I'm not going to be relitigating COVID lockdowns or mask mandates. Both were necessary measures that saved lives. If you cannot accept the curtailing of even the minor of freedoms in the name of public safety, you have demonstrated that you do not give a solitary fuck about the rest of us.

Imagine thinking the first victim of AI has yet to pass... It's people of colour, women, people in the global south, the planet... How embarrassing!

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 5d ago

David McWilliams: The first victim of AI is the economy. Welcome to the 2030s

Rejecting LLMs isn’t about rejecting their utility or failing to be aware of their power —it’s about rejecting that political project; born out of an awareness that any use of these machines at all promulgates that project and assembles me into adjacent responsibility for its commission.

💯. You can't resist this future by "using AI the right way", "by keeping a human in the loop", "augment not replace", "keep relationships central", "to create efficiencies and spend more time with people" and everything else I've heard. You're being manipulated and turned into a useful idiot.

Jared Yates Sexton@jysexton.bsky.social · 4d ago

The tech AI mission is to literally complete the transformation of people into economic subjects. Nothing except flesh connectors serving to move capital from space to space. And that’s only as long as there isn’t a substitute for bodies.

Just in time for summer reading (in 1 hemisphere, anyway) - Recent Novels About Women Artists artherstory.net/recent-novel... #ArtHerstory presents a list of recent works of fiction about actual, mostly historic women artists—from the C16th to the C21st. #womenartists

We are an uninterrupted thread running all the way back to the first thing in water that could copy itself.

Anthropic shredding millions of rare books should be a crime. It’s also a perfect encapsulation of what utter shit generative AI is and how it fundamentally makes the world worse.

Jimothy is life.

Davis Bickford@davis.social · last wk.

I saw this elsewhere and had to share it. Jimothy is just too darn cute.

BREAKING: Tech reporter on record saying he is swallowing everything the tech companies are saying.

Casey Newton@caseynewton.bsky.social · last wk.

There's a reason why "these are just statistical predictions" hasn't caught on in the discourse, and it's not the tech press. It's that people see them reading and writing and reasoning and scheming and they realize that the stochastic-parrots framing is outdated and inadequate to the moment

Preordered. We all need to be prepared to counter the narratives of tech oligarchs within our groups and communities. #booksky

Paris Marx@parismarx.com · last mo.

I’m sure you probably know it, but preorders mean a lot for upcoming books. It would mean a lot to me for you to reserve your copy today! Find links and more info here: hyperscalebook.com

They are creating psychopaths

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w ago

“Founders School in Manhattan promises to refund families its $150,000 annual tuition fee if their child has not made $1mn ‘in profit’ upon completion of the four-year high school course.”

I'll add two more. This one was also a most-read piece from last year, about Black families displaced during "urban renewal" who won reparations in Portland, Oregon. Remember, subscriptions are just $40 this month—that's half off the regular price!

‘We Opened a Door Nobody Knew Existed’: How Displaced Black Families Won Reparations in Portland

A historic settlement returns $8.5 million and land to Black families displaced by a decades-old redevelopment scheme — and sets a precedent for cities nationwide.

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But respirators are a sign of HOPE. Of fighting back against disease- and other airborne contaminants like particulate pollution. Of people who don't want to get others sick and who want to survive.

Only perverts want perv glasses.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

Meta’s smartglasses mean any child can be covertly filmed. In the age of AI, how do we tackle that risk?

This whole thread is a masterclass on seeing these AI bros for who they really are and their attempts to manipulate us. #RidiculeAsPraxis

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ridicule as praxis, jetlag liveposting edition. (This is the last post in the thread, which I'm told, for long threads, can make it easier to find the whole thing.)

I love you Jimothy 🦝❤️ [ #cuteart #illustration ]

Our Newest cryptid has really been shaking things up here in Washington. ...What can Jimothy teach us about #earthquake safety?

My disability pride month motto is now "Jimothy can do it, and so can I"

Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.

This is all kinds of disturbing and disgusting. Silicon Valley is where souls die.

Julie Carpenter, PhD@jgcarpenter.com · 3w ago

As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from humanoid sex robots to classroom "education" robots. Buckle up. nysfocus.com/2026/07/14/n... 🧵

St. Jimothy of Ballard, oil on canvas, 16"× 20" #WIP

Jimothy is a disabled icon. Eat shit, ableists.

This is a crucial. Also experiencing at work people suddenly agreeing with me yet still use and sign contracts with them. “We must stop thinking that just because somebody agrees with us on some superficial anti AI point, that they are in fact in some deeper agreement on principles and values.”

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 3w ago

OK, it's honestly very distressing and worrying and I have ADHD, so I wrote it all down to get it out of my head olivia.science/entryism/ Enjoy, I guess...

New cryptid

I talk to a lot of startups building security tools for AI agents, and my advice to all of them is, treat AI agents like malware. Even if agents provide a lot of value to those who use them, agents are a security nightmare to those who have to secure them.

I'm here for Jimothy's cross-platform fame. We ❤️ you.

Holly Green@winnersusedrugs.bsky.social · 3w ago

There is a raccoon running around Capitol Hill who has Shortened Spine Syndrome.

Beautiful. @mayorofseattle.bsky.social and @council.seattle.gov please move all official Seattle social media to Bluesky and get rid of Twitter accounts.

Seattle Department of Transportation@transportation.seattle.gov · 3w ago

It's official, we have a new handle on Bluesky. We're now @transportation.seattle.gov. You may need to update links to our posts and profile.

The fires in Ontario - like so many others - demonstrating viscerally how climate change perpetuates the displacement and dispossession of Indigenous peoples, who have least contributed to emissions and over and over again put their bodies on the line to prevent fossil fuel development.

Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 3w ago

These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...

AI ethics hardly has anything to do with the use of AI anyway. It is about thinking critically who benefits from this technology, who structurally carries the burden, by whom it is built, from which ideologies and how this manifests in its harmful societal impact.