This needs to be a bigger story. Google Docs is no longer safe for copyrighted material. Any writer on contract needs to stop using it *immediately*.

Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced!@bogiperson.bsky.social · 9h ago

Google Docs leaks private information - www.reddit.com/r/IndieDev/c...

This has been studied quite a bit, the solar panels create a sort of greenhouse effect for the plants underneath them while also generating energy which feels like it should be cheating but is real and literally only has upsides.

Dr Earhart Sampson PhD 🌎 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🇲🇽 🇩🇰 🇺🇦@earhart.bsky.social · 3d ago

Massachusetts farm installs 832 solar panels above berry fields, and the berries grown underneath turned out sweeter and juicier and could change the future of American farming - The Economic Times share.google/GDGqQBgisqhG...

While the SCREEN Act failed in the committee, KOSA did move forward. Contact your senators immediately demanding it be opposed, and keep the pressure up until it comes to a vote in the Senate

Fight for the Future@fightforthefuture.org · 15h ago

The Senate Commerce Committee just passed KOSA out of committee with zero debate & failed to move the SCREEN Act. punchbowl.news/article/tech...

Isekai as a genre is exploding in popularity because it appeals to a universal desire to get hit by a truck rather than live in the 21st century.

buddy i have never used it. i don't know how to use it. i don't know if it's an app or what. i will never use it. if it disappeared today i'd go out and celebrate because it being gone would be instantly great for the planet and humanity

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · yesterday

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

Just crossed the terminal: Microsoft disclosures suggest that OpenAI is about 70% of AI sales! If only someone had said something

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 2d ago

Analysts estimate that 70%+ of Microsoft, Google and Amazon's present and future AI revenues are from Anthropic and OpenAI's compute spend and model sales. Outside of two unsustainable AI labs, demand barely exists, and they've massively overbuilt capacity. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-deman...

Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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Body isn't even cold yet

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · yesterday

Goodnight

Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

It will be worse than this! Most websites will be forced to ask you to send your ID to a third party surveillance service, adding a credit card won't be enough for most. Bluesky asks for your *social security number* if you live in Texas now, due to this shit. Call in, and kill it.

Eromancer@eromancer.bsky.social · 4d ago

This will be the US if the SCREEN Act passes. Call your Senators before August 5 and tell them that you oppose the SCREEN Act, KOSA, and the KIDS Act. Use the official lookup tool at www.senate.gov/senators/sen... to find yours by state.

never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.

I get that most ppl won't know this, but this website is a News Corp site and this journalist in particular is a really really nasty piece of work. Please share the original @404media.co that NC is copying for clicks 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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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

The world is full of people who insist "AI is changing everything" but who - when pressed - have to admit that what they mean is that they're pretty sure that AI *will* change everything. Eventually. After we allow it to consume all the planet's energy, carbon, water and financial resources. 8/

Suresh says he's *never* seen a successful enterprise AI project: "Every single one – we have seen 0% success in a year and a half." Not one of their clients would face a business challenge if OpenAI went out of business tomorrow. 27/

Trevor Project's CEO making 400-700k a year makes a lot more sense once you realize they're actually secretly an investment fund on the side

LOT'S WIFE, THE CHAIR LEG OF TRUTH, PhD@yiff.com · 3y ago

at a glance over their financials, this is probably why they pivoted so anti-union in the 2021-2022 fiscal year they have a board designated operating reserve of $33.84M. their net assets, however, went some $16M over this. instead of... paying people, they blew it on mutual funds/stonks

A late contribution to #OubingzhaWeek2026. They're playing extreme jianzi #Nezha #AoBing #哪吒之魔童闹海 #哪吒之魔童降世

ideal way to communicate with an employer

Space Leech @ Otakon@spaceleech.bsky.social · 4d ago

At the Ghost in the Shell panel. Not even the screenwriter and producer have seen Shirow in the flesh. Shirow communicates only by photographing hand written notes and sending jpegs to his editor, who relays info to the staff.

I know it's a delusion machine created to weaken and imprison people's mind in a state of self congratulatory numbness and disinformation but we are the good guys, very smart and unbiased people and we can use the delusion, self congratulatory numbness and disinformation for the good

Anyway I said this in June last year and I’m not a top-billed science communicator with inroads at PBS…

Alex Arrelia@alexarrelia.bsky.social · last yr.

The mere fact that genAI only succeeds at producing a usable product only sometimes, means that when it works, a user gets the same dopamine reward as hitting the jackpot, which then only reinforces the behaviour. They’re replacing thinking and creating with gambling.

This bill is legitimately the thing we've been waiting for. Forcing AI to reveal it's sources would cripple it, because it literally can't comply with the law, because all of it is stolen- they didn't record it Please sign to hasten the bubble popping

Zachary Berger@zacharyberger.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Black Forest Labs (like Stability AI) likely took a bunch of work off the internet in order to train their AI. A bill in California would force transparency in their dataset. Want to help it pass? Please sign this petition in support, it'll take you 2 minutes: tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 1/

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

if you know enough about AI to make videos about it & still elect to use it for your own personal benefit, i hope it turns your legacy the color of the water in morgan county

i just don’t understand how you can see with your own eyes what data centers are doing to communities with zero means to protect themselves & not feel the weight of every prompt on the core of your being as the scale sinks and the feather rises

I can theoretically see how they came to many of the conclusions I came to and wrote tens of thousands of words about months ago in this piece on their own, but it's a little surprising to see the Times write something so similar to a piece I wrote two weeks ago www.wheresyoured.at/the-openai-b...

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d ago

Three-byline alert: 🚨 “.. a year and a half after his triumphant trip to the White House, Ellison may be poised to become something else: a cautionary tale. .. Ellison is personally worth .. $200 billion less than he was at his peak ..” @nytimes.com $ORCL www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/m...

This guy isn't scrabbling to produce content on no budget. He has money. He could hire a research assistant.

A. K. Venrinn@venrin.bsky.social · 6d ago

Omg not Hank Green using AI for research and calling to his “bad habit” 💀😭🤡

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders. Aluminum is an ADJUVANT. It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine. That’s it.

isekai about a magical fantasy medieval times person with the appraisal skill transported to the modern world to become wildly successful at thrifting

UNION UPDATE: tl;dr Dark Horse leadership is attempting to reduce union membership by claiming supervisory status for Senior Editors, who have never been allowed management roles. 🧵

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If anyone uses Stripe to get payments, go to your Settings (Gear icon) > Plans and Fees > Radar (View plan details) > View Plans > Scroll to "More Options" and select "Lite" I want none of the money I earn to go to AI if I can help it.

💜 Noz 💜 Bust-up Commission Slots Open!@nozdraws.art · 7d ago

nice, now Stripe is auto-opting people into a nickel charge per transaction for "AI-enhanced" protection shit they never asked for you can change it back to their free "Lite" version, but the fact that it's opt-out by default is so fucking annoying