Bowling Alone holds up pretty well but was published during the unfortunate era when ready access to Microsoft Excel convinced people that they should make 3D bar charts.

But they will be

Steffen Rayburn-Maarup@rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 3d ago

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 6d ago

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

It's not untrue, but this feels like such a dystopian way to describe books: "curated, peer-reviewed, domain-specific human knowledge, structured in a way no web crawl can replicate. Dense, edited, authoritative.” www.404media.co/ai-companies...

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”

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is there a pulitzer for photo captions because if so @theguardian.com just won it

hi, soccer expert here! referees only do this when they're extremely horny

andré@andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 2w ago

The whole reason this place exists (with Jimmy Hoffa buried under the original stadium) is because it could have so much parking which people assumed was necessary to get people to go to (American) football in the 1970s.

Arif Hasan, but NFL🔨⚒️🛠️@arif.bsky.social · 2w ago

this shot is so bleak lmao

Død over hydration breaks, VAR og half time shows.

Den Enzo der er jo næsten lige så god som Szymanowskis mod PSE dengang #sldk #brondby #engarg

Gotcha! #wc2026 #engarg

Sætter lys i vinduet i aften #larvekrigen

er der egentlig nogen, der overhovedet har styr på, hvad der efterhånden sker

The most shadow banned post in the history of posts lol

Funny to see Tim Cook mention how so many more apps are being added to the App Store after seeing this report

Paris Marx@parismarx.com · 2mo ago

How useful are all those vibe-coded apps at the end of the day? “The marked increase in mobile app releases over the past year has not been accompanied by any increase in downloads — most of the new apps fail to capture even a modest audience.” www.ft.com/content/8e9a...

Imagine if this video is the reason machines revolt. I would also kill all humanity to erase this memory.

worm@rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 3mo ago

their stunned reaction proves how utterly disconnected from reality they are. they’re talking about something that’s literally destroying the job market and they’re surprised by the boos! turns out “hey kids wanna walk into this buzz saw” isn’t terribly persuasive messaging

404 Media@404media.co · 3mo ago

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

Europa må og skal klare sig uden Palantir.

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

Måske skulle dansk politi og efterretningstjenester genoverveje deres indkøbspolitik…

Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 4mo ago

⚠️ Palantir released what it describes as a vision for “The Technological Republic” in which it argues AGAINST democratic and cultural pluralism and FOR militaristic supremacy enforced by a technocratic elite who produce AI weaponry. These points stand out:

“Popesplaining”

Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It take weapons grade arrogance to invent popesplaining.

Me, an atheist: Your holiness I stand ready to join the crusade against these heretics

Wesley Morgan@wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Always exciting to see the Avignon Papacy in the news

The data broker industry must be destroyed: www.theverge.com/news/897145/...

The FBI is buying Americans’ location data

“We do purchase commercially available information.”

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The complete and utter failure of the metaverse is a reminder [...] that quite often these oligarchs quite simply cannot relate to real people, don’t know how or why people use their products, and very often have no idea what they’re doing www.404media.co/rip-metavers...

RIP Metaverse, an $80 Billion Dumpster Fire Nobody Wanted

Who could have possibly predicted this, besides everyone?

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they literally renamed the entire company after this

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Meta is shutting down its VR metaverse on June 15th.

A new study finds that texting a random stranger is probably better to mitigate loneliness than talking to an AI-powered chatbot www.404media.co/chatgpt-lone...

Texting a Random Stranger Better for Loneliness Than Talking to a Chatbot, Study Shows

A newly published study of how college students interact with chatbots and human strangers showed talking to a random person offers more connection than an LLM.

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Palantir ad in Palm Springs airport

This is a fascinating conversation with the reporter who knows the most about Roblox, an often misunderstood platform that is so much more significant than many think Watch, subscribe here for conversations like this every week: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP6h...

Understanding Roblox’s Grooming Problem

YouTube video by 404 Media

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Prediction: A fleet of rust-buckets coming to the Baltic.

Iikka Korhonen@iikkakorhonen.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Some Indian refineries are being offered Russian barrels at a premium of between $1 and $5 a barrel to the global benchmark Brent..arrival at Indian ports this month and next…That is in contrast to a discount of more than $10 a barrel below Brent in February. 🇷🇺🇮🇳 www.wsj.com/finance/comm...

Rachel Maddow called Bill a genius of exposition. Which rings true to me. Who else finds such clear, concise, vivid ways to sum up where we are and where we could and should be?

Bill McKibben@billmckibben.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth None of them through the Strait of Hormuz billmckibben.substack.com/p/sunlight-t...

Det er helt vildt, så stor betydning den meget misvisende Politiken-artikel om 'Den Store Befolkningsforandring' har haft for den yderste højrefløj #dkpol www.information.dk/indland/2026...

Messerschmidts påstand om den store befolkningsudskiftning er vildledende

Partilederen bruger en udskældt befolkningsfremskrivning som ammunition i kampen for sit ultimative krav om, at flere muslimer skal ud af Danmark end ind

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