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James Laverack

@jamesl.bsky.social

Kubernetes, Cilium, and eBPF 🐝 | Technical Author 📚 | Bisexual 🩷💜💙 | ADHD 🧠 | Former K8s Release Team 🛳️

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Dr Dean Burnett@drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 3d ago

Only just found out about this For the record, you don't get multiple genetic markers and one of the most effective medications known to science with 'social constructs' Channel 4, this is, in scientific parlance, an absolute fu*king disgrace that will genuinely endanger lives #c4 #ADHD

New Channel 4 documentary, The Great ADHD Myth?, seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct
Baldur Bjarnason@baldurbjarnason.com · 4d ago

Anyway, since I’m always annoying my own brain by trying to come up with clearer and more specific wording for my own opinions: I reject the notion that LLMs can be deployed “responsibly” at scale and believe that anybody claiming otherwise is fooling themselves, conning you, or possibly both

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 4d ago

< dozens of people tell me "you can just tell it to turn that behavior off!" > Yeah that's really not the point of my complaint. I'm not asking for suggestions on how to make the system more pleasant for me to use; I'm pointing out that it has dark patterns built in that make it harmful by default.

Hughster@hughster.bsky.social · 4d ago

Incredible to remember that all of these supposed "radical gender ideology" asks were simply the status quo plus what *a Conservative government* was proposing and consulting on under a decade ago

Sophie Molly@sophiemolly.co.uk · 5d ago

What I want for trans + people in the UK. The puberty blocker ban lifted. The toilet ban scrapped. Supreme Court ruling overtuned/made ineffective. An informed consent model for gender affirming care. Self ID. Non-Binary people legaly recognised. No trans + censorship in schools.

Karl Bode@karlbode.com · last wk.

but every single time you see a story that claims AI "went rogue" entirely on its own it almost always boils down to somebody either being a dumbass or actively trying to be misleading

The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@seamas.bsky.social · last wk.

An underreported part of UK Transphobe Lawfare™ is that when they lose, they just... say they won. For all the regrettable sway they do have in courts/govt etc, their real power is in the press. So if they lose, they just pretend they didn't and their press friends print the lie. It's ubiquitous.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · last wk.

Women's Rights Network/Sex Matters took Feile to court to have their event reinstated. It was not reinstated. The two statements released after an agreement was reached give two very different impressions of what happened today in Belfast's High Court.

Statement from Féile an Phobail Statement from Féile an Phobail Féile an Phobail are delighted with today’s outcome at the High Court. Today’s outcome is a vindication of Féile’s position in standing up for those who are marginalised. Féile’s decision to withdraw this event from our programme stands. The agenda of many of those who involved themselves in this issue was clear for all to see. Many of the very same people line up every year to attack Féile at every turn, to attempt to damage Féile, and to attack the West Belfast community. They will never succeed. Féile an Phobail will continue to provide a voice for the marginalised, and we are looking forward to welcoming the world to West Belfast to join with us to celebrate Ireland’s biggest community festival. Féile Abú!
Paris Marx@parismarx.com · last wk.

Good thing we don’t have a long history of people incorrectly projecting human traits on computers and overestimating what they’re really doing.

In computer science, the ELIZA effect is a tendency to project human traits—such as experience, semantic comprehension or empathy—onto rudimentary computer programs. ELIZA was a symbolic AI chatbot developed in 1966 by Joseph Weizenbaum that imitated a psychotherapist. Many early users were supposedly convinced of ELIZA's intelligence and understanding, despite its basic text-processing approach and the explanations of its limitations.
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

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 2w ago

People are getting tricked by OpenAI’s marketing hype. This is essentially the standard asking an LLM to do a thing and it doesn’t follow instructions that we see daily. “Find exploits to use to hack this website but don’t go online” and it went online. That’s not sentience, LLMs are probabilistic

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Pookleblinky@pookleblinky.bsky.social · last yr.

Saying that chatgpt can be used as a disability aid for ADHD is pretty much saying you have no idea what the fuck you are talking about, and don't particularly give a shit whether people get harmed.

Nixmori 🥀 is Sinning@nixmori.bsky.social · 3w ago

I struggle severely with neurodivergence and the AI usage at my work place has made my job infinitely worse. My mental health is at an all time low, burn out is at an all time high, and AI has robbed me of the fun parts of my job while forcing me into a noxious mixture of tedium and stress.

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Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3w ago

On the 5th August, the EHRC's Code of Practice becomes statutory guidance. It will make life even harder for many trans & non-binary people. It's unworkable & harmful. The Good Law Project is challenging & wants to hear from people affected by these exclusions. goodlawproject.org/discriminato...

‘Discriminatory’ and ‘unworkable’ trans guidance to come into force | Good Law Project

The equalities minister has ordered the government’s harmful code of practice will apply from 5 August – we’re pushing back

goodlawproject.org

tante@tante.cc · 3w ago

"In a burning world we need to hold ourselves and each other to a higher standard. “Useful” is far, far from being good enough." https://tante.cc/2026/07/15/useful-is-not-sufficient/

"Useful" is not sufficient

So Linus Torvalds, head of the Linux kernel development, put his foot down on the Linux Kernel development mailing list when someone was bringing up criticism of LLMs: “Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issueswith that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it. Or just walk away. […]

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