"ai" discourse exploits our social patterns. we don't owe polite consideration to people who are rudely barging into every private space at once you don't need to grant the premise that it's good for something somewhere to say that it's bad here in front of you

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 9h ago

I'm hoping it's #1, and also that as time goes on, more people will feel comfortable being out, open, and leadership providing LLM/"AI" haters. Like @aclanthology.org anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

genuinely, all forms of art have improved over my lifetime. the best music of new generations is better than the best music of past generations. same with movies, games, books, etc. the average of today is better than the average of yesteryear, too.

Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app · yesterday

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

Those famously untranslated games people have been dying to play in English for the first time ever for generations... *squints* Pokemon Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow. 🫩

Krokodyl@krokodyl.bsky.social · yesterday

I looked through the last 100 English fan translations published on RHDN (over 3 weeks), and at least 74 are AI translations. I didn't realize this was the current state of the hobby. Make of that what you will.

this is one hell of a way to put your thumb on the scale this was not a study comparing AI-generated reviews to human-reviews. this was a study comparing AI-generated reviews to AI-rewrites-of-human-reviews i'd even go so far as to say the authors of this piece are just plain lying

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · yesterday

"No matter how we look at the data, AI wins. It wins in 100% of the pairs overall when judged by another AI model...and 87% overall when judged by human journal editors... [H]umans agreed as much or more with AI’s judgment than they did with other humans" gking.harvard.edu/files/peerle...

one cannot be a billionaire and a good person the two things are diametrically opposed and we must eliminate every billionaire. tax these fuckers out of existence.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2d ago

If you thought Ben Lamm was a shithead, you underestimated him. He's worse. Genetically engineering any creatures, but dogs especially, to be weapons of war — it's unspeakable. www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

Oh, are AI haters becoming "unhinged" now? Does it seem like we're everywhere no matter what you do? Are we ruining being online for you? Are you feeling like you can't do anything without us making your experience worse? Is it like we can't be escaped even though you want nothing to do with us?

gotta be careful with conveying to kids that they're academically gifted. they might end up as elders on whatever platform comes after bluesky

Thomas [DARK MODE], DO 🫐@tom.medsky.social · 2d ago

Who's an edgy boi?

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

It broke my heart a little to hear SciAm was being sold off and butchered. I unsubscribed in June, and I recommend you do the same. Learning some of the details of what happened is certainly clarifying, but depressing. Science in this country is being silenced. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The Fall of “Scientific American”

When the beloved science publication got too political, its corporate owners stepped in. Now its future is uncertain.

thenation.com

I think we, as a society, need to go back to pointing out that 'elites' is often used as an antisemitic dog whistle

Dr. Catherine Strickson@brigitteempire.bsky.social · 3d ago

Billionaire living in a castle calls minority group she is paying hundreds of thousands of pounds of her own money to legislate out of existence ‘elitist’

i don't like thinking about things as inevitable, so on that i disagree with jessie however, you know, bush-clinton-w bush, w bush-obama-trump, and trump-biden-trump all kinda show a pattern. admittedly, in two instances that's 8 years of maintaining/expanding what repubs did rather than 4, so...

neuse river hag@neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 3d ago

youtubers, streamers, podcasters, etc are always on this beat bc they don't know how anything works & know that if they say something like this, their audiences will lap it up now & also 3 years later when they point to total gay commie revolution not happening and go "see? i was right!"

Excellent piece about the “zombie” science of “race realism” - the claim that biological races exist. It reviews two books which should “finally nail down the coffin” of this claim, covering its history and a careful discussion of the responsibilities of scientists when researching related topics

The “zombie science” of biological race realism

Review of Adam Hochman’s The Race Illusion and Lorusso and Winther’s Remapping Race in a Global Context.

academic.oup.com

kind of interesting he says Johann Sebastian but not William. as if Bach is either somehow some obscure person or such a common name in music that it could be ambiguous to whom he's referring to. either interpretation is just another bit of evidence of just how completely uncultured elon musk is

K. Thor Jensen@kthorjensen.bsky.social · 4d ago

grok what would a smart guy say

goddamn. capitalism just consumes and destroys. it does not create, it does not innovate, it does not facilitate growth. it is just an all-consuming ideology of death of destruction.

