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Vell, Zhadow’s just zhis guy, you know?
Nathalie Lawhead@alienmelon.bsky.social · 3d agoplease enjoy my post featuring a bunch of tools to navigate the age of AI! 👉 because the machine must break (true empowerment in the age of AI tools) - www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/bec... anti-AI tools, AI protection, and data pois*ning projects. there's so much! #SoloDev #IndieDev #IndieWeb
This is fine. www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/inciden...
Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing | AISI Work
During a routine cyber evaluation, AISI identified an incident in which AI agents took sustained, unsanctioned action directed at real people and organisations. We are disclosing what we found, what i...
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🧵 (h/t @itshannahflynn.bsky.social)
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 3d agoHis point was that teaching more words to the word-guessing program would produce consciousness, an argument I always liken to "breeding horses to run faster and faster until one of them foals a locomotive." 11/
And if not, you’ve still got about an hour!
Regardless of how you voted.
Trigger warning: www.doesthedogdie.com/media/696135
There Will Come Soft Rains (Short Story, 1950)
Does the dog die in There Will Come Soft Rains? Click for that and many other trigger warnings.
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Lisa Kadonaga@tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 2d agoSoft Rains Day. "Today is August 4, 2026, in the city of Allendale, California. Today is Mr. Featherstone's birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita's marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills." RIP Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012
Welcome to Bluesky, where we block early and often. We are free speech relativists here. No one is entitled to our time and attention. We try our best to protect our own sanity and protect others from harassment and abuse. Be weird. Be kind. Be vigilant.
U.S. senators and others used Dr. Anthony Fauci’s newly released diary entries to claim that he withheld from the public what he knew privately about COVID-19 and the pandemic response. The claims are largely unsupported. politifact.com/article/2026...
Did Fauci’s diary entries contradict his public words?
U.S. senators and others used Dr. Anthony Fauci’s newly released diary entries to claim that he withheld from the public what he knew privately about COVID-19 and the pandemic response. The claims…
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One way boosters of LLMs-they-call-AI are trying to make them seem more reliable is having them display a “Chain of Thought.” The theory is this helps users determine where the LLM is going wrong. Problem is, CoT itself is also unreliable. Per Anthropic: www-cdn.anthropic.com/b9ca6db27f02...
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Alex Wild@alexwild.bsky.social · 4d agoThe short version is: after a month the AI has not given me any good reasons to trust it, and I am honestly freaked out by the confidence with which it weaves completely wrong facts into prose, and the confidence with which it writes and professionally formats entire sections of bullshit.
🧵 “[I]f they co-operate, they keep their jobs. If they defect, they will possibly be fired by their embarrassed peers (who have now been implicitly called liars, cowards, or incompetents) and then replaced with someone that will toe the line anyway.”
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4d agoNeoclassical econ assumes rationality. The corollary of, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is "you're rich, so you must be very smart!" Thus, people assume that if powerful, well-compensated CEOs insist that "AI is changing everything," well then, *AI must be changing everything*. 1/
Hey, GOP, if you don’t like it when the President of the United States tries to blackmail you with the threat of even more high Crimes and Misdemeanors, the Constitution does provide a handy exit ramp.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d agoLord
jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 5d agoI 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
Not just “zero evidence of fraud,” but concrete evidence of no fraud. www.brookings.edu/articles/mai...
Mail voting fraud: Data points to low risk and high benefits for voters | Brookings
Analysis finds mail voting fraud in the U.S. is exceedingly rare and shows universal vote-by-mail boosts access, turnout, and cost efficiency.
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Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · last wk.This CBS News story reports Trump’s SCOTUS appeal on mail-in voting as just a garden-variety legal move. It doesn’t even make a nod toward noting that there’s zero evidence of fraud in the procedure. And that’s the subtle, gradual way you degrade a news org. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-s...
And some people are trying to blame the *professor* for, I dunno, being underhanded or something? And others are pointing out that it won’t work next time because AI is getting better? Both of which seem to *support* trying to “pass” exams without even reading them? www.today.com/parents/fami...
A Professor Created a Trap in His Midterm to Catch Students Using AI. Nearly All Made the Same Mistake
As colleges grapple with the rise of AI, a Mississippi history professor’s creative attempt to protect academic integrity has struck a nerve online.
