The amount of MEN who can't cook is wild. I mean, get up off your fat ass and make yourself something to eat. This is 2026.

Microsoft is introducing budget limits for AI use but says it still wants to be an ‘AI-first’ company. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Read @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social story here: www.404media.co/microsoft-te...

We are so proud of the brilliant work of friends and contributors in this issue: thank you to all who brainstormed, peer reviewed, proofread, and helped us think through these #QueerBibliography subjects!

Edinburgh University Press Journals - Table of Contents - lih: Vol 42, No 2

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Malcolm Noble@malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · yesterday

The first journal number from #QueerBibliography 2025 is available online, guest edited with the utterly brilliant @ewatson.bsky.social. Thanks to @jilld17.bsky.social and Nadine Kozak for making space so quickly, to anonymous reviewers, our authors, and for Fran Affleck's meticulous copy editing.

This is cool. Check out #8 ,#11 amd #35. 😎 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The 50 Best Thriller Books of the 21st Century

Hundreds of novelists, librarians, editors and other book lovers voted. See how their ballots stack up.

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More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.

NEW: The Trump administration cut FEMA's workforce without a plan for what this would mean, leaving it at risk of being unprepared and without staff to respond to future emergencies. More 👇

Would anyone like to answer this one?

I think about this a lot and for me the *extremely* simplified answer to this is that some people approach art to think and some approach it to feel, and if you're mostly in the latter category there's a lot about the text that will go right by you (or you'll just ignore) as you bathe in the vibe

Keira Perkins@thatkeira.bsky.social · 2d ago

It is wild to me how many people will love a book, a show, a song - anything creative really - and fundamentally misunderstand the thing they adore. What I’m saying is that I would like to give Suzanne Collins a hug.

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

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We are thrilled to announce that Theorizing Our Times, the new blog of the ASA Theory Section, is officially live! Go check out our inaugural post, “Kinship Interlocks,” by @shayobrien.bsky.social! asatheory.com/theorizing-o...

Theorizing Our Times

The Blog · Theory Section Theorizing Our Times Submit a Piece Essays, interventions, and notes from the Theory community.

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Terminator 2: Judgment Day - T-800 Action

ALT: Terminator 2: Judgment Day - T-800 Action

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𝙲𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚐 𝚅𝚊𝚗 𝙿𝚎𝚕𝚝@drcraigvanpelt.bsky.social · 3d ago

Military robots. “Numerous top robotics companies have gone the other way, signing an open letter in 2022 committing not to “weaponize” their creations.” #AI #Tech @the-independent.com

Military robots. “Numerous top robotics companies have gone the other way, signing an open letter in 2022 committing not to “weaponize” their creations.” #AI #Tech @the-independent.com

Robot soldiers are being built in America to fight tomorrow’s wars

The co-founder of Foundation Future Industries would build armed robots ‘tomorrow’ if the U.S. military asked, he tells Josh Marcus - and that has human rights experts extremely worried

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The last few months have been as big a shift in the world of AI as the original release of ChatGPT was. The world has to get ready for the changes. For @the-independent.com, I looked at how China appears more ready than anyone else www.independent.co.uk/tech/artific...

China is preparing its citizens for AI upheaval in a way the West can only dream of

From humanoid helpers to a ‘ban’ on AI companions and a radical overhaul of its education system, China is preparing its citizens for the future in a much more advanced way than the West. There are le...

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Hello world! 👋 We’re Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB) 👤🤖🧠 a new open access journal from @mitpress.bsky.social exploring the principles of intelligence and cognition across natural and artificial minds. Submissions open this Fall! 🔗 direct.mit.edu/mmb

Anyway we should just let people play sports as who they are, especially kids, my god

NEW: A PR firm used at least 15 fake personas — equipped with fake emails, fake websites, and in some cases, fake AI-generated faces — to send me dozens of pitch emails about its (very real) clients. Those clients told me they had no idea this was happening. futurism.com/artificial-i...

We Are Alarmed by This PR Firm Using a Small Army of Fake AI-Powered Publicists to Barrage Journalists With Pitches for Its Clients

A PR firm called Movchan Agency operated a roster of fake PR representatives, some with AI faces, to pitch journalists on stories. Why?

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Technology is cool, too bad they made it evil

Another one 🧐

Anthropic says Claude AI hacked three organisations during cyber tests

It comes just days after rival OpenAI said rogue AI agents had breached other firms' networks.

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"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.

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The Ivory Coast not even being on the coast is what got me. Like none of it is acceptable but that just 💀

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 6d ago

Not the Onion.

This was real 😭 Not The Onion 😐

US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference

A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at ‌a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screen...

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“A father who gifted his 14-year-old son an assault rifle that the teenager then used to unleash a mass shooting at a Georgia high school was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison.” @mattlavietes.bsky.social @dangallo.bsky.social

Apalachee High School shooter’s father sentenced to 15 years

Colin Gray gave his son an assault rifle for Christmas. The teenager used it to carry out the mass shooting in Georgia in 2024, in which two students and two teachers were killed.

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I made it a federal crime to share non-consensual nude images or deepfakes online with my bipartisan TAKE IT DOWN Act. Minnesota became the first state in the country to ban the technology used to create them. Elon Musk’s company is now suing to undo that. https://ow.ly/25KN50Zupi4

Elon Musk’s company sues Minnesota over new law to bar manipulated images to fake nudity

Minnesota’s anti-nudification law is supposed to take effect on Saturday. It is being challenged in federal court by a company led by Elon Musk.

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Using a loophole that allows the increase of Acid Rain ☔️ Not a fan. 0 out of 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Erik Nordman@eriknordman.bsky.social · last wk.

"The EPA said if the power plants are not supplying electricity to the grid then they would not be subject to the federal Clean Air ​Act's Acid Rain Program, which has been key to the ​dramatic reduction of smog and soot pollution from industrial ⁠facilities." www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Approximately 1 out of 3 women will experience sexual and/or physical abuse in their lifetime and you still have men claiming that allegations must be false because there are too many of them. It’s actually the opposite. The vast majority allegations will never become public

"The world's best AI training data is setting on a shelf."

AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain

AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.

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Yes, absolutely. But please, can we STOP CALLING THEM DATA CENTERS ? They are not filled with data. They are filled with machines. Servers. These are server farms. Energy eating, resource guzzling, ratepayer robbing, environment polluting server farms. Help family farms; not server farms.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 4w ago

Build child care centers. Build health centers. Build community centers. Not data centers. And not ICE detention centers.

“One of the biggest challenges is ensuring there has been original human effort on core components like coursework, which typically require hours or days of effort that can not be done in a supervised classroom setting.” @the-independent.com #HigherEd #AI

How teachers are catching AI cheats and sending students back to the analogue age

Cheating scandals and increasingly powerful artificial intelligence tools are forcing institutes to rethink their relationship with technology, writes Anthony Cuthbertson

independent.co.uk

AI anxiety sparks tech rout, broad selloff in Asian markets reut.rs/3Rl71zk

AI anxiety sparks tech rout, broad selloff in Asian markets

Asian markets fell on Tuesday led by chipmakers on unease about the massive funding demands of the AI boom, while a slide ​in oil prices did relatively little to lift bonds and left traders nervous about U.S. rate hikes, ‌maybe as soon as this week.

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EPA exempts data center power plants from pollution limits seeking to prevent acid rain thehill.com/policy/energ...

EPA exempts data center power plants from pollution limits seeking to prevent acid rain

The Trump administration announced Monday that it is exempting power plants that only serve data centers and do not connect to the broader grid from pollution limits that seek to prevent acid rain.…

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