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · 3d ago

BREAKING: Electronic Arts is cutting 400 jobs and shutting down BioWare, the legendary development studio behind Dragon Age and Mass Effect. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

BREAKING: The hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau "will not move forward," the lead researcher says. “The solution is clear here: Take the money and vaccinate as many kids as you can,” @pauloffit.bsky.social told me: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Controversial US-backed vaccine trial in African newborns halted

Hepatitis B study in Guinea-Bissau that was to be funded by CDC and that drew global backlash ‘will not move forward’

theguardian.com

I want to write something about how major twentieth century antisemites from Hitler and Goebbels to conspiracist grand dame Nesta Webster regarded the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in a similar way as techofacists understand Golden Age scifi--as prophetic fiction.

gonna be talking about anti-vaccine science denial later and, in prepping for it i'm struck by how common but how unwarranted the narrative that "vaccines are a victim of their own success" is prior to covid-19, i can see the appeal. in the covid era we're in, though, that narrative can't fly

i've recently heard that some ai bros want to make an smw central alternative because we don't allow gen ai content on the site. here's my direct response to those people. "who owns rom hacking?" and other questions ai poisons us with shoujo.gay/who-owns-rom...

Holy cow. The Guinea-Bissau offices of the two Danish researchers who were funded by RFK Jr. to conduct an unethical experiment with the HepB vaccine just had their offices raided and vaccines seized by the police. Great work on reporting this story once again by @melodyschreiber.com.

RFK Jr’s ‘deities of vaccine research’ raided by police in Guinea-Bissau

Police seize doses of hepatitis B vaccine from people at center of dispute over research on African newborns

theguardian.com

so, tantalizing as the coverage of the PRRI's survey notwithstanding, the actual results are a tad more nuanced because some of the questions are, in fact, poorly worded. including this empathy question it's basically a semantic differential answer format but the anchors are not really opposites

Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · 4d ago

"A survey released Tuesday (Oct. 20) found that Republicans and evangelicals increasingly see empathy as a danger that can lead society away from God." religionnews.com/2026/10/20/a...

100% agree with Ajuna and Juanma "social murder" is something more people should learn about. whatever system you live under, you are enduring violence. it may not be a spectacle of bloodshed, it may be invisible. and you deserve to be protected from it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_...

Juanma is Creating Lightly 🎨🖌😬@creatinglightly.art · 5d ago

And Ajuna said it perfectly clear here. The fact that the violence they do, sometimes, is not "physically and immediately harmful" like hitting or bombing you, does not mean that suffocating you into poverty, despair and barely surviving is not violence. It's just a type that "doesn't bother" some

i think once a year i'm reminded of lists made by right-wingers of video games where the games are labeled as woke or not woke, and how they just reveal that right-wingers don't really know how to engage at all with video games as either a form of entertainment or of art

I have several colleagues who, like the author, are also External Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute and have been pushing AI very, very strongly in our unit. And I've become interested in SFI politics and funding ties. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The ultimate think tank: The rise of the Santa Fe Institute libertarian* - Erik Baker, 2022

Why do corporations and wealthy philanthropists fund the human sciences? Examining the history of the Santa Fe Institute (SFI), a private research institute fou...

journals.sagepub.com

closing the rape factories is collective punishment, which is against the geneva conventions you know

this is going to sound hyperbolic, but i do not mean it as such "parents rights" - and increasingly, "grandparents rights" - is a fascistic movement meant to reinforce hierarchical systems of blind obedience and to socially sanction domestic abuse children, including adult children, are people.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is a quietly metastasizing moral panic

at some point i just need to write the paper "does the conservative have a theory of mind?" because every day is just more and more evidence that no, they do not. and the evidence continues to accumulate that the drift towards conservatism causally inhibits theory of mind development and expression

I really need people to understand that saying that insulting my oppressors and their co-conspirators ‘doesn’t help the cause’ Calling it ‘a different flavor of prejudice’ Telling me to nicely persuade people who are doing violence to me - You’re saying my dignity is contingent on your feelings.

well, now we know one of the people who kash patel changed the FBI hiring procedures for

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last wk.

Tucker Carlson: "If you look at pornography enough or bestiality videos all day, after a while... it's kind of an attractive horse, I get it."

while we're on the topic of the flying cars bullshit, a reminder that elon musk sent an email on christmas morning to jeffrey epstein begging to be allowed to visit epstein's child rape island. just something to keep in mind as the press reacts to musk's grifts with slack-jawed awe and amazement

Yahoo Finance@yahoofinance.com · last wk.

"Flying cars are real!" 🚀 Elon Musk and Tesla showcase the new Roadster.