By MonoKubo

I don't have the following for this but what the hell let's go

Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago

1 like = 1 book question 📚💙

It's honestly nice to hear that most of the AI bubble really is people play-acting to keep their jobs: hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mani... Doctorow has a big essay on this, but I prefer the source (this isn't an outsider, they're a high profile tech consultant actively mixing it up in the biz)

AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking

The reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively.

hermit-tech.com

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love that ksd just lurks online and searches themselves Also fangirling that ksd liked this post

hark! a hellcat@harkahellcat.bsky.social · 19h ago

2. Oooh this is difficult, especially because my tastes change every so often. We will go with Jane Eyre, Outlander, Big Panda & Tiny Dragon, Kelly Sue DeConnick's Captain Marvel: In Pursuit of Flight, Quiet I think these all have stayed with me

My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.

We couldn’t agree more. For today’s podcast, we’re throwing it back to when Queen guitarist/astronomer Brian May and astrophysicist Derek Ward-Thompson chatted with Flora about their stereoscopic book of galaxies, “Islands in Infinity: Galaxies 3-D.” And yes, we get into the music too.

I don't have the following for this but what the hell let's go

Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago

1 like = 1 book question 📚💙

Folks, we are now in a boil all your food alert, I guess.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d ago

“Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. removed jalapeños from multiple stores in Minnesota after learning the peppers may be linked to a salmonella outbreak in the state that’s sickened 110 people.”

you can cry at work, as a treat

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BOOM. The AAUP is suing Texas A&M University System over their censorship policy that prohibits faculty from discussing topics & viewpoints related to race, sexual orientation, & gender. www.aclutx.org/app/uploads/... 1

Consumer Reports submitted 3,700+ members' petition signatures asking the North Carolina Utilities Commission to reject Duke Energy’s request for an 18% rate increase “Electricity bills are rising far too fast in NC and across the country," said Chris Harto, manager, sustainability advocacy at CR.

More than 3,700 North Carolina consumers speak out against excessive electricity rate hikes

Consumer Reports calls on the NCUC to curb excessive rate increases from Duke Energy and protect ratepayers during the AI data center boom Raleigh, NC…

advocacy.consumerreports.org

With WiFi and AI embedded in everything from washing machines to litter boxes, personal data is more susceptible to hacking and ID theft. Here are seven tips to help protect yourself:

Smart Appliances Are Everywhere. So Are the Privacy Risks. - Consumer Reports

From smart toasters and lightbulbs to big appliances like washers and dryers, almost everything is online at some level, which makes many products vulnerable.

consumerreports.org

i mean we told you

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2d ago

Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Meta and Oracle are spending so much on developing AI and delivering it to customers that they’re expected to bleed cash in the coming year, according to a Post analysis of data compiled by S&P Global Market Intelligence.

An injured kitten named Gelato gained the ability to walk thanks to a wheelchair that staff at a Cincinnati animal shelter built with toy cars and rulers. Read more: https://wapo.st/4hIOSpF

National Wellness Month and the focus is too much on individual self care and too lacking on reworking the system to mitigate burnout and stress and foster collective well-being.

Amazing lovely human! You deserve to celebrate yourself! This week, pick one small way to celebrate yourself. (Also - just want to say that you're awesome)

this new moisturizer is great ... until I sweat and my eyes get agitated and my sinuses start draining at very inopportune times

The next time I'm asked to summarize my professional philosophy

ʙᴜη ₊˚⊹⋆@ughbunnii.bsky.social · 10mo ago

!!!

From time to time I toy with the idea of organising a conference composed entirely of tea, coffee and lunch breaks.

A single piece of confetti is called a ‘confetto.’ spaghetti = spaghetto graffiti = graffito

well I probably would have slept better than I did but again upstairs people debating whether or not to talk with management. again.

hark! a hellcat@harkahellcat.bsky.social · 4mo ago

so it's not just me, we all sleep like crap on sunday nights right?

so it's not just me, we all sleep like crap on sunday nights right?

A system that doesn't obsess over workplace productivity and actually helps to nurture employes' well-being very well might

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4d ago

Could a couch-to-5k for books get you back into reading?

a lot of stupid discourse on the feed today

Sagittarius: Pack a light suitcase and make sure your gas tank is full. Your chances of being run out of town by an angry mob this week are quite high.

ffs quit sewing the pockets on women's clothing shut