Aaron Swartz deserves more justice and reconsideration than almost anybody in this century
Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 4h ago"In 2022, Wiley removed over 1,300 ebooks from academic library collections; [they said] perpetual access is not an option for subscribed content. In 2025, Clarivate,... announced they would stop offering libraries perpetual access licenses for ebooks and primary-source digital collections."
@rweingarten.bsky.social, this is a horror. Teachers cited in this article say they're using "A.i." to develop lesson plans for kids with disabilities and imply that they're feeding student data into LLMs. This is using untested, dangerous teach on vulnerable kids AND possibly violating privacy law.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 18h 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.”
still thinking about how fuckin insane this is lol
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3d agoU.S. military asks troops for ‘creative and unconventional’ ideas to ‘punish Iran’
BREAKING: New Mexico suing the Trump DOJ & Acting AG Todd Blanche for “stonewalling” its criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein & Zorro Ranch. I was at the press call with the New Mexico AG & I share the details, including a breakdown of the lawsuit and its claims. youtu.be/eeQiycHm0x0?...
🚨Trump DOJ SUED for BLOCKING New Mexico EPSTEIN RANCH Investigation!!
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A thing worth saying about El-Sayed winning is that every very publicized win like this for a Progressive convinces 100s of other good people to run for all kinds of stuff.
Taylor Farms is using slave convict labor in Arizona. I’ve written about this practice before. America LOVES slave labor. junoryleejournalism.com/2026/01/15/p...
From Plantations to Corporations: The Business of Forced Labor
“You just sell it like you were selling cars or real estate or hamburgers.”…
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Conservatives like higher crime and dead kids and pursue policies to try to engineer these outcomes
Bloomberg Law@bloomberglaw.com · 12h agoFirearm membership associations and other plaintiffs convinced a Texas federal court to halt enforcement of registration and transfer requirements in the National Firearms Act.
after they called it for el-Sayed this person changed their handle/display name to “have to earn my vote”
Ernest Penfold@penfoldsfiv.eurosky.social · 6mo agowow!
Meanwhile, Asmongold sits in his room of filth and cries that gamers are the most oppressed demographic
Notably not an endorsement of the nominee for senate
Thomas HD@degolierthomas.bsky.social · 13h agoHillary Scholten certainly provided us with a statement.
THIS is the guy who made a trans girl feel that she had no other option than to deactivate? nah that checks out. not at all surprising. fuck you ken jennings.
Rav@rvbdrm.com · 15h agoGwen deactivated 😔
uncommitted withheld their votes for specific and well-founded policy reasons ultimately revealed to have been morally and technically correct. stevens voters are going to withhold their votes out of spite and gutter racism
i’m sorry to everyone who’s laughing at her but the good news is that we get to laugh with her, and harder
Bingus Khan, of the Glorious Chicago Khanate@bingus.ough.club · 16h agoabsolutely destroyed lmao
A fun game I like to play while stuck behind someone going 10mph below the speed limit is Is This Person On Their Phone, High, Or So Old They Should Probably Not Be Operating A Several Thousand Pound Motor Vehicle
Meta has made it repeatedly clear that one of their growth strategies is sexualizing kids. Mark Zuckerberg and his leadership team deserve to face personal liability for this, and the company deserves sanctions up to and including corporate dissolution
WIRED@wired.com · 14h agoOver the last nine months, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and images of minors alongside sexually suggestive statements, according to details of the ads shared with WIRED.
if you know anyone that works for corecivic you should report them to the ICC
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11h agoICE has now spent over $2.2 BILLION on purchasing 4 private prisons from CoreCivic, with the company banking half a billion dollars on the most recent sale. Of course, ICE will not actually operate these facilities; CoreCivic keeps the contracts to run these places for the foreseeable future.
he's not upset that a trans woman was harrassed by the right because he cares about trans women being harrassed, he's upset that the right invoked his name while harrassing the trans woman he belittled first because that hurts his image. that's it.
Wow! @menendez.house.gov says that the EXACT scenario I flagged two months ago, where ICE "releases" someone having a medical emergency solely so their death won't be recorded as occurring while in custody, happened last month at the infamous Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, NJ.
Matt Shuham@mattshuham.bsky.social · yesterdayDays before the death of Edwin Jeovanny Lopez Cornejo, ICE officials did not report the death of another man who’d been detained at Delaney Hall — because they had technically “released” him in the middle of a medical emergency, Rep. Rob Menendez (D-NJ) alleged. www.huffpost.com/entry/delane...
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if you're reading all these articles as they come out and assuming the story is "these models are escaping containment and causing danger" and not "this is a PR campaign by companies desperate to build hype" I think you are very silly.
Alex Hanna@alexhanna.bsky.social · 8h agoIt keeps happening... It'd be great if these companies could spend a little bit more time on network security and a little less time vibe coding.
A trans couple has been brutalized by a mob, and then the trans woman ended up being arrested afterwards, at a public bathroom in Louisiana. EITM writer S Baum investigates this horrible act of violence in our latest piece. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-coup...
Trans Couple Brutalized At Louisiana Park Bathroom, Then Charged By Police
An angry mob allegedly beat them. The police charged them. The municipality voted for one of the most severe anti-trans bathroom ordinances in the country.
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It's really not good that the government is trying to force AI companies to make their LLM chatbots "anti-woke" (biased in favor of the right).
Mike Ludwig@mludwig.bsky.social · 17h agoTrump’s Federal Trade Commission Is Threatening to Punish Big Tech for “Woke AI” Free speech groups sound alarm about a proposal from Trump's FTC to jawbone companies into training AI models on white nationalist narratives and undermine state laws. Meanwhile, Elon Musk wants his nude deepfakes...
Whenever one of these freaks goes off on a tangent about their trans conspiracy of the day, the proper response -- from an interviewer or anyone else -- is "well, it seems like you're having some sort of mental breakdown here, so we'll wrap it up"
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 12h agoRoyce White is now ranting about "transgender sex dolls" during a forum that is supposed to be about agricultural issues. This guy is a serious Republican in Minnesota who had the party's nomination for a Senate seat two years ago. Insanity.
If AIPAC's commitment to arming a rogue state isn't enough for you, I cannot emphasize enough that this organization is just a slush fund for GOP donors to influence Dem races. Their donor base is mostly conservatives who want Republicans to win.
Andrew Solender@andrewsolender.bsky.social · 16h agoAIPAC: "Our members remain determined to ensure that voters reject Dr. El-Sayed and his radical anti-Israel agenda in November."
misinformation was obviously going to be the main use case for this technology its so baffling they even released it for a minute
onion person@junlper.beer · 2d agonew episode where we talk about google pulling down its disastrous AI image editing tool they put into Google Earth, you can now bet on wild fire outcomes, and more
