The technology coming out of silicon valley is rancid because the people developing it are rancid. "Tools" are never neutral because "tools" are used by people operating in a society. And society has a power imbalance. So who gets to make the tools and decide how they're used? Not women. Not us.

Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 10h ago

NEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In several videos we reviewed, girls plead w/ the poster to stop filming. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Don't be trans. Don't be neurodivergent. Don't be chronically ill. Don't use a walking stick. Don't have anxiety, unless we can say your other illness is anxiety, then you can have anxiety. Don't diagnose yourself, but don't go on a waiting list. Don't waste doctors time. Don't have needs.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 23h ago

The Great ADHD Myth? review – the most controversial show of the year is here

Was listening to a podcast about the natural childbirth movement and was struck by the similarity in how women's experience of labour was policed in the early 20th C and how women's experience of illness is policed today. Apparently labour only caused pain because women were afraid of pain 1/3

Read a post asserting that designers working in tech are all depressed because they think they are going to be replaced by AI. No. We're depressed because of the fascism and end stage capitalism.

anyone talking positively about the tech industry right now falls into one of three categories and it's impossible to tell them apart: - guy who is lying to scam people - guy who fell for the previous guy's lies - guy experiencing a serious mental health crisis

I don't think people understand the extent to which this has been a decade plus long billionaire funded campaign (obviously Thiel is involved). We've tried to ring the alarm about these eugenicists but it is too easy for them to get parroted by the mainstream media. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...

The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday

The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network

bylinetimes.com

This is an interesting read on the watermark stuff from Anthropic. The most striking part is that the watermark solution directly contradicts any claims of true intelligence. True intelligence is not programmed, period. These are word slot machines. www.404media.co/anthropics-t...

Anthropic’s Text Watermarking Proves AI Companies Do Not Care at All About Writing

AI companies see words as interchangeable and have zero clue how to judge the “quality” of writing.

404media.co

it is so dispiriting to see an interview with Marc Andresson shared in the design slack channel as if he is a regular, decent human being that we should listen to.

The people making and selling these products don't care about anything but money. They don't care about learning, art, culture, human potential or communication. They don't care about the future. They believe in nothing and their souls are empty.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d ago

The extent to which these companies (and the people who represent them) are actively hostile to students cannot be overstated. “Students need to write well enough to have a sense of which A.I. text suggestions to accept and which to reject” is something to articulate if profit is the *only* motive.

EXCLUSIVE: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

Headlines: Such-and-such technology may someday be as smart as human brains! Reminder: *We already have human brains.* Billions of them. Most of them living in poverty and being exploited for the obscene benefit of a tiny number of the worst people in the world.

“[Moderates] are shifting the window of possibility in the wrong direction and pretending that they are doing nothing but observing natural forces. Wrong. We are the natural forces...The rich cannot fight everyone. They have to convince everyone not to fight.“ www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/against-se...

Against Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

The prize for asking for less is less.

hamiltonnolan.com

oh your entire industry is crumbling because of externalities outside your control? Have you thought of starting a patreon so that you have to do a bunch of extra work on top of that?

I’m not trying to hear about plagiarism from people who can’t get anything done without AI. You’re disqualified on this one. That plagiarism is bad is supposed to be a settled social belief. AI use muddies the whole thing.

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'.

Twelve years ago, jagoffs pretended to care about "ethics in video game journalism" and other jagoffs pretended to believe them. It worked so they didn't stop. We're tired of this game now, right? It's boring. It's insulting. From now on we go "lol no fuck off."

Shaenon K. Garrity@shaenon.bsky.social · 5d ago

Today let's all, as a species, agree to stop pretending to believe that right-wing trolls and fascists are arguing in good faith. This will fix at least 50% of all problems immediately. Thank you!

Listening to a podcast with three men talking about occult horror films, witches, feminism, me too, Epstein etc and YET SOMEHOW they all three agree that Rosemary's Baby is a brilliant film. It's fucking 2026 how is this happening? I feel insane.

There are few companies I despise more than Thames Water

One way to combat this would be to go completely still and silent until they give up and move on. This can work with all kinds of harassment*. *Not always and not everyone, etc etc.

Andrew Pope@andrewpope.bsky.social · 7d ago

I hate, hate these pervert glasses. Listen to this guy interrupting the filming of Cunk on Cinema. What an entitled dick.

Either vent to the outside or use HEPA filters, this is a solved problem technology wise but somehow the attitude is 'we have no choice but to boil and let people's exhaled air build up like a soup'

Really? Is that it? If this is all that’s come from COBR, it’s pitifully inadequate. As crisis deepens, it beggars belief that there aren’t eg plans to increase resources for the fire service, support for farmers, max workplace temperature, funded community cool spaces & obvs ban on new fossil fuels

Andy Burnham warns of summer ban on disposable barbecues

Andy Burnham said he would consider if a restriction on purchasing the products during the summer months could be justified

independent.co.uk

NEW: Housing Sec Angela Rayner took £20,000 in speaker fee from an anti-rent controls lobbying group just weeks before ruling out a rent freeze in what campaigners from London Renters Union have called a conflict of interest. Read all about it here: wefightthegoodfight.substack.com/p/rayner-tak...

Rayner takes payment from landlords before ditching rent controls

London Renters Union urges Housing Secretary to listen to renters

wefightthegoodfight.substack.com

If you’re tempted by the “AI summaries are just modern CliffsNotes” argument, please remember that CliffsNotes were written and edited by people who got paid to be accurate, not built on stolen data and extruded through a LLM that doesn’t know what truth is.

The DM screenshots are a really great example of how someone can be doing something really, really skeezy and frankly scary, but in a way that doesn't come off as that bad. It can be very disorienting for people when this happens to them, it's hard to take seriously. But it is serious.

Monkey D. Kewchie@astoldbyterry.bsky.social · last wk.

I can’t be surprised anymore.

This guy was one of the people who signed the Great Barrington Declaration, calling for an end to covid precautions and promoting mass infection in the name of 'herd immunity'. Much of the anti-vax, anti-masking, anti-lockdown, covid minimising misinformation can be traced to this guy

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Fox News, with an assist from NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, is trying to blame Fauci and covid vaccines for miscarriages

Bad news babe Nicholas Hoult is dead to us now. Yeah that guy you liked from Skins. He's in a Harry Potter now. No, its not the movies, its on HBO. Like a tv show. Yeah they color graded it like a Danish prestige murder drama for some reason. Looks like complete shit.

This is why you can't talk about the need to keep women skinny without talking about the need to keep women docile. It's also why cults use restrictive diets.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · last wk.

"We became more introverted/concerned about our own problems," says Bob Willoughby, another participant. "We were no longer concerned about the problems of the world. We weren't as concerned about helping others. Our thoughts were dominated by food" americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/wwi...

Saying it again: not everything is covid but it sure is bizarre how absolutely *nothing* is attributed to covid. Also btw the British Heart Foundation has had info on how covid affects the heart since at least 2023

Gregg Levine@greggjlevine.bsky.social · last wk.

Which highly infectious viral cardiovascular illness, one that has swept through the population in recent years, isn’t mentioned once in this story? I’ll give you three guesses, and the first two don’t count.