Day job day 3 update: so far so good I think? less tired than I expected but still pretty damn tired I don't know how I'll fare long term but this is still better than just tolerable, if that makes sense? the cons are all minor cons. thanks for the support throughout this change y'all <3

I can only speak for myself and I'm biased (as someone whose primarily interest is ecology and habitat conservation first) but my entire academic job at the moment is writing analysis code and developing software tools for data analysis and I definitely think the harms outweigh the time saved

Lora Kolodny@lorak.bsky.social · 8h ago

just as developers should not make false equivalencies and claim positive impacts of AI justify or outweigh all harms, those of us not using the coding tools or benefitting otherwise should not overlook how much they can help.

being in devops, i'm still not convinced they help at all anytime you produce output divorced from understanding, you create more work for yourself or someone else down the line the problems AI coding tools create at scale will always outpace whatever problems they solve

Sigh first day of work went fine but turns out we get paid on the last of the month meaning i am gonna be hurting still for a while

About to go live for my Sunday night cooking stream! We're gonna halfass our way through some yakitori adjacent chicken and do some meal prep for my first week at work! twitch.tv/lyarrah

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ok but would anyone watch "skyscrapers ranked by how good it would feel to scratch your back on it like a bear"

day2 ： Rainbow-bearded Thornbill Chalcostigma herrani #AvianAugust #AvianAugust2026 #art #illustration #水墨画 #inkwash #inkwashart #birdart

What I hate about COVID downplayers is… you won okay. In the aftermath of humanity coming together to develop the most crucial vaccines of our lifetime & collectively sacrificing to save lives, we are now less safe, less vaccinated & less empathetic than ever. You won ok. Lay down your swords.

When covid surged schools couldn’t stay open. That’s just what happened.

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 5d ago

There are working class and vulnerable kids who will never have the life they should have had because of school closures. Let’s address that too, shall we?

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

Days and days of ceding a bit at a time who we are, what we value, in the name of survival. That is what the fascists do. On purpose.

Over and over the cycle repeats: Bad tech do bad thing Politicians: make bad tech not to bad thing? Companies: no bad thing make money Politicians: ah okay keep doing bad thing just add more spy

Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · 5d ago

The new CHATBOT Act doesn’t just require parental permission for teens to use AI. It requires AI companies to build monitoring systems that store and analyze entire conversations, creating new privacy risks for entire families. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

It really is fascinating that businesses are STILL trying to adopt GenAI despite the fact that it is clearly failing to produce any meaningful savings for them. Not only that, but the public backlash against it has been STAGGERING. It is a money losing proposition.

About the only paths we have to fighting back are leaving comments, though I'm in favor of a strike as well. twitch.uservoice.com/forums/92338...

Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg · 5d ago

Twitch and Amazon are apparently planning to use streams to train Generative AI. Multiple sources tell me it will be announced in the coming months, despite some internal friction against it. Creators may be able to opt out of some training data.

Sharing my games again to motivate myself to get my next one released this weekend! It just needs the layout finished, I've been stuck there for weeks!

Lyarrah@lyarrah.bsky.social · last mo.

First up is Doomscrying! This is a goofy little dice roller about witches who would rather be pondering their orbs than doing their magical chores. Designed for 2-6 players but playable with any number including solitaire lyarrah.itch.io/doomscrying

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what also chaps my ass, equally as much as him betraying the entire science communicator community, is that he was forcing his fact checker team to fly around and try to clean up after his bullshit. They had no clue and had to be like "well I'm sure he knows but we can't find that info". Untennable

Anyway, your problem isn‘t finding the time to take notes. The problem is that taking notes is thinking and thinking has to be done by someone. women have been doing a lot of metacognition that looks like a task when it’s really thinking.

The very people who accuse others of "staying silent" are SILENT THEMSELVES ON 1000 issues a day which is NORMAL because you are ONE PERSON & simply cannot have takes on every single thing.

can we sometimes be asking "what qualifies this guy to speak on this subject?" or has that ship sailed

Live at an absolutely absurd for me for the start of BEDROCK LEGENDS Season 4! Let's see how long I can last in hardcore alongside 40+ other players! twitch.tv/lyarrah

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Sometimes it's not that no one is helping, it's that they are and the task is even bigger than you imagine it to be.

Reporting shouldn't need to tell "both sides" if there's a more objective truth, in this case the research that shows yes, separated bike lanes are safer. There is no need for "advocates say," except to make it look less valid, when it shouldn't be.

The War on Cars@thewaroncars.bsky.social · 6d ago

It's not just advocates who say this. Researchers, studies, and data say it. That's why advocates say it. Reporters can just say it, too!

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I find it pretty depressing that we just totally gave up on even pretending to care about distracted driving. There should not be pop-up text notifications in your car! 🙃

The War on Cars@thewaroncars.bsky.social · 5d ago

As we mentioned in our episode with @ianloader.bsky.social, just the fact that Apple CarPlay shows your text messages with the little red number circle practically instructing your brain to tap on it should be regulated out of existence. podcasts.apple.com/lu/podcast/r...

EOTWR mixtape vol. 1 is now recorded and up for you guys to enjoy! Here's both sides of the tape, enjoy the bops the Audience and I added. 💚 music.youtube.com/playlist?lis... music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Mixtape Vol. 1 (Side A)

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99% of the time, when someone accuses you of selective outrage, it’s a way of politically demobilizing you and shutting you up “Why are you angry about data centers instead of fast fashion” isn’t about making you care about fast fashion. It’s about shutting you up about data centers And visa versa

if you're doing women's sports transphobia from a "good faith" place it means you are gullible and stupid in a way that means bad faith actors can turn you like a heat seeking missile towards minorities so i'm not really sure how thats better

US Courts… ‘The Anthropic copyright case set the precedent — the US court ruled that by making a digital copy and destroying the physical in a one-for-one transfer, the process is deemed “transformative” and therefore protected by fair use.’ Unbelievable and unconscionable