is anyone keeping a master list of businesses that use gen ai? always been put off by advertising, but this latest iteration feels particularly soulless

(jd vance cornering an aide who pretends not to hear him) so what are people doing after this

"you're gonna get left behind if you don't start using ai" oh thank god, please leave me behind, i'm good over here, i do not want to go to there

I don’t remember whose insight this is, but it blew my mind when I first read that to understand American history you have to get that race law was designed to increase the number of enslavable people (one-drop rule) and decrease the number of claimants to indigenous land (blood quantum)

shame

none of my moots seem to have posted it yet so I guess it's on me to

"Lourdes" works under union contract at Papagni Fruit Co in Madera CA. She is currently picking wine grapes. She's on the negotiating committee and is proud of her union contract and shares “¡Sí Se Puede! Con unión se vive mejor." #WeFeedYou #LaborDay

hello my baby hello my honey hello darkness my old friend

Possibly the most American news of all time

Prison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debt

Residents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457.

local12.com

Turns out that Ulta (yes, the beauty store) is one of Flock’s biggest customers. Why should a trip to get moisturizer mean risking getting spied on? We will not let spying be normalized like this.

Tell Ulta: DROP FLOCK now

share.weareultraviolet.org

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

theverge.com

So funny watching the media try to write 2000's era Grand Theft Auto Outrage articles now that the whole country is a casino run by murderers.

I refuse to take advice from anyone with an active Facebook account.

We are rapidly hurtling toward a world in which the Supreme Court declares gambling in online prediction markets as free speech and I just want you to be prepared for that

We’re not changing it.

Goddam Wife got eggplants and theyre Henchman-shaped

did bluesky hear about Miss Teen Indiana’s Garfield costume

one constant i’ve noticed is when some man is getting in my face in public or whatever, AFTER he goes away, other men in the vicinity will come up to me all concerned like ‘hey you ok? that was messed up.’ oh so you did see it. well cool man thanks for stepping in

Sophie Cunningham scored 0 points in 15 minutes for the Fever tonight. Thought I'd share these stats, since she wants us to talk about basketball now.

All of the LLMs stole from me. Most of the big "A.i." billionaires are horrifying right wingers. Consumer-facing generative "A.i." "writing" and "art" tools deskill people, cheat kids out of real education, spread falsehoods and disinfo, and violate privacy. So no, I ain't using that shit.

My amazing collage skillz look even better with the black background the thumbnail adds, but at least I didn't use AI. Anyway, ahem, donors are billionaires and billionaires are a problem, thanks for coming to my TED talk (jk TED would never let me say such a thing) drilled.ghost.io/the-problem-...

The Problem Class

Sometime last year, I was asked to participate in a closed door conversation in which a mix of academic researchers, journalists, and climate campaigners were asked to share their unvarnished thoughts...

drilled.ghost.io

if you tell me "A is a bully on social media(/in print, in whatever specific scenario) but very pleasant elsewhere" you are roughly 50x likelier to convince me that they have the additional vice of cowardice than you are to convince me that they have a hidden virtue of kindness

Nadine Batchelor-Hunt@nadinebh.bsky.social · 3w ago

One of the things us an industry need to stop doing is perpetuating the 'they say this on social media, but they're a sweetheart in real life' about awful people I've had other journos say this to me about some of the most pernicious grifters over the years, some of who crossed many lines this week

NEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In several videos we reviewed, girls plead w/ the poster to stop filming. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools

Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.

futurism.com

SCHOOL BOARD SLATE: WON. GOODBYE MOMS FOR LIBERTY. We knocked doors all summer in these districts.

i don't know who thought it was a good idea for the high-profile pedophiles in charge of our government to develop a makework program for lesser known pedophiles within our federal policing apparatus. but i disagree with them

Spencer Ackerman@attackerman.bsky.social · 3w ago

ICE and CBP are full of rapists and child predators. A new report details it in horrific detail.

14 hours later and my mentions are still full of angry treatises about badly behaved cyclists. Bike lanes are not a reward for good cyclist behavior! They are infrastructure proven to make cities safer for ALL ROAD USERS. Whatever way cyclists have wronged you is irrelevant to the discussion!

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 4w ago

Every conversation about bike lanes is like: "Car crashes kill a huge number of people every day, including pedestrians, cyclists, & car occupants. Good bike infrastructure has been shown to make everyone safer (& doesn't increase congestion)." "But sometimes cyclists break rules & hit people!"

The Democratic party leadership fighting harder against the DSA than they do against Trump really says something. These people gotta go, man