i keep seeing people say that university presidents should rise up against this, whomst have clearly missed the second sentence here

Liam Knox@liamknox.bsky.social · 2d ago

Scoop: The Trump administration is sending a letter to college presidents asking them to pledge a series of policy changes by the end of the year. Unlike last year's Compact, this effort was devised with input from higher ed leaders. Free link to my exclusive: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

When nobody needs me any more I’ll fly air attack 🫡🛫

Major@majorarschloch.bsky.social · 3d ago

LETS FLY A MODIFIED AIRLINER INTO THE FIRE AND DROP SHIT THAT WILL PUT IT OUT

As long as we can continue to curate a chronological-only feed, with strong mute and block, it’s a skill issue…but I’m not confident in the skills, and worried about platform-driven algorithm creep.

Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 2d ago

The only reason Bluesky is a liberal bubble is because it’s not algorithm driven & reality has a liberal bias. This is super simple.

I can’t help but notice that the testosterone homologation set isn’t super concerned about fairness or safety when it comes to cis boys competing against their peers who are already into puberty. No one’s protesting the 200lb 14 year old with a beard.

I know, I know, they don’t give a shit about cis girls either.

All of this is to say, GM was picking the bones of the dying streetcar companies. Think vultures, not eagles. And when we talk about the GM conspiracy charges... GM-affiliated National City Lines actually kept streetcars running longer than peer systems. 10/

in many cases, the train company was _also_ the bus company! the pacific electric railway in LA also owned the motor transit company, which ran the region's buses. 6/

free parent hack(?) I do this thing that’s useful and works well and nobody else seems to, but it’s free and doesn’t cost me anything to share??

when we weren’t all hypersegmented into specific subdemographics and the culture had a lingua franca and the people making the media didn’t explicitly think they needed to increase their total addressable market by competing directly with sleep.

Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d ago

It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better

It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better

This was mostly the booth run by MADE which seems pretty cool — themade.org/en

Home

The MADE is a playable video game museum with a mission to inspire the next generation of digital creators through playable preservation.

themade.org

Star Simpson@starstar.bsky.social · 4d ago

We have come across Super Mario Bros, Duck Hunt, Space Invaders, Frogger, Sim City and also now KidPix on an un-photographable CRT. For how much time I spent in KidPix I had completely forgotten about the “OH NO!” undo guy 🥺 and how I used to think that KidPix purple was the prettiest hue ever.

Just saw a drone 360° of old Lahaina town by the banyan tree the other day and the rush of noticing everything that’s *gone* is completely heart-piercing. It’s been 3 years since the fire and even being from Maui I still hadn’t internalized the true scope of the loss.

My friend and colleague, Lloyd Williams providing sight-restoring surgery in South Sudan: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxzY...

American doctor performs 1,000 eye surgeries at South Sudan border

YouTube video by NBC News

youtube.com

Lemoine wanted to believe that a computer could be a person, because that was the kind of viewpoint that makes you the hero in an episode of Star Trek. But in trying to be open minded, the program consumed him. Lemoine is the earliest known case of AI psychosis I am aware of.

Four years ago, Google fired Blake Lemoine, one of their senior software engineers. Lemoine had been working on LaMDA, a transformer-based language model—a forerunner to GPTs. Blake had spent endless hours talking to LaMDA and claimed it was sentient. He posted the chat logs as proof.

You're telling me a super marine spit this fire?

I’ve long sought a single hotel that has a swingset—even in *place* of a pool. if you’re traveling with small kids you already know what I’m talking about. Pool makes for nice photos but honestly what portion of guests ever even use one? What cost upkeep? Swings take so little and yet I’ve never

uh oh.. the newspaper is on strike

Star Simpson@starstar.bsky.social · 4d ago

I’m really gonna start crying fr

Oh my heart 🥺 (@ VCF West)

One was Duke’s, one was Hellmann’s. Some folks (especially southerners) teased the owner about not picking a side, but she’d just smile and say that her place was non-denominational.

That always got someone to say, “well how come you don’t have bacon, then,” and she’d say, “we’re non-denominational, but it’s still church.” The church of tomato sandwiches.

@merriam-webster.com, since "shenanigans" is a noun, would it be logical to have "shenan" as the verb tense? As in "were going out shenaning tonight" or if past tense, "I have shenaned before and will shenan again"? Just a thought.

🚨🚨 Important clarification: there is no legal basis under the #Schengen Code or the Treaties for unilaterally suspending the Schengen agreement against another EU MS under these circumstances. #ceuta www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

Breaking news. - Italy suspends Schengen with Spain over Ceuta migrant crisis

The temporary suspension of the Schengen agreement was prompted by concerns over the migrant crisis in Ceuta. #EuropeNews

euronews.com

This feels like the hybrid warfare of 2015 - exploit vulnerable ppl, misinform on mass scale on social media and encourage them to cross border (that time from Belarus into Poland).. divide and destabilize the eu… giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... How 60,000 people swam to Spanish territory

How 60,000 people swam to Spanish territory

Migrants spent days preparing to reach the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from neighbouring Morocco

giftarticle.ft.com

I figured this would die down but, usage continues apace — yesterday around 90 new article lookups. I’m kind of amazed and tbh have been learning about a ton of things I’d never heard of myself through this.

Star Simpson@starstar.bsky.social · 2w ago

In the past 24h KiPedia usage has exploded, with people looking up articles in Hungarian, Serbian, Greek, Hindi, and Icelandic in addition to the numerous lookups in English.

I'm sorry, in one of these instances the model created a malicious Python package, uploaded it to PyPI, and successfully attacked a company whose scanner downloaded and ran it??

Eris@isolyth.dev · 6d ago

lol Claude has also broken out of sandboxes and hacked people and ant literally didn't even know until they went looking in response to OpenAI's report Sounds like their oversight has scaled incredibly lol

I want a version of LinkedIn that's more like IMDB... here's a project or a product and all the techies, designers, writers, managers, and various pixel pushers who made it happen.

I 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

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