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Sean Scott

@oraclesean.com

Your database is down because you didn't listen to me. I put databases in containers so I can cook, buy knives, run & give dogs the life they deserve. He/him. Backup≠Recovery. Dogs>People. Trans Rights=Human Rights.

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Michael Okun@michael-okun.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If human editors can’t control who reviews science, it’s no longer peer review — it’s a rubber-stamp machine designed for volume and profit, not quality. I have no intention of attaching my name to it. So I’m out.

Sean Scott@oraclesean.com · 4h ago

"It can't be turned off." Really? If it can be turned on, it can be turned off. I think we all understand that automation can be *physically* deactivated, so what they're saying is that they *choose* not to turn it off. When do we learn to stop digging the hole?

Michael Okun@michael-okun.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 6d ago

"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."

Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington

I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities

theguardian.com

Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterday

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

pixie muledonkey ♥@pixiemuledonkey.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ed Zitron and Nik Suresh made a good point on Better Offline: pay attention to and keep track of those people who are using and boosting AI now, because when that bubble pops, they’re all going to suddenly pretend they were against it, or promote themselves as “cleaning up after AI” experts

CC Gene@ccgene.sheshed.rocks · 2d ago

I love my state. Californians can now delete their personal information from hundreds of data broker websites with a single request, under a first-of-its-kind state privacy program.

alex@dremenec.bsky.social · 2y ago

Generally we think of alt-text as the domain of those with accessibility needs. However alt-text is useful for many reasons, which benefit your viewers, as well as you, the creator!

An infographic. There are six panels. 1. "Slow internet. Alt text is shown in place of unloaded images." a drawing shows a phone with poor signal, and alt text is visible where the image should have loaded. 2. "Findabillity. Alt text helps to search content." A drawing shows someone searching 'dog with banana' and a post is shown underneath without the words 'dog' or 'banana'. It is implied to be part of the alt text. 3. "Screen readers. Alt is read out to people using text-to-speech software". There is a drawing of the output a screen-reader would show when viewing an image with alt text on bluesky. 4. "Translation. Alt text can be translated". A drawing shows a post being translated. The alt text is also translated into german. 5. "Readability. Text in images can be made legible" There is a drawing of some truly awful handwriting inside a speech bubble. The alt text clarifies what the text is supposed to say. 6. "Disambiguation. Description helps clarify intent." There is a drawing of a post with a picture of a creature. This is styled after the famous optical illusion of a rabbit and a duck. The alt text clarifies that the animal is a rabbit. It definitely looks more like a duck.
Sherry CD-ROM 🏳️‍⚧️@sherrycdrom.bsky.social · 5d ago

i'd like to give you a free encylopedia! the fun twist: 1% of the entries are completely wrong! isn't that great? each time you flip a page it poisons the water supply. the encyclopedia is also Racist and has CSAM in it. lastly, if you don't use it at your job, you'll get fired.

Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 7d ago

"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.

futurism.com

Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 7d ago

I’m just basing this on what other species do when one of their own goes rogue but I feel like if a guy’s business model involves making everybody stupid & gatekeeping the collectively earned knowledge of humankind in order to charge people for it we kind of have to rip apart & eat that guy.

Dylan Roth@dylanroth.bsky.social · 7d ago

“We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.” - Sam Altman. I will never stop thinking about how nakedly evil this is, and it has framed every single AI headline I’ve read since.

Sean Scott@oraclesean.com · last wk.

Occam's Razor means that the best explanation for the course of some people's lives is 'once angered a witch and is now haunted by an ancient, mischievous imp.'

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last wk.

roald dahl's grandson is a former london-based journalist who once freelanced for the daily dot and then married princess raiyah of jordan during covid but then got divorced and moved to the US where he became a cop in south carolina and just married an american tiktoker

The Nerdskull@nerdskull.bsky.social · 2w ago

I usually agree with Cory Doctorow but I think he is wrong here. The fact that AI can only work by consuming the creative work of humans that is appropriated without compensation, then then sold as a service without the humans whose work was used being given a cent makes the tech itself wicked.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2w ago

As *tech*, AI isn't exceptional. It's not exceptionally wicked. It's not exceptionally good. Take away the accompanying, galactic-scale stock-swindle, and we'd call AI's apps "plug-ins" and we'd use them and abuse them in the same way that we've used every other technology: www.normaltech.ai 1/

A carny barker waving his top-hat and selling tickets from a roll; his head has been replaced with the hostile red eye of HAL9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The background is a magnified, halftoned detail from a US$100 bill. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en