I’d prefer to see a massive reduction in This Fucking Guying.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 12h ago

Trump: "We're also going to be demanding the drug companies, with respect to a certain situation -- the autism -- that they make their doses in 20% shots. So you have shot 1, shot 2, shot 3, shot 4, shot 5 ... I think you're gonna see a massive reduction in autism"

Volunteer with Peggy's campaign! act.peggyflanagan.com/survey/volun...

Hey, if you want a Keith Ellison campaign sign, here’s where to request one. Our AG is great, especially as a foil to all the fascism, and we need to keep him in office.

Erik Vorhes@erikvorhes.bsky.social · 17h ago

Boom: www.mobilize.us/keithellison...

We really needed this rain

Anders@derzquist.net · 20h ago

We really needed this rain

Founding an A.I. company called Jukt Micronics

None of the images have alt text, but this is huuuge.

Jason Kint@kint.bsky.social · 2d ago

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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WIRED@wired.com · 2d ago

On November 3, when voters across the US go to the polls, almost 200 election deniers will be on the ballot. www.wired.com/story/hundre...

Feeling like it's all doom and gloom. Share a win and help us see that it's not all bad right now

Let's all call Tom Emmer's office (202-225-2331 or 763-241-6848) to ask where he buys his groceries as we'd all like to find that ground beef he says costs $2 a pound. www.minnpost.com/fact-briefs/...

Does ground beef cost $2 per pound?

You'd have to time travel back to the early aughts to find such affordable cows.

minnpost.com

If Minneapolis clawed back MPD overtime, that would basically fill the MPS budget deficit, right?

Are you fuckin serious

Aaron Rodericks@aaron.bsky.team · 2d ago

Are they threatening trans users directly? No. Trans folks in the US have been targeted repeatedly. That's awful and you have my sympathy. Within the context of a single post we wouldn't consider it a direct threat or targeting a protected category. Ie send trans folks to concentration camps.

“This exaggerated grimness makes it easy to overlook the more immediate harms created by these technologies, such as their potential use in cybersecurity attacks, excess resource consumption, impact on our cognitive fitness, role in undermining education and amplification of soul-deadening slop.”

Opinion | How Scared Should We Be of A.I. Right Now? (Gift Article)

The dark and distressing way that Silicon Valley talks about A.I. can be traced to a philosophy that influenced many tech executives.

nytimes.com

promise kept

Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem

A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.

thehandbasket.co

Cool, cool, someone stole shit from my garage again.

Someone should ask him if JD is strong and smart.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Trump: "The only control or 'guardrails' that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!"

This thread is fantastic.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · last wk.

Every half-ass plan for our extinction that they provide just turns me on. No internet, you say? No online banking?? No 2FA to use the bathroom at my job??? Baby I was a latchkey kid in the 1980s. You’re describing my platonic ideal. Extinct me.

I was just musing about my great grandmother’s ritual of walking her bills to the post office every week. I have paper checks. You think you can run me off this planet with a rogue ai agent braking containment at the scam factory to unleash ever more scams??

QTP with your favorite robot.

A premium quality show.

Alt: Murderbot says, “A premium quality show.”

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Matt@originalmattb.com · 5d ago

QTP with your favorite robot. 🤖

Does anyone have a handle on when “weary” started being used in place of “wary”? My initial online digging has resulted in nothing but prescriptivist “don’t do this” articles.

Make a band edible: Rattatouille

Doug Mack@douglasmack.bsky.social · last wk.

Make a band edible: R.E.M&M's

i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected

Aaron Sojourner@aaronsojourner.org · last wk.

Program's up! 30+ teams share evidence abt impacts on health, educ, & econ + community response. Great folks @ziibiing.com @ottergoose.net @aaronrosenthal.bsky.social @chrisuggen.bsky.social @casemcnich.bsky.social @ngraetz.bsky.social @craigstetter.bsky.social docs.google.com/document/u/1...

People were even more excited to bob* their heads to SUGAR. * I know

Erik Vorhes@erikvorhes.bsky.social · last wk.

People are excited to watch music videos.

People are excited to watch music videos.

In my opinion Democrats get nothing nothing NOTHING by betraying trans people. They hurt themselves with a good deal of their committed voter base, and still don’t get the Republican votes they are so fucking obsessed with winning over. Lose-lose! People hate voting for squishy moral cowards!!

a friend’s nonprofit contracted someone for $25,000 for strategic planning work and got back 100 pages of ChatGPT slop please write it into your contracts that this is not what you’re paying for

i have to boost this again because I really love this essay and believe in it and think we faculty can build something better through solidarity

Matt Gabriele@profgabriele.com · last wk.

read this from me & @vox-magica.bsky.social in @liberalcurrents.com instead www.liberalcurrents.com/religion-hum...

Image alt text: A New York Times headline that reads, “25 Years After 9/11, Trump Personifies a Nation Moving On”

Gerry Doyle@mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm sorry what

There is a direct line from 9/11 to Operation Metro Surge.

There are real dangers of AI, but they're not rogue consciousness or Terminators. They're things like Elon Musk's Grok cranking out fake nudes of real people, sometimes kids, and spreading it, with the fucking DOJ backing him up.