Kill this with extreme prejudice. Rarely do you see something so egregiously bad that has not just no societal value but degrades *everyone* involved
Alexandra Gallant-Lee@alexandragallant.com · 3d agoThis was genuinely disturbing to watch, it’s not even about poetry, it’s a video to teach children to prompt and do as little as they can get away with doing with the output before calling it a day.
*tightens clamp onto activation button *shoves controller in the back of filing cabinet in the disused lavatory down the broken stairs marked with the sign "beware of leopard" *Walks away whistling
Lol did this last week at a Thai place that brought free salad
☀️ Starshine@starshine.bsky.social · 5d agooh fuck me i accidentally ate lettuce
It's pretty impressive that 404's story put a stop to this pipeline to the wood chipper. As a former e-book production person, I just want to add some considerations about the *data* the AI companies were getting, and implications for the output.
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 6d agoIMPACT: that company that was offering to buy books for AI companies’ training data — and probably destroy them in the process — says it will no longer offer this service following 404 Media’s exposure of it www.404media.co/ai-company-t...
Utterly bananas. Google already killed their own search engine, now maps?
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 6d agoI used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:
Trump is shaking down corporations and billionaires. www.wsj.com/politics/pol... gift link
Exclusive | ‘The Boss Wants This Money’: Inside Trump’s Unprecedented Fundraising Operation
Meredith O’Rourke, nicknamed ‘princess of darkness,’ carries out the president’s desire to wring hundreds of millions from companies for his projects.
wsj.com
Not saying anything about the overall company ethos or pricing, but you can't deny Fishwife does a good job on the packaging front.
jess m. 🌤️@jametc.bsky.social · 6d agookay THIS is my boomer moment. THIS is my "we must retvrn" conservative hill I die on. we gotta go back to this packaging design. It's so gorgeous, so stark and vivid, you can tell from 10 feet which is which, absolute perfection in design. Packaging today is garbage. This is ARTWORK
A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
This is going to be especially devastating in residential settings, where disabled folks who require 24/7 care have often built bonds with long-time caregivers. And then all of a sudden that support is ripped away. It's just cruel on so many levels.
That Finger Lakes Riesling isn't going to drink itself
cait (and adonis)@cait.bsky.social · 2w agowhy did Odysseus not simply get on the highway ?
After intensive discussion I have concluded that it is necessary to build an entire Potemkin internet exactly as it appeared in 2005. You get Wikipedia, forums, news sites, whatever, but no short form video, social media, or AI. When you graduate college you get the password to the real Internet.
I kinda think it should be a career destroying scandal that the head of DHS (a department that shouldn't exist) is completely hallucinating hordes of drones that didn't exist that DHS didn't shoot down.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoMarkwayne Mullin on the World Cup: "We averaged over 30 drones that we brought down per game"
NEW: A second ex-wife of David Brouillette, the ICE agent who killed Joan Durán Guerrero in Maine, Lucinda Brouillette, issued a statement this morning. "If you were to ask me whether I believe David Brouillette is capable of this level of extreme violence, my answer is unequivocally yes." /
They’re going to lose, and it’s a matter of how much damage they do on the way out and whether we have the will to cut through republican bleating and whining when we hold them accountable for their many crimes
Yet another Kalshi offering that serves no legitimate economic purpose. It's not possible to make a rational bet on this without material non-public information. It's a market solely for fraud by both regulators and corporate insiders, and everyone connected to it in any way should go to prison.
Kalshi Will Offer Sports-Style Betting on Drug Trial Results
Kalshi Inc. is expanding in biotechnology by offering wagers on the outcomes of clinical trials and regulatory decisions, giving traders a more direct way to bet on key industry catalysts.
bloomberg.com
people keep calling those streaks tire tracks, but as far as i could tell last night it was just where the algae and other dirt stuck to the surface as the pool drained
Forbes@forbes.com · 3w agoThe president once again claimed, without evidence, that the Reflecting Pool’s floor was damaged by vandals and alleged “300 yards long” slashes on the surface.
ICE murdered a 26 year old father in Biddeford, Maine. It's the second ICE murder in less than a week—and just the latest in a series of attacks from Trump’s thugs. Horrific. Abolish ICE now.
The only problem with extraditing Marco Rubio to face justice for his many crimes is that it would be hard to pick which country gets to extradite him.
Wildly disproportionate response to Sam Neil's death
George Pearkes@peark.es · 3w agoThe President just announced a 20% toll on all cargo shipped through Hormuz, payable...to the US>
"Its swimsuit season", I whisper, eating another swimsuit
yeah, this is the collective process of trying to make the period of Wile E. Coyote running on the air in place go as long as possible bsky.app/profile/pete...
Peter Juul@petermjuul.bsky.social · 4w agoif wile e. coyote doesn't look down, he won't plummet to the bottom of the canyon
THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY
Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · last mo.BREAKING: in June 2026, *every single one* of the 1,062 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 7,727 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.
let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election
It’s 100 degrees outside in DC. People have been waiting in line for about 45 minutes to get into the “Great American State Fair”
the president’s biggest supporters in town for the celebration it looks like
Rafael M Batista@rafmbatista.bsky.social · last mo.Patriot front marching from Union Station right now. White supremacist and neo-fascist organization. Cowards.
