Have once again failed to read or answer email today. It's getting dangerously close to a new semester for me to be pulling this bullshit

She doesn't even feel bad that now someone (not me) has to give her a bath

Lotta faculty at these 4 universities that ought to be holding votes of no confidence in their leaders asap

Edouard Machery@edouardmachery.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Four college presidents — Andrew Martin at Washington University in St. Louis, Michael Crow at Arizona State University, Douglas Girod at the University of Kansas, and Ronald Daniels at the Johns Hopkins University — helped draft the letter, Bloomberg reported, and they plan to support it publicly.

It’s syllabus prep season, and I’m thinking about what a privilege and benefit it must be for those academics who get to directly tie their teaching / syllabi to their research / writing. 1/5

This headline has just given me a whole new ulcer.

MIT Technology Review@technologyreview.com · 4d ago

Google DeepMind is calling for the moral behavior of large language models—such as what they do when called on to act as companions, therapists, medical advisors, and so on—to be scrutinized with the same kind of rigor as their ability to code or do math.

Is Pikachu a... a cannibal?

It is August 1 and we aren't even in the month before Halloween but we are in my birthday month so I assume this is a huge burn on me by Walgreens

Some motherfuckers need to read Winner. Like, it’s been clear from the jump that AI adoption has been a political project or in service too political projects and those projects have been universally shitty extensions of white supremacy and other structures of oppression.

vortex_egg@vortexegg.com · 4d ago

For me, LLMs are clearly powerful machines, but everything about their construction and deployment in society by the people constructing them appears oriented around achieving a political project that deeply conflicts with my values or a vision of a future I want to live in and dont have a choice in

What do you call it when the federal government secedes from the union?

Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social · 5d ago

I can't stress enough what a crisis this is. Trump's own intelligence agencies concluded that Iran attacked Minnesota's critical infrastructure and Trump is saying that it's Minnesota's own fault and denying it was Iran. The federal government won't defend blue states in a literal war.

It's past due time I start giving 404 Media regular money like I do for ProPublica

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...

On my calendar I have scrawled in all caps "AUGUST WTF" for tomorrow and I can't believe the calendars would betray me like this

IMPACT: that company that was offering to buy books for AI companies’ training data — and probably destroy them in the process — says it will no longer offer this service following 404 Media’s exposure of it www.404media.co/ai-company-t...

Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage

Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."

404media.co

they REALLY want you to know they're sorry sorry trying to remove it. this is the contact page now, where I can imagine lots of people had lots of thoughts on the topic of training AI isbndb.com/contact

NEW: after our coverage of this company's little scheme to use printed books to train AI, it calls it a "test of the market" and walked the entire thing back: www.404media.co/ai-company-t...

Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage

Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."

404media.co

Rocket says goodnight, sleep well, she'll probably kill you in the morning

My parenting style is handing my kid a book I own that I was thinking of getting as a birthday gift for his friend and saying, "read this and tell me if it's appropriate to give a 12 year old" (my kid, as you may have deduced, is also 12.)

“…the same mechanisms that drive people to grow wary of — and hostile toward — friends, co-workers and family members with different political beliefs are beginning to shape attitudes toward AI.”

AI Adoption Is Dividing Friends, Families and Co-Workers

As artificial intelligence becomes ingrained in daily life, disagreements over the technology are increasingly becoming disagreements over values.

bloomberg.com

I haven't posted my haunted plants 👻🌱 lately so here's one that broke through the soil June 12, flowered for 4 days on June 28, and now has a leaf so large that it plasters itself on the window overnight to steal as much of the sun from the other pla ts as possible. My hand for scale.

So many awesome artists have signed our pledge to boycott venues that use AI surveillance in the last week! Don't see your fave band? Send this to them! Recent signers: AJJ Apes of the State Dame Fai Laci Judy Chicago Jolie Holland Juan Alderete Pedro the Lion SOJI Veronica Swift Xiu Xiu +++

Ban Facial Recognition at Live Events

Artists and venues take the pledge: no facial recognition at shows.

banfacialrecognition.com

Um... www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/b...

Bluesky Says Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread Propaganda

The company said it was fighting Russian efforts to hijack real users’ accounts to post fake content, an apparently novel tactic.

nytimes.com

Why is everything so transparently evil now?

OKAY BLUESKY I NEED YOUR HELP! Hundreds of artists have signed @fightforthefuture.org's pledge to boycott venues that use AI surveillance like facial recognition. We want to get to 500 before a press conf in 2 weeks. Quote this and tag artists that might sign? Reskeet? do the thing!

Ban Facial Recognition at Live Events

Artists and venues take the pledge: no facial recognition at shows.

banfacialrecognition.com

2026. $351.

A few days left for our call for papers on Philosophy through Art, Games and Fiction, dedicated to Helen De Cruz think.taylorandfranc... I am convinced that being playful and creative makes us better philosophers. Prove me right! #philsky #philosophy

Today I made it through about 5% of the email I missed while I was away on vacation. I may never get ahead of this again.

So, what happens if I'm a parent and I know that my kid needs highly paid teachers, a library full of books with diverse characters, trans-inclusive bathrooms and extracurriculars, and a curriculum unpacking topics like systemic racism, colonial oppression, economic inequality, and climate change?

Received a request to review a paper that includes an AI disclaimer from the author that they used GenAI to "understand" multiple texts in languages they do not speak. I am screaming into my pillow forever.

I would like to lodge a complaint please

My partner called me across the house to see the groundhog-in-a-tree chilling outside his window. Treehog?

Paying credit card bills after making a conscious decision to do minimal-to-no conversion math in my head while on vacation in another currency for two weeks 🤢