Complex software behaving in unexpected and sometimes harmful ways has been a persistent problem since software was invented. The phenomenon used to be called “bugs” or “defects”, but I guess “going rogue” sounds cooler. It also implicitly frames “rogue” behavior as some kind of inexplicable […]

New dog hat get!!! Radioactive rubber fox in your area. @symbiyotecreations.bsky.social

they have such expressive faces too!

The friends who like you because you're passably normal are never gonna be as fun as the friends who love you for being your unapologetically weird self

Duino D. Duck@mainmandarin.leftfield.city · last wk.

"Making new friends as an adult is so hard!!" ok but have you tried being a freak online

“It’s important for the public to have access to this information and to see how private AI companies are shaping access to healthcare,” EFF’s Lena Cohen told @seattletimes.com.

Documents show ‘staggering’ denial rate for Medicare AI program in WA

Medicare's new AI-enabled program denied more claims than it approved during a rocky rollout, leaving patients who were in pain to wait out a long appeals process.

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From all of my @pyropecostumes.bsky.social fursuit siblings and I that were at #Megaplex26, Happy #FursuitFriday! ✨❤️

Hugs

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2w ago

Norfolk Southern’s CFO “said fuel prices at the present time are like something out of ‘science fiction.’” $NSC

Phew, what a relief.

vertical aspect SMPTE color bars are sending me to the bad place

Anthropic Is building a surveillance system to monitor activists using a “pre-crime” approach that tries to predict incidents before they happen. The extensive monitoring system that the AI company is building is aimed primarily at keeping tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of AI.

Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect

New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.

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Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature

Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

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Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

At the Antimatter Factory at CERN there are vacuum cleaners in cages. Those cages are there because when you vacuum the experiment hall, you might pick up some radioactive material, and so the vacuum has to be in a time out until enough half-lives of the contaminant have elapsed.

Looney Tunes is queer media ❤️🏳️‍🌈

you and me

Lio@liossar.bsky.social · 4w ago

Despite everything, it's still you

This is why you shouldn't trust a service that claims to "delete scans of your ID" once they're verified. a provider to Hertz and many other US companies just got popped. krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-...

Meta just settled big in court over social media harms to kids, which is good news and …bad news. Let’s get into it. #Section230 #AgeVerification #OnlineIDChecks

made A Thing with a domain I've been meaning to do something with for years. go to foxgirls.download for fox photos :3 accepting contributions via github.

Oh that’s awesome! IG: @officialkingsreturn Dallas, Texas

Today an automated system at work cut me a ticket because a VM my team doesn't own needs a kernel update, and the only reason it decided it was my job to do is because I was the last person to log into it 😭 Anyways I can't log into it anymore xD

We often throw the term "Extremely Online" around a lot, often as an insult to mean someone who's slightly more Online than the speaker. So, I tried to put some philosophical handles on it. Behold: an exhaustive definition that explains why Extreme Onlineness fucked us.

Extremely Online: A Definition

Becoming Extremely Online is a choice: one that fewer of us should make.

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God dammit, Dolly Parton has died. From everything I've ever learned, she was a genuinely good person who used her fortune to make the world a better place. A study even confirmed it earlier this year skepchick.org/2026/02/stud...

Study: Dolly Parton is the Greatest

Everything is terrible, obviously, and I have been getting particularly fed up with the general state of literacy I’m seeing in the world. And considering that for some reason my video about the Fo…

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“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” – Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton with Keith Haring in 1985, incredible woman and supporter of LGBTQ people for decades going back to a time when few others dared.

i was recently reminded that this connector is real, and can hurt you.

This is such a wholly unacceptable attitude. Hire the expertise you need. Stop making excuses. @mtcbata.bsky.social In an area full of software PMs and engineers, did MTC look for help? Everything they've said indicates they consigned themselves to helplessness.

Warren Wells, AICP@warrenjwells.bsky.social · last mo.

A BART station agent called the botched Clipper 2.0 rollout, "the worst systemwide morale killer amongst agents since I started working here.” www.kqed.org/news/1209624...

that tracks

hi, musicologist here: this is a cars problem not a music problem

CNN@cnn.com · last mo.

A new study, published in the journal JAMA Network Open, found a 15% increase in traffic fatalities on the days major new albums are released, compared with the days immediately before and after. https://cnn.it/4g2Sl1d

I think what pisses me off the most with AI and art is I've been trying to get other artists to stop being copyright maximalists and embrace creative commons-like stuff and then like These fuckin people They ruined fair use How am I supposed to get anyone to think freeing your IP is cool anymore