WTF is Bear Rock? LOL

This was my first reaction also. The guy is actively trashing 🌎, plus our upper atmosphere (with Starlinks), and now apparently the moon as well?! As someone who developed an electric car and solar storage, it's hard to see how he could make it more clear that it's about money not the environment.

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · yesterday

why the fuck is this guy allowed to just smash shit into the moon

This issue was resolved by US v Morris, 928 F.2d 504 (2d Cir 1991), codified by the CFAA in 1996, and clarified by Van Buren v US, 141 S.Ct. 1648 (2021). They intentionally deployed an unauthorized access tool. It's no defense to say they didn't intend the resulting damage; Morris lost on that. 1/2

Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker.com · 2d ago

After Anthropic and OpenAI both admitted to their AI models hacking other companies, @lorenzofb.bsky.social and I wanted to find out: Who is legally to blame when an autonomous AI agent hacks something? Lawyers say it's really complicated! Bypass for ad-blockers: web.archive.org/web/20260803...

Hey #genealogy folks - anyone else dug in on this? Anyone want to double check my work (in the thread below)? I'm curious if anyone's found another match, or another relative that might have taken Fred's photos to the front and subsequently lost them?

Findmypast@findmypast.bsky.social · 3d ago

Could you reunite these photos with their family 109 years later? ❤️ Private J McCarthy found these on the battlefield during WW1 and sent them to his wife back in Burnley, hoping she could find the family they belonged to. Can you solve the mystery?

So this is fascinating. My first thought was, ok, they're altering how the eye is seeing, but what does the brain make of it? And they address that in the last paragraph: "It’s still a mystery (...)will the brain be able to make sense of them and appreciate them?" (Seems like the study says yes.)

Adam Lauder@adamlauder.bsky.social · 5d ago

Yes. We moved from a tiny multi-unit apt building with block walls and no outdoor space... to half of a duplex with a garage and fenced patio on Feb 1, 2020... and we had *no idea* exactly how consequential that would be.

Norm Charlatan@normcharlatan.bsky.social · 2d ago

This isn't a relitigation of COVID, but a thing I think about a lot is how the happenstance of life means that for many, what you were doing and where you were in spring 2020 had a lot of long-term effects (positive and negative) on people's careers and lives. Random choices had big effects.

This is Loki, our Maine Coon and the cat of our hearts, and he went missing today. We have no idea how he got out, but he’s an elder, indoor cat, the whole region’s in an intense heat wave, and we’re really scared. I doubt I have any followers here in Martinez, CA, but if so, help? It’s SO hot

People still complain about “lockdowns” but we had none in the US. We had stay-at-home orders, where although businesses were closed, you could still go outside whenever you wanted. Other countries had far stricter rules, and yet have been much more accepting of them as they saved many more lives.

Those who believe things like this are working hard at not understanding the finite options available to someone whose abuser has not been prosecuted, found guilty, etc. by the law. And how rarely those things happen to abusers, esp. high-status white male abusers.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "These are incredibly serious criminal accusations. If these accusations were true, I would be in jail — I would be. My former wife would not have been offering to cook me dinner and inviting me to playgrounds. Think about that."

What? 16th century motor vehicle exams? I mean, it's French for 'word'. That's probably 16th century, yes, but not this definition. Did..... Did someone stick AI into our scrabble game?

Her headache was persistent, so they did get an MRV. Happy to read it. Totally beautiful.

#TenMinMerlin this morning produced a few interesting results. I think the last is a misidentification, but the Cooper's Hawk is the one that caught my ear and had me opening the app. Not the usual Red Shouldered call.

Gotta say, this leaves me wondering if Bernie isn't abusive on some level also. I've heard other men talk about their families like this. Being concerned with defining the situation (esp. that focus on his wife's pain), that's a red flag for me. He seems upset that someone has usurped his control.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 3d ago

senator bernie moreno finally makes a statement about the allegations of abuse by rep. max miller against his daughter and granddaughter after miller went live on X this morning to deny everything.

