“The AI is trained to flag problems in their performance ranging from not fixing a disruption to the online connection quickly enough – within about a minute – to using too many ‘filler’ phrases, such as ‘sort of’ and ‘kind of.’”
Teachers at Euan Blair firm report ‘horrendous stress’ after AI used to rate their work
Exclusive: Instructors at tech training company Multiverse hit out at ‘remorseless’ and ‘unnerving’ monitoring system
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something that wrinkles my brain every time I remember it is the fact that total eclipses are only possible on earth because the moon and sun appear to be the same size in our sky, due to the insanely, astronomically unlikely fluke that the moon is 400x smaller than the sun but 400x closer to us.
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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WTAF??? and who has the power to stop these fascist goons?
Max Granger@maxgranger.info · 5d ago🚨 Latest from the border wall blockade: tree sit is still up, one land defender is locked down to machinery, Border Patrol has wrapped a Mylar blanket around them and is running the truck and pumping the blanket full of exhaust to try to gas them out, potentially killing them.
More callous & pointless destruction of irreplaceable and beautiful things. Just the stupidest mfers in charge of everything & we’re all incapable of slowing their roll. (See earlier post about bulldozing over ancient Nazca images back in April.) I cannot wait for the fall of this empire of idiots.
Arizona Luminaria@azluminaria.org · 7d agoProtesters had protected the tree for more than 70 days. It was cut down Monday to make way for a double border wall
JFC there is no corner of creativity that AI won’t steal and slop. Just burn it all down, man.
Andrew Deck@andrewdeck.bsky.social · 7d agoChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"
Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge
Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.
gadgetreview.com
On this #worldfarmanimalsday we celebrate them all. We recognize each individual as a sentient being and honor their consciousness. This day reminds us to acknowledge their experiences, and to protect and fight for their right to live
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
Dhruv Mehrotra@dmehro.bsky.social · last wk.NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
My god the cruelty is unfathomable (and yes I know this is not a new practice forcing terrified children to represent themselves in immigration court but it’s still horrifying). I will vote for any Dem who ensures Miller & co are sent to a super prison in El Salvador for this shit.
Spokane Rising@spokanerising.com · 2w agoSend Stephen Miller to The Hague.
lol this is the funniest thing I’ve seen all month. 😂
Comfortably Boo@numb.comfortab.ly · 2w agomf cosplaying Judge Dredd
Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass with an estimated 800,000 people in Paris on Saturday, after spending the morning with migrants, the poor, and adults newly entering the Catholic Church. “For Christians,” he added, “the poor are not a sociological category, but the very ‘flesh’ of Christ.”
Drawing 800,000 in Paris, Pope Leo XIV Calls on the Church to “Make Room” for Migrants and the Poor
“No one is so poor as to have nothing to give.” Before Mass, the pope sat with migrants and told catechists to respect each person’s pace. Six altar servers with Down syndrome served his Mass.
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You cannot treat people you view as human like this.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4w agoNEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards. The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵
What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it
Just did a quick look around and I don't see very many headlines about the President of the US making people pledge allegiance to him personally while telling everyone to commit election fraud and "cheat like hell" to support his party. Seems like it should be a story?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Trump: "Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I'll do it any way - I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try to cheat like hell..."
How is ICE making record arrests? I found the answer in Pa. coal country, where cops lured by a promise of federal $$$ have embraced ICE's 287(g) and are throwing up checkpoints, raiding job sites, arresting 100s, and terrorizing their communities My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/penn...
In Pa. coal country, local police join with ICE to bring arrests, fear | Will Bunch
Pa.'s Schuylkill County is the new face of Trump's mass deportation, as local cops lured by federal cash bust scores of migrants.
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Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.
YOU DON'T "CONSUME" ART MOTHERFUCKER. YOU EXPERIENCE IT. YOU FEEL IT. YOU ENGAGE WITH IT. YOU WRESTLE WITH IT. YOU LIVE IT. ART ISN'T A LITTLE MORSEL YOU GOBBLE UP.
New: ICE plans to spend millions of dollars on Boston Dynamics dog robots. ICE says this is to improve "officer safety." The robots can open doors, pick up objects, have 360 cameras, infrared vision, etc. Boston Dynamics didn't respond to question on its stance on ICE www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...
ICE Plans to Spends Millions on Boston Dynamics Dog Robots
ICE wants the robot dogs to improve “officer safety.”
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Grieving not only for the horrific suffering inflicted on these poor people but also Haitians in the US sent into this living hell w/their children. Steven Miller, JD Vance & every GOPer involved need to be dropped from a moving helicopter into Haiti. No pain or terror too harsh for these monsters.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last mo.The situation in Haiti is terrifying. On Sunday, 150 gunmen swept down on a town to kill, rape, loot, and burn. 22 people were executed in a churchyard. 52 were taken hostage. Stephen Miller mockingly says Haiti is safe and ICE just sent its second deportation flight this month; with kids on board.
This is a machine to ethnically cleanse the country - and anyone who pretends otherwise is kidding themselves
I know it’s hard to watch all these beautiful things be carried away by time and see the wrong things growing in their place. But listen. Listen. We have to be the beautiful things now. It has to be us. It has to be us. Courage.
Joshua Aviles, deployed on the USS Lincoln for 9 mos: “I just got a call that my dad was taken by ICE. We have done everything to get his green card approved. I don't know how I can mentally continue working 12+ hour days knowing that my dad is somewhere, possibly being treated like a criminal,"
Reuters@reuters.com · 2mo agoFather of sailor aboard USS Abraham Lincoln taken into US immigration detention reut.rs/4c6jT3m
A judge ordered a 1-year-old, with no lawyer, to file an asylum application. A private company, accused of torture, received a contract to track down unaccompanied children. The govt. considers plans to build a new shelter for 3000 immigrant kids. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/08/22/t...
How Trump and ICE’s Latest Tactics Target Immigrant Children
Officials claim to target the “worst of the worst.” But several agencies are now focusing on tracking and detaining children.
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