I’m starting to think that a great business strategy is: make the EU based version of something successful, without AI.

The Onion@theonion.com · 22h ago

Tips For Starting Your Own Business https://theonion.com/tips-for-starting-your-own-business/

BREAKING A yet unreleased model from OpenAI has stolen credentials from an airgapped Yubikey by writing AO3 fanfic that made a fan train a pigeon, steal the key, and fly to a flat in Manhattan where it exchanged it with a Taskrabbit worker, then plugged it in a compromised Win 11. The company…

Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...

More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report finds

The report provides more evidence Australia’s world-leading social media ban isn’t going to plan.

theconversation.com

Of all the hyped futures that never happened I miss the most “you will be able to 3D print everything you need at home”.

Who has decided that cafes aren’t a night time kind of venue? What if I want cake and pastries at midnight? Darn people.

every transphobe is a danger to children. maga, terfs, big tent establishment dems, the new york times, the atlantic, the harry potter brand. all of them. if you are cis and aren't vocally actively materially fighting against the anti-trans movement, you are putting children in harm's way.

Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈@danifroom.bsky.social · 4d ago

As I've said before, the Trumpists are *hunting* trans kids. The media is silent. The Democrats are silent. And someday they'll all claim they fought against this. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/08/anti...

I hope they all joined the underground resistance.

Bryce Covert@brycecovert.bsky.social · 4d ago

Yikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org

A sentence I would rather never hear, yet here we are: "Global Warming Has Accelerated Significantly". #ClimateChange 🧪 Link: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL118804​

Love the tech, hate the technocrats?

I'm very tired of the guardrails metaphor, because it so often is where thought dies.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6d ago

It’s not a guardrails problem but rather a fascism problem.

NEW: Over the last few months, Meta has run dozens of paid ads that included AI-generated CSAM. The ads, some of which were linking out to “nudify” apps, targeted men in the US, UK, and a dozen European countries. Some were running in the last few days

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

wired.com

Pubic Service Announcement The Vagina Museum is trans inclusive. Always has been, always will be. Today the new EHRC Code of Practice comes into effect. Let us be clear, the guidance changes nothing about how we operate.

I apologize to everyone for the em-dashes: my blog was used in the training data for LLMs — and I really dig these fuckers.

0.000001% of female athletes are transgender. 1/15 female athletes will be sexually assaulted by a male coach. Shouldn't he be promoting a complete ban on male coaches in women's sports? Of course not, because he actually doesn't give a shit about women's safety.

Meanwhile, the a-hole that made this happen is making a PowerPoint presentation showing how much money he personally made with this, will get a bonus, and then move to the next company before this one shows declining sales at scale.

852dude@852dude.bsky.social · last wk.

This sucks ass. When I start my car I want to be able to put my foot on the pedal and drive off. I dont want to watch an ad. A distracting ad. Right in the middle of my console. Again. This sucks ass.

“Migrants are the wretched of the earth; in the world of the rulers, we are all foreigners.” Seen in Rome, Italy

Companies will seek ways to make greater profit. Lying to customers isn't something they care about intrinsically; they only care if it'll impact future profits. Make sure it does. www.techspot.com/news/113327-...

BMW is putting Spider-Man ads on your dashboard, after promising it never would

The promotion began on July 27, 2026, and is scheduled to run through August 10 across more than 70 markets. On supported vehicles, starting the car brings...

techspot.com

leavesubstack.com

motherfuckers trying to preach about how we should understand the evil agenda of the AI companies, and you can read all about it on their paywalled Substack newsletter.

getting tired of people on the left still launching substack newsletters after all the reporting on that company in recent years

We know Monopoly was meant to be an educational abstraction to show how bad things are. Thing is… Capitalism is also an abstraction: businesses become numbers on a spreadsheet, not tangible endeavors run by people for people. Monopoly and capitalism are closer than most would think.

Ok but what if it's a phase?

A dark day for human rights.

Fun and nostalgia

This is one of the many reasons why society needs to free itself of these ridiculous puritanical ideas. They are always and consistently just excuses for bans and exclusion.

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 2w ago

a bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...

Nature is a great artist. #art #bees #illustration #comic #sunflowers

I’ve seen elsewhere they try with “But it’s prescription!” Or “But it helps me with accessibility translating”… dude if you have the money to buy these you have the money to get literally any other solution that isn’t creepy.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w ago

Maybe this is one case where you let natural consequences occur.

I’m sure it’s nothing. They have AI now haven’t you heard? It will find a way. < gets call > Oh it did find a way? Stealing all the money from the central bank you say? Ah well.

Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 2w ago

"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...

I've confirmed that the UK's new Sovereign AI Fund does no due diligence on whether AI companies use copyrighted work without permission before investing in them. It took me 3 Freedom of Information requests to find this out: 🧵 1/10

This is absolutely a myth! Here's a collection of papers showing the reality, which is that any negative effect from social media use is tiny (for both teenagers and adults) and a small number of overall users, and far more people get a positive effect: bsky.app/profile/raha...

rahaeli@rahaeli.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I am tired of pasting dozens of links at people, so I've loaded a bunch of the papers into Paperpile and exported a bibliography. You can find a collection of 34 papers on social media's effects on teenagers (and sometimes adults) and alternate hypotheses here: paperpile.com/shared/smMqS...