Great podcast, great episode. Give it a listen.

Brian Merchant@bcmerchant.bsky.social · 2w ago

This conversation with @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social couldn't be more timely. With the AI industry talking about *its own products' potential to cause human extinction* we drill into who might still want to build such technology, and why. Hint: it's in the title of their new book.

One for travelling #saintsfc fans to consider for today’s game. trailers.yarn.co/yarn-clip/40...

this is probably one of the most bewildering parts of the whole story - if you try and google these hallucinated references to see if they're real, often Google's AI summary will give you a summary as if it's a *real paper* making the whole issue worse

Nick Evershed!?@nickevershed.bsky.social · 4w ago

The situation is made more confusing by AI services including Google search. Previously, looking up an invented reference might produce results that would indicate the reference did not exist. Now Google’s AI summary will sometimes create summaries of a fake reference as though it were genuine.

Here is what the Israeli-occupied West Bank, not including a detailed look at occupied East Jerusalem, actually looks like in 2026. The International Court of Justice ruled in July 2024 that Israel’s nearly 60-year military occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza was illegal.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · last mo.

Frank Lowenstein, senior envoy on Israel-Palestine under the Obama administration, conceded in an article today published in the New Yorker that the two-state paradigm is basically dead and has been for years, rendering the same old rhetoric about supporting a 2SS fantastical without policy changes.

Good grief, this hits home.

At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.

Librarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech | TechCrunch

At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.

techcrunch.com

Here's my story from Pine Gap. "The fight to end the US military occupation of Australia (and the entire world)" It's a photo-essay this time because I took a tonne of pics, the country being this stunning, to help convey the Arrernte's struggle.

The fight to end the US military occupation of Australia (and the entire world) - The Shot

For 64 years – an insignificant speck of time under a sky this large – from a stolen, sacred site...

theshot.net.au

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

July 4th, 2026, Washington DC. Patriot Front ride the metro to their hateful little march. Her face sums it all up to me. A mixture of defiance and weariness. Both born out of lifetimes of having to put up with this shit. She knows only too well that America never stopped being a racist country.

Welp there’s no unseeing this

Excellent piece about the state of US culture. “Fallon is the court jester of the Anthropocene, a figure who invites us to watch celebrities play parlor games on stage while the air outside the studio begins to smell of tear gas and smoke.”

Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 5mo ago

"What Fallon offers is a standardized production of 'fun' that feels increasingly like a desperate plea to ignore the crumbling world outside the studio walls."

Well worth a read. It won’t necessarily make you feel better but a good way to start the journey back. #saintsfc

Glen de la Cour@glendelacour.bsky.social · 4mo ago

League 1 Minus 10. Diary of Arrogance, Delusion and Self-Sabotage. RPs appreciated. Didn't have much fun writing this I have to say and it's probably not covering everything. Happy playoff final day.

Was really looking forward to this weekend. But because Tonda and his goons bullied an intern analyst into spying on Boro, Saints have been kicked out of the playoff final. Absurd, disappointing, enraging. #saintsfc

As Angus Taylor begins his speech the Farrer Lib candidate wipes away tears to stop her mascara running. Not a great start #auspol

Witness the mesmerizing murmuration of starlings in Italy, a stunning display of nature's coordination and beauty as they dance through the sky in unison.

Come on Saints - keep up the good run! #saintsfc

Glen de la Cour@glendelacour.bsky.social · 6mo ago

League 1 Minus 10: 6 to Go - Derby Preamble. RPs appreciated #saintsfc back at St.Mary's against Derby

Finally a responsible headline. bsky.app/profile/artc...

Art Candee 🍿🥤@artcandee.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A+ headline.

I am genuinely sick to death of pretending this is somehow normal or expected. If you use LLMs to do any part of your writing, thinking or synopses (let alone art) you should be embarrassed and out of work.

I heard somebody say That the war ended today But everybody knows it's goin' still Our motherlands and motherseas Here's what we believe It's simple: we don't want to kill

Heard Somebody Say

YouTube video by Devendra Banhart - Topic

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“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” (Anon - often erroneously attributed to Dostoevsky)

Yanis Varoufakis@yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Albanese's latest report on the systematic, ubiquitous, soul crushing, permanent torture of Palestinians by Israeli authorities, soldiers & settlers is one that we can only turn our eyes away from at the price of losing what is left of our souls. END THE GENOCIDE. NOW! www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹) RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless

“To pretend that this visit from the president of a rogue genocidal project, booed at the Olympics and reviled around the world is apolitical is, frankly, insulting. “Do we get foreign dignitaries from any other nation into parliament to speak for mourning Australians during any other tragedy?”

David Milner@davemilbo.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Here's me. "Why the fuck would we 'socially cohere' for monsters?"

New Australia Institute research shows Australian high schools are the most expensive in the OECD. "I can't see any policy case for taxpayers giving money to a school that can afford an air-conditioned equestrian arena." @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

The NSW govt needs to elect a new public. Police say this one is not acceptable. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

We couldn’t possibly change the date. It’s just not something we do.

Grass roots. My @smh cartoon.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group 1) you are the audience, giving it prompts 2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt 3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And 4) it has the factual accuracy of improv 5) it does not understand comedy

Dr. Casey Fiesler@cfiesler.bsky.social · last yr.

This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I... Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…

Feeling pretty nervous given our recent second half performances. Should be winning this though. Come on you #SaintsFC

Entertaining game - should be ahead. Norwich a threat too. Ref losing control of it a bit - they should have a couple of yellows at least. Fraser a poor substitute for Fellows - he always wants to go backwards. #saintsfc