I think current genAI is, for the most part, an anti-social attack on culture and society. And I'm gonna need y'all to stop making that position look ridiculous by turning yourselves into an over-correcting anti-social attack on culture & society.

OTD in American History - The Montgomery Riverfront Brawl. May you take a moment to remember what sparked the brawl, the cap that set it off, the swimmer that dispelled myths, and the chair that now lives in infamy. atlantablackstar.com/2023/08/08/s...

Site of Alabama Riverfront Brawl Has a Dark, Racist History. Some See the Melee As a 'Full-Circle Moment'

The brawl that broke out in Montgomery, Alabama, on Aug. 5, at the Riverfront Park happened near a historical site with a racist past. Downtown Montgomery

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The Tim Houston gov returned $5 million in federal funding earmarked for land protection because it did not spend it, and it made no measurable progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the last year. Is Tim Houston’s gov working for you or his rich friends? #Halifax #HaliSky #NovaScotia

Report shows N.S. govt returned $5M in unspent federal funding for land protection | CBC News

The Nova Scotia government returned $5 million in federal funding earmarked for land protection because it did not spend it, and it made no measurable progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in ...

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I’ve only worn my histomap dress twice and it’s becoming my most conversation starter dress. I’m a bit apprehensive to wear it at the library, where there already are no shortage of weird conversations.

Photos: Thousands in Gaza City join mass funeral for 112 Palestinians https://aje.news/l9m0wn

Reading a book where a character, who we are told is an expert hunter, refers to the "Nova Scotian elk" and I nearly chucked the book across the room.

These businesses aren't just wasting billions - they're replacing skilled workers with defective chatbots. As I've written before, AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our technological society. 79/

The first is *why*? Why are people in power such easy converts to this religious mania? I have my own theory. The most important discomfort that powerful people experience is having ego-shattering conflicts with subordinates who know how to do things they do not know how to do. 61/

Today, the business press is full of articles about the conflict between the workforce and CEOs who *demand* that they use AI. Suresh describes workers who feel they have to "AI wash" their work: "They just do the work, the same way they have for decades, and say Claude did it." 42/

The world is full of people who insist "AI is changing everything" but who - when pressed - have to admit that what they mean is that they're pretty sure that AI *will* change everything. Eventually. After we allow it to consume all the planet's energy, carbon, water and financial resources. 8/

An Iranian filmmaker (I forget the name, alas) said that western films are drawn from visual arts but Iranian films are drawn from poetry, which is what makes them so different. I think they will be like water in the desert to someone who has only seen Hollywood studio fare.

Gaza - 2025

New reporting from @breachmedia.ca shows that Canadian universities operated a secret national effort to coordinate surveillance and policing of anti-genocide activism and encampments. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...

My husband was trying to explain what a rake is to someone is 60 and who didnt know, and I said a rake is a fuckboi and we started laughing because he wouldn't know that word either.

Just sending love and support to every one of you struggling with the utter shit show of the world right now. I'm sorry it's horrid.

I'm thinking about modifying/renewing my recurring Top Cat bit, gang.

In celebration of #YorkshireDay, please enjoy this Sean Bean bastard collection. Sound up, bastards.

I don’t need to click on this to know that this is the moment the discourse has jumped the shark.

In light of Hank Green disappointing us all, a thread of science communicators that do not brainlessly parrot LLMs as reference. Miniminuteman. A Tiktok import who now posts long form archeological/pseudoarcheology-debunking vids to YouTube. They're fantastic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFA4...

The Giant Skeletons of Lovelock Cave - DEBUNKED

YouTube video by Miniminuteman

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Reality check: "Women's hard won rights": - did NOT include defining women by biology, the slogan was "biology is not destiny!" - did NOT seek sex segregation, they fought for inclusion of women - did NOT advocate "sex-based rights", they fought AGAINST that and FOR equality regardless of sex

People who don't write books assume writer's block is staring at a blank page with zero ideas. In truth it's invariably the opposite. Writer's block is when a dazzling array of options become tyrannical, team up with an unwillingness to fail, mug you in a dark alley and stick a bag over your head.

Again: the greatest threats to national security, global order, civil society, human rights, & human well being are ultra-high net worth individuals. They are the ultimate insider threats!

Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 5d ago

A dark day for human rights.

A dark day for human rights.

I expect every single one of my followers to give these people the feedback they deserve and I'm not joking.

A Mere Solicitor@ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 6d ago

Here is the link to tell them why you won’t be supporting them: www.amnesty.org.uk/contact-us/

Until a millionaire backed anti rights group threatens you with court action.

I bang on about this, but this is an initiative across industries to convince consumers that persistent surveillance is a benefit to the user when it’s actually an attempt to turn consumers into a constant source of data (far beyond the ways we currently are).

please look out for each other man. i need you guys to be checking each other when folks get frisky with conspiratorial disinfo. you might think it’s harmless or less bad than what’s going on there but anything putting cracks collective fact is happening on top of fascists wielding sledgehammers.

There should be a law precedent, call it the "come on now" precedent, where if over one hundred people come out with credible allegations against you, people can stop calling them allegations.

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.

New BBC investigation. Four women accuse Jared Leto of criminal sexual conduct www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Not personal: e.g. IMO, this work is incoherent, superficial and badly-written. Personal: e.g. You're ugly. You're hideous. Your tattoos are ugly. You're a bitter old woman. You're jealous. You're evil. You're ungrateful. You should shut up forever. I hope you die. I hope this helps!