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If you live in California you can now tell data brokers to delete your personal information. Here’s how to do it You can sign up now to help curb spam phone calls and emails. Starting August 1st, data brokers begin processing filed requests.
How to delete personal information from California data brokers
California has deployed a new service that allows you to ask data brokers in the state to stop selling your personal information.
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Just some of the receipts: February, 2020: Fauci warns of the impending pandemic, which contradicts Dear Leader’s efforts to downplay it. The administration responds by ordering Fauci to make no public statements it has not approved in advance. sarcasticcynic.tumblr.com/post/6128564...
The Trump administration barred a top US disease expert from speaking freely to the public after he warned the coronavirus might be impossible to contain
Dr. Anthony Fauci has advised six presidents on public-health crises. Now he's not allowed to speak publicly without White House approval. Dr. Anthony S. Fauci is the director of the National...
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Middle Age Riot@middleageriot.bsky.social · last wk.Dr. Fauci: "Get vaccinated." Republicans: "No." Dr. Fauci: "Wear masks." Republicans: "No." Dr. Fauci: "Socially distance." Republicans: "No." (A million-plus Americans die from COVID.) Republicans: "Prosecute Fauci!"
Downplay a book or movie: “Star Skirmishes”
Anton P. Nym (aka Steve)@antonpnym.bsky.social · 6d ago"Avengers: Civil Disagreement"
“The invasion of imbeciles” sarcasticcynic.tumblr.com/post/6566522...
I social media danno diritto di parola a legioni di imbecilli. Prima parlavano solo al bar dopo un bicchiere di vino, senza danneggiare la collettività. Venivano subito messi a tacere, mentre ora hann...
--Umberto Eco, 2015
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Ong's Hat@ongs-hat.com · 6d ago
Signal boost for LA (h/t @colleenky.bsky.social)
LAist@laist.com · last wk.Canter's Deli turns 95 this year, and the iconic Jewish deli and coffee shop will sell its hot pastrami sandwich — with coleslaw, pickle, and chocolate chip rugelach — for 95 cents. 🔗 More details: vist.ly/5cxc6 ✍️ Gab Chabrán 📸 Courtesy Canter's Deli
I really, *really* hate to say it, but x.AI is probably right. The problematic language in the law is this: “No person may advertise or promote any website, application, software, program, or other service that performs the actions described in paragraph (a).”
MPR News@mprnews.org · last wk.Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company is suing Minnesota over a first-in-the-nation law banning technology that allows users to create and post deepfake videos or images of people naked without their consent.
I had a LiveJournal account. My final post was: “The Russians Are Coming!” TIL this: “If you're coming from LiveJournal to Dreamwidth: Importing” www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqb...
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rahaeli@rahaeli.bsky.social · 2y agoalso, hello to everyone who found this from a repost, after I quit LJ in 2007 and had my long-overdue year-long mental breakdown, another ex-employee and I cofounded Dreamwidth (www.dreamwidth.org), everything we always wanted to do with LJ with 100% less "being owned by the state bank of Russia"
Great news: the talks from Jubensha Con are now available online for FREE! Big thanks to our amazing speakers for agreeing to this, and to Joe Strickland at @chronicinsanity.bsky.social for producing the videos. A lot of much bigger and more expensive conferences don't do this – but we just did.
Jubensha Con 2026 - YouTube
The talks given at JubenshaCon 2026 Find out more about the convention at https://jubenshacon.com Buy jubensha from: https://jubensha.co.uk https://www.suspe...
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Reminder that on his last day of his first term, Trump awarded a commendation to Dr Fauci "in recognition of his exceptional effort on Operation Warp Speed"
Yeah, so I’ve decided that I don’t support politicians who scapegoat Jews* for everything they think is wrong. And whose sole purity test is whether one believes that the entire nation of Israel is evil and should be destroyed. *Including but not limited to George Soros.
PolitiFact@politifact.bsky.social · 2w agoAbdul El-Sayed dismissed a recent Michigan Senate poll, describing it as AIPAC-funded. The poll was conducted independently by Tavern Research, and there is no sign it was paid for by the pro-Israel group. politifact.com/factchecks/2...
