Revenge for MeToo (which severely constrained their ability to rape employees), Revenge for Black Lives Matter (which called out how racist many of them were) and most of all Revenge for the 2021 Labor Market where they suddenly had to compete for scarce labor instead of the other way around

This means about as much as “colorless green dreams sleep furiously” in that it is SYNTACTICALLY valid…

Transphobes Can't Read@lordaslan.bsky.social · 3d ago

Wtf does this even mean lolol

Anyone who uses spellcheck or spam filtering has enjoyed machine learning. We're not angry at that! We're angry at AI now that it's ruined Google, fakes the images we see, generates garbage we have to swim through, makes people crazy, and is used as an excuse to fire us! THAT is what AI means now.

"The Emperor is a fan of Flock, and we must continue utilizing Flock technologies so that we can follow and surveil the rebel scum as they move from playground to playground... They are following children in parks and gymnasiums, and we need this. I need this so I can stalk my ex-girlfriend."

the fact that john ossoff can kick off a two-day media cycle by saying that the president is uninterested in doing his job and is sleeping through meetings and traveling around with a young blonde, suggests that not enough of these guys are speaking plainly and effectively about these assholes

You fuck one goat

Love how this dude discovered the cheat codes of "what if I listened to constituents" and "what if I modeled good behavior" and "maybe I behave like a normal person should." These are apparently dark secrets that have been hidden from other politicians.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 6d ago

I'm listening, I'm learning. Safety first, NYC.

I think polio is bad and the vaccine for it is good.

The difference in utility between the use of ML to tackle big data problems that would otherwise be intractable & the use of LLMs to produce pointless slop is so large they cannot both be usefully described as “AI“. The first is making real progress, the second is dragging us towards the abyss.

Dan Silverman@dmsilverman.bsky.social · 7d ago

I‘m far from an AI doomer, but it is amazing how many serious voices — on LinkedIn, no less! — are sharing stories about how AI slop is quickly becoming one of the top problems they see in academic writing and research “AI will 10x our research!” doesn’t seem to be surviving encounters with reality

RE: The Atlantic, a few months after this issue a guy in El Paso went on a rampage targeting people he thought looked "Mexican"; he shot 45 and killed 23. when I read some journalists lines from his manifesto and Frum's essay and asked them who wrote which, they couldn't tell, I couldn't blame them

What advantage? Strikes me we're uniquely disadvantaged when it comes to data centres — we are brutally hot and short on water. Unless what's meant here is we have a venal political class beholden to fossil fuel interests, in which case—

The Conversation AUNZ@aunz.theconversation.com · 7d ago

The assistant minister argues Australia needs to leverage its data centre advantage and translate that into benefits and growth for the broader economy.

A whoooole lot of the stuff that gets grown in the arid west using precious reservoir water could be grown just as well in the South. Where it rains.

Hey, guys, when the librarians get pissed about the destruction of books, it’s time to put those listening ears on. Because we are very comfortable with the idea that books are tools that can be retired. What’s happening right now is not that.

Genuinely what is the benefit of the UK's libel regime? It simultaneously manages to stifle legitimate criticism of public figures and doesn't prevent the press from hounding people to death

Absolutely no one needs to hear a man’s opinion about AOC freezing her eggs.

Also, cancer-related amputee here: sometimes cutting it off is the right choice so that it doesn’t kill you!!! No matter which way we go, the analogy isn’t doing the work you want.

Democrats should be very carefully paying attention to the changing politics of tech. Especially as the oligarchs sour on liberal politics and turn fascist, they have the opportunity to one-two antagonize the fash AND kneecap their political power by pushing federal privacy legislation.

Data & Society@datasociety.bsky.social · last wk.

Opposition to Flock vehicle-tracking surveillance cameras cuts across political lines: “Whether you’re libertarian, conservative, MAGA, progressive, everybody has an objection to Flock,” says @chadmarlow.bsky.social of the @aclu.org. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/u...

Even if you're just a viewer and not a streamer, tell them through metrics that you reject AI: Twitch.tv > Settings > Security and Privacy > Training for Generative AI: OFF

We Are Many Mouths And We Must Feed 😀@lulz.network · last wk.

There you have it.

Come work with us!

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This meeting could have been a long, harrowing glare into the void.

"Scientists" believe life began in underwater hydrothermal vents 4 billion years ago. I believe it began at the Denny's off the interstate in Toledo Ohio in 1956. I don't make fun of their theory and yet they constantly ridicule mine. And that's what's wrong with our so-called elites

most of us got over doing this in middle school yeah

Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social · last wk.

im sorry but there is no bigger loser behavior than making a fake computer generated image of yourself as something cooler than you are, this should be among the most embarrassing behavior in our society

bsky already mangled the image resolution in my original post...screenshotted onto X and it's incomprehensible

I don't know how I can even be surprised anymore, honestly, but here the fuck we are I guess

Gregory Kohn@kohngregory.bsky.social · last wk.

In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.

go on say some shit again about how concern about data centers is overblown

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · last wk.

Here's Amazon's two new planned fossil-fuelled AI data centres next to the ENTIRE POWER GRIDS OF SEVERAL LARGE COUNTRIES Together, the two gas-burning data centres will emit more than Spain's entire grid, if built

I love the emphasis on modes of operation and how much experience you have with them. My company code freezes sometimes, with the implicit assumption that *not* deploying is safe(r). But if you otherwise deploy regularly, a freeze can reveal failure modes that are usually hidden by the deploys.

He means the bin. The establishment candidate is the bin.

a guy digitized some old 80s Italian ambient tapes and one of the guys who made the music saw it and swung into the comments to say thanks for doing this, we loved making music back then maybe we’ll do it again & man that’s a good feeling youtu.be/2XwkPbBtiAQ?...

TERRA DELLA SERA - 1980's ITALIAN AMBIENT SYNTH TAPES collection - 6,5 hours long

YouTube video by Jeroen van de Sande

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the actual order of events from 2020-2024 gets strategically jumbled by reactionary centrists all the time. They love to blame 2024 on wokeness while skipping over the fact that Dems won in 2020. They talk about early COVID Iike it was a failure of Dem policy when Trump was in office.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 2w ago

I don't understand why this keeps getting overlooked: Joe Biden won in 2020 in the middle of Peak Woke. I'd go one step further than @brianbeutler.bsky.social does here: Biden *defended the BLM protesters!* www.offmessage.net/p/woke-one-a...