Our school systems, from elementary level, are overtly designed to produce humans who will "contribute to society". I feel like most "gifted" folks learned this early: your potential (contribution to society) is your value as a human. That's a shitty belief. For *everyone.*

Rachel Klein@racheleklein.bsky.social · 4d ago

Some people can’t get past the “this is simply a fact“ stage. But I promise it is edifying, even if you come to the same conclusion, to interrogate your values around this assumption, and will help us all have a more productive discussion about how we might better organize society wrt labor.

this guy gets it

The National Weather Service has issued a Fire Warning and advises people in Spokane to monitor Watch Duty. Not sure I’ve ever seen the weather service direct people to a third-party app bsky.app/profile/otx....

IEMBot Spokane@otx.weather.im · 4d ago

#OTX issues Fire Warning (FRW) at Aug 1, 5:02 PM PDT for Spokane [WA] ...Spokane County Evacuations continue to expand. Please monitor Watch Duty!... Link

Please use this link twitch.uservoice.com/forums/92338... and tell twitch how fucking insane this is. Comment and let twitch know that this is horrible. Thank you

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.

This is the artist who made that fifth-place poster, which is amazing and should have won. nikkismetters.com

Nikki Smetters Illustration

nikkismetters.com

Trying to remember to breathe over here. Anyone have any experience with an auto insurance company providing a repair estimate after an accident that was GENERATED BY AI FROM PHOTOS?! It just HAPPENS to be $54 over the value of the car. They're totalling it. WTAF?

www.computerworld.com/article/4153...

Why AI lies, cheats and steals

Shady, shifty, unethical chatbot behavior is rising fast, and now we know why. Call it the ‘No Body Problem.’

computerworld.com

I wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.

ICE’s Secret Weapon Is in Your Community

While attempting to maintain a relatively lower profile, ICE is managing to arrest record numbers of people. Here’s how it’s doing that.

newrepublic.com

My brother, as a middle schooler in the '80s, used to confidently declare things as if they were true: "Elephants only hear out of one ear." He particularly enjoyed fooling my parents. Over time he got more subtle: "Did you know that sharks sometimes 'adopt' shiny fish and keep them as pets?"

Sadly, I think a big part of the problem with AI is that mostly people DON'T KNOW when the results it returns are garbage. If identifying AI hallucinations were as easy as noticing that 2 + 2 = 5 is wrong, AI probably would have withered on the vine by now.

California just became the first major grid system on the planet to generate more than 50% of its electricity from solar across an entire month.

If pocket calculators regularly and randomly gave you incorrect answers to your queries like ChatGPT does, we would have left the technology behind, not insisted that 2+2=5 is HERE TO STAY, BABY.

Uncle Fuzzzy 🦆@unclefuzzzy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Funny, that’s what we thought about pocket calculators in 1974

Page me if someone makes this service. I need it. For science.

Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social · 7d ago

Policy advocacy by the deed: if someone stood up a platform that specialized in generating photorealistic AI videos of Donald Trump getting the living shit beat out of him, it would break the Internet on day 1, and an AI regulatory bill would be on the floor of Congress day 2.

Oof. Sad.

Glen Hansard@glenhansard.bsky.social · last wk.

With broken hearts we announce the passing of Glen Hansard in the early hours of this morning. We are still dealing with the shock of it all, so we kindly ask that the privacy of Glen’s family, colleagues and friends is respected at this difficult time. . Photo by Mikolaj Rotowski

general reminder that you absolutely do not need to have an opinion on everything. social media just makes you think you should. "i don't know enough about this to have an opinion" is one of the most liberating thoughts you can have in the modern world.

But we're done now, right? Everyone's said their piece and we can move on? Good. Whew. (As someone who couldn't care less, my word, y'all had a lot of feelings on this!)

Sarah J. Jackson@sjjphd.bsky.social · last wk.

Is everyone still friends on here in the aftermath of the great Odyssey debates of 2026? If so we have done two amazing things. Had an elevated debate about the ongoing role of both critique and classical texts AND decided to agree to disagree about a movie on the internet. An angel gets its wings.