icv2.com
Techbros will literally do anything but their share of the labor of managing home and family smdh time.com/article/2026...
Can AI Free Women from the Mental Load of Caregiving?
Innovation has not brought about women’s liberation, writes Marianne Cooper.
time.com
This is also deeply disingenuous. Billions of dollars, the greatest minds of a generation, have been bent toward removing friction & making intuitive products. Nobody needs specialized training for how to use a chat bot that lies. They need media literacy & analog library skills.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3w ago“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
Today is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:
a wooly man without a face@jojororo.bsky.social · 3w agoHome again from #GenCon2026, filled with overwhelming gratitude: to everyone who demo'd #CyberpunkLegends, gave kind feedback, appreciated the artwork; to the fantastic @nightcrewgames.bsky.social event team who 1000% rocked it this year; to the universe bc I get to work on such a special project ✨
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.
Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.
muellershewrote.com
The real news from #GenCon2026 though.....Cyberpunk Legends won a Best of show award!! Thank you Gaming Trend!!
Also at #GenCon2026 I learned that there is a newer, more advanced Catan reimagined for the modern era. I haven't played yet, but love the idea.
Sometimes it's the smallest things that surprise you. One of the games I'm actually most excited to buy is the new KPDH. Honestly! Not just for my kid! It's super fun! #GenCon2026
